among them, for a statute forever.
019:011 He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
019:012 the same shall purify himself therewith 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.
019:013 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died,
and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tent of Yahweh;
and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water
for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean;
his uncleanness is yet on him.
019:014 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.
019:015 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
019:016 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.
019:017 For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning
of the sin offering; and running water shall be put thereto
in a vessel:
019:018 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water,
and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on
the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone,
or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
019:019 and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day,
and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him;
and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and shall be clean at even.
019:020 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself,
that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly,
because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh:
the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him;
he is unclean.
019:021 It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles
the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who
touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
019:022 Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean;
and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.
020:001 The children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month:
and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there,
and was buried there.
020:002 There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled
themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
020:003 The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we
had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
020:004 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness,
that we should die there, we and our animals?
020:005 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, 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.
020:006 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to
the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces:
and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them.
020:007 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
020:008 Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron
your brother, and speak you to the rock before their eyes,
that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them
water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation
and their livestock drink.
020:009 Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
020:010 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock,
and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring
you forth water out of this rock?
020:011 Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice:
and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank,
and their livestock.
020:012 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, Because you didn't believe
in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel,
therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land
which I have given them.
020:013 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel
strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
020:014 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says
your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has
happened to us:
020:015 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in
Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us,
and our fathers:
020:016 and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent
an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and behold,
we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.
020:017 Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass
through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of
the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway;
we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left,
until we have passed your border.
020:018 Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come
out with the sword against you.
020:019 The children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway;
and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give
the price of it: let me only, without [doing] anything [else],
pass through on my feet.
020:020 He said, You shall not pass through. Edom came out against him
with much people, and with a strong hand.
020:021 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border:
why Israel turned away from him.
020:022 They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel,
even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
020:023 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border
of the land of Edom, saying,
020:024 Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter
into the land which I have given to the children of Israel,
because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
020:025 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
020:026 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son:
and Aaron shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there.
020:027 Moses did as Yahweh commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor
in the sight of all the congregation.
020:028 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar
his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain:
and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
020:029 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept
for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
021:001 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South,
heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim;
and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
021:002 Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed
deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly
destroy their cities.
021:003 Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up
the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities:
and the name of the place was called Hormah.
021:004 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea{or, Sea
of Reeds}, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul
of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
021:005 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you
brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there
is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes
this light bread.
021:006 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people;
and much people of Israel died.
021:007 The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned,
because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you;
pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.
Moses prayed for the people.
021:008 Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on
a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten,
when he sees it, shall live.
021:009 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard:
and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man,
when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
021:010 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
021:011 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim,
in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
021:012 From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
021:013 From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side
of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of
the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab,
between Moab and the Amorites.
021:014 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, "Vaheb
in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
021:015 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar,
leans on the border of Moab."
021:016 From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of
which Yahweh said to Moses, Gather the people together,
and I will give them water.
021:017 Then sang Israel this song: "Spring up, well; sing to it:
021:018 the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of
the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles."
From the wilderness [they traveled] to Mattanah;
021:019 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
021:020 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab,
to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
021:021 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
021:022 Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field,
or into 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.
021:023 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border:
but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out
against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz;
and he fought against Israel.
021:024 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his
land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon;
for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
021:025 Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities
of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns of it.
021:026 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites,
who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken
all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
021:027 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon.
Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
021:028 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon.
It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places
of the Arnon.
021:029 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 Amorites.
021:030 We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba."
021:031 Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
021:032 Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns of it,
and drove out the Amorites who were there.
021:033 They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king
of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people,
to battle at Edrei.
021:034 Yahweh said to Moses, Don't fear him: for I have delivered
him into your hand, and all his people, and his land;
and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites,
who lived at Heshbon.
021:035 So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there
was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.
022:001 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains
of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
022:002 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done
to the Amorites.
022:003 Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many:
and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
022:004 Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick
up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass
of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab
at that time.
022:005 He sent messengers to Balaam 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 come out
from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth,
and they abide over against me.
022:006 Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are
too mighty for me: peradventure 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.
022:007 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the
rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam,
and spoke to him the words of Balak.
022:008 He said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you
word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me: and the princes
of Moab abode with Balaam.
022:009 God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?
