Bamidbar, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {13:2} Send you men, that
they may spy out the land of Kena`an, which I give to the children of
Yisra'el: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man,
everyone a prince among them. {13:3} Moshe sent them from the
wilderness of Paran according to the [1>]mitzvah[<1] of the LORD: all
of them men who were heads of the children of Yisra'el. {13:4} These
were their names: Of the tribe of Re'uven, Shammua the son of Zakkur.
{13:5} Of the tribe of Shim`on, Shafat the son of Chori. {13:6} Of the
tribe of Yehudah, Kalev the son of Yefunneh. {13:7} Of the tribe of
Yissakhar, Yig'al the son of Yosef. {13:8} Of the tribe of Efrayim,
Hoshea the son of Nun. {13:9} Of the tribe of Binyamin, Palti the son
of Rafu. {13:10} Of the tribe of Zevulun, Gaddi'el the son of Sodi.
{13:11} Of the tribe of Yosef, [namely], of the tribe of Menasheh,
Gaddi the son of Susi. {13:12} Of the tribe of Dan, `Ammi'el the son
of Gemalli. {13:13} Of the tribe of Asher, Setur the son of Mikha'el.
{13:14} Of the tribe of Naftali, Nachbi the son of Vofsi. {13:15} Of
the tribe of Gad, Ge'u'el the son of Makhi. {13:16} These are the
names of the men who Moshe sent to spy out the land. Moshe called
Hoshea the son of Nun Yehoshua. {13:17} Moshe sent them to spy out the
land of Kena`an, and said to them, Go up this way by the South, and go
up into the hill-country: {13:18} and see the land, what it is; and
the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether
they are few or many; {13:19} and what the land is that they dwell in,
whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell
in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; {13:20} and what the land is,
whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be
of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was
the time of the first-ripe grapes. {13:21} So they went up, and spied
out the land from the wilderness of Tzin to Rechov, to the entrance of
Chamat. {13:22} They went up by the South, and came to Chevron; and
Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of `Anak, were there. (Now
Chevron was built seven years before Tzo`an in Egypt.) {13:23} They
came to the valley of Eshkol, and cut down from there a branch with
one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two; [they
brought] also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. {13:24} That place
was called the valley of Eshkol, because of the cluster which the
children of Yisra'el cut down from there. {13:25} They returned from
spying out the land at the end of forty days. {13:26} They went and
came to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the
children of Yisra'el, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and
brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and shown them
the fruit of the land. {13:27} They told him, and said, We came to the
land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and
this is the fruit of it. {13:28} However the people who dwell in the
land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and
moreover we saw the children of `Anak there. {13:29} `Amalek dwells in
the land of the South: and the Chittite, and the Yevusi, and the
Amori, dwell in the hill-country; and the Kena`ani dwells by the sea,
and along by the side of the Yarden. {13:30} Kalev stilled the people
before Moshe, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we
are well able to overcome it. {13:31} But the men who went up with him
said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are
stronger than we. {13:32} They brought up an evil report of the land
which they had spied out to the children of Yisra'el, saying, The
land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up
the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of
great stature. {13:33} There we saw the Nefilim, the sons of `Anak,
who come of the Nefilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers,
and so we were in their sight.
{14:1} All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and
the people wept that night. {14:2} All the children of Yisra'el
murmured against Moshe and against Aharon: and the whole congregation
said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would
that we had died in this wilderness! {14:3} Why does the LORD bring us
to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will
be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt? {14:4}
They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return
into Egypt. {14:5} Then Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before
all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra'el.
{14:6} Yehoshua the son of Nun and Kalev the son of Yefunneh, who were
of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes: {14:7} and they
spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, saying, The
land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good
land. {14:8} If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into
this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
{14:9} Only don't rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of
the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from
over them, and the LORD is with us: don't fear them. {14:10} But all
the congregation bade stone them with stones. The glory of the LORD
appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Yisra'el.
{14:11} The LORD said to Moshe, How long will this people despise me?
and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I
have worked among them? {14:12} I will strike them with the
pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater
and mightier than they. {14:13} Moshe said to the LORD, Then the
Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might
from among them; {14:14} and they will tell it to the inhabitants of
this land. They have heard that you LORD are in the midst of this
people; for you 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. {14:15} Now if you shall kill this people as
one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak,
saying, {14:16} Because the LORD was not able to bring this people
into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in
the wilderness. {14:17} Now please let the power of the Lord be great,
according as you have spoken, saying, {14:18} The LORD is slow to
anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and
disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting
the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the
fourth generation. {14:19} Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people
according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as
you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. {14:20} The
LORD said, I have pardoned according to your word: {14:21} but in very
deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory
of the LORD; {14:22} because all those men who have seen my glory, and
my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have
tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; {14:23}
surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers,
neither shall any of those who despised me see it: {14:24} but my
servant Kalev, because he had another spirit with him, and has
followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went;
and his seed shall possess it. {14:25} Now the `Amaleki and the
Kena`ani dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you, and get you into the
wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf. {14:26} The LORD spoke to
Moshe and to Aharon, saying, {14:27} How long [shall I bear] with this
evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings
of the children of Yisra'el, which they murmur against me. {14:28}
Tell them, As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my
ears, so will I do to you: {14:29} your dead bodies shall fall in this
wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole
number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against
me, {14:30} surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which
I swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Kalev the son of
Yefunneh, and Yehoshua the son of Nun. {14:31} But your little ones,
that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall
know the land which you have rejected. {14:32} But as for you, your
dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. {14:33} Your children shall
be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your
prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
{14:34} After the number of the days in which you spied out the land,
even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your iniquities,
even forty years, and you shall know my alienation. {14:35} I, the
LORD, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil
congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness
they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. {14:36} The men,
whom Moshe sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the
congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report
against the land, {14:37} even those men who did bring up an evil
report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD. {14:38} But
Yehoshua the son of Nun, and Kalev the son of Yefunneh, remained alive
of those men who went to spy out the land. {14:39} Moshe told these
words to all the children of Yisra'el: and the people mourned greatly.
{14:40} They rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top
of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and will go up to the
place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned. {14:41} Moshe
said, Why now do you disobey the [2>]mitzvah[<2] of the LORD, seeing
it shall not prosper? {14:42} Don't go up, for the LORD isn't among
you; that you not be struck down before your enemies. {14:43} For
there the `Amaleki and the Kena`ani are before you, and you shall fall
by the sword: because you are turned back from following the LORD,
therefore the LORD will not be with you. {14:44} But they presumed to
go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant
of the LORD, and Moshe, didn't depart out of the camp. {14:45} Then
the `Amaleki came down, and the Kena`ani who lived in that mountain,
and struck them and beat them down, even to Chormah.
{15:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {15:2} Speak to the children
of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you are come into the land of your
habitations, which I give to you, {15:3} and will make an offering by
fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a
vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet
savor to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock; {15:4} then shall he
who offers his offering offer to the LORD a meal-offering of a tenth
part [of an efah] of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of
oil: {15:5} and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin,
shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for
each lamb. {15:6} Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal-offering
two tenth parts [of an efah] of fine flour mixed with the third part
of a hin of oil: {15:7} and for the drink-offering you shall offer the
third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to the LORD. {15:8} When
you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to
accomplish a vow, or for peace-offerings to the LORD; {15:9} then
shall he offer with the bull a meal-offering of three tenth parts [of
an efah] of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil: {15:10} and you
shall offer for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD. {15:11} Thus shall it be
done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or
of the kids. {15:12} According to the number that you shall prepare,
so shall you do to everyone according to their number. {15:13} All who
are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD. {15:14} If a
stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you
throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savor to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do. {15:15} For
the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger
who lives as a foreigner [with you], a statute forever throughout your
generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before the LORD.
{15:16} One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the
stranger who lives as a foreigner with you. {15:17} The LORD spoke to
Moshe, saying, {15:18} Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell
them, When you come into the land where I bring you, {15:19} then it
shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer
up a heave-offering to the LORD. {15:20} Of the first of your dough
you shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering
of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it. {15:21} Of the first of
your dough you shall give to the LORD a heave-offering throughout your
generations. {15:22} When you shall err, and not observe all these
[3>]mitzvot[<3], which the LORD has spoken to Moshe, {15:23} even all
that the LORD has commanded you by Moshe, from the day that the LORD
gave [4>]mitzvah[<4], and onward throughout your generations; {15:24}
then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of
the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull
for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor to the LORD, with the
meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it, according to the
ordinance, and one male goat for a sin-offering. {15:25} The
[5>]kohen[<5] shall make atonement for all the congregation of the
children of Yisra'el, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error,
and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the
LORD, and their sin-offering before the LORD, for their error: {15:26}
and all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el shall be
forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for in
respect of all the people it was done unwittingly. {15:27} If one
person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old
for a sin-offering. {15:28} The [6>]kohen[<6] shall make atonement for
the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly, before the LORD, to make
atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. {15:29} You shall have
one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is
home-born among the children of Yisra'el, and for the stranger who
lives as a foreigner among them. {15:30} But the soul who does
anything with a high hand, whether he is home-born or a foreigner, the
same blasphemes the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among
his people. {15:31} Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and
has broken his [7>]mitzvah[<7], that soul shall utterly be cut off;
his iniquity shall be on him. {15:32} While the children of Yisra'el
were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the day
of Shabbat. {15:33} Those who found him gathering sticks brought him
to Moshe and Aharon, and to all the congregation. {15:34} They put him
in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to
him. {15:35} The LORD said to Moshe, The man shall surely be put to
death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the
camp. {15:36} All the congregation brought him outside of the camp,
and stoned him to death with stones; as the LORD commanded Moshe.
{15:37} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying, {15:38} Speak to the children
of Yisra'el, and bid those who they make them [8>]tzitziyot[<8] in the
borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they
put on the [9>]tzitzit[<9] of each border a cord of blue: {15:39} and
it shall be to you for a [10>]tzitzit[<10], that you may look on it,
and remember all the [11>]mitzvot[<11] of the LORD, and do them; and
that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after
which you use to play the prostitute; {15:40} that you may remember
and do all my [12>]mitzvot[<12], and be holy to your God. {15:41} 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.
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Footnotes:
[1] {13:3} commandment
[2] {14:41} commandment
[3] {15:22} commandments
[4] {15:23} commandment
[5] {15:25} priest
[6] {15:28} priest
[7] {15:31} commandment
[8] {15:38} fringes
[9] {15:38} fringe
[10] {15:39} fringe
[11] {15:39} commandments
[12] {15:40} commandments
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