014:029 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all
who were numbered of you, according to your whole number,
from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
014:030 surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I
swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son
of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
014:031 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey,
them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which
you have rejected.
014:032 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
014:033 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years,
and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies
be consumed in the wilderness.
014:034 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land,
even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your
iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my alienation.
014:035 I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this
evil congregation, who are gathered together against me:
in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there
they shall die.
014:036 The men, whom Moses 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,
014:037 even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land,
died by the plague before Yahweh.
014:038 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
014:039 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel:
and the people mourned greatly.
014:040 They rose up early in the morning, and got them up
to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here,
and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised:
for we have sinned.
014:041 Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh,
seeing it shall not prosper?
014:042 Don't go up, for Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be struck
down before your enemies.
014:043 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you,
and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back
from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you.
014:044 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain:
nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses,
didn't depart out of the camp.
014:045 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived
in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down,
even to Hormah.
015:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
015:002 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you are
come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,
015:003 and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering,
or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering,
or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor to Yahweh,
of the herd, or of the flock;
015:004 then shall he who offers his offering offer to Yahweh a meal
offering of a tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed
with the fourth part of a hin of oil:
015:005 and wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin,
shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice,
for each lamb.
015:006 Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenth
parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with the third part
of a hin of oil:
015:007 and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part
of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
015:008 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice,
to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh;
015:009 then shall he offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenth
parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil:
015:010 and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine,
for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
015:011 Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram,
or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.
015:012 According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall you
do to everyone according to their number.
015:013 All who are native-born shall do these things after this manner,
in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
015:014 If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may
be among you throughout your generations, and will offer
an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh;
as you do, so he shall do.
015:015 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you,
and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner [with you],
a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are,
so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.
015:016 One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger
who lives as a foreigner with you.
015:017 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
015:018 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come
into the land where I bring you,
015:019 then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land,
you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh.
015:020 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 shall you heave it.
015:021 Of the first of your dough you shall give to Yahweh a wave
offering throughout your generations.
015:022 When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments,
which Yahweh has spoken to Moses,
015:023 even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that
Yahweh gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;
015:024 then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge
of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one
young bull for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor to Yahweh,
with the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it,
according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.
015:025 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation
of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven;
for it was an error, and they have brought their offering,
an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering
before Yahweh, for their error:
015:026 and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall
be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them;
for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.
015:027 If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female
goat a year old for a sin offering.
015:028 The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs,
when he sins unwittingly, before Yahweh, to make atonement for him;
and he shall be forgiven.
015:029 You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly,
for him who is native-born among the children of Israel,
and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.
015:030 But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is
native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh;
and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
015:031 Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken
his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off;
his iniquity shall be on him.
015:032 While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found
a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
015:033 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses
and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
015:034 They put him in custody, because it had not been declared
what should be done to him.
015:035 Yahweh said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death:
all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside
of the camp.
015:036 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned
him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
015:037 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
015:038 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they
should make them fringes{or, tassels (Hebrew tzitzit)} in
the borders of their garments throughout their generations,
and that they put on the fringe{or, tassel} of each border
a cord of blue:
015:039 and it shall be to you for a fringe{or, tassel}, that you may look
on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them;
and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes,
after which you use to play the prostitute;
015:040 that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy
to your God.
015:041 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
to be your God: I am Yahweh your God.
016:001 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi,
with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son
of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]:
016:002 and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children
of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation,
called to the assembly, men of renown;
016:003 and they assembled themselves together against Moses and
against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on you,
seeing all the congregation are holy, everyone of them,
and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves up above
the assembly of Yahweh?
016:004 When Moses heard it, he fell on his face:
016:005 and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, In the
morning Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy,
and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he shall
choose he will cause to come near to him.
016:006 This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
016:007 and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow:
and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh does choose, he [shall
be] holy: you take too much on you, you sons of Levi.
016:008 Moses said to Korah, Hear now, you sons of Levi:
016:009 [seems it but] a small thing to you, that the God of Israel
has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring
you near to himself, to do the service of the tent of Yahweh,
and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
016:010 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons
of Levi with you? and seek you the priesthood also?
016:011 Therefore you and all your company are gathered together
against Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he who you murmur against him?
016:012 Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab;
and they said, We won't come up:
016:013 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 needs make yourself also a prince over us?
016:014 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.
016:015 Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't respect
their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them,
neither have I hurt one of them."
016:016 Moses said to Korah, You and all your company go before Yahweh,
you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow:
016:017 and take every man his censer, and put incense on them,
and bring you before Yahweh every man his censer, two hundred
fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.
016:018 They took every man his censer, and put fire in them,
and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent
of meeting with Moses and Aaron.
016:019 Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door
of the tent of meeting: and the glory of Yahweh appeared
to all the congregation.
016:020 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
016:021 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may
consume them in a moment.
016:022 They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits
of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry
with all the congregation?
016:023 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
016:024 Speak to the congregation, saying, Get away from around the tent
of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
016:025 Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders
of Israel followed him.
016:026 He spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you,
from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs,
lest you be consumed in all their sins.
016:027 So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram,
on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood
at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons,
and their little ones.
016:028 Moses said, Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do
all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind.
016:029 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they
be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh
hasn't sent me.
016:030 But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth,
and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them,
and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand
that these men have despised Yahweh.
016:031 It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words,
that the ground split apart that was under them;
016:032 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up,
and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah,
and all their goods.
016:033 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive
into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished
from among the assembly.
016:034 All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them;
for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
016:035 Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred
fifty men who offered the incense.
016:036 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
016:037 Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up
the censers out of the burning, and scatter you the fire yonder;
for they are holy,
016:038 even the censers of these sinners against their own lives;
and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar:
for they offered them before Yahweh; therefore they are holy;
and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.
016:039 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who
were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering
of the altar,
016:040 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that
no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn
incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company:
as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
016:041 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have
killed the people of Yahweh.
016:042 It happened, when the congregation was assembled against Moses
and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting:
and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared.
016:043 Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
016:044 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
016:045 Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them
in a moment. They fell on their faces.
016:046 Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire therein
from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it
quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them:
for there is wrath gone out from Yahweh; the plague is begun.
016:047 Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly;
and behold, the plague was begun among the people:
and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
016:048 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
016:049 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and
seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.
016:050 Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting:
and the plague was stayed.
017:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
017:002 Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods,
one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according
to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write you every man's
name on his rod.
017:003 You shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there
shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.
017:004 You shall lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony,
where I meet with you.
017:005 It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose
shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings
of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
017:006 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes
gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers'
houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was
among their rods.
017:007 Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the testimony.
017:008 It happened on the next day, that Moses went into the tent
of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house
of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms,
and bore ripe almonds.
017:009 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all
the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every
man his rod.
017:010 Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony,
to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion;
that you may make an end of their murmurings against me,
that they not die.
017:011 Thus did Moses: as Yahweh commanded him, so did he.
017:012 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish,
we are undone, we are all undone.
017:013 Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tent of Yahweh, dies:
shall we perish all of us?
018:001 Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers'
house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary;
and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity
of your priesthood.
018:002 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father,
bring you 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.
018:003 They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent:
only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary
and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.
018:004 They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of
the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent:
and a stranger shall not come near to you.
018:005 You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of
the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
018:006 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among
the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh,
to do the service of the tent of meeting.
018:007 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for
everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you
shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift:
and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
018:008 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I have given you the charge
of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children
of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing,
and to your sons, as a portion forever.
018:009 This shall be your of the most holy things, [reserved] 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 render to me, shall be most holy
for you and for your sons.
018:010 As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall
eat of it: it shall be holy to you.
018:011 This is your: the wave offering of their gift, even all
the wave offerings of the children of Israel; 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.
018:012 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage,
and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give
to Yahweh, to you have I given them.
018:013 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they
bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your
house shall eat of it.
018:014 Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
018:015 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they
offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours:
nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem,
and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem.
018:016 Those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old shall
you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money
of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary
(the same is twenty gerahs).
018:017 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep,
or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy:
you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall
burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet
savor to Yahweh.
018:018 The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave offering breast
and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
018:019 All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children
of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your
sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever:
it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to
your seed with you.
018:020 Yahweh said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land,
neither shall you have any portion among them: I am your
portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
018:021 To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe
in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service
which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.
018:022 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the tent
of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
018:023 But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting,
and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute
forever throughout your generations; and among the children
of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
018:024 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave
offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance:
therefore I have said to them, Among the children of Israel
they shall have no inheritance.
018:025 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
018:026 Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them,
When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I
have given you from them for your inheritance, then you
shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe
of the tithe.
018:027 Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it
were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness
of the winepress.
018:028 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all
your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel;
and of it you shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest.
018:029 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering
of Yahweh, of all the best of it, even the holy part of it
out of it.
018:030 Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave the best of it
from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase
of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.
018:031 You shall eat it in every place, you and your households:
for it is your reward in return for your service in the
tent of meeting.
018:032 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved
from it the best of it: and you shall not profane the holy
things of the children of Israel, that you not die.
019:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
019:002 This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded,
saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring
you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish,
[and] on which never came yoke.
019:003 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring
her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her
before his face:
019:004 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger,
and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of
meeting seven times.
019:005 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh,
and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
019:006 and the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet,
and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
019:007 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 even.
019:008 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe
his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
019:009 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 Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering.
019:010 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children