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Numbers, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {13:2} "Send men, that they
may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of
Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every
one a prince among them."
{13:3} Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the
commandment 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, 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 courageous, 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 also brought some of the pomegranates and 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 showed 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 its fruit. {13:28} However the people who dwell in the land
are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. 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 its
inhabitants; 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 delights 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 threatened to 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 killed 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 [1>]Lord[<1]
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} Please pardon 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, and go into the
wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf." {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, except 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, you will bear your iniquities,
even forty years, and you will 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 brought 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 went 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 commandment of the LORD, since 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 have 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 pleasant aroma to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock;
{15:4} then he who offers his offering shall 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, you shall 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 pleasant aroma 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 pleasant aroma 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 you shall do to everyone according to their number.
{15:13} "'All who are native-born shall do these things in this way,
in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma 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 pleasant aroma 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, 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 you shall
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
commandments, 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 commandment, 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 pleasant aroma 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 commandment,
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 tell them that they should make themselves
[2>]fringes[<2] in the borders of their garments throughout their
generations, and that they put on the [3>]fringe[<3] of each border a
cord of blue: {15:39} and it shall be to you for a [4>]fringe[<4],
that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments 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 commandments, 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] {14:17} The word translated "Lord" (mixed case) is "Adonai."
[2] {15:38} or, tzitziot)
[3] {15:38} or, tzitzit
[4] {15:39} or, tzitzit
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