Numbers Page 80 and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars wherewith they minister unto it: {4:10} And they shall put thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof, {4:32} it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, skins, and shall put [it] upon a bar. {4:11} And upon the and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves instruments of the charge of their burden. {4:33} This [is] thereof: {4:12} And they shall take all the instruments of the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, [them] in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. badgers’ skins, and shall put [them] on a bar: {4:13} And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a {4:34} And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the purple cloth thereon: {4:14} And they shall put upon it all congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, [even] their families, and after the house of their fathers, {4:35} the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the covering of badgers skins, and put to the staves of it. {4:15} tabernacle of the congregation: {4:36} And those that were And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of numbered of them by their families were two thousand covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, seven hundred and fifty. {4:37} These [were] they that were as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might shall come to bear [it:] but they shall not touch [any] holy do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which thing, lest they die. These [things are] the burden of the sons Moses and Aaron did number according to the of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation. commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. {4:38} And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, {4:16} And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers, priest [pertaineth] the oil for the light, and the sweet {4:39} From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the [and] the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that work in the tabernacle of the congregation, {4:40} Even therein [is,] in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof. those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand {4:17} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and six hundred and thirty. {4:41} These [are] they that saying, {4:18} Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all Kohathites from among the Levites: {4:19} But thus do that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons commandment of the LORD. shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden: {4:20} But they shall not go in to see when the {4:42} And those that were numbered of the families of holy things are covered, lest they die. the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, {4:43} From thirty years old and upward {4:21} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {4:22} even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation, houses of their fathers, by their families; {4:23} From thirty {4:44} Even those that were numbered of them after their years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number families, were three thousand and two hundred. {4:45} them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work These [be] those that were numbered of the families of the in the tabernacle of the congregation. {4:24} This [is] the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses. burdens: {4:25} And they shall bear the curtains of the {4:46} All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after covering, and the covering of the badgers’ skins that [is] their families, and after the house of their fathers, {4:47} above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, of the congregation, {4:26} And the hangings of the court, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the [is] by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their congregation, {4:48} Even those that were numbered of cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore. made for them: so shall they serve. {4:27} At the {4:49} According to the commandment of the LORD they appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses. their burdens. {4:28} This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: {5:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {5:2} and their charge [shall be] under the hand of Ithamar the son Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the of Aaron the priest. camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: {5:3} Both male and {4:29} As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; after their families, by the house of their fathers; {4:30} that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old dwell. {5:4} And the children of Israel did so, and put them shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the did the children of Israel. congregation. {4:31} And this [is] the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the {5:5} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {5:6} www.holybooks.com
Page 81 Numbers Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman her people. {5:28} And if the woman be not defiled, but be shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. against the LORD, and that person be guilty; {5:7} Then {5:29} This [is] the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he aside [to another] instead of her husband, and is defiled; shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and {5:30} Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and add unto it the fifth [part] thereof, and give [it] unto [him] he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before against whom he hath trespassed. {5:8} But if the man have the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass {5:31} Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and be recompensed unto the LORD, [even] to the priest; beside this woman shall bear her iniquity. the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. {5:9} And every offering of all the holy {6:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {6:2} things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When priest, shall be his. {5:10} And every man’s hallowed things either man or woman shall separate [themselves] to vow a shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall vow of a Nazarite, to separate [themselves] unto the LORD: be his. {6:3} He shall separate [himself] from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of {5:11} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {5:12} strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any eat moist grapes, or dried. {6:4} All the days of his man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, {5:13} And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from from the kernels even to the husk. {6:5} All the days of the the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his defiled, and [there be] no witness against her, neither she be head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth taken [with the manner; ]{5:14} And the spirit of jealousy [himself] unto the LORD, he shall be holy, [and] shall let come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be the locks of the hair of his head grow. {6:6} All the days defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he that he separateth [himself] unto the LORD he shall come at be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: {5:15} Then no dead body. {6:7} He shall not make himself unclean for shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, bring her offering for her, the tenth [part] of an ephah of when they die: because the consecration of his God [is] barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put upon his head. {6:8} All the days of his separation he [is] frankincense thereon; for it [is] an offering of jealousy, an holy unto the LORD. {6:9} And if any man die very offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his {5:16} And the priest shall bring her near, and set her consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his before the LORD: {5:17} And the priest shall take holy cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. {6:10} And water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put [it] into the pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the water: {5:18} And the priest shall set the woman before the congregation: {6:11} And the priest shall offer the one for a LORD, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an of memorial in her hands, which [is] the jealousy offering: atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that hallow his head that same day. {6:12} And he shall causeth the curse: {5:19} And the priest shall charge her by consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness [with but the days that were before shall be lost, because his another] instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter separation was defiled. water that causeth the curse: {5:20} But if thou hast gone aside [to another] instead of thy husband, and if thou be {6:13} And this [is] the law of the Nazarite, when the defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto husband: {5:21} Then the priest shall charge the woman the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: {6:14} And with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, thy belly to swell; {5:22} And this water that causeth the and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, {6:15} curse shall go into thy bowels, to make [thy] belly to swell, And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour and [thy] thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed amen. {5:23} And the priest shall write these curses in a with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings. book, and he shall blot [them] out with the bitter water: {6:16} And the priest shall bring [them] before the LORD, {5:24} And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the {6:17} And he shall offer the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter. {5:25} Then offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the drink offering. {6:18} And the Nazarite shall shave the head LORD, and offer it upon the altar: {5:26} And the priest of his separation [at] the door of the tabernacle of the shall take an handful of the offering, [even] the memorial congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his thereof, and burn [it] upon the altar, and afterward shall separation, and put [it] in the fire which [is] under the cause the woman to drink the water. {5:27} And when he sacrifice of the peace offerings. {6:19} And the priest shall hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened [that,] if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter put [them] upon the hands of the Nazarite, after [the hair of] into her, [and become] bitter, and her belly shall swell, and his separation is shaven: {6:20} And the priest shall wave her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among them [for] a wave offering before the LORD: this [is] holy www.holybooks.com
Numbers Page 82 for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and offering: {7:23} And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two after that the Nazarite may drink wine. {6:21} This [is] the oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, [and of] his offering this [was] the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar. unto the LORD for his separation, beside that [that] his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he {7:24} On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of must do after the law of his separation. the children of Zebulun, [did offer: ]{7:25} His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an {6:22} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {6:23} hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, {6:24} of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: {7:26} The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: {6:25} The LORD One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:27} make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for {6:26} The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and a burnt offering: {7:28} One kid of the goats for a sin give thee peace. {6:27} And they shall put my name upon offering: {7:29} And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two the children of Israel; and I will bless them. oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Eliab the son of Helon. {7:1} And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, {7:30} On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the prince of the children of Reuben, [did offer: ]{7:31} His vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them; offering [was] one silver charger of the weight of an {7:2} That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy fathers, who [were] the princes of the tribes, and were over shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full them that were numbered, offered: {7:3} And they brought of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: {7:32} their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:33} twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle. a burnt offering: {7:34} One kid of the goats for a sin {7:4} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {7:5} Take offering: {7:35} And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them this [was] the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur. unto the Levites, to every man according to his service. {7:6} And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave {7:36} On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, them unto the Levites. {7:7} Two wagons and four oxen he prince of the children of Simeon, [did offer: ]{7:37} His gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service: offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] {7:8} And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the an hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. {7:9} But unto the of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: {7:38} sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:39} sanctuary belonging unto them [was that] they should bear One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for upon their shoulders. a burnt offering: {7:40} One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:41} And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two {7:10} And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their this [was] the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. offering before the altar. {7:11} And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his {7:42} On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince day, for the dedicating of the altar. of the children of Gad, [offered: ]{7:43} His offering [was] one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty {7:12} And he that offered his offering the first day was [shekels,] a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled {7:13} And his offering [was] one silver charger, the weight with oil for a meat offering: {7:44} One golden spoon of ten thereof [was] an hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver [shekels,] full of incense: {7:45} One young bullock, one bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: {7:46} both of them [were] full of fine flour mingled with oil for a One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:47} And for a meat offering: {7:14} One spoon of ten [shekels] of gold, sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he full of incense: {7:15} One young bullock, one ram, one goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: {7:16} One kid Eliasaph the son of Deuel. of the goats for a sin offering: {7:17} And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five {7:48} On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering of Nahshon prince of the children of Ephraim, [offered: ]{7:49} His the son of Amminadab. offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy {7:18} On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full prince of Issachar, did offer: {7:19} He offered [for] his of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: {7:50} offering one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:51} hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full a burnt offering: {7:52} one kid of the goats for a sin of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: {7:20} offering: {7:53} And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two One spoon of gold of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:21} oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for this [was] the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud. a burnt offering: {7:22} One kid of the goats for a sin www.holybooks.com
Page 83 Numbers {7:54} On the eighth day [offered] Gamaliel the son of thousand and four hundred [shekels,] after the shekel of the Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh: {7:55} His sanctuary: {7:86} The golden spoons [were] twelve, full of offering [was] one silver charger of the weight of an incense, [weighing] ten [shekels] apiece, after the shekel of hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons [was] an hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full and twenty [shekels. ]{7:87} All the oxen for the burnt of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: {7:56} offering [were] twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:57} of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for kids of the goats for sin offering twelve. {7:88} And all the a burnt offering: {7:58} One kid of the goats for a sin oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings [were] twenty offering: {7:59} And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: lambs of the first year sixty. This [was] the dedication of the this [was] the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. altar, after that it was anointed. {7:89} And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak {7:60} On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him prince of the children of Benjamin, [offered: ]{7:61} His from off the mercy seat that [was] upon the ark of offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake an hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy unto him. shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: {7:62} {8:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {8:2} One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:63} Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the a burnt offering: {7:64} One kid of the goats for a sin candlestick. {8:3} And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps offering: {7:65} And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: commanded Moses. {8:4} And this work of the candlestick this [was] the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni. [was of] beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, [was] beaten work: according unto the pattern {7:66} On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the prince of the children of Dan, [offered: ]{7:67} His offering candlestick. [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy {8:5} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {8:6} shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: {7:68} cleanse them. {8:7} And thus shalt thou do unto them, to One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:69} cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their a burnt offering: {7:70} One kid of the goats for a sin clothes, and [so] make themselves clean. {8:8} Then let offering: {7:71} And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two them take a young bullock with his meat offering, [even] oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt this [was] the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. thou take for a sin offering. {8:9} And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou {7:72} On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel prince of the children of Asher, [offered: ]{7:73} His together: {8:10} And thou shalt bring the Levites before the offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon an hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy the Levites: {8:11} And Aaron shall offer the Levites before shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full the LORD [for] an offering of the children of Israel, that of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: {7:74} they may execute the service of the LORD. {8:12} And the One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:75} Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for and thou shalt offer the one [for] a sin offering, and the a burnt offering: {7:76} One kid of the goats for a sin other [for] a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an offering: {7:77} And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two atonement for the Levites. {8:13} And thou shalt set the oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them this [was] the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran. [for] an offering unto the LORD. {8:14} Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and {7:78} On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince the Levites shall be mine. {8:15} And after that shall the of the children of Naphtali, [offered: ]{7:79} His offering Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof [was] an congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them hundred and thirty [shekels,] one silver bowl of seventy [for] an offering. {8:16} For they [are] wholly given unto shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: {7:80} open every womb, [even instead of] the firstborn of all the One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:81} children of Israel, have I taken them unto me. {8:17} For all One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for the firstborn of the children of Israel [are] mine, [both] man a burnt offering: {7:82} One kid of the goats for a sin and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land offering: {7:83} And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two of Egypt I sanctified them for myself. {8:18} And I have oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of this [was] the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. {7:84} Israel. {8:19} And I have given the Levites [as] a gift to This [was] the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold: {7:85} Each the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children charger of silver [weighing] an hundred and thirty [shekels,] of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels [weighed] two Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the www.holybooks.com
Numbers Page 84 sanctuary. {8:20} And Moses, and Aaron, and all the were the appearance of fire, until the morning. {9:16} So it congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites was alway: the cloud covered it [by day,] and the according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses appearance of fire by night. {9:17} And when the cloud was concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of them. {8:21} And the Levites were purified, and they Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them [as] an there the children of Israel pitched their tents. {9:18} At the offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement commandment of the LORD the children of Israel for them to cleanse them. {8:22} And after that went the journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the rested in their tents. {9:19} And when the cloud tarried long LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel did they unto them. kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not. {9:20} And [so] it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the {8:23} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {8:24} tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD This [is it] that [belongeth] unto the Levites: from twenty they abode in their tents, and according to the and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon commandment of the LORD they journeyed. {9:21} And the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: {8:25} [so] it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting morning, and [that] the cloud was taken up in the morning, upon the service [thereof,] and shall serve no more: {8:26} then they journeyed: whether [it was] by day or by night But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. {9:22} Or congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. [whether it were] two days, or a month, or a year, that the Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge. cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: {9:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness but when it was taken up, they journeyed. {9:23} At the of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, {9:2} Let the the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD season. {9:3} In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, by the hand of Moses. ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall {10:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {10:2} ye keep it. {9:4} And Moses spake unto the children of Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt Israel, that they should keep the passover. {9:5} And they thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the {10:3} And when they shall blow with them, all the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. {10:4} And if they blow {9:6} And there were certain men, who were defiled by [but] with one [trumpet,] then the princes, [which are] heads the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. passover on that day: and they came before Moses and {10:5} When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on before Aaron on that day: {9:7} And those men said unto the east parts shall go forward. {10:6} When ye blow an him, We [are] defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for LORD in his appointed season among the children of their journeys. {10:7} But when the congregation is to be Israel? {9:8} And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. alarm. {10:8} And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance {9:9} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {9:10} for ever throughout your generations. {10:9} And if ye go Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall body, or [be] in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be passover unto the LORD. {9:11} The fourteenth day of the saved from your enemies. {10:10} Also in the day of your second month at even they shall keep it, [and] eat it with gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of unleavened bread and bitter [herbs. ]{9:12} They shall leave your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before keep it. {9:13} But the man that [is] clean, and is not in a your God: I [am] the LORD your God. journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he {10:11} And it came to pass on the twentieth [day] of the brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken season, that man shall bear his sin. {9:14} And if a stranger up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. {10:12} And shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the children of Israel took their journeys out of the the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall of Paran. {10:13} And they first took their journey have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of was born in the land. Moses. {9:15} And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up {10:14} In the first [place] went the standard of the camp the cloud covered the tabernacle, [namely,] the tent of the of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it his host [was] Nahshon the son of Amminadab. {10:15} www.holybooks.com
Page 85 Numbers And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? {11:5} We remember [was] Nethaneel the son of Zuar. {10:16} And over the host the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, of the tribe of the children of Zebulun [was] Eliab the son of and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the Helon. {10:17} And the tabernacle was taken down; and the garlick: {11:6} But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is] sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes. {11:7} the tabernacle. And the manna [was] as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. {11:8} [And] the people {10:18} And the standard of the camp of Reuben set went about, and gathered [it,] and ground [it] in mills, or forward according to their armies: and over his host [was] beat [it] in a mortar, and baked [it] in pans, and made cakes Elizur the son of Shedeur. {10:19} And over the host of the of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. {11:9} tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the Zurishaddai. {10:20} And over the host of the tribe of the manna fell upon it. children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. {10:21} And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and {11:10} Then Moses heard the people weep throughout [the other] did set up the tabernacle against they came. their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was {10:22} And the standard of the camp of the children of displeased. {11:11} And Moses said unto the LORD, Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore host [was] Elishama the son of Ammihud. {10:23} And have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh [was] burden of all this people upon me? {11:12} Have I Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. {10:24} And over the host of conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou the tribe of the children of Benjamin [was] Abidan the son shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a of Gideoni. nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? {11:13} Whence {10:25} And the standard of the camp of the children of should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they Dan set forward, [which was] the rereward of all the camps weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. throughout their hosts: and over his host [was] Ahiezer the {11:14} I am not able to bear all this people alone, because son of Ammishaddai. {10:26} And over the host of the tribe [it is] too heavy for me. {11:15} And if thou deal thus with of the children of Asher [was] Pagiel the son of Ocran. me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour {10:27} And over the host of the tribe of the children of in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. Naphtali [was] Ahira the son of Enan. {10:28} Thus [were] the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their {11:16} And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me armies, when they set forward. seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and {10:29} And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they the Midianite, Moses’ father in law, We are journeying unto may stand there with thee. {11:17} And I will come down the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath [is] upon thee, and will put [it] upon them; and they shall spoken good concerning Israel. {10:30} And he said unto bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to thyself alone. {11:18} And say thou unto the people, my kindred. {10:31} And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes. Who shall give us flesh to eat? for [it was] well with us in {10:32} And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same eat. {11:19} Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five will we do unto thee. days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; {11:20} [But] even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be {10:33} And they departed from the mount of the LORD loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the three days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD which [is] among you, and have wept before him, LORD went before them in the three days’ journey, to saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? {11:21} And search out a resting place for them. {10:34} And the cloud Moses said, The people, among whom I [am, are] six of the LORD [was] upon them by day, when they went out hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give of the camp. {10:35} And it came to pass, when the ark set them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. {11:22} Shall forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, thee. {10:36} And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, to suffice them? {11:23} And the LORD said unto Moses, unto the many thousands of Israel. Is the LORD’S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. {11:1} And [when] the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard [it;] and his anger was {11:24} And Moses went out, and told the people the kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the consumed [them that were] in the uttermost parts of the elders of the people, and set them round about the camp. {11:2} And the people cried unto Moses; and when tabernacle. {11:25} And the LORD came down in a cloud, Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched. and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that [was] upon {11:3} And he called the name of the place Taberah: him, and gave [it] unto the seventy elders: and it came to because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. pass, [that,] when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease. {11:26} But there remained {11:4} And the mixt multitude that [was] among them fell two [of the] men in the camp, the name of the one [was] a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit www.holybooks.com
