Numbers, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {10:2} Make you two
trumpets of silver; of beaten work shall you make them: and you shall
use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying
of the camps. {10:3} When they shall blow them, all the congregation
shall gather themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting.
{10:4} If they blow but 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 take their
journey. {10:6} When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that
lie on the south side shall take their journey: 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; and
they 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; and you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and
you shall 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 the LORD 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 tent of the
testimony. {10:12} The children of Israel set forward according to
their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in
the wilderness of Paran. {10:13} They first took their journey
according to the mitzvah of the LORD by Moses. {10:14} In the first
[place] the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward
according to their armies: and over his army was Nahshon the son of
Amminadab. {10:15} Over the army of the tribe of the children of
Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar. {10:16} Over the army of the
tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. {10:17}
The tent was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of
Merari, who bore the tent, set forward. {10:18} The standard of the
camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his
army was Elizur the son of Shedeur. {10:19} Over the army of the tribe
of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
{10:20} Over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph
the son of Deuel. {10:21} The Kohathites set forward, bearing the
sanctuary: and [the others] did set up the tent against their coming.
{10:22} The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set
forward according to their armies: and over his army was Elishama the
son of Ammihud. {10:23} Over the army of the tribe of the children of
Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. {10:24} Over the army of
the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
{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: and
over his army was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. {10:26} Over the
army of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of
Ochran. {10:27} Over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali
was Ahira the son of Enan. {10:28} Thus were the travels of the
children of Israel according to their armies; and they set 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 the LORD said,
I will give it you: come you with us, and we will do you good; for the
LORD 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 shall be to us instead of eyes. {10:32} It
shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good the
LORD shall do to us, the same will we do to you. {10:33} They set
forward from the Mount of the LORD three days' journey; and the ark of
the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek
out a resting place for them. {10:34} The cloud of the LORD was over
them by day, when they set forward from the camp. {10:35} It happened,
when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let your
enemies be scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you.
{10:36} When it rested, he said, Return, LORD, to the ten thousands of
the thousands of Israel.
{11:1} The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of
the LORD: and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled; and the
fire of the LORD burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part
of the camp. {11:2} The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the
LORD, and the fire abated. {11:3} The name of that place was called
Taberah, because the fire of the LORD 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 shall 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 our soul is dried away; there is
nothing at all save this manna to look on. {11:7} The manna was like
coriander seed, and the appearance of it as the appearance of
bdellium. {11:8} The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it
in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes
of it: and the taste of it was as 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 the LORD was kindled greatly;
and Moses was displeased. {11:11} Moses said to the LORD, Why have you
dealt ill with your servant? and 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
should 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
deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor
in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. {11:16} The LORD
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: and 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 you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against
tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of
the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with
us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you shall
eat. {11:19} You shall 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 be loathsome to you; because that
you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him,
saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? {11:21} Moses said, The
people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you
have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
{11:22} Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or
shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to
suffice them? {11:23} The LORD said to Moses, Has the LORD's hand
grown short? now shall you see whether my word shall happen to you or
not. {11:24} Moses went out, and told the people the words of the
LORD: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set
them round about the Tent. {11:25} The LORD 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 there
remained two men in the camp, the name of the 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} There ran a young man, and told Moses,
and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. {11:28} Joshua the
son of Nun, the minister 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? would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the
LORD would put his Spirit on them! {11:30} Moses got him into the
camp, he and the elders of Israel. {11:31} There went forth a wind
from the LORD, 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, round about 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 ten homers: and they spread them all abroad
for themselves round about the camp. {11:33} While the flesh was yet
between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was
kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very
great plague. {11:34} The name of that place was called
Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
{11:35} From Kibrothhattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and
they abode 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 the LORD indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he
spoken also with us? the LORD 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} The LORD spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam,
Come out you three to the tent of meeting. They three came out. {12:5}
The LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the
Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. {12:6} He
said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I the LORD
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 will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly,
and not in dark speeches; and the form of the LORD shall he see: why
then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?
{12:9} The anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he
departed. {12:10} The cloud removed from over the Tent; and behold,
Miriam was leprous, as [white as] snow: and Aaron looked at Miriam,
and behold, she was leprous. {12:11} Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord,
please don't lay sin on us, for that we have done foolishly, and for
that 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 the LORD, saying, Heal her, God, I beg
you. {12:14} The LORD 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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