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                                   Bamidbar                                   
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                                  Chapter 1                                   

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Ohel Mo'ed, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Mitzrayim, saying,
  2. “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,
  3. from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Yisrael. You and Aharon shall count them by their divisions.
  4. With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.
  5. These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuven: Elitzur the son of Shedei'ur.
  6. Of Shimon: Shelumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai.
  7. Of Yehudah: Nachshon the son of Aminadav.
  8. Of Yissachar: Netan'el the son of Tzu'ar.
  9. Of Zevulun: Eliav the son of Helon.
  10. Of the children of Yosef: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Amihud; of Menashe: Gamaliel the son of Pedahtzur.
  11. Of Binyamin: Abidan the son of Gid'oni.
  12. Of Dan: Achi'ezer the son of Ami-Shaddai.
  13. Of Asher: Pagi'el the son of Okhran.
  14. Of Gad: Elyasaf the son of Deuel.
  15. Of Naftali: Achira the son of Enan.”
  16. These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Yisrael.
  17. Moshe and Aharon took these men who are mentioned by name.
  18. They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
  19. As YHWH commanded Moshe, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
  20. The children of Reuven, Yisrael’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  21. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuven, were forty-six thousand and five hundred.
  22. Of the children of Shimon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  23. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Shimon, were fifty-nine thousand and three hundred.
  24. Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  25. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
  26. Of the children of Yehudah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  27. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Yehudah, were seventy-four thousand and six hundred.
  28. Of the children of Yissachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  29. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Yissachar, were fifty-four thousand and four hundred.
  30. Of the children of Zevulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  31. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zevulun, were fifty-seven thousand and four hundred.
  32. Of the children of Yosef: of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  33. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
  34. Of the children of Menashe, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  35. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Menashe, were thirty-two thousand and two hundred.
  36. Of the children of Binyamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  37. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Binyamin, were thirty-five thousand and four hundred.
  38. Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  39. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand and seven hundred.
  40. Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  41. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
  42. Of the children of Naftali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  43. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naftali, were fifty-three thousand and four hundred.
  44. These are those who were counted, whom Moshe and Aharon counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Yisrael, each one for his fathers’ house.
  45. So all those who were counted of the children of Yisrael by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Yisrael—
  46. all those who were counted were six hundred and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
  47. But the Levi'im after the tribe of their fathers were not counted amongst them.
  48. For YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  49. “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them amongst the children of Yisrael;
  50. but appoint the Levi'im over the Mishkan of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the Mishkan and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
  51. When the Mishkan is to move, the Levi'im shall take it down; and when the Mishkan is to be set up, the Levi'im shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
  52. The children of Yisrael shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.
  53. But the Levi'im shall encamp around the Mishkan of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Yisrael. The Levi'im shall be responsible for the Mishkan of the Testimony.”
  54. Thus the children of Yisrael did. According to all that YHWH commanded Moshe, so they did.

                                  Chapter 2                                   

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,
  2. “The children of Yisrael shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Ohel Mo'ed at a distance from it.
  3. “Those who encamp on the east side towards the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Yehudah, according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Yehudah shall be Nachshon the son of Aminadav.
  4. His division, and those who were counted of them, were seventy-four thousand and six hundred.
  5. “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Yissachar. The prince of the children of Yissachar shall be Netan'el the son of Tzu'ar.
  6. His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-four thousand and four hundred.
  7. “The tribe of Zevulun: the prince of the children of Zevulun shall be Eliav the son of Helon.
  8. His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-seven thousand and four hundred.
  9. “All who were counted of the camp of Yehudah were one hundred and eighty-six thousand and four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
  10. “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuven according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuven shall be Elitzur the son of Shedei'ur.
  11. His division, and those who were counted of it, were forty-six thousand and five hundred.
  12. “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Shimon. The prince of the children of Shimon shall be Shelumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai.
  13. His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-nine thousand and three hundred.
  14. “The tribe of Gad: the prince of the children of Gad shall be Elyasaf the son of Re'u'el.
  15. His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
  16. “All who were counted of the camp of Reuven were one hundred and fifty-one thousand and four hundred and fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.
  17. “Then the Ohel Mo'ed shall set out, with the camp of the Levi'im in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
  18. “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Amihud.
  19. His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
  20. “Next to him shall be the tribe of Menashe. The prince of the children of Menashe shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahtzur.
  21. His division, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-two thousand and two hundred.
  22. “The tribe of Binyamin: the prince of the children of Binyamin shall be Abidan the son of Gid'oni.
  23. His army, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-five thousand and four hundred.
  24. “All who were counted of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred and eight thousand and one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.
  25. “On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Dan shall be Achi'ezer the son of Ami-Shaddai.
  26. His division, and those who were counted of them, were sixty-two thousand and seven hundred.
  27. “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher. The prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagi'el the son of Okhran.
  28. His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
  29. “The tribe of Naftali: the prince of the children of Naftali shall be Achira the son of Enan.
  30. His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-three thousand and four hundred.
  31. “All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred and fifty-seven thousand and six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”
  32. These are those who were counted of the children of Yisrael by their fathers’ houses. All who were counted of the camps according to their armies were six hundred and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
  33. But the Levi'im were not counted amongst the children of Yisrael, as YHWH commanded Moshe.
  34. Thus the children of Yisrael did. According to all that YHWH commanded Moshe, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.

                                  Chapter 3                                   

  1. Now this is the history of the generations of Aharon and Moshe in the day that YHWH spoke with Moshe in Har Sinai.
  2. These are the names of the sons of Aharon: Nadav the firstborn, and Avihu, El'azar, and Itamar.
  3. These are the names of the sons of Aharon, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.
  4. Nadav and Avihu died before YHWH when they offered strange fire before YHWH in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. El'azar and Itamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aharon their father.
  5. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  6. “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aharon the priest, that they may minister to him.
  7. They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Ohel Mo'ed, to do the service of the Mishkan.
  8. They shall keep all the furnishings of the Ohel Mo'ed, and the obligations of the children of Yisrael, to do the service of the Mishkan.
  9. You shall give the Levi'im to Aharon and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Yisrael.
  10. You shall appoint Aharon and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
  11. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  12. “Behold, I have taken the Levi'im from amongst the children of Yisrael instead of all the firstborn who open the womb amongst the children of Yisrael; and the Levi'im shall be mine,
  13. for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Mitzrayim I made kodesh to me all the firstborn in Yisrael, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am YHWH.”
  14. YHWH spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
  15. “Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”
  16. Moshe counted them according to YHWH’s word, as he was commanded.
  17. These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kehat, and Merari.
  18. These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shim'i.
  19. The sons of Kehat by their families: Amram, Yitzhar, Hebron, and Uzi'el.
  20. The sons of Merari by their families: Machli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levi'im according to their fathers’ houses.
  21. Of Gershon was the family of the Livnim, and the family of the Shim'im. These are the families of the Gershonim.
  22. Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
  23. The families of the Gershonim shall encamp behind the Mishkan westward.
  24. Elyasaf the son of Lael shall be the prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonim.
  25. The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Ohel Mo'ed shall be the Mishkan, the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the Ohel Mo'ed,
  26. the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is by the Mishkan and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.
  27. Of Kehat was the family of the Amramim, the family of the Yitzharim, the family of the Chevronim, and the family of the Uzi'elim. These are the families of the Kehatim.
  28. According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand and six hundred keeping the requirements of the Mishkan.
  29. The families of the sons of Kehat shall encamp on the south side of the Mishkan.
  30. The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kehatim shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzi'el.
  31. Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the Mishkan with which they minister, the screen, and all its service.
  32. El'azar the son of Aharon the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levi'im, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the Mishkan.
  33. Of Merari was the family of the Machlim and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.
  34. Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
  35. The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Avichayil. They shall encamp on the north side of the Mishkan.
  36. The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the Mishkan’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
  37. the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
  38. Those who encamp before the Mishkan eastward, in front of the Ohel Mo'ed towards the sunrise, shall be Moshe, with Aharon and his sons, keeping the requirements of the Mishkan for the duty of the children of Yisrael. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
  39. All who were counted of the Levi'im, whom Moshe and Aharon counted at the mitzvah of YHWH, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
  40. YHWH said to Moshe, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Yisrael from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
  41. You shall take the Levi'im for me—I am YHWH—instead of all the firstborn amongst the children of Yisrael; and the livestock of the Levi'im instead of all the firstborn amongst the livestock of the children of Yisrael.”
  42. Moshe counted, as YHWH commanded him, all the firstborn amongst the children of Yisrael.
  43. All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand and two hundred and seventy-three.
  44. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  45. “Take the Levi'im instead of all the firstborn amongst the children of Yisrael, and the livestock of the Levi'im instead of their livestock; and the Levi'im shall be mine. I am YHWH.
  46. For the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Yisrael who exceed the number of the Levi'im,
  47. you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the Mishkan you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs);
  48. and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aharon and to his sons.”
  49. Moshe took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levi'im;
  50. from the firstborn of the children of Yisrael he took the money, one thousand and three hundred and sixty-five shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan;
  51. and Moshe gave the redemption money to Aharon and to his sons, according to YHWH’s word, as YHWH commanded Moshe.

