Numbers, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {10:2} "Make two trumpets of
silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the
calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.
{10:3} When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather
themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. {10:4} If they
blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel,
shall gather themselves to you. {10:5} When you blow an alarm, the
camps that lie on the east side shall go forward. {10:6} When you blow
an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall
go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys. {10:7} But
when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you
shall not sound an alarm.
{10:8} "The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets.
This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your
generations. {10:9} When you go to war in your land against the
adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the
trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you
will be saved from your enemies.
{10:10} "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts,
and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over
your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings;
and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh
your God."
{10:11} It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the
twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle of the testimony. {10:12} The children of Israel went
forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai;
and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran. {10:13} They first
went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
{10:14} First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah
went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab
was over his army. {10:15} Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army
of the tribe of the children of Issachar. {10:16} Eliab the son of
Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.
{10:17} The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the
sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward. {10:18} The
standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies.
Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army. {10:19} Shelumiel the son
of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of
Simeon. {10:20} Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the
tribe of the children of Gad.
{10:21} The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The
others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.
{10:22} The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set
forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was
over his army. {10:23} Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army
of the tribe of the children of Manasseh. {10:24} Abidan the son of
Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.
{10:25} The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was
the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their armies.
Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army. {10:26} Pagiel the
son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.
{10:27} Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the
children of Naphtali. {10:28} Thus were the travels of the children of
Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.
{10:29} Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses'
father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said,
'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well; for
Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel."
{10:30} He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own
land, and to my relatives."
{10:31} He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we
are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes. {10:32} It
shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good
Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you."
{10:33} They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days'
journey. The ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three
days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them. {10:34} The cloud
of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.
{10:35} It happened, when the ark went forward, that Moses said, "Rise
up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you
flee before you!" {10:36} When it rested, he said, "Return, Yahweh, to
the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel."
{11:1} The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When
Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and Yahweh's fire burnt among
them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. {11:2} The
people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire
abated. {11:3} The name of that place was called [1>]Taberah[<1],
because Yahweh's fire burnt among them.
{11:4} The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly:
and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give
us flesh to eat? {11:5} We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt
for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the
onions, and the garlic; {11:6} but now we have lost our appetite.
There is nothing at all except this manna to look at." {11:7} The
manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance
of bdellium. {11:8} The people went around, gathered it, and ground it
in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes
of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil. {11:9} When the dew
fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
{11:10} Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families,
every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Yahweh was kindled
greatly; and Moses was displeased. {11:11} Moses said to Yahweh, "Why
have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven't I found favor
in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
{11:12} Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth,
that you should tell me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries
a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?'
{11:13} Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they
weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.' {11:14} I am not
able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
{11:15} If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have
found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."
{11:16} Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather to 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 Tent of Meeting, that they
may stand there with you. {11:17} I will come down and talk with you
there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on
them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you
not bear it yourself alone.
{11:18} "Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow,
and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh,
saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in
Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.
{11:19} You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither
ten days, nor twenty days, {11:20} but a whole month, until it come
out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you
have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him,
saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"
{11:21} Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred
thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh, that
they may eat a whole month.' {11:22} Shall flocks and herds be
slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of
the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?"
{11:23} Yahweh said to Moses, "Has Yahweh's hand grown short? Now
you will see whether my word will happen to you or not."
{11:24} Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh; and
he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them
around the Tent. {11:25} Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to
him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy
elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they
prophesied, but they did so no more. {11:26} But two men remained in
the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad:
and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were
written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the
camp. {11:27} A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and
Medad are prophesying in the camp!"
{11:28} Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his
chosen men, answered, "My lord Moses, forbid them!"
{11:29} Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that
all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on
them!"
{11:30} Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
{11:31} A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea,
and let them fall by 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 surface of the earth. {11:32} The people rose up all
that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the
quails. He who gathered least gathered [2>]ten homers;[<2] and they
spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp. {11:33} While
the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger
of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people
with a very great plague. {11:34} The name of that place was called
[3>]Kibroth Hattaavah,[<3] because there they buried the people who
lusted.
{11:35} From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and
they stayed at Hazeroth.
{12:1} Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite
woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. {12:2}
They said, "Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he spoken
also with us?" And Yahweh heard it.
{12:3} Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were
on the surface of the earth. {12:4} Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to
Aaron, and to Miriam, "You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!"
The three of them came out. {12:5} Yahweh came down in a pillar of
cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam;
and they both came forward. {12:6} He said, "Hear now my words. If
there is a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him
in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream. {12:7} My servant Moses
is not so. He is faithful in all my house. {12:8} With him I will
speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall
see Yahweh's form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my
servant, against Moses?" {12:9} The anger of Yahweh was kindled
against them; and he departed. {12:10} The cloud departed from over
the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron
looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
{12:11} Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, please don't count this
sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have
sinned. {12:12} Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh
is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."
{12:13} Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "Heal her, God, I beg you!"
{12:14} Yahweh said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her
face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside
of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again."
{12:15} Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the
people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again. {12:16}
Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the
wilderness of Paran.
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Footnotes:
[1] {11:3} Taberah means "burning"
[2] {11:32} 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels
[3] {11:34} Kibroth Hattaavah means "graves of lust."
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