Bamidbar, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, {19:2} This is
the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to
the children of Yisra'el, that they bring you a red heifer without
spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke. {19:3}
You shall give her to El`azar the [1>]Kohen[<1], and he shall bring
her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face:
{19:4} and El`azar the [2>]Kohen[<2] shall take of her blood with his
finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting
seven times. {19:5} One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin,
and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: {19:6} and
the [3>]Kohen[<3] shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and
cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. {19:7} Then the
[4>]Kohen[<4] shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in
water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the
[5>]Kohen[<5] shall be unclean until the even. {19:8} He who burns her
shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and
shall be unclean until the even. {19:9} A man who is clean shall
gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp
in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the
children of Yisra'el for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
{19:10} He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of
Yisra'el, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for
a statute forever. {19:11} He who touches the dead body of any man
shall be unclean seven days: {19:12} the same shall purify himself
therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean:
but if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day
he shall not be clean. {19:13} Whoever touches a dead person, the body
of a man who has died, and doesn't purifies himself, defiles the tent
of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Yisra'el: because the
water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his
uncleanness is yet on him. {19:14} This is the law when a man dies in
a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the
tent, shall be unclean seven days. {19:15} Every open vessel, which
has no covering bound on it, is unclean. {19:16} Whoever in the open
field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone
of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. {19:17} For the
unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the
sin-offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
{19:18} and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water,
and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the
persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain,
or the dead, or the grave: {19:19} and the clean person shall sprinkle
on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the
seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. {19:20} But the
man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul
shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has
defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water for impurity has not been
sprinkled on him; he is unclean. {19:21} It shall be a perpetual
statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall
wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be
unclean until even. {19:22} Whatever the unclean person touches shall
be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.
{20:1} The children of Yisra'el, even the whole congregation, came
into the wilderness of Tzin in the first month: and the people abode
in Kadesh; and Miryam died there, and was buried there. {20:2} There
was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves
together against Moshe and against Aharon. {20:3} The people strove
with Moshe, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our
brothers died before the LORD! {20:4} Why have you brought the
assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die there,
we and our animals? {20:5} Why have you made us to come up out of
Mitzrayim, to bring us in to this evil place? it is no place of seed,
or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any
water to drink. {20:6} Moshe and Aharon went from the presence of the
assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces:
and the glory of the LORD appeared to them. {20:7} The LORD spoke to
Moshe, saying, {20:8} Take the rod, and assemble the congregation,
you, and Aharon your brother, and speak you to the rock before their
eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them
water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their
cattle drink. {20:9} Moshe took the rod from before the LORD, as he
commanded him. {20:10} Moshe and Aharon gathered the assembly together
before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; shall we
bring you forth water out of this rock? {20:11} Moshe lifted up his
hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth
abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle. {20:12} The
LORD said to Moshe and Aharon, Because you didn't believe in me, to
sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Yisra'el, therefore you
shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.
{20:13} These are the waters of Merivah; because the children of
Yisra'el strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them. {20:14}
Moshe sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says your
brother Yisra'el, You know all the travail that has happened to us:
{20:15} how our fathers went down into Mitzrayim, and we lived in
Mitzrayim a long time; and the Mitzrim dealt ill with us, and our
fathers: {20:16} and when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice,
and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Mitzrayim: and, behold,
we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border. {20:17}
Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field
or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells:
we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the
right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border. {20:18}
Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with
the sword against you. {20:19} The children of Yisra'el said to him,
We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my
cattle, then will I give the price of it: let me only, without [doing]
anything [else], pass through on my feet. {20:20} He said, You shall
not pass through. Edom came out against him with much people, and with
a strong hand. {20:21} Thus Edom refused to give Yisra'el passage
through his border: why Yisra'el turned away from him. {20:22} They
traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Yisra'el, even the whole
congregation, came to Mount Hor. {20:23} The LORD spoke to Moshe and
Aharon in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
{20:24} Aharon shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter
into the land which I have given to the children of Yisra'el, because
you rebelled against my word at the waters of Merivah. {20:25} Take
Aharon and El`azar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; {20:26}
and strip Aharon of his garments, and put them on El`azar his son: and
Aharon shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there. {20:27}
Moshe did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor in
the sight of all the congregation. {20:28} Moshe stripped Aharon of
his garments, and put them on El`azar his son; and Aharon died there
on the top of the mountain: and Moshe and El`azar came down from the
mountain. {20:29} When all the congregation saw that Aharon was dead,
they wept for Aharon thirty days, even all the house of Yisra'el.
{21:1} The Kana`ani, the king of `Arad, who lived in the South,
heard tell that Yisra'el came by the way of Atarim; and he fought
against Yisra'el, and took some of them captive. {21:2} Yisra'el vowed
a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people
into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. {21:3} The
LORD listened to the voice of Yisra'el, and delivered up the
Kana`anim; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the
name of the place was called Hormah. {21:4} They traveled from Mount
Hor by the way to the Sea of Suf, to compass the land of Edom: and the
soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. {21:5} The
people spoke against God, and against Moshe, Why have you brought us
up out of Mitzrayim to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread,
and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread. {21:6}
The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the
people; and much people of Yisra'el died. {21:7} The people came to
Moshe, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against the
LORD, and against you; pray to the LORD, that he take away the
serpents from us. Moshe prayed for the people. {21:8} The LORD said to
Moshe, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it
shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall
live. {21:9} Moshe made a serpent of brass, and set it on the
standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when
he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived. {21:10} The children of
Yisra'el traveled, and encamped in Ovot. {21:11} They traveled from
Ovot, and encamped at `Iye-Avarim, in the wilderness which is before
Mo'av, toward the sunrise. {21:12} From there they traveled, and
encamped in the valley of Zered. {21:13} From there they traveled, and
encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness,
that comes out of the border of the Amori: for the Arnon is the border
of Mo'av, between Mo'av and the Amori. {21:14} Therefore it is said in
the book of the Wars of the LORD,
Vahev in Sufah,
The valleys of the Arnon,
{21:15} The slope of the valleys
That inclines toward the dwelling of `Ar,
Leans on the border of Mo'av.
{21:16} From there they traveled to Be'er: that is the well whereof
the LORD said to Moshe, Gather the people together, and I will give
them water.
{21:17} Then sang Yisra'el this song:
Spring up, well; sing you to it:
{21:18} The well, which the princes dug,
Which the nobles of the people dug,
With the scepter, [and] with their poles.
From the wilderness [they traveled] to Mattanah; {21:19} and from
Mattanah to Nachali'el; and from Nachali'el to Bamot; {21:20} and from
Bamot to the valley that is in the field of Mo'av, to the top of
Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. {21:21} Yisra'el sent
messengers to Sichon king of the Amori, saying, {21:22} Let me pass
through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into
vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by
the king's highway, until we have passed your border. {21:23} Sichon
would not allow Yisra'el to pass through his border: but Sichon
gathered all his people together, and went out against Yisra'el into
the wilderness, and came to Yahatz; and he fought against Yisra'el.
{21:24} Yisra'el struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed
his land from the Arnon to the Yabbok, even to the children of `Ammon;
for the border of the children of `Ammon was strong. {21:25} Yisra'el
took all these cities: and Yisra'el lived in all the cities of the
Amori, in Heshbon, and in all the towns of it. {21:26} For Heshbon was
the city of Sichon the king of the Amori, who had fought against the
former king of Mo'av, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to
the Arnon. {21:27} Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,
Come you to Heshbon;
Let the city of Sichon be built and established:
{21:28} For a fire is gone out of Heshbon,
A flame from the city of Sichon:
It has devoured `Ar of Mo'av,
The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
{21:29} Woe to you, Mo'av!
You are undone, people of Kemosh:
He has given his sons as fugitives,
His daughters into captivity,
To Sichon king of the Amori.
{21:30} We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Divon,
We have laid waste even to Nofach,
Which [reaches] to Medeva.
{21:31} Thus Yisra'el lived in the land of the Amori. {21:32} Moshe
sent to spy out Ya`zer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out
the Amori who were there. {21:33} They turned and went up by the way
of Bashan: and `Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and
all his people, to battle at Edre`i. {21:34} The LORD said to Moshe,
Don't fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his
people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sichon
king of the Amori, who lived at Heshbon. {21:35} So they struck him,
and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him
remaining: and they possessed his land.
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Footnotes:
[1] {19:3} priest
[2] {19:4} priest
[3] {19:6} priest
[4] {19:7} priest
[5] {19:7} priest
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