                                  Chapter 4                                   

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,
  2. “Take a census of the sons of Kehat from amongst the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
  3. from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Ohel Mo'ed.
  4. “This is the service of the sons of Kehat in the Ohel Mo'ed, regarding the most kodesh things.
  5. When the camp moves forward, Aharon shall go in with his sons; and they shall take down the veil of the screen, cover the Aron HaEdut with it,
  6. put a covering of sealskin on it, spread a blue cloth over it, and put in its poles.
  7. “On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.
  8. They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
  9. “They shall take a blue cloth and cover the lamp stand of the light, its lamps, its snuffers, its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
  10. They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
  11. “On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
  12. “They shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they minister in the Mishkan, and put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.
  13. “They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.
  14. They shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins—all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
  15. “When Aharon and his sons have finished covering the Mishkan and all the furniture of the Mishkan, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kehat shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the Mishkan, lest they die. The sons of Kehat shall carry these things belonging to the Ohel Mo'ed.
  16. “The duty of El'azar the son of Aharon the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all the Mishkan, and of all that is in it, the Mishkan, and its furnishings.”
  17. YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,
  18. “Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kehatim from amongst the Levi'im;
  19. but do this to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach the most kodesh things: Aharon and his sons shall go in and appoint everyone to his service and to his burden;
  20. but they shall not go in to see the Mishkan even for a moment, lest they die.”
  21. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  22. “Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;
  23. you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Ohel Mo'ed.
  24. “This is the service of the families of the Gershonim, in serving and in bearing burdens:
  25. they shall carry the curtains of the Mishkan and the Ohel Mo'ed, its covering, the covering of sealskin that is on it, the screen for the door of the Ohel Mo'ed,
  26. the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the gate of the court which is by the Mishkan and around the altar, their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. They shall serve in there.
  27. At the mitzvah of Aharon and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonim, in all their burden and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.
  28. This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonim in the Ohel Mo'ed. Their duty shall be under the hand of Itamar the son of Aharon the priest.
  29. “As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them by their families, by their fathers’ houses;
  30. you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Ohel Mo'ed.
  31. This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Ohel Mo'ed: the Mishkan’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
  32. the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service. You shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden to them by name.
  33. This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the Ohel Mo'ed, under the hand of Itamar the son of Aharon the priest.”
  34. Moshe and Aharon and the princes of the congregation counted the sons of the Kehatim by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
  35. from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Ohel Mo'ed.
  36. Those who were counted of them by their families were two thousand and seven hundred and fifty.
  37. These are those who were counted of the families of the Kehatim, all who served in the Ohel Mo'ed, whom Moshe and Aharon counted according to the mitzvah of YHWH by Moshe.
  38. Those who were counted of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
  39. from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Ohel Mo'ed,
  40. even those who were counted of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
  41. These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Ohel Mo'ed, whom Moshe and Aharon counted according to the mitzvah of YHWH.
  42. Those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
  43. from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Ohel Mo'ed,
  44. even those who were counted of them by their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
  45. These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moshe and Aharon counted according to the mitzvah of YHWH by Moshe.
  46. All those who were counted of the Levi'im whom Moshe and Aharon and the princes of Yisrael counted, by their families and by their fathers’ houses,
  47. from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Ohel Mo'ed,
  48. even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and eighty.
  49. According to the mitzvah of YHWH they were counted by Moshe, everyone according to his service and according to his burden. Thus they were counted by him, as YHWH commanded Moshe.

                                  Chapter 5                                   

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  2. “Command the children of Yisrael that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.
  3. You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
  4. The children of Yisrael did so, and put them outside of the camp; as YHWH spoke to Moshe, so the children of Yisrael did.
  5. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  6. “Speak to the children of Yisrael: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against YHWH, and that soul is guilty,
  7. then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.
  8. But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to YHWH shall be the priest’s, in addition to the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.
  9. Every heave offering of all the kodesh things of the children of Yisrael, which they present to the priest, shall be his.
  10. Every man’s kodesh things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’”
  11. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  12. “Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,
  13. and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;
  14. and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t defiled;
  15. then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
  16. The priest shall bring her near, and set her before YHWH.
  17. The priest shall take kodesh water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the Mishkan and put it into the water.
  18. The priest shall set the woman before YHWH, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
  19. The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
  20. But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—”
  21. then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May YHWH make you a curse and an oath amongst your people, when YHWH allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
  22. and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”
  23. “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
  24. He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
  25. The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before YHWH, and bring it to the altar.
  26. The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
  27. When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse amongst her people.
  28. If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.
  29. “‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,
  30. or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before YHWH, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.
  31. The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”

                                  Chapter 6                                   

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  2. “Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to YHWH,
  3. he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
  4. All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
  5. “‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he separates himself to YHWH. He shall be kodesh. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
  6. “‘All the days that he separates himself to YHWH he shall not go near a dead body.
  7. He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to Elohim is on his head.
  8. All the days of his separation he is kodesh to YHWH.
  9. “‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.
  10. On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed.
  11. The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head kodesh that same day.
  12. He shall separate to YHWH the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
  13. “‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed,
  14. and he shall offer his offering to YHWH: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, one ram without defect for peace offerings,
  15. a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their meal offering and their drink offerings.
  16. The priest shall present them before YHWH, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.
  17. He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to YHWH, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering and its drink offering.
  18. The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.
  19. The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the head of his separation;
  20. and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before YHWH. They are kodesh for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
  21. “‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows and of his offering to YHWH for his separation, in addition to that which he is able to afford. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.’”
  22. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  23. “Speak to Aharon and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of Yisrael.’ You shall tell them,
  24. ‘YHWH bless you, and keep you.
  25. YHWH make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.
  26. YHWH lift up his face towards you, and give you peace.’
  27. “So they shall put my name on the children of Yisrael; and I will bless them.”

                                  Chapter 7                                   

  1. On the day that Moshe had finished setting up the Mishkan, and had anointed it and sanctified it with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;
  2. the princes of Yisrael, the heads of their fathers’ houses, gave offerings. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were counted;
  3. and they brought their offering before YHWH, six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox. They presented them before the Mishkan.
  4. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  5. “Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Ohel Mo'ed; and you shall give them to the Levi'im, to every man according to his service.”
  6. Moshe took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levi'im.
  7. He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service.
  8. He gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Itamar the son of Aharon the priest.
  9. But to the sons of Kehat he gave none, because the service of the Mishkan belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.
  10. The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed. The princes gave their offerings before the altar.
  11. YHWH said to Moshe, “They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.”
  12. He who offered his offering the first day was Nachshon the son of Aminadav, of the tribe of Yehudah,
  13. and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  14. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  15. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  16. one male goat for a sin offering;
  17. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nachshon the son of Aminadav.
  18. On the second day Netan'el the son of Tzu'ar, prince of Yissachar, gave his offering.
  19. He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  20. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  21. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  22. one male goat for a sin offering;
  23. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Netan'el the son of Tzu'ar.
  24. On the third day Eliav the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zevulun,
  25. gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  26. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  27. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  28. one male goat for a sin offering;
  29. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliav the son of Helon.
  30. On the fourth day Elitzur the son of Shedei'ur, prince of the children of Reuven,
  31. gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  32. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  33. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  34. one male goat for a sin offering;
  35. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elitzur the son of Shedei'ur.
  36. On the fifth day Shelumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai, prince of the children of Shimon,
  37. gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  38. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  39. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  40. one male goat for a sin offering;
  41. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai.
  42. On the sixth day, Elyasaf the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad,
  43. gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  44. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  45. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  46. one male goat for a sin offering;
  47. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elyasaf the son of Deuel.
  48. On the seventh day Elishama the son of Amihud, prince of the children of Ephraim,
  49. gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  50. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  51. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  52. one male goat for a sin offering;
  53. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Amihud.
  54. On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahtzur, prince of the children of Menashe,
  55. gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  56. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  57. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  58. one male goat for a sin offering;
  59. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahtzur.
  60. On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gid'oni, prince of the children of Binyamin,
  61. gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  62. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  63. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  64. one male goat for a sin offering;
  65. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gid'oni.
  66. On the tenth day Achi'ezer the son of Ami-Shaddai, prince of the children of Dan,
  67. gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  68. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  69. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  70. one male goat for a sin offering;
  71. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Achi'ezer the son of Ami-Shaddai.
  72. On the eleventh day Pagi'el the son of Okhran, prince of the children of Asher,
  73. gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  74. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  75. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  76. one male goat for a sin offering;
  77. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagi'el the son of Okhran.
  78. On the twelfth day Achira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naftali,
  79. gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
  80. one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
  81. one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
  82. one male goat for a sin offering;
  83. and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Achira the son of Enan.
  84. This was the dedication offering of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Yisrael: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles;
  85. each silver platter weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand and four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the Mishkan;
  86. the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according to the shekel of the Mishkan; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred and twenty shekels;
  87. all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering;
  88. and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings: twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication offering of the altar, after it was anointed.
  89. When Moshe went into the Ohel Mo'ed to speak with YHWH, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the chesed seat that was on the Aron HaEdut, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him.

                                  Chapter 8                                   

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  2. “Speak to Aharon, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’”
  3. Aharon did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as YHWH commanded Moshe.
  4. This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to the pattern which YHWH had shown Moshe.
  5. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  6. “Take the Levi'im from amongst the children of Yisrael, and cleanse them.
  7. You shall do this to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.
  8. Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.
  9. You shall present the Levi'im before the Ohel Mo'ed. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Yisrael.
  10. You shall present the Levi'im before YHWH. The children of Yisrael shall lay their hands on the Levi'im,
  11. and Aharon shall offer the Levi'im before YHWH for a wave offering on the behalf of the children of Yisrael, that it may be theirs to do the service of YHWH.
  12. “The Levi'im shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to YHWH, to make atonement for the Levi'im.
  13. You shall set the Levi'im before Aharon and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to YHWH.
  14. Thus you shall separate the Levi'im from amongst the children of Yisrael, and the Levi'im shall be mine.
  15. “After that, the Levi'im shall go in to do the service of the Ohel Mo'ed. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
  16. For they are wholly given to me from amongst the children of Yisrael; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Yisrael, I have taken them to me.
  17. For all the firstborn amongst the children of Yisrael are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Mitzrayim, I sanctified them for myself.
  18. I have taken the Levi'im instead of all the firstborn amongst the children of Yisrael.
  19. I have given the Levi'im as a gift to Aharon and to his sons from amongst the children of Yisrael, to do the service of the children of Yisrael in the Ohel Mo'ed, and to make atonement for the children of Yisrael, so that there will be no plague amongst the children of Yisrael when the children of Yisrael come near to the Mishkan.”
  20. Moshe, and Aharon, and all the congregation of the children of Yisrael did so to the Levi'im. According to all that YHWH commanded Moshe concerning the Levi'im, so the children of Yisrael did to them.
  21. The Levi'im purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aharon offered them for a wave offering before YHWH and Aharon made atonement for them to cleanse them.
  22. After that, the Levi'im went in to do their service in the Ohel Mo'ed before Aharon and before his sons: as YHWH had commanded Moshe concerning the Levi'im, so they did to them.
  23. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  24. “This is what is assigned to the Levi'im: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Ohel Mo'ed;
  25. and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,
  26. but shall assist their brothers in the Ohel Mo'ed, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levi'im do their duties.”

                                  Chapter 9                                   

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Mitzrayim, saying,
  2. “Let the children of Yisrael keep the Pesach in its appointed season.
  3. On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”
  4. Moshe told the children of Yisrael that they should keep the Pesach.
  5. They kept the Pesach in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that YHWH commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisrael did.
  6. There were certain men who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Pesach on that day, and they came before Moshe and Aharon on that day.
  7. Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of YHWH in its appointed season amongst the children of Yisrael?”
  8. Moshe answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what YHWH will command concerning you.”
  9. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  10. “Say to the children of Yisrael, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Pesach to YHWH.
  11. In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
  12. They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Pesach they shall keep it.
  13. But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Pesach, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of YHWH in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
  14. “‘If a foreigner lives amongst you and desires to keep the Pesach to YHWH, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Pesach, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner and for him who is born in the land.’”
  15. On the day that the Mishkan was raised up, the cloud covered the Mishkan, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the Mishkan, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
  16. So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
  17. Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Yisrael travelled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Yisrael encamped.
  18. At the mitzvah of YHWH, the children of Yisrael travelled, and at the mitzvah of YHWH they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the Mishkan they remained encamped.
  19. When the cloud stayed on the Mishkan many days, then the children of Yisrael kept YHWH’s command, and didn’t travel.
  20. Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the Mishkan; then according to the mitzvah of YHWH they remained encamped, and according to the mitzvah of YHWH they travelled.
  21. Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they travelled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they travelled.
  22. Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the Mishkan, remaining on it, the children of Yisrael remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they travelled.
  23. At the mitzvah of YHWH they encamped, and at the mitzvah of YHWH they travelled. They kept YHWH’s command, at the mitzvah of YHWH by Moshe.

                                  Chapter 10                                  

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  2. “Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation and for the journeying of the camps.
  3. When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed.
  4. If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Yisrael, shall gather themselves to you.
  5. When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.
  6. When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
  7. But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
  8. “The sons of Aharon, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
  9. When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before YHWH your Elohim, and you will be saved from your enemies.
  10. “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your Elohim. I am YHWH your Elohim.”
  11. In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the Mishkan of the Brit.
  12. The children of Yisrael went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.
  13. They first went forward according to the mitzvah of YHWH by Moshe.
  14. First, the standard of the camp of the children of Yehudah went forward according to their armies. Nachshon the son of Aminadav was over his army.
  15. Netan'el the son of Tzu'ar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Yissachar.
  16. Eliav the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zevulun.
  17. The Mishkan was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the Mishkan, went forward.
  18. The standard of the camp of Reuven went forward according to their armies. Elitzur the son of Shedei'ur was over his army.
  19. Shelumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Shimon.
  20. Elyasaf the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.
  21. The Kehatim set forward, bearing the Mishkan. The others set up the Mishkan before they arrived.
  22. The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Amihud was over his army.
  23. Gamaliel the son of Pedahtzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Menashe.
  24. Abidan the son of Gid'oni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Binyamin.
  25. The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Achi'ezer the son of Ami-Shaddai was over his army.
  26. Pagi'el the son of Okhran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.
  27. Achira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naftali.
  28. Thus were the travels of the children of Yisrael according to their armies; and they went forward.
  29. Moshe said to Chovav, the son of Re'u'el the Midyani, Moshe’s father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which YHWH said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for YHWH has spoken good concerning Yisrael.”
  30. He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”
  31. Moshe said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
  32. It shall be, if you go with us—yes, it shall be—that whatever good YHWH does to us, we will do the same to you.”
  33. They set forward from the Mount of YHWH three days’ journey. The Aron YHWH’s Brit went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
  34. The cloud of YHWH was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.
  35. When the ark went forward, Moshe said, “Rise up, YHWH, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”
  36. When it rested, he said, “Return, YHWH, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Yisrael.”

                                  Chapter 11                                  

  1. The people were complaining in the ears of YHWH. When YHWH heard it, his anger burnt; and YHWH’s fire burnt amongst them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
  2. The people cried to Moshe; and Moshe prayed to YHWH, and the fire abated.
  3. The name of that place was called Taberah, because YHWH’s fire burnt amongst them.
  4. The mixed multitude that was amongst them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Yisrael also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
  5. We remember the fish, which we ate in Mitzrayim for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
  6. but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”
  7. The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
  8. The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
  9. When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
  10. Moshe heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and YHWH’s anger burnt greatly; and Moshe was displeased.
  11. Moshe said to YHWH, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favour in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
  12. Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers’?
  13. Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
  14. I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
  15. If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favour in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
  16. YHWH said to Moshe, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Yisrael, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Ohel Mo'ed, that they may stand there with you.
  17. I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Ruach which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.
  18. “Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of YHWH, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Mitzrayim.” Therefore YHWH will give you meat, and you will eat.
  19. You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
  20. but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected YHWH who is amongst you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Mitzrayim?”’”
  21. Moshe said, “The people, amongst whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’
  22. Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”
  23. YHWH said to Moshe, “Has YHWH’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
  24. Moshe went out, and told the people YHWH’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.
  25. YHWH came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Ruach that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Ruach rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
  26. But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Meidad; and the Ruach rested on them. They were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
  27. A young man ran, and told Moshe, and said, “Eldad and Meidad are prophesying in the camp!”
  28. Yehoshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moshe, one of his chosen men, answered, “My Adonai Moshe, forbid them!”
  29. Moshe said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all YHWH’s people were prophets, that YHWH would put his Ruach on them!”
  30. Moshe went into the camp, he and the elders of Yisrael.
  31. A wind from YHWH went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
  32. The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.
  33. While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, YHWH’s anger burnt against the people, and YHWH struck the people with a very great plague.
  34. The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
  35. From Kibroth Hattaavah the people travelled to Chatzerot; and they stayed at Chatzerot.

