Numbers, starting at chapter 31
{31:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {31:2} Avenge the children of
Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your
people. {31:3} Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from
among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute
Yahweh's vengeance on Midian. {31:4} Of every tribe one thousand,
throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to the war. {31:5}
So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of
every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. {31:6} Moses sent them,
one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of
Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and
the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. {31:7} They warred against
Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male. {31:8}
They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and
Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam
also the son of Beor they killed with the sword. {31:9} The children
of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and
all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they
took for a prey. {31:10} All their cities in the places in which they
lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. {31:11} They
took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.
{31:12} They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to
Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the
children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by
the Jordan at Jericho. {31:13} Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all
the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of
the camp. {31:14} Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the
captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the
service of the war. {31:15} Moses said to them, Have you saved all the
women alive? {31:16} Behold, these caused the children of Israel,
through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in
the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of
Yahweh. {31:17} Now therefore kill every male among the little ones,
and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. {31:18} But
all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive
for yourselves. {31:19} Encamp you outside of the camp seven days:
whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain,
purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and
your captives. {31:20} As to every garment, and all that is made of
skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, you
shall purify yourselves. {31:21} Eleazar the priest said to the men of
war who went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which
Yahweh has commanded Moses: {31:22} however the gold, and the silver,
the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, {31:23} everything that
may abide the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it
shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for
impurity: and all that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go
through the water. {31:24} You shall wash your clothes on the seventh
day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the
camp. {31:25} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {31:26} Take the sum of
the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar
the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the
congregation; {31:27} and divide the prey into two parts: between the
men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
{31:28} Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to
battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the
oxen, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks: {31:29} take it of their
half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh's wave offering.
{31:30} Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out
of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of
the flocks, [even] of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites,
who keep the charge of the tent of Yahweh. {31:31} Moses and Eleazar
the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses. {31:32} Now the prey, over
and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred
seventy-five thousand sheep, {31:33} and seventy-two thousand oxen,
{31:34} and sixty-one thousand donkeys, {31:35} and thirty-two
thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying
with him. {31:36} The half, which was the portion of those who went
out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five
hundred sheep: {31:37} and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six
hundred seventy-five. {31:38} The oxen were thirty-six thousand; of
which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two. {31:39} The donkeys were
thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.
{31:40} The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute
was thirty-two persons. {31:41} Moses gave the tribute, which was
Yahweh's wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded
Moses. {31:42} Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided
off from the men who warred {31:43} (now the congregation's half was
three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, {31:44} and
thirty-six thousand oxen, {31:45} and thirty thousand five hundred
donkeys, {31:46} and sixteen thousand persons), {31:47} even of the
children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty,
both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the
charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses. {31:48} The
officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of
thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses; {31:49}
and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of
war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.
{31:50} We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten,
of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and
necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh. {31:51}
Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all worked
jewels. {31:52} All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up
to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of
hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels. {31:53}
([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.) {31:54}
Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting,
for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.
{32:1} Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and
the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;
{32:2} the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke
to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the
congregation, saying, {32:3} Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and
Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
{32:4} the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel,
is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock. {32:5} They
said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to
your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan. {32:6}
Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben,
Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here? {32:7} Why
discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from going over
into the land which Yahweh has given them? {32:8} Thus did your
fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. {32:9}
For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they
discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not
go into the land which Yahweh had given them. {32:10} Yahweh's anger
was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying, {32:11} Surely none of
the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward,
shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob;
because they have not wholly followed me: {32:12} save Caleb the son
of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they
have wholly followed Yahweh. {32:13} Yahweh's anger was kindled
against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the
wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in
the sight of Yahweh, was consumed. {32:14} Behold, you are risen up in
your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the
fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel. {32:15} For if you turn away
from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and
you will destroy all this people. {32:16} They came near to him, and
said, We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for
our little ones: {32:17} but we ourselves will be ready armed to go
before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their
place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because
of the inhabitants of the land. {32:18} We will not return to our
houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his
inheritance. {32:19} For we will not inherit with them on the other
side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to
us on this side of the Jordan eastward. {32:20} Moses said to them, If
you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh
to the war, {32:21} and every armed man of you will pass over the
Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before
him, {32:22} and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you
shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and
this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh. {32:23} But
if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be
sure your sin will find you out. {32:24} Build you cities for your
little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded
out of your mouth. {32:25} The children of Gad and the children of
Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord
commands. {32:26} Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our
livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; {32:27} but your
servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh
to battle, as my lord says. {32:28} So Moses gave charge 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 children of
Israel. {32:29} Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the
children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who
is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued
before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a
possession: {32:30} but if they will not pass over with you armed,
they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. {32:31}
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As
Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do. {32:32} We will pass
over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession
of our inheritance [shall remain] with us beyond the Jordan. {32:33}
Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children
of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the
kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of
Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with [their] borders,
even the cities of the land round about. {32:34} The children of Gad
built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, {32:35} and Atrothshophan, and
Jazer, and Jogbehah, {32:36} and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran:
fortified cities, and folds for sheep. {32:37} The children of Reuben
built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, {32:38} and Nebo, and Baal
Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other
names to the cities which they built. {32:39} The children of Machir
the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the
Amorites who were therein. {32:40} Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son
of Manasseh; and he lived therein. {32:41} Jair the son of Manasseh
went and took the towns of it, and called them Havvoth Jair. {32:42}
Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages of it, and called it
Nobah, after his own name.
{33:1} These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they
went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of
Moses and Aaron. {33:2} Moses wrote their goings out according to
their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their
journeys according to their goings out. {33:3} They traveled from
Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month;
on the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out
with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, {33:4} while the
Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck
among them: on their gods also Yahweh executed judgments. {33:5} The
children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.
{33:6} They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in
the edge of the wilderness. {33:7} They traveled from Etham, and
turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon: and they
encamped before Migdol. {33:8} They traveled from before Hahiroth, and
passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went
three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
{33:9} They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were
twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped
there. {33:10} They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
{33:11} They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness
of Sin. {33:12} They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped
in Dophkah. {33:13} They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
{33:14} They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was
no water for the people to drink. {33:15} They traveled from Rephidim,
and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. {33:16} They traveled from
the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah. {33:17}
They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.
{33:18} They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah. {33:19}
They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez. {33:20} They
traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah. {33:21} They
traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah. {33:22} They traveled
from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah. {33:23} They traveled from
Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher. {33:24} They traveled from
Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah. {33:25} They traveled from
Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth. {33:26} They traveled from
Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath. {33:27} They traveled from Tahath,
and encamped in Terah. {33:28} They traveled from Terah, and encamped
in Mithkah. {33:29} They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in
Hashmonah. {33:30} They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in
Moseroth. {33:31} They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene
Jaakan. {33:32} They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor
Haggidgad. {33:33} They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in
Jotbathah. {33:34} They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in
Abronah. {33:35} They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion
Geber. {33:36} They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped in the
wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh). {33:37} They traveled from
Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
{33:38} Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of
Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of
Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the
first day of the month. {33:39} Aaron was one hundred twenty-three
years old when he died in Mount Hor. {33:40} The Canaanite, the king
of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the
coming of the children of Israel. {33:41} They traveled from Mount
Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah. {33:42} They traveled from Zalmonah,
and encamped in Punon. {33:43} They traveled from Punon, and encamped
in Oboth. {33:44} They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye
Abarim, in the border of Moab. {33:45} They traveled from Iyim, and
encamped in Dibon Gad. {33:46} They traveled from Dibon Gad, and
encamped in Almon Diblathaim. {33:47} They traveled from Almon
Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
{33:48} They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in
the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. {33:49} They encamped by
the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of
Moab. {33:50} Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the
Jordan at Jericho, saying, {33:51} Speak to the children of Israel,
and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
{33:52} then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all
their molten images, and demolish all their high places: {33:53} and
you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for to you
have I given the land to possess it. {33:54} You shall inherit the
land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the
more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less
inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his;
according to the tribes of your fathers shall you inherit. {33:55} But
if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you,
then shall those who you let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes,
and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land in
which you dwell. {33:56} It shall happen that as I thought to do to
them, so will I do to you.
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