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 Kana`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 Hori. {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 Menashsheh,
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 Kana`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
Hamat. {13:22} They went up by the South, and came to Hevron; and
Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of `Anak, were there. (Now
Hevron was built seven years before Tzo`an in Mitzrayim.) {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 Hittite, and the Yevusi, and the Amori,
dwell in the hill-country; and the Kana`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 Mitzrayim! 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
Mitzrayim? {14:4} They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and
let us return into Mitzrayim. {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 Mitzrim 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 lovingkindness, 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 lovingkindness, and according as
you have forgiven this people, from Mitzrayim 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 [1>]eretz[<1] 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 Mitzrayim 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 Kana`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 Kana`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 Kana`ani who lived in that mountain,
and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
{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 sojourn 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 sojourns [with you], a statute forever throughout your
generations: as you are, so shall the sojourner be before the LORD.
{15:16} One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the
stranger who sojourns 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
[1>]mitzvot[<1], 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 [2>]mitzvah[<2], 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
[3>]Kohen[<3] 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 sojourns 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 [4>]Kohen[<4] 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
sojourns among them. {15:30} But the soul who does anything with a
high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, 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 [5>]mitzvah[<5], 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 [6>]tzitziyot[<6] in the borders of their
garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the
[7>]tzitzit[<7] of each border a cord of blue: {15:39} and it shall be
to you for a [8>]tzitzit[<8], that you may look on it, and remember
all the [9>]mitzvot[<9] 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
[10>]mitzvot[<10], and be holy to your God. {15:41} I am the LORD your
God, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, to be your God: I
am the LORD your God.
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Footnotes:
[1] {13:3} commandment
[1] {14:21} earth
[2] {14:41} commandment
[1] {15:22} commandments
[2] {15:23} commandment
[3] {15:25} priest
[4] {15:28} priest
[5] {15:31} commandment
[6] {15:38} fringes
[7] {15:38} fringe
[8] {15:39} fringe
[9] {15:39} commandments
[10] {15:40} commandments
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