Numbers Page 86 rested upon them; and they [were] of them that were {13:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {13:2} written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, prophesied in the camp. {11:27} And there ran a young which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among prophesy in the camp. {11:28} And Joshua the son of Nun, them. {13:3} And Moses by the commandment of the the servant of Moses, [one] of his young men, answered and LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those said, My lord Moses, forbid them. {11:29} And Moses said men [were] heads of the children of Israel. {13:4} And unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the these [were] their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua LORD’S people were prophets, [and] that the LORD would the son of Zaccur. {13:5} Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat put his spirit upon them! {11:30} And Moses gat him into the son of Hori. {13:6} Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son the camp, he and the elders of Israel. of Jephunneh. {13:7} Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. {13:8} Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of {11:31} And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and Nun. {13:9} Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of brought quails from the sea, and let [them] fall by the camp, Raphu. {13:10} Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s Sodi. {13:11} Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. {13:12} Of the tribe of were two cubits [high] upon the face of the earth. {11:32} Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. {13:13} Of the tribe of And the people stood up all that day, and all [that] night, Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. {13:14} Of the tribe of and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. {13:15} Of the tribe of gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread [them] Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. {13:16} These [are] the all abroad for themselves round about the camp. {11:33} names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And while the flesh [was] yet between their teeth, ere it was And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua. chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great {13:17} And Moses sent them to spy out the land of plague. {11:34} And he called the name of that place Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this [way] Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that southward, and go up into the mountain: {13:18} And see lusted. {11:35} [And] the people journeyed from Kibroth- the land, what it [is;] and the people that dwelleth therein, hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth. whether they [be] strong or weak, few or many; {13:19} And what the land [is] that they dwell in, whether it [be] {12:1} And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses good or bad; and what cities [they be] that they dwell in, because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for whether in tents, or in strong holds; {13:20} And what the he had married an Ethiopian woman. {12:2} And they said, land [is,] whether it [be] fat or lean, whether there be wood Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the spoken also by us? And the LORD heard [it. ]{12:3} (Now fruit of the land. Now the time [was] the time of the firstripe the man Moses [was] very meek, above all the men which grapes. [were] upon the face of the earth.) {12:4} And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto {13:21} So they went up, and searched the land from the Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. congregation. And they three came out. {12:5} And the {13:22} And they ascended by the south, and came unto LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: of Anak, [were.] (Now Hebron was built seven years before and they both came forth. {12:6} And he said, Hear now my Zoan in Egypt.) {13:23} And they came unto the brook of words: If there be a prophet among you, [I[ the LORD will Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster make myself known unto him in a vision, [and] will speak of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and unto him in a dream. {12:7} My servant Moses [is] not so, [they brought] of the pomegranates, and of the figs. {13:24} who [is] faithful in all mine house. {12:8} With him will I The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: thence. {13:25} And they returned from searching of the wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my land after forty days. servant Moses? {12:9} And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed. {12:10} And the {13:26} And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and Aaron looked upon wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto Miriam, and, behold, [she was] leprous. {12:11} And Aaron them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the fruit of the land. {13:27} And they told him, and said, We sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it we have sinned. {12:12} Let her not be as one dead, of floweth with milk and honey; and this [is] the fruit of it. whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his {13:28} Nevertheless the people [be] strong that dwell in mother’s womb. {12:13} And Moses cried unto the LORD, the land, and the cities [are] walled, [and] very great: and saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee. moreover we saw the children of Anak there. {13:29} The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, {12:14} And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that Jordan. {13:30} And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, let her be received in [again. ]{12:15} And Miriam was shut and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not well able to overcome it. {13:31} But the men that went up till Miriam was brought in [again. ]{12:16} And afterward with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the for they are stronger than we. {13:32} And they brought up wilderness of Paran. an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the www.holybooks.com
Page 87 Numbers children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and thereof; and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of a have not hearkened to my voice; {14:23} Surely they shall great stature. {13:33} And there we saw the giants, the sons not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither of Anak, [which come] of the giants: and we were in our shall any of them that provoked me see it: {14:24} But my own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land {14:1} And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. {14:25} cried; and the people wept that night. {14:2} And all the (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would wilderness by the way of the Red sea. God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! {14:3} And wherefore hath {14:26} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, Aaron, saying, {14:27} How long [shall I bear with] this that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard not better for us to return into Egypt? {14:4} And they said the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into murmur against me. {14:28} Say unto them, [As truly as] I Egypt. {14:5} Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so before all the assembly of the congregation of the children will I do to you: {14:29} Your carcases shall fall in this of Israel. wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, {14:6} And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of which have murmured against me, {14:30} Doubtless ye Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land, shall not come into the land, [concerning] which I sware to rent their clothes: {14:7} And they spake unto all the make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which and Joshua the son of Nun. {14:31} But your little ones, we passed through to search it, [is] an exceeding good land. which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and {14:8} If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into they shall know the land which ye have despised. {14:32} this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and But [as for] you, your carcases, they shall fall in this honey. {14:9} Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither wilderness. {14:33} And your children shall wander in the fear ye the people of the land; for they [are] bread for us: wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your their defence is departed from them, and the LORD [is] carcases be wasted in the wilderness. {14:34} After the with us: fear them not. {14:10} But all the congregation number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. children of Israel. {14:35} I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: {14:11} And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they shall die. {14:36} And the men, which Moses sent to search believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to them? {14:12} I will smite them with the pestilence, and murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and land, {14:37} Even those men that did bring up the evil mightier than they. report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD. {14:38} But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of {14:13} And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Jephunneh, [which were] of the men that went to search the Egyptians shall hear [it,] (for thou broughtest up this people land, lived [still. ]{14:39} And Moses told these sayings in thy might from among them;) {14:14} And they will tell unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned [it] to the inhabitants of this land: [for] they have heard that greatly. thou LORD [art] among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and [that] thy cloud standeth over them, {14:40} And they rose up early in the morning, and gat and [that] thou goest before them, by daytime in a pillar of a them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. here,] and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned. {14:41} And Moses said, {14:15} Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee LORD? but it shall not prosper. {14:42} Go not up, for the will speak, saying, {14:16} Because the LORD was not able LORD [is] not among you; that ye be not smitten before to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, your enemies. {14:43} For the Amalekites and the therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. {14:17} And Canaanites [are] there before you, and ye shall fall by the now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, according as thou hast spoken, saying, {14:18} The LORD therefore the LORD will not be with you. {14:44} But they [is] longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty,] the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the the camp. {14:45} Then the Amalekites came down, and the third and fourth [generation. ]{14:19} Pardon, I beseech Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness discomfited them, [even] unto Hormah. of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. {14:20} And the LORD said, I have {15:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {15:2} pardoned according to thy word: {14:21} But [as] truly [as] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give LORD. {14:22} Because all those men which have seen my unto you, {15:3} And will make an offering by fire unto the www.holybooks.com
Numbers Page 88 LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock: shall be forgiven him. {15:29} Ye shall have one law for {15:4} Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the him that sinneth through ignorance, [both for] him that is LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that with the fourth [part] of an hin of oil. {15:5} And the fourth sojourneth among them. [part] of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. {15:30} But the soul that doeth [ought] presumptuously, {15:6} Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare [for] a meat offering [whether he be] born in the land, or a stranger, the same two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third [part] of an reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from hin of oil. {15:7} And for a drink offering thou shalt offer among his people. {15:31} Because he hath despised the the third [part] of an hin of wine, [for] a sweet savour unto word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that the LORD. {15:8} And when thou preparest a bullock [for] soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity [shall be] upon him. a burnt offering, or [for] a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the LORD: {15:9} Then shall he bring {15:32} And while the children of Israel were in the with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the mingled with half an hin of oil. {15:10} And thou shalt sabbath day. {15:33} And they that found him gathering bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. {15:11} congregation. {15:34} And they put him in ward, because it Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for was not declared what should be done to him. {15:35} And a lamb, or a kid. {15:12} According to the number that ye the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones number. {15:13} All that are born of the country shall do without the camp. {15:36} And all the congregation brought these things after this manner, in offering an offering made him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. {15:14} And if a died; as the LORD commanded Moses. stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever [be] among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of {15:37} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do. {15:38} Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that {15:15} One ordinance [shall be both] for you of the they make them fringes in the borders of their garments congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth [with throughout their generations, and that they put upon the you,] an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye [are,] fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: {15:39} And it shall so shall the stranger be before the LORD. {15:16} One law be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do sojourneth with you. them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: {15:40} That {15:17} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be {15:18} Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto holy unto your God. {15:41} I [am] the LORD your God, them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: {15:19} Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of I [am] the LORD your God. the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD. {15:20} Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough {16:1} Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, [for] an heave offering: as [ye do] the heave offering of the the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it. {15:21} Of the first of and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men: your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering ]{16:2} And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the in your generations. children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: {15:22} And if ye have erred, and not observed all these {16:3} And they gathered themselves together against commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, [Ye take] too {15:23} [Even all] that the LORD hath commanded you by much upon you, seeing all the congregation [are] holy, the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD every one of them, and the LORD [is] among them: commanded [Moses,] and henceforward among your wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation generations; {15:24} Then it shall be, if [ought] be of the LORD? {16:4} And when Moses heard [it,] he fell committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the upon his face: {16:5} And he spake unto Korah and unto all congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the who [are] his, and [who is] holy; and will cause [him] to LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, come near unto him: even [him] whom he hath chosen will according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin he cause to come near unto him. {16:6} This do; Take you offering. {15:25} And the priest shall make an atonement censers, Korah, and all his company; {16:7} And put fire for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring morrow: and it shall be [that] the man whom the LORD their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and doth choose, he [shall be] holy: [ye take] too much upon their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance: you, ye sons of Levi. {16:8} And Moses said unto Korah, {15:26} And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi: {16:9} [Seemeth it but] a children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated them; seeing all the people [were] in ignorance. you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and {15:27} And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he to stand before the congregation to minister unto them? shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering. {16:10} And he hath brought thee near [to him,] and all thy {15:28} And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the www.holybooks.com
Page 89 Numbers priesthood also? {16:11} For which cause [both] thou and {16:36} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, all thy company [are] gathered together against the LORD: {16:37} Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that and what [is] Aaron, that ye murmur against him? he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed. {16:38} The censers {16:12} And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up: {16:13} [Is broad plates [for] a covering of the altar: for they offered it] a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. {16:39} And wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they over us? {16:14} Moreover thou hast not brought us into a that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us [plates for] a covering of the altar: {16:40} [To be] a inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which eyes of these men? we will not come up. {16:15} And is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses. neither have I hurt one of them. {16:16} And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, {16:41} But on the morrow all the congregation of the thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow: {16:17} And take children of Israel murmured against Moses and against every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD. before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and {16:42} And it came to pass, when the congregation was fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each [of you] his censer. gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked {16:18} And they took every man his censer, and put fire in toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron. {16:43} And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle {16:19} And Korah gathered all the congregation against of the congregation. them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the {16:44} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, congregation. {16:20} And the LORD spake unto Moses {16:45} Get you up from among this congregation, that I and unto Aaron, saying, {16:21} Separate yourselves from may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their among this congregation, that I may consume them in a faces. moment. {16:22} And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, {16:46} And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation? put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for {16:23} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the {16:24} Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up plague is begun. {16:47} And Aaron took as Moses from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; {16:25} And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. {16:26} And he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, {16:48} And he stood between the dead and the living; and from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of the plague was stayed. {16:49} Now they that died in the theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. {16:27} So they plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, them that died about the matter of Korah. {16:50} And on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, of the congregation: and the plague was stayed. and their little children. {16:28} And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these {17:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {17:2} works; for [I have] not [done them] of mine own mind. Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of {16:29} If these men die the common death of all men, or if them a rod according to the house of [their] fathers, of all they be visited after the visitation of all men; [then] the their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve LORD hath not sent me. {16:30} But if the LORD make a rods: write thou every man’s name upon his rod. {17:3} new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them And thou shalt write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi: up, with all that [appertain] unto them, and they go down for one rod [shall be] for the head of the house of their quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men fathers. {17:4} And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle have provoked the LORD. of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you. {17:5} And it shall come to pass, [that] the man’s {16:31} And it came to pass, as he had made an end of rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, [was] under them: {16:32} And the earth opened her mouth, whereby they murmur against you. and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained] unto Korah, and all [their] goods. {16:33} {17:6} And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and They, and all that [appertained] to them, went down alive every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, [even] twelve perished from among the congregation. {16:34} And all rods: and the rod of Aaron [was] among their rods. {17:7} Israel that [were] round about them fled at the cry of them: And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up [also. ]{16:35} tabernacle of witness. {17:8} And it came to pass, that on And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded www.holybooks.com
Numbers Page 90 almonds. {17:9} And Moses brought out all the rods from sanctuary, which [is] twenty gerahs. {18:17} But the before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling looked, and took every man his rod. of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they [are] holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat {17:10} And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s [for] an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token LORD. {18:18} And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. {18:19} All murmurings from me, that they die not. {17:11} And Moses the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of did [so:] as the LORD commanded him, so did he. {17:12} Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish. {17:13} covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the thy seed with thee. LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying? {18:20} And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt {18:1} And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity part among them: I [am] thy part and thine inheritance of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear among the children of Israel. {18:21} And, behold, I have the iniquity of your priesthood. {18:2} And thy brethren given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou inheritance, for their service which they serve, [even] the with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister service of the tabernacle of the congregation. {18:22} unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee [shall minister] Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the before the tabernacle of witness. {18:3} And they shall keep tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they {18:23} But the Levites shall do the service of the shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. {18:4} And they iniquity: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the generations, that among the children of Israel they have no tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the inheritance. {18:24} But the tithes of the children of Israel, tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. which they offer [as] an heave offering unto the LORD, I {18:5} And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no the children of Israel. {18:6} And I, behold, I have taken inheritance. your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you [they are] given [as] a gift for the LORD, to do the {18:25} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, service of the tabernacle of the congregation. {18:7} {18:26} Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, [even] a [unto you as] a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh tenth [part] of the tithe. {18:27} And [this] your heave nigh shall be put to death. offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though [it were] the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the {18:8} And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also winepress. {18:28} Thus ye also shall offer an heave have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by LORD’S heave offering to Aaron the priest. {18:29} Out of an ordinance for ever. {18:9} This shall be thine of the most all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every oblation of LORD, of all the best thereof, [even] the hallowed part theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering thereof out of it. {18:30} Therefore thou shalt say unto of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall render unto me, [shall be] most holy for thee and for shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the thy sons. {18:10} In the most holy [place] shalt thou eat it; threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress. every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. {18:11} {18:31} And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your And this [is] thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all households: for it [is] your reward for your service in the the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given tabernacle of the congregation. {18:32} And ye shall bear them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children house shall eat of it. {18:12} All the best of the oil, and all of Israel, lest ye die. the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given {19:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, thee. {18:13} [And] whatsoever is first ripe in the land, saying, {19:2} This [is] the ordinance of the law which the which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of one that is clean in thine house shall eat [of] it. {18:14} Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. {18:15} Every [is] no blemish, [and] upon which never came yoke: {19:3} thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may unto the LORD, [whether it be] of men or beasts, shall be bring her forth without the camp, and [one] shall slay her thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely before his face: {19:4} And Eleazar the priest shall take of redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly redeem. {18:16} And those that are to be redeemed from a before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times: month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, {19:5} And [one] shall burn the heifer in his sight; 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Page 91 Numbers {19:6} And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the and scarlet, and cast [it] into the midst of the burning of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their heifer. {19:7} Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them. shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. {20:7} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {20:8} {19:8} And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before until the even. {19:9} And a man [that is] clean shall gather their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt up the ashes of the heifer, and lay [them] up without the bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the the congregation and their beasts drink. {20:9} And Moses congregation of the children of Israel for a water of took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. separation: it [is] a purification for sin. {19:10} And he that {20:10} And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? {20:11} Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the for a statute for ever. rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts [also. {19:11} He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. {19:12} He shall purify himself with ]{20:12} And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this day he shall not be clean. {19:13} Whosoever toucheth the congregation into the land which I have given them. dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not {20:13} This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation them. was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness [is] yet upon him. {19:14} This [is] the law, {20:14} And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou all that [is] in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. {19:15} knowest all the travail that hath befallen us: {20:15} How And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in it, [is] unclean. {19:16} And whosoever toucheth one that is Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a fathers: {20:16} And when we cried unto the LORD, he bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us {19:17} And for an unclean [person] they shall take of the forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we [are] in Kadesh, a city in ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running the uttermost of thy border: {20:17} Let us pass, I pray thee, water shall be put thereto in a vessel: {19:18} And a clean through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or person shall take hyssop, and dip [it] in the water, and through the vineyards, neither will we drink [of] the water sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and of the wells: we will go by the king’s [high] way, we will upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: {19:19} And passed thy borders. {20:18} And Edom said unto him, Thou the clean [person] shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he sword. {20:19} And the children of Israel said unto him, shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of in water, and shall be clean at even. {19:20} But the man thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without [doing] that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul any thing [else,] go through on my feet. {20:20} And he shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of against him with much people, and with a strong hand. separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he [is] {20:21} Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through unclean. {19:21} And it shall be a perpetual statute unto his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him. them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of {20:22} And the children of Israel, [even] the whole separation shall be unclean until even. {19:22} And congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto whatsoever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be unclean; mount Hor. {20:23} And the LORD spake unto Moses and and the soul that toucheth [it] shall be unclean until even. Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying, {20:24} Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for {20:1} Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and the water of Meribah. {20:25} Take Aaron and Eleazar his was buried there. {20:2} And there was no water for the son, and bring them up unto mount Hor: {20:26} And strip congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: Moses and against Aaron. {20:3} And the people chode and Aaron shall be gathered [unto his people,] and shall die with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had there. {20:27} And Moses did as the LORD commanded: died when our brethren died before the LORD! {20:4} And and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into congregation. {20:28} And Moses stripped Aaron of his this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron {20:5} And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it [is] no place of came down from the mount. {20:29} And when all the seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither [is] congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for there any water to drink. {20:6} And Moses and Aaron Aaron thirty days, [even] all the house of Israel. www.holybooks.com