                                  Chapter 12                                  

  1. Miriam and Aharon spoke against Moshe because of the Kushi woman whom he had married; for he had married a Kushi woman.
  2. They said, “Has YHWH indeed spoken only with Moshe? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And YHWH heard it.
  3. Now the man Moshe was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
  4. YHWH spoke suddenly to Moshe, to Aharon, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Ohel Mo'ed!” The three of them came out.
  5. YHWH came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aharon and Miriam; and they both came forward.
  6. He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet amongst you, I, YHWH, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
  7. My servant Moshe is not so. He is faithful in all my house.
  8. With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see YHWH’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moshe?”
  9. YHWH’s anger burnt against them; and he departed.
  10. The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aharon looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
  11. Aharon said to Moshe, “Oh, my adonai, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.
  12. Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
  13. Moshe cried to YHWH, saying, “Heal her, Elohim, I beg you!”
  14. YHWH said to Moshe, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”
  15. Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.
  16. Afterward the people travelled from Chatzerot, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

                                  Chapter 13                                  

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  2. “Send men, that they may spy out the land of Kna'an, which I give to the children of Yisrael. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince amongst them.”
  3. Moshe sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the mitzvah of YHWH. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Yisrael.
  4. These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuven, Shamu'a the son of Zakur.
  5. Of the tribe of Shimon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
  6. Of the tribe of Yehudah, Calev the son of Yefuneh.
  7. Of the tribe of Yissachar, Yig'al the son of Yosef.
  8. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
  9. Of the tribe of Binyamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
  10. Of the tribe of Zevulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
  11. Of the tribe of Yosef, of the tribe of Menashe, Gaddi the son of Susi.
  12. Of the tribe of Dan, Ami'el the son of Gemalli.
  13. Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Mikha'el.
  14. Of the tribe of Naftali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
  15. Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
  16. These are the names of the men who Moshe sent to spy out the land. Moshe called Hoshea the son of Nun Yehoshua.
  17. Moshe sent them to spy out the land of Kna'an, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.
  18. See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
  19. and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
  20. and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
  21. So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Tzin to Rechov, to the entrance of Chamat.
  22. They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Mitzrayim.)
  23. They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
  24. That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Yisrael cut down from there.
  25. They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
  26. They went and came to Moshe, to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.
  27. They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
  28. However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
  29. Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Chitti, the Yevusi, and the Emori dwell in the hill country. The Kna'ani dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”
  30. Calev stilled the people before Moshe, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”
  31. But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
  32. They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Yisrael, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
  33. There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

                                  Chapter 14                                  

  1. All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
  2. All the children of Yisrael murmured against Moshe and against Aharon. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Mitzrayim, or that we had died in this wilderness!
  3. Why does YHWH bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Mitzrayim?”
  4. They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Mitzrayim.”
  5. Then Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisrael.
  6. Yehoshua the son of Nun and Calev the son of Yefuneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
  7. They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
  8. If YHWH delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
  9. Only don’t rebel against YHWH, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defence is removed from over them, and YHWH is with us. Don’t fear them.”
  10. But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. YHWH’s kavod appeared in the Ohel Mo'ed to all the children of Yisrael.
  11. YHWH said to Moshe, “How long will this people despise me? How long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked amongst them?
  12. I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
  13. Moshe said to YHWH, “Then the Mitzrim will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from amongst them.
  14. They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you YHWH are amongst this people; for you YHWH are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
  15. Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
  16. ‘Because YHWH was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
  17. Now please let the power of Adonai be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
  18. ‘YHWH is slow to anger, and abundant in chesed, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
  19. Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your chesed, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Mitzrayim even until now.”
  20. YHWH said, “I have pardoned according to your word;
  21. but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with YHWH’s kavod—
  22. because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Mitzrayim and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
  23. surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.
  24. But my servant Calev, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.
  25. Since the Amaleki and the Kna'ani dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Yam Suf.”
  26. YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,
  27. “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Yisrael, which they complain against me.
  28. Tell them, ‘As I live, says YHWH, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.
  29. Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,
  30. surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Calev the son of Yefuneh, and Yehoshua the son of Nun.
  31. But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
  32. But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
  33. Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
  34. After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
  35. I, YHWH, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
  36. The men whom Moshe sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,
  37. even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before YHWH.
  38. But Yehoshua the son of Nun and Calev the son of Yefuneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
  39. Moshe told these words to all the children of Yisrael, and the people mourned greatly.
  40. They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which YHWH has promised; for we have sinned.”
  41. Moshe said, “Why now do you disobey the mitzvah of YHWH, since it shall not prosper?
  42. Don’t go up, for YHWH isn’t amongst you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
  43. For there the Amaleki and the Kna'ani are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following YHWH; therefore YHWH will not be with you.”
  44. But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the Aron YHWH’s Brit and Moshe didn’t depart out of the camp.
  45. Then the Amalekim came down, and the Kna'anim who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down even to Chormah.

                                  Chapter 15                                  

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  2. “Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,
  3. and will make an offering by fire to YHWH—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to YHWH, of the herd, or of the flock—
  4. then he who offers his offering shall offer to YHWH a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of oil.
  5. You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
  6. “‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil;
  7. and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH.
  8. When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to YHWH,
  9. then he shall offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;
  10. and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH.
  11. Thus it shall be done for each bull, for each ram, for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.
  12. According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number.
  13. “‘All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH.
  14. If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be amongst you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH, as you do, so he shall do.
  15. For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so the foreigner shall be before YHWH.
  16. One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”
  17. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  18. “Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you,
  19. then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to YHWH.
  20. Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
  21. Of the first of your dough, you shall give to YHWH a wave offering throughout your generations.
  22. “‘When you err, and don’t observe all these mitzvot which YHWH has spoken to Moshe—
  23. even all that YHWH has commanded you by Moshe, from the day that YHWH gave mitzvah and onward throughout your generations—
  24. then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to YHWH, with its meal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.
  25. The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to YHWH, and their sin offering before YHWH, for their error.
  26. All the congregation of the children of Yisrael shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly.
  27. “‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.
  28. The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs when he sins unwittingly before YHWH. He shall make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.
  29. You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born amongst the children of Yisrael, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst them.
  30. “‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes YHWH. That soul shall be cut off from amongst his people.
  31. Because he has despised YHWH’s word, and has broken his mitzvah, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’”
  32. While the children of Yisrael were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Shabbat day.
  33. Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moshe and Aharon, and to all the congregation.
  34. They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
  35. YHWH said to Moshe, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”
  36. All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as YHWH commanded Moshe.
  37. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  38. “Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue.
  39. It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all YHWH’s mitzvot, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;
  40. so that you may remember and do all my mitzvot, and be kodesh to your Elohim.
  41. I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, to be your Elohim: I am YHWH your Elohim.”

                                  Chapter 16                                  

  1. Now Korach, the son of Yitzhar, the son of Kehat, the son of Levi, with Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eliav, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuven, took some men.
  2. They rose up before Moshe, with some of the children of Yisrael, two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.
  3. They assembled themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are kodesh, everyone of them, and YHWH is amongst them! Why do you lift yourselves up above YHWH’s assembly?”
  4. When Moshe heard it, he fell on his face.
  5. He said to Korach and to all his company, “In the morning, YHWH will show who are his, and who is kodesh, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.
  6. Do this: have Korach and all his company take censers,
  7. put fire in them, and put incense on them before YHWH tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom YHWH chooses, he shall be kodesh. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”
  8. Moshe said to Korach, “Hear now, you sons of Levi!
  9. Is it a small thing to you that the Elohim of Yisrael has separated you from the congregation of Yisrael, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of YHWH’s Mishkan, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
  10. and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?
  11. Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against YHWH! What is Aharon that you complain against him?”
  12. Moshe sent to call Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eliav; and they said, “We won’t come up!
  13. Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?
  14. Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”
  15. Moshe was very angry, and said to YHWH, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”
  16. Moshe said to Korach, “You and all your company go before YHWH, you, and they, and Aharon, tomorrow.
  17. Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before YHWH his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aharon, each with his censer.”
  18. They each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed with Moshe and Aharon.
  19. Korach assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed. YHWH’s kavod appeared to all the congregation.
  20. YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,
  21. “Separate yourselves from amongst this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”
  22. They fell on their faces, and said, “Elohim, the Elohim of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
  23. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  24. “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korach, Datan, and Aviram!’”
  25. Moshe rose up and went to Datan and Aviram; and the elders of Yisrael followed him.
  26. He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”
  27. So they went away from the tent of Korach, Datan, and Aviram, on every side. Datan and Aviram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.
  28. Moshe said, “Hereby you shall know that YHWH has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.
  29. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then YHWH hasn’t sent me.
  30. But if YHWH makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised YHWH.”
  31. As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.
  32. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korach’s men, and all their goods.
  33. So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from amongst the assembly.
  34. All Yisrael that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
  35. Fire came out from YHWH, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men who offered the incense.
  36. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  37. “Speak to El'azar the son of Aharon the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are kodesh,
  38. even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before YHWH. Therefore they are kodesh. They shall be a sign to the children of Yisrael.”
  39. El'azar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,
  40. to be a memorial to the children of Yisrael, to the end that no stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aharon, would come near to burn incense before YHWH, that he not be as Korach and as his company; as YHWH spoke to him by Moshe.
  41. But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Yisrael complained against Moshe and against Aharon, saying, “You have killed YHWH’s people!”
  42. When the congregation was assembled against Moshe and against Aharon, they looked towards the Ohel Mo'ed. Behold, the cloud covered it, and YHWH’s kavod appeared.
  43. Moshe and Aharon came to the front of the Ohel Mo'ed.
  44. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  45. “Get away from amongst this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.
  46. Moshe said to Aharon, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from YHWH! The plague has begun.”
  47. Aharon did as Moshe said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun amongst the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
  48. He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
  49. Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korach.
  50. Aharon returned to Moshe to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, and the plague was stopped.

                                  Chapter 17                                  

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  2. “Speak to the children of Yisrael, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod.
  3. You shall write Aharon’s name on Levi’s rod. There shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.
  4. You shall lay them up in the Ohel Mo'ed before the Brit, where I meet with you.
  5. It shall happen that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Yisrael, which they murmur against you, cease from me.”
  6. Moshe spoke to the children of Yisrael; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, a total of twelve rods. Aharon’s rod was amongst their rods.
  7. Moshe laid up the rods before YHWH in the Tent of the Testimony.
  8. On the next day, Moshe went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aharon’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.
  9. Moshe brought out all the rods from before YHWH to all the children of Yisrael. They looked, and each man took his rod.
  10. YHWH said to Moshe, “Put back the rod of Aharon before the Brit, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their complaining against me, that they not die.”
  11. Moshe did so. As YHWH commanded him, so he did.
  12. The children of Yisrael spoke to Moshe, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!
  13. Everyone who keeps approaching YHWH’s Mishkan, dies! Will we all perish?”

                                  Chapter 18                                  

  1. YHWH said to Aharon, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the Mishkan; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
  2. Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony.
  3. They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the Mishkan and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you.
  4. They shall be joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Ohel Mo'ed, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you.
  5. “You shall perform the duty of the Mishkan and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Yisrael.
  6. Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levi'im from amongst the children of Yisrael. They are a gift to you, dedicated to YHWH, to do the service of the Ohel Mo'ed.
  7. You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
  8. YHWH spoke to Aharon, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the kodesh things of the children of Yisrael. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.
  9. This shall be yours of the most kodesh things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall give to me, shall be most kodesh for you and for your sons.
  10. You shall eat of it like the most kodesh things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be kodesh to you.
  11. “This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Yisrael. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
  12. “I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to YHWH.
  13. The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to YHWH, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
  14. “Everything devoted in Yisrael shall be yours.
  15. Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to YHWH, both of man and animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.
  16. You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel of the Mishkan, which weighs twenty gerahs.
  17. “But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are kodesh. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to YHWH.
  18. Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
  19. All the wave offerings of the kodesh things which the children of Yisrael offer to YHWH, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a Brit of salt forever before YHWH to you and to your offspring with you.”
  20. YHWH said to Aharon, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion amongst them. I am your portion and your inheritance amongst the children of Yisrael.
  21. “To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Yisrael for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Ohel Mo'ed.
  22. Henceforth the children of Yisrael shall not come near the Ohel Mo'ed, lest they bear sin, and die.
  23. But the Levi'im shall do the service of the Ohel Mo'ed, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Amongst the children of Yisrael, they shall have no inheritance.
  24. For the tithe of the children of Yisrael, which they offer as a wave offering to YHWH, I have given to the Levi'im for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Amongst the children of Yisrael they shall have no inheritance.’”
  25. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  26. “Moreover you shall speak to the Levi'im, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Yisrael the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for YHWH, a tithe of the tithe.
  27. Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
  28. Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to YHWH of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Yisrael; and of it you shall give YHWH’s wave offering to Aharon the priest.
  29. Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to YHWH, of all its best parts, even the kodesh part of it.’
  30. “Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levi'im as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.
  31. You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Ohel Mo'ed.
  32. You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the kodesh things of the children of Yisrael, that you not die.’”

                                  Chapter 19                                  

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,
  2. “This is the statute of the law which YHWH has commanded. Tell the children of Yisrael to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.
  3. You shall give her to El'azar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.
  4. El'azar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood towards the front of the Ohel Mo'ed seven times.
  5. One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.
  6. The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.
  7. Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.
  8. He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
  9. “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Yisrael for use in water for cleansing impurity. It is a sin offering.
  10. He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Yisrael, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst them, for a statute forever.
  11. “He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
  12. He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
  13. Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles YHWH’s Mishkan; and that soul shall be cut off from Yisrael; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.
  14. “This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
  15. Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
  16. “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
  17. “For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel.
  18. A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.
  19. The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.
  20. But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from amongst the assembly, because he has defiled the Mishkan of YHWH. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.
  21. It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
  22. “Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”

                                  Chapter 20                                  

  1. The children of Yisrael, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Tzin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.
  2. There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon.
  3. The people quarrelled with Moshe, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before YHWH!
  4. Why have you brought YHWH’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
  5. Why have you made us to come up out of Mitzrayim, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”
  6. Moshe and Aharon went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, and fell on their faces. YHWH’s kavod appeared to them.
  7. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  8. “Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aharon your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”
  9. Moshe took the rod from before YHWH, as he commanded him.
  10. Moshe and Aharon gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”
  11. Moshe lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
  12. YHWH said to Moshe and Aharon, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Yisrael, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
  13. These are the waters of Merivah; because the children of Yisrael strove with YHWH, and he was sanctified in them.
  14. Moshe sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Your brother Yisrael says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;
  15. how our fathers went down into Mitzrayim, and we lived in Mitzrayim a long time. The Mitzrim mistreated us and our fathers.
  16. When we cried to YHWH, he heard our voice, sent an malak, and brought us out of Mitzrayim. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.
  17. “Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”
  18. Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”
  19. The children of Yisrael said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”
  20. He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.
  21. Thus Edom refused to give Yisrael passage through his border, so Yisrael turned away from him.
  22. They travelled from Kadesh, and the children of Yisrael, even the whole congregation, came to Har Hor.
  23. YHWH spoke to Moshe and Aharon in Har Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
  24. “Aharon shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Yisrael, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Merivah.
  25. Take Aharon and El'azar his son, and bring them up to Har Hor;
  26. and strip Aharon of his garments, and put them on El'azar his son. Aharon shall be gathered, and shall die there.”
  27. Moshe did as YHWH commanded. They went up onto Har Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
  28. Moshe stripped Aharon of his garments, and put them on El'azar his son. Aharon died there on the top of the mountain, and Moshe and El'azar came down from the mountain.
  29. When all the congregation saw that Aharon was dead, they wept for Aharon thirty days, even all the house of Yisrael.

                                  Chapter 21                                  

  1. The Kna'ani, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Yisrael came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Yisrael, and took some of them captive.
  2. Yisrael vowed a vow to YHWH, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
  3. YHWH listened to the voice of Yisrael, and delivered up the Kna'anim; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Chormah.
  4. They travelled from Har Hor by the way to the Yam Suf, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.
  5. The people spoke against Elohim and against Moshe: “Why have you brought us up out of Mitzrayim to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”
  6. YHWH sent venomous snakes amongst the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Yisrael died.
  7. The people came to Moshe, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against YHWH and against you. Pray to YHWH, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moshe prayed for the people.
  8. YHWH said to Moshe, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
  9. Moshe made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.
  10. The children of Yisrael travelled, and encamped in Oboth.
  11. They travelled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, towards the sunrise.
  12. From there they travelled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
  13. From there they travelled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Emorim; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Emorim.
  14. Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of YHWH, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
  15. the slope of the valleys that incline towards the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
  16. From there they travelled to Beer; that is the well of which YHWH said to Moshe, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
  17. Then Yisrael sang this song: “Spring up, well! Sing to it,
  18. the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the sceptre, and with their poles.” From the wilderness they travelled to Matanah;
  19. and from Matanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
  20. and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
  21. Yisrael sent messengers to Sihon king of the Emorim, saying,
  22. “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”
  23. Sihon would not allow Yisrael to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Yisrael into the wilderness, and came to Yahatz. He fought against Yisrael.
  24. Yisrael struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Yabok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.
  25. Yisrael took all these cities. Yisrael lived in all the cities of the Emorim, in Cheshbon, and in all its villages.
  26. For Cheshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Emorim, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
  27. Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Cheshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
  28. for a fire has gone out of Cheshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
  29. Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Emorim.
  30. We have shot at them. Cheshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”
  31. Thus Yisrael lived in the land of the Emorim.
  32. Moshe sent to spy out Yazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Emorim who were there.
  33. They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edre'i.
  34. YHWH said to Moshe, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Emorim, who lived at Cheshbon.”
  35. So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.

                                  Chapter 22                                  

  1. The children of Yisrael travelled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
  2. Balak the son of Tzipor saw all that Yisrael had done to the Emorim.
  3. Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Yisrael.
  4. Moab said to the elders of Midyan, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” Balak the son of Tzipor was king of Moab at that time.
  5. He sent messengers to Bilam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out of Mitzrayim. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.
  6. Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
  7. The elders of Moab and the elders of Midyan departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Bilam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
  8. He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as YHWH shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Bilam.
  9. Elohim came to Bilam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”
  10. Bilam said to Elohim, “Balak the son of Tzipor, king of Moab, has said to me,
  11. ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Mitzrayim covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’”
  12. Elohim said to Bilam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
  13. Bilam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for YHWH refuses to permit me to go with you.”
  14. The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Bilam refuses to come with us.”
  15. Balak again sent princes, more, and more honourable than they.
  16. They came to Bilam, and said to him, “Balak the son of Tzipor says, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,
  17. for I will promote you to very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’”
  18. Bilam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of YHWH my Elohim, to do less or more.
  19. Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else YHWH will speak to me.”
  20. Elohim came to Bilam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”
  21. Bilam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
  22. Elohim’s anger burnt because he went; and YHWH’s malak placed himself in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
  23. The donkey saw YHWH’s malak standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Bilam struck the donkey, to turn her into the path.
  24. Then YHWH’s malak stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
  25. The donkey saw YHWH’s malak, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Bilam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again.
  26. YHWH’s malak went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
  27. The donkey saw YHWH’s malak, and she lay down under Bilam. Bilam’s anger burnt, and he struck the donkey with his staff.
  28. YHWH opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Bilam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
  29. Bilam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”
  30. The donkey said to Bilam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?” He said, “No.”
  31. Then YHWH opened the eyes of Bilam, and he saw YHWH’s malak standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
  32. YHWH’s malak said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.
  33. The donkey saw me, and turned away before me these three times. Unless she had turned away from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”
  34. Bilam said to YHWH’s malak, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”
  35. YHWH’s malak said to Bilam, “Go with the men; but you shall only speak the word that I shall speak to you.” So Bilam went with the princes of Balak.
  36. When Balak heard that Bilam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.
  37. Balak said to Bilam, “Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honour?”
  38. Bilam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? I will speak the word that Elohim puts in my mouth.”
  39. Bilam went with Balak, and they came to Kiryat Huzoth.
  40. Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Bilam, and to the princes who were with him.
  41. In the morning, Balak took Bilam, and brought him up into the high places of Ba'al; and he saw from there part of the people.

                                  Chapter 23                                  

  1. Bilam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
  2. Balak did as Bilam had spoken; and Balak and Bilam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
  3. Bilam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps YHWH will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.
  4. Elohim met Bilam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”
  5. YHWH put a word in Bilam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
  6. He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
  7. He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Yaakov for me. Come, defy Yisrael.
  8. How shall I curse whom Elohim has not cursed? How shall I defy whom YHWH has not defied?
  9. For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed amongst the nations.
  10. Who can count the dust of Yaakov, or count the fourth part of Yisrael? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
  11. Balak said to Bilam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
  12. He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which YHWH puts in my mouth?”
  13. Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”
  14. He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
  15. He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet Elohim over there.”
  16. YHWH met Bilam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
  17. He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has YHWH spoken?”
  18. He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Tzipor.
  19. Elohim is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
  20. Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
  21. He has not seen iniquity in Yaakov. Neither has he seen perverseness in Yisrael. YHWH his Elohim is with him. The shout of a king is amongst them.
  22. Elohim brings them out of Mitzrayim. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
  23. Surely there is no enchantment with Yaakov; neither is there any divination with Yisrael. Now it shall be said of Yaakov and of Yisrael, ‘What has Elohim done!’
  24. Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”
  25. Balak said to Bilam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
  26. But Bilam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that YHWH speaks, that I must do’?”
  27. Balak said to Bilam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please Elohim that you may curse them for me from there.”
  28. Balak took Bilam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
  29. Bilam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
  30. Balak did as Bilam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

                                  Chapter 24                                  

  1. When Bilam saw that it pleased YHWH to bless Yisrael, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face towards the wilderness.
  2. Bilam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Yisrael dwelling according to their tribes; and the Ruach Elohim came on him.
  3. He took up his parable, and said, “Bilam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
  4. he says, who hears the words of Elohim, who sees the vision of the El Shaddai, falling down, and having his eyes open:
  5. How goodly are your tents, Yaakov, and your dwellings, Yisrael!
  6. As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which YHWH has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
  7. Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.
  8. Elohim brings him out of Mitzrayim. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
  9. He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”
  10. Balak’s anger burnt against Bilam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Bilam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
  11. Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honour; but, behold, YHWH has kept you back from honour.”
  12. Bilam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,
  13. ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond YHWH’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what YHWH says’?
  14. Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”
  15. He took up his parable, and said, “Bilam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
  16. he says, who hears the words of Elohim, knows the knowledge of the Elyon, and who sees the vision of the El Shaddai, falling down, and having his eyes open:
  17. I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Yaakov. A sceptre will rise out of Yisrael, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.
  18. Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemy, also shall be a possession, while Yisrael does valiantly.
  19. Out of Yaakov shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.”
  20. He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall come to destruction.”
  21. He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, “Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.
  22. Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”
  23. He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when Elohim does this?
  24. But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Ever. He also shall come to destruction.”
  25. Bilam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

                                  Chapter 25                                  

  1. Yisrael stayed in Shitim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
  2. for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.
  3. Yisrael joined himself to Ba'al Peor, and YHWH’s anger burnt against Yisrael.
  4. YHWH said to Moshe, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to YHWH before the sun, that the fierce anger of YHWH may turn away from Yisrael.”
  5. Moshe said to the judges of Yisrael, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Ba'al Peor.”
  6. Behold, one of the children of Yisrael came and brought to his brothers a Midyani woman in the sight of Moshe, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, while they were weeping at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed.
  7. When Pinchas, the son of El'azar, the son of Aharon the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.
  8. He went after the man of Yisrael into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Yisrael, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped amongst the children of Yisrael.
  9. Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
  10. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  11. “Pinchas, the son of El'azar, the son of Aharon the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Yisrael, in that he was jealous with my jealousy amongst them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Yisrael in my jealousy.
  12. Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my Brit of peace.
  13. It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the Brit of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his Elohim, and made atonement for the children of Yisrael.’”
  14. Now the name of the man of Yisrael that was slain, who was slain with the Midyani woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house amongst the Shimonim.
  15. The name of the Midyani woman who was slain was Kozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midyan.
  16. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  17. “Harass the Midyanim, and strike them;
  18. for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Kozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midyan, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”

                                  Chapter 26                                  

  1. After the plague, YHWH spoke to Moshe and to El'azar the son of Aharon the priest, saying,
  2. “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Yisrael.”
  3. Moshe and El'azar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
  4. “Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as YHWH commanded Moshe and the children of Yisrael.” These are those who came out of the land of Mitzrayim.
  5. Reuven, the firstborn of Yisrael; the sons of Reuven: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
  6. of Hezron, the family of the Chetzronim; of Karmi, the family of the Karmim.
  7. These are the families of the Reuvenim; and those who were counted of them were forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
  8. The son of Pallu: Eliav.
  9. The sons of Eliav: Nemuel, Datan, and Aviram. These are that Datan and Aviram who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moshe and against Aharon in the company of Korach when they rebelled against YHWH;
  10. and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korach when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign.
  11. Notwithstanding, the sons of Korach didn’t die.
  12. The sons of Shimon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Yamin, the family of the Yaminim; of Yakhin, the family of the Yakhinim;
  13. of Zerach, the family of the Zerachim; of Sha'ul, the family of the Sha'ulites.
  14. These are the families of the Shimonim, twenty-two thousand and two hundred.
  15. The sons of Gad after their families: of Tzefon, the family of the Tzefonim; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
  16. of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
  17. of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
  18. These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
  19. The sons of Yehudah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Kna'an.
  20. The sons of Yehudah after their families were: of Shelach, the family of the Shelanites; of Peretz, the family of the Perezites; of Zerach, the family of the Zerachim.
  21. The sons of Peretz were: of Hezron, the family of the Chetzronim; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
  22. These are the families of Yehudah according to those who were counted of them, seventy-six thousand and five hundred.
  23. The sons of Yissachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;
  24. of Yashuv, the family of the Yashuvim; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
  25. These are the families of Yissachar according to those who were counted of them, sixty-four thousand and three hundred.
  26. The sons of Zevulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Eilon, the family of the Elonites; of Yachle'el, the family of the Yachle'elim.
  27. These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were counted of them, sixty thousand and five hundred.
  28. The sons of Yosef after their families: Menashe and Ephraim.
  29. The sons of Menashe: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gil'adim.
  30. These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Chelek, the family of the Chelkim;
  31. and Asri'el, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
  32. and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Chefer, the family of the Hepherites.
  33. Tzelofchad the son of Chefer had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Tzelofchad were Mahlah, No'ah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Tirzah.
  34. These are the families of Menashe. Those who were counted of them were fifty-two thousand and seven hundred.
  35. These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
  36. These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
  37. These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were counted of them, thirty-two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Yosef after their families.
  38. The sons of Binyamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
  39. of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
  40. The sons of Bela were Ard and Na'aman: the family of the Ardites; and of Na'aman, the family of the Naamites.
  41. These are the sons of Binyamin after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand and six hundred.
  42. These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
  43. All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of them, were sixty-four thousand and four hundred.
  44. The sons of Asher after their families: of Yimnah, the family of the Imnites; of Yishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beri'ah, the family of the Berites.
  45. Of the sons of Beri'ah: of Chever, the family of the Heberites; of Malki'el, the family of the Malchielites.
  46. The name of the daughter of Asher was Serach.
  47. These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were counted of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.
  48. The sons of Naftali after their families: of Yachtze'el, the family of the Yachtze'elim; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
  49. of Yetzer, the family of the Yetzerim; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
  50. These are the families of Naftali according to their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand and four hundred.
  51. These are those who were counted of the children of Yisrael, six hundred and one thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
  52. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  53. “To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
  54. To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance be given.
  55. Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
  56. According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.”
  57. These are those who were counted of the Levi'im after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonim; of Kehat, the family of the Kehatim; of Merari, the family of the Merarim.
  58. These are the families of Levi: the family of the Livnim, the family of the Chevronim, the family of the Machlim, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korachim. Kehat became the father of Amram.
  59. The name of Amram’s wife was Yocheved, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Mitzrayim. She bore to Amram Aharon and Moshe, and Miriam their sister.
  60. To Aharon were born Nadav and Avihu, El'azar and Itamar.
  61. Nadav and Avihu died when they offered strange fire before YHWH.
  62. Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted amongst the children of Yisrael, because there was no inheritance given them amongst the children of Yisrael.
  63. These are those who were counted by Moshe and El'azar the priest, who counted the children of Yisrael in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
  64. But amongst these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moshe and Aharon the priest, who counted the children of Yisrael in the wilderness of Sinai.
  65. For YHWH had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Calev the son of Yefuneh, and Yehoshua the son of Nun.

                                  Chapter 27                                  

  1. Then the daughters of Tzelofchad, the son of Chefer, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Menashe, of the families of Menashe the son of Yosef came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, No'ah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Tirzah.
  2. They stood before Moshe, before El'azar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Ohel Mo'ed, saying,
  3. “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not amongst the company of those who gathered themselves together against YHWH in the company of Korach, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.
  4. Why should the name of our father be taken away from amongst his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession amongst the brothers of our father.”
  5. Moshe brought their cause before YHWH.
  6. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  7. “The daughters of Tzelofchad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance amongst their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
  8. You shall speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
  9. If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
  10. If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
  11. If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Yisrael, as YHWH commanded Moshe.’”
  12. YHWH said to Moshe, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Yisrael.
  13. When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aharon your brother was gathered;
  14. because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Tzin, to honour me as kodesh at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Merivah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Tzin.)
  15. Moshe spoke to YHWH, saying,
  16. “Let YHWH, the Elohim of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
  17. who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of YHWH may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”
  18. YHWH said to Moshe, “Take Yehoshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Ruach, and lay your hand on him.
  19. Set him before El'azar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.
  20. You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Yisrael may obey.
  21. He shall stand before El'azar the priest, who shall enquire for him by the judgement of the Urim before YHWH. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Yisrael with him, even all the congregation.”
  22. Moshe did as YHWH commanded him. He took Yehoshua, and set him before El'azar the priest and before all the congregation.
  23. He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as YHWH spoke by Moshe.

                                  Chapter 28                                  

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  2. “Command the children of Yisrael, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’
  3. You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to YHWH: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
  4. You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening,
  5. with one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
  6. It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Har Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to YHWH.
  7. Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for each lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to YHWH in the kodesh place.
  8. The other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning, and as its drink offering, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to YHWH.
  9. “‘On the Shabbat day, you shall offer two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
  10. this is the burnt offering of every Shabbat, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
  11. “‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to YHWH: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect,
  12. and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one ram;
  13. and one tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb, as a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to YHWH.
  14. Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
  15. Also, one male goat for a sin offering to YHWH shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
  16. “‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is YHWH’s Pesach.
  17. On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.
  18. In the first day shall be a kodesh convocation. You shall do no regular work,
  19. but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to YHWH: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. They shall be without defect,
  20. with their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram.
  21. You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
  22. and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
  23. You shall offer these in addition to the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
  24. In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH. It shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
  25. On the seventh day you shall have a kodesh convocation. You shall do no regular work.
  26. “‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to YHWH in your Chag HaShavuot, you shall have a kodesh convocation. You shall do no regular work;
  27. but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to YHWH: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;
  28. and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for each bull, two tenths for the one ram,
  29. one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
  30. and one male goat, to make atonement for you.
  31. Besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect.

                                  Chapter 29                                  

  1. “‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a kodesh convocation; you shall do no regular work. It is a day of Yom Teruah to you.
  2. You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to YHWH: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;
  3. and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,
  4. and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
  5. and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;
  6. in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon with its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering with its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to YHWH.
  7. “‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a kodesh convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;
  8. but you shall offer a burnt offering to YHWH for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old, all without defect;
  9. and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,
  10. one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
  11. one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.
  12. “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a kodesh convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to YHWH seven days.
  13. You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to YHWH: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect;
  14. and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams,
  15. and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
  16. and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
  17. “‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
  18. and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
  19. and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering and their drink offerings.
  20. “‘On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
  21. and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
  22. and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.
  23. “‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
  24. their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
  25. and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
  26. “‘On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
  27. and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,
  28. and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.
  29. “‘On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
  30. and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,
  31. and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and the drink offerings of it.
  32. “‘On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
  33. and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,
  34. and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
  35. “‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall do no regular work;
  36. but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasant aroma to YHWH: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;
  37. their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance,
  38. and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering, and its drink offering.
  39. “‘You shall offer these to YHWH in your set feasts—in addition to your vows and your free will offerings—for your burnt offerings, your meal offerings, your drink offerings, and your peace offerings.’”
  40. Moshe told the children of Yisrael according to all that YHWH commanded Moshe.

                                  Chapter 30                                  

  1. Moshe spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Yisrael, saying, “This is the thing which YHWH has commanded.
  2. When a man vows a vow to YHWH, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
  3. “Also, when a woman vows a vow to YHWH and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth,
  4. and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
  5. But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. YHWH will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.
  6. “If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,
  7. and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
  8. But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. YHWH will forgive her.
  9. “But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.
  10. “If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,
  11. and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she bound her soul shall stand.
  12. But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. YHWH will forgive her.
  13. Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
  14. But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are on her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her in the day that he heard them.
  15. But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”
  16. These are the statutes which YHWH commanded Moshe, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.

                                  Chapter 31                                  

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  2. “Avenge the children of Yisrael on the Midyanim. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
  3. Moshe spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from amongst you for war, that they may go against Midyan, to execute YHWH’s vengeance on Midyan.
  4. You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Yisrael, to the war.”
  5. So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Yisrael, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
  6. Moshe sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Pinchas the son of El'azar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the Mishkan and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
  7. They fought against Midyan, as YHWH commanded Moshe. They killed every male.
  8. They killed the kings of Midyan with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Chur, and Reba, the five kings of Midyan. They also killed Bilam the son of Beor with the sword.
  9. The children of Yisrael took the women of Midyan captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.
  10. All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
  11. They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.
  12. They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moshe, and to El'azar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Yisrael, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
  13. Moshe and El'azar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.
  14. Moshe was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
  15. Moshe said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?
  16. Behold, these caused the children of Yisrael, through the counsel of Bilam, to commit trespass against YHWH in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was amongst the congregation of YHWH.
  17. Now therefore kill every male amongst the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
  18. But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
  19. “Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
  20. You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”
  21. El'azar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which YHWH has commanded Moshe.
  22. However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
  23. everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.
  24. You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”
  25. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  26. “Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and El'azar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;
  27. and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
  28. Levy a tribute to YHWH of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.
  29. Take it from their half, and give it to El'azar the priest, for YHWH’s wave offering.
  30. Of the children of Yisrael’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levi'im, who perform the duty of YHWH’s Mishkan.”
  31. Moshe and El'azar the priest did as YHWH commanded Moshe.
  32. Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,
  33. seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
  34. sixty-one thousand donkeys,
  35. and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.
  36. The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep;
  37. and YHWH’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.
  38. The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which YHWH’s tribute was seventy-two.
  39. The donkeys were thirty thousand and five hundred, of which YHWH’s tribute was sixty-one.
  40. The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom YHWH’s tribute was thirty-two persons.
  41. Moshe gave the tribute, which was YHWH’s wave offering, to El'azar the priest, as YHWH commanded Moshe.
  42. Of the children of Yisrael’s half, which Moshe divided off from the men who fought
  43. (now the congregation’s half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
  44. thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
  45. thirty thousand and five hundred donkeys,
  46. and sixteen thousand persons),
  47. even of the children of Yisrael’s half, Moshe took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levi'im, who performed the duty of YHWH’s Mishkan, as YHWH commanded Moshe.
  48. The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moshe.
  49. They said to Moshe, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.
  50. We have brought YHWH’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before YHWH.”
  51. Moshe and El'azar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.
  52. All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to YHWH, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand and seven hundred and fifty shekels.
  53. The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.
  54. Moshe and El'azar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Ohel Mo'ed for a memorial for the children of Yisrael before YHWH.

