# BIBLE

BIBLETEXT:
And you will put in it the ark of the testimony, and you will screen the ark with the veil.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will bring in the table and arrange it, and you will bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle.


BIBLETEXT:
You will set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,


BIBLETEXT:
and place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will set up the court all around, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.


BIBLETEXT:
Then you will take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and dedicate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.


BIBLETEXT:
You will also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and dedicate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.


BIBLETEXT:
You will also anoint the basin and its stand, and dedicate it.


BIBLETEXT:
Then you will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and will wash them with water


BIBLETEXT:
and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you will anoint him and dedicate him, that he may serve me as priest.


BIBLETEXT:
You will bring his sons also and put coats on them,


BIBLETEXT:
and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing will admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."


BIBLETEXT:
This Moses did; according to all that the LORD commanded him, this he did.


BIBLETEXT:
In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.


BIBLETEXT:
Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars.


BIBLETEXT:
And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
He took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark.


BIBLETEXT:
And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil,


BIBLETEXT:
and arranged the bread on it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle,


BIBLETEXT:
and set up the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil,


BIBLETEXT:
and burned fragrant incense on it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
He put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle.


BIBLETEXT:
And he set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing,


BIBLETEXT:
with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet.


BIBLETEXT:
When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, as the LORD commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
And he erected the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.


BIBLETEXT:
Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up.


BIBLETEXT:
For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the LORD, you will bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock.


BIBLETEXT:
If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he will offer a male without blemish. He will bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
He will lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement for him.


BIBLETEXT:
Then he will kill the bull before the LORD, and Aaron's sons the priests will bring the blood and throw the blood against the sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.


BIBLETEXT:
Then he will skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces,


BIBLETEXT:
and the sons of Aaron the priest will put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.


BIBLETEXT:
And Aaron's sons the priests will arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat, on the wood that is on the fire on the altar;


BIBLETEXT:
but its entrails and its legs he will wash with water. And the priest will burn all of it on the altar, as a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he will bring a male without blemish,


BIBLETEXT:
and he will kill it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron's sons the priests will throw its blood against the sides of the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest will arrange them on the wood that is on the fire on the altar,


BIBLETEXT:
but the entrails and the legs he will wash with water. And the priest will offer all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, then he will bring his offering of turtledoves or pigeons.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will bring it to the altar and wring off its head and burn it on the altar. Its blood will be drained out on the side of the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
He will remove its gizzard with its contents and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes.


BIBLETEXT:
He will tear it open by its wings, but will not sever it completely. And the priest will burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the LORD, his offering will be of fine flour. He will pour oil on it and put frankincense on it


BIBLETEXT:
and bring it to Aaron's sons the priests. And he will take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense, and the priest will burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
But the rest of the grain offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the LORD's food offerings.


BIBLETEXT:
When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it will be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.


BIBLETEXT:
And if your offering is a grain offering baked on a griddle, it will be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil.


BIBLETEXT:
You will break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And if your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it will be made of fine flour with oil.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the LORD, and when it is presented to the priest, he will bring it to the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will take from the grain offering its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
No grain offering that you bring to the LORD will be made with leaven, for you will burn no leaven nor any honey as a food offering to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
As an offering of firstfruits you may bring them to the LORD, but they will not be offered on the altar for a pleasing aroma.


BIBLETEXT:
You will season all your grain offerings with salt. You will not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you will offer salt.


BIBLETEXT:
If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you will offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will burn as its memorial portion some of the crushed grain and some of the oil with all of its frankincense; it is a food offering to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he will offer it without blemish before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons the priests will throw the blood against the sides of the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the LORD, he will offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,


BIBLETEXT:
and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys.


BIBLETEXT:
Then Aaron's sons will burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering, which is on the wood on the fire; it is a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or female, he will offer it without blemish.


BIBLETEXT:
If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he will offer it before the LORD,


BIBLETEXT:
lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it in front of the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons will throw its blood against the sides of the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
Then from the sacrifice of the peace offering he will offer as a food offering to the LORD its fat; he will remove the whole fat tail, cut off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails


BIBLETEXT:
and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will burn it on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
If his offering is a goat, then he will offer it before the LORD


BIBLETEXT:
and lay his hand on its head and kill it in front of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron will throw its blood against the sides of the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
Then he will offer from it, as his offering for a food offering to the LORD, the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will burn them on the altar as a food offering with a pleasing aroma. All fat is the LORD's.


BIBLETEXT:
It will be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unwittingly in any of the LORD's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them,


BIBLETEXT:
if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he will offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.


BIBLETEXT:
He will bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And the anointed priest will take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting,


BIBLETEXT:
and the priest will dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the LORD in front of the veil of the sanctuary.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the LORD that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood of the bull he will pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.


BIBLETEXT:
And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he will remove from it, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails


BIBLETEXT:
and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys


BIBLETEXT:
Even as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings, the priest will burn them on the altar of burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung,


BIBLETEXT:
even the rest of the bull, he will carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and will burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it will be burned.


BIBLETEXT:
If the whole congregation of Israel sins unwittingly and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the LORD's commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt,


BIBLETEXT:
when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly will offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting.


BIBLETEXT:
And the elders of the congregation will lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD, and the bull will be killed before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the anointed priest will bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting,


BIBLETEXT:
and the priest will dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is in the tent of meeting before the LORD, and the rest of the blood he will pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.


BIBLETEXT:
And all its fat he will take from it and burn on the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
Thus will he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so will he do with this. And the priest will make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
When a leader sins, doing unwittingly any one of all the things that by the commandments of the LORD his God ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt,


BIBLETEXT:
or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he will bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish,


BIBLETEXT:
and will lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD; it is a sin offering.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And all its fat he will burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So the priest will make atonement for him for his sin, and he will be forgiven.


BIBLETEXT:
If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly in doing any one of the things that by the LORD's commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt,


BIBLETEXT:
or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he will bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
And all its fat he will remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest will burn it on the altar for a pleasing aroma to the LORD. And the priest will make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.


BIBLETEXT:
If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he will bring a female without blemish


BIBLETEXT:
and lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
And all its fat he will remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest will burn it on the altar, on top of the LORD's food offerings. And the priest will make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he will be forgiven.


BIBLETEXT:
If anyone sins in that he hears a public oath, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he will bear his iniquity;


BIBLETEXT:
or if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt;


BIBLETEXT:
or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt;


BIBLETEXT:
or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these;


BIBLETEXT:
when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed,


BIBLETEXT:
he will bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him for his sin.


BIBLETEXT:
But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he will bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
He will bring them to the priest, who will offer first the one for the sin offering. He will wring its head from its neck but will not sever it completely,


BIBLETEXT:
and he will sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood will be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.


BIBLETEXT:
Then he will offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest will make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he will be forgiven.


BIBLETEXT:
But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he will bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He will put no oil on it and will put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will bring it to the priest, and the priest will take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, on the LORD's food offerings; it is a sin offering.


BIBLETEXT:
Thus the priest will make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he will be forgiven. And the remainder will be for the priest, as in the grain offering."


BIBLETEXT:
If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unwittingly in any of the holy things of the LORD, he will bring to the LORD as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
He will also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and will add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.


BIBLETEXT:
If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the LORD's commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he will bear his iniquity.


BIBLETEXT:
He will bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent for a guilt offering, and the priest will make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unwittingly, and he will be forgiven.


BIBLETEXT:
It is a guilt offering; he has indeed incurred guilt before the LORD."


BIBLETEXT:
"If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor


BIBLETEXT:
or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely, in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby,


BIBLETEXT:
if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found


BIBLETEXT:
or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he will restore it in full and will add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will bring to the priest as his compensation to the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equal for a guilt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty."


BIBLETEXT:
"Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering will be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar will be kept burning on it.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he will take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them beside the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
Then he will take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.


BIBLETEXT:
The fire on the altar will be kept burning on it; it will not go out. The priest will burn wood on it every morning, and he will arrange the burnt offering on it and will burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.


BIBLETEXT:
Fire will be kept burning on the altar continually; it will not go out.


BIBLETEXT:
And this is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron will offer it before the LORD in front of the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
And one will take from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and its oil and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering and burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And the rest of it Aaron and his sons will eat. It will be eaten unleavened in a holy place. In the court of the tent of meeting they will eat it.


BIBLETEXT:
It will not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the LORD's food offerings. Whatever touches them will become holy."


BIBLETEXT:
"This is the offering that Aaron and his sons will offer to the LORD on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
It will be made with oil on a griddle. You will bring it well mixed, in baked pieces like a grain offering, and offer it for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
The priest from among Aaron's sons, who is anointed to succeed him, will offer it to the LORD as decreed forever. The whole of it will be burned.


BIBLETEXT:
Every grain offering of a priest will be wholly burned. It will not be eaten."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed will the sin offering be killed before the LORD; it is most holy.


BIBLETEXT:
The priest who offers it for sin will eat it. In a holy place it will be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.


BIBLETEXT:
Whatever touches its flesh will be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you will wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place.


BIBLETEXT:
And the earthenware vessel in which it is boiled will be broken. But if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that will be scoured and rinsed in water.


BIBLETEXT:
Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy.


BIBLETEXT:
But no sin offering will be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it will be burned up with fire.


BIBLETEXT:
This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.


BIBLETEXT:
In the place where they kill the burnt offering they will kill the guilt offering, and its blood will be thrown against the sides of the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
And all its fat will be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails,


BIBLETEXT:
the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys.


BIBLETEXT:
The priest will burn them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
Every male among the priests may eat of it. It will be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.


BIBLETEXT:
The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it will have it.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest who offers any man's burnt offering will have for himself the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered.


BIBLETEXT:
And every grain offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle will belong to the priest who offers it.


BIBLETEXT:
And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, will be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron.


BIBLETEXT:
And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he will offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil.


BIBLETEXT:
With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he will bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread.


BIBLETEXT:
And from it he will offer one loaf from each offering, as a gift to the LORD. It will belong to the priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings.


BIBLETEXT:
And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving will be eaten on the day of his offering. He will not leave any of it until the morning.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it will be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it will be eaten.


BIBLETEXT:
But what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day will be burned up with fire.


BIBLETEXT:
If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, neither will it be credited to him. It is tainted, and he who eats of it will bear his iniquity.


BIBLETEXT:
Flesh that touches any unclean thing will not be eaten. It will be burned up with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh,


BIBLETEXT:
but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the LORD's peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person will be cut off from his people.


BIBLETEXT:
And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the LORD's peace offerings, that person will be cut off from his people."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You will eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat.


BIBLETEXT:
The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account will you eat it.


BIBLETEXT:
For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the LORD will be cut off from his people.


BIBLETEXT:
Moreover, you will eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.


BIBLETEXT:
Whoever eats any blood, that person will be cut off from his people."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Whoever offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD will bring his offering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.


BIBLETEXT:
His own hands will bring the LORD's food offerings. He will bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
The priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will be for Aaron and his sons.


BIBLETEXT:
And the right thigh you will give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings.


BIBLETEXT:
Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat will have the right thigh for a portion.


BIBLETEXT:
For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the LORD's food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations."


BIBLETEXT:
This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the ordination offering, and of the peace offering,


BIBLETEXT:
which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.


BIBLETEXT:
And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not eat any of their flesh, and you will not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.


BIBLETEXT:
These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.


BIBLETEXT:
But anything in the seas or the rivers that has not fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will regard them as detestable; you will not eat any of their flesh, and you will avoid their carcasses.


BIBLETEXT:
Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is detestable to you.


BIBLETEXT:
And these you will detest among the birds; they will not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,


BIBLETEXT:
the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind,


BIBLETEXT:
the little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl,


BIBLETEXT:
the barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture,


BIBLETEXT:
the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.


BIBLETEXT:
All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you.


BIBLETEXT:
Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground.


BIBLETEXT:
Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.


BIBLETEXT:
But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you.


BIBLETEXT:
And by these you will become unclean. Whoever touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,


BIBLETEXT:
and whoever carries any part of their carcass will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
Every animal that parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them will be unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And all that walk on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,


BIBLETEXT:
and he who carries their carcass will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.


BIBLETEXT:
And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the ground: the mole rat, the mouse, the great lizard of any kind,


BIBLETEXT:
the gecko, the monitor lizard, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.


BIBLETEXT:
These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead will be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put into water, and it will be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.


BIBLETEXT:
And if any of them falls into any earthenware vessel, all that is in it will be unclean, and you will break it.


BIBLETEXT:
Any food in it that could be eaten, on which water falls, will be unclean. And all drink that could be drunk from every such vessel will be unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And everything on which any part of their carcass falls will be unclean. Whether oven or stove, it will be broken in pieces. They are unclean and will remain unclean for you.


BIBLETEXT:
Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern holding water will be clean, but whoever touches a carcass in them will be unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean,


BIBLETEXT:
but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.


BIBLETEXT:
And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening,


BIBLETEXT:
and whoever eats of its carcass will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries the carcass will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
Every swarming thing that swarms on the ground is detestable; it will not be eaten.


BIBLETEXT:
Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, any swarming thing that swarms on the ground, you will not eat, for they are detestable.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you will not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them.


BIBLETEXT:
For I am the LORD your God. Dedicate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You will not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.


BIBLETEXT:
For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You will therefore be holy, for I am holy."


BIBLETEXT:
This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground,


BIBLETEXT:
to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she will be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she will be unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin will be circumcised.


BIBLETEXT:
Then she will continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She will not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.


BIBLETEXT:
But if she bears a female child, then she will be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she will continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.


BIBLETEXT:
And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she will bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering,


BIBLETEXT:
and he will offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her. Then she will be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female.


BIBLETEXT:
And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she will take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.'"


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he will be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,


BIBLETEXT:
and the priest will examine the diseased area on the skin of his body. And if the hair in the diseased area has turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a case of leprous disease. When the priest has examined him, he will pronounce him unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the spot is white in the skin of his body and appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest will shut up the diseased person for seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will examine him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the disease is checked and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest will shut him up for another seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will examine him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased area has faded and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him clean; it is only an rash. And he will wash his clothes and be clean.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the rash spreads in the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he will appear again before the priest.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will look, and if the rash has spread in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.


BIBLETEXT:
When a man is afflicted with a leprous disease, he will be brought to the priest,


BIBLETEXT:
and the priest will look. And if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,


BIBLETEXT:
it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his body, and the priest will pronounce him unclean. He will not shut him up, for he is unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And if the leprous disease breaks out in the skin, so that the leprous disease covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,


BIBLETEXT:
then the priest will look, and if the leprous disease has covered all his body, he will pronounce him clean of the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean.


BIBLETEXT:
But when raw flesh appears on him, he will be unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean, for it is a leprous disease.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the raw flesh recovers and turns white again, then he will come to the priest,


BIBLETEXT:
and the priest will examine him, and if the disease has turned white, then the priest will pronounce the diseased person clean; he is clean.


BIBLETEXT:
If there is in the skin of one's body a boil and it heals,


BIBLETEXT:
and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, then it will be shown to the priest.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will look, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is a case of leprous disease that has broken out in the boil.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest will shut him up seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
And if it spreads in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a disease.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is an inflamed boil, and the priest will pronounce him clean.


BIBLETEXT:
Or, when the body has a burn on its skin and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a spot, reddish-white or white,


BIBLETEXT:
the priest will examine it, and if the hair in the spot has turned white and it appears deeper than the skin, then it is a leprous disease. It has broken out in the burn, and the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and it is no deeper than the skin, but has faded, the priest will shut him up seven days,


BIBLETEXT:
and the priest will examine him the seventh day. If it is spreading in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread in the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest will pronounce him clean, for it is the scar of the burn.


BIBLETEXT:
When a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard,


BIBLETEXT:
the priest will examine the disease. And if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is an scall, a leprous disease of the head or the beard.


BIBLETEXT:
And if the priest examines the scall and it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will shut up the person with the scall for seven days,


BIBLETEXT:
and on the seventh day the priest will examine the disease. If the scall has not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the scall appears to be no deeper than the skin,


BIBLETEXT:
then he will shave himself, but the scll he will not shave; and the priest will shut up the person with the scall for another seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
And on the seventh day the priest will examine the scall, and if the scall has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, then the priest will pronounce him clean. And he will wash his clothes and be clean.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the scall spreads in the skin after his cleansing,


BIBLETEXT:
then the priest will examine him, and if the scall has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
But if in his eyes the scall is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the scall is healed and he is clean, and the priest will pronounce him clean.


BIBLETEXT:
When a man or a woman has spots on the skin of the body, white spots,


BIBLETEXT:
the priest will look, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is paled spot that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man's hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean.


BIBLETEXT:
And if a man's hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean.


BIBLETEXT:
But if there is on the bald head or the bald forehead a reddish-white diseased area, it is a leprous disease breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the priest will examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprous disease in the skin of the body,


BIBLETEXT:
he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.


BIBLETEXT:
The leprous person who has the disease will wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he will cover his upper lip and cry out, 'Unclean, unclean.'


BIBLETEXT:
He will remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He will live alone. His dwelling will be outside the camp.


BIBLETEXT:
When there is a case of leprous disease in a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment,


BIBLETEXT:
in warp or woof of linen or wool, or in a skin or in anything made of skin,


BIBLETEXT:
if the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin or in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin, it is a case of leprous disease, and it will be shown to the priest.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will examine the disease and shut up that which has the disease for seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
Then he will examine the disease on the seventh day. If the disease has spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in the skin, whatever be the use of the skin, the disease is a persistent leprous disease; it is unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will burn the garment, or the warp or the woof, the wool or the linen, or any article made of skin that is diseased, for it is a persistent leprous disease. It will be burned in the fire.


BIBLETEXT:
And if the priest examines, and if the disease has not spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin,


BIBLETEXT:
then the priest will command that they wash the thing in which is the disease, and he will shut it up for another seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the appearance of the diseased area has not changed, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You will burn it in the fire, whether the rot is on the back or on the front.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the priest examines, and if the diseased area has faded after it has been washed, he will tear it out of the garment or the skin or the warp or the woof.


BIBLETEXT:
Then if it appears again in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, it is spreading. You will burn with fire whatever has the disease.


BIBLETEXT:
But the garment, or the warp or the woof, or any article made of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, will then be washed a second time, and be clean."


BIBLETEXT:
This is the law for a case of leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, to determine whether it is clean or unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
"This will be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He will be brought to the priest,


BIBLETEXT:
and the priest will go out of the camp, and the priest will look. Then, if the case of plague is healed in the leprous person,


BIBLETEXT:
the priest will command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water.


BIBLETEXT:
He will take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he will pronounce him clean and will let the living bird go into the open field.


BIBLETEXT:
And he who is to be cleansed will wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he will be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
And on the seventh day he will shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He will shave off all his hair, and then he will wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will be clean.


BIBLETEXT:
And on the eighth day he will take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest who cleanses him will set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the LORD, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will take one of the male lambs and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.


BIBLETEXT:
The priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest will put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the priest will take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand


BIBLETEXT:
and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest will put on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
The priest will offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he will kill the burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest will make atonement for him, and he will be clean.


BIBLETEXT:
But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he will take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil;


BIBLETEXT:
also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And on the eighth day he will bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest will wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will kill the lamb of the guilt offering. And the priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,


BIBLETEXT:
and will sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the guilt offering was put.


BIBLETEXT:
And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will offer, of the turtledoves or pigeons, whichever he can afford,


BIBLETEXT:
one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering. And the priest will make atonement before the LORD for him who is being cleansed.


BIBLETEXT:
This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing."


BIBLETEXT:
"When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,


BIBLETEXT:
then he who owns the house will come and tell the priest, 'There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.'


BIBLETEXT:
Then the priest will command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean. And afterward the priest will go in to see the house.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will examine the disease. And if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface,


BIBLETEXT:
then the priest will go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will come again on the seventh day, and look. If the disease has spread in the walls of the house,


BIBLETEXT:
then the priest will command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they will pour out in an unclean place outside the city.


BIBLETEXT:
Then they will take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he will take other plaster and plaster the house.


BIBLETEXT:
If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,


BIBLETEXT:
then the priest will go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he will carry them out of the city to an unclean place.


BIBLETEXT:
Moreover, whoever enters the house while it is shut up will be unclean until the evening,


BIBLETEXT:
and whoever sleeps in the house will wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house will wash his clothes.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the priest comes and looks, and if the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest will pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed.


BIBLETEXT:
And for the cleansing of the house he will take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop,


BIBLETEXT:
and will kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water


BIBLETEXT:
and will take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, along with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water and sprinkle the house seven times.


BIBLETEXT:
Thus he will cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will let the live bird go out of the city into the open country. So he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean."


BIBLETEXT:
This is the law for any case of leprous disease: for an scall,


BIBLETEXT:
for leprous disease in a garment or in a house,


BIBLETEXT:
and for a swelling or an rash or a spot,


BIBLETEXT:
to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprous disease.


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is blocked up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.


BIBLETEXT:
Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies will be unclean, and everything on which he sits will be unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And anyone who touches his bed will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And whoever sits on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And whoever touches the body of the one with the discharge will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And if the one with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, then he will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And any saddle on which the one with the discharge rides will be unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries such things will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
Anyone whom the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And an earthenware vessel that the one with the discharge touches will be broken, and every vessel of wood will be rinsed in water.


BIBLETEXT:
And when the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he will count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes. And he will bathe his body in fresh water and will be clean.


BIBLETEXT:
And on the eighth day he will take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will use them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man has an emission of semen, he will bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes will be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them will bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she will be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her will be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity will be unclean. Everything also on which she sits will be unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And whoever touches her bed will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And whoever touches anything on which she sits will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits, when he touches it he will be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And if any man lies with her and her menstrual impurity comes upon him, he will be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies will be unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she will continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she will be unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge, will be to her as the bed of her impurity. And everything on which she sits will be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity.


BIBLETEXT:
And whoever touches these things will be unclean, and will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.


BIBLETEXT:
But if she is cleansed of her discharge, she will count for herself seven days, and after that she will be clean.


BIBLETEXT:
And on the eighth day she will take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will use one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.


BIBLETEXT:
Thus you will keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst."


BIBLETEXT:
This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby;


BIBLETEXT:
also for her who is menstruating, that is, for anyone, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the LORD and died,


BIBLETEXT:
and the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.


BIBLETEXT:
But in this way Aaron will come into the Holy Place: with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
He will put on the holy linen coat and will have the linen undergarment on his body, and he will tie the linen sash around his waist, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He will bathe his body in water and then put them on.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will take from the congregation of the sons of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
Aaron will offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and will make atonement for himself and for his house.


BIBLETEXT:
Then he will take the two goats and set them before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting.


BIBLETEXT:
And Aaron will cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for Azazel (the scapegoat).


BIBLETEXT:
And Aaron will present the goat on which the lot fell for the LORD and use it as a sin offering,


BIBLETEXT:
but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel will be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.


BIBLETEXT:
Aaron will present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and will make atonement for himself and for his house. He will kill the bull as a sin offering for himself.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he will bring it inside the veil


BIBLETEXT:
and put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is over the testimony, so that he does not die.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he will sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.


BIBLETEXT:
Then he will kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.


BIBLETEXT:
Thus he will make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he will do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.


BIBLETEXT:
No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
Then he will go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it, and will take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and consecrate it from the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he will present the live goat.


BIBLETEXT:
And Aaron will lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he will put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.


BIBLETEXT:
The goat will bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area, and he will let the goat go free in the wilderness.


BIBLETEXT:
Then Aaron will come into the tent of meeting and will take off the linen garments that he put on when he went into the Holy Place and will leave them there.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people.


BIBLETEXT:
And the fat of the sin offering he will burn on the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
And he who lets the goat go to Azazel will wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.


BIBLETEXT:
And the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, will be carried outside the camp. Their skin and their flesh and their dung will be burned up with fire.


BIBLETEXT:
And he who burns them will wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.


BIBLETEXT:
And it will be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you will humble yourselves and will do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.


BIBLETEXT:
For on this day will atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You will be clean before the LORD from all your sins.


BIBLETEXT:
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you will humble yourselves; it is a statute forever.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest who is anointed and dedicated as priest in his father's place will make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments.


BIBLETEXT:
He will make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he will make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he will make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
And this will be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." And Moses did as the LORD commanded him.


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, This is what the LORD has commanded.


BIBLETEXT:
If any one of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp,


BIBLETEXT:
and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD, bloodguilt will be charged to that man. He has shed blood, and that man will be cut off from among his people.


BIBLETEXT:
This means that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will throw the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
So they will no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This will be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will say to them, Any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice


BIBLETEXT:
and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it to the LORD, that man will be cut off from his people.


BIBLETEXT:
"If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will condemn that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.


BIBLETEXT:
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel, No person among you will eat blood, neither will any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.


BIBLETEXT:
Any one also of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten will pour out its blood and cover it with earth.


BIBLETEXT:
For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel, You will not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it will be cut off.


BIBLETEXT:
And every person who eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening; then he will be clean.


BIBLETEXT:
But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he will suffer his punishment."


BIBLETEXT:
Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you will not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You will not walk in their statutes.


BIBLETEXT:
You will follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You will therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he will live by them: I am the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
None of you will approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you will not uncover her nakedness.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's relative.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's relative.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you will not approach his wife; she is your aunt.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you will not uncover her nakedness.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you will not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither will any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.


BIBLETEXT:
Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,


BIBLETEXT:
and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.


BIBLETEXT:
But you will keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you


BIBLETEXT:
For the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
Otherwise the land may vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.


BIBLETEXT:
For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from among their people.


BIBLETEXT:
So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, You will be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.


BIBLETEXT:
Every one of you will respect his mother and his father, and you will keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you will offer it so that you may be accepted.


BIBLETEXT:
t will be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after, and anything left over until the third day will be burned up with fire.


BIBLETEXT:
If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is tainted; it will not be accepted,


BIBLETEXT:
and everyone who eats it will suffer his punishment, because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD, and that person will be cut off from his people.


BIBLETEXT:
When you reap the harvest of your land, you will not reap your field right up to its edge, neither will you gather the gleanings after your harvest.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will not strip your vineyard bare, neither will you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You will leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not steal; you will not deal falsely; you will not lie to one another.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant will not remain with you all night until the morning.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you will fear your God: I am the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
You will do no injustice in court. You will not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness will you judge your neighbor.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you will not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not hate your brother in your heart, but you will reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you will love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
You will keep my statutes. You will not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You will not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor will you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, there will be punishment. They will not be put to death, because she was not free;


BIBLETEXT:
but he will bring his compensation to the LORD, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin that he has committed, and he will be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.


BIBLETEXT:
When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you will regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it will be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.


BIBLETEXT:
And in the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You will not interpret omens or tell fortunes.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, otherwise the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.


BIBLETEXT:
You will keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You will rise up before the gray head and respect an old man, and you will fear your God: I am the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you will him no wrong.


BIBLETEXT:
You will treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you will love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not do wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.


BIBLETEXT:
You will have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD."


BIBLETEXT:
Say to the sons of Israel, Any one of the sons of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech will surely be put to death. The people of the land will stone him with stones.


BIBLETEXT:
I Myself will condemn that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make My sanctuary unclean and to profane My holy name.


BIBLETEXT:
And if the people of the land do at all look the other way for that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,


BIBLETEXT:
then I will condemn that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.


BIBLETEXT:
If a person turns to mediums and wizards, whoring after them, I will condemn that person and will cut him off from among his people.


BIBLETEXT:
Dedicate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
Keep my statutes and do them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you.


BIBLETEXT:
For anyone who curses his father or his mother will be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress will be put to death.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them will be put to death; their blood is upon them.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them will be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they will be put to death; their blood is upon them.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they will be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man lies with an animal, he will be put to death, and you will kill the animal.


BIBLETEXT:
If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you will kill the woman and the animal; they will be put to death; their blood is upon them.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they will be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he will suffer his punishment.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them will be cut off from among their people.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked one's relative; they will suffer their punishment.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they will bear their sin; they will die childless.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they will be childless.


BIBLETEXT:
You will therefore keep all My statutes and all My rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.


BIBLETEXT:
But I have said to you, 'You will inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the nations.


BIBLETEXT:
You will therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You will not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
You will be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.


BIBLETEXT:
A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard will be put to death. They will be stoned with stones; their blood will be upon them."


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: No one will make himself unclean for the dead among his people,


BIBLETEXT:
except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,


BIBLETEXT:
It will be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you will afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening will you keep your Sabbath."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
On the first day will be a holy convocation; you will not do any ordinary work.


BIBLETEXT:
For seven days you will present food offerings to the LORD. On the eighth day you will hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you will not do any ordinary work.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you will proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the LORD food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day,


BIBLETEXT:
besides the LORD's Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you will celebrate the feast of the LORD seven days. On the first day will be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day will be a solemn rest.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you will rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
You will celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you will celebrate it in the seventh month.


BIBLETEXT:
You will dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites will dwell in booths,


BIBLETEXT:
that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God."


BIBLETEXT:
Thus Moses declared to the sons of Israel the appointed feasts of the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
"Command the sons of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning continually.


BIBLETEXT:
Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron will arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD continually. It will be a statute forever throughout your generations.


BIBLETEXT:
He will arrange the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the LORD continually.


BIBLETEXT:
You will take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah will be in each loaf.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will set them in two piles, six in a pile, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Every Sabbath day Aaron will arrange it before the LORD continually; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.


BIBLETEXT:
And it will be for Aaron and his sons, and they will eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the LORD's food offerings, a perpetual due."


BIBLETEXT:
Now an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel. And the Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel fought in the camp,


BIBLETEXT:
and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.


BIBLETEXT:
And they put him under guard, till the will of the LORD should be clear to them.


BIBLETEXT:
"Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation to stone him.


BIBLETEXT:
And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God will bear his sin.


BIBLETEXT:
Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD will surely be put to death. All the congregation will stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, will be put to death.


BIBLETEXT:
Whoever takes a human life will be put to death.


BIBLETEXT:
Whoever takes an animal's life will make it good, life for life.


BIBLETEXT:
If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it will be done to him,


BIBLETEXT:
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has caused a person will be given to him.


BIBLETEXT:
Whoever kills an animal will make it good, and whoever kills a person will be put to death.


BIBLETEXT:
You will have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and they brought out of the camp the one who had cursed and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land will keep a Sabbath to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
For six years you will sow your field, and for six years you will prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits,


BIBLETEXT:
but in the seventh year there will be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You will not sow your field or prune your vineyard.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It will be a year of solemn rest for the land.


BIBLETEXT:
The Sabbath of the land will provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you,


BIBLETEXT:
and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield will be for food.


BIBLETEXT:
You will count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years will give you forty-nine years.


BIBLETEXT:
Then you will sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you will sound the trumpet throughout all your land.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will dedicate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a jubilee for you, when each of you will return to his property and each of you will return to his clan.


BIBLETEXT:
That fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you; in it you will neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.


BIBLETEXT:
For it is a jubilee. It will be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field.


BIBLETEXT:
In this year of jubilee each of you will return to his property.


BIBLETEXT:
And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you will not cheat one another.


BIBLETEXT:
You will pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he will sell to you according to the number of years for crops.


BIBLETEXT:
If the years are many, you will increase the price, and if the years are few, you will reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not cheat one another, but you will fear your God, for I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore you will do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land safely.


BIBLETEXT:
The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and dwell in it safely.


BIBLETEXT:
And if you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?'


BIBLETEXT:
I will set my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.


BIBLETEXT:
When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you will eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.


BIBLETEXT:
The land will not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with Me.


BIBLETEXT:
And in all the country you possess, you will allow a redemption of the land.


BIBLETEXT:
If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer will come and redeem what his brother has sold.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,


BIBLETEXT:
let him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property.


BIBLETEXT:
But if he has not sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold will remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will return to his property.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man sells a dwelling house in a protected city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he will have the right of redemption.


BIBLETEXT:
If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the protected city will belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it will not be released in the jubilee.


BIBLETEXT:
But the houses of the villages that have no protection around them will be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they will be released in the jubilee.


BIBLETEXT:
As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.


BIBLETEXT:
And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess will be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.


BIBLETEXT:
If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you will support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he will live with you.


BIBLETEXT:
Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.


BIBLETEXT:
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.


BIBLETEXT:
If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you will not make him serve as a slave:


BIBLETEXT:
he will be with you as a hired servant and as a sojourner. He will serve with you until the year of the jubilee.


BIBLETEXT:
Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.


BIBLETEXT:
For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they will not be sold as slaves.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not rule over him ruthlessly but will fear your God.


BIBLETEXT:
As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.


BIBLETEXT:
You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.


BIBLETEXT:
You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the sons of Israel you will not rule, one over another ruthlessly.


BIBLETEXT:
If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger's clan,


BIBLETEXT:
then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,


BIBLETEXT:
or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows wealthy he may redeem himself.


BIBLETEXT:
He will calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale will vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner will be rated as the time of a hired servant.


BIBLETEXT:
If there are still many years left, he will pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price.


BIBLETEXT:
If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he will calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.


BIBLETEXT:
He will treat him as a servant hired year by year. He will not rule ruthlessly over him before you.


BIBLETEXT:
And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him will be released in the year of jubilee.


BIBLETEXT:
For it is to Me that the people of Israel are servants. They are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you will not set up a carved stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,


BIBLETEXT:
then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land will yield its increase, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.


BIBLETEXT:
Your threshing will last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will last to the time for sowing. And you will eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land safely.


BIBLETEXT:
I will give peace in the land, and you will lie down, and none will make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword will not go through your land.


BIBLETEXT:
You will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.


BIBLETEXT:
Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.


BIBLETEXT:
I will respect you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will eat old stored supplies, and you will clear out the old to make way for the new.


BIBLETEXT:
I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not abhor you.


BIBLETEXT:
And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you will be My people.


BIBLETEXT:
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.


BIBLETEXT:
But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,


BIBLETEXT:
if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,


BIBLETEXT:
then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.


BIBLETEXT:
I will condemn you, and you will be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when none pursues you.


BIBLETEXT:
And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,


BIBLETEXT:
and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.


BIBLETEXT:
And your work will be spent in vain, for your land will not yield its increase, and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.


BIBLETEXT:
Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.


BIBLETEXT:
And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which will rob you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads will be deserted.


BIBLETEXT:
And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,


BIBLETEXT:
then I also will strive against you, and I Myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.


BIBLETEXT:
And I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute vengeance of the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send disease among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.


BIBLETEXT:
When I break your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and will dole out your bread again by weight, and you will eat and not be filled.


BIBLETEXT:
But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but strive against Me,


BIBLETEXT:
then I will strive against you in wrath, and I Myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.


BIBLETEXT:
You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.


BIBLETEXT:
And I will destroy your shrines and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and My soul will detest you.


BIBLETEXT:
And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.


BIBLETEXT:
And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it will be astonished at it.


BIBLETEXT:
And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land will be a desolation, and your cities will be a waste.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land will rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.


BIBLETEXT:
As long as it lies desolate it will have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.


BIBLETEXT:
And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from the sword, and they will fall when no one pursues.


BIBLETEXT:
They will stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though no one pursues. And you will have no power to stand before your enemies.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will devour you.


BIBLETEXT:
And those of you who are left will rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they will rot away like them.


BIBLETEXT:
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against Me, and also in striving against Me,


BIBLETEXT:
so that I strived against them and brought them into the land of their enemies, if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,


BIBLETEXT:
then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.


BIBLETEXT:
But the land will be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they will make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul detested my statutes.


BIBLETEXT:
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I detest them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.


BIBLETEXT:
But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD."


BIBLETEXT:
These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the valuation of persons,


BIBLETEXT:
then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old will be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


BIBLETEXT:
If the person is a female, the valuation will be thirty shekels.


BIBLETEXT:
If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation will be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.


BIBLETEXT:
If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation will be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation will be three shekels of silver.


BIBLETEXT:
And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male will be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.


BIBLETEXT:
And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he will be made to stand before the priest, and the priest will value him; the priest will value him according to what the vower can afford.


BIBLETEXT:
If the vow is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the LORD, all of it that he gives to the LORD is holy.


BIBLETEXT:
He will not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute will be holy.


BIBLETEXT:
And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the LORD, then he will stand the animal before the priest,


BIBLETEXT:
and the priest will value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it will be.


BIBLETEXT:
But if he wishes to redeem it, he will add a fifth to the valuation.


BIBLETEXT:
When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest will value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it will stand.


BIBLETEXT:
And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he will add a fifth to the valuation price, and it will be his.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation will be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.


BIBLETEXT:
If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation will stand,


BIBLETEXT:
but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest will calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction will be made from the valuation.


BIBLETEXT:
And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he will add a fifth to its valuation price, and it will remain his.


BIBLETEXT:
But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it will not be redeemed anymore.


BIBLETEXT:
But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, will be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been devoted. The priest will be in possession of it.


BIBLETEXT:
If he dedicates to the LORD a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession,


BIBLETEXT:
then the priest will calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man will give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
In the year of jubilee the field will return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.


BIBLETEXT:
Every valuation will be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs will make a shekel.


BIBLETEXT:
But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD's.


BIBLETEXT:
And if it is an unclean animal, then he will buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it will be sold at the valuation.


BIBLETEXT:
But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, will be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, will be ransomed; he will surely be put to death.


BIBLETEXT:
Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD's; it is holy to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he will add a fifth to it.


BIBLETEXT:
And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff, will be holy to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
One will not differentiate between good or bad, neither will he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute will be holy; it will not be redeemed."


BIBLETEXT:
These are the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of assembly, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"Take the sum of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, by tribe, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, by their head.


BIBLETEXT:
From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron will count them, by company.


BIBLETEXT:
And there will be with you a man from each tribe, every man the head of the house of his fathers.


BIBLETEXT:
And these are the names of the men who will stand with you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;


BIBLETEXT:
from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;


BIBLETEXT:
from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;


BIBLETEXT:
from Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;


BIBLETEXT:
from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;


BIBLETEXT:
from Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;


BIBLETEXT:
from Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;


BIBLETEXT:
These were the ones chosen from the assembly, the chiefs of their tribes, the heads of the families of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named,


BIBLETEXT:
and they gathered the whole assembly together and on the first of the second month, and they registered themselves by tribes, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, by their head,


BIBLETEXT:
as the LORD commanded Moses. So he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Reuben were 46 families and 500.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Simeon, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, those of them who were counted, according to the number of names, by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Simeon were 59 families and 300.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Gad, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Gad were 45 families and 650.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Judah, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Judah were 74 families and 600.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Issachar, their generations, by their tribes, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Issachar were 54 families and 400.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Zebulun, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Zebulun were 57 families and 400.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Ephraim were 40 families and 500.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Manasseh, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Manasseh were 32 families and 200.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Benjamin, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Benjamin were 35 families and 400.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Dan, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Dan were 62 families and 700.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Asher, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Asher were 41 families and 500.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Naphtali, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:


BIBLETEXT:
those counted of the tribe of Naphtali were 53 families and 400.


BIBLETEXT:
These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted with the help of the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers' house.


BIBLETEXT:
So all those counted of the sons of Israel, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel,


BIBLETEXT:
all those counted were 598 families and 5,550.


BIBLETEXT:
But the Levites were not counted along with them by their tribe.


BIBLETEXT:
"Only the tribe of Levi you will not count, and you will not take a sum of them among the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they will take care of it and will camp around the tabernacle.


BIBLETEXT:
When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites will take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites will set it up. And if any stranger comes near, he will be put to death.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Israel will pitch their tents by their companies, each man in his own camp and each man by his own standard.


BIBLETEXT:
But the Levites will camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there may be no strife in the assembly of the sons of Israel. And the Levites will keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony."


BIBLETEXT:
Thus did the sons of Israel; they did all that the LORD commanded Moses, this they accomplished.


BIBLETEXT:
"Every man of the children of Israel will camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses. They will camp facing the tabernacle of assembly on every side.


BIBLETEXT:
Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise will be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the sons of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 74 families and 600.


BIBLETEXT:
Those to camp next to him will be the tribe of Issachar, the chief of the sons of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 54 families and 400.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the tribe of Zebulun, the chief of the sons of Zebulun being Eliab the son of Helon,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 57 families and 400.


BIBLETEXT:
All those counted of the camp of Judah, by their companies, were 185 families and 1,400. They will set out first.


BIBLETEXT:
On the south side will be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the chief of the sons of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 46 families and 500.


BIBLETEXT:
And those to camp next to him will be the tribe of Simeon, the chief of the sons of Simeon being Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 59 families and 300.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the tribe of Gad, the chief of the sons of Gad being Eliasaph the son of Reuel,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 45 families and 650.


BIBLETEXT:
All those counted of the camp of Reuben, by their companies, were 150 families and 1,450. They will set out second.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the tabernacle of assembly will set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they camp, so will they set out, each in position, by their standard.


BIBLETEXT:
On the west side will be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their companies, the chief of the sons of Ephraim being Elishama the son of Ammihud,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 40 families and 500.


BIBLETEXT:
And next to him will be the tribe of Manasseh, the chief of the sons of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 32 families and 200.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the tribe of Benjamin, the chief of the sons of Benjamin being Abidan the son of Gideoni,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 35 families and 400.


BIBLETEXT:
All those counted of the camp of Ephraim, by their companies, were 107 families and 1,100. They will set out third.


BIBLETEXT:
On the north side will be the standard of the camp of Dan by their companies, the chief of the people of Dan being Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 62 families and 700.


BIBLETEXT:
And those to camp next to him will be the tribe of Asher, the chief of the sons of Asher being Pagiel the son of Ochran,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 41 families and 500.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the tribe of Naphtali, the chief of the sons of Naphtali being Ahira the son of Enan,


BIBLETEXT:
his company as counted being 53 families and 400.


BIBLETEXT:
All those counted of the camp of Dan were 156 families 1,600. They will set out last, by their standard."


BIBLETEXT:
These are the sons of Israel as counted by their fathers' houses. All those counted in the camps by their companies were 598 families and 5,550.


BIBLETEXT:
But the Levites were not counted among the sons of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
Thus did the sons of Israel. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, each one in his tribe, according to his fathers' house.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.


BIBLETEXT:
But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered profane fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.


BIBLETEXT:
"Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.


BIBLETEXT:
They will keep watch over him and watch over all the assembly before the tabernacle of assembly, as they serve at the tabernacle.


BIBLETEXT:
They will watch all the furnishings of the tabernacle of assembly, and keep watch over the sons of Israel as they serve at the tabernacle.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will attend to their priesthood. But if any stranger comes near, he will be put to death."


BIBLETEXT:
"Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the sons of Israel. The Levites will be mine,


BIBLETEXT:
for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I dedicated for My own all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They will be mine: I am the LORD."


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"count the sons of Levi, by fathers' houses and by tribe; every male from a month old and upward you will count."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses counted them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.


BIBLETEXT:
And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.


BIBLETEXT:
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their tribes: Libni and Shimei.


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Kohath by their tribes: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Merari by their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These are the tribes of the Levites, by their fathers' houses.


BIBLETEXT:
To Gershon belonged the tribe of the Libnites and the tribe of the Shimeites; these were the tribes of the Gershonites.


BIBLETEXT:
Their sum according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 7 families and 500.


BIBLETEXT:
The tribes of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,


BIBLETEXT:
with Eliasaph, the son of Lael as chief of the fathers' house of the Gershonites.


BIBLETEXT:
And the duty of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of assembly included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly,


BIBLETEXT:
the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords, all the service connected with these.


BIBLETEXT:
To Kohath belonged the tribe of the Amramites and the tribe of the Izharites and the tribe of the Hebronites and the tribe of the Uzzielites; these are the tribes of the Kohathites.


BIBLETEXT:
According to the sum of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8 families and 600, keeping watch over the sanctuary.


BIBLETEXT:
The tribes of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,


BIBLETEXT:
with Elizaphan the son of Uzziel as chief of the fathers' house of the tribes of the Kohathites.


BIBLETEXT:
And their duty involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests serve, and the screen; all the service connected with these.


BIBLETEXT:
And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the chiefs of the Levites, and to have oversight of those who kept guard over the sanctuary.


BIBLETEXT:
To Merari belonged the tribe of the Mahlites and the tribe of the Mushites: these are the tribes of Merari.


BIBLETEXT:
Their sum according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 6 families and 200.


BIBLETEXT:
And the chief of the fathers' house of the tribes of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.


BIBLETEXT:
And the appointed duty of the sons of Merari included the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and all their accessories; all the service connected with these;


BIBLETEXT:
also the pillars around the court, with their bases and pegs and cords.


BIBLETEXT:
Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tabernacle of assembly toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, watching the sanctuary itself, to protect the sons of Israel. And any stranger who came near was to be put to death.


BIBLETEXT:
All those counted among the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of the LORD, by tribes, all the males from a month old and upward, were 21 families and 1,000.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Moses, "Count all the firstborn males of the sons of Israel, from a month old and upward, taking the number of their names.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will take the Levites for me, I am the LORD, instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses counted all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, as the LORD commanded him.


BIBLETEXT:
And all the firstborn males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as counted were 21 families and 1,273.


BIBLETEXT:
"Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. The Levites will be mine: I am the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And as the redemption price for the 273 of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites,


BIBLETEXT:
you will take five shekels per head; you will take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs,


BIBLETEXT:
and give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption for those who are over."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above those redeemed by the Levites.


BIBLETEXT:
From the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money, 1,365 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
"Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their tribes and their fathers' houses,


BIBLETEXT:
from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can be on duty, to do the work in the tabernacle of assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of assembly: the most holy things.


BIBLETEXT:
When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons will go in and take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it.


BIBLETEXT:
Then they will put on it a covering of goatskin and spread on top of that an all blue cloth, and will put in its poles.


BIBLETEXT:
And over the table of the showbread they will spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the cups for the drink offering; the perpetual bread also will be on it.


BIBLETEXT:
Then they will spread over them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and will put in its poles.


BIBLETEXT:
And they will take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its tongs, its trays, and all the vessels for oil with which which they serve it.


BIBLETEXT:
And they will put it with all its utensils in a covering of goatskin and put it on the carrying frame.


BIBLETEXT:
And over the golden altar they will spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of goatskin, and will put in its poles.


BIBLETEXT:
And they will take all the vessels of the service that are used in the sanctuary and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of goatskin and put them on the carrying frame.


BIBLETEXT:
And they will take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it.


BIBLETEXT:
And they will put on it all the utensils of the altar, with which they serve around it, the fire pans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they will spread on it a covering of goatskin, and will put in its poles.


BIBLETEXT:
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath will come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, or they die. These are the things of the tabernacle of assembly that the sons of Kohath are to carry.


BIBLETEXT:
And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest will have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the perpetual food offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of the whole tabernacle and all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its vessels."


BIBLETEXT:
"Let not the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites,


BIBLETEXT:
but prepare them, that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,


BIBLETEXT:
but they will not go in to look on the holy things as they are covered, that they may not die."


BIBLETEXT:
"Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses and by their tribes.


BIBLETEXT:
From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you will count them, all who can come to do duty, to do service in the tabernacle of assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
This is the service of the tribes of the Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens:


BIBLETEXT:
they will carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of assembly with its covering and the covering of goatskin that is on top of it and the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly


BIBLETEXT:
and the hangings of the court and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service. And they will do all that needs to be done with regard to them.


BIBLETEXT:
All the service of the sons of the Gershonites will be at the command of Aaron and his sons, in all that they are to carry and in all that they have to do. And you will assign to their charge all that they are to carry.


BIBLETEXT:
This is the service of the tribes of the sons of the Gershonites in the tabernacle of assembly, and their duty is to be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


BIBLETEXT:
"As for the sons of Merari, you will count them by their tribes and their fathers' houses.


BIBLETEXT:
From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you will count them, everyone who can come on duty, to do the service of the tabernacle of assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
And this is what they are charged to carry, as the whole of their service in the tabernacle of assembly: the frames of the tabernacle, with its bars, pillars, and bases,


BIBLETEXT:
and the pillars around the court with their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their equipment and all their accessories. And you will list by name the objects that they are required to carry.


BIBLETEXT:
This is the service of the tribes of the sons of Merari, the whole of their service in the tabernacle of assembly, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites, by their tribes and their fathers' houses,


BIBLETEXT:
from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tabernacle of assembly;


BIBLETEXT:
and those counted by tribes were 2 families and 750.


BIBLETEXT:
This was the count of the tribes of the Kohathites, all who served in the tabernacle of assembly, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
Those counted of the sons of Gershon, by their tribes and their fathers' houses,


BIBLETEXT:
from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty for service in the tabernacle of assembly,


BIBLETEXT:
those counted by their tribes and their fathers' houses were 2 families and 630.


BIBLETEXT:
This was the count of the tribes of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the tabernacle of assembly, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Those counted of the tribes of the sons of Merari, by their tribes and their fathers' houses,


BIBLETEXT:
from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tabernacle of assembly,


BIBLETEXT:
those counted by tribes were 3 families and 200.


BIBLETEXT:
This was the count of the tribes of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
All those who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of Israel counted, by their tribes and their fathers' houses,


BIBLETEXT:
from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come to do the service of ministry and the service of bearing burdens in the tabernacle of assembly,


BIBLETEXT:
those counted were 7 families and 1,580.


BIBLETEXT:
According to the commandment of the LORD through Moses they were counted, each one with his task of serving or carrying. Thus they were counted by him, as the LORD commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
"Command the sons of Israel that they remove from the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.


BIBLETEXT:
You will remove both male and female, setting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Israel did so, and removed them outside the camp; as the LORD said to Moses, so the sons of Israel accomplished it.


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person realizes his guilt,


BIBLETEXT:
he will confess his sin that he has committed. And he will make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong will go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.


BIBLETEXT:
And every contribution, all the holy donations of the sons of Israel, which they bring to the priest, will be his.


BIBLETEXT:
Each one will keep his holy donations: whatever anyone gives to the priest will be his."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel, If any man's wife goes astray and deals treacherously with him,


BIBLETEXT:
if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act,


BIBLETEXT:
and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself,


BIBLETEXT:
then the man will bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He will pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a food offering of jealousy, a food offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will bring her near and set her before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will set the woman before the LORD and unbind the hair of the woman's head and place in her hands the food offering of remembrance, which is the food offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest will have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the priest will make her take an oath, saying, 'If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband's authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.


BIBLETEXT:
But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,


BIBLETEXT:
then let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman, 'the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your belly swell.


BIBLETEXT:
May this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your belly swell and your thigh fall away.' And the woman will say, 'Amen, Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
Then the priest will write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse will enter into her and cause bitter pain.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand and will wave the grain offering before the LORD and bring it to the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will take a handful of the food offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward will make the woman drink the water.


BIBLETEXT:
And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has dealt treacherously with her husband, the water that brings the curse will enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she will be free and will bear children.


BIBLETEXT:
This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself,


BIBLETEXT:
or when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife. Then he will set the woman before the LORD, and the priest will carry out for her all this law.


BIBLETEXT:
The man will be free from iniquity, but the woman will bear her iniquity."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the LORD,


BIBLETEXT:
he will abstain himself from wine and strong drink. He will drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and will not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.


BIBLETEXT:
All the days of his dedication he will eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.


BIBLETEXT:
All the days of his vow of dedication, no razor will touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he dedicates himself to the LORD, he will be holy. He will let the locks of hair of his head grow long.


BIBLETEXT:
All the days that he dedicates himself to the LORD he will not go near a dead body.


BIBLETEXT:
Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, will he make himself unclean, because his dedication to God is on his head.


BIBLETEXT:
All the days of his dedication he is holy to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head, then he will shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he will shave it.


BIBLETEXT:
On the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly,


BIBLETEXT:
and the priest will offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he will dedicate his head that same day


BIBLETEXT:
and dedicate himself to the LORD for the days of his dedication and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period will be void, because his dedication was defiled.


BIBLETEXT:
And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his dedication has been completed: he will be brought to the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly,


BIBLETEXT:
and he will bring his gift to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace offering,


BIBLETEXT:
and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their food offering and their drink offerings.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will bring them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,


BIBLETEXT:
and he will offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest will offer also its food offering and its drink offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the Nazirite will shave his dedicated head at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly and will take the hair from his dedicated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and will put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his dedication,


BIBLETEXT:
and the priest will wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. They are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.


BIBLETEXT:
"This is the law of the Nazirite. But if he vows an offering to the LORD above his Nazirite vow, as he can afford, in exact accordance with the vow that he takes, then he will do in addition to the law of the Nazirite."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you will bless the sons of Israel: you will say to them,


BIBLETEXT:
the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;


BIBLETEXT:
the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.


BIBLETEXT:
So will they put My name upon the sons of Israel, and I will bless them."


BIBLETEXT:
On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and dedicated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and dedicated the altar with all its utensils,


BIBLETEXT:
the chiefs of Israel, heads of their fathers' houses, who were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were counted, approached


BIBLETEXT:
and put their offerings before the LORD, six wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the chiefs, and for each one an ox. They presented them before the tabernacle.


BIBLETEXT:
"Accept these from them, that they may be used in the service of the tabernacle of assembly, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses took the wagons and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.


BIBLETEXT:
Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service.


BIBLETEXT:
And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


BIBLETEXT:
But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with the service of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulder.


BIBLETEXT:
And the chiefs offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the chiefs offered their offering before the altar.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Moses, "They will offer their offerings, one chief each day, for the dedication of the altar."


BIBLETEXT:
He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.


BIBLETEXT:
And his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


BIBLETEXT:
one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;


BIBLETEXT:
one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


BIBLETEXT:
On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, the chief of Issachar, made an offering.


BIBLETEXT:
He offered for his offering one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.


BIBLETEXT:
On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, the chief of the sons of Zebulun:


BIBLETEXT:
his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.


BIBLETEXT:
On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, the chief of the sons of Reuben:


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.


BIBLETEXT:
On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, the chief of the sons of Simeon:


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


BIBLETEXT:
On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, the chief of the sons of Gad:


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.


BIBLETEXT:
On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, the chief of the sons of Ephraim:


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.


BIBLETEXT:
On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, the chief of the sons of Manasseh:


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


BIBLETEXT:
On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, the chief of the sons of Benjamin:


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.


BIBLETEXT:
On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, the chief of the sons of Dan:


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


BIBLETEXT:
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, the chief of the sons of Asher:


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.


BIBLETEXT:
On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, the chief of the sons of Naphtali:


BIBLETEXT:
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.


BIBLETEXT:
This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,


BIBLETEXT:
each silver plate weighing 130 shekels and each basin 70, all the silver of the vessels 2,400 shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary,


BIBLETEXT:
the twelve golden dishes, full of incense, weighing 10 shekels apiece according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the dishes being 120 shekels;


BIBLETEXT:
all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old, with their grain offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering;


BIBLETEXT:
and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.


BIBLETEXT:
And when Moses went into the tabernacle of assembly to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him.


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the lampstand."


BIBLETEXT:
And Aaron obeyed: he set up its lamps in front of the lampstand, as the LORD commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
And this was the design of the lampstand, hammered gold. From its base to its flowers, it was hammered according to the pattern that the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.


BIBLETEXT:
"Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore you will prepare them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and have them shave over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.


BIBLETEXT:
Then let them take a bull from the herd and its food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you will take another bull from the herd for a sin offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will bring the Levites before the tabernacle of assembly and assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
When you bring the Levites before the LORD, the sons of Israel will lay their hands on the Levites,


BIBLETEXT:
and Aaron will offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, that they may do the service of the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the Levites will lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you will offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD to make atonement for the Levites.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will set the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and will offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore you will separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites will be Mine.


BIBLETEXT:
And after that the Levites will go in to serve at the tabernacle of assembly, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering.


BIBLETEXT:
For they are wholly given to me from among the sons of Israel. Instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel, I have taken them for Myself.


BIBLETEXT:
For all the firstborn among the sons of Israel are Mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I dedicated them for Myself,


BIBLETEXT:
and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the sons of Israel, to do the service for the sons of Israel at the tabernacle of assembly and to make atonement for the sons of Israel, that there will be no plague among the sons of Israel when the sons of Israel come near the sanctuary."


BIBLETEXT:
This Moses and Aaron did and all the congregation of the sons of Israel to the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the sons of Israel did to them.


BIBLETEXT:
And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes, and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.


BIBLETEXT:
And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tabernacle of assembly before Aaron and his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they prepared them.


BIBLETEXT:
"This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward, they will come to do duty in the service of the tabernacle of assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
And from the age of fifty years they will cease from the duty of the service and serve no more.


BIBLETEXT:
They attend for their brothers in the tabernacle of assembly by keeping guard, but they will do no labour. Thus will you appoint the Levites in assigning their duties."


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD 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,


BIBLETEXT:
"Let the sons of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.


BIBLETEXT:
On the fourteenth day of this month, at dusk, you will keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you will observe it."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses told the sons of Israel that they should keep the Passover.


BIBLETEXT:
And they observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at dusk, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel prepared it.


BIBLETEXT:
And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.


BIBLETEXT:
And those men said to him, "We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the LORD's offering at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?"


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses said to them, "Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he will still keep the Passover to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
In the second month on the fourteenth day at dusk they will observe it. They will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.


BIBLETEXT:
They will leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones; according to all the statute for the Passover they will observe it.


BIBLETEXT:
But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person will be cut off from his people because he did not bring the LORD's offering at its appointed time; that man will bear his sin.


BIBLETEXT:
And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so will he do. You will have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native."


BIBLETEXT:
On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony. And at dusk it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until dawn.


BIBLETEXT:
So it was always: the cloud covered it and the appearance of fire by night.


BIBLETEXT:
And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the sons of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel camped.


BIBLETEXT:
At the command of the LORD the sons of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.


BIBLETEXT:
Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle a long time, the sons of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not set out.


BIBLETEXT:
Sometimes the cloud was for  a long time over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the LORD they remained in camp; then according to the command of the LORD they set out.


BIBLETEXT:
And sometimes the cloud remained from dusk until dawn. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they set out.


BIBLETEXT:
Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the sons of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out.


BIBLETEXT:
At the command of the LORD they camped, and at the command of the LORD they set out. They kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
"Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you will make them, and you will use them for summoning the assembly and for breaking camp.


BIBLETEXT:
And when both are blown, all the assembly will gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, will gather themselves to you.


BIBLETEXT:
When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side will set out.


BIBLETEXT:
And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side will set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.


BIBLETEXT:
But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you will blow a long blast, but you will not sound an alarm.


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Aaron, the priests,will blow the trumpets. The trumpets will be to you for a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations.


BIBLETEXT:
And when you go to war in your land against the enemy who distresses you, then you will sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be safe from your enemies.


BIBLETEXT:
On the day of your joyfulness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you will blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They will be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God."


BIBLETEXT:
In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony,


BIBLETEXT:
and the sons of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.


BIBLETEXT:
They set out for the first time at the command of the LORD by Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
The standard of the camp of the sons of Judah set out first by their companies, and over their company was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


BIBLETEXT:
And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.


BIBLETEXT:
And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.


BIBLETEXT:
And when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out.


BIBLETEXT:
And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies, and over their company was Elizur the son of Shedeur.


BIBLETEXT:
And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


BIBLETEXT:
And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.


BIBLETEXT:
And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim set out by their companies, and over their company was Elishama the son of Ammihud.


BIBLETEXT:
And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


BIBLETEXT:
And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan, acting as the rear guard of all the camps, set out by their companies, and over their company was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


BIBLETEXT:
And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran.


BIBLETEXT:
And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.


BIBLETEXT:
This was the order of march of the sons of Israel by their companies, when they set out.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the LORD has promised good to Israel."


BIBLETEXT:
But he said to him, "I will not go. I will depart to my own land and to my kindred."


BIBLETEXT:
And he said, "Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.


BIBLETEXT:
And if you do go with us, whatever good the LORD will do to us, the same will we do to you."


BIBLETEXT:
So they set out from the mount of the LORD three days' journey. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.


BIBLETEXT:
And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, whenever they set out from the camp.


BIBLETEXT:
And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, "Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you."


BIBLETEXT:
And when it rested, he said, "Return, O LORD, to the many thousands of Israel."


BIBLETEXT:
And the people complained and when the LORD heard it He was displeased, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.


BIBLETEXT:
So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.


BIBLETEXT:
Now the mixed multitude that was among them had a strong craving. And the sons of Israel also wept again and said, "Who will give us meat to eat!


BIBLETEXT:
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for no cost, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.


BIBLETEXT:
But now our vitality dries up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to face."


BIBLETEXT:
Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the resemblance of bdellium.


BIBLETEXT:
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 like the taste of cakes fresh oil.


BIBLETEXT:
When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.


BIBLETEXT:
Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD blazed greatly, and Moses was displeased.


BIBLETEXT:
Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you punished your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that you lay the burden of all these people on me?


BIBLETEXT:
Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land that you swore to give their fathers?


BIBLETEXT:
Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'


BIBLETEXT:
I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too difficult for me.


BIBLETEXT:
If you will treat me like this, destroy me, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my misery."


BIBLETEXT:
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Assemble for 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 tabernacle of assembly, and let them take their stand there with you.


BIBLETEXT:
And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they will bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone.


BIBLETEXT:
And say to the people, 'Cleanse yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,


BIBLETEXT:
but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes disgusting to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"


BIBLETEXT:
But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred families on foot, and you have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!'


BIBLETEXT:
Will flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or will all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them?"


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD's hand insufficient? Now you will see if My word will come true for you or not."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing so.


BIBLETEXT:
Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those counted, but they had not gone out to the tabernacle, and so they prophesied in the camp.


BIBLETEXT:
And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."


BIBLETEXT:
And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, "My lord Moses, stop them."


BIBLETEXT:
But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put His Spirit on them!"


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.


BIBLETEXT:
Then a wind from the LORD sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall around the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the ground.


BIBLETEXT:
And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered the least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.


BIBLETEXT:
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck down the people with a very great plague.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.


BIBLETEXT:
From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.


BIBLETEXT:
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had taken, for he had married a Cushite woman.


BIBLETEXT:
And they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?" And the LORD heard it.


BIBLETEXT:
Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any other man who were on the face of the earth.


BIBLETEXT:
And suddenly the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of assembly." And the three of them went.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.


BIBLETEXT:
And he said, "Hear My words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make Myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.


BIBLETEXT:
Not so with My servant Moses. He is faithful in all My house.


BIBLETEXT:
With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then are you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?"


BIBLETEXT:
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them, and He departed.


BIBLETEXT:
When the cloud removed from over the tabernacle, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.


BIBLETEXT:
And Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have been foolish and have sinned.


BIBLETEXT:
Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses cried to the LORD, "O God, please heal her, please."


BIBLETEXT:
But the LORD said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Have her shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be received again."


BIBLETEXT:
So Miriam was shut outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was received again.


BIBLETEXT:
After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and camped in the wilderness of Paran.


BIBLETEXT:
"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you will send a man, every one a chief among them."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;


BIBLETEXT:
from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;


BIBLETEXT:
from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;


BIBLETEXT:
from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;


BIBLETEXT:
from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;


BIBLETEXT:
from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;


BIBLETEXT:
from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;


BIBLETEXT:
from the tribe of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;


BIBLETEXT:
from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;


BIBLETEXT:
from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;


BIBLETEXT:
from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;


BIBLETEXT:
from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.


BIBLETEXT:
These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.


BIBLETEXT:
Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, "Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hills,


BIBLETEXT:
and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,


BIBLETEXT:
and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or fortresses,


BIBLETEXT:
and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.


BIBLETEXT:
So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, coming to Hamath.


BIBLETEXT:
They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, were children of Anak. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.


BIBLETEXT:
And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; also some pomegranates and figs.


BIBLETEXT:
That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the sons of Israel cut down from there.


BIBLETEXT:
They returned from spying out the land after the end of forty days.


BIBLETEXT:
And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the assembly, and showed them the fruit of the land.


BIBLETEXT:
And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. Indeed it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.


BIBLETEXT:
However, the people who dwell in the land are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. And also we saw the children of Anak there.


BIBLETEXT:
The Amalekite dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hills. And the Canaanite dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan."


BIBLETEXT:
But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."


BIBLETEXT:
Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we."


BIBLETEXT:
So they brought to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are men of stature.


BIBLETEXT:
And there we saw the tyrants, the sons of Anak, of the giants, and we were in our own sight like grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."


BIBLETEXT:
Then all the assembly raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.


BIBLETEXT:
And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole assembly said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!


BIBLETEXT:
Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"


BIBLETEXT:
And they said to one another, "Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt."


BIBLETEXT:
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the multitude of the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes


BIBLETEXT:
and said to all the multitude of the sons of Israel, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.


BIBLETEXT:
If the LORD favors us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.


BIBLETEXT:
Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are food for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them."


BIBLETEXT:
Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared at the tabernacle of assembly to all the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people scorn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, in spite of all the signs that I have performed among them?


BIBLETEXT:
I will strike them with the plague and dispossess them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."


BIBLETEXT:
But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for You raised up this people in Your strength from among them,


BIBLETEXT:
and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O LORD, are within this people. For You, O LORD, 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.


BIBLETEXT:
Now if You kill this flock as one people, then the nations who have heard Your fame will say,


BIBLETEXT:
'It is because the LORD did not have power to bring this people into the land that He swore to give to them therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.'


BIBLETEXT:
And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, to the third and the fourth generation.'


BIBLETEXT:
Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Your steadfast love, just as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now."


BIBLETEXT:
Then the LORD said, "I have forgiven, according to your word.


BIBLETEXT:
But truly, as I live, and as all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD,


BIBLETEXT:
for of the men who have seen My glory and My signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed My voice,


BIBLETEXT:
they will not see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who scorned Me will see it.


BIBLETEXT:
But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his seed will possess it.


BIBLETEXT:
Now, since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Reeds."


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"How long will this wicked assembly grumble against Me? I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel, which they complain against Me.


BIBLETEXT:
Say to them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in My hearing I will bestow to you:


BIBLETEXT:
your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, and of all your number counted in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against Me,


BIBLETEXT:
not one will come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.


BIBLETEXT:
But your children, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they will know the land that you have rejected.


BIBLETEXT:
But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.


BIBLETEXT:
And your children will be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and will suffer for your adultery, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.


BIBLETEXT:
According to the amount of time in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you will bear your iniquity forty years, and you will know My enmity.'


BIBLETEXT:
I, the LORD, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked assembly who are gathered together against Me: in this wilderness they will come to a full end, and there they will die."


BIBLETEXT:
And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the assembly grumble against Him, who came with a bad report about the land,


BIBLETEXT:
even the men who came with a bad report of the land, died by plague before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.


BIBLETEXT:
When Moses told these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly.


BIBLETEXT:
And they rose up early in the dawn and went up to the heights of the hills, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that the LORD has promised, for we have sinned."


BIBLETEXT:
But Moses said, "Why now are you transgressing the command of the LORD, when that will not prosper?


BIBLETEXT:
Do not go up, for the Lord is not in your midst, you be defeated before your enemies.


BIBLETEXT:
For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are facing you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from following the LORD, the LORD will not be with you."


BIBLETEXT:
But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hills, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed out of the camp.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the Amalekite and the Canaanite who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and beat them down, even to Hormah.


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,


BIBLETEXT:
and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD,


BIBLETEXT:
then he who brings his offering will offer to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil;


BIBLETEXT:
and you will offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a fourth of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.


BIBLETEXT:
Or for a ram, you will offer for a food offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.


BIBLETEXT:
And for the drink offering you will offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And when you offer a son of the heard as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or for peace offerings to the LORD,


BIBLETEXT:
then one will offer with the son of the herd a grain offering of three tenths part of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Thus it will be done for each bull or ram, or for each lamb or kid.


BIBLETEXT:
As many as you offer, so will you provide with each one, as many as there are.


BIBLETEXT:
Every native will do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living among you for generations, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he will do as you do.


BIBLETEXT:
For the assembly, there will be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner will be alike before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
One law and one rule will be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you


BIBLETEXT:
and when you eat of the bread of the land, you will provide a gift to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the first of your dough you will present a loaf as a gift; like a gift from the threshing floor, you will present it.


BIBLETEXT:
Some of the first of your dough you will give to the LORD as a gift throughout your generations.


BIBLETEXT:
But if you stray, and not observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses,


BIBLETEXT:
all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward for your generations,


BIBLETEXT:
then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the assembly, all the assembly will offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its food offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one kid goat for a sin offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will make atonement for all the assembly of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have given their offering, a food offering to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their mistake.


BIBLETEXT:
And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.


BIBLETEXT:
If one person sins unintentionally, he will offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the person who makes a mistake, when he goes astray, to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.


BIBLETEXT:
You will have one law for him who goes astray, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them.


BIBLETEXT:
But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, and reviles the LORD, that person will be cut off from among his people.


BIBLETEXT:
Because he has scorned the word of the LORD and has broken His commandment, that person will be utterly cut off; his iniquity will be on him."


BIBLETEXT:
While the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.


BIBLETEXT:
And those who found him gathering wood took him to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
They put him under guard, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Moses, "The man will be put to death; all the assembly will stone him with stones outside the camp."


BIBLETEXT:
And all the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their clothes throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner.


BIBLETEXT:
And it will be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, when you may commit adultery.


BIBLETEXT:
So you will remember and do all My commandments, and be holy to your God.


BIBLETEXT:
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD your God."


BIBLETEXT:
Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.


BIBLETEXT:
And they rose up against Moses, with a number of the sons of Israel, 250 chiefs of the multitude, chosen from the assembly, men of authority.


BIBLETEXT:
They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all in the assembly are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?"


BIBLETEXT:
When Moses heard it, he fell on his face,


BIBLETEXT:
and he said to Korah and all his multitude, "In the morning the LORD will show who is His, and who is holy, and will bring him near to Him. The one whom He chooses He will bring near to Him.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore prepare: take censers, Korah and all his multitude;


BIBLETEXT:
put fire in them and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses will be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!"


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi:


BIBLETEXT:
is it but a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the assembly of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the assembly to minister to them,


BIBLETEXT:
and that He has brought you near Him, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore it is against the LORD that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you complain of him?"


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and they said, "We will not come up.


BIBLETEXT:
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, that you must also make yourself a ruler over us?


BIBLETEXT:
Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us possession of fields and vineyards. Will you pierce the eyes of these men? We will not come up."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses was very angry and said to the LORD, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses said to Korah, "Be present, you and all your multitude, before the LORD, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.


BIBLETEXT:
And let every one of you take his censer and put incense on it, and every one of you bring before the LORD his censer, 250 censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer."


BIBLETEXT:
So every man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly with Moses and Aaron.


BIBLETEXT:
Then Korah assembled all the multitude against them at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a instant."


BIBLETEXT:
And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin, and will you be angry with all the multitude?"


BIBLETEXT:
"Say to the assembly, Get away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram."


BIBLETEXT:
Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.


BIBLETEXT:
And he spoke to the assembly, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, or you will be consumed with all their sins."


BIBLETEXT:
So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their children.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses said, "By this you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own thinking.


BIBLETEXT:
If these die a natural death as all men die, and if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have scorned the LORD."


BIBLETEXT:
And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them opened up.


BIBLETEXT:
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men who belonged to Korah and all their goods.


BIBLETEXT:
So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into the grave, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, "Or the earth will swallow us up!"


BIBLETEXT:
And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.


BIBLETEXT:
"Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy.


BIBLETEXT:
As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD, and they became holy. Thus they will be a sign to the sons of Israel."


BIBLETEXT:
So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,


BIBLETEXT:
to be a reminder to the sons of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, or he will become like Korah and his company, as the LORD said to him through Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
But on the next day all the assembly of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD."


BIBLETEXT:
And when the assembly had gathered against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tabernacle of assembly. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tabernacle of assembly,


BIBLETEXT:
"Get away from the midst of this assembly, that I may consume them in a instant." And they fell on their faces.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the assembly and make atonement for them, for anger has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun."


BIBLETEXT:
So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.


BIBLETEXT:
And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.


BIBLETEXT:
Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.


BIBLETEXT:
And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, when the plague was stopped.


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each fathers' house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. Write each man's name on his staff,


BIBLETEXT:
and write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi. For there will be one staff for the head of each fathers' house.


BIBLETEXT:
Then you will deposit them in the tabernacle of assembly before the testimony, where I meet with you.


BIBLETEXT:
And the staff of the man whom I choose will sprout. Thus I will make to cease from Me the complaining of the sons of Israel, which they grumble against you."


BIBLETEXT:
Moses spoke to the sons of Israel. And all their chiefs gave him staffs, one for each chief, according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. And the staff of Aaron was among their staffs.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses deposited the staffs before the LORD in the tabernacle of the testimony.


BIBLETEXT:
On the next day Moses went into the tabernacle of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.


BIBLETEXT:
Then Moses took all the staffs from before the LORD to all the sons of Israel. And they looked, and each man took his staff.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Moses, "Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their complaining against Me, or they die."


BIBLETEXT:
Thus did Moses; as the LORD commanded him, so he did.


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Israel said to Moses, "Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.


BIBLETEXT:
Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, will die. Are we all to perish?"


BIBLETEXT:
So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you will accept iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you will accept the iniquity connected with your priesthood.


BIBLETEXT:
And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and serve you while you and your sons with you are before the tabernacle of the testimony.


BIBLETEXT:
They will keep guard over you and over the whole tabernacle, but will not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar or they and you die.


BIBLETEXT:
They will join you and keep guard over the tabernacle of assembly for all the service of the tabernacle, and no stranger will come near you.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be anger on the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the sons of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
And you and your sons with you will guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you will serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any stranger who comes near will be put to death."


BIBLETEXT:
Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the gifts made to me, all the dedicated things of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.


BIBLETEXT:
This will be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every food offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, will be most holy to you and to your sons.


BIBLETEXT:
In a most holy place will you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.


BIBLETEXT:
This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.


BIBLETEXT:
All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the LORD, I give to you.


BIBLETEXT:
The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, will be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.


BIBLETEXT:
Every devoted thing in Israel will be yours.


BIBLETEXT:
Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the LORD, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you will redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you will redeem.


BIBLETEXT:
And their redemption price, at a month old you will redeem them, you will fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.


BIBLETEXT:
But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you will not redeem; they are holy. You will sprinkle their blood on the altar and will burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
But their flesh will be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.


BIBLETEXT:
All the holy gifts that the sons of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your seed with you."


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Aaron, "You will have no inheritance in their land, neither will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tabernacle of assembly,


BIBLETEXT:
so that the sons of Israel do not come near the tabernacle of assembly, or they bear sin and die.


BIBLETEXT:
But the Levites will do the service of the tabernacle of assembly, and they will bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the sons of Israel they will have no inheritance.


BIBLETEXT:
For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they present as a gift to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they will have no inheritance among the sons of Israel."


BIBLETEXT:
"Moreover, you will speak and say to the Levites, 'When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you will present a gift from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.


BIBLETEXT:
And your gift will be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.


BIBLETEXT:
So you will also present a gift to the LORD from all your tithes, which you receive from the sons of Israel. And from it you will give the LORD's gift to Aaron the priest.


BIBLETEXT:
Out of all the gifts to you, you will present every gift due to the LORD; from each its best part is to be dedicated.'


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore you will say to them, 'When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest will be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress.


BIBLETEXT:
And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tabernacle of assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will accept no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you will not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, or you die.'"


BIBLETEXT:
Now the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the sons of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has not been set.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him.


BIBLETEXT:
And Eleazar the priest will take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tabernacle of assembly seven times.


BIBLETEXT:
On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,


BIBLETEXT:
with the food offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance;


BIBLETEXT:
also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the daily burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offerings.


BIBLETEXT:
On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,


BIBLETEXT:
also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the daily burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offering.


BIBLETEXT:
On the eighth day you will have a solemn assembly. You will not do any ordinary work,


BIBLETEXT:
but you will offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish,


BIBLETEXT:
and the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance;


BIBLETEXT:
also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering and its drink offering.


BIBLETEXT:
These you will offer to the LORD at your appointed feasts, in addition to your vow offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your food offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses told the sons of Israel everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, "This is what the LORD has commanded.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man promises a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to commit himself by a pledge, he will not break his word. He will do according to all that he has spoken.


BIBLETEXT:
If a woman promises a vow to the LORD and commit herself by a pledge, while within her father's house in her youth,


BIBLETEXT:
and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has committed herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself will stand.


BIBLETEXT:
But if her father prohibited her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers or pledge by which she has committed herself will stand. And the LORD will forgive her, because her father prohibited her.


BIBLETEXT:
If she marries a husband, while under her vows or any rash sayings of her lips by which she has committed herself,


BIBLETEXT:
and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her vows will stand, and her pledges by which she has committed herself will stand.


BIBLETEXT:
But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he prohibits her, then he makes void her vow that was on her, and the rash sayings of her lips by which she committed herself. And the LORD will forgive her.


BIBLETEXT:
But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has committed herself, will remain with her.


BIBLETEXT:
And if she vowed in her husband's house or committed herself by a pledge with an oath,


BIBLETEXT:
and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not prohibit her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge by which she committed herself will stand.


BIBLETEXT:
But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever sayings concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself will not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the LORD will forgive her.


BIBLETEXT:
Any vow and any binding oath to humble herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void.


BIBLETEXT:
But if her husband says nothing to her from time to time, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges that are upon her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her at the time that he heard them.


BIBLETEXT:
But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he will accept her fault."


BIBLETEXT:
These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses about a man and his wife and about a father and his daughter while she is in her youth within her father's house.


BIBLETEXT:
"Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you will be gathered to your people."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian.


BIBLETEXT:
You will send a troop from each of the tribes of Israel to the war."


BIBLETEXT:
So there were committed, out of the multitudes of Israel, a troop from each tribe, twelve troops armed for war.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses sent them to the war, a troop from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding in his hand.


BIBLETEXT:
They battled against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed all the males.


BIBLETEXT:
They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their children, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods.


BIBLETEXT:
And they burned all their cities with fire, their homes, and all their fortresses.


BIBLETEXT:
and took all the spoil and all the plunder, among man and among beast.


BIBLETEXT:
Then they took the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the assembly of the sons of Israel, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


BIBLETEXT:
Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the assembly went to meet them outside the camp.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.


BIBLETEXT:
Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?


BIBLETEXT:
Behold, these, on Balaam's advice, caused the sons of Israel to transgress against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the assembly of the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Now therefore, kill every male among the children, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.


BIBLETEXT:
But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.


BIBLETEXT:
Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, cleanse yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.


BIBLETEXT:
You will cleanse all clothing, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood."


BIBLETEXT:
Then Eleazar the priest said to the men in the army who had gone to battle: "This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded Moses:


BIBLETEXT:
only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,


BIBLETEXT:
everything that can stand the fire, you will pass through the fire, and it will be clean. However, it will also be purified with the water for impurity. And whatever cannot stand the fire, you will pass through the water.


BIBLETEXT:
You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp."


BIBLETEXT:
"Take the sum of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' houses of the assembly,


BIBLETEXT:
and divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
And take a tribute for the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the people and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks.


BIBLETEXT:
Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a gift to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And from the sons of Israel's half you will take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the LORD."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep,


BIBLETEXT:
and 32,000 persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him.


BIBLETEXT:
And the half, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, numbered 337,500 sheep,


BIBLETEXT:
and the LORD's tribute of sheep was 675.


BIBLETEXT:
The cattle were 36,000, of which the LORD's tribute was 72.


BIBLETEXT:
The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD's tribute was 61.


BIBLETEXT:
The persons were 16,000, of which the LORD's tribute was 32 persons.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the gift for the LORD, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
From the sons of Israel's half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had served in the army,


BIBLETEXT:
now the assembly's half was 337,500 sheep,


BIBLETEXT:
from the sons of Israel's half Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the leaders who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses


BIBLETEXT:
and said to Moses, "Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.


BIBLETEXT:
And we bring the LORD's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold, all crafted articles.


BIBLETEXT:
And all the gold of the gift that they presented to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.


BIBLETEXT:
The men in the army had each taken plunder for himself.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and took it into the tabernacle of assembly, as a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very large number of flocks. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the country was a place for flocks.


BIBLETEXT:
So the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the assembly,


BIBLETEXT:
And the heifer will be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, will be burned.


BIBLETEXT:
And the priest will take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the priest will wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest will be unclean until evening.


BIBLETEXT:
The one who burns the heifer will wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and will be unclean until evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And a man who is clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place. And they will be kept for the assembly of the sons of Israel for the water of impurity; it is a sin offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this will be a perpetual statute for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.


BIBLETEXT:
"Whoever touches the dead body of any person will be unclean seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
He will cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.


BIBLETEXT:
Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person will be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he will be unclean. His uncleanness is still with him.


BIBLETEXT:
This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent will be unclean seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
And every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
For the unclean they will take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water will be added in a vessel.


BIBLETEXT:
Then a clean person will take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave.


BIBLETEXT:
And the clean person will sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. Thus on the seventh day he will cleanse him, and he will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he will be clean.


BIBLETEXT:
If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person will be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.


BIBLETEXT:
And it will be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity will wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity will be unclean until evening.


BIBLETEXT:
And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening."


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Israel, the whole assembly, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.


BIBLETEXT:
Now there was no water for the assembly. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.


BIBLETEXT:
And the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!


BIBLETEXT:
Why have you led the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both us and our cattle?


BIBLETEXT:
And why have you caused us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink."


BIBLETEXT:
Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them,


BIBLETEXT:
"Take the staff, and assemble the multitude, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you will bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the assembly and their cattle."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as He commanded him.


BIBLETEXT:
Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels: will we bring water for you out of this rock?"


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out mightly, and the assembly drank, and their livestock.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in Me, to uphold Me as holy in the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them."


BIBLETEXT:
These are the waters of Meribah, where the sons of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and through them He showed Himself holy.


BIBLETEXT:
Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met:


BIBLETEXT:
how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers.


BIBLETEXT:
And when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent an angel and got us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.


BIBLETEXT:
Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink water from a well. We will go along the King's Highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory."


BIBLETEXT:
But Edom said to him, "You will not pass through, or I come out with the sword against you."


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway, and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more."


BIBLETEXT:
But he said, "You will not pass through." And Edom came out against them with a many troops and with a strong force.


BIBLETEXT:
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.


BIBLETEXT:
And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the sons of Israel, the whole assembly, came to Mount Hor.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom,


BIBLETEXT:
"Let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he will not enter the land that I have given to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.


BIBLETEXT:
Take Aaron and Eleazar his son and bring them up to Mount Hor.


BIBLETEXT:
And strip Aaron of his clothes and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron will be gathered to his people and will die there."


BIBLETEXT:
Moses did as the LORD commanded. And they went up Mount Hor in the sight of all the assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses stripped Aaron of his clothes and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.


BIBLETEXT:
And when all the assembly saw that Aaron had perished, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.


BIBLETEXT:
And King Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.


BIBLETEXT:
And Israel gave a vow to the LORD and said, "If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities."


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD heard the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; So the name of the place was called Hormah.


BIBLETEXT:
From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Sea of Reeds, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became discouraged on the way.


BIBLETEXT:
And 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 food and no water, and we are disgusted by this light bread."


BIBLETEXT:
Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many sons of Israel died.


BIBLETEXT:
And the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he remove the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, will live."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he could look at the bronze serpent and live.


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Israel set out and camped in Oboth.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.


BIBLETEXT:
From there they set out and camped in the Valley of Zered.


BIBLETEXT:
From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorite, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, "Waheb in Suphah, and the stream of Arnon,


BIBLETEXT:
and the slope of the valleys that extends to the abode of Ar, and leans to the border of Moab."


BIBLETEXT:
And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together, so that I may give them water."


BIBLETEXT:
Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! Sing to it!


BIBLETEXT:
the well that the rulers made, that the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter and with their staffs." And from the wilderness they went on to Mattanah,


BIBLETEXT:
and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,


BIBLETEXT:
and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that looks down on the desert.


BIBLETEXT:
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory."


BIBLETEXT:
But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his people together and went out against Israel to the wilderness and came to Jahaz and battled against Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonite, for the border of the Ammonite was strong.


BIBLETEXT:
And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.


BIBLETEXT:
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorite, who had battled against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore the ballad singers say, "Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established.


BIBLETEXT:
For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed the heights of the Arnon.


BIBLETEXT:
Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.


BIBLETEXT:
So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba."


BIBLETEXT:
Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorite.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and drove our the Amorite who were there.


BIBLETEXT:
Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.


BIBLETEXT:
But the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorite, who lived at Heshbon."


BIBLETEXT:
So they struck him and his sons and all his people, until he had no survivor left. And they occupied his land.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the sons of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.


BIBLETEXT:
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moab greatly feared the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "This multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,


BIBLETEXT:
sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the people of Amaw, to call him, saying, "Behold, a troop come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling next to me.


BIBLETEXT:
Come now, curse this people for me, since they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."


BIBLETEXT:
So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for the seer in their hand. And they came to Balaam and gave him Balak's message.


BIBLETEXT:
And he said to them, "Stay here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as the LORD speaks to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.


BIBLETEXT:
And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"


BIBLETEXT:
And Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
'Behold, a troop has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Now come, curse them for me. Perhaps I will be able to battle them and drive them out.'"


BIBLETEXT:
God said to Balaam, "You will not go with them. You will not curse the people, for they are blessed."


BIBLETEXT:
So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your own land, for the LORD has refused to let me go with you."


BIBLETEXT:
So the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."


BIBLETEXT:
Once again Balak sent rulers, more in number and more honorable than these.


BIBLETEXT:
And they came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: 'Let nothing keep you from coming to me,


BIBLETEXT:
for I will greatly honor you, and whatever you say to me I will do. Come, curse this people for me.'"


BIBLETEXT:
But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God to do less or more.


BIBLETEXT:
So you, too, please stay here tonight, that I may know anything more the LORD will say to me."


BIBLETEXT:
And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "If the men have come to invite you, rise, go with them; but only do what I tell you."


BIBLETEXT:
So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the rulers of Moab.


BIBLETEXT:
But God's anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD took his stand in the way as his opponent. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him.


BIBLETEXT:
And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand. And the donkey turned aside out of the road and went into the field. And Balaam beat the donkey, to turn her into the road.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side.


BIBLETEXT:
And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pushed against the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. So he beat her again.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.


BIBLETEXT:
When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam. And Balaam's anger was kindled, and he beat the donkey with his staff.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have beaten me these three times?"


BIBLETEXT:
And Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you."


BIBLETEXT:
And the donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my custom to treat you this way?" And he said, "No."


BIBLETEXT:
Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand. And he bowed down and fell on his face.


BIBLETEXT:
And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is disobedient before me.


BIBLETEXT:
The donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, doubtless by now I would have killed you and let her live."


BIBLETEXT:
Then Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in Your eyes, I will turn back."


BIBLETEXT:
And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but speak only the word that I command you." So Balaam went on with the rulers of Balak.


BIBLETEXT:
When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the border formed by the Arnon, at the furtherest border.


BIBLETEXT:
And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send to you to invite you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to truly honor you?"


BIBLETEXT:
Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you! Have I now the ability of my own to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I must speak."


BIBLETEXT:
Then Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.


BIBLETEXT:
And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent for Balaam and for the rulers who were with him.


BIBLETEXT:
And in the morning Balak took Balaam and led him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw the border of the people.


BIBLETEXT:
And Balaam said to Balak, "Build here for me seven altars, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams."


BIBLETEXT:
Balak did as Balaam had said. And Balak and Balaam offered on each altar a bull and a ram.


BIBLETEXT:
And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you." And he went to a bare place,


BIBLETEXT:
and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, "I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram."


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and this you will say."


BIBLETEXT:
And he returned to him, and behold, he and all the rulers of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And Balaam took up his proverb and said, "From Aram Balak has led me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, have scorn for Israel!'


BIBLETEXT:
How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I scorn whom the LORD has not scorned?


BIBLETEXT:
For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not regarded as among the nations!


BIBLETEXT:
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my posterity be like his!"


BIBLETEXT:
And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them."


BIBLETEXT:
And he answered and said, "Must I not be sure to speak what the LORD told me to say?"


BIBLETEXT:
And Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You will see only a fraction of them and will not see them all. Then curse them for me from there."


BIBLETEXT:
And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.


BIBLETEXT:
Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet over there."


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD met Balaam and put words in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and this you will say."


BIBLETEXT:
And he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the rulers of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?"


BIBLETEXT:
And Balaam took up his proverb and said, "Rise, Balak, and listen; and hear me, O son of Zippor:


BIBLETEXT:
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said it, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?


BIBLETEXT:
Behold, I received a command to bless: He has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.


BIBLETEXT:
He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the rejoicing of a king is among them.


BIBLETEXT:
God led them out of Egypt and is for them like the strength of the wild ox.


BIBLETEXT:
For there is no spell against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it will be said of Jacob and Israel, 'See what has God done!'


BIBLETEXT:
Behold, the people will rise as a lioness and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey and drunk the blood of the slain."


BIBLETEXT:
And Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all, or do not bless them at all."


BIBLETEXT:
But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'All that the LORD says, that I must do'?"


BIBLETEXT:
And Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there."


BIBLETEXT:
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.


BIBLETEXT:
And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."


BIBLETEXT:
And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.


BIBLETEXT:
When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his direction toward the wilderness.


BIBLETEXT:
And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping by their tribes. And the Spirit of God came on him,


BIBLETEXT:
and he took up his proverb and said, "Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eyes have been opened,


BIBLETEXT:
the sayings of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, yet with open eyes:


BIBLETEXT:
How good are your tents, O Jacob, your habitations, O Israel!


BIBLETEXT:
They are spread out like valleys, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.


BIBLETEXT:
Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will be in many waters; his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom will be magnified.


BIBLETEXT:
God brings him out of Egypt and is with him like the strength of the wild ox; he will devour the nations, his adversaries, and will break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.


BIBLETEXT:
He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will stir him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you."


BIBLETEXT:
And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he pounded his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them three times.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore now flee to your home. I said, 'I desired honor you,' but the LORD has denied you this honor."


BIBLETEXT:
And Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not say to your messengers whom you sent to me,


BIBLETEXT:
'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the LORD says, that will I say'?


BIBLETEXT:
And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days."


BIBLETEXT:
And he took up his proverb and said, "Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eyes have been opened,


BIBLETEXT:
He who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, yet with open eyes:


BIBLETEXT:
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star comes out of Jacob, and a scepter will rise out of Israel; it will crush the forehead of Moab and subdue all the sons of Sheth.


BIBLETEXT:
Edom will be a possession; Seir also, his enemies, will be a possession. Israel is doing valiantly.


BIBLETEXT:
And one from Jacob will exercise rule and destroy the survivors of cities!"


BIBLETEXT:
Then he looked on Amalek and took up his proverb and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its posterity is utter destruction."


BIBLETEXT:
And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his proverb and said, "Your dwelling place is enduring, and your nest is set in the rock.


BIBLETEXT:
But the Kenites will be consumed when Asshur takes you away captive."


BIBLETEXT:
And he took up his proverb and said, "Alas, who will live when God determines this?


BIBLETEXT:
But ships will come from Kittim and will afflict Asshur and Eber; and he also will come to lasting destruction."


BIBLETEXT:
Then Balaam rose and went back to his home. And Balak also went his way.


BIBLETEXT:
While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit adultery with the daughters of Moab.


BIBLETEXT:
They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.


BIBLETEXT:
So Israel joined to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to Moses, "Take all the rulers of the people and hang them in the sun before the LORD, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each one of you kill those of the men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor."


BIBLETEXT:
And behold, one of the sons of Israel came and presented a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole assembly of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the assembly and took a spear in his hand


BIBLETEXT:
and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the sons of Israel was stopped.


BIBLETEXT:
And those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.


BIBLETEXT:
"Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My anger from the sons of Israel, in that he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in My jealousy.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him My covenant of prosperity,


BIBLETEXT:
and it will be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and atoned for the sons of Israel.'"


BIBLETEXT:
The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, ruler of a father's house belonging to the Simeonites.


BIBLETEXT:
And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the head of a father's house in Midian.


BIBLETEXT:
"Lay seige on the Midianites and beat them down,


BIBLETEXT:
for they have distressed you with their deceit, with which they defrauded you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the ruler of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor."


BIBLETEXT:
After the plague, the LORD said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest,


BIBLETEXT:
"Take a sum of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all in Israel who are able to go to war."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"Take a sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward," as the LORD commanded Moses. The sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:


BIBLETEXT:
Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the tribe of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the tribe of the Palluites;


BIBLETEXT:
of Hezron, the tribe of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the tribe of the Carmites.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the tribes of the Reubenites, and those counted were 43 families and 730.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, chosen from the assembly, who quarreled against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they quarreled against the LORD


BIBLETEXT:
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a sign.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Simeon according to their tribes: of Nemuel, the tribe of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the tribe of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the tribe of the Jachinites;


BIBLETEXT:
of Zerah, the tribe of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the tribe of the Shaulites.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the tribes of the Simeonites, 22 families and 200.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Gad according to their tribes: of Zephon, the tribe of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the tribe of the Haggites; of Shuni, the tribe of the Shunites;


BIBLETEXT:
of Ozni, the tribe of the Oznites; of Eri, the tribe of the Erites;


BIBLETEXT:
of Arod, the tribe of the Arodites; of Areli, the tribe of the Arelites.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the tribes of the sons of Gad as they were counted, 40 families and 500.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Judah according to their tribes were: of Shelah, the tribe of the Shelanites; of Perez, the tribe of the Perezites; of Zerah, the tribe of the Zerahites.


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the tribe of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the tribe of the Hamulites.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the tribes of Judah as they were counted, 76 families and 500.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Issachar according to their tribes: of Tola, the tribe of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the tribe of the Punites;


BIBLETEXT:
of Jashub, the tribe of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the tribe of the Shimronites.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the tribes of Issachar as they were counted, 64 families and 300.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Zebulun, according to their tribes: of Sered, the tribe of the Seredites; of Elon, the tribe of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the tribe of the Jahleelites.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the tribes of the Zebulunites as they were counted, 60 families and 500.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Joseph according to their tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the tribe of the Machirites; and Machir was the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the tribe of the Gileadites.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the tribe of the Iezerites; of Helek, the tribe of the Helekites;


BIBLETEXT:
and of Asriel, the tribe of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the tribe of the Shechemites;


BIBLETEXT:
and of Shemida, the tribe of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the tribe of the Hepherites.


BIBLETEXT:
Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the tribes of Manasseh, and those counted were 52 families and 700.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the sons of Ephraim according to their tribes: of Shuthelah, the tribe of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the tribe of the Becherites; of Tahan, the tribe of the Tahanites.


BIBLETEXT:
And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the tribe of the Eranites.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the tribes of the sons of Ephraim as they were counted, 32 families and 500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their tribes.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Benjamin according to their tribes: of Bela, the tribe of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the tribe of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the tribe of the Ahiramites;


BIBLETEXT:
of Shephupham, the tribe of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the tribe of the Huphamites.


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the tribe of the Ardites; of Naaman, the tribe of the Naamites.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the sons of Benjamin according to their tribes, and those counted were 45 families and 600.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the sons of Dan according to their tribes: of Shuham, the tribe of the Shuhamites. These are the tribes of Dan according to their tribes.


BIBLETEXT:
All the tribes of the Shuhamites, as they were counted, were 64 families and 400.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Asher according to their tribes: of Imnah, the tribe of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the tribe of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the tribe of the Beriites.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the tribe of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the tribe of the Malchielites.


BIBLETEXT:
And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the tribes of the sons of Asher as they were counted, 53 families and 400.


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Naphtali according to their tribes: of Jahzeel, the tribe of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the tribe of the Gunites;


BIBLETEXT:
of Jezer, the tribe of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the tribe of the Shillemites.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the tribes of Naphtali according to their tribes, and those counted were 45 families and 400.


BIBLETEXT:
This was the sum of the sons of Israel, 596 families and 5,730.


BIBLETEXT:
"Among these the land will be divided for inheritance according to the number of names.


BIBLETEXT:
To a larger you will give a large inheritance, and to a smaller you will give a small inheritance; every tribe will be given its inheritance in proportion to its number.


BIBLETEXT:
But the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.


BIBLETEXT:
According to lot their inheritance will be divided between the larger and the smaller."


BIBLETEXT:
This was the count of the Levites according to their tribes: of Gershon, the tribe of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the tribe of the Kohathites; of Merari, the tribe of the Merarites.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the tribes of Levi: the tribe of the Libnites, the tribe of the Hebronites, the tribe of the Mahlites, the tribe of the Mushites, the tribe of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram.


BIBLETEXT:
The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.


BIBLETEXT:
And to Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


BIBLETEXT:
But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered profane fire before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And those counted were 22 families and 1,000, every male from a month old and upward. For they were not counted among the sons of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
These were those counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


BIBLETEXT:
But among these there was not one of those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had counted the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.


BIBLETEXT:
For the LORD had said of them, "They will die in the wilderness." Not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.


BIBLETEXT:
Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the rulers and all the assembly, at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin. And he had no sons.


BIBLETEXT:
Why would the name of our father be taken away from his tribe because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brothers."


BIBLETEXT:
"The daughters of Zelophehad speak justly. You will give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers and transfer the inheritance of their father to them.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If a man dies and has no son, then you will transfer his inheritance to his daughter.


BIBLETEXT:
And if he has no daughter, then you will give his inheritance to his brothers.


BIBLETEXT:
And if he has no brothers, then you will give his inheritance to his father's brothers.


BIBLETEXT:
And if his father has no brothers, then you will give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his tribe, and he will possess it. And it will be for the sons of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commands Moses.'"


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
When you have seen it, you also will be taken away to your people, as your brother Aaron was taken,


BIBLETEXT:
because you rebelled against My word in the wilderness of Zin when the assembled rebelled, failing to uphold Me as holy at the waters before their eyes." These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.


BIBLETEXT:
"Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the assembly


BIBLETEXT:
who will go out before them and come in before them, who will lead them out and bring them in, that the assembly of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd."


BIBLETEXT:
So the LORD said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.


BIBLETEXT:
Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the assembly, and you will commission him in their sight.


BIBLETEXT:
You will bestow on him some of your authority, that all the assembly of the sons of Israel may obey.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will inquire for him according to the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in, both he and all the sons of Israel with him, the whole assembly."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole assembly,


BIBLETEXT:
and he laid his hands on him and commissioned him as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.


BIBLETEXT:
"Command the sons of Israel and say to them, 'My offering, My food for My food offerings, My pleasing aroma, you will be sure to offer to Me at its appointed time.'


BIBLETEXT:
And you will say to them, This is the food offering that you will offer to the LORD: two male lambs a year old without blemish, daily as a burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
The one lamb you will offer in the dawn, and the other lamb you will offer at dusk;


BIBLETEXT:
also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil.


BIBLETEXT:
It is a daily burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Its drink offering will be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the sanctuary you will pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
The other lamb you will offer at dusk. Like the food offering of the dawn, and like its drink offering, you will offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:


BIBLETEXT:
this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the daily burnt offering and its drink offering.


BIBLETEXT:
At the beginnings of your months, you will offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;


BIBLETEXT:
also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;


BIBLETEXT:
and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a food offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Their drink offerings will be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering every month throughout the months of the year.


BIBLETEXT:
Also one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it will be offered besides the daily burnt offering and its drink offering.


BIBLETEXT:
On the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD's Passover,


BIBLETEXT:
and on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast. Seven days will unleavened bread be eaten.


BIBLETEXT:
On the first day there will be a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work,


BIBLETEXT:
but offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish;


BIBLETEXT:
also their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah will you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram;


BIBLETEXT:
a tenth will you offer for each of the seven lambs;


BIBLETEXT:
also one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will offer these besides the burnt offering of the dawn, which is for a daily burnt offering.


BIBLETEXT:
In the same way you will offer daily, for seven days, the food of a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It will be offered besides the daily burnt offering and its drink offering.


BIBLETEXT:
And on the seventh day you will have a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work.


BIBLETEXT:
On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a food offering of new grain to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you will have a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work,


BIBLETEXT:
but offer a burnt offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;


BIBLETEXT:
also their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram,


BIBLETEXT:
with one male goat, to make atonement for you.


BIBLETEXT:
Besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering, you will offer them and their drink offering. See that they are without blemish.


BIBLETEXT:
On the first day of the seventh month you will have a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets,


BIBLETEXT:
and you will offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;


BIBLETEXT:
also their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the ram,


BIBLETEXT:
and one tenth for each of the seven lambs;


BIBLETEXT:
with one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;


BIBLETEXT:
besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its food offering, and the daily burnt offering and its food offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
On the tenth day of this seventh month you will have a holy convocation and humble yourselves. You will do no work,


BIBLETEXT:
but you will offer a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old: see that they are without blemish.


BIBLETEXT:
And their food offering will be of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,


BIBLETEXT:
also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement, and the daily burnt offering and its food offering, and their drink offerings.


BIBLETEXT:
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will have a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work, and you will keep a feast to the LORD seven days.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they will be without blemish;


BIBLETEXT:
and their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each of the two rams,


BIBLETEXT:
and a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs;


BIBLETEXT:
also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the daily burnt offering, its food offering and its drink offering.


BIBLETEXT:
On the second day twelve bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,


BIBLETEXT:
with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance;


BIBLETEXT:
also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering, and their drink offerings.


BIBLETEXT:
On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,


BIBLETEXT:
also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering and its drink offering.


BIBLETEXT:
On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,


BIBLETEXT:
On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,


BIBLETEXT:
"Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,


BIBLETEXT:
the land that the LORD punished before the assembly of Israel, is a land for flocks, and your servants have flocks."


BIBLETEXT:
And they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not bring us over the Jordan."


BIBLETEXT:
But Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, "Will your brothers go to the battle while you remain here?


BIBLETEXT:
Why will you discourage the hearts of the sons of Israel from going over into the land that the LORD has given them?


BIBLETEXT:
Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.


BIBLETEXT:
For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the sons of Israel from going into the land that the LORD had given them.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD's anger was kindled on that day, and he vowed, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, will see the land that I pledged to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not fully followed me,


BIBLETEXT:
none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have fully followed the LORD.'


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.


BIBLETEXT:
And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a multiple of sinful men, to add to the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel!


BIBLETEXT:
For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will punish all this people."


BIBLETEXT:
Then they came near to him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and cities for our children,


BIBLETEXT:
but we will take up arms, ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have taken them to their place. And our children will live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.


BIBLETEXT:
We will not return to our homes until each of the sons of Israel has gained his possession.


BIBLETEXT:
For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our possession has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses said to them, "If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the LORD for the battle,


BIBLETEXT:
and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him


BIBLETEXT:
and the land is subdued before the LORD; then after that you will return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel, and this land will be your possession before the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.


BIBLETEXT:
Build cities for your children and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben said to Moses, "Your servants will do as my lord commands.


BIBLETEXT:
Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle will remain there in the cities of Gilead,


BIBLETEXT:
but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for battle, before the LORD to battle, as my lord orders."


BIBLETEXT:
So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses said to them, "If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land will be subdued before you, then you will give them the land of Gilead for a possession.


BIBLETEXT:
However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they will have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, "What the LORD has said to your servants, we will do.


BIBLETEXT:
We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritances will remain with us beyond the Jordan."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.


BIBLETEXT:
And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,


BIBLETEXT:
Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.


BIBLETEXT:
And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,


BIBLETEXT:
Nebo, and Baal-meon, their names were changed, and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built.


BIBLETEXT:
And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwell in it.


BIBLETEXT:
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.


BIBLETEXT:
And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the stations of the sons of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.


BIBLETEXT:
Moses wrote down their starting places, as they journeyed, by command of the LORD, and these are their stations according to their starting places.


BIBLETEXT:
They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the sons of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,


BIBLETEXT:
while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck among them. On their gods also the LORD executed judgments.


BIBLETEXT:
So the sons of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Elim and camped by the Sea of Reeds.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from the Sea Reeds and camped in the wilderness of Sin.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Tahath and camped at Terah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin, that is, Kadesh.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.


BIBLETEXT:
And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD and died there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.


BIBLETEXT:
And Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.


BIBLETEXT:
And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Punon and camped at Oboth.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.


BIBLETEXT:
otherwise, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,


BIBLETEXT:
and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,


BIBLETEXT:
then your heart be swelled up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,


BIBLETEXT:
who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,


BIBLETEXT:
who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.


BIBLETEXT:
Beware otherwise you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.'


BIBLETEXT:
You will remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may confirm His covenant that he promised to your fathers, as it is this day.


BIBLETEXT:
And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you will surely perish.


BIBLETEXT:
Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so will you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven,


BIBLETEXT:
a people great and tall, the sons of the giants, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'


BIBLETEXT:
Know therefore today that He who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the LORD your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you will drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you.


BIBLETEXT:
Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' instead it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.


BIBLETEXT:
Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that He may confirm the word that the LORD promised to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.


BIBLETEXT:
Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.


BIBLETEXT:
Recall and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that He was ready to destroy you.


BIBLETEXT:
When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the LORD had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.


BIBLETEXT:
And at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.'


BIBLETEXT:
Furthermore, the LORD said to me, 'I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people.


BIBLETEXT:
Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'


BIBLETEXT:
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.


BIBLETEXT:
And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.


BIBLETEXT:
So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.


BIBLETEXT:
Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger.


BIBLETEXT:
For I was afraid of the anger and hot wrath that the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.


BIBLETEXT:
Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.


BIBLETEXT:
At Taberah also, and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.


BIBLETEXT:
And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God and did not believe Him or obey His voice.


BIBLETEXT:
You have been rebellious against the LORD for as long as I have known you.


BIBLETEXT:
So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He could destroy you.


BIBLETEXT:
And I prayed to the LORD, 'O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and Your heritage, whom You have redeemed through your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


BIBLETEXT:
Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look at the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin,


BIBLETEXT:
otherwise the nation from which you brought us will say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land that He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness."


BIBLETEXT:
For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.'


BIBLETEXT:
At that time the LORD said to me, 'Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and make an ark of wood.


BIBLETEXT:
And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you will put them in the ark.'


BIBLETEXT:
So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.


BIBLETEXT:
And He wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.


BIBLETEXT:
Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the LORD commanded me."


BIBLETEXT:
The sons of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place.


BIBLETEXT:
From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water.


BIBLETEXT:
At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD to stand before the LORD to minister to him and to bless in his name, until today.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God said to him.


BIBLETEXT:
I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD would not destroy you.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I promised to their fathers to give them.'


BIBLETEXT:
"And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,


BIBLETEXT:
and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your welfare?


BIBLETEXT:
Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.


BIBLETEXT:
Only, the LORD has delighted in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their offspring after them, on you out of all the peoples, as it is today.


BIBLETEXT:
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.


BIBLETEXT:
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, He who is not partial and takes no bribe.


BIBLETEXT:
He provides justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.


BIBLETEXT:
Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.


BIBLETEXT:
You will revere the LORD your God. You will serve Him and follow close to Him, and by His name you will swear.


BIBLETEXT:
He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.


BIBLETEXT:
Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.


BIBLETEXT:
You will therefore love the LORD your God and keep His charge, His statutes, his rules, and His commandments always.


BIBLETEXT:
And be aware today, since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it, consider the discipline of the LORD your God, His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm,


BIBLETEXT:
His signs and His deeds that He did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land,


BIBLETEXT:
and what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how He made the water of the Sea of Reeds to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day,


BIBLETEXT:
and what He did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place,


BIBLETEXT:
and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, before all Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
For your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which He has done.


BIBLETEXT:
You will therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess,


BIBLETEXT:
and that you may live long in the land that the LORD promised to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.


BIBLETEXT:
For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables.


BIBLETEXT:
But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,


BIBLETEXT:
a land that the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.


BIBLETEXT:
And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,


BIBLETEXT:
He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.


BIBLETEXT:
And He will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be full.


BIBLETEXT:
Take care otherwise your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;


BIBLETEXT:
then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the LORD is giving you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will therefore store up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you will hold them as a sign on your hand, and they will be as frontlets before your eyes.


BIBLETEXT:
You will teach them to your sons, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.


BIBLETEXT:
You will write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,


BIBLETEXT:
that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD promised to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.


BIBLETEXT:
For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all His ways, and following close to Him,


BIBLETEXT:
then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will destroy nations greater and mightier than yourselves.


BIBLETEXT:
Every place on which the sole of your foot steps will be yours. Your territory will be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.


BIBLETEXT:
No one will be able to stand against you. The LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the terror of you on all the land that you will step, as he promised you.


BIBLETEXT:
Behold, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.


BIBLETEXT:
And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho;


BIBLETEXT:
they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,


BIBLETEXT:
then you will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their engraved images and destroy all their cast images and demolish all their high places.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to occupy it.


BIBLETEXT:
You will inherit the land by lot according to your tribes. To a large tribe you will give a large possession, and to a small tribe you will give a small possession. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that will be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you will inherit.


BIBLETEXT:
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain will be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land where you dwell.


BIBLETEXT:
And I will do to you as I considered to do to them."


BIBLETEXT:
"Command the sons of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that will fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders,


BIBLETEXT:
your south side will be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.


BIBLETEXT:
And your border will turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit will be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon.


BIBLETEXT:
And the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit will be at the sea.


BIBLETEXT:
For the western border, you will have the Great Sea and its coast. This will be your western border.


BIBLETEXT:
This will be your northern border: from the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor.


BIBLETEXT:
From Mount Hor you will draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border will be at Zedad.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the border will extend to Ziphron, and its limit will be at Hazar-enan. This will be your northern border.


BIBLETEXT:
You will draw a line for your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham.


BIBLETEXT:
And the border will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border will go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.


BIBLETEXT:
And the border will go down to the Jordan, and its limit will be at the Salt Sea. This will be your land as defined by its borders all around."


BIBLETEXT:
Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, "This is the land that you will inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half tribe.


BIBLETEXT:
For the tribe of the sons of Reuben by fathers' houses and the tribe of the sons of Gad by their fathers' houses have received their inheritance, and also the half tribe of Manasseh.


BIBLETEXT:
The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise."


BIBLETEXT:
"These are the names of the men who will divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.


BIBLETEXT:
You will take one chief from every tribe to divide the land for inheritance.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the tribe of the sons of Dan a chief, Bukki the son of Jogli.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the sons of Joseph: of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh a chief, Hanniel the son of Ephod.


BIBLETEXT:
And of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim a chief, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun a chief, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the tribe of the sons of Issachar a chief, Paltiel the son of Azzan.


BIBLETEXT:
And of the tribe of the sons of Asher a chief, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.


BIBLETEXT:
Of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali a chief, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the men whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance for the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan."


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"Command the sons of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you will give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.


BIBLETEXT:
The cities will be theirs to dwell in, and their pasture lands will be for their cattle and for their flocks and for all their beasts.


BIBLETEXT:
The pasture lands of the cities, which you will give to the Levites, will reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This will belong to them as pasture land for their cities.


BIBLETEXT:
The cities that you give to the Levites will be the six cities of refuge, where you will permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you will give forty-two cities.


BIBLETEXT:
All the cities that you give to the Levites will be forty-eight, with their pasture lands.


BIBLETEXT:
And as for the cities that you will give from the possession of the sons of Israel, from the larger tribes you will take many, and from the smaller tribes you will take few; each, in proportion to the possessions that it inherits, will give of its cities to the Levites."


BIBLETEXT:
"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,


BIBLETEXT:
then you will select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.


BIBLETEXT:
The cities will be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the assembly for judgment.


BIBLETEXT:
And the cities that you give will be your six cities of refuge.


BIBLETEXT:
You will give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.


BIBLETEXT:
These six cities will be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without unwittingly may flee there.


BIBLETEXT:
But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death.


BIBLETEXT:
And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death.


BIBLETEXT:
Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death.


BIBLETEXT:
The avenger of blood will himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he will put him to death.


BIBLETEXT:
And if he pushed him out of hatred or threw something at him, lying in wait, so that he died,


BIBLETEXT:
or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow will be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood will put the murderer to death when he meets him.


BIBLETEXT:
But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or threw anything on him without lying in wait


BIBLETEXT:
or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and not seek his harm,


BIBLETEXT:
then the assembly will judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.


BIBLETEXT:
And the assembly will rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly will restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he will live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.


BIBLETEXT:
But if the manslayer will at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled,


BIBLETEXT:
and the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he will not be guilty of blood.


BIBLETEXT:
For he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.


BIBLETEXT:
And these things will be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.


BIBLETEXT:
If anyone kills a person, the murderer will be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person will be put to death on the testimony of one witness.


BIBLETEXT:
Moreover, you will accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he will be put to death.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel."


BIBLETEXT:
The heads of the fathers' houses of the families of the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the tribes of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the rulers, the heads of the fathers' houses of the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
They said, "The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.


BIBLETEXT:
But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.


BIBLETEXT:
And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak right.


BIBLETEXT:
This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, 'Let them marry whom they think best, only they will marry within the family of the tribe of their father.


BIBLETEXT:
The inheritance of the sons of Israel will not be transferred from one tribe to another, for every one of the sons of Israel will hold on to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.


BIBLETEXT:
And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel will be wife to one of the families of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the sons of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.


BIBLETEXT:
So no inheritance will be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the sons of Israel will hold on to its own inheritance.'"


BIBLETEXT:
The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses,


BIBLETEXT:
for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father's brothers.


BIBLETEXT:
They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in that of their father's tribe.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the commandments and the laws that the LORD commanded through Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.


BIBLETEXT:
Eleven days from Horeb through the hills of Seir to Kadesh-barnea.


BIBLETEXT:
In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them,


BIBLETEXT:
after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.


BIBLETEXT:
Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare to explain this law, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"The LORD our God said to us in Horeb, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain.


BIBLETEXT:
Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.


BIBLETEXT:
Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.'


BIBLETEXT:
"At that time I said to you, 'I am not able to bear you by myself.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.


BIBLETEXT:
May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!


BIBLETEXT:
How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?


BIBLETEXT:
Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.'


BIBLETEXT:
And you answered me, 'The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.'


BIBLETEXT:
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.


BIBLETEXT:
And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not be partial in judgment. You will hear the small and the great alike. You will not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you will bring to me, and I will hear it.'


BIBLETEXT:
And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.


BIBLETEXT:
Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.


BIBLETEXT:
And I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.


BIBLETEXT:
Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be troubled.'


BIBLETEXT:
Then all of you came near me and said, 'Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we will come.'


BIBLETEXT:
This seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from you, one man from each tribe.


BIBLETEXT:
And they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.


BIBLETEXT:
And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, 'It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.'


BIBLETEXT:
Yet you refused to go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
And you murmured in your tents and said, 'Because the LORD hated us He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.


BIBLETEXT:
Where are we going? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."'


BIBLETEXT:
Then I said to you, 'Do not be in terrified or afraid of them.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD your God who goes before you will Himself battle for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,


BIBLETEXT:
and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.'


BIBLETEXT:
Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the LORD your God,


BIBLETEXT:
who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD heard your words and was angered, and He swore,


BIBLETEXT:
'Not one of these men of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,


BIBLETEXT:
except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the LORD!'


BIBLETEXT:
Even with me the LORD was angry on your account and said, 'You also will not go in there.


BIBLETEXT:
Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he will enter. Encourage him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it.


BIBLETEXT:
And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go in there. And to them I will give it, and they will possess it.


BIBLETEXT:
But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Sea of Reeds.'


BIBLETEXT:
Then you answered me, 'We have sinned against the LORD. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.' And when each one of you had buckled on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill country.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to me, 'Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, otherwise you be defeated before your enemies.'


BIBLETEXT:
So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the LORD and in your pride went up into the hill country.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and struck you in Seir as far as Hormah.


BIBLETEXT:
And you returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD did not listen to your voice or give ear to you.


BIBLETEXT:
So you remained at Kadesh a long time, the time that you dwell there.


BIBLETEXT:
Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Sea of Reeds, as the LORD told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir.


BIBLETEXT:
'You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. Turn northward


BIBLETEXT:
and command the people, "You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very cautious.


BIBLETEXT:
Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.


BIBLETEXT:
You will purchase food from them for money, that you may eat, and you will also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.


BIBLETEXT:
For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing."'


BIBLETEXT:
So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to me, 'Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.'


BIBLETEXT:
The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim.


BIBLETEXT:
Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.


BIBLETEXT:
The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the LORD gave to them.


BIBLETEXT:
'Now rise up and go over the brook Zered.' So we went over the brook Zered.


BIBLETEXT:
And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.


BIBLETEXT:
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they were consumed.


BIBLETEXT:
So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,


BIBLETEXT:
'Today you are to cross the border of Moab at Ar.


BIBLETEXT:
And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not assault them or anger them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.'


BIBLETEXT:
It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there--but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,


BIBLETEXT:
a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they dispossessed them and settled in their place,


BIBLETEXT:
as he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.


BIBLETEXT:
As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.


BIBLETEXT:
'Rise up, set out on your journey and go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle.


BIBLETEXT:
DThis day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who will hear the report of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.'


BIBLETEXT:
So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
'Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.


BIBLETEXT:
You will sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot,


BIBLETEXT:
as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving to us.'


BIBLETEXT:
But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to me, 'Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.'


BIBLETEXT:
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD our God gave him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people.


BIBLETEXT:
And we captured all his cities at that time and completely destroyed every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.


BIBLETEXT:
Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured.


BIBLETEXT:
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The LORD our God gave all into our hands.


BIBLETEXT:
Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the LORD our God had forbidden us.


BIBLETEXT:
Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.


BIBLETEXT:
But the LORD said to me, 'Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you will do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.'


BIBLETEXT:
So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we attacked him until no one was left remaining with him.


BIBLETEXT:
And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city that we did not take from them, sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


BIBLETEXT:
All of these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition very many unwalled villages.


BIBLETEXT:
And we completely destroyed them, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, destroying every city, men, women, and children.


BIBLETEXT:
But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.


BIBLETEXT:
So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount ,


BIBLETEXT:
Hermon is called Sirion by the people of Sidon, and it is called Senir by the Amorites,


BIBLETEXT:
all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


BIBLETEXT:
For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.


BIBLETEXT:
When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities.


BIBLETEXT:
The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh.  All that portion of Bashan is called the land of Rephaim.


BIBLETEXT:
Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.


BIBLETEXT:
and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, the border of the Ammonites;


BIBLETEXT:
the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.


BIBLETEXT:
And I commanded you at that time, saying, 'The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor will cross over armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, I know that you have much livestock, they will remain in the cities that I have given you,


BIBLETEXT:
until the LORD gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.'


BIBLETEXT:
And I commanded Joshua at that time, 'Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. So will the LORD do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not fear them, for it is the LORD your God who battles for you.'


BIBLETEXT:
And I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
'O Lord GOD, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?


BIBLETEXT:
Please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.'


BIBLETEXT:
But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the LORD said to me, 'Enough from you; do not speak to me of this topic again.


BIBLETEXT:
Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you will not go over this Jordan.


BIBLETEXT:
But command Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will go over at the head of this people, and he will put them in possession of the land that you will see.'


BIBLETEXT:
So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor.


BIBLETEXT:
And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not add to the word that I command you, or take from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I give you.


BIBLETEXT:
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor.


BIBLETEXT:
But you who joined to the LORD your God are all alive today.


BIBLETEXT:
Behold, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.


BIBLETEXT:
Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'


BIBLETEXT:
For what great nation is there that has a God so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?


BIBLETEXT:
And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all these laws that I set before you today?


BIBLETEXT:
Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, otherwise you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and otherwise they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children,


BIBLETEXT:
remember the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, 'Gather the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.'


BIBLETEXT:
And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the center of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.


BIBLETEXT:
And he declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, that is, His covenant, and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore guard yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,


BIBLETEXT:
beware otherwise you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


BIBLETEXT:
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,


BIBLETEXT:
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.


BIBLETEXT:
And beware otherwise you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven.


BIBLETEXT:
But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of His own inheritance, as you are this day.


BIBLETEXT:
Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me because of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.


BIBLETEXT:
For I must die in this land; I must not go over the Jordan. But you will go over and take possession of that good land.


BIBLETEXT:
Take care, otherwise you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the shape of anything that the LORD your God has forbidden you.


BIBLETEXT:
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.


BIBLETEXT:
When you father sons and children of children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the shape of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke Him to anger,


BIBLETEXT:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.


BIBLETEXT:
And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, or hear, or eat, or smell.


BIBLETEXT:
But if you will seek the LORD your God and you will find Him, if you search after Him with all your heart and with all your soul.


BIBLETEXT:
When you are in trials, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey His voice.


BIBLETEXT:
For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that He swore to them.


BIBLETEXT:
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.


BIBLETEXT:
Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?


BIBLETEXT:
Or has God ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?


BIBLETEXT:
To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.


BIBLETEXT:
Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might discipline you. And on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.


BIBLETEXT:
And because He loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with His own presence, by His great power,


BIBLETEXT:
driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,


BIBLETEXT:
know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore you will keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time."


BIBLETEXT:
Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,


BIBLETEXT:
that the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unwittenly, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life:


BIBLETEXT:
Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.


BIBLETEXT:
This is the law that Moses set before the sons of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt,


BIBLETEXT:
beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.


BIBLETEXT:
And they took possession of his land and the land of Og, the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan;


BIBLETEXT:
from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount Sirion, which is Hermon,


BIBLETEXT:
together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.


BIBLETEXT:
And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you will learn them and be careful to do them.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.


BIBLETEXT:
Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,


BIBLETEXT:
while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up to the mountain. He said:


BIBLETEXT:
"'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water below the land.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who despise me,


BIBLETEXT:
but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.


BIBLETEXT:
Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.


BIBLETEXT:
Six days you will labor and do all your work,


BIBLETEXT:
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you will not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.


BIBLETEXT:
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will not bear false witness against your neighbor.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will not covet your neighbor's wife. And you will not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's'


BIBLETEXT:
These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.


BIBLETEXT:
And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders.


BIBLETEXT:
And you said, 'Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and the man still lives.


BIBLETEXT:
Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we will die.


BIBLETEXT:
For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?


BIBLETEXT:
Go near and hear all that the LORD our God will say and speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.'


BIBLETEXT:
"And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken.


BIBLETEXT:
If only that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!


BIBLETEXT:
Go and say to them, "Return to your tents."


BIBLETEXT:
But you, stand here by Me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you will teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.


BIBLETEXT:
You will be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


BIBLETEXT:
You will walk totally in the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you will possess."


BIBLETEXT:
"Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess,


BIBLETEXT:
that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.


BIBLETEXT:
Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.


BIBLETEXT:
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.


BIBLETEXT:
You will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.


BIBLETEXT:
And these words that I command you today will be on your heart.


BIBLETEXT:
You will teach them diligently to your children, and will talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.


BIBLETEXT:
You will keep them as a sign on your hand, and they will be as frontlets before your eyes.


BIBLETEXT:
You will write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.


BIBLETEXT:
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, with great and good cities that you did not build,


BIBLETEXT:
and houses full of good things that you did not furnish, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, and when you eat and are full,


BIBLETEXT:
then take care otherwise you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.


BIBLETEXT:
It is the LORD your God you will fear. Him you will serve and by His name you will swear.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you,


BIBLETEXT:
for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God, otherwise the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.


BIBLETEXT:
You will diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the LORD promised to give to your fathers


BIBLETEXT:
by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.


BIBLETEXT:
When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?'


BIBLETEXT:
then you will say to your son, 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and terrible, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes.


BIBLETEXT:
And He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in and give us the land that He promised to give to our fathers.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as we are this day.


BIBLETEXT:
And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.'


BIBLETEXT:
When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,


BIBLETEXT:
and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, you will crush them, completely destroy them.. You will make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,


BIBLETEXT:
for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and He could destroy you quickly.


BIBLETEXT:
But this is how will you deal with them: you will break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.


BIBLETEXT:
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.


BIBLETEXT:
It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,


BIBLETEXT:
but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he promised to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.


BIBLETEXT:
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations,


BIBLETEXT:
And He repays those who despise Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face.


BIBLETEXT:
You will therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.


BIBLETEXT:
And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he promised to your fathers.


BIBLETEXT:
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he promised to your fathers to give you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will be blessed above all peoples. There will not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will He inflict on you, but He will lay them on all who hate you.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will destroy all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you. Your eye will not pity them, neither will you serve their gods, for that would be a trap to you.


BIBLETEXT:
If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I. How can I drive them out?'


BIBLETEXT:
you will not be afraid of them but you will remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,


BIBLETEXT:
the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.


BIBLETEXT:
Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not fear them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You will not make an end of them at once, otherwise the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.


BIBLETEXT:
But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.


BIBLETEXT:
And he will give their kings into your hand, and you will make their name perish from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.


BIBLETEXT:
The carved images of their gods you will burn with fire. You will not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, otherwise you be trapped by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You will utterly detest and abhor it, for it is to be destroyed.


BIBLETEXT:
The whole commandment that I gibe to you today you will be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD promised to give to your fathers.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that He might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.


BIBLETEXT:
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.


BIBLETEXT:
Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.


BIBLETEXT:
So you will keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and respecting him.


BIBLETEXT:
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,


BIBLETEXT:
a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,


BIBLETEXT:
a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will eat and be full, and you will bless the LORD your God for the good land He has given you.


BIBLETEXT:
Take care otherwise you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I give to you today,


BIBLETEXT:
the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today,


BIBLETEXT:
and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.


BIBLETEXT:
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you will proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.


BIBLETEXT:
Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh?


BIBLETEXT:
For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it,


BIBLETEXT:
you will be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the statutes and rules that you will be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the time that you live on the earth.


BIBLETEXT:
You will surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you will dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.


BIBLETEXT:
You will tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You will chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name from that place.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not worship the LORD your God in their way.


BIBLETEXT:
But you will seek the place that the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you will go,


BIBLETEXT:
and there you will bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you provide, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.


BIBLETEXT:
And there you will eat before the LORD your God, and you will rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes,


BIBLETEXT:
for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.


BIBLETEXT:
But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety,


BIBLETEXT:
then to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name dwell there, there you will bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you provide, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.


BIBLETEXT:
Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see,


BIBLETEXT:
but at the place that the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you will offer your burnt offerings, and there you will do all that I am commanding you.


BIBLETEXT:
However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.


BIBLETEXT:
Only you will not eat the blood; you will pour it out on the earth like water.


BIBLETEXT:
You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you provide,


BIBLETEXT:
but you will eat them before the LORD your God in the place that the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you undertake.


BIBLETEXT:
Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.


BIBLETEXT:
When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat meat,' because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.


BIBLETEXT:
If the place that the LORD your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.


BIBLETEXT:
Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.


BIBLETEXT:
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you will not eat the life with the flesh.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not eat it; you will pour it out on the earth like water.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you will take, and you will go to the place that the LORD will choose,


BIBLETEXT:
and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your sacrifices will be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the flesh you may eat.


BIBLETEXT:
Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to possess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land,


BIBLETEXT:
take care that you be not entrapped into following them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? That I also may do the likewise.'


BIBLETEXT:
You will not worship the LORD your God in their way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.


BIBLETEXT:
Everything that I command you, you will be careful to do. You will not add to it or take from it.


BIBLETEXT:
If a prophet or a dreamer of visions arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,


BIBLETEXT:
and the sign or wonder that he tells you happens, and if he says, 'Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, 'and let us serve them,'


BIBLETEXT:
you will not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of visions. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


BIBLETEXT:
You will follow after the LORD your God and revere him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you will serve him and follow close to him.


BIBLETEXT:
But that prophet or that dreamer of visions will be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to draw you out of the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to follow. That you will purge the evil from your midst.


BIBLETEXT:
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known,


BIBLETEXT:
some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other,


BIBLETEXT:
you will not yield to him or listen to him, nor will you look on him with pity, nor will you spare him, nor will you conceal him.


BIBLETEXT:
But you will kill him. Your hand will be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.


BIBLETEXT:
You will stone him to death with stones, because he tried to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.


BIBLETEXT:
And all Israel will hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.


BIBLETEXT:
If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to dwell there,


BIBLETEXT:
that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known,


BIBLETEXT:
then you will investigate and examine and ask skilfully. And behold, if it be right and sure that such an abomination has been done among you,


BIBLETEXT:
you will surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, destroying it completely, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.


BIBLETEXT:
You will gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be a ruin forever. It will not be built again.


BIBLETEXT:
None of the cursed things be in to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as He swore to your fathers,


BIBLETEXT:
if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and do what is right in the sight of the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You are the sons of the LORD your God. You will not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.


BIBLETEXT:
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a special nation to Him, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.


BIBLETEXT:
These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,


BIBLETEXT:
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.


BIBLETEXT:
Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, from these animals you may eat.


BIBLETEXT:
Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you will not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof and are unclean for you.


BIBLETEXT:
And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you will not eat, and their carcasses you will not touch.


BIBLETEXT:
Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.


BIBLETEXT:
And whatever does not have fins and scales you will not eat; it is unclean for you.


BIBLETEXT:
But these are the ones that you will not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,


BIBLETEXT:
the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;


BIBLETEXT:
the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl


BIBLETEXT:
and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,


BIBLETEXT:
the stork, the heron of any kind; the grouse and the bat.


BIBLETEXT:
And all winged insects are unclean for you; they will not be eaten.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You will not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.


BIBLETEXT:
You will tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.


BIBLETEXT:
And before the LORD your God, in the place that he will choose, to make His name dwell there, you will eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.


BIBLETEXT:
And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there,


BIBLETEXT:
then you will turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God chooses


BIBLETEXT:
and spend the money for whatever you desire--oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you will eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.


BIBLETEXT:
At the end of every three years you will bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns.


BIBLETEXT:
And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, will come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the labor of your hands that you provide.


BIBLETEXT:
At the end of every seven years you will grant a release.


BIBLETEXT:
And this is the manner of the release: every creditor will release what he has lent to his neighbor. He will not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD's release has been proclaimed.


BIBLETEXT:
Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand will release.


BIBLETEXT:
But there will be no poor among you; for the LORD will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess,


BIBLETEXT:
only if you will strictly obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today.


BIBLETEXT:
For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow, and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.


BIBLETEXT:
If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you will not harden your heart or close your hand against your poor brother,


BIBLETEXT:
but you will open your hand to him and lend him enough for his need, whatever it may be.


BIBLETEXT:
Take care lest there be an evil thought in your heart and you say, 'The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin.


BIBLETEXT:
You will give to him freely, and your heart will not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you do.


BIBLETEXT:
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, 'You will open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.'


BIBLETEXT:
If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he will serve you six years, and in the seventh year you will let him go free from you.


BIBLETEXT:
And when you let him go free from you, you will not let him go empty-handed.


BIBLETEXT:
You will furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you will give to him.


BIBLETEXT:
You will remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.


BIBLETEXT:
But if he says to you, 'I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you,


BIBLETEXT:
then you will take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he will be your slave forever. And to your female slave you will do the same.


BIBLETEXT:
It will not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.


BIBLETEXT:
All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you will dedicate to the LORD your God. You will do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.


BIBLETEXT:
You will eat it, you and your household, before the LORD your God year by year at the place that the LORD will choose.


BIBLETEXT:
But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind or has any serious blemish whatever, you will not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You will eat it within your towns. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer.


BIBLETEXT:
Only you will not eat its blood; you will pour it out on the ground like water.


BIBLETEXT:
Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will offer the Passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that the LORD will choose, to make His name dwell there.


BIBLETEXT:
You will eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you will eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste, that all the time of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.


BIBLETEXT:
No leaven will be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor will any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you,


BIBLETEXT:
but at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name dwell in it, there you will offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will cook it and eat it at the place that the LORD your God will choose. And in the morning you will turn and go to your tents.


BIBLETEXT:
For six days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there will be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You will do no work on it.


BIBLETEXT:
You will count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.


BIBLETEXT:
Then you will keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you will give as the LORD your God blesses you.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name dwell there.


BIBLETEXT:
You will remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you will be careful to observe these statutes.


BIBLETEXT:
You will keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.


BIBLETEXT:
You will rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.


BIBLETEXT:
For seven days you will keep the feast to the LORD your God at the place that the LORD will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be very joyful.


BIBLETEXT:
Three times a year all your males will appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They will not appear before the LORD empty-handed.


BIBLETEXT:
Every man will give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that He has given you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they will judge the people with righteous judgment.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not pervert justice. You will not show partiality, and you will not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.


BIBLETEXT:
Justice, and only justice, you will follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you will make.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will not set up a pillar, which the LORD your God detests.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is disgusting to the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in breaking his covenant,


BIBLETEXT:
and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the things of heaven, which I have forbidden,


BIBLETEXT:
and it is told you and you hear of it, then you will investigate sincerely, and if it is true and established that such an disgusting thing has been done in Israel,


BIBLETEXT:
then you will bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this disgusting thing, and you will stone that man or woman to death with stones.


BIBLETEXT:
On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die will be put to death; a person will not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.


BIBLETEXT:
The hand of the witnesses will be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. That you will purge the evil from your midst.


BIBLETEXT:
If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you will arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you will consult them, and they will declare to you the judgment.


BIBLETEXT:
Then you will do according to what they tell you from that place that the LORD will choose. And you will be careful to do according to all that they direct you.


BIBLETEXT:
According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the judgment which they declare to you, you will do. You will not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.


BIBLETEXT:
The man that acts proudly and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man will die. That you will purge the evil from Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And all the people will hear and reverence and not act proudly again.


BIBLETEXT:
When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,'


BIBLETEXT:
you may indeed set a king over you whom the LORD your God will choose. One from among your brothers you will set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.


BIBLETEXT:
Only he must not obtain many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You will never return that way again.'


BIBLETEXT:
And he will not take many wives for himself, otherwise his heart turn away, nor will he take for himself excessive silver and gold.


BIBLETEXT:
And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he will write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests.


BIBLETEXT:
And it will be with him, and he will read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to reverence the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them,


BIBLETEXT:
that his thoughts may not be exalted over his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, will have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They will eat the LORD's food offerings as their inheritance.


BIBLETEXT:
They will have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.


BIBLETEXT:
And this will be the priests' provision from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they will give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.


BIBLETEXT:
The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you will give him.


BIBLETEXT:
For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for all time.


BIBLETEXT:
And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives, and he may come when he desires, to the place that the LORD will choose,


BIBLETEXT:
and ministers in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD,


BIBLETEXT:
then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his father's belongings.


BIBLETEXT:
When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you will not learn to follow the detestable practices of those nations.


BIBLETEXT:
There will not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer


BIBLETEXT:
or a charmer or a medium or a wizard or one who inquires of the dead,


BIBLETEXT:
for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will be undefiled before the LORD your God,


BIBLETEXT:
for these nations, which you are about to drive out, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers, it is to him you will listen,


BIBLETEXT:
just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, otherwise I die.'


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken.


BIBLETEXT:
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them all that I command him.


BIBLETEXT:
And whoever will not listen to my words that he will speak in my name, I myself will demand it of him.


BIBLETEXT:
But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet will die.'


BIBLETEXT:
And if you say in your thoughts, 'How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?'


BIBLETEXT:
when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not happen or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it with pride. You need not be afraid of him.


BIBLETEXT:
When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you drive them out and dwell in their cities and in their houses,


BIBLETEXT:
you will set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.


BIBLETEXT:
You will measure the distances and divide into three parts the area of the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.


BIBLETEXT:
This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unwittingly without having hated him in the past,


BIBLETEXT:
as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he may flee to one of these cities and live,


BIBLETEXT:
otherwise the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore I command you, You will set apart three cities.


BIBLETEXT:
And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers,


BIBLETEXT:
provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways, then you will add three other cities to these three,


BIBLETEXT:
otherwise innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.


BIBLETEXT:
But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,


BIBLETEXT:
then the elders of his city will send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.


BIBLETEXT:
Your look will not show pity him, but you will purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.


BIBLETEXT:
A single witness will not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses will a sentence be established.


BIBLETEXT:
If a false witness arises to accuse a person of a wrongdoing,


BIBLETEXT:
then both parties to the dispute will appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.


BIBLETEXT:
The judges will investigate sincerely, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,


BIBLETEXT:
then you will do to him as he had desired to do to his brother. That you will purge the evil from your midst.


BIBLETEXT:
And the rest will hear and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.


BIBLETEXT:
Your will not look on them with compassion. It will be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


BIBLETEXT:
When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you will not be frightened of them, for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


BIBLETEXT:
And when you draw near to the battle, the priest will come forward and speak to the people


BIBLETEXT:
and will say to them, 'Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be terrified of them,


BIBLETEXT:
for the LORD your God is He who goes with you to battle for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.'


BIBLETEXT:
Then the officers will speak to the people, saying, 'Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, otherwise he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.


BIBLETEXT:
And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, otherwise he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.


BIBLETEXT:
And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, otherwise he die in the battle and another man take her.'


BIBLETEXT:
And the officers will speak further to the people, and say, 'Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.'


BIBLETEXT:
And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then commanders will be appointed at the head of the people.


BIBLETEXT:
When you draw near to a city to battle against it, offer terms of peace to it.


BIBLETEXT:
And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it will do forced labor for you and will serve you.


BIBLETEXT:
But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you will besiege it.


BIBLETEXT:
And when the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you will put all its males to the sword,


BIBLETEXT:
but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you will take as plunder for yourselves. And you will enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.


BIBLETEXT:
This you will do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.


BIBLETEXT:
But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you will save alive nothing that breathes,


BIBLETEXT:
but you will totally destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded,


BIBLETEXT:
that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable practices that they have done for their gods, and that you sin against the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you will not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you will not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they would be besieged by you?


BIBLETEXT:
Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.


BIBLETEXT:
If in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,


BIBLETEXT:
then your elders and your judges will come out, and they will measure the distance to the surrounding cities.


BIBLETEXT:
And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man will take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.


BIBLETEXT:
And the elders of that city will bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and will break the heifer's neck there in the valley.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word every dispute and every assault will be settled.


BIBLETEXT:
And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man will wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,


BIBLETEXT:
and they will testify, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed.


BIBLETEXT:
Accept atonement, O LORD, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.'


BIBLETEXT:
That you will purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive,


BIBLETEXT:
and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife,


BIBLETEXT:
and you bring her home to your house, she will shave her head and pare her nails.


BIBLETEXT:
And she will take off the clothes in which she was captured and will remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.


BIBLETEXT:
But if you have no desire for her, you will let her go where she wants. But you will not sell her for money, nor will you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,


BIBLETEXT:
then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn,


BIBLETEXT:
but he will acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,


BIBLETEXT:
then his father and his mother will take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,


BIBLETEXT:
and they will say to the elders of his city, 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'


BIBLETEXT:
Then all the men of the city will stone him to death with stones. That you will purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear, and fear.


BIBLETEXT:
And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,


BIBLETEXT:
his body will not remain all night on the tree, but you will bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You will not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You will take them back to your brother.


BIBLETEXT:
And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you will bring it home to your house, and it will stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you will return it to him.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with anything lost of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you will not ignore it.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You will help him to lift them up again.


BIBLETEXT:
A woman will not wear a man's garment, nor will a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you will not take the mother with the young.


BIBLETEXT:
You will let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.


BIBLETEXT:
When you build a new house, you will make a guard rail for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, otherwise the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not plow with an ox and a donkey together.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.


BIBLETEXT:
You will make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.


BIBLETEXT:
If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her


BIBLETEXT:
and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, 'I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,'


BIBLETEXT:
then the father of the young woman and her mother will take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.


BIBLETEXT:
And the father of the young woman will say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her;


BIBLETEXT:
and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, "I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity." And yet this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' And they will spread the cloak before the elders of the city.


BIBLETEXT:
Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him,


BIBLETEXT:
and they will fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a wrong name upon a virgin of Israel. And she will be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.


BIBLETEXT:
But if it is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman,


BIBLETEXT:
then they will bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city will stone her to death with stones, because she has done a vile thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. That you will purge the evil from your midst.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them will die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. That you will purge the evil from Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,


BIBLETEXT:
then you will bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you will stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. That you will purge the evil from your midst.


BIBLETEXT:
But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her will die.


BIBLETEXT:
But you will do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor,


BIBLETEXT:
because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,


BIBLETEXT:
then the man who lay with her will give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she will be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.


BIBLETEXT:
A man will not take his father's wife, so that he does not uncover his father's nakedness.


BIBLETEXT:
No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off will enter the assembly of the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the LORD forever,


BIBLETEXT:
because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.


BIBLETEXT:
But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not seek their peace or their prosperity all your time, forever.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. You will not despise an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.


BIBLETEXT:
Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.


BIBLETEXT:
When you are encamped against your enemies, then you will keep yourself from every evil thing.


BIBLETEXT:
If any man among you becomes unclean because of an accident at night,  then he will go outside the camp. He will not come inside the camp,


BIBLETEXT:
but when evening comes, he will bathe himself in water, and as the sun sets, he may come inside the camp.


BIBLETEXT:
You will have a place outside the camp, and you will go out to it.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will have a tool with your staff, and when you sit down outside, you will dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement.


BIBLETEXT:
Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that He may not see anything disgraceful among you and turn away from you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.


BIBLETEXT:
He will dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he will choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You will not wrong him.


BIBLETEXT:
None of the daughters of Israel will be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel will be a cult prostitute.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are detestable to the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest.


BIBLETEXT:
You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.


BIBLETEXT:
If you make a vow to the LORD your God, you will not delay paying it, for the LORD your God will  certainly require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.


BIBLETEXT:
But if you do not make vows, you will not be guilty of sin.


BIBLETEXT:
You will be careful to do what you have spoken, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.


BIBLETEXT:
If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you will not put any in your bag.


BIBLETEXT:
If you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you will not put a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.


BIBLETEXT:
When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,


BIBLETEXT:
and if she goes and becomes another man's wife,


BIBLETEXT:
and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,


BIBLETEXT:
then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is detestable before the LORD. And you will not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.


BIBLETEXT:
When a man is newly married, he will not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He will be free at home one year to be happy with his wife that he has taken.


BIBLETEXT:
No one will take in pledge the lower or the upper millstone, for that would be taking a life in pledge.


BIBLETEXT:
If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the sons of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief will die. That you will purge the evil from your midst.


BIBLETEXT:
Take care, in a case of leprous disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests will direct you. As I commanded them, so you will be very careful to do.


BIBLETEXT:
Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.


BIBLETEXT:
When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you will not go into his house to collect his pledge.


BIBLETEXT:
You will stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan will bring the pledge out to you.


BIBLETEXT:
And if he is a poor man, you will not sleep with his pledge.


BIBLETEXT:
You will restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it will be right for you before the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not defraud a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.


BIBLETEXT:
You will give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets, for he is poor and counts on it, otherwise he cry against you to the LORD, and you be guilty of sin.


BIBLETEXT:
Fathers will not be put to death because of their children, nor will children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one will be put to death for his own sin.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not pervert justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,


BIBLETEXT:
but you will remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; this I command you to do.


BIBLETEXT:
When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you will not go back to get it. It will be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.


BIBLETEXT:
When you beat your olive trees, you will not go over them again. It will be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.


BIBLETEXT:
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you will not strip it afterward. It will be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.


BIBLETEXT:
You will remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; this I command you to do.


BIBLETEXT:
If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,


BIBLETEXT:
then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten before him with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.


BIBLETEXT:
Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, otherwise, if one would go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother would be degraded in your sight.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.


BIBLETEXT:
If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man will not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother will go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of the husband's brother to her.


BIBLETEXT:
And the first son whom she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.


BIBLETEXT:
And if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife will go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to continue his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of the husband's brother to me.'


BIBLETEXT:
Then the elders of his city will call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, 'I do not want to take her,'


BIBLETEXT:
then his brother's wife will go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she will answer and say, 'So will it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'


BIBLETEXT:
And the name of his house will be called out in Israel, 'The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.'


BIBLETEXT:
When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,


BIBLETEXT:
then you will cut off her hand. Your will not look on her with compassion.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.


BIBLETEXT:
You will not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.


BIBLETEXT:
A full and fair weight you will have, a full and fair measure you will have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.


BIBLETEXT:
For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are detestable to the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt,


BIBLETEXT:
how he attacked you on the way when you were tired and weary, and cut off those trailing, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.


BIBLETEXT:
Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you will blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you will not forget.


BIBLETEXT:
When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and dwell there,


BIBLETEXT:
you will take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you will put it in a basket, and you will go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name to dwell there.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'


BIBLETEXT:
Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will make shout before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and abundant.


BIBLETEXT:
And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and forced on us hard labor.


BIBLETEXT:
Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our misery, our toil, and our distress.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with mighty fearful deeds, with signs and wonders.


BIBLETEXT:
And He brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.


BIBLETEXT:
And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.' And you will set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.


BIBLETEXT:
When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,


BIBLETEXT:
then you will say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your laws, nor have I forgotten them.


BIBLETEXT:
I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God. I have done according to all that You have commanded me.


BIBLETEXT:
Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you promised to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.'


BIBLETEXT:
This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You will therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.


BIBLETEXT:
You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey His voice.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for His special possession, as He has promised you, and that you are to keep all His commandments,


BIBLETEXT:
and that He will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that He has made, and that you will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as He promised."


BIBLETEXT:
Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep the whole commandment that I command you today.


BIBLETEXT:
And on the day you cross over the Jordan to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you will set up large stones and plaster them with plaster.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.


BIBLETEXT:
And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you will set up these stones, concerning which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you will plaster them with plaster.


BIBLETEXT:
And there you will build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You will use no iron tool on them;


BIBLETEXT:
you will build an altar to the LORD your God of uncut stones. And you will offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God,


BIBLETEXT:
and you will sacrifice peace offerings and will eat there, and you will rejoice before the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly."


BIBLETEXT:
Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, "Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
You will therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today."


BIBLETEXT:
That day Moses charged the people, saying,


BIBLETEXT:
"When you have crossed over the Jordan, these will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.


BIBLETEXT:
And these will stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


BIBLETEXT:
And the Levites will declare to all the men of Israel in a loud voice:


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, detestable to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people will answer and say, 'Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor's landmark.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be anyone who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's nakedness.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' "


BIBLETEXT:
'Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.'


BIBLETEXT:
And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.


BIBLETEXT:
And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.


BIBLETEXT:
Blessed will you be in the city, and blessed will you be in the field.


BIBLETEXT:
Blessed will be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.


BIBLETEXT:
Blessed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.


BIBLETEXT:
Blessed will you be when you come in, and blessed will you be when you go out.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They will come out against you one way and vanish before you seven ways.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you do. And He will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will establish you as a people holy to Himself, as He has promised to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.


BIBLETEXT:
And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the LORD promised to your fathers to give you.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.


BIBLETEXT:
And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,


BIBLETEXT:
and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.


BIBLETEXT:
But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all His commandments and His statutes that I command you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.


BIBLETEXT:
Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.


BIBLETEXT:
Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.


BIBLETEXT:
Cursed will be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the that which comes from your herds and the young of your flock.


BIBLETEXT:
Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will make the pestilence join to you until He has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will strike you with infectious disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.


BIBLETEXT:
And the heavens over your head will be bronze, and the earth under you will be iron.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will make the rain of your land be dust and ashes. It will come down on you from the heavens until you are destroyed.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and vanish seven ways before them. And you will be a trouble before all the kingdoms of the earth.


BIBLETEXT:
And your dead body will be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind,


BIBLETEXT:
and you will grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways. And you will be defrauded and robbed continually, and there will be no one to help you.


BIBLETEXT:
You will betroth a wife, but another man will ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit.


BIBLETEXT:
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be seized before your face, but will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, but there will be no one to help you.


BIBLETEXT:
Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and not find them all day long, but you will be helpless.


BIBLETEXT:
A nation that you have not known will eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you will be defrauded and broken continually,


BIBLETEXT:
so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you will serve other gods of wood and stone.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.


BIBLETEXT:
You will plant many seeds into the field and will harvest little, for the locust will devour it.


BIBLETEXT:
You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will eat them.


BIBLETEXT:
You will have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.


BIBLETEXT:
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.


BIBLETEXT:
The cricket will possess all your trees and the reward of your ground.


BIBLETEXT:
The sojourner who is among you will rise higher and higher above you, and you will come down lower and lower.


BIBLETEXT:
He will loan to you, and you will not loan to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.


BIBLETEXT:
All these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and his statutes that He commanded you.


BIBLETEXT:
They will be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.


BIBLETEXT:
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,


BIBLETEXT:
therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.


BIBLETEXT:
The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,


BIBLETEXT:
a fierce looking nation who will not respect the old or show mercy to the young.


BIBLETEXT:
It will eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also will not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.


BIBLETEXT:
They will attack you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they will attack you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.


BIBLETEXT:
And you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemies will distress you.


BIBLETEXT:
The man who is the most tender and refined among you will look wickedly at his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,


BIBLETEXT:
so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemy will distress you in all your towns.


BIBLETEXT:
The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, look wickedly at the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,


BIBLETEXT:
her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemy will distress you in your towns.


