smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to
withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
04:022:033 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times:
unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain
thee, and saved her alive.
04:022:034 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for
I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now
therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
04:022:035 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men:
but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou
shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
04:022:036 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet
him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon,
which is in the utmost coast.
04:022:037 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee
to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able
indeed to promote thee to honour?
04:022:038 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I
now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God
putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
04:022:039 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth.
04:022:040 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to
the princes that were with him.
04:022:041 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and
brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he
might see the utmost part of the people.
04:023:001 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
04:023:002 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam
offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
04:023:003 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I
will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and
whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an
high place.
04:023:004 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared
seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock
and a ram.
04:023:005 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return
unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
04:023:006 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt
sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
04:023:007 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab
hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east,
saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
04:023:008 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I
defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
04:023:009 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I
behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be
reckoned among the nations.
04:023:010 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth
part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let
my last end be like his!
04:023:011 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I
took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast
blessed them altogether.
04:023:012 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that
which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
04:023:013 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto
another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt
see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all:
and curse me them from thence.
04:023:014 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of
Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a
ram on every altar.
04:023:015 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering,
while I meet the LORD yonder.
04:023:016 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and
said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
04:023:017 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt
offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said
unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
04:023:018 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and
hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
04:023:019 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man,
that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it?
or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
04:023:020 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath
blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
04:023:021 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen
perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the
shout of a king is among them.
04:023:022 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength
of an unicorn.
04:023:023 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there
any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall
be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
04:023:024 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up
himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of
the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
04:023:025 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor
bless them at all.
04:023:026 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee,
saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
04:023:027 And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring
thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that
thou mayest curse me them from thence.
04:023:028 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh
toward Jeshimon.
04:023:029 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
04:023:030 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a
ram on every altar.
04:024:001 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel,
he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but
he set his face toward the wilderness.
04:024:002 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in
his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God
came upon him.
04:024:003 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor
hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
04:024:004 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the
vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his
eyes open:
04:024:005 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O
Israel!
04:024:006 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the
river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath
planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
04:024:007 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall
be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and
his kingdom shall be exalted.
04:024:008 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the
strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his
enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through
with his arrows.
04:024:009 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who
shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and
cursed is he that curseth thee.
04:024:010 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his
hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to
curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed
them these three times.
04:024:011 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote
thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back
from honour.
04:024:012 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers
which thou sentest unto me, saying,
04:024:013 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I
cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either
good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that
will I speak?
04:024:014 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I
will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in
the latter days.
04:024:015 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor
hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
04:024:016 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the
knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the
Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
04:024:017 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not
nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre
shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab,
and destroy all the children of Sheth.
04:024:018 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a
possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
04:024:019 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall
destroy him that remaineth of the city.
04:024:020 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and
said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end
shall be that he perish for ever.
04:024:021 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and
said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest
in a rock.
04:024:022 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall
carry thee away captive.
04:024:023 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live
when God doeth this!
04:024:024 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall
afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall
perish for ever.
04:024:025 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and
Balak also went his way.
04:025:001 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit
whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
04:025:002 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods:
and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
04:025:003 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the
LORD was kindled against Israel.
04:025:004 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the
people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that
the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
04:025:005 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one
his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
04:025:006 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought
unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses,
and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.
04:025:007 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and
took a javelin in his hand;
04:025:008 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust
both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through
her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of
Israel.
04:025:009 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four
thousand.
04:025:010 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:025:011 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while
he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the
children of Israel in my jealousy.
04:025:012 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
04:025:013 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the
covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous
for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
04:025:014 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was
slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu,
a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
04:025:015 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was
Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of
a chief house in Midian.
04:025:016 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:025:017 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
04:025:018 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have
beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of
Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which
was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
04:026:001 And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto
Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
04:026:002 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their
fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
04:026:003 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains
of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
04:026:004 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward;
as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which
went forth out of the land of Egypt.
04:026:005 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben;
Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu,
the family of the Palluites:
04:026:006 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family
of the Carmites.
04:026:007 These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were
numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven
hundred and thirty.
04:026:008 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
04:026:009 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is
that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation,
who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of
Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
04:026:010 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together
with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire
devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
04:026:011 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
04:026:012 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family
of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of
Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
04:026:013 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of
the Shaulites.
04:026:014 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two
thousand and two hundred.
04:026:015 The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the
family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the
Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:
04:026:016 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the
Erites:
04:026:017 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of
the Arelites.
04:026:018 These are the families of the children of Gad according to
those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five
hundred.
04:026:019 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in
the land of Canaan.
04:026:020 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah,
the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the
Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
04:026:021 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the
Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
04:026:022 These are the families of Judah according to those that were
numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five
hundred.
04:026:023 Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the
family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
04:026:024 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the
family of the Shimronites.
04:026:025 These are the families of Issachar according to those that
were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three
hundred.
04:026:026 Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the
family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites:
of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
04:026:027 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those
that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five
hundred.
04:026:028 The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and
Ephraim.
04:026:029 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the
Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family
of the Gileadites.
04:026:030 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the
Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
04:026:031 And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem,
the family of the Shechemites:
04:026:032 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher,
the family of the Hepherites.
04:026:033 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters:
and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and
Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
04:026:034 These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were
numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
04:026:035 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of
Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the
family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the
Tahanites.
04:026:036 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of
the Eranites.
04:026:037 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to
those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and
five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their
families.
04:026:038 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family
of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of
Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
04:026:039 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the
family of the Huphamites.
04:026:040 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family
of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
04:026:041 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they
that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and
six hundred.
04:026:042 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.
04:026:043 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that
were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and
four hundred.
04:026:044 Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the
family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites:
of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
04:026:045 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites:
of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
04:026:046 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
04:026:047 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those
that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand
and four hundred.
04:026:048 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the
family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
04:026:049 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family
of the Shillemites.
04:026:050 These are the families of Naphtali according to their
families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and
five thousand and four hundred.
04:026:051 These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred
thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
04:026:052 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:026:053 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance
according to the number of names.
04:026:054 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou
shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his
inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of
him.
04:026:055 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to
the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
04:026:056 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided
between many and few.
04:026:057 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after
their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of
Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of
the Merarites.
04:026:058 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the
Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the
Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the
Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
04:026:059 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of
Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto
Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
04:026:060 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and
Ithamar.
04:026:061 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire
before the LORD.
04:026:062 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three
thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were
not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was
no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
04:026:063 These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the
priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of
Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
04:026:064 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and
Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of
Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
04:026:065 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the
wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb
the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
04:027:001 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the
son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the
names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah,
and Tirzah.
04:027:002 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest,
and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
04:027:003 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the
company of them that gathered themselves together against the
LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had
no sons.
04:027:004 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his
family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a
possession among the brethren of our father.
04:027:005 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
04:027:006 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:027:007 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely
give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's
brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father
to pass unto them.
04:027:008 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a
man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance
to pass unto his daughter.
04:027:009 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance
unto his brethren.
04:027:010 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance
unto his father's brethren.
04:027:011 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his
inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his
family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the
children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
04:027:012 And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount
Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children
of Israel.
04:027:013 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto
thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
04:027:014 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin,
in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water
before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in
the wilderness of Zin.
04:027:015 And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,
04:027:016 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man
over the congregation,
04:027:017 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them,
and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that
the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no
shepherd.
04:027:018 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun,
a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
04:027:019 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
04:027:020 And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the
congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
04:027:021 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask
counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at
his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come
in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all
the congregation.
04:027:022 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua,
and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation:
04:027:023 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the
LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
04:028:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,