008:022 After that, the Levites went in to do their service in
the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons:
as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites,
so they did to them.
008:023 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
008:024 "This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five
years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service
in the work of the Tent of Meeting;
008:025 and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting
on the work, and shall serve no more,
008:026 but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent
of Meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service.
Thus shall you do to the Levites concerning their duties."
009:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first
month of the second year after they had come out of the land
of Egypt, saying,
009:002 "Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover
in its appointed season.
009:003 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep
it in its appointed season--according to all its statutes,
and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."
009:004 Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should
keep the Passover.
009:005 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth
day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai.
According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children
of Israel did.
009:006 There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body
of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day,
and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
009:007 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 Yahweh in its appointed season among
the children of Israel?"
009:008 Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will
command concerning you."
009:009 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
009:010 "Say to the children of Israel, '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 Passover to Yahweh.
009:011 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they
shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread
and bitter herbs.
009:012 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone
of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they
shall keep it.
009:013 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails
to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its
appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
009:014 If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover
to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover,
and according to its ordinance, so shall he do.
You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him
who is born in the land.'"
009:015 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud
covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony:
and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were
the appearance of fire, until morning.
009:016 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance
of fire by night.
009:017 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after
that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where
the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.
009:018 At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled,
and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long
as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.
009:019 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days,
then the children of Israel kept the charge of Yahweh,
and didn't travel.
009:020 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle;
then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped,
and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.
009:021 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning;
and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled:
or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.
009:022 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud
stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children
of Israel remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it
was taken up, they traveled.
009:023 At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment
of Yahweh they traveled. They kept the charge of Yahweh,
at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
010:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
010:002 Make you two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shall you make them:
and you shall use them for the calling of the congregation,
and for the journeying of the camps.
010:003 When they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather
themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting.
010:004 If they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands
of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
010:005 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side
shall take their journey.
010:006 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie
on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow
an alarm for their journeys.
010:007 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow,
but you shall not sound an alarm.
010:008 The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they
shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
010:009 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who
oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets;
and you shall be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you
shall be saved from your enemies.
010:010 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 God: I am Yahweh your God.
010:011 It happened in the second year, in the second month,
on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken
up from over the tent of the testimony.
010:012 The children of Israel set forward according to their journeys
out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in
the wilderness of Paran.
010:013 They first took their journey according to the commandment
of Yahweh by Moses.
010:014 In the first [place] the standard of the camp of the children
of Judah set forward according to their armies:
and over his army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
010:015 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar was
Nethanel the son of Zuar.
010:016 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab
the son of Helon.
010:017 The tent was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons
of Merari, who bore the tent, set forward.
010:018 The standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to
their armies: and over his army was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
010:019 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon was
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
010:020 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph
the son of Deuel.
010:021 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary:
and [the others] did set up the tent against their coming.
010:022 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward
according to their armies: and over his army was Elishama
the son of Ammihud.
010:023 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
010:024 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was
Abidan the son of Gideoni.
010:025 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the
rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their armies:
and over his army was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
010:026 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel
the son of Ochran.
010:027 Over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira
the son of Enan.
010:028 Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according
to their armies; and they set forward.
010:029 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses'
father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said,
I will give it to you: come you with us, and we will do you good;
for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.
010:030 He said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land,
and to my relatives.
010:031 He said, Don't leave us, please; because you know how we
are to encamp in the wilderness, and you shall be to us
instead of eyes.
010:032 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever
good Yahweh shall do to us, the same will we do to you.
010:033 They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey;
and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them
three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
010:034 The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward
from the camp.
010:035 It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said,
Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered;
and let those who hate you flee before you.
010:036 When it rested, he said, Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands
of the thousands of Israel.
011:001 The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh:
and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire
of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost
part of the camp.
011:002 The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh,
and the fire abated.
011:003 The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire
of Yahweh burnt among them.
011:004 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly:
and the children of Israel also wept again, and said,
Who shall give us flesh to eat?
011:005 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing;
the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions,
and the garlic:
011:006 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save
this manna to look on.
011:007 The manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance of it
as the appearance of bdellium.
011:008 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills,
or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it:
and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
011:009 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
011:010 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families,
every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh
was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.
011:011 Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant?
and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay
the burden of all this people on me?
011:012 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth,
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?
011:013 Where should I get meat to give to all this people? for they
weep to me, saying, Give us meat, that we may eat.
011:014 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is
too heavy for me.
011:015 If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have
found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
011:016 Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders
of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people,
and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting,
that they may stand there with you.