Numbers Page 92 {21:1} And [when] king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the the border of the children of Ammon [was] strong. {21:25} spies; then he fought against Israel, and took [some] of them And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the prisoners. {21:2} And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my thereof. {21:26} For Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon the hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. {21:3} And the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: unto Arnon. {21:27} Wherefore they that speak in proverbs and he called the name of the place Hormah. say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: {21:28} For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a {21:4} And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of [and] the lords of the high places of Arnon. {21:29} Woe to the people was much discouraged because of the way. thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath {21:5} And the people spake against God, and against given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die unto Sihon king of the Amorites. {21:30} We have shot at in the wilderness? for [there is] no bread, neither [is there them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have any] water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. {21:6} laid them waste even unto Nophah, which [reacheth] unto And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and Medeba. they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. {21:31} Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. {21:7} Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We {21:32} And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that [were] against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the there. serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. {21:8} And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, {21:33} And they turned and went up by the way of and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. {21:9} he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. {21:34} And And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. {21:35} So they smote {21:10} And the children of Israel set forward, and him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none pitched in Oboth. {21:11} And they journeyed from Oboth, left him alive: and they possessed his land. and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which [is] before Moab, toward the sunrising. {22:1} And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan [by] Jericho. {21:12} From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared. {21:13} From thence they removed, and {22:2} And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had pitched on the other side of Arnon, which [is] in the done to the Amorites. {22:3} And Moab was sore afraid of wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for the people, because they [were] many: and Moab was Arnon [is] the border of Moab, between Moab and the distressed because of the children of Israel. {22:4} And Amorites. {21:14} Wherefore it is said in the book of the Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the company lick up all [that are] round about us, as the ox brooks of Arnon, {21:15} And at the stream of the brooks licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the Zippor [was] king of the Moabites at that time. {22:5} He border of Moab. {21:16} And from thence [they went] to sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Beer: that [is] the well whereof the LORD spake unto Pethor, which [is] by the river of the land of the children of Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people water. come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me: {22:6} Come now {21:17} Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they [are] sing ye unto it: {21:18} The princes digged the well, the too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, [that] we nobles of the people digged it, by [the direction of] the may smite them, and [that] I may drive them out of the land: lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness [they for I wot that he whom thou blessest [is] blessed, and he went] to Mattanah: {21:19} And from Mattanah to whom thou cursest is cursed. {22:7} And the elders of Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth: {21:20} And from Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of Bamoth [in] the valley, that [is] in the country of Moab, to divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon. spake unto him the words of Balak. {22:8} And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word {21:21} And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of the Amorites, saying, {21:22} Let me pass through thy land: Moab abode with Balaam. {22:9} And God came unto we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we Balaam, and said, What men [are] these with thee? {22:10} will not drink [of] the waters of the well: [but] we will go And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king along by the king’s [high] way, until we be past thy borders. of Moab, hath sent unto me, [saying, ]{22:11} Behold, {21:23} And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through [there is] a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out. Jahaz, and fought against Israel. {21:24} And Israel smote {22:12} And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they [are] blessed. www.holybooks.com
Page 93 Numbers {22:13} And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto border of Arnon, which [is] in the utmost coast. {22:37} the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto refuseth to give me leave to go with you. {22:14} And the thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and not able indeed to promote thee to honour? {22:38} And said, Balaam refuseth to come with us. Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God {22:15} And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak. {22:39} And more honourable than they. {22:16} And they came to Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjath- Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of huzoth. {22:40} And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming sent to Balaam, and to the princes that [were] with him. unto me: {22:17} For I will promote thee unto very great {22:41} And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. {22:18} And that thence he might see the utmost [part] of the people. Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I {23:1} And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. or more. {22:19} Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also {23:2} And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram. unto me more. {22:20} And God came unto Balaam at {23:3} And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come up, [and] go with them; but yet the word which I shall say to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. unto thee, that shalt thou do. {22:21} And Balaam rose up And he went to an high place. {23:4} And God met in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, princes of Moab. and I have offered upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram. {23:5} And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and {22:22} And God’s anger was kindled because he went: said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. {23:6} and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab. {23:7} And he his two servants [were] with him. {22:23} And the ass saw took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, [saying,] Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel. and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn {23:8} How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or her into the way. {22:24} But the angel of the LORD stood how shall I defy, [whom] the LORD hath not defied? in a path of the vineyards, a wall [being] on this side, and a {23:9} For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the wall on that side. {22:25} And when the ass saw the angel hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed not be reckoned among the nations. {23:10} Who can count Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again. the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth [part] of {22:26} And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last in a narrow place, where [was] no way to turn either to the end be like his! {23:11} And Balak said unto Balaam, What right hand or to the left. {22:27} And when the ass saw the hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and and, behold, thou hast blessed [them] altogether. {23:12} Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak staff. {22:28} And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, that which the LORD hath put in my mouth? {23:13} And and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto thou hast smitten me these three times? {22:29} And another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I all: and curse me them from thence. kill thee. {22:30} And the ass said unto Balaam, [Am] not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since [I was] {23:14} And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a And he said, Nay. {22:31} Then the LORD opened the eyes bullock and a ram on [every] altar. {23:15} And he said of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed [the LORD] yonder. {23:16} And the LORD met Balaam, down his head, and fell flat on his face. {22:32} And the and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou and say thus. {23:17} And when he came to him, behold, he smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with withstand thee, because [thy] way is perverse before me: him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD {22:33} And the ass saw me, and turned from me these spoken? {23:18} And he took up his parable, and said, Rise three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor: I had slain thee, and saved her alive. {22:34} And Balaam {23:19} God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, not do [it?] or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it if it displease thee, I will get me back again. {22:35} And good? {23:20} Behold, I have received [commandment] to the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. {23:21} but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God [is] with him, and the shout of a king [is] among them. {23:22} God brought {22:36} And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which [is] in the unicorn. {23:23} Surely [there is] no enchantment against www.holybooks.com
Numbers Page 94 Jacob, neither [is there] any divination against Israel: of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of What hath God wrought! {23:24} Behold, the people shall Sheth. {24:18} And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do shall not lie down until he eat [of] the prey, and drink the valiantly. {24:19} Out of Jacob shall come he that shall blood of the slain. have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city. {23:25} And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. {23:26} But Balaam answered {24:20} And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the parable, and said, Amalek [was] the first of the nations; but LORD speaketh, that I must do? his latter end [shall be] that he perish for ever. {24:21} And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, {23:27} And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will rock. {24:22} Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence. Asshur shall carry thee away captive. {24:23} And he took {23:28} And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God that looketh toward Jeshimon. {23:29} And Balaam said doeth this! {24:24} And ships [shall come] from the coast unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, seven bullocks and seven rams. {23:30} And Balak did as and he also shall perish for ever. {24:25} And Balaam rose Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on [every] up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went altar. his way. {24:1} And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD {25:1} And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. {25:2} enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: {24:2} And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. abiding [in his tents] according to their tribes; and the spirit {25:3} And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the of God came upon him. {24:3} And he took up his parable, anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. {25:4} And and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the whose eyes are open hath said: {24:4} He hath said, which people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Almighty, falling [into a trance,] but having his eyes open: Israel. {25:5} And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, {24:5} How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, [and] thy Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor. tabernacles, O Israel! {24:6} As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes {25:6} And, behold, one of the children of Israel came which the LORD hath planted, [and] as cedar trees beside and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the the waters. {24:7} He shall pour the water out of his sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of buckets, and his seed [shall be] in many waters, and his king the children of Israel, who [were] weeping [before] the door shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. of the tabernacle of the congregation. {25:7} And when {24:8} God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations saw [it,] he rose up from among the congregation, and took his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce [them] a javelin in his hand; {25:8} And he went after the man of through with his arrows. {24:9} He couched, he lay down Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague [is] he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee. was stayed from the children of Israel. {25:9} And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. {24:10} And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto {25:10} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, {25:11} Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the thou hast altogether blessed [them] these three times. priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of {24:11} Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. {25:12} kept thee back from honour. {24:12} And Balaam said unto Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou peace: {25:13} And he shall have it, and his seed after him, sentest unto me, saying, {24:13} If Balak would give me his [even] the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the commandment of the LORD, to do [either] good or bad of children of Israel. {25:14} Now the name of the Israelite mine own mind; [but] what the LORD saith, that will I that was slain, [even] that was slain with the Midianitish speak? {24:14} And now, behold, I go unto my people: woman, [was] Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief come [therefore, and] I will advertise thee what this people house among the Simeonites. {25:15} And the name of the shall do to thy people in the latter days. Midianitish woman that was slain [was] Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he [was] head over a people, [and] of a chief house {24:15} And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the in Midian. son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: {24:16} He hath said, which heard the words of {25:16} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, [which] {25:17} Vex the Midianites, and smite them: {25:18} For saw the vision of the Almighty, falling [into a trance,] but they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled having his eyes open: {24:17} I shall see him, but not now: you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain www.holybooks.com
Page 95 Numbers in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake. Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. {26:27} These [are] the families of the Zebulunites according to {26:1} And it came to pass after the plague, that the those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron five hundred. the priest, saying, {26:2} Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old {26:28} The sons of Joseph after their families [were] and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able Manasseh and Ephraim. {26:29} Of the sons of Manasseh: to go to war in Israel. {26:3} And Moses and Eleazar the of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan Gilead: of Gilead [come] the family of the Gileadites. [near] Jericho, saying, {26:4} [Take the sum of the people,] {26:30} These [are] the sons of Gilead: [of] Jeezer, the from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went Helekites: {26:31} And [of] Asriel, the family of the forth out of the land of Egypt. Asrielites: and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites: {26:32} And [of] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: {26:5} Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of and [of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. Reuben; Hanoch, [of whom cometh] the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: {26:6} Of {26:33} And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family but daughters: and the names of the daughters of of the Carmites. {26:7} These [are] the families of the Zelophehad [were] Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were Tirzah. {26:34} These [are] the families of Manasseh, and forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand {26:8} And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. {26:9} And the sons of and seven hundred. Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This [is that] Dathan and Abiram, [which were] famous in the {26:35} These [are] the sons of Ephraim after their congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of in the company of Korah, when they strove against the Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of LORD: {26:10} And the earth opened her mouth, and the Tahanites. {26:36} And these [are] the sons of swallowed them up together with Korah, when that Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites. {26:37} company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and These [are] the families of the sons of Ephraim according to fifty men: and they became a sign. {26:11} Notwithstanding those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand the children of Korah died not. and five hundred. These [are] the sons of Joseph after their families. {26:12} The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family {26:38} The sons of Benjamin after their families: of of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites: Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the {26:13} Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites: family of the Shaulites. {26:14} These [are] the families of {26:39} Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred. Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. {26:40} And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: [of Ard,] the family of {26:15} The children of Gad after their families: of the Ardites: [and] of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family {26:41} These [are] the sons of Benjamin after their of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites: families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty {26:16} Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the and five thousand and six hundred. family of the Erites: {26:17} Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites. {26:18} These {26:42} These [are] the sons of Dan after their families: [are] the families of the children of Gad according to those of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These [are] the that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five families of Dan after their families. {26:43} All the families hundred. of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, [were] threescore and four thousand and four {26:19} The sons of Judah [were] Er and Onan: and Er hundred. and Onan died in the land of Canaan. {26:20} And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of {26:44} [Of] the children of Asher after their families: of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Zerah, the family of the Zarhites. {26:21} And the sons of Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. {26:45} Of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. {26:22} These [are] the Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. {26:46} And the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of name of the daughter of Asher [was] Sarah. {26:47} These them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred. [are] the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; [who were] fifty and three {26:23} [Of] the sons of Issachar after their families: [of] thousand and four hundred. Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites: {26:24} Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of {26:48} [Of] the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. {26:25} These [are] Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the families of Issachar according to those that were the Gunites: {26:49} Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. {26:50} These [are] hundred. the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand {26:26} [Of] the sons of Zebulun after their families: of and four hundred. {26:51} These [were] the numbered of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand www.holybooks.com
Numbers Page 96 seven hundred and thirty. have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father’s brethren. {27:11} And if his father have no {26:52} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman {26:53} Unto these the land shall be divided for an that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and inheritance according to the number of names. {26:54} To it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou as the LORD commanded Moses. shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered {27:12} And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into of him. {26:55} Notwithstanding the land shall be divided this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers unto the children of Israel. {27:13} And when thou hast they shall inherit. {26:56} According to the lot shall the seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as possession thereof be divided between many and few. Aaron thy brother was gathered. {27:14} For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife {26:57} And these [are] they that were numbered of the of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the eyes: that [is] the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of wilderness of Zin. Merari, the family of the Merarites. {26:58} These [are] the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the {27:15} And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying, family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the {27:16} Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And set a man over the congregation, {27:17} Which may go out Kohath begat Amram. {26:59} And the name of Amram’s before them, and which may go in before them, and which wife [was] Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom [her may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the mother] bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister. {26:60} And shepherd. unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. {26:61} And Nadab and Abihu died, when they {27:18} And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee offered strange fire before the LORD. {26:62} And those Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom [is] the spirit, and that were numbered of them were twenty and three lay thine hand upon him; {27:19} And set him before thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give were not numbered among the children of Israel, because him a charge in their sight. {27:20} And thou shalt put there was no inheritance given them among the children of some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of Israel. the children of Israel may be obedient. {27:21} And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask [counsel] for {26:63} These [are] they that were numbered by Moses him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho. {26:64} But [both] he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and the congregation. {27:22} And Moses did as the LORD Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. {26:65} For the Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: {27:23} LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses. Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. {28:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {28:2} {27:1} Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of offering, [and] my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: [for] a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, me in their due season. {28:3} And thou shalt say unto and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. {27:2} And they stood them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day princes and all the congregation, [by] the door of the by day, [for] a continual burnt offering. {28:4} The one tabernacle of the congregation, saying, {27:3} Our father lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of shalt thou offer at even; {28:5} And a tenth [part] of an them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no [part] of an hin of beaten oil. {28:6} [It is] a continual burnt sons. {27:4} Why should the name of our father be done offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD. {28:7} unto us [therefore] a possession among the brethren of our And the drink offering thereof [shall be] the fourth [part] of father. {27:5} And Moses brought their cause before the an hin for the one lamb: in the holy [place] shalt thou cause LORD. the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD [for] a drink offering. {28:8} And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: {27:6} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {27:7} as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely offering thereof, thou shalt offer [it,] a sacrifice made by give them a possession of an inheritance among their fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them. {27:8} And thou shalt speak {28:9} And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no without spot, and two tenth deals of flour [for] a meat son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof: daughter. {27:9} And if he have no daughter, then ye shall {28:10} [This is] the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside give his inheritance unto his brethren. {27:10} And if he the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering. www.holybooks.com
Page 97 Numbers {28:11} And in the beginnings of your months ye shall seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, your souls: ye shall not do any work [therein: ]{29:8} But and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot; ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD [for] a sweet {28:12} And three tenth deals of flour [for] a meat offering, savour; one young bullock, one ram, [and] seven lambs of mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish: flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram; {29:9} And their meat offering [shall be of] flour mingled {28:13} And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, [and] two tenth deals [for] a meat offering unto one lamb; [for] a burnt offering of to one ram, {29:10} A several tenth deal for one lamb, a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD. throughout the seven lambs: {29:11} One kid of the goats {28:14} And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of [for] a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, wine unto a bullock, and the third [part] of an hin unto a and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, ram, and a fourth [part] of an hin unto a lamb: this [is] the and their drink offerings. burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year. {28:15} And one kid of the goats for a sin offering {29:12} And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, offering, and his drink offering. {28:16} And in the and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: fourteenth day of the first month [is] the passover of the {29:13} And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice LORD. {28:17} And in the fifteenth day of this month [is] made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. young bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first {28:18} In the first day [shall be] an holy convocation; ye year; they shall be without blemish: {29:14} And their meat shall do no manner of servile work [therein: ]{28:19} But offering [shall be of] flour mingled with oil, three tenth ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire [for] a burnt offering deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and deals to each ram of the two rams, {29:15} And a several seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs: {29:16} And blemish: {28:20} And their meat offering [shall be of] flour one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the continual mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram; {28:21} A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the {29:17} And on the second day [ye shall offer] twelve seven lambs: {28:22} And one goat [for] a sin offering, to young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year make an atonement for you. {28:23} Ye shall offer these without spot: {29:18} And their meat offering and their beside the burnt offering in the morning, which [is] for a drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the continual burnt offering. {28:24} After this manner ye shall lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the manner: {29:19} And one kid of the goats [for] a sin sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his offering thereof, and their drink offerings. drink offering. {28:25} And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work. {29:20} And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish; {29:21} {28:26} Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks [be bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] out,] ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no according to their number, after the manner: {29:22} And servile work: {28:27} But ye shall offer the burnt offering one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering. ram, seven lambs of the first year; {28:28} And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one {29:23} And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram, {28:29} A several [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs; {29:24} Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the {28:30} [And] one kid of the goats, to make an atonement bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] for you. {28:31} Ye shall offer [them] beside the continual according to their number, after the manner: {29:25} And burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the continual you without blemish) and their drink offerings. burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. {29:1} And in the seventh month, on the first [day] of the {29:26} And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without spot: {29:27} servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the {29:2} And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, [and] according to their number, after the manner: {29:28} And seven lambs of the first year without blemish: {29:3} And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt their meat offering [shall be of] flour mingled with oil, three offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering. tenth deals for a bullock, [and] two tenth deals for a ram, {29:4} And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the {29:29} And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, seven lambs: {29:5} And one kid of the goats [for] a sin [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: offering, to make an atonement for you: {29:6} Beside the {29:30} And their meat offering and their drink offerings burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink according to their number, after the manner: {29:31} And offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD. offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. {29:7} And ye shall have on the tenth [day] of this {29:32} And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two www.holybooks.com
Numbers Page 98 rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: the father and his daughter, [being yet] in her youth in her {29:33} And their meat offering and their drink offerings father’s house. for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner: {29:34} And {31:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {31:2} one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. {31:3} And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto {29:35} On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge assembly: ye shall do no servile work [therein: ]{29:36} But the LORD of Midian. {31:4} Of every tribe a thousand, ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war. sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven {31:5} So there were delivered out of the thousands of lambs of the first year without blemish: {29:37} Their meat Israel, a thousand of [every] tribe, twelve thousand armed offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the for war. {31:6} And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand ram, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, of [every] tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the after the manner: {29:38} And one goat [for] a sin offering; priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, trumpets to blow in his hand. {31:7} And they warred and his drink offering. {29:39} These [things] ye shall do against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and and they slew all the males. {31:8} And they slew the kings your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; [namely,] your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of your peace offerings. {29:40} And Moses told the children Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses. sword. {31:9} And the children of Israel took [all] the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took {30:1} And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing goods. {31:10} And they burnt all their cities wherein they which the LORD hath commanded. {30:2} If a man vow a dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. {31:11} And vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with they took all the spoil, and all the prey, [both] of men and of a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to beasts. {31:12} And they brought the captives, and the prey, all that proceedeth out of his mouth. {30:3} If a woman also and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind [herself] by a bond, the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at [being] in her father’s house in her youth; {30:4} And her the plains of Moab, which [are] by Jordan [near] Jericho. father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: {31:13} And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them hath bound her soul shall stand. {30:5} But if her father without the camp. {31:14} And Moses was wroth with the disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, officers of the host, [with] the captains over thousands, and or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father {31:15} And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the disallowed her. {30:6} And if she had at all an husband, women alive? {31:16} Behold, these caused the children of when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass she bound her soul; {30:7} And her husband heard [it,] and against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a held his peace at her in the day that he heard [it:] then her plague among the congregation of the LORD. {31:17} Now vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill soul shall stand. {30:8} But if her husband disallowed her every woman that hath known man by lying with him. on the day that he heard [it;] then he shall make her vow {31:18} But all the women children, that have not known a which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. {31:19} wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever LORD shall forgive her. {30:9} But every vow of a widow, hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their slain, purify [both] yourselves and your captives on the third souls, shall stand against her. {30:10} And if she vowed in day, and on the seventh day. {31:20} And purify all [your] her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ oath; {30:11} And her husband heard [it,] and held his [hair,] and all things made of wood. peace at her, [and] disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul {31:21} And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war shall stand. {30:12} But if her husband hath utterly made which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law them void on the day he heard [them; then] whatsoever which the LORD commanded Moses; {31:22} Only the proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her {31:23} Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive [it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it her. {30:13} Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water. make it void. {30:14} But if her husband altogether hold his {31:24} And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the vows, or all her bonds, which [are] upon her: he confirmeth camp. them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard [them. ]{30:15} But if he shall any ways make them {31:25} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, void after that he hath heard [them;] then he shall bear her {31:26} Take the sum of the prey that was taken, [both] of iniquity. {30:16} These [are] the statutes, which the LORD man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between fathers of the congregation: {31:27} And divide the prey www.holybooks.com
Page 99 Numbers into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the who went out to battle, and between all the congregation: congregation, saying, {32:3} Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, {31:28} And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, Nebo, and Beon, {32:4} [Even] the country which the [both] of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, [is] a land and of the sheep: {31:29} Take [it] of their half, and give for cattle, and thy servants have cattle: {32:5} Wherefore, [it] unto Eleazar the priest, [for] an heave offering of the said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land LORD. {31:30} And of the children of Israel’s half, thou be given unto thy servants for a possession, [and] bring us shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, not over Jordan. of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the {32:6} And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to tabernacle of the LORD. {31:31} And Moses and Eleazar the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. {31:32} shall ye sit here? {32:7} And wherefore discourage ye the And the booty, [being] the rest of the prey which the men of heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy which the LORD hath given them? {32:8} Thus did your thousand and five thousand sheep, {31:33} And threescore fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the and twelve thousand beeves, {31:34} And threescore and land. {32:9} For when they went up unto the valley of one thousand asses, {31:35} And thirty and two thousand Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying children of Israel, that they should not go into the land with him. {31:36} And the half, [which was] the portion of which the LORD had given them. {32:10} And the them that went out to war, was in number three hundred LORD’S anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred saying, {32:11} Surely none of the men that came up out of sheep: {31:37} And the LORD’S tribute of the sheep was Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land six hundred and threescore and fifteen. {31:38} And the which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; beeves [were] thirty and six thousand; of which the because they have not wholly followed me: {32:12} Save LORD’S tribute [was] threescore and twelve. {31:39} And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the the asses [were] thirty thousand and five hundred; of which son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD. the LORD’S tribute [was] threescore and one. {31:40} And {32:13} And the LORD’S anger was kindled against Israel, the persons [were] sixteen thousand; of which the LORD’S and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, tribute [was] thirty and two persons. {31:41} And Moses until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the gave the tribute, [which was] the LORD’S heave offering, LORD, was consumed. {32:14} And, behold, ye are risen unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses. up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to {31:42} And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. divided from the men that warred, {31:43} (Now the half {32:15} For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet [that pertained unto] the congregation was three hundred again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all thousand and thirty thousand [and] seven thousand and five this people. hundred sheep, {31:44} And thirty and six thousand beeves, {31:45} And thirty thousand asses and five hundred, {32:16} And they came near unto him, and said, We will {31:46} And sixteen thousand persons;) {31:47} Even of build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one portion of fifty, ones: {32:17} But we ourselves will go ready armed before [both] of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities LORD commanded Moses. because of the inhabitants of the land. {32:18} We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have {31:48} And the officers which [were] over thousands of inherited every man his inheritance. {32:19} For we will the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; hundreds, came near unto Moses: {31:49} And they said because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of eastward. war which [are] under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us. {31:50} We have therefore brought an oblation {32:20} And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war, {32:21} gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, make an atonement for our souls before the LORD. {31:51} until he hath driven out his enemies from before him, And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, {32:22} And the land be subdued before the LORD: then [even] all wrought jewels. {31:52} And all the gold of the afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen before the LORD. {32:23} But if ye will not do so, behold, thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. {31:53} ([For] ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.) find you out. {32:24} Build you cities for your little ones, {31:54} And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it out of your mouth. {32:25} And the children of Gad and the into the tabernacle of the congregation, [for] a memorial for children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants the children of Israel before the LORD. will do as my lord commandeth. {32:26} Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the {32:1} Now the children of Reuben and the children of cities of Gilead: {32:27} But thy servants will pass over, Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the lord saith. {32:28} So concerning them Moses commanded place [was] a place for cattle; {32:2} The children of Gad Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: {32:29} And www.holybooks.com
Numbers Page 100 Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the hattaavah. {33:17} And they departed from Kibroth- children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth. {33:18} And they man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah. {33:19} subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon- Gilead for a possession: {32:30} But if they will not pass parez. {33:20} And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and over with you armed, they shall have possessions among pitched in Libnah. {33:21} And they removed from Libnah, you in the land of Canaan. {32:31} And the children of Gad and pitched at Rissah. {33:22} And they journeyed from and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah. {33:23} And they went hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. {32:32} We will from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher. {33:24} pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan Haradah. {33:25} And they removed from Haradah, and [may be] ours. {32:33} And Moses gave unto them, [even] pitched in Makheloth. {33:26} And they removed from to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath. {33:27} And they unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah. {33:28} And kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah. {33:29} Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah. coasts, [even] the cities of the country round about. {33:30} And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth. {33:31} And they departed from {32:34} And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan. {33:32} And they Ataroth, and Aroer, {32:35} And Atroth, Shophan, and removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad. Jaazer, and Jogbehah, {32:36} And Beth-nimrah, and Beth- {33:33} And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep. {32:37} And the Jotbathah. {33:34} And they removed from Jotbathah, and children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and encamped at Ebronah. {33:35} And they departed from Kirjathaim, {32:38} And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber. {33:36} And they names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of unto the cities which they builded. {32:39} And the Zin, which [is] Kadesh. {33:37} And they removed from children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which [was] in it. of Edom. {33:38} And Aaron the priest went up into mount {32:40} And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. {32:41} And Jair the son the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and of the land of Egypt, in the first [day] of the fifth month. called them Havoth-jair. {32:42} And Nobah went and took {33:39} And Aaron [was] an hundred and twenty and three Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after years old when he died in mount Hor. {33:40} And king his own name. Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. {33:1} These [are] the journeys of the children of Israel, {33:41} And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies Zalmonah. {33:42} And they departed from Zalmonah, and under the hand of Moses and Aaron. {33:2} And Moses pitched in Punon. {33:43} And they departed from Punon, wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the and pitched in Oboth. {33:44} And they departed from commandment of the LORD: and these [are] their journeys Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab. according to their goings out. {33:3} And they departed {33:45} And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon- from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the gad. {33:46} And they removed from Dibon-gad, and first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of encamped in Almon-diblathaim. {33:47} And they removed Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Egyptians. {33:4} For the Egyptians buried all [their] Abarim, before Nebo. {33:48} And they departed from the firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by their gods also the LORD executed judgments. {33:5} And Jordan [near] Jericho. {33:49} And they pitched by Jordan, the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in from Beth- jesimoth [even] unto Abel-shittim in the plains Succoth. {33:6} And they departed from Succoth, and of Moab. pitched in Etham, which [is] in the edge of the wilderness. {33:7} And they removed from Etham, and turned again {33:50} And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of unto Pi-hahiroth, which [is] before Baal- zephon: and they Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying, {33:51} Speak unto pitched before Migdol. {33:8} And they departed from the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; {33:52} Then into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. {33:9} And you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: Elim [were] twelve fountains of water, and threescore and {33:53} And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants] of the ten palm trees; and they pitched there. {33:10} And they land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea. {33:11} possess it. {33:54} And ye shall divide the land by lot for an And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the inheritance among your families: [and] to the more ye shall wilderness of Sin. {33:12} And they took their journey out give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. less inheritance: every man’s [inheritance] shall be in the {33:13} And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your in Alush. {33:14} And they removed from Alush, and fathers ye shall inherit. {33:55} But if ye will not drive out encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall to drink. {33:15} And they departed from Rephidim, and come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them [shall pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. {33:16} And they be] pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth- vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. {33:56} Moreover it www.holybooks.com
Page 101 Numbers shall come to pass, [that] I shall do unto you, as I thought to the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the do unto them. inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give [also] unto the Levites suburbs for the cities {34:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {34:2} round about them. {35:3} And the cities shall they have to Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall and for their goods, and for all their beasts. {35:4} And the fall unto you for an inheritance, [even] the land of Canaan suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, with the coasts thereof:) {34:3} Then your south quarter [shall reach] from the wall of the city and outward a shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of thousand cubits round about. {35:5} And ye shall measure Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, the salt sea eastward: {34:4} And your border shall turn and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to thousand cubits and the city [shall be] in the midst: this Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. {35:6} And to Azmon: {34:5} And the border shall fetch a compass among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites [there from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of shall be] six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the it shall be at the sea. {34:6} And [as for] the western border, manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be forty and two cities. {35:7} [So] all the cities which ye shall your west border. {34:7} And this shall be your north give to the Levites [shall be] forty and eight cities: them border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount [shall ye give] with their suburbs. {35:8} And the cities Hor: {34:8} From mount Hor ye shall point out [your which ye shall give [shall be] of the possession of the border] unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of children of Israel: from [them that have] many ye shall give the border shall be to Zedad: many; but from [them that have] few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according {34:9} And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the to his inheritance which he inheriteth. goings out of it shall be at Hazar- enan: this shall be your north border. {34:10} And ye shall point out your east {35:9} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {35:10} border from Hazar-enan to Shepham: {34:11} And the coast Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan; {35:11} Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward: {34:12} And the you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it person at unawares. {35:12} And they shall be unto you shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die coasts thereof round about. {34:13} And Moses not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment. commanded the children of Israel, saying, This [is] the land {35:13} And of these cities which ye shall give six cities which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded shall ye have for refuge. {35:14} Ye shall give three cities to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe: {34:14} on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the of Canaan, [which] shall be cities of refuge. {35:15} These house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad six cities shall be a refuge, [both] for the children of Israel, according to the house of their fathers, have received [their and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that inheritance;] and half the tribe of Manasseh have received every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither. their inheritance: {34:15} The two tribes and the half tribe {35:16} And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so have received their inheritance on this side Jordan [near] that he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising. {34:16} And the put to death. {35:17} And if he smite him with throwing a LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {34:17} These [are] the stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: the murderer shall surely be put to death. {35:18} Or [if] he Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. {34:18} And smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely inheritance. {34:19} And the names of the men [are] these: be put to death. {35:19} The revenger of blood himself shall Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. {34:20} slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him. And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son {35:20} But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by of Ammihud. {34:21} Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the laying of wait, that he die; {35:21} Or in enmity smite him son of Chislon. {34:22} And the prince of the tribe of the with his hand, that he die: he that smote [him] shall surely children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli. {34:23} The prince be put to death; [for] he [is] a murderer: the revenger of of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him. Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod. {34:24} And the {35:22} But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait, son of Shiphtan. {34:25} And the prince of the tribe of the {35:23} Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. {34:26} seeing [him] not, and cast [it] upon him, that he die, and And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, [was] not his enemy, neither sought his harm: {35:24} Then Paltiel the son of Azzan. {34:27} And the prince of the tribe the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. revenger of blood according to these judgments: {35:25} {34:28} And the prince of the tribe of the children of And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. {34:29} These [are of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore they] whom the LORD commanded to divide the him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan. shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil. {35:26} But if the slayer shall at {35:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying, {35:2} Command whither he was fled; {35:27} And the revenger of blood www.holybooks.com
Numbers Page 102 find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood: {35:28} Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession. {35:29} So these [things] shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. {35:30} Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person [to cause him] to die. {35:31} Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which [is] guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. {35:32} And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. {35:33} So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye [are:] for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. {35:34} Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel. {36:1} And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel: {36:2} And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. {36:3} And if they be married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance. {36:4} And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. {36:5} And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well. {36:6} This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. {36:7} So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. {36:8} And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. {36:9} Neither shall the inheritance remove from [one] tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance. {36:10} Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: {36:11} For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons: {36:12} [And] they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. {36:13} These [are] the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho. www.holybooks.com
Page 103 Deuteronomy The Fifth Book of Moses, called Deuteronomy go up, and into what cities we shall come. {1:23} and the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one {1:1} These [be] the words which Moses spake unto all of a tribe: {1:24} And they turned and went up into the Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched against the Red [sea,] between Paran, and Tophel, and it out. {1:25} And they took of the fruit of the land in their Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. {1:2} ([There are] hands, and brought [it] down unto us, and brought us word eleven days’ [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount again, and said, [It is] a good land which the LORD our Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) {1:3} And it came to pass in the God doth give us. {1:26} Notwithstanding ye would not go fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD month, [that] Moses spake unto the children of Israel, your God: {1:27} And ye murmured in your tents, and said, according unto all that the LORD had given him in Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of commandment unto them; {1:4} After he had slain Sihon the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og Amorites, to destroy us. {1:28} Whither shall we go up? our the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: {1:5} brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people [is] On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to greater and taller than we; the cities [are] great and walled declare this law, saying, {1:6} The LORD our God spake up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this Anakims there. {1:29} Then I said unto you, Dread not, mount: {1:7} Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the neither be afraid of them. {1:30} The LORD your God mount of the Amorites, and unto all [the places] nigh which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; {1:31} the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all {1:8} Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. {1:32} possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their {1:33} Who went in the way before you, to search you out a seed after them. place to pitch your tents [in,] in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. {1:34} {1:9} And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was able to bear you myself alone: {1:10} The LORD your God wroth, and sware, saying, {1:35} Surely there shall not one hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye [are] this day as the of these men of this evil generation see that good land, stars of heaven for multitude. {1:11} (The LORD God of which I sware to give unto your fathers, {1:36} Save Caleb your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give [are,] and bless you, as he hath promised you!) {1:12} How the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, because he hath wholly followed the LORD. {1:37} Also and your strife? {1:13} Take you wise men, and the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will also shalt not go in thither. {1:38} [But] Joshua the son of make them rulers over you. {1:14} And ye answered me, Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good [for us] encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. {1:39} to do. {1:15} So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over and your children, which in that day had no knowledge thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your them will I give it, and they shall possess it. {1:40} But [as tribes. {1:16} And I charged your judges at that time, for] you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge by the way of the Red sea. {1:41} Then ye answered and righteously between [every] man and his brother, and the said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will stranger [that is] with him. {1:17} Ye shall not respect go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God persons in judgment; [but ]ye shall hear the small as well as commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. {1:42} judgment [is ]God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, bring [it ]unto me, and I will hear it. {1:18} And I neither fight; for I [am] not among you; lest ye be smitten commanded you at that time all the things which ye should before your enemies. {1:43} So I spake unto you; and ye do. would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill. {1:19} And when we departed from Horeb, we went {1:44} And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD destroyed you in Seir, [even] unto Hormah. {1:45} And ye our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would {1:20} And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. {1:46} So of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that us. {1:21} Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land ye abode [there. before thee: go up [and] possess [it,] as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be ]{2:1} Then we turned, and took our journey into the discouraged. wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days. {2:2} {1:22} And ye came near unto me every one of you, and And the LORD spake unto me, saying, {2:3} Ye have said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must {2:4} And command thou the people, saying, Ye [are] to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye www.holybooks.com
