Numbers, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {19:2} This is
the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to
the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot,
in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke. {19:3} You
shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth
outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face: {19:4}
and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and
sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven
times. {19:5} One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and
her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: {19:6} and the
priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it
into the midst of the burning of the heifer. {19:7} Then the priest
shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean
until the even. {19:8} He who burns her shall wash his clothes in
water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the
even. {19:9} A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the
heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it
shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a
water for impurity: it is a sin offering. {19:10} He who gathers the
ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the
even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger
who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever. {19:11} He
who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
{19:12} the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and
on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't purify himself
the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. {19:13}
Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and
doesn't purify himself, defiles the tent of Yahweh; and that soul
shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not
sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.
{19:14} This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes
into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven
days. {19:15} Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is
unclean. {19:16} Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain
with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be
unclean seven days. {19:17} For the unclean they shall take of the
ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be
put thereto in a vessel: {19:18} and a clean person shall take hyssop,
and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the
vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the
bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave: {19:19} and the clean
person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the
seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at
even. {19:20} But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify
himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly,
because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity
has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. {19:21} It shall be a
perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity
shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity
shall be unclean until even. {19:22} Whatever the unclean person
touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be
unclean until even.
{20:1} The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came
into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in
Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. {20:2} There was
no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together
against Moses and against Aaron. {20:3} The people strove with Moses,
and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died
before Yahweh! {20:4} Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into
this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? {20:5}
Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this
evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of
pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink. {20:6} Moses and
Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent
of meeting, and fell on their faces: and the glory of Yahweh appeared
to them. {20:7} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {20:8} Take the rod,
and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak
you to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and
you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give
the congregation and their livestock drink. {20:9} Moses took the rod
from before Yahweh, as he commanded him. {20:10} Moses and Aaron
gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them,
Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock?
{20:11} Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod
twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank,
and their livestock. {20:12} Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, Because
you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children
of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land
which I have given them. {20:13} These are the waters of Meribah;
because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was
sanctified in them. {20:14} Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the
king of Edom, Thus says your brother Israel, You know all the travail
that has happened to us: {20:15} how our fathers went down into Egypt,
and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with
us, and our fathers: {20:16} and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our
voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and
behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.
{20:17} Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through
field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the
wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to
the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.
{20:18} Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come
out with the sword against you. {20:19} The children of Israel said to
him, We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I
and my livestock, then will I give the price of it: let me only,
without [doing] anything [else], pass through on my feet. {20:20} He
said, You shall not pass through. Edom came out against him with much
people, and with a strong hand. {20:21} Thus Edom refused to give
Israel passage through his border: why Israel turned away from him.
{20:22} They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even
the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor. {20:23} Yahweh spoke to
Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom,
saying, {20:24} Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall
not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel,
because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah. {20:25}
Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
{20:26} and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his
son: and Aaron shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there.
{20:27} Moses did as Yahweh commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor
in the sight of all the congregation. {20:28} Moses stripped Aaron of
his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on
the top of the mountain: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the
mountain. {20:29} When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead,
they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
{21:1} The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South,
heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought
against Israel, and took some of them captive. {21:2} Israel vowed a
vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into
my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. {21:3} Yahweh
listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and
they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the
place was called Hormah. {21:4} They traveled from Mount Hor by the
way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the
people was much discouraged because of the way. {21:5} The people
spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out
of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is
no water; and our soul loathes this light bread. {21:6} Yahweh sent
fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much
people of Israel died. {21:7} The people came to Moses, and said, We
have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you;
pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us. Moses prayed
for the people. {21:8} Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent,
and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is
bitten, when he sees it, shall live. {21:9} Moses made a serpent of
brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent
had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
{21:10} The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
{21:11} They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the
wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise. {21:12} From
there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered. {21:13} From
there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon,
which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the
Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the
Amorites. {21:14} Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of
Yahweh, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, {21:15} the slope
of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the
border of Moab."
{21:16} From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which
Yahweh said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them
water.
{21:17} Then sang Israel this song:
"Spring up, well; sing to it:
{21:18} the well, which the princes dug,
which the nobles of the people dug,
with the scepter, and with their poles."
From the wilderness [they traveled] to Mattanah; {21:19} and from
Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; {21:20} and from
Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of
Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. {21:21} Israel sent messengers
to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, {21:22} Let me pass through
your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we
will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's
highway, until we have passed your border. {21:23} Sihon would not
allow Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his
people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and
came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel. {21:24} Israel struck him
with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to
the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the
children of Ammon was strong. {21:25} Israel took all these cities:
and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in
all the towns of it. {21:26} For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the
king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab,
and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon. {21:27}
Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,
"Come to Heshbon.
Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
{21:28} for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
a flame from the city of Sihon.
It has devoured Ar of Moab,
The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
{21:29} Woe to you, Moab!
You are undone, people of Chemosh!
He has given his sons as fugitives,
and his daughters into captivity,
to Sihon king of the Amorites.
{21:30} We have shot at them.
Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
We have laid waste even to Nophah,
Which reaches to Medeba."
{21:31} Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. {21:32} Moses
sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out
the Amorites who were there. {21:33} They turned and went up by the
way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and
all his people, to battle at Edrei. {21:34} Yahweh said to Moses,
Don't fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his
people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king
of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon. {21:35} So they struck him, and
his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining:
and they possessed his land.
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