Numbers, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {13:2} Send you men, that
they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of
Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone
a prince among them. {13:3} Moses sent them from the wilderness of
Paran according to the mitzvah of the LORD: all of them men who were
heads of the children of Israel. {13:4} These were their names: Of the
tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. {13:5} Of the tribe of
Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. {13:6} Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb
the son of Jephunneh. {13:7} Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of
Joseph. {13:8} Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. {13:9}
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. {13:10} Of the tribe
of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. {13:11} Of the tribe of Joseph,
[namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. {13:12} Of
the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. {13:13} Of the tribe of
Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. {13:14} Of the tribe of Naphtali,
Nahbi the son of Vophsi. {13:15} Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of
Machi. {13:16} These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy
out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. {13:17} Moses
sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, 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 Zin to
Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. {13:22} They went up by the South,
and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of
Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in
Egypt.) {13:23} They came to the valley of Eshcol, 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 Eshcol, because of the
cluster which the children of Israel 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 Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation
of the children of Israel, 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 Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the
Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the
sea, and along by the side of the Jordan. {13:30} Caleb stilled the
people before Moses, 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 Israel, 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 Nephilim, the sons of Anak,
who come of the Nephilim: 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 Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron: 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 Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. {14:6} Joshua
the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, 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 Israel, 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 Israel. {14:11} The LORD said to Moses,
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}
Moses 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 Caleb, 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
Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you,
and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea. {14:26} The
LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, 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 Israel, 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 Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua 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 Moses 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 Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land. {14:39}
Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: 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} Moses said, Why now do you disobey the mitzvah 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 Amalekite and the Canaanite 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 Moses, didn't depart out of
the camp. {14:45} Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who
lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to
Hormah.
{15:1} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {15:2} Speak to the children
of Israel, 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 male lambs, or
of the young goats. {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 native-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 Moses, saying, {15:18} Speak to the children
of Israel, 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 wave offering to the LORD. {15:20} Of the
first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering: as
the wave 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 wave
offering throughout your generations. {15:22} When you shall err, and
not observe all these mitzvot, which the LORD has spoken to Moses,
{15:23} even all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the
day that the LORD gave mitzvah, 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 priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of
the children of Israel, 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 Israel 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 sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old
for a sin offering. {15:28} The priest 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
native-born among the children of Israel, 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 native-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 mitzvah, that soul shall utterly be cut off;
his iniquity shall be on him. {15:32} While the children of Israel
were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the
Sabbath day. {15:33} Those who found him gathering sticks brought him
to Moses and Aaron, 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 Moses, 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 Moses.
{15:37} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {15:38} Speak to the children
of Israel, and bid those who they make them fringes in the borders of
their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the
fringe of each border a cord of blue: {15:39} and it shall be to you
for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the mitzvot 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 mitzvot, 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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