Deuteronomy Page 104 good heed unto yourselves therefore: {2:5} Meddle not with money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much may drink: only I will pass through on my feet; {2:29} (As as a footbreadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites [for] a possession. {2:6} Ye shall buy meat of them for which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us. for money, that ye may drink. {2:7} For the LORD thy God {2:30} But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee; thou hast lacked as [appeareth] this day. {2:31} And the LORD said unto nothing. {2:8} And when we passed by from our brethren me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned {2:32} Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. {2:9} people, to fight at Jahaz. {2:33} And the LORD our God And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee and all his people. {2:34} And we took all his cities at that of their land [for] a possession; because I have given Ar time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the unto the children of Lot [for] a possession. {2:10} The little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: {2:35} Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the many, and tall, as the Anakims; {2:11} Which also were spoil of the cities which we took. {2:36} From Aroer, which accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call [is] by the brink of the river of Arnon, and [from] the city them Emims. {2:12} The Horims also dwelt in Seir that [is] by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in us: {2:37} Only unto the land of the children of Ammon their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, which the LORD gave unto them. {2:13} Now rise up, [said [nor] unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever I,] and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the the LORD our God forbad us. brook Zered. {2:14} And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, {3:1} Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: [was] thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the his people, to battle at Edrei. {3:2} And the LORD said LORD sware unto them. {2:15} For indeed the hand of the unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto host, until they were consumed. him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. {3:3} So the LORD our God delivered {2:16} So it came to pass, when all the men of war were into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his consumed and dead from among the people, {2:17} That people: and we smote him until none was left to him the LORD spake unto me, saying, {2:18} Thou art to pass remaining. {3:4} And we took all his cities at that time, over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: {2:19} And there was not a city which we took not from them, [when] thou comest nigh over against the children of threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will in Bashan. {3:5} All these cities [were] fenced with high not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon [any] walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot {3:6} And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon [for] a possession. {2:20} (That also was accounted a land king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the children, of every city. {3:7} But all the cattle, and the spoil Ammonites call them Zamzummims; {2:21} A people of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. {3:8} And we great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and Amorites the land that [was] on this side Jordan, from the dwelt in their stead: {2:22} As he did to the children of river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; {3:9} ([Which] Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in Shenir;) {3:10} All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, their stead even unto this day: {2:23} And the Avims which and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the dwelt in Hazerim, [even] unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, kingdom of Og in Bashan. {3:11} For only Og king of which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his in their stead.) bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and {2:24} Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. {3:12} river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the And this land, [which] we possessed at that time, from Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon, and half mount [it,] and contend with him in battle. {2:25} This day will I Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the and to the Gadites. {3:13} And the rest of Gilead, and all nations [that are] under the whole heaven, who shall hear Bashan, [being] the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, of thee. which was called the land of giants. {3:14} Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of {2:26} And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of name, Bashan- havoth-jair, unto this day. {3:15} And I gave peace, saying, {2:27} Let me pass through thy land: I will Gilead unto Machir. {3:16} And unto the Reubenites and go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river hand nor to the left. {2:28} Thou shalt sell me meat for Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river www.holybooks.com
Page 105 Deuteronomy Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of Ammon; Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear {3:17} The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast [thereof,] my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, [even] the they shall live upon the earth, and [that] they may teach salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward. their children. {4:11} And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst {3:18} And I commanded you at that time, saying, The of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye {4:12} And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no Israel, all [that are] meet for the war. {3:19} But your similitude; only [ye heard] a voice. {4:13} And he declared wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, ([for] I know unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them have given you; {3:20} Until the LORD have given rest upon two tables of stone. unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and [until] they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given {4:14} And the LORD commanded me at that time to them beyond Jordan: and [then] shall ye return every man teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in unto his possession, which I have given you. the land whither ye go over to possess it. {4:15} Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner {3:21} And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, of similitude on the day [that] the LORD spake unto you in Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done Horeb out of the midst of the fire: {4:16} Lest ye corrupt unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the [yourselves,] and make you a graven image, the similitude kingdoms whither thou passest. {3:22} Ye shall not fear of any figure, the likeness of male or female, {4:17} The them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you. {3:23} likeness of any beast that [is] on the earth, the likeness of And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, {3:24} O any winged fowl that flieth in the air, {4:18} The likeness Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God [is there] in fish that [is] in the waters beneath the earth: {4:19} And lest heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the according to thy might? {3:25} I pray thee, let me go over, sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of and see the good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve mountain, and Lebanon. {3:26} But the LORD was wroth them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the nations under the whole heaven. {4:20} But the LORD hath LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, me of this matter. {3:27} Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, [even] out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and as [ye are] this day. {4:21} Furthermore the LORD was southward, and eastward, and behold [it] with thine eyes: angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. {3:28} But charge go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inheritance: {4:22} But I must die in this land, I must not go inherit the land which thou shalt see. {3:29} So we abode in over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good the valley over against Beth- peor. land. {4:23} Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, {4:1} Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and make you a graven image, [or] the likeness of any and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do [them,] [thing,] which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the {4:24} For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even] LORD God of your fathers giveth you. {4:2} Ye shall not a jealous God. add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the {4:25} When thou shalt beget children, and children’s commandments of the LORD your God which I command children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and you. {4:3} Your eyes have seen what the LORD did shall corrupt [yourselves,] and make a graven image, [or] because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal- the likeness of any [thing,] and shall do evil in the sight of peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: {4:26} I call you. {4:4} But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye [are] alive every one of you this day. {4:5} Behold, I have shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong [your] days God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. {4:27} And the whither ye go to possess it. {4:6} Keep therefore and do LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be [them;] for this [is] your wisdom and your understanding in left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, shall lead you. {4:28} And there ye shall serve gods, the and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, understanding people. {4:7} For what nation [is there so] nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. {4:29} But if from thence thou great, who [hath] God [so] nigh unto them, as the LORD shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him,] if thou our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon him [for? seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. {4:30} ]{4:8} And what nation [is there so] great, that hath statutes When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come and judgments [so] righteous as all this law, which I set upon thee, [even] in the latter days, if thou turn to the before you this day? {4:9} Only take heed to thyself, and LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which {4:31} (For the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God;) he will thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them. {4:32} sons; {4:10} [Specially] the day that thou stoodest before For ask now of the days that are past, which were before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and www.holybooks.com
Deuteronomy Page 106 [ask] from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether shalt not make thee [any] graven image, [or] any likeness there hath been [any such thing] as this great thing [is,] or [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the hath been heard like it? {4:33} Did [ever] people hear the earth beneath, or that [is] in the waters beneath the earth: voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou {5:9} Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve hast heard, and live? {4:34} Or hath God assayed to go them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting [and] take him a nation from the midst of another [nation,] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and and fourth [generation] of them that hate me, {5:10} And by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for keep my commandments. {5:11} Thou shalt not take the you in Egypt before your eyes? {4:35} Unto thee it was name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he [is] hold [him] guiltless that taketh his name in vain. {5:12} God; [there is] none else beside him. {4:36} Out of heaven Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: hath commanded thee. {5:13} Six days thou shalt labour, and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou and do all thy work: {5:14} But the seventh day [is] the heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. {4:37} And sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine power out of Egypt; {4:38} To drive out nations from ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within before thee greater and mightier than thou [art,] to bring thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest thee in, to give thee their land [for] an inheritance, as [it is] as well as thou. {5:15} And remember that thou wast a this day. {4:39} Know therefore this day, and consider [it] servant in the land of Egypt, and [that] the LORD thy God in thine heart, that the LORD he [is] God in heaven above, brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a and upon the earth beneath: [there is] none else. {4:40} stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his thee to keep the sabbath day. commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that {5:16} Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever. prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. {5:17} Thou shalt {4:41} Then Moses severed three cities on this side not kill. {5:18} Neither shalt thou commit adultery. {5:19} Jordan toward the sunrising; {4:42} That the slayer might Neither shalt thou steal. {5:20} Neither shalt thou bear false flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and witness against thy neighbour. {5:21} Neither shalt thou hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy these cities he might live: {4:43} [Namely,] Bezer in the neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of neighbour’s. the Manassites. {5:22} These words the LORD spake unto all your {4:44} And this is the law which Moses set before the assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the children of Israel: {4:45} These [are] the testimonies, and cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt, {4:46} and delivered them unto me. {5:23} And it came to pass, On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, me, [even] all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; after they were come forth out of Egypt: {4:47} And they {5:24} And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard kings of the Amorites, which [were] on this side Jordan his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day toward the sunrising; {4:48} From Aroer, which [is] by the that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. {5:25} Now bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is] therefore why should we die? for this great fire will Hermon, {4:49} And all the plain on this side Jordan consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs more, then we shall die. {5:26} For who [is there of] all of Pisgah. flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we [have,] and lived? {5:27} {5:1} And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do speak unto thee; and we will hear [it,] and do [it. ]{5:28} them. {5:2} The LORD our God made a covenant with us And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye in Horeb. {5:3} The LORD made not this covenant with our spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive the voice of the words of this people, which they have this day. {5:4} The LORD talked with you face to face in spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have the mount out of the midst of the fire, {5:5} (I stood spoken. {5:29} O that there were such an heart in them, that between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the they would fear me, and keep all my commandments word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, always, that it might be well with them, and with their and went not up into the mount;) saying, children for ever! {5:30} Go say to them, Get you into your tents again. {5:31} But as for thee, stand thou here by me, {5:6} I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. {5:7} statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, Thou shalt have none other gods before me. {5:8} Thou that they may do [them] in the land which I give them to www.holybooks.com
Page 107 Deuteronomy possess it. {5:32} Ye shall observe to do therefore as the always, that he might preserve us alive, as [it is] at this day. LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn {6:25} And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to aside to the right hand or to the left. {5:33} Ye shall walk in do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded he hath commanded us. you, that ye may live, and [that it may be] well with you, and [that] ye may prolong [your] days in the land which ye {7:1} When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the shall possess. land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the {6:1} Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and to teach you, that ye might do [them] in the land whither ye mightier than thou; {7:2} And when the LORD thy God go to possess it: {6:2} That thou mightest fear the LORD shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s them, nor shew mercy unto them: {7:3} Neither shalt thou son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give prolonged. unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. {7:4} For they will turn away thy son from following me, {6:3} Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it;] that that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the {7:5} But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy land that floweth with milk and honey. {6:4} Hear, O Israel: their altars, and break down their images, and cut down The LORD our God [is] one LORD: {6:5} And thou shalt their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. {7:6} love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the soul, and with all thy might. {6:6} And these words, which LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: {6:7} And himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt earth. {7:7} The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou choose you, because ye were more in number than any walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when people; for ye [were] the fewest of all people: {7:8} But thou risest up. {6:8} And thou shalt bind them for a sign because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the eyes. {6:9} And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed house, and on thy gates. {6:10} And it shall be, when the you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which king of Egypt. {7:9} Know therefore that the LORD thy he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to God, he [is] God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou and mercy with them that love him and keep his buildedst not, {6:11} And houses full of all good [things,] commandments to a thousand generations; {7:10} And which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full; {6:12} [Then] him to his face. {7:11} Thou shalt therefore keep the beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. {6:13} I command thee this day, to do them. Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. {6:14} Ye shall not go after other gods, {7:12} Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to of the gods of the people which [are] round about you; these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy {6:15} (For the LORD thy God [is] a jealous God among God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against he sware unto thy fathers: {7:13} And he will love thee, and thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, {6:16} Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy tempted [him] in Massah. {6:17} Ye shall diligently keep sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give the commandments of the LORD your God, and his thee. {7:14} Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded shall not be male or female barren among you, or among thee. {6:18} And thou shalt do [that which is] right and your cattle. {7:15} And the LORD will take away from thee good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, {6:19} To cast out [them] that hate thee. {7:16} And thou shalt consume all the all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine spoken. {6:20} [And] when thy son asketh thee in time to eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve come, saying, What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee. {7:17} If and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations [are] more than commanded you? {6:21} Then thou shalt say unto thy son, I; how can I dispossess them? {7:18} Thou shalt not be We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD afraid of them: [but] shalt well remember what the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: {6:22} And the thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; {7:19} The LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out our eyes: {6:23} And he brought us out from thence, that he arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art our fathers. {6:24} And the LORD commanded us to do all afraid. {7:20} Moreover the LORD thy God will send the these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide www.holybooks.com
Deuteronomy Page 108 themselves from thee, be destroyed. {7:21} Thou shalt not them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God [is] among ye shall surely perish. {8:20} As the nations which the you, a mighty God and terrible. {7:22} And the LORD thy LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the LORD your God. field increase upon thee. {7:23} But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a {9:1} Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass over Jordan this mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. {7:24} And he day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, {9:2} A people destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. knowest, and [of whom] thou hast heard [say,] Who can {7:25} The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with stand before the children of Anak! {9:3} Understand fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he which nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it [is] goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall an abomination to the LORD thy God. {7:26} Neither shalt destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as cursed thing like it: [but] thou shalt utterly detest it, and the LORD hath said unto thee. {9:4} Speak not thou in thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it [is] a cursed thing. thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD {8:1} All the commandments which I command thee this hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto from before thee. {9:5} Not for thy righteousness, or for the your fathers. {8:2} And thou shalt remember all the way uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, commandments, or no. {8:3} And he humbled thee, and Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. {9:6} Understand therefore, that suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a stiffnecked people. might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the {9:7} Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst LORD doth man live. {8:4} Thy raiment waxed not old the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came {8:5} Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. {9:8} Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so {8:6} Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. {8:7} {9:9} When I was gone up into the mount to receive the For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days out of valleys and hills; {8:8} A land of wheat, and barley, and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil {9:10} And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of olive, and honey; {8:9} A land wherein thou shalt eat bread stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a written] according to all the words, which the LORD spake land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day mayest dig brass. {8:10} When thou hast eaten and art full, of the assembly. {9:11} And it came to pass at the end of then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land forty days and forty nights, [that] the LORD gave me the which he hath given thee. {8:11} Beware that thou forget two tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant. not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, {9:12} And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought this day: {8:12} Lest [when] thou hast eaten and art full, forth out of Egypt have corrupted [themselves;] they are and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein; ]{8:13} quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded And [when] thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy them; they have made them a molten image. {9:13} silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen multiplied; {8:14} Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people: {9:14} forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; {8:15} Who name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, [wherein mightier and greater than they. {9:15} So I turned and came were] fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and [there was] no water; who brought thee forth water out of the two tables of the covenant [were] in my two hands. the rock of flint; {8:16} Who fed thee in the wilderness with {9:16} And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had latter end; {8:17} And thou say in thine heart, My power commanded you. {9:17} And I took the two tables, and cast and the might of [mine] hand hath gotten me this wealth. them out of my two hands, and brake them before your {8:18} But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it eyes. {9:18} And I fell down before the LORD, as at the is] he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in [it is] this day. {8:19} And it shall be, if thou do at all forget doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve anger. {9:19} For I was afraid of the anger and hot www.holybooks.com
Page 109 Deuteronomy displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God also. {9:20} And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to with all thy heart and with all thy soul, {10:13} To keep the have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I time. {9:21} And I took your sin, the calf which ye had command thee this day for thy good? {10:14} Behold, the made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground heaven and the heaven of heavens [is] the LORD’S thy [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I God, the earth [also,] with all that therein [is. ]{10:15} Only cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he mount. {9:22} And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at chose their seed after them, [even] you above all people, as Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. {9:23} [it is] this day. {10:16} Circumcise therefore the foreskin of Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. {10:17} For the saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his nor taketh reward: {10:18} He doth execute the judgment of voice. {9:24} Ye have been rebellious against the LORD the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving from the day that I knew you. {9:25} Thus I fell down him food and raiment. {10:19} Love ye therefore the before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. {10:20} [at the first;] because the LORD had said he would destroy Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, you. {9:26} I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, {10:21} He [is] thy praise, and he [is] thy God, that hath which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. eyes have seen. {10:22} Thy fathers went down into Egypt {9:27} Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. wickedness, nor to their sin: {9:28} Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able {11:1} Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and to bring them into the land which he promised them, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay commandments, alway. {11:2} And know ye this day: for [I them in the wilderness. {9:29} Yet they [are] thy people and speak] not with your children which have not known, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your power and by thy stretched out arm. God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, {11:3} And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in {10:1} At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me all his land; {11:4} And what he did unto the army of into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. {10:2} And I Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. after you, and [how] the LORD hath destroyed them unto {10:3} And I made an ark [of] shittim wood, and hewed this day; {11:5} And what he did unto you in the two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the wilderness, until ye came into this place; {11:6} And what mount, having the two tables in mine hand. {10:4} And he he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the substance that [was] in their possession, in the midst of all assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. {10:5} And I Israel: {11:7} But your eyes have seen all the great acts of turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the the LORD which he did. {11:8} Therefore shall ye keep all tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the the commandments which I command you this day, that ye LORD commanded me. may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; {11:9} And that ye may prolong [your] {10:6} And the children of Israel took their journey from days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son milk and honey. ministered in the priest’s office in his stead. {10:7} From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah {11:10} For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. [is] not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst [it] with thy {10:8} At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, foot, as a garden of herbs: {11:11} But the land, whither ye to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before go to possess it, [is] a land of hills [and] valleys, and the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, drinketh water of the rain of heaven: {11:12} A land which unto this day. {10:9} Wherefore Levi hath no part nor the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the year according as the LORD thy God promised him. {10:10} even unto the end of the year. And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at {11:13} And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken that time also, [and] the LORD would not destroy thee. diligently unto my commandments which I command you {10:11} And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take [thy] this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with journey before the people, that they may go in and possess all your heart and with all your soul, {11:14} That I will the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. give [you] the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, {10:12} And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God and thy wine, and thine oil. {11:15} And I will send grass in www.holybooks.com