011:017 I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take
of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them;
and they shall bear the burden of the people with you,
that you not bear it yourself alone.
011:018 Say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow,
and you shall eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears
of Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was
well with us in Egypt: therefore Yahweh will give you flesh,
and you shall eat.
011:019 You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days,
neither ten days, nor twenty days,
011:020 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it
be loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh
who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came
we forth out of Egypt?
011:021 Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred
thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh,
that they may eat a whole month.
011:022 Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them?
or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them,
to suffice them?
011:023 Yahweh said to Moses, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? now shall
you see whether my word shall happen to you or not.
011:024 Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh:
and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people,
and set them round about the Tent.
011:025 Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of
the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders:
and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them,
they prophesied, but they did so no more.
011:026 But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad,
and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them;
and they were of those who were written, but had not gone
out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
011:027 There ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad
do prophesy in the camp.
011:028 Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his
chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them.
011:029 Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake?
I wish that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh
would put his Spirit on them!
011:030 Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
011:031 There went forth a wind from Yahweh, 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,
round about the camp, and about two cubits above the surface
of the earth.
011:032 The people rose up all that day, and all the night,
and all the next day, and gathered the quails:
he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread
them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
011:033 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed,
the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh
struck the people with a very great plague.
011:034 The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there
they buried the people who lusted.
011:035 From Kibrothhattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth;
and they abode at Hazeroth.
012:001 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite
woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
012:002 They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he
spoken also with us? Yahweh heard it.
012:003 Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were
on the surface of the earth.
012:004 Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron,
and to Miriam, Come out you three to the tent of meeting.
They three came out.
012:005 Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of
the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.
012:006 He said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you,
I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision, I will
speak with him in a dream.
012:007 My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house:
012:008 with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly,
and not in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh shall he see:
why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant,
against Moses?
012:009 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed.
012:010 The cloud removed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous,
as [white as] snow: and Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold,
she was leprous.
012:011 Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, please don't lay sin on us,
for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned.
012:012 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.
012:013 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you.
012:014 Yahweh said to Moses, 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.
012:015 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days:
and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again.
012:016 Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped
in the wilderness of Paran.
013:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
013:002 Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan,
which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their
fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among them.
013:003 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to
the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads
of the children of Israel.
013:004 These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the
son of Zaccur.
013:005 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
013:006 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
013:007 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
013:008 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
013:009 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
013:010 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
013:011 Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi
the son of Susi.
013:012 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
013:013 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
013:014 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
013:015 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
013:016 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land.
Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
013:017 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them,
Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country:
013:018 and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein,
whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
013:019 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;
013:020 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean,
whether there is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage,
and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time
of the first-ripe grapes.
013:021 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness
of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
013:022 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 Egypt.)
013:023 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 brought] also of the pomegranates,
and of the figs.
013:024 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster
which the children of Israel cut down from there.
013:025 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
013:026 They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation
of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh;
and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation,
and shown them the fruit of the land.
013:027 They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us;
and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is
the fruit of it.
013:028 However the people who dwell in the land are strong,
and the cities are fortified, [and] very great:
and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
013:029 Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite,
and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country;
and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side
of the Jordan.
013:030 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up
at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
013:031 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.
013:032 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had
spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land,
through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats
up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it
are men of great stature.
013:033 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of
the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers,
and so we were in their sight.
014:001 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried;
and the people wept that night.
014:002 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron:
and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we
had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died
in this wilderness!
014:003 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword?
Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it
be better for us to return into Egypt?
014:004 They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us
return into Egypt.
014:005 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly
of the congregation of the children of Israel.
014:006 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
014:007 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel,
saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out,
is an exceeding good land.
014:008 If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land,
and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
014:009 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people
of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense
is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us:
don't fear them.
014:010 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones.
The glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of meeting to all
the children of Israel.
014:011 Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise me?
and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs
which I have worked among them?
014:012 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them,
and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
014:013 Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it;
for you brought up this people in your might from among them;
014:014 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land.
They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people;
for you Yahweh 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.
014:015 Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations
which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
014:016 Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into
the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them
in the wilderness.
014:017 Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you
have spoken, saying,
014:018 Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means
clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers
on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.
014:019 Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people according to
the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you
have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
014:020 Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to your word:
014:021 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be
filled with the glory of Yahweh;
014:022 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs,
which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted
me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
014:023 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers,
neither shall any of those who despised me see it:
014:024 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him,
and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land
into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.
014:025 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley:
tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way
to the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}.
014:026 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
014:027 How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur
against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children
of Israel, which they murmur against me.
014:028 Tell them, As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken