Numbers, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {4:2} "Take a
census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, {4:3} from thirty years old and
upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to
do the work in the Tent of Meeting. {4:4} This is the service of the
sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things. {4:5}
When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they
shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the
Testimony with it, {4:6} and shall put a covering of sealskin on it,
and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its
poles. {4:7} On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue
cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups
with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it. {4:8}
They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a
covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. {4:9} They shall
take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its
lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil
vessels, with which they minister to it. {4:10} They shall put it and
all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the
frame. {4:11} On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and
cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
{4:12} They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they
minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover
them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.
{4:13} They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a
purple cloth on it. {4:14} They shall put on it all its vessels, with
which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the
shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall
spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
{4:15} "When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the
sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves
forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but
they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are
the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.
{4:16} "The charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be
the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering,
and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all
that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings."
{4:17} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {4:18} "Don't cut
off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the
Levites; {4:19} but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die,
when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall
go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;
{4:20} but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a
moment, lest they die."
{4:21} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {4:22} "Take a census of the
sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families;
{4:23} from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall
you number them; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the
work in the Tent of Meeting. {4:24} This is the service of the
families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens: {4:25}
they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of
Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on
it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, {4:26} and the
hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the
court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their
cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be
done with them. Therein shall they serve. {4:27} At the commandment of
Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the
Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you
shall appoint to them in charge all their burden. {4:28} This is the
service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of
Meeting: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son
of Aaron the priest.
{4:29} "As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their
families, by their fathers' houses; {4:30} from thirty years old and
upward even to fifty years old shall you number them, everyone who
enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting. {4:31}
This is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in
the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars,
its sockets, {4:32} and the pillars of the court around it, and their
sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments,
and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the
instruments of the charge of their burden. {4:33} This is the service
of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service,
in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest."
{4:34} Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered
the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers'
houses, {4:35} from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years
old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of
Meeting. {4:36} Those who were numbered of them by their families were
two thousand seven hundred fifty. {4:37} These are those who were
numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent
of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment
of Yahweh by Moses.
{4:38} Those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their
families, and by their fathers' houses, {4:39} from thirty years old
and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the
service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, {4:40} even those who were
numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were
two thousand six hundred thirty. {4:41} These are those who were
numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the
Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the
commandment of Yahweh. {4:42} Those who were numbered of the families
of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
{4:43} from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old,
everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of
Meeting, {4:44} even those who were numbered of them by their
families, were three thousand two hundred. {4:45} These are those who
were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and
Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. {4:46}
All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and
the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their
fathers' houses, {4:47} from thirty years old and upward even to fifty
years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the
work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting, {4:48} even those who
were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty. {4:49}
According to the commandment of Yahweh they were numbered by Moses,
everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus
were they numbered by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
{5:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {5:2} "Command the children of
Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has
an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead. {5:3} Both male and
female shall you put out, outside of the camp shall you put them; that
they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."
{5:4} The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the
camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.
{5:5} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {5:6} "Speak to the children of
Israel: When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to
trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty; {5:7} then he shall
confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for
his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to
him in respect of whom he has been guilty. {5:8} But if the man has no
kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution
for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest's; besides the
ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him. {5:9}
Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel,
which they present to the priest, shall be his. {5:10} Every man's
holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall
be his."
{5:11} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {5:12} "Speak to the children
of Israel, and tell them: If any man's wife goes astray, and is
unfaithful to him, {5:13} and a man lies with her carnally, and it is
hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is
defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in
the act; {5:14} and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is
jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy
comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:
{5:15} then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall
bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal.
He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a
meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing
iniquity to memory. {5:16} The priest shall bring her near, and set
her before Yahweh; {5:17} and the priest shall take holy water in an
earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle
the priest shall take, and put it into the water. {5:18} The priest
shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's
head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands,
which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his
hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse. {5:19} The priest
shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, 'If no man has
lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being
under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings
a curse. {5:20} But if you have gone astray, being under your husband,
and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your
husband:' {5:21} then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with
the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, 'Yahweh make
you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your
thigh to fall away, and your body to swell; {5:22} and this water that
brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and
your thigh fall away.' The woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen.'
{5:23} "The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall
blot them out into the water of bitterness. {5:24} He shall make the
woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the
water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
{5:25} The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the
woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and
bring it to the altar. {5:26} The priest shall take a handful of the
meal offering, as the memorial of it, and burn it on the altar, and
afterward shall make the woman drink the water. {5:27} When he has
made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and
has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that
causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body
will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a
curse among her people. {5:28} If the woman isn't defiled, but is
clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
{5:29} "This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her
husband, goes astray, and is defiled; {5:30} or when the spirit of
jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall
set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all
this law. {5:31} The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman
shall bear her iniquity."
{6:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {6:2} "Speak to the children of
Israel, and tell them: When either man or woman shall make a special
vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh, {6:3} he
shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no
vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink
any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. {6:4} All the days
of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine,
from the seeds even to the skins.
{6:5} "All the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor
come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates
himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the
hair of his head grow long.
{6:6} "All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not
go near a dead body. {6:7} He shall not make himself unclean for his
father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when
they die; because his separation to God is on his head. {6:8} All the
days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.
{6:9} "If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the
head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his
cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it. {6:10} On the eighth
day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest,
to the door of the Tent of Meeting. {6:11} The priest shall 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, and shall
make his head holy that same day. {6:12} He shall separate to Yahweh
the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for
a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his
separation was defiled.
{6:13} "This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his
separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent
of Meeting, {6:14} and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh, one male
lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb
a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without
blemish for peace offerings, {6:15} and a basket of unleavened bread,
cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed
with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings. {6:16}
The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin
offering, and his burnt offering. {6:17} He shall offer the ram for a
sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened
bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink
offering. {6:18} The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation
at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair of the
head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the
sacrifice of peace offerings. {6:19} The priest shall take the boiled
shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and
one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite,
after he has shaved the head of his separation; {6:20} and the priest
shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. This is holy for
the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that
is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
{6:21} "This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his
offering to Yahweh for his separation, besides that which he is able
to get. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the
law of his separation."
{6:22} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {6:23} "Speak to Aaron and to
his sons, saying, 'This is how you shall bless the children of
Israel.' You shall tell them,
{6:24} 'Yahweh bless you, and keep you.
{6:25} Yahweh make his face to shine on you,
and be gracious to you.
{6:26} Yahweh lift up his face toward you,
and give you peace.'
{6:27} "So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I
will bless them."
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