Deuteronomy Page 110 thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, {11:16} Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: {12:7} And there worship them; {11:17} And [then] the LORD’S wrath be ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. {12:8} Ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD shall not do after all [the things] that we do here this day, giveth you. every man whatsoever [is] right in his own eyes. {12:9} For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, {11:18} Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your which the LORD your God giveth you. {12:10} But [when] heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. your God giveth you to inherit, and [when] he giveth you {11:19} And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou safety; {12:11} Then there shall be a place which the walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell risest up. {11:20} And thou shalt write them upon the door there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: {11:21} That your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give which ye vow unto the LORD: {12:12} And ye shall rejoice them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, {11:22} For if ye shall diligently keep all these and the Levite that [is] within your gates; forasmuch as he commandments which I command you, to do them, to love hath no part nor inheritance with you. {12:13} Take heed to the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place unto him; {11:23} Then will the LORD drive out all these that thou seest: {12:14} But in the place which the LORD nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy nations and mightier than yourselves. {11:24} Every place burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: thee. {12:15} Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he {11:25} There shall no man be able to stand before you: hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, [for] the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the as of the roebuck, and as of the hart. {12:16} Only ye shall dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. hath said unto you. {12:17} Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of {11:26} Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy curse; {11:27} A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou the LORD your God, which I command you this day: vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine {11:28} And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments hand: {12:18} But thou must eat them before the LORD thy of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, have not known. {11:29} And it shall come to pass, when and thy maidservant, and the Levite that [is] within thy the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the that thou puttest thine hands unto. {12:19} Take heed to blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest Ebal. {11:30} [Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by upon the earth. the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against {12:20} When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? {11:31} For ye shall border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. {12:21} If the dwell therein. {11:32} And ye shall observe to do all the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have {12:1} These [are] the statutes and judgments, which ye commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy thy soul lusteth after. {12:22} Even as the roebuck and the fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the upon the earth. {12:2} Ye shall utterly destroy all the clean shall eat [of] them alike. {12:23} Only be sure that places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served thou eat not the blood: for the blood [is] the life; and thou their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and mayest not eat the life with the flesh. {12:24} Thou shalt under every green tree: {12:3} And ye shall overthrow their not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. {12:25} altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, thy children after thee, when thou shalt do [that which is] and destroy the names of them out of that place. {12:4} Ye right in the sight of the LORD. {12:26} Only thy holy shall not do so unto the LORD your God. {12:5} But unto things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: {12:27} your tribes to put his name there, [even] unto his habitation And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: {12:6} And blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the www.holybooks.com
Page 111 Deuteronomy LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. {12:28} of the sword. {13:16} And thou shalt gather all the spoil of Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thee for ever, when thou doest [that which is] good and right thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built in the sight of the LORD thy God. again. {13:17} And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the {12:29} When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; {12:30} unto thy fathers; {13:18} When thou shalt hearken to the Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that which I command thee this day, to do [that which is] right thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these in the eyes of the LORD thy God. nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. {12:31} Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every {14:1} Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they your eyes for the dead. {14:2} for thou [art] an holy people have burnt in the fire to their gods. {12:32} What thing unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that thereto, nor diminish from it. [are] upon the earth. {13:1} If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of {14:3} Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. {14:4} dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, {13:2} And the These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto and the goat, {14:5} The hart, and the roebuck, and the thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild known, and let us serve them; {13:3} Thou shalt not ox, and the chamois. {14:6} And every beast that parteth hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. {14:7} whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the with all your soul. {13:4} Ye shall walk after the LORD cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the camel, your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. divide not the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean unto you. {13:5} And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be {14:8} And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet put to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase. land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy {14:9} These ye shall eat of all that [are] in the waters: all God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil that have fins and scales shall ye eat: {14:10} And away from the midst of thee. whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean unto you. {13:6} If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which {14:11} [Of] all clean birds ye shall eat. {14:12} But [is] as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor ossifrage, and the ospray, {14:13} And the glede, and the thy fathers; {13:7} [Namely,] of the gods of the people kite, and the vulture after his kind, {14:14} And every raven which [are] round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from after his kind, {14:15} And the owl, and the night hawk, thee, from the [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, {14:16} The end of the earth; {13:8} Thou shalt not consent unto him, little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, {14:17} And the nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, {14:18} And neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and {13:9} But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be the bat. {14:19} And every creeping thing that flieth [is] first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. {14:20} [But of] of all the people. {13:10} And thou shalt stone him with all clean fowls ye may eat. stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of {14:21} Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. {13:11} And thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou wickedness as this is among you. [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk. {14:22} Thou shalt truly {13:12} If thou shalt hear [say] in one of thy cities, which tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, year by year. {14:23} And thou shalt eat before the LORD {13:13} [Certain] men, the children of Belial, are gone out thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that have not known; {13:14} Then shalt thou enquire, and thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth, {14:24} And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought not able to carry it; [or] if the place be too far from thee, among you; {13:15} Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: {14:25} and all that [is] therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge Then shalt thou turn [it] into money, and bind up the money www.holybooks.com
Deuteronomy Page 112 in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD [it] through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant thy God shall choose: {14:26} And thou shalt bestow that for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for likewise. {15:18} It shall not seem hard unto thee, when sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy worth a double hired servant [to thee,] in serving thee six God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household, years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that {14:27} And the Levite that [is] within thy gates; thou shalt thou doest. not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. {15:19} All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: {14:28} At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay [it] up shear the firstling of thy sheep. {15:20} Thou shalt eat [it] within thy gates: {14:29} And the Levite, (because he hath before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. {15:21} fatherless, and the widow, which [are] within thy gates, And if there be [any] blemish therein, [as if it be] lame, or shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD blind, [or have] any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which unto the LORD thy God. {15:22} Thou shalt eat it within thou doest. thy gates: the unclean and the clean [person shall eat it] alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. {15:23} Only thou {15:1} At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt make shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the a release. {15:2} And this [is] the manner of the release: ground as water. Every creditor that lendeth [ought] unto his neighbour shall release [it;] he shall not exact [it] of his neighbour, or of his {16:1} Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover brother; because it is called the LORD’S release. {15:3} Of unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the a foreigner thou mayest exact [it again:] but [that] which is LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; {15:4} Save {16:2} Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God which the LORD shall choose to place his name there. giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it: {15:5} Only if {16:3} Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread to observe to do all these commandments which I command of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt thee this day. {15:6} For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many {16:4} And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee nations,but they shall not reign over thee. in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there [any thing] of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, {15:7} If there be among you a poor man of one of thy remain all night until the morning. {16:5} Thou mayest not brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine LORD thy God giveth thee: {16:6} But at the place which heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: {15:8} But the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth. of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. {15:9} Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked {16:7} And thou shalt roast and eat [it] in the place which heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and morning, and go unto thy tents. {16:8} Six days thou shalt thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day [shall be] a thee, and it be sin unto thee. {15:10} Thou shalt surely give solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest work [therein. unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest ]{16:9} Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin thine hand unto. {15:11} For the poor shall never cease out to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn. {16:10} And thou open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a thy needy, in thy land. tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God,] according as the LORD thy {15:12} [And] if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an God hath blessed thee: {16:11} And thou shalt rejoice Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the {15:13} And when thou sendest him out free from thee, Levite that [is] within thy gates, and the stranger, and the thou shalt not let him go away empty: {15:14} Thou shalt fatherless, and the widow, that [are] among you, in the place furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD thy there. {16:12} And thou shalt remember that thou wast a God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. {15:15} bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the statutes. land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. {15:16} And it {16:13} Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well {16:14} And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy with thee; {15:17} Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy www.holybooks.com
Page 113 Deuteronomy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not and the widow, that [are] within thy gates. {16:15} Seven decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, [to] days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God the right hand, nor [to] the left. {17:12} And the man that in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put rejoice. away the evil from Israel. {17:13} And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. {16:16} Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall {17:14} When thou art come unto the land which the choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as appear before the LORD empty: {16:17} Every man [shall all the nations that [are] about me; {17:15} Thou shalt in give] as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD any wise set [him] king over thee, whom the LORD thy thy God which he hath given thee. God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, {16:18} Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all which [is] not thy brother. {17:16} But he shall not multiply thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the judgment. {16:19} Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth more that way. {17:17} Neither shall he multiply wives to blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly righteous. {16:20} That which is altogether just shalt thou multiply to himself silver and gold. {17:18} And it shall be, follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall LORD thy God giveth thee. write him a copy of this law in a book out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites: {17:19} And it shall be with {16:21} Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words make thee. {16:22} Neither shalt thou set thee up [any] of this law and these statutes, to do them: {17:20} That his image; which the LORD thy God hateth. heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, [to] the right hand, or [to] {17:1} Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God the left: to the end that he may prolong [his] days in his [any] bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, [or] any kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel. evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD thy God. {18:1} The priests the Levites, [and] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat {17:2} If there be found among you, within any of thy the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, {18:2} Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy brethren: the LORD [is] their inheritance, as he hath said God, in transgressing his covenant, {17:3} And hath gone unto them. and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not {18:3} And this shall be the priest’s due from the people, commanded; {17:4} And it be told thee, and thou hast heard from them that offer a sacrifice, whether [it be] ox or sheep; [of it,] and enquired diligently, and, behold, [it be] true, and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought cheeks, and the maw. {18:4} The firstfruit [also] of thy in Israel: {17:5} Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. {18:5} For the LORD thy gates, [even] that man or that woman, and shalt stone them God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to with stones, till they die. {17:6} At the mouth of two minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of ever. death be put to death; [but] at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. {17:7} The hands of the witnesses {18:6} And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose; from among you. {18:7} Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites [do,] which stand there {17:8} If there arise a matter too hard for thee in before the LORD. {18:8} They shall have like portions to judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. and between stroke and stroke, [being] matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get {18:9} When thou art come into the land which the thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after choose; {17:9} And thou shalt come unto the priests the the abominations of those nations. {18:10} There shall not Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, {17:10} And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew {18:11} Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they a wizard, or a necromancer. {18:12} For all that do these inform thee: {17:11} According to the sentence of the law things [are] an abomination unto the LORD: and because of which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out www.holybooks.com
Deuteronomy Page 114 from before thee. {18:13} Thou shalt be perfect with the may die. {19:13} Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou LORD thy God. {18:14} For these nations, which thou shalt shalt put away [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto it may go well with thee. diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do. {19:14} Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which ]{18:15} The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto thee to possess it. me; unto him ye shall hearken; {18:16} According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the {19:15} One witness shall not rise up against a man for day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, more, that I die not. {18:17} And the LORD said unto me, shall the matter be established. They have well [spoken that] which they have spoken. {18:18} I will raise them up a Prophet from among their {19:16} If a false witness rise up against any man to brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his testify against him [that which is] wrong; {19:17} Then mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall both the men, between whom the controversy [is,] shall command him. {18:19} And it shall come to pass, [that] stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall which shall be in those days; {19:18} And the judges shall speak in my name, I will require [it] of him. {18:20} But make diligent inquisition: and, behold, [if] the witness [be] the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my a false witness, [and] hath testified falsely against his name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that brother; {19:19} Then shall ye do unto him, as he had shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the shall die. {18:21} And if thou say in thine heart, How shall evil away from among you. {19:20} And those which we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no {18:22} When a prophet speaketh in the name of the more any such evil among you. {19:21} And thine eye shall LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. {20:1} When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more {19:1} When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God [is] whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their {20:2} And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the houses; {19:2} Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee people, {20:3} And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye to possess it. {19:3} Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may terrified because of them; {20:4} For the LORD your God flee thither. [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. {19:4} And this [is] the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour {20:5} And the officers shall speak unto the people, ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past; {19:5} As when saying, What man [is there] that hath built a new house, and a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. {20:6} And tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon what man [is he] that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those [yet] eaten of it? let him [also] go and return unto his house, cities, and live: {19:6} Lest the avenger of the blood pursue lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it. {20:7} the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because And what man [is there] that hath betrothed a wife, and hath the way is long, and slay him; whereas he [was] not worthy not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. {19:7} die in the battle, and another man take her. {20:8} And the Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall three cities for thee. {19:8} And if the LORD thy God say, What man [is there that is] fearful and fainthearted? let enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy faint as well as his heart. {20:9} And it shall be, when the fathers; {19:9} If thou shalt keep all these commandments officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people. LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three: {20:10} When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight {19:10} That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which against it, then proclaim peace unto it. {20:11} And it shall the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and [so] be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then blood be upon thee. it shall be, [that] all the people [that is] found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. {20:12} {19:11} But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: {20:13} And when that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: {19:12} Then the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he {20:14} But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, www.holybooks.com
Page 115 Deuteronomy and all that is in the city, [even] all the spoil thereof, shalt beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine was hated: {21:16} Then it shall be, when he maketh his enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. sons to inherit [that] which he hath, [that] he may not make {20:15} Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, very far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these [which is indeed] the firstborn: {21:17} But he shall nations. {20:16} But of the cities of these people, which the acknowledge the son of the hated [for] the firstborn, by LORD thy God doth give thee [for] an inheritance, thou giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he [is] shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: {20:17} But thou the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn [is] shalt utterly destroy them; [namely,] the Hittites, and the his. Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded {21:18} If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, thee: {20:18} That they teach you not to do after all their which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so his mother, and [that,] when they have chastened him, will should ye sin against the LORD your God. not hearken unto them: {21:19} Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the {20:19} When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; {21:20} making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou [is] stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; [he mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for is] a glutton, and a drunkard. {21:21} And all the men of his the tree of the field [is] man’s [life]) to employ [them] in the city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou siege: {20:20} Only the trees which thou knowest that they put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and [be] not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them fear. down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. {21:22} And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a {21:1} If [one] be found slain in the land which the tree: {21:23} His body shall not remain all night upon the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he [and] it be not known who hath slain him: {21:2} Then thy that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an measure unto the cities which [are] round about him that is inheritance. slain: {21:3} And it shall be, [that] the city [which is] next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an {22:1} Thou shalt not see the brother’s ox or his sheep go heifer, which hath not been wrought with, [and] which hath astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case not drawn in the yoke; {21:4} And the elders of that city bring them again unto thy brother. {22:2} And if thy brother shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is [be] not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee there in the valley: {21:5} And the priests the sons of Levi until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to again. {22:3} In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost things of and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt be [tried: ]{21:6} And all the elders of that city, [that are] thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself. next unto the slain [man,] shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: {21:7} And they shall {22:4} Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt have our eyes seen [it. ]{21:8} Be merciful, O LORD, unto surely help him to lift [them] up again. thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the {22:5} The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth blood shall be forgiven them. {21:9} So shalt thou put away unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: the [guilt of] innocent blood from among you, when thou for all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God. shalt do [that which is] right in the sight of the LORD. {22:6} If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way {21:10} When thou goest forth to war against thine in any tree, or on the ground, [whether they be] young ones, enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, {21:11} And eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: {22:7} seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a [But] thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and [that] thou {21:12} Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and mayest prolong [thy] days. she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; {21:13} And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and {22:8} When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, upon thine house, if any man fall from thence. and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. {21:14} And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let {22:9} Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because of thy vineyard, be defiled. thou hast humbled her. {22:10} Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass {21:15} If a man have two wives, one beloved, and together. another hated, and they have born him children, [both] the www.holybooks.com
Deuteronomy Page 116 {22:11} Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, {23:3} An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the [as] of woollen and linen together. congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for {22:12} Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four ever: {23:4} Because they met you not with bread and with quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself. water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of ]{22:13} If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. {23:5} Nevertheless hate her, {22:14} And give occasions of speech against her, the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: because the LORD thy God loved thee. {23:6} Thou shalt {22:15} Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. take and bring forth [the tokens of] the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: {22:16} And the {23:7} Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he [is] thy damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; {22:17} wast a stranger in his land. {23:8} The children that are And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her,] begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are LORD in their third generation. the tokens of] my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. {22:18} And {23:9} When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; then keep thee from every wicked thing. {22:19} And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel, {23:10} If there be among you any man, that is not clean because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within his days. {22:20} But if this thing be true, [and the tokens the camp: {23:11} But it shall be, when evening cometh on, of] virginity be not found for the damsel: {22:21} Then they he shall wash [himself] with water: and when the sun is shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, down, he shall come into the camp [again. and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the ]{23:12} Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away whither thou shalt go forth abroad: {23:13} And thou shalt from among you. have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt {22:22} If a man be found lying with a woman married to turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: {23:14} an husband, then they shall both of them die, [both] the man For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; away evil from Israel. therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. {22:23} If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; {23:15} Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant {22:24} Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of which is escaped from his master unto thee: {23:16} He that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; shall dwell with thee, [even] among you, in that place which the damsel, because she cried not, [being] in the city; and he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt not oppress him. thou shalt put away evil from among you. {23:17} There shall be no whore of the daughters of {22:25} But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. {23:18} Thou and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into that lay with her shall die: {22:26} But unto the damsel thou the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God. death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so [is] this matter: {22:27} For he found {23:19} Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel cried, and [there usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is was] none to save her. lent upon usury: {23:20} Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon {22:28} If a man find a damsel [that is] a virgin, which is usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to be found; {22:29} Then the man that lay with her shall give possess it. unto the damsel’s father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not {23:21} When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy put her away all his days. God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. {22:30} A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor {23:22} But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in discover his father’s skirt. thee. {23:23} That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as {23:1} He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the promised with thy mouth. LORD. {23:2} A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation {23:24} When thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; www.holybooks.com
Page 117 Deuteronomy but thou shalt not put [any] in thy vessel. {23:25} When fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then bless thee in all the work of thine hands. {24:20} When thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn. boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. {24:21} When thou gatherest the grapes {24:1} When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean [it] afterward: it shall and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him {24:22} And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this and send her out of his house. {24:2} And when she is thing. departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s [wife. ]{24:3} And [if] the latter husband hate her, and {25:1} If there be a controversy between men, and they write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth [it] in her hand, come unto judgment, that [the judges] may judge them; then and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. which took her to [be] his wife; {24:4} Her former husband, {25:2} And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be after that she is defiled; for that [is] abomination before the beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the number. {25:3} Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance. exceed: lest, [if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto {24:5} When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go thee. out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: [but] he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up {25:4} Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out his wife which he hath taken. [the corn. {24:6} No man shall take the nether or the upper ]{25:5} If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man’s] life to pledge. and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in {24:7} If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or of an husband’s brother unto her. {25:6} And it shall be, selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil [that] the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the away from among you. name of his brother [which is] dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. {25:7} And if the man like not to take his {24:8} Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not shall observe to do. {24:9} Remember what the LORD thy perform the duty of my husband’s brother. {25:8} Then the God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and [if] forth out of Egypt. he stand [to it,] and say, I like not to take her; {25:9} Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of {24:10} When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. {24:11} Thou his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend that man that will not build up his brother’s house. {25:10} shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. {24:12} And if And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: that hath his shoe loosed. {24:13} In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own {25:11} When men strive together one with another, and raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband thee before the LORD thy God. out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: {25:12} Then thou {24:14} Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant [that is] shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity [her. poor and needy, [whether he be] of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that [are] in thy land within thy gates: {24:15} At ]{25:13} Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a his day thou shalt give [him] his hire, neither shall the sun great and a small. {25:14} Thou shalt not have in thine go down upon it; for he [is] poor, and setteth his heart upon house divers measures, a great and a small. {25:15} [But] it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just thee. {24:16} The fathers shall not be put to death for the measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in children, neither shall the children be put to death for the the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. {25:16} For fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God. {24:17} Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment {25:17} Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the to pledge: {24:18} But thou shalt remember that thou wast a way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; {25:18} How bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. [even] all [that were] feeble behind thee, when thou [wast] faint and weary; and he feared not God. {25:19} Therefore {24:19} When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it, www.holybooks.com
Deuteronomy Page 118 [that] thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he under heaven; thou shalt not forget [it. hath spoken. ]{26:1} And it shall be, when thou [art] come in unto the {27:1} And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; {26:2} command you this day. {27:2} And it shall be on the day That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great giveth thee, and shalt put [it] in a basket, and shalt go unto stones, and plaister them with plaister: {27:3} And thou the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou name there. {26:3} And thou shalt go unto the priest that art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us. promised thee. {27:4} Therefore it shall be when ye be gone {26:4} And the priest shall take the basket out of thine over Jordan, [that] ye shall set up these stones, which I hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt {26:5} And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy plaister them with plaister. {27:5} And there shalt thou God, A Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and thou shalt not lift up [any] iron [tool] upon them. {27:6} became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: {26:6} Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the laid upon us hard bondage: {26:7} And when we cried unto LORD thy God: {27:7} And thou shalt offer peace the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our thy God. {27:8} And thou shalt write upon the stones all the oppression: {26:8} And the LORD brought us forth out of words of this law very plainly. Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with {27:9} And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto wonders: {26:9} And he hath brought us into this place, and all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day hath given us this land, [even] a land that floweth with milk thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. {27:10} and honey. {26:10} And now, behold, I have brought the Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. and do his commandments and his statutes, which I And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship command thee this day. before the LORD thy God: {26:11} And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing] which the LORD thy God hath given {27:11} And Moses charged the people the same day, unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and saying, {27:12} These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to the stranger that [is] among you. bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and {26:12} When thou hast made an end of tithing all the Benjamin: {27:13} And these shall stand upon mount Ebal tithes of thine increase the third year, [which is] the year of to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and tithing, and hast given [it] unto the Levite, the stranger, the Naphtali. fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; {26:13} Then thou shalt say before the {27:14} And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things men of Israel with a loud voice, {27:15} Cursed [be] the out of [mine] house, and also have given them unto the man that maketh [any] graven or molten image, an Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast craftsman, and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place.] And all the commanded me: I have not transgressed thy people shall answer and say, Amen. {27:16} Cursed [be] he commandments, neither have I forgotten [them: ]{26:14} I that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken people shall say, Amen. {27:17} Cursed [be] he that away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use,] nor given removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people [ought] thereof for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the shall say, Amen. {27:18} Cursed [be] he that maketh the voice of the LORD my God, [and] have done according to blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, all that thou hast commanded me. {26:15} Look down from Amen. {27:19} Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou shall say, Amen. {27:20} Cursed [be] he that lieth with his swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And honey. all the people shall say, Amen. {27:21} Cursed [be] he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, {26:16} This day the LORD thy God hath commanded Amen. {27:22} Cursed [be] he that lieth with his sister, the thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. the people shall say, Amen. {27:23} Cursed [be] he that {26:17} Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and Amen. {27:24} Cursed [be] he that smiteth his neighbour his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen. {27:25} his voice: {26:18} And the LORD hath avouched thee this Cursed [be] he that taketh reward to slay an innocent day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and person. And all the people shall say, Amen. {27:26} Cursed that [thou] shouldest keep all his commandments; {26:19} [be] he that confirmeth not [all] the words of this law to do And to make thee high above all nations which he hath them. And all the people shall say, Amen. made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou www.holybooks.com
Page 119 Deuteronomy {28:1} And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe the earth. {28:26} And thy carcase shall be meat unto all [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above shall fray [them] away. {28:27} The LORD will smite thee all nations of the earth: {28:2} And all these blessings shall with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. the voice of the LORD thy God. {28:3} Blessed [shalt] thou {28:28} The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. blindness, and astonishment of heart: {28:29} And thou {28:4} Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. {28:5} Blessed [shall be] oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thy basket and thy store. {28:6} Blessed [shalt] thou [be] [thee. ]{28:30} Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man when thou comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] when shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt thou goest out. {28:7} The LORD shall cause thine enemies not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they gather the grapes thereof. {28:31} Thine ox [shall be] slain shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass seven ways. {28:8} The LORD shall command the blessing [shall be] violently taken away from before thy face, and upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep [shall be] given unto thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue [them. the LORD thy God giveth thee. {28:9} The LORD shall ]{28:32} Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail [with unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the longing] for them all the day long: and [there shall be] no LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. {28:10} And all might in thine hand. {28:33} The fruit of thy land, and all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. {28:11} And and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of {28:34} So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy which thou shalt see. {28:35} The LORD shall smite thee in ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be to give thee. {28:12} The LORD shall open unto thee his healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in {28:36} The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other {28:13} And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not gods, wood and stone. {28:37} And thou shalt become an the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the whither the LORD shall lead thee. {28:38} Thou shalt carry LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe much seed out into the field, and shalt gather [but] little in; and to do [them: ]{28:14} And thou shalt not go aside from for the locust shall consume it. {28:39} Thou shalt plant any of the words which I command thee this day, to the vineyards, and dress [them,] but shalt neither drink [of] the right hand, or [to] the left, to go after other gods to serve wine, nor gather [the grapes;] for the worms shall eat them. them. {28:40} Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint [thyself] with the oil; for {28:15} But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken thine olive shall cast [his fruit. ]{28:41} Thou shalt beget unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they his commandments and his statutes which I command thee shall go into captivity. {28:42} All thy trees and fruit of thy this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and land shall the locust consume. {28:43} The stranger that [is] overtake thee: {28:16} Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. {28:17} Cursed come down very low. {28:44} He shall lend to thee, and [shall be] thy basket and thy store. {28:18} Cursed [shall thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the shalt be the tail. {28:45} Moreover all these curses shall increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. {28:19} come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and cursed till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out. {28:20} The LORD the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all and his statutes which he commanded thee: {28:46} And that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the upon thy seed for ever. {28:47} Because thou servedst not wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of {28:21} The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto heart, for the abundance of all [things; ]{28:48} Therefore thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send thou goest to possess it. {28:22} The LORD shall smite thee against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an in want of all [things:] and he shall put a yoke of iron upon inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. {28:49} The LORD sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of pursue thee until thou perish. {28:23} And thy heaven that the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose [is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under tongue thou shalt not understand; {28:50} A nation of fierce thee [shall be] iron. {28:24} The LORD shall make the rain countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come nor shew favour to the young: {28:51} And he shall eat the down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. {28:25} The fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: destroyed: which [also] shall not leave thee [either] corn, thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy www.holybooks.com
Deuteronomy Page 120 sheep, until he have destroyed thee. {28:52} And he shall in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls and unto all his land; {29:3} The great temptations which come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy {29:4} Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. {28:53} perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of {29:5} And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, not waxen old upon thy foot. {29:6} Ye have not eaten wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: {28:54} [So bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very delicate, might know that I [am] the LORD your God. {29:7} And his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, he shall leave: {28:55} So that he will not give to any of and we smote them: {29:8} And we took their land, and them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. {29:9} Keep wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye {28:56} The tender and delicate woman among you, which may prosper in all that ye do. would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil {29:10} Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and toward her daughter, {28:57} And toward her young one your officers, [with] all the men of Israel, {29:11} Your that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, water: {29:12} That thou shouldest enter into covenant with wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy {28:58} If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this God maketh with thee this day: {29:13} That he may law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and [that] he glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; {28:59} may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to plagues of thy seed, [even] great plagues, and of long Jacob. {29:14} Neither with you only do I make this continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. covenant and this oath; {29:15} But with [him] that {28:60} Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave and also with [him] that [is] not here with us this day: unto thee. {28:61} Also every sickness, and every plague, {29:16} (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of which [is] not written in the book of this law, them will the Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. {28:62} passed by; {29:17} And ye have seen their abominations, And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not [were] among them:) {29:18} Lest there should be among obey the voice of the LORD thy God. {28:63} And it shall you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth come to pass, [that] as the LORD rejoiced over you to do away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye root that beareth gall and wormwood; {29:19} And it come shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he possess it. {28:64} And the LORD shall scatter thee among bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither to thirst: {29:20} The LORD will not spare him, but then thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and stone. the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against {28:65} And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, that man, and all the curses that are written in this book neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, from under heaven. {29:21} And the LORD shall separate and sorrow of mind: {28:66} And thy life shall hang in him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the shalt have none assurance of thy life: {28:67} In the law: {29:22} So that the generation to come of your morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. {28:68} And the hath laid upon it; {29:23} [And that] the whole land thereof LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you. which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: {29:24} Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the ]{29:1} These [are] the words of the covenant, which the LORD done thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of this great anger? {29:25} Then men shall say, Because they Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their made with them in Horeb. fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: {29:26} For they went and {29:2} And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them: {29:27} www.holybooks.com
Page 121 Deuteronomy And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to {29:28} And the LORD rooted them out of their land in Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] this day. {29:29} The secret {31:1} And Moses went and spake these words unto all [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but [those things Israel. {31:2} And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred and which] are revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law. in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. {31:3} The LORD thy God, he will go {30:1} And it shall come to pass, when all these things are over before thee, [and] he will destroy these nations from come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt possess them: [and] Joshua, he before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. {31:4} nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to {30:2} And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom obey his voice according to all that I command thee this he destroyed. {31:5} And the LORD shall give them up day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto thy soul; {30:3} That then the LORD thy God will turn thy all the commandments which I have commanded you. captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return {31:6} Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go God hath scattered thee. {30:4} If [any] of thine be driven with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. out unto the outmost [parts] of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch {31:7} And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him thee: {30:5} And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; for thou must go with this people unto the land which the and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou fathers. {30:6} And the LORD thy God will circumcise shalt cause them to inherit it. {31:8} And the LORD, he [it thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy is] that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. mayest live. {30:7} And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, {31:9} And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto which persecuted thee. {30:8} And thou shalt return and the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. which I command thee this day. {30:9} And the LORD thy {31:10} And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, of [every] seven years, in the solemnity of the year of in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in release, in the feast of tabernacles, {31:11} When all Israel the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all {30:10} If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD Israel in their hearing. {31:12} Gather the people together, thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that [is] are written in this book of the law, [and] if thou turn unto within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: {31:13} And [that] their children, {30:11} For this commandment which I command thee which have not known [any thing,] may hear, and learn to this day, it [is] not hidden from thee, neither [is] it far off. fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land {30:12} It [is] not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? {30:13} Neither [is] it beyond the {31:14} And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may {30:14} But the word [is] very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. {31:15} And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a {30:15} See, I have set before thee this day life and good, pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the and death and evil; {30:16} In that I command thee this day door of the tabernacle. to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that {31:16} And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, {30:17} But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not whither they go [to be] among them, and will forsake me, hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and and break my covenant which I have made with them. serve them; {30:18} I denounce unto you this day, that ye {31:17} Then my anger shall be kindled against them in shall surely perish, [and that] ye shall not prolong [your] that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and to possess it. {30:19} I call heaven and earth to record this troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day. day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God [is] not blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou among us? {31:18} And I will surely hide my face in that and thy seed may live: {30:20} That thou mayest love the day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and they are turned unto other gods. {31:19} Now therefore that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he [is] thy life, and write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: www.holybooks.com
Deuteronomy Page 122 put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the against the children of Israel. {31:20} For when I shall have increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; {32:14} Butter of that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. my covenant. {31:21} And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song {32:15} But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their fatness;] then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly imagination which they go about, even now, before I have esteemed the Rock of his salvation. {32:16} They provoked brought them into the land which I sware. him to jealousy with strange [gods,] with abominations provoked they him to anger. {32:17} They sacrificed unto {31:22} Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new and taught it the children of Israel. {31:23} And he gave [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a {32:18} Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into and hast forgotten God that formed thee. {32:19} And when the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. the LORD saw [it,] he abhorred [them,] because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. {32:20} And he {31:24} And it came to pass, when Moses had made an said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they end [shall be:] for they [are] a very froward generation, were finished, {31:25} That Moses commanded the Levites, children in whom [is] no faith. {32:21} They have moved which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have {31:26} Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will be there for a witness against thee. {31:27} For I know thy provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. {32:22} For a rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set LORD; and how much more after my death? on fire the foundations of the mountains. {32:23} I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon {31:28} Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and them. {32:24} [They shall be] burnt with hunger, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I call heaven and earth to record against them. {31:29} For I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt of serpents of the dust. {32:25} The sword without, and [yourselves,] and turn aside from the way which I have terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs. because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke {32:26} I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would him to anger through the work of your hands. {31:30} And make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the {32:27} Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, words of this song, until they were ended. lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD {32:1} Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, hath not done all this. {32:28} For they [are] a nation void O earth, the words of my mouth. {32:2} My doctrine shall of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them. drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the {32:29} O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the [that] they would consider their latter end! {32:30} How grass: {32:3} Because I will publish the name of the LORD: should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to ascribe ye greatness unto our God. {32:4} [He is] the Rock, flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God shut them up? {32:31} For their rock [is] not as our Rock, of truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he. {32:5} even our enemies themselves [being] judges. {32:32} For They have corrupted themselves, their spot [is] not [the their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of spot] of his children: [they are] a perverse and crooked Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters generation. {32:6} Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish [are] bitter: {32:33} Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought and the cruel venom of asps. {32:34} [Is] not this laid up in thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures? {32:35} To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; {32:7} Remember the days of old, consider the years of their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon elders, and they will tell thee. {32:8} When the most High them make haste. {32:36} For the LORD shall judge his divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none shut up, or to the number of the children of Israel. {32:9} For the left. {32:37} And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, LORD’S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his [their] rock in whom they trusted, {32:38} Which did eat inheritance. {32:10} He found him in a desert land, and in the fat of their sacrifices, [and] drank the wine of their drink the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he offerings? let them rise up and help you, [and] be your instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. {32:11} protection. {32:39} See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, [there is] no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my her wings: {32:12} [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and hand. {32:40} For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I [there was] no strange god with him. {32:13} He made him live for ever. {32:41} If I whet my glittering sword, and www.holybooks.com
Page 123 Deuteronomy mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. shoulders. {32:42} I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; [and that] with the blood of the {33:13} And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD [be] slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and upon the enemy. {32:43} Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his for the deep that coucheth beneath, {33:14} And for the people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will precious fruits [brought forth] by the sun, and for the render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful precious things put forth by the moon, {33:15} And for the unto his land, [and] to his people. chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, {33:16} And for the precious {32:44} And Moses came and spake all the words of this things of the earth and fulness thereof, and [for] the good song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of will of him that dwelt in the bush: let [the blessing] come Nun. {32:45} And Moses made an end of speaking all these upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of words to all Israel: {32:46} And he said unto them, Set your him [that was] separated from his brethren. {33:17} His hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, glory [is like] the firstling of his bullock, and his horns [are which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all like] the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the the words of this law. {32:47} For it [is] not a vain thing for people together to the ends of the earth: and they [are] the you; because it [is] your life: and through this thing ye shall ten thousands of Ephraim, and they [are] the thousands of prolong [your] days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan Manasseh. to possess it. {32:48} And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, {32:49} Get thee up into this {33:18} And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy mountain Abarim, [unto] mount Nebo, which [is] in the going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents. {33:19} They shall land of Moab, that [is] over against Jericho; and behold the call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck [of] the a possession: {32:50} And die in the mount whither thou abundance of the seas, and [of] treasures hid in the sand. goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his {33:20} And of Gad he said, Blessed [be] he that people: {32:51} Because ye trespassed against me among enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in with the crown of the head. {33:21} And he provided the the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the first part for himself, because there, [in] a portion of the midst of the children of Israel. {32:52} Yet thou shalt see lawgiver, [was he] seated; and he came with the heads of the land before [thee;] but thou shalt not go thither unto the the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his land which I give the children of Israel. judgments with Israel. {33:1} And this [is] the blessing, wherewith Moses the {33:22} And of Dan he said, Dan [is] a lion’s whelp: he man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. shall leap from Bashan. {33:2} And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, {33:23} And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: hand [went] a fiery law for them. {33:3} Yea, he loved the possess thou the west and the south. people; all his saints [are] in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy words. {33:4} {33:24} And of Asher he said, [Let] Asher [be] blessed Moses commanded us a law, [even] the inheritance of the with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let congregation of Jacob. {33:5} And he was king in Jeshurun, him dip his foot in oil. {33:25} Thy shoes [shall be] iron when the heads of the people [and] the tribes of Israel were and brass; and as thy days, [so shall] thy strength [be. gathered together. ]{33:26} [There is] none like unto the God of Jeshurun, {33:6} Let Reuben live, and not die; and let [not] his men [who] rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his be few. excellency on the sky. {33:27} The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms: and he {33:7} And this [is the blessing] of Judah: and he said, shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his Destroy [them. ]{33:28} Israel then shall dwell in safety people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an alone: the fountain of Jacob [shall be] upon a land of corn help [to him] from his enemies. {33:8} And of Levi he said, and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew. {33:29} [Let] thy Thummim and thy Urim [be] with thy holy one, Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like unto thee, O people whom thou didst prove at Massah, [and with] whom thou saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is] the didst strive at the waters of Meribah; {33:9} Who said unto sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places. he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. {34:1} And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto {33:10} They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of sacrifice upon thine altar. {33:11} Bless, LORD, his Gilead, unto Dan, {34:2} And all Naphtali, and the land of substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate utmost sea, {34:3} And the south, and the plain of the him, that they rise not again. valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. {34:4} And the LORD said unto him, This [is] the land which I {33:12} [And] of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I LORD shall dwell in safety by him; [and the LORD] shall will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see [it] with www.holybooks.com
Deuteronomy Page 124 thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. {34:5} So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. {34:6} And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. {34:7} And Moses [was] an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. {34:8} And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were ended. {34:9} And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses. {34:10} And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, {34:11} In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, {34:12} And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel. www.holybooks.com
Page 125 Joshua The Book of Joshua of the children of Israel to search out the country. {2:3} And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth {1:1} Now after the death of Moses the servant of the the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua house: for they be come to search out all the country. {2:4} the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, {1:2} Moses my And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to [were: ]{2:5} And it came to pass [about the time] of them, [even] to the children of Israel. {1:3} Every place that shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them you, as I said unto Moses. {1:4} From the wilderness and quickly; for ye shall overtake them. {2:6} But she had this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. going down of the sun, shall be your coast. {1:5} There {2:7} And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after thy life: as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with thee: I will them were gone out, they shut the gate. not fail thee, nor forsake thee. {1:6} Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an {2:8} And before they were laid down, she came up unto inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them upon the roof; {2:9} And she said unto the men, I them. {1:7} Only be thou strong and very courageous, that know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it [to] the land faint because of you. {2:10} For we have heard how right hand or [to] the left, that thou mayest prosper the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when whithersoever thou goest. {1:8} This book of the law shall ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein the Amorites, that [were] on the other side Jordan, Sihon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. {2:11} And as soon as all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way we had heard [these things,] our hearts did melt, neither did prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. {1:9} there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good for the LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the in earth beneath. {2:12} Now therefore, I pray you, swear LORD thy God [is] with thee whithersoever thou goest. unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and {1:10} Then Joshua commanded the officers of the give me a true token: {2:13} And [that] ye will save alive people, saying, {1:11} Pass through the host, and command my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the {2:14} And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it. utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly {1:12} And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to with thee. {2:15} Then she let them down by a cord through half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying, {1:13} the window: for her house [was] upon the town wall, and Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD she dwelt upon the wall. {2:16} And she said unto them, commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and you rest, and hath given you this land. {1:14} Your wives, hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land returned: and afterward may ye go your way. {2:17} And which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass the men said unto her, We [will be] blameless of this thine before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, oath which thou hast made us swear. {2:18} Behold, [when] and help them; {1:15} Until the LORD have given your we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet brethren rest, as [he hath given] you, and they also have thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee. enjoy it, which Moses the LORD’S servant gave you on this {2:19} And it shall be, [that] whosoever shall go out of the side Jordan toward the sunrising. doors of thy house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we [will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be {1:16} And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou with thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest [any] hand be upon him. {2:20} And if thou utter this our us, we will go. {1:17} According as we hearkened unto business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the made us to swear. {2:21} And she said, According unto LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses. {1:18} your words, so [be] it. And she sent them away, and they Whosoever [he be] that doth rebel against thy departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window. commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all {2:22} And they went, and came unto the mountain, and that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and strong and of a good courage. the pursuers sought [them] throughout all the way, but found [them] not. {2:1} And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. {2:23} So the two men returned, and descended from the And they went, and came into an harlot’s house, named mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Rahab, and lodged there. {2:2} And it was told the king of Nun, and told him all [things] that befell them: {2:24} And Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us. www.holybooks.com
Joshua Page 126 {3:1} And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: {4:6} That children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. this may be a sign among you, [that] when your children ask {3:2} And it came to pass after three days, that the officers [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by went through the host; {3:3} And they commanded the these stones? {4:7} Then ye shall answer them, That the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. {3:4} Yet Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a there shall be a space between you and it, about two memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. {4:8} And the thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD passed this [way] heretofore. {3:5} And Joshua said unto spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto will do wonders among you. {3:6} And Joshua spake unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and {4:9} And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare covenant, and went before the people. the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day. {3:7} And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may {4:10} For the priests which bare the ark stood in the know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the {3:8} And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan. people hasted and passed over. {4:11} And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of {3:9} And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God. {3:10} the people. {4:12} And the children of Reuben, and the And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over [is] among you, and [that] he will without fail drive out armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the them: {4:13} About forty thousand prepared for war passed Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho. Amorites, and the Jebusites. {3:11} Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you {4:14} On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the into Jordan. {3:12} Now therefore take you twelve men out sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man. {3:13} And Moses, all the days of his life. {4:15} And the LORD spake it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the unto Joshua, saying, {4:16} Command the priests that bear priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, [that] the waters of {4:17} Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Jordan shall be cut off [from] the waters that come down Come ye up out of Jordan. {4:18} And it came to pass, from above; and they shall stand upon an heap. when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, [and] the {3:14} And it came to pass, when the people removed soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry land, from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and the ark of the covenant before the people; {3:15} And as flowed over all his banks, as [they did] before. they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of {4:19} And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time [day] of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east of harvest,) {3:16} That the waters which came down from border of Jericho. {4:20} And those twelve stones, which above stood [and] rose up upon an heap very far from the they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. {4:21} city Adam, that [is] beside Zaretan: and those that came And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your down toward the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, failed, children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, [and] were cut off: and the people passed over right against What [mean] these stones? {4:22} Then ye shall let your Jericho. {3:17} And the priests that bare the ark of the children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the land. {4:23} For the LORD your God dried up the waters of midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan. LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: {4:24} That all the {4:1} And it came to pass, when all the people were clean people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, it [is] mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for saying, {4:2} Take you twelve men out of the people, out of ever. every tribe a man, {4:3} And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place {5:1} And it came to pass, when all the kings of the where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye Amorites, which [were] on the side of Jordan westward, and shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the all the kings of the Canaanites, which [were] by the sea, lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night. {4:4} Then heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: {4:5} And their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the because of the children of Israel. 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Page 127 Joshua {5:2} At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the second time. {5:3} And Joshua made him sharp knives, and ark of the LORD. {6:7} And he said unto the people, Pass circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on {5:4} And this [is] the cause why Joshua did circumcise: before the ark of the LORD. All the people that came out of Egypt, [that were] males, [even] all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, {6:8} And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto after they came out of Egypt. {5:5} Now all the people that the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets came out were circumcised: but all the people [that were] of rams’ horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD Egypt, [them] they had not circumcised. {5:6} For the followed them. children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of {6:9} And the armed men went before the priests that Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets. not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their {6:10} And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither and honey. {5:7} And their children, [whom] he raised up shall [any] word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were bid you shout; then shall ye shout. {6:11} So the ark of the uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by LORD compassed the city, going about [it] once: and they the way. {5:8} And it came to pass, when they had done came into the camp, and lodged in the camp. circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole. {5:9} And the LORD said {6:12} And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of priests took up the ark of the LORD. {6:13} And seven Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark called Gilgal unto this day. of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the {5:10} And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and rereward came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even going on, and blowing with the trumpets. {6:14} And the in the plains of Jericho. {5:11} And they did eat of the old second day they compassed the city once, and returned into corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, the camp: so they did six days. {6:15} And it came to pass unleavened cakes, and parched [corn] in the selfsame day. on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner {5:12} And the manna ceased on the morrow after they seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the times. {6:16} And it came to pass at the seventh time, when children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city. {5:13} And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, {6:17} And the city shall be accursed, [even] it, and all that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there that [are] therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his live, she and all that [are] with her in the house, because she hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, [Art] hid the messengers that we sent. {6:18} And ye, in any wise thou for us, or for our adversaries? keep [yourselves] from the accursed thing, lest ye make [yourselves] accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, {5:14} And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host of and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. {6:19} the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith [are] consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the my lord unto his servant? {5:15} And the captain of the treasury of the LORD. {6:20} So the people shouted when LORD’S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy [the priests] blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, foot; for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy. And when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the Joshua did so. people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man {6:1} Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the straight before him, and they took the city. {6:21} And they children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. {6:2} utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city, both man and And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, [and] the mighty edge of the sword. {6:22} But Joshua had said unto the two men of valour. {6:3} And ye shall compass the city, all [ye] men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot’s men of war, [and] go round about the city once. Thus shalt house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she thou do six days. {6:4} And seven priests shall bear before hath, as ye sware unto her. {6:23} And the young men that the ark seven trumpets of rams horns: and the seventh day were spies went in, and brought Rahab, and her father, and ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they blow with the trumpets. {6:5} And it shall come to pass, brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp that when they make a long [blast] with the ram’s horn, of Israel. {6:24} And they burnt the city with fire, and all [and] when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people that [was] therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man house of the LORD. {6:25} And Joshua saved Rahab the straight before him. harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel [even] unto this day; because she {6:6} And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. www.holybooks.com
Joshua Page 128 {6:26} And Joshua adjured [them] at that time, saying, of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Cursed [be] the man before the LORD, that riseth up and Judah, was taken. {7:19} And Joshua said unto Achan, My buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and in his firstborn, and in his youngest [son] shall he set up the make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast gates of it. {6:27} So the LORD was with Joshua; and his done; hide [it] not from me. {7:20} And Achan answered fame was [noised] throughout all the country. Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: {7:21} When I {7:1} But the children of Israel committed a trespass in saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled behold, they [are] hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, against the children of Israel. {7:2} And Joshua sent men and the silver under it. from Jericho to Ai, which [is] beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and {7:22} So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai. tent; and, behold, [it was] hid in his tent, and the silver {7:3} And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let under it. {7:23} And they took them out of the midst of the not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the men go up and smite Ai; [and] make not all the people to children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD. labour thither; for they [are but] few. {7:4} So there went {7:24} And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge fled before the men of Ai. {7:5} And the men of Ai smote of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: [from] before the gate [even] unto Shebarim, and smote and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. {7:25} them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD melted, and became as water. shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned {7:6} And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth them with stones. {7:26} And they raised over him a great upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads. fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place {7:7} And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day. thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we {8:1} And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! {7:8} be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king before their enemies! {7:9} For the Canaanites and all the of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: {8:2} And inhabitants of the land shall hear [of it,] and shall environ us thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, thou do unto thy great name? {7:10} And the LORD said shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy for the city behind it. face? {7:11} Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for {8:3} So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put [it] even men of valour, and sent them away by night. {8:4} And he among their own stuff. {7:12} Therefore the children of commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait Israel could not stand before their enemies, [but] turned against the city, [even] behind the city: go not very far from [their] backs before their enemies, because they were the city, but be ye all ready: {8:5} And I, and all the people accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye that [are] with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall destroy the accursed from among you. {7:13} Up, sanctify come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: that we will flee before them, {8:6} (For they will come out for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There is] an after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed flee before them. {8:7} Then ye shall rise up from the thing from among you. {7:14} In the morning therefore ye ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, will deliver it into your hand. {8:8} And it shall be, when ye [that] the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come have taken the city, [that] ye shall set the city on fire: according to the families [thereof;] and the family which the according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. LORD shall take shall come by households; and the See, I have commanded you. {8:9} Joshua therefore sent household which the LORD shall take shall come man by them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode man. {7:15} And it shall be, [that] he that is taken with the between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he lodged that night among the people. {8:10} And Joshua hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel. went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. {8:11} And all the people, [even the people] of war that {7:16} So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and [were] with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now [there taken: {7:17} And he brought the family of Judah; and he was] a valley between them and Ai. {8:12} And he took took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: {7:18} And between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. {8:13} he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son And when they had set the people, [even] all the host that www.holybooks.com
Page 129 Joshua [was] on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the that was born among them; half of them over against mount west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as valley. Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. {8:34} And {8:14} And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw [it,] afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a law. {8:35} There was not a word of all that Moses time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that [there commanded, which Joshua read not before all the were] liers in ambush against him behind the city. {8:15} congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten and the strangers that were conversant among them. before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. {8:16} And all the people that [were] in Ai were called together to {9:1} And it came to pass, when all the kings which pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were [were] on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, drawn away from the city. {8:17} And there was not a man and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the left the city open, and pursued after Israel. {8:18} And the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard [thereof; ]{9:2} That they LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that [is] in thy gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Israel, with one accord. Joshua stretched out the spear that [he had] in his hand toward the city. {8:19} And the ambush arose quickly out {9:3} And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, {9:4} They did his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and work wilily, and went and made as if they had been hasted and set the city on fire. {8:20} And when the men of ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; {9:5} And old shoes the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the and all the bread of their provision was dry [and] mouldy. wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. {8:21} And when {9:6} And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned far country: now therefore make ye a league with us. {9:7} again, and slew the men of Ai. {8:22} And the other issued And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you? Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they {9:8} And they said unto Joshua, We [are] thy servants. smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape. And Joshua said unto them, Who [are] ye? and from {8:23} And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him whence come ye? {9:9} And they said unto him, From a to Joshua. {8:24} And it came to pass, when Israel had very far country thy servants are come because of the name made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they and all that he did in Egypt, {9:10} And all that he did to were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were the two kings of the Amorites, that [were] beyond Jordan, to consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which it with the edge of the sword. {8:25} And [so] it was, [that] [was] at Ashtaroth. {9:11} Wherefore our elders and all the all that fell that day, both of men and women, [were] twelve inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals thousand, [even] all the men of Ai. {8:26} For Joshua drew with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, them, We [are] your servants: therefore now make ye a until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. league with us. {9:12} This our bread we took hot [for] our {8:27} Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy: LORD which he commanded Joshua. {8:28} And Joshua {9:13} And these bottles of wine, which we filled, [were] burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, [even] a desolation new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and unto this day. {8:29} And the king of Ai he hanged on a our shoes are become old by reason of the very long tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua journey. {9:14} And the men took of their victuals, and commanded that they should take his carcase down from the asked not [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD. {9:15} And tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with raise thereon a great heap of stones, [that remaineth] unto them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation this day. sware unto them. {8:30} Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of {9:16} And it came to pass at the end of three days after Israel in mount Ebal, {8:31} As Moses the servant of the they had made a league with them, that they heard that they LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in [were] their neighbours, and [that] they dwelt among them. the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over {9:17} And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto which no man hath lift up [any] iron: and they offered their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim. {9:18} peace offerings. And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the {8:32} And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the against the princes. {9:19} But all the princes said unto all children of Israel. {8:33} And all Israel, and their elders, the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the {9:20} This we will do to them; we will even let them live, ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware www.holybooks.com
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