                                  Chapter 32                                  

  1. Now the children of Reuven and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Yazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock.
  2. Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuven came and spoke to Moshe, and to El'azar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
  3. “Ataroth, Dibon, Yazer, Nimrah, Cheshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nevo, and Beon,
  4. the land which YHWH struck before the congregation of Yisrael, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”
  5. They said, “If we have found favour in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”
  6. Moshe said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuven, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
  7. Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Yisrael from going over into the land which YHWH has given them?
  8. Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
  9. For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Yisrael, that they should not go into the land which YHWH had given them.
  10. YHWH’s anger burnt in that day, and he swore, saying,
  11. ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Mitzrayim, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Avraham, to Yitzhak, and to Yaakov; because they have not wholly followed me,
  12. except Calev the son of Yefuneh the Kenizzite, and Yehoshua the son of Nun, because they have followed YHWH completely.’
  13. YHWH’s anger burnt against Yisrael, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in YHWH’s sight was consumed.
  14. “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of YHWH towards Yisrael.
  15. For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”
  16. They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;
  17. but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Yisrael, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
  18. We will not return to our houses until the children of Yisrael have all received their inheritance.
  19. For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”
  20. Moshe said to them: “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before YHWH to the war,
  21. and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before YHWH until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
  22. and the land is subdued before YHWH; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to YHWH and to Yisrael. Then this land shall be your possession before YHWH.
  23. “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against YHWH; and be sure your sin will find you out.
  24. Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”
  25. The children of Gad and the children of Reuven spoke to Moshe, saying, “Your servants will do as my adonai commands.
  26. Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
  27. but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before YHWH to battle, as my adonai says.”
  28. So Moshe commanded concerning them to El'azar the priest, and to Yehoshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Yisrael.
  29. Moshe said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuven will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before YHWH, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;
  30. but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions amongst you in the land of Kna'an.”
  31. The children of Gad and the children of Reuven answered, saying, “As YHWH has said to your servants, so will we do.
  32. We will pass over armed before YHWH into the land of Kna'an, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”
  33. Moshe gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuven, and to the half-tribe of Menashe the son of Yosef, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Emorim, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.
  34. The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aro'er,
  35. Atroth-shophan, Yazer, Yogbehah,
  36. Beit Nimrah, and Beit Charan: fortified cities and folds for sheep.
  37. The children of Reuven built Cheshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
  38. Nevo, and Ba'al Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.
  39. The children of Machir the son of Menashe went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Emorim who were therein.
  40. Moshe gave Gilead to Machir the son of Menashe; and he lived therein.
  41. Ya'ir the son of Menashe went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Ya'ir.
  42. Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

                                  Chapter 33                                  

  1. These are the journeys of the children of Yisrael, when they went out of the land of Mitzrayim by their armies under the hand of Moshe and Aharon.
  2. Moshe wrote the starting points of their journeys by the mitzvah of YHWH. These are their journeys according to their starting points.
  3. They travelled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Pesach, the children of Yisrael went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Mitzrim,
  4. while the Mitzrim were burying all their firstborn, whom YHWH had struck amongst them. YHWH also executed judgements on their gods.
  5. The children of Yisrael travelled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.
  6. They travelled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
  7. They travelled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Ba'al Tzefon, and they encamped before Migdol.
  8. They travelled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
  9. They travelled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.
  10. They travelled from Elim, and encamped by the Yam Suf.
  11. They travelled from the Yam Suf, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
  12. They travelled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
  13. They travelled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
  14. They travelled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
  15. They travelled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
  16. They travelled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.
  17. They travelled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Chatzerot.
  18. They travelled from Chatzerot, and encamped in Rithmah.
  19. They travelled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimon Peretz.
  20. They travelled from Rimon Peretz, and encamped in Livnah.
  21. They travelled from Livnah, and encamped in Rissah.
  22. They travelled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.
  23. They travelled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Har Shepher.
  24. They travelled from Har Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.
  25. They travelled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.
  26. They travelled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.
  27. They travelled from Tahath, and encamped in Terach.
  28. They travelled from Terach, and encamped in Mithkah.
  29. They travelled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.
  30. They travelled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.
  31. They travelled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Ya'akan.
  32. They travelled from Bene Ya'akan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad.
  33. They travelled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Yotvatah.
  34. They travelled from Yotvatah, and encamped in Abronah.
  35. They travelled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.
  36. They travelled from Ezion Geber, and encamped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Tzin.
  37. They travelled from Kadesh, and encamped in Har Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
  38. Aharon the priest went up into Har Hor at the mitzvah of YHWH and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Yisrael had come out of the land of Mitzrayim, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
  39. Aharon was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died in Har Hor.
  40. The Kna'ani king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Kna'an, heard of the coming of the children of Yisrael.
  41. They travelled from Har Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.
  42. They travelled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.
  43. They travelled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
  44. They travelled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab.
  45. They travelled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.
  46. They travelled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.
  47. They travelled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nevo.
  48. They travelled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
  49. They encamped by the Jordan, from Beit Yeshimot even to Abel Shitim in the plains of Moab.
  50. YHWH spoke to Moshe in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
  51. Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them, “When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Kna'an,
  52. then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
  53. You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it.
  54. You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger groups you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
  55. “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land in which you dwell.
  56. It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so I will do to you.”

                                  Chapter 34                                  

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  2. “Command the children of Yisrael, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Kna'an (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Kna'an according to its borders),
  3. then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Tzin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.
  4. Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Tzin; and it shall pass southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go from there to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon.
  5. The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Mitzrayim, and it shall end at the sea.
  6. “‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.
  7. “‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Har Hor.
  8. From Har Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Chamat; and the border shall pass by Zedad.
  9. Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north border.
  10. “‘You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
  11. The border shall go down from Shepham to Rivlah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the Yam Kinneret eastward.
  12. The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’”
  13. Moshe commanded the children of Yisrael, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which YHWH has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;
  14. for the tribe of the children of Reuven according to their fathers’ houses, the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, and the half-tribe of Menashe have received their inheritance.
  15. The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, towards the sunrise.”
  16. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  17. “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: El'azar the priest, and Yehoshua the son of Nun.
  18. You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.
  19. These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Yehudah, Calev the son of Yefuneh.
  20. Of the tribe of the children of Shimon, Shmuel the son of Amihud.
  21. Of the tribe of Binyamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
  22. Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Yogli.
  23. Of the children of Yosef: of the tribe of the children of Menashe a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
  24. Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemu'el the son of Shiftan.
  25. Of the tribe of the children of Zevulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
  26. Of the tribe of the children of Yissachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
  27. Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Achihud the son of Shelomi.
  28. Of the tribe of the children of Naftali a prince, Pedahel the son of Amihud.”
  29. These are they whom YHWH commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Yisrael in the land of Kna'an.

                                  Chapter 35                                  

  1. YHWH spoke to Moshe in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
  2. “Command the children of Yisrael to give to the Levi'im cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levi'im.
  3. They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.
  4. “The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levi'im, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.
  5. You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the pasture lands of their cities.
  6. “The cities which you shall give to the Levi'im, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
  7. All the cities which you shall give to the Levi'im shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands.
  8. Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Yisrael, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levi'im.”
  9. YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
  10. “Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Kna'an,
  11. then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
  12. The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgement.
  13. The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
  14. You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Kna'an. They shall be cities of refuge.
  15. These six cities shall be refuge for the children of Yisrael, for the stranger, and for the foreigner living amongst them, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
  16. “‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
  17. If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
  18. Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
  19. The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.
  20. If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,
  21. or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
  22. “‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
  23. or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm,
  24. then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
  25. The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the kodesh oil.
  26. “‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees,
  27. and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,
  28. because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
  29. “‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
  30. “‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.
  31. “‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.
  32. “‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.
  33. “‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
  34. You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, YHWH, dwell amongst the children of Yisrael.’”

                                  Chapter 36                                  

  1. The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Menashe, of the families of the sons of Yosef, came near and spoke before Moshe and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Yisrael.
  2. They said, “YHWH commanded my adonai to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Yisrael. My Adonai was commanded by YHWH to give the inheritance of Tzelofchad our brother to his daughters.
  3. If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Yisrael, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
  4. When the jubilee of the children of Yisrael comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
  5. Moshe commanded the children of Yisrael according to YHWH’s word, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Yosef speak what is right.
  6. This is the thing which YHWH commands concerning the daughters of Tzelofchad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.
  7. So shall no inheritance of the children of Yisrael move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Yisrael shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
  8. Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Yisrael shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Yisrael may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.
  9. So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Yisrael shall each keep his own inheritance.’”
  10. The daughters of Tzelofchad did as YHWH commanded Moshe:
  11. for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milkah, and No'ah, the daughters of Tzelofchad, were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.
  12. They were married into the families of the sons of Menashe the son of Yosef. Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
  13. These are the mitzvot and the ordinances which YHWH commanded by Moshe to the children of Yisrael in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