022:010 Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab,
has sent to me, [saying],
022:011 Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers
the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them;
peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall
drive them out.
022:012 God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall
not curse the people; for they are blessed.
022:013 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes
of Balak, Get you into your land; for Yahweh refuses to give
me leave to go with you.
022:014 The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said,
Balaam refuses to come with us.
022:015 Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
022:016 They came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son
of Zippor, Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:
022:017 for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you
say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this
people for me.
022:018 Balaam 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 Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
022:019 Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may
know what Yahweh will speak to me more.
022:020 God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men are
come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word
which I speak to you, that shall you do.
022:021 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey,
and went with the princes of Moab.
022:022 God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh
placed himself in the way for an adversary against him.
Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants
were with him.
022:023 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way,
with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey
turned aside out of the way, and went into the field:
and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.
022:024 Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards,
a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
022:025 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself
to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall:
and he struck her again.
022:026 The angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place,
where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
022:027 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam:
and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey
with his staff.
022:028 Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said
to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me
these three times?
022:029 Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I would
there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed you.
022:030 The donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, on which you
have ridden all your life long to this day? was I ever wont
to do so to you? and he said, No.
022:031 Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel
of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand;
and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
022:032 The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why have you struck your donkey
these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary,
because your way is perverse before me:
022:033 and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times:
unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even
slain you, and saved her alive.
022:034 Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have sinned;
for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me:
now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again.
022:035 The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only
the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.
So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
022:036 When Balak heard that Balaam was 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.
022:037 Balak said to Balaam, Didn't I earnestly send to you to call
you? why didn't you come to me? am I not able indeed to promote
you to honor?
022:038 Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you:
have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word
that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.
022:039 Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.
022:040 Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam,
and to the princes who were with him.
022:041 It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought
him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there
the utmost part of the people.
023:001 Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare
me here seven bulls and seven rams.
023:002 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered
on every altar a bull and a ram.
023:003 Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go:
perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows
me I will tell you. He went to a bare height.
023:004 God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars,
and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
023:005 Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak,
and thus you shall speak.
023:006 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his
burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
023:007 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
me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.
023:008 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy,
whom Yahweh has not defied?
023:009 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
reckoned among the nations.
023:010 Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth
part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous,
Let my last end be like his!
023:011 Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me?
I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have
blessed them altogether.
023:012 He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which
Yahweh puts in my mouth?
023:013 Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place,
from whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost
part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me
them from there.
023:014 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.
023:015 He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I
meet [Yahweh] yonder.
023:016 Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said,
Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.
023:017 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 Yahweh spoken?
023:018 He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear!
Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
023:019 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man,
that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
023:020 Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed,
and I can't reverse it.
023:021 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen
perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him.
The shout of a king is among them.
023:022 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength
of the wild ox.
023:023 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there
any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob
and of Israel, What has God done!
023:024 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts
himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey,
and drinks the blood of the slain.
023:025 Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless
them at all.
023:026 But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that
Yahweh speaks, that I must do?
023:027 Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place;
peradventure it will please God that you may curse me
them from there.
023:028 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down
on the desert.
023:029 Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare
me here seven bulls and seven rams.
023:030 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram
on every altar.
024:001 When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel,
he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments,
but he set his face toward the wilderness.
024:002 Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according
to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.
024:003 He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says,
the man whose eye was closed says;
024:004 he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision
of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:
024:005 How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!
024:006 As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside,
as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
024:007 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.
024:008 God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength
of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries,
shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
024:009 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.
024:010 Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck
his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you
to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed
them these three times.
024:011 Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote
you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you
back from honor.
024:012 Balaam said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers
who you sent to me, saying,
024:013 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold,
I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad
of my own mind; what Yahweh speaks, that will I speak?
024:014 Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will advertise you
what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.
024:015 He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says,
the man whose eye was closed says;
024:016 he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the
Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down,
and having his eyes open:
024:017 I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near.
A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out
of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab,
and break down all the sons of Sheth.
024:018 Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall
be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.
024:019 Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy
the remnant from the city.
024:020 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.
024:021 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said,
Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.
024:022 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries
you away captive.
024:023 He took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when
God does this?
024:024 But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim.
They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber.
He also shall come to destruction.
024:025 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak
also went his way.
025:001 Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play
the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:
025:002 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods;