 戶:1.(nm)   [戶籍紀]   [Numerus]  [Numbers]   [共 36 章]   [思高聖經]
  
           上編 西乃山下起程的準備(1-10)
  
 戶:1.1      [調查戶口]  以色列人出埃及國後第二年二月一日，上主在西乃曠野於會幕內訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:1.2      你們要依照以色列子民的宗教和家系，統計全會眾的人口，把男丁的姓名都一一登記。
 戶:1.3      在以色列中，凡二十歲以上能上陣作戰的，你和亞郎要一隊一隊地統計。
 戶:1.4      每一支派有一人同你們合作，他們都是各宗族的族長。
 戶:1.5      那協助你們的人名如下：勒烏本支派，是舍德烏爾的兒子厄里族爾；
 戶:1.6      西默盎支派，是族黎沙待的兒子舍路米耳；
 戶:1.7      猶大支派，是阿米納達布的兒子納赫雄；
 戶:1.8      依撒加爾支派，是族阿爾的兒子乃塔乃耳；
 戶:1.9      則步隆支派，是赫隆的兒子厄里雅布；
 戶:1.10     若瑟的兩個兒子：厄弗辣因支派，是阿米胡得的兒子厄里沙瑪；默納協支派，是培達族爾的兒子加默里耳；
 戶:1.11     本雅明支派，是基德敖尼的兒子阿彼丹；
 戶:1.12     丹支派，是阿米沙待的兒子阿希厄則爾；
 戶:1.13     阿協爾支派，是敖革蘭的兒子帕革厄耳；
 戶:1.14     加得支派，是勒烏耳的兒子厄肋雅撒夫；
 戶:1.15     納斐塔里支派，是厄南的兒子阿希辣。」
 戶:1.16     這些人是由會眾中選出來的，都是他們宗族的領袖，以色列的千夫長。
 戶:1.17     梅瑟和亞郎就帶著這些提名派定的人，
 戶:1.18     於二月一日召集了全會眾，人都依照宗族和家系登了記，由二十歲以上的，都一一將姓名登了記。
 戶:1.19     上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟，梅瑟就怎樣在西乃曠野統計了他們。
 戶:1.20     以色列的長子勒烏本子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的男子，都一一將姓名登了記；
 戶:1.21     勒烏本支派登記的，計有四萬六千五百。
 戶:1.22     西默盎子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的男子，都一一將姓名登了記，
 戶:1.23     西默盎支派登記的，計有五萬九千三百。
 戶:1.24     加得子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的，都將姓名登了記；
 戶:1.25     加得支派登記的，計有四萬五千六百五十。
 戶:1.26     猶大子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的，都將姓名登了記；
 戶:1.27     猶大支派登記的，計有七萬四千六百。
 戶:1.28     依撒加爾子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的，都將姓名登了記，
 戶:1.29     依撒加爾支派登記的，計有五萬四千四百。
 戶:1.30     則步隆子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的，都將姓名登了記；
 戶:1.31     則步隆支派登記的，計有五萬七千四百。
 戶:1.32     若瑟的子孫：厄弗辣因子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的，都將姓名登了記；
 戶:1.33     厄弗辣因支派登記的，計有四萬五百。
 戶:1.34     默納協子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的男子，都一一將姓名登了記；
 戶:1.35     默納協支派登記的，計有三萬二千二百。
 戶:1.36     本雅明子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的，都將姓名登了記；
 戶:1.37     亞雅明支派登記的，計有三萬五千四百。
 戶:1.38     丹子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的，都將姓名登了記；
 戶:1.39     丹支派登記的，計有六萬二千七百。
 戶:1.40     阿協爾子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的，都將姓名登了記；
 戶:1.41     阿協爾支派登記的，計有四萬一千五百。
 戶:1.42     納斐塔里子孫的後裔，依照宗族和家系，二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的，都將姓名登了記；
 戶:1.43     納斐塔里支派登記的，計有五萬三千四百：
 戶:1.44     以上是梅瑟和亞郎並以色列的首領十二人──每宗族一人──所登記的人數。
 戶:1.45     以色列中二十歲以上，凡能上陣作戰的以色列子民，全依照宗族和家系登了記。
 戶:1.46     全體登記的總數，是六十萬三千五百五十。
 戶:1.47     [肋未人的職務]  但是肋末人沒有依照自己的宗派同他們一起登記，
 戶:1.48     因為上主曾訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:1.49     「只有肋未支派，不要登記，不要將他們列在以色列子民內。
 戶:1.50     你應派肋未人管理會幕和其中一切器皿，並一切附屬物。他們要搬運會幕和其中一切器皿，在會幕中服務，住在會幕的四周。
 戶:1.51     會幕要遷移時，肋未人拆卸；會幕要搭紮時，肋未人張搭；若俗人走近，應處死刑。
 戶:1.52     以色列子民應分隊紮營，各歸本旗。
 戶:1.53     但肋未人應在會幕四周紮營，免得以色列子民會眾觸犯天怒；肋未人應負責看守會幕。」
 戶:1.54     以色列子民都照辦了；上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟，他們就怎樣辦了。
  
 戶:2.1      [安營的秩序]  上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
 戶:2.2      「以色列子民每人應隨自己的旗幟，在自己宗族的標誌下紮營，都向著會幕，在四周稍遠的地方紮營。
 戶:2.3      在前面，即東方，是猶大軍團紮營的旗幟：猶大子孫的首領是阿米納達布的兒子納赫雄；
 戶:2.4      他的部隊登記的，是七萬四千六百。
 戶:2.5      在其傍紮營的是依撒加爾支派；依撒加爾子孫的首領是族阿爾的兒子乃塔乃耳；
 戶:2.6      他的部隊登記的，是五萬四千四百。
 戶:2.7      隨後是則步隆支派；則步隆子孫的首領是赫隆的兒子厄里雅布；
 戶:2.8      他的部隊登記的，是五萬七千四百。
 戶:2.9      猶大軍團登記的，共計十八萬六千四百；他們應首先出發。
 戶:2.10     南方是勒烏本軍團紮營的旗幟：勒烏本子孫的首領是舍德烏爾的兒子厄里族爾；
 戶:2.11     他的部隊登記的，是四萬六千五百。
 戶:2.12     在其傍紮營的，是西默盎支派；西默盎子孫的首領是族黎沙待的兒子舍路米耳；
 戶:2.13     他的部隊登記的，是五萬九千三百。
 戶:2.14     隨後是加得支派；加得子孫的首領是勒烏本的兒子厄肋雅撒夫；
 戶:2.15     他的部隊登記的，是四萬五千六百五十。
 戶:2.16     勒烏本軍團登記的，共計十五萬一千四百五十；他們其次出發。
 戶:2.17     隨後，會幕與肋未營在各營中心啟程前行；各營怎樣紮營，就怎樣出發前行，各依自己的位置，各隨自己的旗幟。
 戶:2.18     西方是厄弗辣因軍團紮營的旗幟：厄弗辣因子孫的首領是阿米胡得的兒子厄里沙瑪；
 戶:2.19     他的部隊登記的，是四萬五百。
 戶:2.20     在其傍是默納協支派；默納協子孫的首領是培達族爾的兒子加默里耳；
 戶:2.21     他的部隊登記的，是三萬二千二百。
 戶:2.22     隨後是本雅明支派；本雅明子孫的首領是基德敖尼的兒子阿彼丹；
 戶:2.23     他的部隊登記的，是三萬五千四百。
 戶:2.24     厄弗辣因軍團登記的，共計十萬八千一百；他們作第三隊出發。
 戶:2.25     北方是丹軍團紮營的旗幟：丹子孫的首領是阿米沙待的兒子阿希厄則爾；
 戶:2.26     他的部隊登記的，是六萬二千七百。
 戶:2.27     在其傍紮營的是阿協爾支派；阿協爾子孫的首領是敖革蘭的兒子帕革厄耳；
 戶:2.28     他的部隊登記的，是四萬一千五百。
 戶:2.29     隨後是納斐塔里支派；納斐榙里子孫的首領是厄南的兒子阿希辣；
 戶:2.30     他的部隊登記的，是五萬三千四百。
 戶:2.31     丹軍團登記的，共計十五萬七千六百；他們隨著自己的旗幟，最後出發。」
 戶:2.32     這就是以色列子民依照家系登記的數目；各營的部隊登記的總數，共六十萬三千五百五十。
 戶:2.33     照上主對梅瑟所吩咐的，肋未人沒有在以色列子民中登記。
 戶:2.34     以色列子民全照上主吩咐梅瑟的做了，都隨著自己的旗幟紮營，各隨宗族和家系出發進行。
  
 戶:3.1      [肋未人的數目和職務]  上主在西乃山上與梅瑟交談的時候，亞郎和梅瑟的後裔如下：
 戶:3.2      亞郎兒子的名字是：長子納達布、阿彼胡、厄肋阿匝爾和依塔瑪爾：
 戶:3.3      這是亞郎兒子的名字，他們都是受傅的司祭，受祝聖盡司祭之職。
 戶:3.4      納達布和阿彼胡在西乃曠野於上主面前獻了凡火，立即死於上主面前，沒有留下兒子；只有厄肋阿匝爾和依塔瑪爾，在他們父親亞郎面前執行司祭的職務。
 戶:3.5      上主訓示梅瑟說：「
 戶:3.6      叫肋未支派前來，站在亞郎司祭面前，協助他服務。
 戶:3.7      他們應代亞郎和全會眾，在會眾前盡應盡的義務，在會幕內服役，
 戶:3.8      管理會幕內的一切器具，代以色列子民盡應盡之職，在會幕內服役。
 戶:3.9      你應將肋未人全交給亞郎和他的兒子，代以色列子民作亞郎的侍役；
 戶:3.10     你要委任亞郎和他的兒子執行司祭的職務；俗人擅自走近，應處死刑。」
 戶:3.11     上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:3.12     「看，我由以色列子民中揀選了肋未人，以代替以色列子民中一切頭胎的長子，所以肋未人應歸於我，
 戶:3.13     因為凡首生的，都是我的；自我在埃及國擊殺了一切首生之日起，凡以色列首生的，無論是人或是獸，都應祝聖歸我，屬於我：我是上主。」
 戶:3.14     上主在西乃曠野訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:3.15     「你應依照肋未人的宗族和家系，統計肋未的子孫，由一月以上，所有的男性都應登記。」
 戶:3.16     於是梅瑟就照上主吩咐的命令，統計了他們。
 戶:3.17     肋未兒子的名字是：革爾雄、刻哈特和默辣黎。
 戶:3.18     按族系，革爾雄兒子的名字是：里貝尼和史米。
 戶:3.19     按族系，刻哈特的兒子是阿默蘭和依茲哈爾，赫貝龍和烏齊耳。
 戶:3.20     按族系，默辣黎的兒子是瑪赫里和慕史：這些人按他們的家族都屬肋未族系。
 戶:3.21     里貝尼族和史米族出自革爾雄：這是革爾雄人的家族。
 戶:3.22     凡一月以上登記的男性，共計七千五百。
 戶:3.23     革爾雄人的家族在會幕後面西方紮營；
 戶:3.24     革爾雄人的領袖，是拉耳的兒子厄里雅撒夫。
 戶:3.25     革爾雄的子孫在會幕內的職務，是照管帳幕、幕蓬頂和會幕內的門簾，
 戶:3.26     並庭院的帷幔，圍繞帳幕與祭壇的庭院的門簾，以及庭院應用的一切繩索。
 戶:3.27     阿默蘭族、依茲哈爾族、赫貝龍族和烏齊耳族出自刻哈特：這是刻哈特人的家族。
 戶:3.28     凡由一月以上登記的男性，共計八千六百；他們管理聖所。
 戶:3.29     刻哈特子孫的家族在帳幕南邊紮營。
 戶:3.30     刻哈特族的家族領袖，是烏齊耳的兒子厄里匝番。
 戶:3.31     他們的職務是管理約櫃、桌子、燈台、兩祭壇、聖所內應用的一切聖器、帷幔和為帷幔應盡的各種職務。
 戶:3.32     亞郎大司祭的兒子厄肋阿匝爾是肋未人的最高領袖，監督在聖所服務的人。
 戶:3.33     瑪赫里族和慕史族出自默辣黎：這是默辣黎人的家族。
 戶:3.34     凡一月以上登記的男性，共計六千二百。
 戶:3.35     默辣黎族的家族領袖，是阿彼海耳的兒子族黎耳。他們在會幕北邊紮營。
 戶:3.36     默辣黎的兒子的職務，是照管會幕的木板、橫木、柱子、卯座，一切用具，並為會幕應盡的各種職務，
 戶:3.37     還管理庭院四周的柱子及其卯座、木樁及繩索。
 戶:3.38     在會幕前面東方，即在會幕前朝日出的一面紮營的，是梅瑟和亞郎其他的兒子；他們代替以色列民服務，管理聖所；俗人擅自走近，應處死刑。
 戶:3.39     梅瑟和亞郎照上主的命令，統計了所有的肋未人，按家族凡一月以上的男性都統計了，共計二萬二千人。
 戶:3.40     [長子應贖回]  此後，上主又對梅瑟說：「以色列子民，凡一月以上首生的男性都要統計，登記他們的姓名；
 戶:3.41     應將肋未人獻於我，我是上主，以代替以色列子民中所有的長子；又將肋未人的牲畜獻於我，以代替以色列子民中一切頭胎的牲畜。」
 戶:3.42     梅瑟便照上主所吩咐的，統計了以色列子民中所有的長子，
 戶:3.43     凡一月以上的頭胎男兒，依名統計了，共計二萬二千二百七十三人。
 戶:3.44     上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:3.45     「你要以肋未人替代以色列子民中所有的長子，以肋未人的牲畜替代他們的頭胎牲畜；肋未人應屬於我：我是上主。
 戶:3.46     至於那超過肋未人數目，而應贖回的二百七十三個以色列子民的長子，
 戶:3.47     為每一個，應照聖所的「協刻耳，」徵收五個「協刻耳，」──一「協刻耳，」合二十「革辣；」──
 戶:3.48     將這錢交給亞郎和他的兒子，作為超額人數的贖價。」
 戶:3.49     梅瑟就為那超過肋未人數而應贖回的人，徵收了贖金。
 戶:3.50     由以色列民的長子所徵收的銀子，依聖所的「協刻耳，」共計一千三百六十五「協刻耳。」
 戶:3.51     梅瑟依照上主的命令，將這贖金交給了亞郎和他的兒子，全照上主吩咐梅瑟的。
  
 戶:4.1      [肋未人的職務]  上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
 戶:4.2      「你應依照宗族和家系，統計肋未人中的刻哈特子孫，
 戶:4.3      由三十歲以上到五十歲，凡應入伍到會幕服務的都要登記。
 戶:4.4      刻哈特子孫在會幕內的任務，是管理至聖之物。
 戶:4.5      起營出發時，亞郎和他的兒子應來卸下帳幔，用來包裹約櫃，
 戶:4.6      上面蒙上海豚皮蓋，其上再舖上純紫布，然後安上杠桿。
 戶:4.7      在供餅桌上，應舖上紫布，擺上盤、匙、杯和奠酒的爵；常供餅應仍在桌上。
 戶:4.8      以後，在這些物件上，蓋上朱紅布，再蒙上海豚皮罩，然後安上杠桿。
 戶:4.9      此後，拿一塊紫布，包好燈台和燈盞、剪子、碟子，以及為燈台用的一切油具；
 戶:4.10     將燈台和所有的用具，裝入海豚皮袋內，放在擔架上。
 戶:4.11     在金祭壇上舖上紫布，再用海豚皮包好，然後安上杠桿。
 戶:4.12     再把聖所內使用的一切用具都拿來，放在紫布袋內，再蒙上海豚皮罩，放在擔架上。
 戶:4.13     把祭壇上的灰清除，舖上紫紅布，
 戶:4.14     上面放上一切用具：火盆。肉叉、鏟子、盤子以及祭壇上的一切用具；其上再蒙上海豚皮罩，然後安上杠桿。
 戶:4.15     亞郎和他的兒子包裝完了聖物和聖所的一切用具，起營出發時，刻哈特的子孫纔來抬，免得他們觸摸聖物而死亡：這是刻哈特的子孫對會幕的職務。
 戶:4.16     至於亞郎大司祭的兒子厄肋阿匝爾的任務，是管理燈油、香料、日獻的素祭和為傅禮用的油，並照管全會幕與其中所有的聖物和器具。」
 戶:4.17     上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
 戶:4.18     「不要使刻哈特族的一支由肋未人中消滅；
 戶:4.19     為使他們接近至聖之物時，生存而不死亡，你們對他們應這樣做：亞郎和他的兒子先來，給他們每人指定各人服役和搬運的工作，
 戶:4.20     免得這些人進去一時見到聖物而遭遇死亡。」
 戶:4.21     上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:4.22     「你要依照家系和宗族統計革爾雄的子孫，
 戶:4.23     由三十歲以上到五十歲，凡應入伍到會幕服務的，都要登記。
 戶:4.24     革爾雄家族的任務是服役和搬運：
 戶:4.25     搬運帳幕的帷幔、會幕和其頂蓬，及其上面蓋的海豚皮和會幕的門簾，
 戶:4.26     庭院的帷幔，圍繞會幕和祭壇庭院的門簾、繩索以及一切為服役用的器具；凡交與他們應作的一切，他們都應執行。
 戶:4.27     革爾雄人所有的任務，不論是搬運或是服役，應全遵照亞郎和他兒子的吩咐；所以你們應照顧他們搬運一切：
 戶:4.28     這是革爾雄人的家族對會幕的任務；他們應在大司祭亞郎的兒子依塔瑪爾指揮下服役。
 戶:4.29     對默辣黎的子孫，你要依照宗族和家系統計他們；
 戶:4.30     由三十歲以上到五十歲，凡應入伍到會幕服務的，都要登記。
 戶:4.31     依照他們在會幕內所擔任的職務，應搬運的是：帳幕的木板、橫木、柱子和卯座，
 戶:4.32     庭院四週的柱子、卯座、橛子和繩索，一切用具及服務所需的一切。你們應按名一一指定他們應搬運的物件：
 戶:4.33     這是默辣黎人的家族，在司祭亞郎的兒子依塔瑪爾指揮下，對會幕應盡的各種職務。」
 戶:4.34     [統計肋未人]  梅瑟和亞郎及會眾的首領，依照宗族和家系統計了刻哈特的子孫，
 戶:4.35     由三十歲以上到五十歲，凡應入伍到會幕服務，
 戶:4.36     依照宗族登計的，共二千七百五十人：
 戶:4.37     這是刻哈特人的家族，所有在會幕內服務登記的人數，是梅瑟和亞郎依照上主給梅瑟的命令所統計的。
 戶:4.38     革爾雄的子孫，依照宗族和家系登了記，
 戶:4.39     由三十歲以上到五十歲，凡應入伍到會幕服務，
 戶:4.40     依照宗族和家系登記的，共二千六百三十人：
 戶:4.41     這是革爾雄子孫的家族所有在會幕內服務的登記人數，是梅瑟和亞郎依上主的命令所統計的。
 戶:4.42     默辣黎子孫的家族，依照宗族和家系都登了記，
 戶:4.43     由三十歲以上到五十歲，凡應入伍到會幕服務，
 戶:4.44     依照宗族登記的，共三千二百人：
 戶:4.45     這是默辣黎子孫家族登記的人數，是梅瑟和亞郎依照上主給梅瑟的命令所統計的。
 戶:4.46     梅瑟和亞郎並以色列的首領，依照宗族和家系，統計的肋未人的總數，
 戶:4.47     由三十歲以上到五十歲，凡應入伍到會幕服務管理搬運的，
 戶:4.48     共計八千五百八十人。
 戶:4.49     依照上主藉梅瑟所發的命令，給他們每人指定了各人應盡的職務和應搬運的工作；依照上主對梅瑟所吩咐的，他們都這樣登記了。
  
 戶:5.1      [除污與賠償的法令]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:5.2      「你命以色列子民把患任何癩病、任何淋病及所有為死屍沾染不潔的人送出營外，
 戶:5.3      不論男女，都應送到營外去，免得我住在他們中的營幕沾染不潔。」
 戶:5.4      以色列子民就如此做了，將他們送到營外；上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟，以色列子民就怎樣做了。
 戶:5.5      上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:5.6      「你訓令以色列子民：不論男女，對近人作了什麼不義的事，因此得罪上主而自覺有罪，
 戶:5.7      他該承認自己所作的不義，除賠償全部損失外，還應另加五分之一給他所害的人。
 戶:5.8      若此人沒有近親可向他賠償，這賠償就歸上主，屬於司祭。此外尚應獻一贖罪的公綿羊，為自己贖罪。
 戶:5.9      以色列子民在奉獻的各種聖物中，凡是給司祭的獻儀，即歸於司祭。
 戶:5.10     每人所奉獻的聖物，應歸自己；但人給與司祭的，應歸於司祭。」
 戶:5.11     [解決夫妻疑忌的法令]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:5.12     「你告訴以色列子民說：若某人的妻子背離丈夫，
 戶:5.13     對他不忠，瞞著丈夫讓人與她同睡交媾，在暗中玷污了自己，又沒有見證，也沒有被捉住，
 戶:5.14     若丈夫心生疑忌，疑忌他的妻子受了玷污；或者心生疑忌，疑忌他的妻子，但她實在沒有受玷污；
 戶:5.15     丈夫就應帶他的妻子到司祭前，為她獻祭，獻十分之一「厄法」的大麥粉，其上不可倒油，也不可加乳香，因為這是因疑忌所獻的素祭，是一回憶罪過的素祭。
 戶:5.16     司祭令她前來，站在上主面前；
 戶:5.17     然後用陶器取些聖水，再由會幕地上取些塵土，放入水內。
 戶:5.18     司祭叫這女人站在上主面前，鬆開她的頭髮，將回憶的素祭品，即為疑忌所獻的素祭品，放在她的掌上，司祭手內拿著給人招致咒罵的苦水，
 戶:5.19     然後司祭命那女人起誓，對她說：「若沒有人與你同睡，若你沒有背離丈夫受玷污，願這招致咒罵的苦水於你無害。
 戶:5.20     但是，如果你背離了丈夫受了玷污，讓丈夫以外的男人與你同睡，──
 戶:5.21     在此司祭叫那女人以詛咒的誓辭起誓，然後對她說：──願上主使你在你民族中成為可咒罵和詛咒的人，使你大腿萎縮，使你肚腹腫脹!
 戶:5.22     願這招致咒罵的水進入你的五臟，使你肚腹腫脹，使你大腿萎縮! 」女人答說：「阿們、阿們。」
 戶:5.23     隨後司祭將這些咒文寫在紙上，用苦水洗去，
 戶:5.24     令女人喝這招致咒罵的苦水。這招致咒罵的水一進入她內，就給她帶來苦楚。
 戶:5.25     司祭再由這女人的手內，接過為疑忌所獻的素祭祭品，在上主面前行過搖禮後，放在祭壇上；
 戶:5.26     再由這素祭祭品內取出一把來作為紀念，放在祭壇上焚燒；以後，纔令女人喝這水。
 戶:5.27     司祭命她喝水以後，事必靈驗：如果她受了玷污，對丈夫不忠，這招致咒罵的水一進入她內，就給她帶來苦楚；她的肚腹必腫脹，大腿必萎縮；這女人在她的民族中，必成為可咒罵的人。
 戶:5.28     但是，如果這女人沒有受玷污，而是貞潔的，就不致受害，反要生育子女。
 戶:5.29     這是關於疑忌事的法律：幾時一個婦人，背離丈夫，受了玷污；
 戶:5.30     或是一個男人心生疑忌，疑忌自己的妻子，他應帶妻子站在上主面前，司祭應對她執行這法律所規定的一切。
 戶:5.31     如此，男人可免無罪，女人應自負罪債。」
  
 戶:6.1      [關於獻身的規定]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:6.2      你告訴以色列子民說：無論男女，若許了一個特願，即「納齊爾」願，獻身於上主，
 戶:6.3      他該戒飲清酒和烈酒，不可喝清酒和烈酒製的醋，不可喝任何葡萄汁，也不可吃新鮮或乾葡萄。
 戶:6.4      在整個獻身期內，凡葡萄樹所結的，甚至葡萄仁和皮，都不可吃。
 戶:6.5      在他整個守獻身願的時期內，不可剃頭；他幾時未滿獻身的願，是祝聖於上主的，應讓頭髮自由生長。
 戶:6.6      在他獻身於上主的整個時期內，凡有死人的地方，不可走進。
 戶:6.7      連父親母親或兄弟姊妹死時，也不可讓自己沾染不潔，因為在他頭上有奉獻於天主的記號。
 戶:6.8      在他整個獻身期內，他是祝聖於上主的。
 戶:6.9      若有人忽然在他身旁猝死，那獻身者的願就沾染了不潔，在他取潔的那一天，應剃頭，即在第七天他應剃頭。
 戶:6.10     到第八天，他應帶兩隻斑鳩和兩隻雛鴿，在會幕門口交給司祭。
 戶:6.11     司祭取一隻獻作贖罪祭，另一隻獻作全燔祭，為他因染死屍的不潔贖罪。他在當天應祝聖自己的頭，
 戶:6.12     重新將獻身的日子奉獻於上主，且應獻一隻一歲羔羊作贖過祭；以前的日子無效，因為獻身者的頭沾染了不潔。
 戶:6.13     關於「納齊爾」人的法律如下：在他獻身願期滿的那一天，應引他到會幕門口，
 戶:6.14     他應獻給上主的祭品是：一隻無殘疾的一歲公羔羊作全燔祭，一隻無殘疾的母羔羊作贖罪祭，一隻無殘疾的公綿羊作和平祭，
 戶:6.15     一籃用細麵調油做的無酵餅，抹上油的無酵薄餅，以及同獻的素祭及奠祭。
 戶:6.16     司祭在上主面前獻上這些祭品後，就為他舉行贖罪祭和全燔祭；
 戶:6.17     將公綿羊同一籃無酵餅獻給上主作和平祭；然後舉行素祭和奠祭。
 戶:6.18     獻身者在會幕門口剃去自己祝聖的頭髮，把祝聖的頭髮，放在和平祭品的火上焚燒。
 戶:6.19     他剃去祝聖的頭髮以後，司祭取出煮過的公綿羊肩部，與籃中的一塊無酵餅和一塊無酵的薄餅，放在獻身者手上。
 戶:6.20     司祭將這些祭品在上主前，行奉獻的搖禮，除搖過的胸脯和舉過的腿外，這些亦是屬於司祭的聖物。此後，獻身者方可飲酒：
 戶:6.21     這是關於許獻身願者的法律，獻身者應奉獻於上主的祭品；如果獻身者照自己的財力許願多獻，就應照所許的願，在獻身願所規定的以外，多作奉獻。」
 戶:6.22     [祝福的經文]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:6.23     『你告訴亞郎和他的兒子說：你們應這樣祝福以色列子民說：
 戶:6.24     願上主祝福你，保護你；
 戶:6.25     願上主的慈顏光照你，仁慈待你。
 戶:6.26     願上主轉面垂顧你，賜你平安。』
 戶:6.27     這樣，他們將以色列子民歸我名下，我必祝福他們。」
  
 戶:7.1      [各支派領袖的獻儀]  梅瑟豎立起會幕那天，就傅油祝聖了帳幕和其中的一切器具、祭壇和附屬的用具。他傅油祝聖以後，
 戶:7.2      以色列的領袖，各家族首領，即協助登記的各支派的領袖，前來奉獻，
 戶:7.3      將他們的供物獻於上主面前：篷車六輛，公牛十二頭：每兩位領袖一輛車，每位領袖一頭牛。他們把這些送到會幕前時，
 戶:7.4      上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:7.5      「你把這些收下，為會幕的事務使用，按照肋未人的職務，分給他們。」
 戶:7.6      梅瑟就收下車輛和牛，交給了肋未人。
 戶:7.7      按革爾雄子孫的職務，分給了他們兩輛車及四頭牛；
 戶:7.8      按默辣黎子孫的職務，分給了他們四輛車及八頭牛，他們都在司祭亞郎的兒子依塔瑪爾指揮下服務。
 戶:7.9      但沒有分給刻哈特子孫，因為他們應用肩抬所照管的聖物。
 戶:7.10     在傅油祝聖祭壇時，眾領袖也為祝聖祭壇奉獻了供物。當眾領袖把他們的供物送到祭壇面前時，
 戶:7.11     上主對梅瑟說：「每天應有一位領袖，奉獻自己的供物，為祝聖祭壇。」
 戶:7.12     第一日奉獻自己供物的，是猶大支派阿米納達布的兒子納赫雄。
 戶:7.13     他的供物是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.14     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂；
 戶:7.15     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.16     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.17     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，為作和平祭：以上是阿米納達布的兒子納赫雄的供物。
 戶:7.18     第二日奉獻供物的，是依撒加爾的領袖，族阿爾的兒子乃塔乃耳。
 戶:7.19     他奉獻的供物，是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量，重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.20     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂；
 戶:7.21     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.22     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭：
 戶:7.23     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，為作和平祭：以上是族阿爾的兒子乃塔乃耳的供物。
 戶:7.24     第三日是則步隆子孫的領袖，赫隆的兒子厄里雅布。
 戶:7.25     他的供物，是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量，重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.26     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂；
 戶:7.27     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.28     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.29     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，為作和平祭：以上是赫隆的兒子厄里雅布的供物。
 戶:7.30     第四日是勒烏本子孫的領袖，舍德烏爾的兒子厄里族爾。
 戶:7.31     他的供物，是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量，重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.32     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂；
 戶:7.33     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.34     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.35     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，為作和平祭：以上是舍德烏爾的兒子厄里族爾的供物。
 戶:7.36     第五日是西默盎子孫的領袖，族黎沙待的兒子舍路米耳。
 戶:7.37     他的供物，是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量，重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.38     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂；
 戶:7.39     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.40     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.41     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，為作和平祭：以上是族黎沙待的兒子協路米耳的供物。
 戶:7.42     第六日是加得子孫的領袖勒烏耳的兒子厄里雅撒夫。
 戶:7.43     他的供物，是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量，重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.44     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂；
 戶:7.45     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.46     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.47     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，作和平祭：以上是勒烏耳兒子厄里雅撒夫的供物。
 戶:7.48     第七日是厄弗辣因子孫的領袖阿米胡得的兒子厄里沙瑪。
 戶:7.49     他的供物，是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量，重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.50     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂；
 戶:7.51     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.52     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.53     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，為作和平祭：以上是阿米胡得的兒子厄里沙瑪的供物。
 戶:7.54     第八日是默納協子孫的領袖，培達族爾的兒子加默里耳。
 戶:7.55     他的供物，是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量，重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.56     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂；
 戶:7.57     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.58     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.59     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，為作和平祭：以上是培達族爾的兒子加默里耳的供物。
 戶:7.60     第九日是本雅明子孫的領袖，基德敖尼的兒子阿彼丹。
 戶:7.61     他的供物，是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量，重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.62     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂；
 戶:7.63     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.64     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.65     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，為作和平祭：以上是基德敖尼的兒子阿彼丹的供物。
 戶:7.66     第十日是丹子孫的領袖，阿米沙待的兒子阿希厄則爾。
 戶:7.67     他的供物，是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.68     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂：
 戶:7.69     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.70     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.71     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，為作和平祭：以上是阿米沙待的兒子阿希厄則爾的供物。
 戶:7.72     第十一日是阿協爾子孫的領袖，敖革蘭的兒子帕革厄耳。
 戶:7.73     他的供物，是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量，重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.74     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂；
 戶:7.75     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.76     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.77     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，為作和平祭：以上是敖革蘭的兒子帕革厄耳的供物。
 戶:7.78     第十二日是納斐塔里子孫的領袖，厄南的兒子阿希辣。
 戶:7.79     他的供物，是一個重一百三十「協刻耳」的銀盤，一個依聖所的衡量，重七十「協刻耳」的銀盆，兩件內都盛滿油調的細麵，為作素祭；
 戶:7.80     一個重十「協刻耳」盛滿香料的金盂，
 戶:7.81     公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲的公羔羊一隻，為作全燔祭；
 戶:7.82     公山羊一隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.83     又公牛二頭，公綿羊五隻，公山羊五隻，一歲的公羔羊五隻，為作和平祭：以上是厄南的兒子阿希辣的供物。
 戶:7.84     以上是傅油祝聖祭壇時，以色列領袖們為祝聖祭壇所奉獻的供物，計有銀盤十二個，銀盆十二個，金盂十二個；
 戶:7.85     銀盤每個重一百三十「協刻耳」，銀盆每個重七十，器皿的銀子依聖所的衡量，共重二千四百「協刻耳」；
 戶:7.86     盛滿香料的金盂十二個，依聖所衡量，每個盂重十「協刻耳」，這些盂的金子，共重一百二十「協刻耳」；
 戶:7.87     為作全燔祭的一切牲畜，計有公牛犢十二頭，公綿羊十二隻，一歲的公羔羊十二隻，還有同獻的素祭；此外尚有公山羊十二隻，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:7.88     為作和平祭的一切牲畜，計有公牛犢二十四頭，公綿羊六十隻，公山羊六十隻，一歲的公羔羊六十隻：以上是在傅油祝聖祭壇後，為祝聖祭壇所獻的供物。
 戶:7.89     當梅瑟進入會幕為同上主說話時，他聽見從約櫃的贖罪蓋上，兩革魯賓間，有與他說話的聲音：是上主在與他說話。
  
 戶:8.1      [安放燈台的燈盞]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:8.2      「你告訴亞郎說：你安放燈盞時，要使七盞燈光，光照燈台的前面。」
 戶:8.3      亞郎就照樣做了：安放了燈盞，使燈光照耀燈台的前面，如上主對梅瑟所吩咐的。
 戶:8.4      這燈台是用金子打成的，從座到花朵都是打成的；梅瑟是照上主指示的式樣，製造了燈台。
 戶:8.5      [肋未人受祝聖]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:8.6      「你由以色列子民中選出肋未人，並要潔淨他們。
 戶:8.7      為潔淨他們，你應這樣做：將取潔水灑在他們身上，命他們用刀剃全身，然後洗自己的衣服，使自己潔淨。
 戶:8.8      以後，他們應帶一隻公牛犢和同獻的素祭，即油調的細麵；你應另帶一頭公牛犢，為作贖罪祭；
 戶:8.9      領肋未人到會幕前，並召集以色列子民全會眾。
 戶:8.10     領肋未人到上主面前以後，以色列子民將自己的手放在肋未人身上，
 戶:8.11     亞郎就以搖禮把肋未人獻於上主面前，當作以色列子民的獻儀：這樣，他們纔可以行服事上主的事。
 戶:8.12     以後肋未人應按手在兩頭公牛犢頭上：一隻你要獻給上主作贖罪祭，一隻作全燔祭，為肋未人贖罪。
 戶:8.13     你應使肋未人站在亞郎和他的兒子們面前，以搖禮把他們獻給上主。
 戶:8.14     為此，你要由以色列子民中分出肋未人來，使他們屬於我。
 戶:8.15     此後，肋未人纔可進入會幕服務。為此你應潔淨他們，以搖禮奉獻他們，
 戶:8.16     因為他們是以色列子民中完全獻與我的人；我使他們歸於我。以代替以色列子民中一切開胎的首生，
 戶:8.17     因為以色列子民中的一切首生，不拘是人是獸，都屬於我；自從我在埃及地擊殺了一切首生的那一日起，我就將他們祝聖歸屬於我。
 戶:8.18     我取了肋未人，替代以色列子民中的一切首生；
 戶:8.19     我由以色列子民中委派了肋未人，作亞郎和他兒子們的屬下，為替代以色列子民在會幕內服務，為以色列子民贖罪，免得以色列子民因接近聖所而遭受災禍。」
 戶:8.20     梅瑟、亞郎以及以色列子民全會眾，對肋未人就如此做了；上主關於肋未人怎樣吩咐了梅瑟，以色列子民就對他們怎樣做了。
 戶:8.21     肋未人潔淨了自己，洗了自己的衣服，亞郎遂以搖禮把他們獻在上主面前，亞郎並為他們贖了罪，使他們潔淨。
 戶:8.22     此後，肋未人纔進入會幕內，在亞郎和他的兒子們面前執行自己的職務。上主關於肋未人怎樣吩咐了，梅瑟就對他們怎樣做了。
 戶:8.23     上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:8.24     「這是關於肋未人的法令：由二十五歲以上，應來服役，在會幕內工作；
 戶:8.25     到了五十歲就退休，不再服役；
 戶:8.26     以後在會幕內輔助自己的兄弟照管該遵守的事，自己卻不必服勞役。關於肋未人的職務，你應這樣安排。」
  
 戶:9.1      [在西乃舉行踰越節]  出埃及國後第二年正月，上主在西乃曠野吩咐梅瑟說：
 戶:9.2      以色列子民在定期內當舉行踰越節。
 戶:9.3      本月十四日黃昏時，在定期內舉行此節；應按一切規定和禮儀舉行。」
 戶:9.4      梅瑟遂號令以色列子民舉行踰越節。
 戶:9.5      他們就在正月十四日黃昏，於西乃曠野舉行了踰越節；上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟，以色列子民就怎樣做了。
 戶:9.6      但是，有些人因沾染了死人的不潔，不能在那一天舉行踰越節，就在那天來到梅瑟和亞郎前；
 戶:9.7      這些人對他說：「我們沾染了死人的不潔；為什麼我們就被拒絕，而不能在以色列子民中，於定期內奉獻上主供物﹖」
 戶:9.8      梅瑟對他們說：「你們等一下，我去聽上主對你們有何吩咐。」
 戶:9.9      上主吩咐梅瑟說：
 戶:9.10     你你訓示以色列子民說：幾時你們中或你們後裔中，若有人沾了死人的不潔，或因到遠方旅行，仍要為上主舉行踰越節，
 戶:9.11     應在二月十四日黃昏舉行，同時吃無酵餅和苦菜，
 戶:9.12     不要剩下什麼到早晨，也不要折斷羔羊的骨頭：應全依照踰越節的規定舉行此節。
 戶:9.13     但如有人是潔淨的，又不在旅行中，竟忽略了過踰越節，這人就應由民間剷除，因為他沒有在定期內奉獻上主供物，這人應自負罪債。
 戶:9.14     至於與你們同住的僑民，若為上主舉行踰越節，應按照踰越節的規定和禮儀舉行；不論是僑民，或是本國公民，你們應守同樣的法律。」
 戶:9.15     [雲柱]  在豎立帳幕那一天，有雲彩遮蓋了帳幕，即會幕；到晚上雲彩停在帳幕上，形狀似火，直到早晨。
 戶:9.16     白天有雲彩遮蓋，夜間雲彩形狀似火：常是如此。
 戶:9.17     幾時雲彩由帳幕上升起，以色列子民隨即起程；雲彩在那裏停住了，以色列子民就在那裏紮營。
 戶:9.18     以色列子民照上主的命令起程，亦照上主的命令紮營：雲彩停留在帳幕上幾日，他們就幾日紮營不動。
 戶:9.19     雲彩若多日停留在帳幕上，以色列子民就遵照上主的命令，不移營前行。
 戶:9.20     有時雲彩只數日停留在帳幕上，他們就依照上主的命令紮營不動，並依照上主的命令起程。
 戶:9.21     有時雲彩從晚上到早晨停住，一到早晨就上升，他們就隨之起程；或者一日一夜以後纔上升，他們也隨之起程。
 戶:9.22     如雲彩兩日或一月，或一年停留在帳幕上，無論停留多久，以色列子民也就安營不動多久；只在雲彩上升時，方起程前行。
 戶:9.21     他們依照上主的命令紮營，依照上主的命令起程；他們全照上主藉梅瑟所吩咐的，遵守上主的訓示。
  
 戶:10.1     [製造銀號]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:10.2     「你要製造兩個喇叭，用銀打成，用為召集會眾，為遷疑營幕。
 戶:10.3     幾時吹兩個喇叭，全會眾都應集合在會幕門口，來到你跟前。
 戶:10.4     若只吹一個喇叭，以色列的千夫長，作首領的應集合到你跟前。
 戶:10.5     若吹緊急號，紮在東方的營就起程；
 戶:10.6     第二次吹緊急號時，紮在南方的營就起程：吹緊急號是為叫他們起程；
 戶:10.7     但為召集會眾，只吹號，不應緊急吹。
 戶:10.8     亞郎的子孫作司祭的應吹號：這為你們世世代代是條永久的規定。
 戶:10.9     幾時你們在本國要出去作戰，攻打來侵的仇敵，應吹緊急號，使上主你們的天主，記得你們，救你們脫離仇敵。
 戶:10.10    此外，在你們的慶日、節日、月朔之日，獻全燔祭及和平祭時，還應吹號，使你們的天主記得你們：我是上主，你們的天主。」
  
           中編 流落曠野(1011-2135)
  
 戶:10.1     [由西乃山起程]  第二年二月二十日，雲彩由會幕升起，
 戶:10.1     以色列子民就從西乃曠野循序起程出發。以後雲採在帕蘭曠野停住了。
 戶:10.1     他們初次依照上主藉梅瑟所出的命令起程。
 戶:10.1     首先依隊起程的，是猶大子孫的營旗，率領軍隊的，是阿米納達布的兒子納赫雄；
 戶:10.1     率領依撒加爾子孫支派軍隊的，是族阿爾的兒子乃塔乃耳；
 戶:10.1     率領則步隆子孫支派軍隊的，是厄隆的兒子厄里雅布。
 戶:10.1     拆下帳幕後，革爾雄的子孫和默辣黎的子孫，就抬著帳幕起程出發。
 戶:10.1     以後依隊出發的，是勒烏本的營旗，率領軍隊的是，舍德烏爾的兒子厄里族爾；
 戶:10.1     率領西默盎子孫支派軍隊的，是族黎沙待的兒子舍路米耳；
 戶:10.20    率領加得子孫支派軍隊的，是勒烏耳的兒子厄里亞撒夫。
 戶:10.21    此後刻哈特人抬著聖所之物起程；當他們達到時，人應已豎起帳幕。
 戶:10.22    以後依隊出發的，是厄弗辣因子孫的營旗，率領軍隊的，是阿米胡得的兒子厄里沙瑪；
 戶:10.23    率領默納協子孫支派軍隊的，是培達族爾的兒子加默里耳；
 戶:10.24    率領本雅明子孫支派軍隊的，是基德敖尼的兒子阿彼丹。
 戶:10.25    以後依隊出發的，是作全營後衛的丹子孫的營旗，率領軍隊的，是阿米沙待的兒子阿希厄則爾；
 戶:10.26    率領阿協爾子孫支派軍隊的，是敖革蘭的兒子帕革厄耳；
 戶:10.27    率領納斐塔里子孫支派軍隊的，是厄南的兒子阿希辣。
 戶:10.28    這是以色列子民出發時，依隊起程的次序。
 戶:10.29    梅瑟對自己的岳父，米德楊人勒烏耳的兒子曷巴布說：「我們正要起程往上主曾說：「我要給你們的那地方」去；你同我們一起去罷! 我們必要好待你，因為上主對以色列許下了幸福。」
 戶:10.30    曷巴布回答他說：「我不去，我要回到故鄉我的老家去。」
 戶:10.31    梅瑟說：「請你不要離開我們! 因為你知道我們在曠野安營的地方，你要給我們當響導。
 戶:10.32    你若同我們一起去，我們必使你分享上主要賜給我們的幸福。」
 戶:10.33    他們就由上主的山起程出發，行了三天的路程；三天的路程中，上主的約櫃走在他們的前面，為他們尋求休息的地方。
 戶:10.34    白天他們移營前行時，上主的雲彩常在他們頭上。
 戶:10.35    當約櫃起行時，梅瑟就說：「上主，請你起來，使你的仇敵潰散，使懷恨你的由你面前逃走。」
 戶:10.36    在約櫃停留時，他就說：「上主，請歸來，住在以色列千家萬戶中。」
  
 戶:11.1     [人民沿途抱怨]  當時人民怨聲載道，怨聲已傳入上主的耳中；上主聽見，遂發怒；上主的火在他們中燃起，焚燒了營幕的邊緣。
 戶:11.2     人民遂向梅瑟求救；梅瑟懇求了上主，火就熄滅了，
 戶:11.3     遂給那地方起名叫塔貝辣，因為上主的火曾在他們中燃燒起來。
 戶:11.4     那些跟百姓來的雜族人甚是貪求口腹，連以色列子民也開始哭泣說：「誰給我們肉吃﹖
 戶:11.5     我們記得：在埃及我們可隨便吃魚，還有胡瓜、西瓜、韭菜、蔥和蒜。
 戶:11.6     現在我們的心靈憔悴，我們眼見的除「瑪納」外，什麼也沒有。」
 戶:11.7     「瑪納」形似胡荽種子，色彩有如珍珠。
 戶:11.8     人民四散收斂，用磨研細，或在臼內搗碎，在鍋內煮了做成餅，它的滋味有如油餅的滋味。
 戶:11.9     夜間露水降在營上時，也降下「瑪納。」
 戶:11.10    梅瑟聽見百姓家家戶戶，各在帳棚門口悲哭。上主大發忿怒，梅瑟見了也很難受，
 戶:11.11    遂對上主說：「你為什麼難為你的僕人﹖為什麼我在你眼中不蒙寵幸，竟將管理這百姓的擔子全放在我身上﹖
 戶:11.12    莫非是我懷孕了這百姓，或是我生了他們，你竟對我說：你要懷抱他們，如同褓母懷抱乳兒，直到進入你對他們的祖先所誓許的地方﹖
 戶:11.13    我從那裏拿肉給這百姓吃﹖因為他們向我哭訴說：給我們肉吃!
 戶:11.14    我獨自不能抱著這百姓，這為我太重。
 戶:11.15    若你願這樣對待我，如果我在你眼中得寵，求你殺了我罷! 免得我受這苦楚。」
 戶:11.16    上主對梅瑟說：「你給我由以色列老年人中召選七十人，你知道他們是民間的老前輩和會辦事的人，領他們進入會幕，叫他們同你一起站在那裏。
 戶:11.17    在那裏我要降下，與你交談，取些你身上具有的神能，賦給他們，叫他們與你分擔管理人民的重擔，不讓你個人獨自承擔。
 戶:11.18    你對民眾說：你們聖潔自己直到明天，你們就會有肉吃，因為上主已聽見你們哀哭說：誰給我們肉吃﹖我們在埃及是多麼好! 如今上主要給你們肉吃了；
 戶:11.19    不但是一天、兩天、五天、十天、二十天，你們有肉吃，
 戶:11.20    而是整月，直到肉從你們的鼻子裏出來，吃的生厭，因為你們輕視了住在你們中的上主，在他面前涕泣說：為什麼我們出離了埃及﹖」
 戶:11.21    梅瑟說：「與我同住的人民，步行的男子就有六十萬，你卻說：我要給他們肉吃，且吃一整月。
 戶:11.22    就是將牛羊都為他們殺了，為他們夠用麼﹖或將海裏的魚全給他們捉來，為他們足用麼﹖」
 戶:11.23    上主回答梅瑟說：「難道上主的手短了﹖你就要看見我對你說的話是否應驗。」
 戶:11.24    [選立七十長老]  梅瑟將上主的話告訴了人民；隨後從人民的老年人中召選了七十人，令他們站在會幕四周。
 戶:11.25    上主乘雲降下，與梅瑟談話；將他身上的神能，賦給那七十位長老；這神能一降在他們身上，他們就出神說話；以後再沒有出神。
 戶:11.26    當時有兩個人留在營內，一個名叫厄耳達得，一個名叫默達得；這神能也降在他們身上；他們原是在被錄取的人內，卻沒有到會幕那裏去，就在營內出神說話。
 戶:11.27    有一少年跑來告訴梅瑟說：「厄耳達得和默達得在營內出神說話。」
 戶:11.28    自幼即服事梅瑟的農的兒子若蘇厄遂說：「我主梅瑟! 你該禁止他們。」
 戶:11.29    梅瑟回答他說：「你為我的緣故嫉妒人麼﹖巴不得上主的人民都成先知，上主將自己的精神貫注在他們身上! 」
 戶:11.30    梅瑟遂與以色列的長老回到了營內。
 戶:11.31    [鵪鶉]  那時上主使一陣風颳起，由海上吹來了鵪鶉，散落在營幕上；鵪鶉在營幕四周多得有一天路程那麼遠，在地面上約有兩肘厚。
 戶:11.32    人民那一整日整夜，且在第二日整天都忙於捕捉鵪鶉，收集得最少的，也收集了十堆，都擺在營幕四周。
 戶:11.33    肉還在他們的牙齒間，尚未嚼爛，上主就對人民發怒了，以極嚴重的災禍打擊了人民。
 戶:11.34    故此人給那地方起名叫克貝洛特阿塔瓦，因為在那裏埋葬了貪饕的人民。
 戶:11.35    以後民眾由克貝洛特阿塔瓦起程，向哈茲洛特出發，在哈茲洛特住下了。
  
 戶:12.1     [梅瑟的卓越地位]  米黎盎和亞郎為了梅瑟所娶的雇士女人出言反對梅瑟，因為他娶了個雇士女人，
 戶:12.2     於是說：「上主豈只與梅瑟交談，不是也與我們交談過! 」上主聽見了這話。
 戶:12.3     梅瑟為人十分謙和，超過地上所有的人。
 戶:12.4     上主忽然向梅瑟、亞郎和米黎盎說：「你們三人到會幕那裏去。」他們三人就去了。
 戶:12.5     上主乘雲柱降下，停在會幕門口，叫亞郎和米黎盎；他們兩人就走向前去，
 戶:12.6     上主說：「你們聽我說：若你們中有一位是先知，我要在神視中顯示給他，在夢中與他談話；
 戶:12.7     但對我的僕人梅瑟卻不是這樣，他在我全家中是最忠信可靠的。
 戶:12.8     我面對面與他明明說話，不藉謎語，並讓他望見上主的形像。為什麼你們竟不怕出言反對我的僕人梅瑟﹖」
 戶:12.9     上主對他們發著怒走了。
 戶:12.10    彩雲一離開會幕，看，米黎盎就生了癩病，像雪那樣白；亞郎轉身看見米黎盎生了癩病，
 戶:12.11    遂對梅瑟說：「我主，懇求你，別使我們因一時愚昧所犯之罪而受罰!
 戶:12.12    求你別讓她像個胎死腹中的人，一出娘胎，肉身就已腐爛了一半。」
 戶:12.13    梅瑟遂向上主呼求說：「天主，我求你治好她罷! 」
 戶:12.14    上主對梅瑟說：「若她的父親在她面上吐唾沫，她豈不要七天忍此羞辱，七天把她隔離在營外，然後才讓她回來﹖」
 戶:12.15    於是米黎盎七天之久，被隔離在營外；民眾也沒有起程，直到米黎盎回來。
 戶:12.16    以後，民眾由哈茲洛特起程出發，在帕蘭曠野紮了營。
  
 戶:13.1     [偵察客納罕地]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:13.2     「你要派遣一些人去窺探我要賜給以色列子民的客納罕地；每一宗族支派應派遣一人去，個個都應是他們中的領袖。」
 戶:13.3     梅瑟就依照上主的命令，從帕蘭曠野派遣他們去了；這些人全是以色列民的首領。
 戶:13.4     以下是他們的名字：勒烏本支派是匝雇爾的兒子沙慕亞；
 戶:13.5     西默盎支派是曷黎的兒子沙法特；
 戶:13.6     猶大支派是耶孚乃的兒子加肋布；
 戶:13.7     依撒加爾支派，是若瑟的兒子依卡耳；
 戶:13.8     厄弗辣因支派是農的兒子曷舍亞；
 戶:13.9     本雅明支派是辣富的兒子帕耳提；
 戶:13.10    則步隆支派是索狄的兒子加狄耳；
 戶:13.11    若瑟支派，即默納協支派是穌息的兒子加狄；
 戶:13.12    丹支派是革瑪里的兒子阿米耳；
 戶:13.13    阿協爾支派是米加耳的兒子色突爾；
 戶:13.14    納斐塔里支派是沃斐息的兒子納赫彼；
 戶:13.15    加得支派是瑪基的兒子革烏耳：
 戶:13.16    以上是梅瑟派去窺探那地方的人名；梅瑟給農的兒子曷舍亞起名叫若蘇厄。
 戶:13.17    當梅瑟派遣他們窺探客納罕地時，向他們說：「你們由此上乃革布去，然後上山區去，
 戶:13.18    窺看那地方怎樣，看住在那地方的人民是強盛或是軟弱，是稀少或是眾多；
 戶:13.19    他們住的地方是好，或是壞；他們居住的城鎮是不設防，或是設防的；
 戶:13.20    有什麼土壤，是肥沃或是貧瘠；在那裏有沒有樹木。你們應勇敢，帶些那地方的果子來。」那時是葡萄初熟的時節。
 戶:13.21    他們遂上去，窺探了那地方，從親曠野直到勒曷布，哈瑪特關口。
 戶:13.22    他們上到乃革布，來到了赫貝龍。在那裏有阿納克的後裔阿希曼、舍瑟和塔耳買。──赫貝龍城比埃及左罕城早建七年。
 戶:13.23    他們一直來到厄市苛耳山谷，砍下了一枝只有一嘟嚕的葡萄，兩人用槓子抬著，又摘了些石榴和無花果。
 戶:13.24    人稱那地方為厄市苛耳山谷，因為以色列子民從那裏砍去了一嘟嚕葡萄。
 戶:13.25    [偵探的報告]  四十天後，他們由偵探的地方回來，
 戶:13.26    到了帕蘭曠野的卡德士去見梅瑟、亞郎和以色列子民的全會眾，給他們和全會眾報告，叫他們看那地方的果子。
 戶:13.27    他們向梅瑟報告說：「我們到了你派遣我們去的那個地方，實在是流奶流蜜的地方；這是那地方的出產。
 戶:13.28    只是住在那地方的人強盛，城鎮堅固廣大，而且我們在那裏也見到了阿納克的後裔。
 戶:13.29    阿瑪肋克人住在乃革布地方；赫特人、耶步斯人和阿摩黎人住在山區；客納罕人住在海濱和約但河沿岸一帶。」
 戶:13.30    加肋布使百姓在梅瑟前鎮靜說：「我們儘管上去，必要佔領那地方。我們必能戰勝。」
 戶:13.31    但是與他同去的人卻說：「我們不能前去攻打那民族，因為他們比我們強盛。」
 戶:13.32    於是他們在以色列子民中，對所偵探的地方散佈謠言說：「我們偵探所經過的地方，是個吞噬當地居民的地方；我們在那裏所見到的民族，都是高大的人。
 戶:13.33    在那裏還見到了巨人，即巨人的後裔，阿納克的子孫；我們看自己好像是蚱蜢；在他們看來，我們也實在如此。」
  
 戶:14.1     [人民群起反抗]  全會眾都大聲喧嚷，人民哭了一夜。
 戶:14.2     以色列子民都抱怨梅瑟和亞郎；全會眾對他們說：「巴不得我們都死在埃及地，都死在曠野裏!
 戶:14.3     為什麼上主引我們到那地方死在刀下，叫我們的妻子兒女當作戰利品﹖再回埃及去，為我們豈不更好﹖」
 戶:14.4     於是彼此說：「我們另立頭目，回埃及去。」
 戶:14.5     梅瑟和亞郎遂俯伏在以色列子民全會眾前。
 戶:14.6     偵探那地方的人中，有農的兒子若蘇厄和耶孚乃的兒子加肋布，他們撕裂了自己的衣服，
 戶:14.7     告訴以色列子民全會眾說：「我們偵探所經過的地方，確是一片極好的地方。
 戶:14.8     若上主恩待我們，必引我們到那裏去，將那地方賜給我們。那實在是一塊流奶流蜜的地方。
 戶:14.9     只要你們不反抗上主，就不必怕那地方的人民，因為他們要作我們的掠物；護佑他們的，離開了他們，上主卻與我們同在；所以不要怕他們。」
 戶:14.10    全會眾正說要用石頭砸死他們時，上主的榮耀在會幕上顯示給全以色列子民。
 戶:14.11    上主對梅瑟說：「這人民輕慢我要到幾時呢﹖我雖在他們中行了那些神蹟，他們仍不相信我，要到幾時呢﹖
 戶:14.12    我要用瘟疫打擊他們，剷除他們，使你成為一個比他們更強大，更昌盛的民族。」
 戶:14.13    但是梅瑟對上主說：「埃及人如果聽說這事，因為你曾用威力由他們中領出這民族來，
 戶:14.14    他們將說什麼﹖這地方的居民也曾聽說：你上主是在這民族中；你上主曾面對面地發顯出來，你的雲彩常停在他們上面；白日你乘雲柱，黑夜你乘火柱，走在他們前面。
 戶:14.15    現在，如果你消滅這民族如消滅一個人一樣，這些曾聽到你聲名的外邦民族必要議論說：
 戶:14.16    『由於上主不能引這民族進入他對他們所誓許的地方，就在曠野將他們殺了。』
 戶:14.17    吾主，如今求你，大發寬容，如你曾聲明說：
 戶:14.18    上主緩於發怒，富於仁慈，寬赦過犯和罪過，但決不豁免懲罰，父親的過犯，要向子孫追討，直到三代四代。
 戶:14.19    求你大發仁慈，寬恕這人民的罪過，就如從埃及一直到現在，你寬赦了他們一樣。」
 戶:14.20    上主回答說：「我就照你祈求的寬赦他們；
 戶:14.21    但是我以我的生命，以充滿全地的上主的榮耀起誓：
 戶:14.22    這些見了我的榮耀，見了我在埃及和曠野裏所行的神蹟的人，已十次試探了我，不聽我的話，
 戶:14.23    他們決不能見我對他們祖先誓許的地方；凡輕慢我的人，決不會見到那地方。
 戶:14.24    惟有我的僕人加肋布，因懷有另一種精神，全心服從我，我必引他進入他去過的地方，他的後裔必佔有那地方為產業。
 戶:14.25    現今阿瑪肋克人和客納罕人盤據在山谷中，明天你們應轉身向紅海出發，往曠野去。」
 戶:14.26    [人民遭受顯罰]  上主吩咐梅瑟和亞郎說：
 戶:14.27    「這個邪惡的會眾抱怨我要到幾時﹖以色列子民抱怨我的話我都聽見了。
 戶:14.28    你對他們說：我以我的生命起誓：──上主的斷語──我必照你們在我耳中所說的話，對待你們：
 戶:14.29    你們中凡二十歲以上登過記的，凡抱怨過我的，都要倒斃在這曠野中。
 戶:14.30    你們決不得進入我誓許給你們居住的地方，只有耶孚乃的兒子加肋布和農的兒子若蘇厄除外。
 戶:14.31    至於你們的幼童，你們曾說他們要當戰利品的，我要領他們進去，使他們享受你們所輕視的地方。
 戶:14.32    至於你們，你們必倒斃在這曠野中；
 戶:14.33    你們的子女要在曠野漂流四十年，受你們背信之罰，直到你們的屍首在曠野中爛盡。
 戶:14.34    你們偵探那地方的日子，共計四十天，一天算一年，你們應受四十年的罪罰，叫你們知道我放棄你們是什麼一回事。
 戶:14.35    我上主既說了，也必對這聚集反抗我的邪惡會眾這樣做：在這曠野他們都要滅絕，在這裏都要死盡。」
 戶:14.36    梅瑟派遣去偵探那地方的人，回來以後，對那地方散佈謠言，致使全會眾抱怨梅瑟。
 戶:14.37    這些對那地方講說壞話的人，都遭了災罰，死在上主面前；
 戶:14.38    前去偵探那地方的人，只有農的兒子若蘇厄和耶孚乃的兒子加肋布，保全了性命。
 戶:14.39    梅瑟將這些話告訴了全以色列子民；人民都非常憂悶。
 戶:14.40    次日清晨他們起來，要上山頂去，說：「我們犯了罪，現在我們已準備好，要往上主所說的地方去。」
 戶:14.41    但是梅瑟說：「你們為什麼要違背上主的命令﹖這事必不會成功。
 戶:14.42    不要上去，因為上主不在你們中間，難免不被敵人擊敗。
 戶:14.43    因為阿瑪肋克人和客納罕人在那裏要抵擋你們，你們必喪身刀下；你們既背離了上主，上主自然不再與你們同在。
 戶:14.44    他們仍擅自上了山頂；但上主的約櫃和梅瑟沒有由營幕中移動。
 戶:14.45    住在山中的阿瑪肋克人和客納罕人就下來，擊殺了他們，將他們追擊到曷爾瑪。
  
 戶:15.1     [與祭祀同獻的素祭]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:15.2     「你吩咐以色列子民說：你們進入了我賜給你們居住的地方時，
 戶:15.3     如要以牛或羊獻給上主作火祭，或作全燔祭，或作任何祭獻，或為還願，或出於自願，或因逢節期，以之作為悅樂上主的馨香祭，
 戶:15.4     獻祭的人應給上主加獻十分之一「厄法」細麵，調和四分之一「辛」油，作為素祭。
 戶:15.5     此外，為全燔祭或為任何祭獻，還應奠上酒：為每隻公羔羊，奠四分之一「辛」酒。
 戶:15.6     如果是隻公綿羊，應加獻十分之二「厄法」細麵，調和上三分之一「辛」油，作為素祭；
 戶:15.7     再奠上三分之一「辛」酒，作為悅樂上主的馨香祭。
 戶:15.8     如果你以一隻牛犢獻作全燔祭或任何祭獻，或為還願，或獻與上主作和平祭，
 戶:15.9     除牛犢外，還應加獻十分之三「厄法」細麵，調和上半「辛」油，作為素祭；
 戶:15.10    再奠上半「辛」酒，作為悅樂上主的馨香火祭。
 戶:15.11    每獻一頭公牛，或一隻公綿羊，或一隻公羔羊，或一隻公山羊，都應照此而行；
 戶:15.12    你們所獻的數目無論多少，為每一隻都應照此而行。
 戶:15.13    本地人不論誰，獻悅樂上主的馨香火祭時，都應這樣行。
 戶:15.14    幾時一個與你們同住的，或與你們的後代同住的外方人，願獻悅樂上主的馨香火祭，你們怎樣行，他也應怎樣行。
 戶:15.15    全會眾，不論是為你們，或為與你們同住的外方人，只有一樣的規定；這為你們世世代代，是一永遠的規定：在上主面前你們與外方人一樣；
 戶:15.16    為你們和與你們同住的外方人，只有一種法律，只有一種制度。」
 戶:15.17    「[初熟祭和贖罪祭]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:15.18    你吩咐以色列子民說：幾時你們進入了我引你們去的地方，
 戶:15.19    吃那地方的食糧時，應拿一分獻給上主作禮品：
 戶:15.20    由初熟的麥麵團中，獻一個餅作禮品，有如奉獻纔從禾場打下之物一樣。
 戶:15.21    你們世世代代，應從初熟麥麵團中取出，獻給上主作禮品。
 戶:15.22    如果你們誤犯了過失，而沒有遵行上主向梅瑟所吩咐的某條誡命，
 戶:15.23    即上主藉梅瑟向你們所吩咐的，由上主出命之日起，直到你們世世代代，
 戶:15.24    那麼，如果是會眾出於無心誤犯了過失，全會眾應獻一公牛犢當全燔祭，作為悅樂上主的馨香祭，並依照禮規獻素祭和奠酒禮，再獻一公山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:15.25    司祭應為以色列子民全會眾行贖罪禮，他們即可獲得赦免，因為這是無心之過。當他們為這無心之過，給上主奉獻了火祭，並在上主面前獻了贖罪祭後，
 戶:15.26    以色列子民全會眾以及住在你們中的外方人，都獲得赦免，因為全人民犯了無心之過。
 戶:15.27    如果是一人出於無心犯了罪，應獻一隻一歲的母山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:15.28    司祭為這犯無心之過的人，在上主面前行贖罪禮，因為他由於無心犯了罪；為他行了贖罪禮，他即可獲得赦免。
 戶:15.29    凡以色列子民，不拘是本地人或住在你們中的外方人，對誤犯過失的人，只有一條法律。
 戶:15.30    但如果一人，不論是本地人，或是外方人，敢大膽妄為，侮辱上主，這人應由民間剷除；
 戶:15.31    因為他輕視了上主的話，違犯了他的誡命，這人應被除滅，應自負罪債。」
 戶:15.32    [犯安息日的罪罰]  以色列子民尚在曠野的時候，遇見一人在安息日拾柴，
 戶:15.33    遇見他拾柴的人，就帶他到梅瑟及亞郎和全會眾前；
 戶:15.34    他們將他押在看守所內，因為尚未指明應如何處置他。
 戶:15.35    那時上主對梅瑟說：「這人應處死刑，全會眾應在營外用石頭將他砸死。」
 戶:15.36    全會眾遂拉他到營外，用石頭砸死他，照上主對梅瑟所吩咐的。
 戶:15.37    [衣邊應帶繸頭]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:15.38    「你吩咐以色列子民，命他們世世代代，在自己衣邊上做上繸頭；衣邊的每個繸頭，應用紫繩繫著。
 戶:15.39    這繸頭是為叫你們一看見，就想起上主的誡命，依照遵行，免得你們隨從心中和眼目的慾望，而放縱淫亂。
 戶:15.40    這樣，你們必對我的一切誡命，懷念不忘，依照遵行；這樣在你們的天主面前，你們常是聖潔的。
 戶:15.41    我上主是你們的天主，我領你們出離埃及是為作你們的天主：我上主是你們的天主。」
  
 戶:16.1     [科辣黑同黨作亂受罰]  肋未的兒子刻哈特的後裔依茲哈爾的兒子科辣黑，和勒烏本的後裔厄里雅布的兩個兒子達堂和阿彼蘭，並培肋特的兒子翁，
 戶:16.2     起來反抗梅瑟。此外，還有二百五十個以色列人，他們都是會眾的領袖，會議的要員，有名望的人。
 戶:16.3     他們團結起來反抗梅瑟和亞郎，對他們說：「你們太過份了! 全體會眾都是聖潔的人，上主也在他們中；為什麼你們卻抬舉自己在上主的集會以上﹖」
 戶:16.4     梅瑟一聽這話，就俯伏在地。
 戶:16.5     然後對科辣黑和他同黨的人說：「明天早上，上主會使人知道，誰是他的人，誰是聖者；他使誰親近自己：他許誰親近自己，誰就是他所選的人。
 戶:16.6     你們應這樣做：科辣黑和他同黨的人啊! 你們要拿著火盤，
 戶:16.7     明天在盤裏放上火，在上主面前，添上乳香；上主揀選誰，誰就是聖者。肋未的子孫，你們太過份了! 」
 戶:16.8     梅瑟又對科辣黑說：「肋未的子孫，請聽我說：
 戶:16.9     以色列的天主將你們與以色列會眾分開，使你們親近他，在上主帳幕內服務，站在會眾前頭代他們行禮，這為你們還不夠麼﹖
 戶:16.10    他已使你和你所有的兄弟──肋未的子孫，親近他，你們還要貪求司祭之職麼﹖
 戶:16.11    其實你和你的同黨所共謀反抗的是上主；至於亞郎，他算什麼，你們竟抱怨他﹖」
 戶:16.12    梅瑟派人去叫厄里雅布的兒子達堂和阿彼蘭來；他們卻答說：「我們不去!
 戶:16.13    你領我們由流奶流蜜的地方上來，叫我們死在曠野，這為你還不夠，你還想作王統治我們麼﹖
 戶:16.14    你並沒有領我們到了流奶流蜜的地方，也沒有給我們田地和葡萄園當產業啊! 你想剜出這些人的眼睛麼﹖我們不去! 」
 戶:16.15    梅瑟遂大怒，對上主說：「你不要垂顧他們的祭獻；我沒有奪過他們一匹驢，也沒有損害過他們任何人。」
 戶:16.16    梅瑟對科辣黑說：「你和你一切同黨，明日要來到上主面前，就是你和他們，還有亞郎。
 戶:16.17    你們各人要拿著自己的火盤，上面放上乳香；各人拿著自己的火盤到上主面前去，共二百五十個火盤；你和亞郎也各自拿著火盤。」
 戶:16.18    他們每人於是都拿了火盤，上面放上火，添上乳香，同梅瑟和亞郎來到會幕門口。
 戶:16.19    科辣黑召集了全會眾到會幕門口，來反抗梅瑟和亞郎。此時，上主的榮耀就顯現給全會眾。
 戶:16.20    上主對梅瑟和亞郎說：
 戶:16.21    「你們快離開這會眾，我立刻要消滅他們。」
 戶:16.22    梅瑟和亞郎就俯伏在地說：「天主，賜給一切血肉生氣的天主! 一人犯罪，你就向全體的會眾發怒麼﹖」
 戶:16.23    上主回答梅瑟說：
 戶:16.24    「你訓示會眾說：你們離開科辣黑、達堂、和阿彼蘭帳幕的四周。」
 戶:16.25    梅瑟就起來往達堂和阿彼蘭那裏去，以色列的長老也都隨著他去了。
 戶:16.26    他遂向會眾說：「你們要遠離這些惡人的帳幕! 凡是他們的東西你們不要動，免得你們為了他們的一切罪惡而遭滅絕。」
 戶:16.27    他們遂離開了科辣黑、達堂和阿彼蘭帳幕的四周；達堂和阿彼蘭同他們的妻子兒女和嬰孩出來，站在自己的帳幕門口。
 戶:16.28    梅瑟遂說：「因這件事，你們會知道，是上主派遣了我來做這一切，並不是出於我的本意：
 戶:16.29    如果這些人如其他的人一樣死去，或者他們的遭遇如其他的人所遭遇的一樣，上主就沒有派遣了我；
 戶:16.30    但是，如果上主作了從未聽見過的事，令地裂開口，將他們和他們的一切都吞下去，使他們活活的下到陰府，你們就知道這些人拋棄了上主。」
 戶:16.31    他一說完這些話，他們腳踏的地就裂開了；
 戶:16.32    地開了口，將他們和他們的家屬，以及凡屬科辣黑的人和所有的財物，都吞了下去。
 戶:16.33    他們和他們的一切，都活活的下了陰府；地在他們上面閉上口，他們遂由會眾中消滅了。
 戶:16.34    他們四周所有的以色列人，一聽見他們尖叫聲，就都逃跑說：「怕地也吞沒了我們! 」
 戶:16.35    那時由上主那裏發出了烈火，吞噬了那二百五十個奉香的人。
  
 戶:17.1     [人民再起騷動]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:17.2     「你吩咐司祭亞郎的兒子厄肋阿匝爾，叫他將一切火盤從火堆中取去，把炭火散開，因為這一切都是聖的。
 戶:17.3     以這些犯罪喪生者的火盤，打成薄片，用來包蓋祭壇，──因為奉獻在上主面前的火盤已成了聖的，──給以色列子民當作鑑戒。」
 戶:17.4     厄肋阿匝爾司祭便取出那些被火燒死的人獻過的銅火盤，叫人打成薄片，為包蓋祭壇用，
 戶:17.5     為給以色列子民當作鑑戒，為叫凡不是出於亞郎子孫的俗人，不應前來在上主面前獻香，以免和科辣黑及他的同黨遭遇一樣的不幸。他全照上主藉梅瑟對他所吩咐的做了。
 戶:17.6     次日，以色列子民全會眾抱怨梅瑟和亞郎說：「正是你們害死了上主的人民」。
 戶:17.7     當會眾集合反對梅瑟和亞郎時，他們二人轉向會幕；看，雲彩遮蓋了會幕，上主的榮耀發顯了出來。
 戶:17.8     梅瑟和亞郎遂走到會幕面前，
 戶:17.9     上主吩咐梅瑟說：
 戶:17.10    「你們快離開這會眾，我要立即消滅他們。」他們遂俯伏在地，
 戶:17.11    然後梅瑟向亞郎說：「你快拿火盤，由祭壇取火放在盤裏，添上乳香，快拿到會眾那裏去，為他們行贖罪禮，因為憤怒已由上主面前發出，災禍已經開始。」
 戶:17.12    亞郎遂照梅瑟所吩咐的拿了火盤，急忙跑到會眾中；看，災禍已在人民中開始；他遂添上乳香，為人民行贖罪禮，
 戶:17.13    站在死者和生者之中，直到災禍止息。
 戶:17.14    在這次災禍中死了一萬四千七百，為科辣黑的緣故而死的人，還不在內。
 戶:17.15    亞郎於是回到會幕門口梅瑟那裏，因為災禍已止息了。
 戶:17.16    [亞郎的棍杖開花]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:17.17    「你吩咐以色列子民，叫他們每一家族拿一根棍杖，就是每一個領袖為自己家族拿一根，共十二根棍杖，把各人的名字寫在自己的棍杖上；
 戶:17.18    但在肋未的棍杖上，要寫亞郎的名字，因為為肋未的族長亦應有一根棍杖。
 戶:17.19    你將這些棍放在會幕內，放在約證前，即在我與你常相會的地方。
 戶:17.20    誰的棍杖開花，誰就是我所選擇的人；這樣，我就平息了以色列子民在我面前抱怨你們的怨言。」
 戶:17.21    梅瑟於是告訴了以色列子民；他們所有的領袖都交給了他一根棍杖，每一家族中，每個領袖一根，共十二根棍杖；在他們的棍杖中，也有亞郎的棍杖。
 戶:17.22    梅瑟就將棍杖放在約幕內，放在上主面前。
 戶:17.23    次日，梅瑟進入約幕內，看，肋未家族的亞郎的棍杖發了芽；不但發了芽，並且開了花，結了成熟的杏。
 戶:17.24    梅瑟就由上主面前取出所有的棍杖，給以色列子民觀看；以後各人取回了自己的棍杖。
 戶:17.25    上主對梅瑟說：「收回亞郎的棍杖來，放在約證前；給叛逆之徒當作鑑戒，為平息他們對我發的怨言，免得他們死亡。」
 戶:17.26    梅瑟就這樣做了。 上主怎樣吩咐，他他就怎樣做了。
 戶:17.27    以色列子民對梅瑟申訴說：「看，我們要死了，我們完了! 我們全完了!
 戶:17.28    凡接近上主帳幕的都該死；我們豈不都該死﹖」
  
 戶:18.1     [肋未人的任務和權利]  上主對亞郎說：「你和你的兒子，連你的家族，應與你共同對聖所負責；你和你的兒子，應對司祭職負責。
 戶:18.2     你也要令你家族的眾兄弟，──肋未支派，與你一同前來；他們應協助你，服事你；當你和你的兒子在約幕前供職時，
 戶:18.3     他們應照料你和全帳幕的事務，但不應接近聖所的器皿和祭壇，不然他們該死，連你們也該死。
 戶:18.4     他們協助你照料會幕的事務，作會幕的各種勞役，俗人不可接近。
 戶:18.5     你們應照料聖所和祭壇的事務，免得義怒降在以色列子民身上。
 戶:18.6     是我由以色列子民中，選拔了你們的兄弟肋未人，交給你們當作獻於上主的人，為給會幕服務。
 戶:18.7     至於你和你的兒子，在有關祭壇和帷幔以內的一切事上，應留心盡你們司祭的職務；你們應獻身於我賜予你們的司祭職務。俗人若敢近前，必處死刑。」
 戶:18.8     上主又對亞郎說：「看，我託你照管獻於我的獻儀，即凡以色列子民祝聖於我的，我都賜給你和你的子孫，作為應得之物，這是永久的權利。
 戶:18.9     火祭中所餘剩的至聖之物都屬於你；凡他們獻於我的素祭，或贖罪祭，或贖過祭的祭品，都是至聖之物，都應屬於你和你的兒子。
 戶:18.10    你們應在至聖之處分食，凡是男子都可以吃；你應視為聖物。
 戶:18.11    此外歸於你的尚有：凡以色列子民行搖禮所獻的祭品，我都賜給你，你的兒子和與你尚在一起的兒女：這是永久的權利；凡你家內潔淨的人都可以吃。
 戶:18.12    凡是最好的油、酒和五榖，作初熟之物獻給上主的，我都賜給你。
 戶:18.13    凡他們地中的一切出產，作初熟之物獻給上主的，都屬於你；凡你家內潔淨的人都可以吃。
 戶:18.14    凡以色列中照禁物法所獻之物，都屬於你。
 戶:18.15    凡動物中應獻於上主的開胎的首生者，不論是人是獸，都屬於你；但你應叫人贖回首生的人，和首生的不潔之獸。
 戶:18.16    關於贖價，為一月以上的，你應叫人依所定的估價，照聖所的衡量，交五「協刻耳」的銀子。 (每一「協刻耳」為二十「革辣」。)
 戶:18.17    但是牛或綿羊或山羊的首生者，卻不可令人贖回，因為是聖的；你應將牠們的血灑在祭壇上，將脂肪焚化成煙，作為悅樂上主馨香的火祭。
 戶:18.18    至於牛羊的肉卻歸於你，就如搖過的胸脯和右腿歸於你一樣。
 戶:18.19    凡是以色列子民奉獻與上主為聖物的祭品，我都給你和你的兒子，以及同你尚在一起的女兒：這是永久的權利，這是在上主前，與你的後裔所訂立的永久不變的鹽約。」
 戶:18.20    上主對亞郎說：「在你們的土地中，你不可有產業，在他們當中，也不得有屬於你的份子，在以色列子民中，我是你的份子，你的產業。
 戶:18.21    至於肋未的子孫，我將以色列人的什一之物給他們做產業；這是為酬報他們在會幕內所服的勞役。
 戶:18.22    免得以色列子民接近會幕，負罪死亡；
 戶:18.23    因此只有肋未人准在會幕內服役，應負全責。這為你們世世代代是一條永久的條例：肋未人在以色列子民中不應佔有產業；
 戶:18.24    因為我把以色列子民獻給上主的什一獻儀，給了肋未人作為產業；所以我對他們說：他們在以色列子民中，不應佔有產業。」
 戶:18.25    上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:18.26    「你告訴肋未人說：幾時你們由以色列子民中，取得了我賜予你們作為產業的什一之物，你們應由這什一之物中，取十分之一獻給上主，
 戶:18.27    這算是你們的獻儀；好似禾場上的新娘和榨房中的新酒。
 戶:18.28    這樣你們也由以色列子民所收的一切什一之物中，取一份獻給上主作獻儀，應將這獻與上主的獻儀，交給亞郎大司祭。
 戶:18.29    由你們所得的一切獻儀中，應取出獻於上主的一切獻儀，且應取出最好的來，獻作應祝聖的一份。
 戶:18.30    你再對他們說：幾時你們奉獻了其中最好的一份，其餘的為你們肋未就如禾場上和榨房內的出品，
 戶:18.31    你們和你們的家人，可在任何地方分食，因為這是你們在會幕內服役所得的酬報。
 戶:18.32    如果你們奉獻了其中最好的一份，就不致於有罪；你們不應褻瀆以色列子民的祝聖之物，免遭死亡。」
  
 戶:19.1     [製取潔水]  上主訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：
 戶:19.2     「這是上主製定的法律，祂這樣命令說：你吩咐以色列子民，給你牽一頭無瑕，身上沒有殘缺，且沒有負過軛的紅母牛來。
 戶:19.3     你們應將牛交給厄肋阿匝爾司祭，牽到營外，在他面前殺了。
 戶:19.4     厄肋阿匝爾司祭用手指蘸些牛血，七次向會幕的前面灑血。
 戶:19.5     以後在他眼前將牛焚燒；牛的皮、肉、血連糞，一起焚燒。
 戶:19.6     同時司祭應取香柏木、牛膝草和朱紅線，扔在燒牛的火內。
 戶:19.7     以後司祭應洗自己的衣服，用水洗身，然後才可以回營；但直到晚上，司祭仍然不潔。
 戶:19.8     那焚燒牛的人，也應洗自己的衣服，用水洗身，但直到晚上仍然不潔。
 戶:19.9     另一位潔淨的人收起牛灰，放在營外潔淨的地方，為以色列子民會眾留下作取潔水之用，因為這原是贖罪祭。
 戶:19.10    那收斂牛灰的人，應洗自己的衣服，且直到晚上不潔；這為以色列子民和僑居在你們中的外方人，是一條永久的法律。
 戶:19.11    [舉例說明]  凡摸了任何人屍體的，七天之久不潔。
 戶:19.12    第三日和第七日，他應用那水取潔，他才潔淨；若在第三日和第七日上不取潔，他仍然不潔。
 戶:19.13    任何人摸了屍首，即死人的身體，而不取潔，便玷污了上主的居所，這人應由以色列中剷除，因為取潔水沒有灑在他身上，他仍然不潔，不潔仍留在他身上。
 戶:19.14    幾時在帳幕內死了一人，有這樣的規定：凡進這帳幕，和所有在帳幕的人，七天之久不潔；
 戶:19.15    一切開著口，沒有蓋上蓋的器皿，都成了不潔的。
 戶:19.16    凡在田野間摸了一個為刀所害，或自死的人，或人的骨骸，或墳墓的人，七天之久不潔。
 戶:19.17    為這樣不潔的人，應取些贖罪祭燒成的灰，放在一器皿內，倒上活水。
 戶:19.18    然後一潔淨的人拿牛膝草浸入水內，灑在帳幕上和其內的一切器皿並人身上，以及灑在那摸過骨骸或被害死的，或自死的，或墳墓的人身上。
 戶:19.19    那潔淨的人應在第三日第七日上，灑那人不潔淨的人，到第七日才能使他潔淨；那人還應洗自己的衣服，在水中沐浴，到晚上就潔淨了。
 戶:19.20    誰成了不潔的而不取潔，這人應由會眾中剷除，因為他玷污了上主的聖所，因取潔水沒有灑在他身上，他仍然不潔。
 戶:19.21    這為你們是一條永久的法律。那灑取潔水的，應洗自己的衣服；凡觸摸取潔水的，直到晚上不潔。
 戶:19.22    凡不潔的人摸過的東西，也成了不潔的；與之接觸的人，也直到晚上不潔。」
  
 戶:20.1     [梅瑟擊石出水]  以色列子民全會眾於正月來到了親曠野，人民就在卡德士住下了。米黎盎在那裏死了，也就埋葬在那裏。
 戶:20.2     會眾沒有人水喝，就聚在一起反抗梅瑟和亞郎。
 戶:20.3     民眾同梅瑟爭辯說：「巴不得我們的兄弟在上主面前死去時，我們也死了!
 戶:20.4     為什麼你們領上主的會眾來到這曠野裏，叫我們和我們的牲畜都死在這裏﹖
 戶:20.5     為什麼你們使我們由埃及上來，領我們來到這樣壞的地方﹖這地方不但沒有糧食，沒有無花果，沒有葡萄，沒有石榴，而且連喝的水也沒有! 」
 戶:20.6     梅瑟和亞郎遂離開會眾，來到會幕門口，俯伏在地；上主的榮耀遂發顯給他們。
 戶:20.7     上主吩咐梅瑟說：
 戶:20.8     「你拿上棍杖，然後你和你的兄弟亞郎召集會眾，當著他們眼前對這磐石發命，叫磐石流水。這樣你便可使水由磐石中給他們流出，給會眾和他們的牲畜喝」。
 戶:20.9     梅瑟就照上主吩咐他的，由上主面前拿了棍杖。
 戶:20.10    梅瑟和亞郎召集會眾來到磐石前，對他們說：「你們這些叛徒，聽著! 我們豈能從這磐石中給你們引出水來﹖」
 戶:20.11    梅瑟遂舉起手來，用棍杖打了磐石兩次，才有大量的水湧出，會眾和他們的牲畜都喝夠了。
 戶:20.12    上主卻對梅瑟和亞郎說：「因為你們沒有相信我，使我以色列子民眼前被尊為聖，所以你們不得領這會眾進入我賜給他們的土地。」
 戶:20.13    這就是默黎巴水的來歷，因為以色列子民在那裏與上主爭辯過，上主因而顯示了自己的聖德。
 戶:20.14    [厄東不願借道]  梅瑟由卡德士派遣使者去見厄東王說：「你的兄弟以色列這樣說：你知道我們所遭遇的一切困難，
 戶:20.15    我們的祖先下到了埃及。我們在埃及住了很久，埃及人虐待了我們和我們的祖先。
 戶:20.16    我們曾向上主呼號，祂俯聽了我們的呼聲，派來了一位使者，領我們出離了埃及。看，我們現在就在你邊境上的卡德士城，
 戶:20.17    求你讓我們由你的境內經過；我們決不會踏過莊田或葡萄園，也不喝井裏的水，只走王道，不偏右，也不偏左；直至走過你的國境。」
 戶:20.18    厄東卻答覆說：「不准你由我這裏經過，不然，我要以刀相迎。」
 戶:20.19    以色列子民再對他說：「我們只沿大路走，我們和我們的牲畜若喝了你的水，我們願付錢；只求步行經過這點小事」。
 戶:20.20    他仍然說：「不准你經過。」厄東即領大隊人馬和武裝部隊出迎。
 戶:20.21    厄東既然不讓以色列由他境內經過，以色列就從那裏折回。
 戶:20.22    [亞郎逝世]  以色列子民全會眾由卡德士起程，來到了曷爾山。
 戶:20.23    在厄東國界的了曷爾山上，上主對梅瑟和亞郎說：
 戶:20.24    「亞郎要歸到他祖先那裏去，他不能進入我賜給以色列子民的地方，因為你們在默黎巴取水的事上，違背了我的訓令。
 戶:20.25    你帶亞郎和他的兒子厄肋阿匝爾，一同上曷爾山上去，
 戶:20.26    將亞郎的長袍脫下，給他的兒子厄肋阿匝爾穿上，因為亞郎要被召歸去，死在那裏。」
 戶:20.27    梅瑟就照上主吩咐的做了。當著全會眾的面，他們上了曷爾山。
 戶:20.28    梅瑟把亞郎的長袍脫下，給他的兒子厄肋阿匝爾穿上，亞郎就在山頂死了。以後梅瑟和厄肋阿匝爾由山上下來。
 戶:20.29    全會眾知道亞郎死了，以色列全家為亞郎舉哀三十天。
  
 戶:21.1     [梅瑟豎立銅蛇]  客納罕人的阿辣得王，其時住在乃革布，聽說以色列人沿阿塔陵路前來，就與以色列人交戰，擄去了一些人。
 戶:21.2     以色列人於是向上主許願說：「你若將這人民交在我手內，我必將他們的城毀滅。」
 戶:21.3     上主遂聽了以色列人的請求，將客納罕人交在他們手裏，以色列人就毀滅了他們和他們的城；人遂給那地方起名叫曷爾瑪。
 戶:21.4     他們由曷爾山沿紅海的路起程出發，繞過厄東地；在路上人民已不耐煩，
 戶:21.5     抱怨天主和梅瑟說：「你們為什麼領我們由埃及上來死在曠野﹖這裏沒有糧食，又沒有水，我們對這輕淡的食物已感厭惡。」
 戶:21.6     上主遂打發火蛇到人民中來，咬死了許多以色列人。
 戶:21.7     人民於是來到梅瑟前說：「我們犯了罪，抱怨了上主和你；請你轉求上主，給我們趕走這些蛇。」梅瑟遂為人民轉求。
 戶:21.8     上主對梅瑟說：「你做一條火蛇，懸在木竿上；凡是被蛇咬的，一瞻仰牠，必得生存。」
 戶:21.9     梅瑟遂做了一條銅蛇，懸在木竿上；那被蛇咬了的人，一瞻仰銅蛇，就保存了生命。」
 戶:21.10    [向約但河東進發]  以色列子民再起程出發，在敖波特紮了營；
 戶:21.11    由敖波特又出發，在依耶阿巴陵，即在面朝摩阿布東邊的曠野內紮了營。
 戶:21.12    由那裏又出發，在則勒得河旁紮了營。
 戶:21.13    由那裏又出發，在阿爾農北岸紮了營。這條河是在曠野中，由阿摩黎人的邊境流出；阿爾農就是摩阿布的邊界，介於摩阿布和阿摩黎之間。
 戶:21.14    為此在「上主的戰書」上說：「....在穌法的瓦赫布和阿爾農山谷，
 戶:21.15    以及山谷的斜坡；這斜坡伸展到阿爾地區，緊靠摩阿布的邊境。」
 戶:21.16    由那裏他們到了貝爾，那裏有口井，上主曾指這井對梅瑟說：「你召集人民，我要賜給他們水喝。」
 戶:21.17    那時以色列人就唱了這首歌說：「井，湧出水來! 你們應對它歌唱!
 戶:21.18    這井是領袖挖掘的，是民間的貴人，以權杖和棍棒挖鑿的。」他們由曠野到瑪塔納，
 戶:21.19    由瑪塔納到了納哈里耳；由納哈里耳了到巴摩特；
 戶:21.20    由巴摩特到了摩阿布田野的山谷，到了俯瞰曠野的丕斯加高峰。
 戶:21.21    [征服阿摩黎人]  以色列人派遣使者到阿摩黎人的君王息紅前說：
 戶:21.22    「請讓我由你國內經過，我們決不闖入莊田或葡萄園，也不喝井中的水，只沿王道而行，直至走你的國境。」
 戶:21.23    息紅卻不讓以色列人經過他的國境；且調集自己所有的人民，往曠野裏去對抗以色列人；一來到雅哈茲，就與以色列人交戰。
 戶:21.24    以色列人用刀劍將他擊敗，佔領了他的國境，自阿爾農河直到雅波克河，直到阿孟子民那裡，因為雅則爾是阿孟子民的邊界。
 戶:21.25    如此以色列人佔領了那裏所有的城鎮，就住在阿摩黎人所有的城鎮內，並住在赫市朋及其附屬城內。
 戶:21.26    赫市朋原是阿摩黎人王息紅的都城。息紅與前任摩阿布王交戰，佔領了他所有的土地，直到阿爾農河。
 戶:21.27    為此詩人吟詠說：「你們到修建鞏固的赫市朋去，那穩固的息紅城；
 戶:21.28    因為由赫市朋發出了火，從息紅的城冒出了火焰，吞滅了摩阿布的阿爾，消滅了阿爾農的高丘。
 戶:21.29    禍哉，摩阿布! 革摩士的人民，你已滅亡!他的兒子已逃亡，女兒已被俘，交給了阿摩黎人的君王息紅。
 戶:21.30    但我們一襲擊他們，赫市朋直到狄朋，盡成廢壚；我們蹂躝一切....直到諾法黑，直到默德巴。」
 戶:21.31    這樣以色列人就住在阿摩黎的區域內。
 戶:21.32    梅瑟又派人去偵探雅則爾；他們佔領了這城及其附屬城鎮，驅逐了那裏的阿摩黎人。
 戶:21.33    以後前進，上了往巴商的路。巴商王敖格同他全國的人民，就出來對抗他們，在厄德勒與他們交戰。
 戶:21.34    上主對梅瑟說：「不必怕他，因為我已將他，他的人民和國土，都交在你手裏了；你要待他，如同對待住在赫市朋的阿摩黎人的君王一樣。」
 戶:21.35    他們擊殺了他，他的兒子和他所有的人民，沒有剩下一個；遂佔據了他的國土。
  
           下編  [在約但河東的遭遇(22-36)]
  
 戶:22.1     [摩阿布王邀請巴郎]  以色列子民再起程出發，在約旦東邊的摩阿布曠野中，對著耶里哥城紮了營。
 戶:22.2     漆頗爾的兒子巴拉克，見了以色列對阿摩黎人所做的一切；
 戶:22.3     摩阿布人十分怕這民族，因為他們眾多；摩阿布人對以色列子民大起恐慌，
 戶:22.4     於是對米德揚的長老說：「現在這些人要吞併我們四周的一切，有如牛吃盡田間的青草。」漆頗爾的兒子巴拉克，其時正是摩阿布的君王，
 戶:22.5     遂遣使者往幼發拉的河阿瑪伍人之地的培托爾去，見貝敖爾的兒子巴郎，請他說：「看，由埃及來了一個民族，遮蓋了地面，現今正住在我的對面。
 戶:22.6     現在請你來，替我咒罵這民族，因為他們比我強大，或許這樣我能將他們擊敗，從此地趕走；因為我知道，你祝福的，必蒙祝福；你咒罵的，必蒙咒罵。」
 戶:22.7     摩阿布和米德揚的長老於是帶著卜金去了；到了巴郎那裏，將巴拉克的話告訴了他。
 戶:22.8     他回答他們說：「今夜你們在這裏過夜，我要依照上主吩咐我的話答覆你們。」這樣，摩阿布的縉紳就在巴郎那裏住下了。
 戶:22.9     天主來到巴郎那裏說：「與你在一起的是些什麼人﹖」
 戶:22.10    巴郎答覆天主說：「是摩阿布的君王，漆頗爾的兒子巴拉克，打發些人來告訴我說：
 戶:22.11    看，從埃及來了一個民族，遮蓋了地面，現在請你來替我咒罵他們，使我或許能與他們交戰，將他們驅逐。」
 戶:22.12    天主對巴郎說：「你不可與他們同去，你不可咒罵這，因為他們是受祝福的。」
 戶:22.13    巴郎早晨起來就對巴拉克的縉紳說：「你們回本國去吧! 因為上主不許我同你們一起去。」
 戶:22.14    摩阿布的縉紳就起身回到巴拉克那裏說：「巴郎不願同我們一起來。」
 戶:22.15    巴拉克於是又派比以前更多更尊貴的縉紳去。
 戶:22.16    他們去見巴郎，對他說：「漆頗爾的兒子巴拉克這樣說：請你不要推辭到我這裏來，
 戶:22.17    因為我必豐富地酬謝你。凡你要的，我都照辦；只要你前來，替我咒罵這民族。」
 戶:22.18    巴郎答覆巴拉克的使臣說：「既使巴拉克給我滿屋的金銀，我也不能做任何大小的事，違犯上主我天主的命令。
 戶:22.19    現在，請你們今夜也在這裏住下，看看上主還要對我說什麼。」
 戶:22.20    夜間天主來到巴郎那裏，對他說：「這些人既然來邀請你，你就起身同他們去吧! 但是你只應做我吩咐你的事。」
 戶:22.21    巴郎早晨起來，備好驢，就同摩阿布的縉紳一起去了。
 戶:22.22    因為他起身走了，天主發了怒；上主的使者在路上擋住他的去路。當時他騎著驢，還有兩個僮僕跟著。
 戶:22.23    那驢一看見上主的使者，持著拔出的刀站在路上，就離開正路，走入田中去了。巴郎便鞭打那驢，要牠回到路上。
 戶:22.24    以後，上主的使者又站在葡萄園間的窄路上，兩面有牆。
 戶:22.25    那驢一見上主的使者，就緊靠著牆，將巴郎的腳擠在牆上，他又打了那驢。
 戶:22.26    上主的使者又往前行，站在窄狹的地方，左右無路可走，
 戶:22.27    那驢又見上主的使者，遂趴在巴郎下；巴郎大怒，用棍杖打那驢。
 戶:22.28    上主遂開了驢的口，對巴郎說：「我對你做了什麼﹖你竟三次打我﹖」
 戶:22.29    巴郎回答那驢說：「因為你玩弄我。我若手中有刀，早殺了你。」
 戶:22.30    那驢對巴郎說：「我不是你從起初直到今日騎的驢嗎﹖平常我是否對你這樣做﹖」他回答說：「不。」
 戶:22.31    上主遂開了巴郎的眼，使他看見上主的使者，手持拔出的刀站在路上，他就躬身俯伏在地。
 戶:22.32    上主的使者對他說：「你為什麼三次打你的驢﹖看，是我出來擋路，因為你走的這路，在我面前是邪路。
 戶:22.33    驢看見了我，就在我面前迴避了三次；幸虧牠迴避了我，不然我早殺了你，只留下了牠。」
 戶:22.34    巴郎於是對上主的使者說：「我犯了罪，因為我不知道是你站在路上阻攔我。現在，如果你以為不對，我就回去好了。」
 戶:22.35    上主的使者對巴郎說：「你同這些人去吧! 但是你只應說我吩咐你的話。」巴郎於是同巴拉克的縉紳一起去了。
 戶:22.36    巴拉克聽說巴郎來了，就到阿爾摩阿布──此城臨近阿爾農河邊，在國界的盡頭，──去迎接他。
 戶:22.37    巴拉克對巴郎說：「我不是派遣了使者去請你﹖你為什麼不到我這裏來，莫非我不能酬報你﹖」
 戶:22.38    巴郎答覆巴拉克說：「看，我已到你這裏來了，但我能隨便說什麼嗎﹖我只能說天主吩咐我說的話。」
 戶:22.39    巴郎遂同巴拉克起身，來到了克黎雅特胡祚特。
 戶:22.40    巴拉克殺了牛羊，餽送給巴郎和同他在一起的縉紳。
 戶:22.41    到了次日早晨，巴拉克領巴郎上了巴摩特巴耳去，從那裏能看到一部分以色列人民。
  
 戶:23.1     [巴郎祝福以色列]  巴郎對巴拉克說：「請你在這裏給我建造七座祭壇，給我準備七頭公牛犢和七隻公綿羊。」
 戶:23.2     巴拉克就照巴郎說的做了；巴拉克和巴郎在每座祭壇上奉獻了一頭公牛犢和一隻公綿羊。
 戶:23.3     然後巴郎對巴拉克說：「你留在你的全燔祭旁，我要前去，或許上主會使我遇見祂；祂指示我什麼，我都告訴你。」
 戶:23.4     他就上了一座荒邱。天主遇到了巴郎，巴郎遂對天主說：「我建造了七座祭壇，在每座祭壇上，奉獻了頭公牛犢和一隻公綿羊。」
 戶:23.5     上主遂把巴郎要說的話放在他口中，然後對他說：「你回到巴拉克那裏就這樣說。」
 戶:23.6     他回到巴拉克那裏，看見他和摩阿布所有的縉紳，仍站在全燔祭旁；
 戶:23.7     於是吟詩說：「巴拉克將我由阿蘭召來，摩阿布王叫我由東方的山嶺前來：你來替我咒罵雅各伯，你來詛咒以色列!
 戶:23.8     我豈能咒罵天主所不咒罵的﹖我豈能詛咒上主所不詛咒的﹖
 戶:23.9     我由巖峰向他們觀看，我由高丘向他們眺望：這是一獨居，而不應與眾民同列的民族。
 戶:23.10    誰能盡數雅各伯的塵埃，誰能算清以色列的塵沙﹖惟願我的死有如義人的死，我的結局相似他的結局。」
 戶:23.11    巴拉克對巴郎說：「你對我做的是什麼事﹖我叫你來是為咒罵我的仇敵，你反而祝福! 」
 戶:23.12    他回答說：「我豈不該謹慎說出上主叫我說的話嗎﹖」
 戶:23.13    巴拉克對他說：「諘你同我到另一地方去，從那裏可看到他們；這裏只看到一部分，不能看到全部；從那裏替我咒罵他們。」
 戶:23.14    於是領他到了丕斯加山頂上的瞭望台。在那裏建造了七座祭壇，在每座祭壇上，奉獻了一頭公牛犢和一隻公綿羊。
 戶:23.15    巴郎對巴拉克說：「你在這裏，站在你的全燔祭旁，我到那裏去會見上主。
 戶:23.16    上主就顯現給巴郎，把祂要說的話放在他口內，然後說：「你回巴拉克那裏，就這樣說。」
 戶:23.17    他來到巴拉克那裏，看見他還站在全燔祭旁，摩阿布的縉紳仍同他在一起；巴拉克便問他說：「上主說了什麼﹖」
 戶:23.18    他於是吟詩說：「巴拉克起來靜聽! 漆頗爾的兒子，傾耳聽我!
 戶:23.19    天主不像人能食言，不像人子能返悔。祂說了豈能不行﹖
 戶:23.20    我受命是為祝福，我不能變更。
 戶:23.21    在雅各伯中不見罪惡，在以色列中不睹災禍；上主他們的天主與他們同在，歡呼君王之聲，常在他們中間。
 戶:23.22    領他們由埃及出來的天主，為他們有如野牛的角。
 戶:23.23    其實雅各伯不需要巫術，以色列不需要占卜；時候一到，自會啟示與雅各伯和以色列：天主要做什麼。
 戶:23.24    這民族起來有如母獅，挺身像雄獅，不吞下獵物；不喝被殺的血，決不臥下。」
 戶:23.25    巴拉克對巴郎說：「你不咒罵他們，但也不該祝福啊! 」
 戶:23.26    巴郎回答巴拉克說：「我不是對你說過：我應做上主所吩咐的一切嗎﹖」
 戶:23.27    巴拉克對巴郎說：「來，我領你到另一個地方去，或者天主喜歡你在那裏替我咒罵他們。」
 戶:23.28    巴拉克於是領巴郎到俯視曠野的培敖爾山頂。
 戶:23.29    巴郎對巴拉克說：「你在這裏給我建造七座祭壇，給我預備七頭公牛犢和七隻公綿羊。」
 戶:23.30    巴拉克就照巴郎說的做了，在每座祭壇上奉獻了一頭公牛犢和一隻公綿羊。
  
 戶:24.1     [巴郎的神諭]  巴郎見祝福以色列，為上主所喜悅，就不再像前幾次一樣先去探求預示，只轉面向曠野。
 戶:24.2     巴郎一舉目，看見了按支派紮營的以色列人；那時天主的神降在他身上，
 戶:24.3     他遂吟詩說：「貝敖爾的兒子巴郎的神諭，明眼男子的神諭，
 戶:24.4     那聽到天主的話，得見全能者的神視，在沉睡中開了神眼的神諭：
 戶:24.5     雅各伯，你的帳幕，何其壯觀! 以色列，你的居所，何其美好!
 戶:24.6     如擴展的棕林，似河畔的花園，像上主栽種的沉香，似臨水的香柏。
 戶:24.7     英雄由他的後裔而出，他將治理許多民族；他的君王超越阿加格，他的王國必受舉揚。
 戶:24.8     領他出埃及的天主，為他有如野牛的角。他要吞滅那敵對他的人民，粉碎他們的骨骸，折斷他們的箭矢。
 戶:24.9     他蹲伏臥下有如雄獅，又似母獅；誰敢令他起立﹖祝福你的，必受祝福；咒罵你的，必受咒罵。」
 戶:24.10    巴拉克對巴郎大發忿怒，拍手向他說：「我請你來是為咒罵我的仇敵；看，你反祝福他們，且已三次。
 戶:24.11    現在你快回你故鄉去! 我原想豐富地酬謝你，但是，上主奪去了你的酬報。」
 戶:24.12    巴郎回答巴拉克說：「我不是已對你遣來的使者聲明過：
 戶:24.13    即使巴拉克給我滿屋金銀，我也不能違犯上主的命令，任意去行善或作惡，而只能說上主所吩咐的嗎﹖
 戶:24.14    現在我就要回到我民族那裏去；來，讓我告訴你這民族日後對你的民族所要做的事。」
 戶:24.15    於是他吟詩說：「貝敖爾的兒子巴郎的神諭，明眼男子的神諭，
 戶:24.16    那聽到天主的話，深知至高者的思慮，得見全能者的神視，在沉睡中開了神眼的神諭：
 戶:24.17    我看見祂，卻不是在現在；我望見祂，卻不是在近處：由雅各伯將出現一顆星，由以色列將興起一權杖，擊碎摩阿布的額角，粉碎舍特一切子民的腦蓋。
 戶:24.18    厄東將成為他的屬地，色依爾將成為他的轄境；以色列必行使威權。
 戶:24.19    由雅各伯將出生一位統治仇敵者，祂要除滅依爾的遺民。」
 戶:24.20    以後他望見阿肋瑪克，遂吟詩說：「阿肋瑪克原是眾民之首，但他的結局是永遠的滅亡。」
 戶:24.21    後又望見刻尼人，遂吟詩說：「你的居所固然鞏固，你的巢穴縱然建在磐石間；
 戶:24.22    但刻尼人仍要被毀滅，到何時亞述才將你擄去﹖」
 戶:24.23    他又吟詩說：「嗚呼! 若天主履行此事，誰還能生存!
 戶:24.24    從基廷有船來，征服亞述，征服厄貝爾；他們也要永遠滅亡。」
 戶:24.25    然後巴郎起身回了本鄉；巴拉克也回去了。
  
 戶:25.1     [祭祀邪神受罰]  當以色列人住在史廷的時候，民眾開始與摩阿布女子行淫。
 戶:25.2     這些女子請民眾參與她們神祗的祭祀；民眾吃了供物，且朝拜了她們的神祗。
 戶:25.3     這樣以色列人就歸依了巴耳培敖爾，上主因此對以色列大發忿怒。
 戶:25.4     上主對梅瑟說：「你捉住民眾中所有的罪魁，在光天化日之下，為上主將他們懸掛起來，好挽回上主對以色列的怒火。」
 戶:25.5     梅瑟就吩咐以色列的各首長說：「你們每人應將自己家中歸依巴耳培敖爾的人殺死。」
 戶:25.6     看，當梅瑟和以色列子民全會眾都在會幕門口流淚痛哭時，以色列子民中正有一人，當他們的面，帶了一個米德揚女人到他兄弟那裏去。
 戶:25.7     大司祭亞郎的兒子厄肋阿匝爾的兒子丕乃哈斯一見，就由會眾中起來，順手拿了一把長槍，
 戶:25.8     跟那以色列人進入臥室內，刺穿了他們兩人，即那以色列人和那女人的肚腹；以色列子民間的災禍遂止息了。
 戶:25.9     在這次災禍內，死去了二萬四千人。
 戶:25.10    上主於是訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:25.11    「大司祭亞郎的孫子，厄肋阿匝爾的兒子丕乃哈斯，由以色列子民身上挽回了我的忿怒，因為他在他們中，懷著與我同樣的嫉邪的心，因此我沒有因我嫉邪之心消滅了以色列子民。
 戶:25.12    為此你應聲明：看，我與他結平安的盟約。
 戶:25.13    這為他和他的後裔，是永享司祭品位的盟約，因為他為了自己天主的緣故，嫉惡如仇，賠補了以色列子民的罪。」
 戶:25.14    那與米德揚女人一同被殺的以色列人，名叫齊默黎，是撒路的兒子，西默盎家族的族長。
 戶:25.15    那被殺的米德揚女人，名叫苛次彼，是族爾的女兒；族爾是米德揚一部落的酋長。
 戶:25.16    事後，上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:25.17    「你應圍攻米德揚人，打擊他們，
 戶:25.17    因為他們用詭計打擊了你們，就是在培敖爾的事上，並在他們的姊妹．米德揚酋長的女兒苛次彼的事上，欺騙了你們。──這女子已在培敖爾的事上，在災禍之日被殺。」
  
 戶:26.1     [再行登記]  這次災禍以後，上主對梅瑟和大司祭亞郎的兒子厄肋阿匝爾說：
 戶:26.2     「你們應將以色列子民全會眾，凡二十歲以上，在以色列中能上陣作戰的，按家族再行登記。
 戶:26.3     梅瑟和司祭厄肋阿匝爾，就在約旦河邊耶里哥的對面，摩阿布曠野內，
 戶:26.4     統計了二十歲以上的人，照上主對梅瑟所吩咐的。
 戶:26.5     [從埃及國出來的以色列子民如下：]  以色列的長子勒烏本：勒烏本的子孫：屬哈諾客人的，有哈諾客家族；屬帕路的，有帕路家族；
 戶:26.6     屬赫茲龍的，有赫茲龍家族；屬加爾米的，有加爾米家族：
 戶:26.7     以上是勒烏本家族，登記的人數，共計四萬三千七百三十。
 戶:26.8     帕路的子孫：厄里雅布。
 戶:26.9     厄里雅布的兒子是乃慕耳、達堂和阿彼蘭。達堂和阿彼蘭原是會眾推選的人，在科辣黑黨派違背上主時，起來反抗梅瑟和亞郎。
 戶:26.10    當時地裂開了口，將他們同科辣黑吞了下去；同時有火燒死了二百五十人：這樣全黨都消滅了，作為後人的鑑戒。
 戶:26.11    但是科辣黑的兒子們卻沒有死亡。
 戶:26.12    西默盎的子孫：按照家族屬乃慕耳的，乃慕耳家族：屬雅明的，有雅明家族：屬雅津的，有雅津家族；
 戶:26.13    屬則辣黑的，有則辣黑家族；屬沙烏耳的，有沙烏耳家族：
 戶:26.14    以上是西默盎家族，人數共計二萬二千二百。
 戶:26.15    加得的子孫：按照家族，屬責豐的，有責豐家族；屬哈基的，有哈基家族；屬叔尼的，有叔尼家族，
 戶:26.16    屬敖次尼的，有敖次尼家族；屬厄黎的，有厄黎家族；
 戶:26.17    屬阿洛得的，有阿洛得家族；屬阿勒里的，有阿勒里家族：
 戶:26.18    以上是加得子孫的家族，登記的人數共計四萬五百。
 戶:26.19    猶大的兒子：厄爾和敖難。厄爾和敖難死在客納罕地。
 戶:26.20    猶大的子孫：按照家族：屬舍拉的，有舍拉家族；屬培勒茲的，有培勒茲家族；屬則辣黑的，有則辣黑家族。
 戶:26.21    培肋勒茲的子孫：屬赫茲龍的，有赫茲龍家族；屬哈慕耳的，有哈慕耳家族：
 戶:26.22    以上是猶大家族，登記的人數，共計七萬六千五百。
 戶:26.23    依撒加爾的子孫：按照家族，屬托拉的，有托拉家族；屬普瓦的，有普瓦家族；
 戶:26.24    屬雅叔布的，有雅叔布家族；屬史默龍的，有史默龍家族：
 戶:26.25    以上是依撒加爾家族，登記人數共計六萬四千三百。
 戶:26.26    則步隆的子孫：依照家族，屬色勒得的，有色勒得家族；屬厄隆的，有厄隆家族；屬雅赫肋耳的，有雅赫肋耳家族：
 戶:26.27    以上是則步隆家族，登記的人數，共計六萬五百。
 戶:26.28    若瑟的子孫：依照家族，有默納協族和厄弗辣因族。
 戶:26.29    默納協的子孫：屬瑪基爾的，有瑪基爾家族；瑪基爾生了基肋阿得，屬基肋阿得的，有基肋阿得家族。
 戶:26.30    以下是基肋阿得的家族：屬耶則爾的，有則爾家族；屬赫肋克的，有赫肋克家族；
 戶:26.31    屬阿斯黎耳的，有阿斯黎耳家族；屬舍根的，有舍根家族；
 戶:26.32    屬舍米達的，有舍米達家族；屬赫斐爾的，有赫斐爾家族。
 戶:26.33    赫斐爾的兒子責羅斐哈得沒有兒子，只有女兒；責羅斐哈得的女兒的名字是：瑪赫拉、諾阿、曷革拉、米耳加和提爾匝：
 戶:26.34    以上是默納協家族，登記的人數共計五萬二千七百。
 戶:26.35    以下是厄弗辣因的子孫：按照家族，屬叔特拉的，有叔特拉家族；屬貝革爾的，有貝革爾家族；屬塔罕的，有塔罕家族。
 戶:26.36    以下是叔特拉的子孫：屬厄蘭的，有厄蘭家族。
 戶:26.37    以上是厄弗辣因子孫家族，登記的人數共計三萬二千五百：以上按照家族，都是若瑟的子孫。
 戶:26.38    本雅明的子孫：按照家族，屬貝拉的，有貝拉家族；屬阿市貝耳的，有阿市貝耳家族；屬阿希蘭的，有阿希蘭家族；
 戶:26.39    屬舍孚番的，有舍孚番家族；屬胡番的，有胡番家族。
 戶:26.40    貝拉的兒子是阿爾德和納阿曼。屬阿爾德的，有阿爾德家族；屬納阿曼的，有納阿曼家族；
 戶:26.41    按照家族，這些都是本雅明的子孫，登記的人數共計四萬五千六百。
 戶:26.42    以下是丹的子孫：按照家族，屬叔罕的，有叔罕家族；按照家族，這是丹的家族。
 戶:26.43    叔罕全家族登記的人數，共計六萬四千四百。
 戶:26.44    阿協爾的子孫：按照家族，屬依默納的，有依默納家族；屬依市偉的，有依市偉家族；屬貝黎雅的，有貝黎雅家族。
 戶:26.45    貝黎雅的子孫：屬赫貝爾的，有赫貝爾家族；屬有瑪耳基耳的，有瑪耳基耳家族。
 戶:26.46    阿協爾的女兒的名字是色辣黑。
 戶:26.47    以上是阿協爾子孫家族，登記的人數共計五萬三千四百。
 戶:26.48    納斐塔里的子孫：按照家族，屬雅赫責耳的，有雅赫責耳家族；屬古尼的，有古尼家族；
 戶:26.49    屬耶責耳的，有耶責耳家族；屬史冷的，有史冷家族；
 戶:26.50    按照家族，這些都是納斐塔里家族，他們登記的人數共計四萬五千四百。
 戶:26.51    以色列登記的人數共計六十萬一千七百三十。
 戶:26.52    上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:26.53    「你應照登記的名額，將土地分配給他們作為產業：
 戶:26.54    人數多的應多給，人數少的應少給 ；各依照登記的名額分配產業。
 戶:26.55    但還應抽籤來分配土地，各按宗族支系的名字領取產業。
 戶:26.56    看人數的多寡，來抽籤，給他們分配產業。」
 戶:26.57    以下是按照家族登記的肋未人：屬革爾雄的，有革爾雄家族；屬刻哈特的，有刻哈特家族；屬默辣黎的，有默辣黎家族。
 戶:26.58    以下是肋未的家族：里貝尼家族，赫貝龍家族，瑪赫里家族，慕史家族，科辣黑家族。刻哈特生了阿默蘭；
 戶:26.59    阿默蘭的妻子名叫約革貝得，是肋未的女兒，她在埃及出生，給阿默蘭生了亞郎、梅瑟和他們的姊妹米黎盎。
 戶:26.60    亞郎生了納達布、阿彼胡、厄肋阿匝爾和依塔瑪爾
 戶:26.61    納達布和阿彼胡在上主面前獻了凡火，遭遇了死亡。
 戶:26.62    一月以上的男子，登記共計二萬三千；他們沒有登記在以色列子民的數目內，因為在以色列子民中沒有分得產業。
 戶:26.63    這是梅瑟和司祭厄肋阿匝爾，在約旦河邊，耶利哥的對面，摩阿布曠野內，所統計的以色列子民的人數。
 戶:26.64    他們中沒有一個是梅瑟和大司祭亞郎，在西乃曠野統計以色列子民時，所統計過的人，
 戶:26.65    因為上主論及他們曾說過，他們必死在曠野。實在，除了耶孚乃的兒子加肋布和農的兒子若蘇厄外，他們中沒有剩下一人。
  
 戶:27.1     [婦女繼承權]  那時，若瑟的兒子默納協家族內，責羅斐哈得的女兒們前來，──責羅斐得是赫斐爾的兒子，赫斐爾是基肋阿得的兒子，基肋阿得是瑪基爾的兒子，瑪基爾是默納協的兒子；她們的名字是瑪赫拉、諾阿、曷革拉、米耳加和提爾匝。
 戶:27.2     她們站在梅瑟、大司祭厄肋阿匝爾、眾領袖和全會眾前，即會幕門口說：
 戶:27.3     「我們的父親死在曠野，但他並不是科辣黑黨派中，結黨反抗上主的黨徒，他只是因自已的罪死了，沒有留下兒子。
 戶:27.4     為什麼讓我們父親的名字，因為沒有兒子，就由本族中消滅﹖讓我們在我們父親的兄弟中，也分得一份產業。」
 戶:27.5     梅瑟就將她們的案件呈到上主面前；
 戶:27.6     上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:27.7     「責羅斐哈得的女兒們說得有理；你應在她們父親兄弟中分給她們一份產業，將她們父親的產業轉讓給她們。
 戶:27.8     並且你應訓示以色列子民說：一個人死了，若沒有兒子，你們應將他的產業轉讓給他的女兒；
 戶:27.9     如果連女兒也沒有，應將他的產業分給他的兄弟們。
 戶:27.10    如果連一個兄弟也沒有，應將他的產業分給他父親的兄弟們。
 戶:27.11    如果他的父親也沒有兄弟，應將他的產業分給他家族中與他最近的親屬，他應繼承遺產：這是以色列子民當守的法令，如上主對梅瑟所吩咐的。」
 戶:27.12    [若蘇厄繼承梅瑟]  上主對梅瑟說：「你上這座阿巴陵山上去，看一看我賜給以色列子民的地方。
 戶:27.13    你看了以後，你也要歸到你親屬那裏去，如你哥哥亞郎歸去一樣。
 戶:27.14    因為在親曠野裏，當會眾反叛時，我命你們在他們眼前以取水顯我為聖時，你們違背了我的命令。」【這是指在親曠野中，在卡德士的默黎巴取水的事。】
 戶:27.15    梅瑟向上主說：
 戶:27.16    「望上主，賜給一切血肉氣息的天主，委派一人管理會眾，
 戶:27.17    叫他處理他們的事件，領導他們出入，免得上主的會眾如無牧之羊。」
 戶:27.18    上主對梅瑟說：「你應選用農的兒子若蘇厄，他是個有精神的人，按手在他身上，
 戶:27.19    叫他站在大司祭厄肋阿匝爾和全會眾前，當著他們的面委派他。
 戶:27.20    將你的一些威權授給他，好叫以色列子民全會眾聽從他。
 戶:27.21    但他應到大司祭厄肋阿匝爾面前，請司祭為他在上主面前咨詢「烏陵」的決斷，他和一切以色列子民及全會眾，應依照指示去行事。」
 戶:27.22    梅瑟就照上主吩咐他的做了；選用了若蘇厄，叫他站在大司祭厄肋阿匝爾和全會眾面前，
 戶:27.23    按手在他身上，委派了他，全照上主藉著梅瑟所吩咐的。
  
 戶:28.1     [祭祀與慶節]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:28.2     「你吩咐以色列子民說：你們應在規定的時期內，準時將獻給我的供物──我的食品，焚化為中悅我的馨香火祭獻給我。
 戶:28.3     你對他們說：這是你們應獻給上主的火祭：每天應獻兩隻一歲無瑕的公羔羊，做日常的全燔祭：
 戶:28.4     早上獻一隻，傍晚獻一隻；
 戶:28.5     還應獻十分之一「厄法」細麵，調上四分之一「辛」搾得的油，作為素祭。
 戶:28.6     這是在西乃山上規定應行的日常全燔祭，作為獻與上主的馨香火祭。
 戶:28.7     此外，為每隻公羔羊，應奠上四分之一「辛」的酒：這是在聖所內向上主獻的醇酒祭。
 戶:28.8     傍晚應獻另一隻公羔羊、素祭和奠祭，如早晨所獻的一樣，作為中悅上主的馨香火祭。
 戶:28.9     安息日，應獻兩隻一歲無瑕的公羔羊，十分之二「厄法」油調的細麵，當作素祭；還有同獻的奠祭。
 戶:28.10    這是每安息日，除日常的全燔祭和奠祭外，應獻的安息日全燔祭。 nm28.10  Each sabbath there shall be the sabbath holocaust in addition to the established holocaust and its libation.
 戶:28.11    每月初一，應給上主獻一全燔祭：即公牛犢二頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲無瑕的公羔羊七隻。
 戶:28.12    為每頭公牛犢同獻的素祭，是一分之三「厄法」油調的細麵；為每一隻公綿羊同獻的素祭，是十分之二「厄法」油調的細麵：
 戶:28.13    為每隻公羔羊同獻的素祭，是十分之一「厄法」油調的細麵：這是馨香的全燔祭，是獻給天主的火祭。
 戶:28.14    此外尚有奠祭：為每頭公牛犢奠半「辛」酒，為每隻公綿羊奠三分之一「辛」，為每隻公羔羊奠四分之一「辛」：這是一年內，每月初一應獻的全燔祭。
 戶:28.15    除日常的全燔祭和同獻的奠祭外，還應獻給上主一隻公山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:28.16    正月十四日是上主的逾越節，
 戶:28.17    這月十五日是慶日，七天之內應吃無酵餅。
 戶:28.18    第一日應召開聖會，一切勞工都不許做。
 戶:28.19    應獻給上主作火祭的全燔祭，是兩頭公牛犢，一隻公綿羊，和七隻一歲的公羔羊，全應是無瑕疵的。
 戶:28.20    至於同獻的素祭，應是油調的細麵：為每頭公牛犢獻十分之三「厄法」，為每隻公綿羊獻十分之二「厄法」；
 戶:28.21    至於那七隻公羔羊，每隻獻十分之一「厄法」。
 戶:28.22    此外，還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭，為你們贖罪。
 戶:28.23    除早晨應獻的日常全燔祭之外，還應奉獻這些祭品。
 戶:28.24    七天之久，每天都應奉獻這樣的祭品，給上主作為馨香火祭的食品；應獻的日常全燔祭和同獻的奠祭在外。
 戶:28.25    到第七日再召開聖會，一切勞工都不許做。
 戶:28.26    在初熟節，即七七節內，給上主獻薦新的素祭時，應召開聖會，一切勞工都不許做。
 戶:28.27    你們應獻給上主馨香的全燔祭，即二頭公牛犢，一隻公綿羊，七隻一歲的公羔羊；
 戶:28.28    至於同獻的素祭，是油調的細麵：為每頭公牛犢獻十分之三「厄法」，為每隻公綿羊獻十分之二「厄法」；
 戶:28.29    至於那七隻公綿羊，為每隻獻十分之一「厄法」。
 戶:28.30    此外，還應獻一隻公山羊，為你們贖罪。
 戶:28.31    除日常全燔祭和同獻的素祭外，還應獻這些無瑕疵的祭品和同獻的奠祭。
  
 戶:29.1     [國曆新年]  七月初一日，你們應召開聖會，一切勞工都不許做：這是你們應歡呼吹號的日子。
 戶:29.2     應獻給上主馨香的全燔祭，即公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲無瑕疵的公羔羊七隻。
 戶:29.3     至於同獻的素祭，應是油調的細麵：為每隻公牛犢獻十分之三「厄法」，為每隻公綿羊獻十分之二「厄法」；
 戶:29.4     至於那七隻公羔羊，為每隻獻十分之一「厄法」。
 戶:29.5     此外，還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭，為你們贖罪。
 戶:29.6     除月朔的全燔祭及同獻的素祭，日常全燔祭及同獻的素祭和依禮規應同獻的奠祭外，還應行這些祭獻，作為中悅上主的馨香火祭。
 戶:29.7     [贖罪節]  七月初十，你們也應召開聖會，苦身克己，一切勞工都不許做。
 戶:29.8     應給上主獻馨香的全燔祭：即公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲無瑕疵的公羔羊七隻。
 戶:29.9     至於同獻的素祭，應是油調的細麵：為每隻公牛犢獻十分之三「厄法」，為每隻公綿羊獻十分之二「厄法」；
 戶:29.10    至於那七隻公羔羊，為每隻獻十分之一「厄法」。
 戶:29.11    除贖罪節日的贖罪祭，日常全燔祭及同獻的素祭和應獻的奠祭外，還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:29.12    [帳棚節]  七月十五日，你們也應召開聖會，一切勞工都不許做，為上主舉行七天慶節。
 戶:29.13    你們應獻全燔祭，作為中悅上主的火祭：即公牛犢十三頭，公綿羊二隻，一歲無瑕的公羔羊十四隻。
 戶:29.14    至於同獻的素祭，是油調的細麵：十三頭公牛犢，為每頭獻十分之三「厄法」，二隻公綿羊，為每隻獻十分之二「厄法」。
 戶:29.15    十四隻公羔羊，為每隻獻十分之一「厄法」。
 戶:29.16    除日常全燔祭及同獻的素祭和奠祭外，還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:29.17    第二日：應獻公牛犢十二頭，公綿羊二隻，一歲無瑕的公羔羊十四隻。
 戶:29.18    至於公牛犢、公綿羊和公羔羊應同獻的素祭和奠祭，依數照例奉獻。
 戶:29.19    除日常全燔祭及同獻的素祭和奠祭外，還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:29.20    第三日，應獻公牛犢十一頭，公綿羊二隻，一歲無瑕的公羔羊十四隻。
 戶:29.21    至於與公牛犢、公綿羊和公羔羊應同獻的素祭和奠祭，依數照例奉獻。
 戶:29.22    除日常全燔祭及同獻的素祭和奠祭外，還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:29.23    第四日，應獻公牛犢十頭，公綿羊二隻，一歲無瑕的公羔羊十四隻，
 戶:29.24    至於與公牛犢、公綿羊和公羔羊應同獻的素祭和奠祭，依數照例奉獻。
 戶:29.25    除日常全燔祭及同獻的素祭和奠祭外，還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:29.26    第五日，應獻公牛犢九頭，公綿羊二隻，一歲無瑕的公羔羊十四隻。
 戶:29.27    至於與公牛犢、公綿羊和公羔羊應同獻的素祭和奠祭，依數照例奉獻。
 戶:29.28    除日常全燔祭及同獻的素祭和奠祭外，還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:29.29    第六日，應獻公牛犢八頭，公綿羊二隻，一歲無瑕的公羔羊十四隻。
 戶:29.30    至於與公牛犢、公綿羊和公羔羊應同獻的素祭和奠祭，依數照例奉獻。
 戶:29.31    除日常全燔祭及同獻的素祭外，還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:29.32    第七日，應獻公牛犢七頭，公綿羊二隻，一歲無瑕的公羔羊十四隻。
 戶:29.33    至於與公牛犢、公綿羊和公羔羊應同獻的素祭和奠祭，依數照例奉獻。
 戶:29.34    除日常全燔祭及同獻的素祭和奠祭外，還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:29.35    第八日，你們應召開盛會，一切勞工都不許做。
 戶:29.36    應獻全燔祭作為中悅上主的馨香火祭：即公牛犢一頭，公綿羊一隻，一歲無瑕的公羔羊七隻。
 戶:29.37    至於與公牛犢、公山羊和公羔羊應同獻的素祭和奠祭，依數照例奉獻。
 戶:29.38    除日常全燔祭及同獻的素祭和奠祭外，還應獻一隻公山羊作贖罪祭。
 戶:29.39    這是你們在慶節內，除那些為還願或自願所獻全燔祭、素祭、奠祭及和平祭外，所應獻給上主的祭獻。」
  
 戶:30.1     梅瑟全照上主所吩咐的一切，訓示了以色列子民。
 戶:30.2     [關於誓願的法律]  梅瑟訓示以色列子民各支派的首領說：「這是上主所吩咐的：
 戶:30.3     若人向上主許願，或發誓戒絕什麼，他不可食言，應全照口中所許的去做。
 戶:30.4     那還在父家的年輕女子，若人向上主許願，或發願戒絕什麼，
 戶:30.5     她父親聽到了她許的願和她發誓戒絕的事，卻對她未發一言，她許的願和她所發的戒誓，概為有效。
 戶:30.6     但是，如果她父親在聽到的那天，禁止了她，她所許的願和所發的戒誓，概不生效；上主必寬恕她，因為她父親禁了止了她。
 戶:30.7     如果她有願在身，或口中冒然發了戒絕某事的誓，而她已出嫁，
 戶:30.8     她丈夫聽說了，在他聽說的那天，對她未發一言，她的願和她所發的戒誓，仍為有效；
 戶:30.9     但是，如果她丈夫在聽說的那天，禁止了她，他就取消了她許的願，和口中冒然所發的戒誓，上主也必寬恕她。
 戶:30.10    寡婦或棄婦所許的願，或她所發的戒誓，概為有效。
 戶:30.11    但是，如果她尚在丈夫家內許了願，或發誓要戒絕什麼，
 戶:30.12    若她丈夫聽說了，未發一言，沒有禁止她，她的願仍為有效，她所發的戒誓，亦為有效。
 戶:30.13    但是，如果她的丈夫，在聽說的那天，聲明無效；凡她所說出的，不論是許的願，或發的戒誓，一概無效；她的丈夫既聲明無效，上主也就寬恕她。
 戶:30.14    凡女人所許的願，或為苦身克己所發的誓，丈夫能使之生效，亦能聲明無效。
 戶:30.15    但是如果她的丈夫兩天內對她未發一言，就算他使她所許的願和她所發的戒誓生效，因為在他聽說的那天，對她未發一言，就已算贊成。
 戶:30.16    但若他聽說很久以後，才聲明無效，他應負妻子的罪債」。
 戶:30.17    這是有關丈夫和妻子的關係，父親與尚在家內的年輕女兒的關係，上主向梅瑟吩咐的法令。
  
 戶:31.1     [與米德楊人交戰]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:31.2     「你應在米德楊人身上為以色列子民報仇，以後你就要歸到你親族那裡去。」
 戶:31.3     梅瑟於是吩咐人民說：「你們要選拔壯丁，武裝起來，準備作戰，進攻米德楊，在他們身上為上主雪仇。
 戶:31.4     以色列每支派應派遣一千人出征作戰。」
 戶:31.5     這樣，每支派出一千人，以色列的部隊共有一萬二千武裝出征的人。
 戶:31.6     梅瑟就派遣他們──每支派一千人，出征作戰，並派遣大司祭厄肋阿匝爾的兒子丕乃哈斯與他們同去，手內帶著聖器和發號令的喇叭，
 戶:31.7     他們遂照上主對梅瑟所吩咐的，攻擊了米德楊，殺了所有的男子。
 戶:31.8     除這些被殺的以外，還殺了米德楊五個王子：厄威、勒耿、族爾、胡爾和勒巴；也用刀殺了貝敖爾的兒子巴郎。
 戶:31.9     以色列子民俘虜了米德楊人的婦女和幼童，掠奪了他們所有的牲畜、羊群和財產；
 戶:31.10    火燒了他們所住的一切城邑和營寨。
 戶:31.11    以後把一切所搶所奪之物，人和牲畜都帶走，
 戶:31.12    把俘虜和所搶所奪之物，帶到梅瑟和大司祭厄肋阿匝爾以及以色列子民全會眾那裡，即帶到耶里哥的對面，約但河邊，摩阿布曠野中的營盤那裡。
 戶:31.13    梅瑟和大司祭厄勒阿匝爾以及會眾各首領，都到營外歡迎他們。
 戶:31.14    梅瑟對作戰回來的軍官、千夫長和百夫長大發忿怒，
 戶:31.15    向他們說：「你們為什麼還讓這一切婦女活著﹖
 戶:31.16    看正是她們聽了巴郎的話誘惑了以色列子民，在培敖爾事件上違背了上主，致使災禍降在上主的會眾身上。
 戶:31.17    如今應將所有的男童殺死，將所有認識過男人，與男人同過房的女人，都一律殺掉。
 戶:31.18    至於那些沒有與男人來往同過房的女童，可為你們保留。
 戶:31.19    你們應七天住在營外；你們和你們的俘虜，凡殺過人，或接觸過屍首的，應在第三天和第七天上取潔；
 戶:31.20    對所有的衣服、皮具、毛織品和木器，都應行取潔禮。」
 戶:31.21    大司祭厄肋阿匝爾對作戰回來的軍隊說：「這是上主吩咐梅瑟的法令：
 戶:31.22    金銀、銅、鐵、錫、鉛，
 戶:31.23    凡能耐火之物，應經過火，再以取潔水取潔，才算潔淨；凡不能耐火之物，應經過水洗。
 戶:31.24    第七天應洗你們的衣服，你們才算潔淨，然後方可回營。」
 戶:31.25    [分配戰利品]  上主又訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:31.26    「你和厄肋阿匝爾司祭以及會眾的家長，應統計一下掠奪的勝利品，無論是人或牲畜，
 戶:31.27    然後把勝利品平分，一半給出征作戰的兵士，一半給其餘全體會眾。
 戶:31.28    由出征作戰的兵士所得的一分中，抽出五百分之一，不論是人、牛、驢或羊，奉獻給上主；
 戶:31.29    把所取出的交給厄肋阿匝爾司祭，作為屬於上主的獻儀。
 戶:31.30    由以色列子民分得的一半中，應抽出五十分之一，不論是人、牛、驢、羊，或是其他牲畜，交給那些在上主會幕內服務的肋未人。」
 戶:31.31    梅瑟和厄肋阿匝爾司祭就照上主吩咐梅瑟的做了。
 戶:31.32    作戰部隊所掠奪的物品，尚存的戰利品，計有羊六十七萬五千隻，
 戶:31.33    牛七萬二千頭，
 戶:31.34    驢六萬一千匹；
 戶:31.35    人口，尚未與男人來往同過房的女人，計有三萬二千。
 戶:31.36    出征作戰所得的一半，計羊三十三萬七千五百隻；
 戶:31.37    由這些羊中，給上主作獻儀的，為六百七十五隻；
 戶:31.38    牛三萬六千頭，給上主作獻儀的，為七十二頭；
 戶:31.39    驢三萬五百匹，給上主作獻儀的，為六十一匹；
 戶:31.40    人口一萬六千，給上主作獻儀的，為三十二人。
 戶:31.41    梅瑟就照上主對他所吩咐的，將取出作為上主獻儀的一份，交給了厄肋阿匝爾司祭。
 戶:31.42    至於梅瑟分配給以色列子民的那一半，即與作戰的兵士平分出來的，
 戶:31.43    那屬於會眾的一半，計有羊三十三萬七千五百隻，
 戶:31.44    牛三萬六千頭，
 戶:31.45    驢三萬五百匹，
 戶:31.46    人口一萬六千。
 戶:31.47    梅瑟照上主對他所吩咐的，由屬於以色列子民的這一半，抽出五十分之一的人和牲畜，交給了那些在上主會幕內服務的肋未人。
 戶:31.48    出征作戰的軍官，千夫長和百夫長，來到梅瑟前，
 戶:31.49    對他說：「你的僕人們調查了所屬的作戰士兵，一個也沒有少。
 戶:31.50    為此我們每人將所獲得的金器，如臂鐲、腕鐲、戒指、耳環和項鏈，獻於上主作獻儀，好在上主面前為我們贖罪。」
 戶:31.51    梅瑟和厄肋阿匝爾司祭由他們手中接受了這一切金製物品。
 戶:31.52    千夫長和百夫長獻給上主作獻儀的金子，共計一萬六千七百五十「協刻耳。」
 戶:31.53    兵丁所掠奪的東西，各歸己有。
 戶:31.54    梅瑟和厄肋阿匝爾司祭遂將由千夫長和百夫長所收下的金子，帶入會幕內，好使上主記念以色列子民。
  
 戶:32.1     [劃分約但河東的土地]  勒烏本的子孫和加得的子孫，擁有很多的家畜；他們一見雅則爾地方和基肋阿得地方，是適於畜牧的區域，
 戶:32.2     便前來對梅瑟和厄肋阿匝爾大司祭及會眾的首領說：「
 戶:32.3     阿塔洛特、狄朋、雅則爾、尼默辣、赫市朋、厄肋阿肋、色班、乃波和貝紅，
 戶:32.4     這些地方是上主為以色列會眾所征服的，是適於畜牧的地方，而你的僕人們正有牛羊。」
 戶:32.5     他們又說：「若是我們在你眼中獲得寵幸，希望你將這地方賜給你的僕人們作產業，不必叫我們過約但河。」
 戶:32.6     梅瑟回答加得的子孫和勒烏本的子孫說：「怎麼! 你們的兄弟去打仗，你們卻要住在這裡﹖
 戶:32.7     為什麼你們要叫以色列子民喪氣，使他們不敢進入上主賜給他們的土地﹖
 戶:32.8     當我由卡德士巴爾乃亞派遣你們的祖先去窺探這地時，他們也這樣做過。
 戶:32.9     他們上到厄市苛耳山谷，窺探了那地方，回來就使以色列子民喪了氣，致使他們再不願進入上主賜給他們的土地。
 戶:32.10    為此上主在那天發怒起誓說：
 戶:32.11    『凡由埃及出來過了二十歲的人，不得看見我誓許給亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯的土地，因為他們沒有一心一意地隨從我；
 戶:32.12    只有刻納次人耶孚乃的兒子加肋布和農的兒子若蘇厄除外，因為他們一心一意地隨從了上主。』
 戶:32.13    因為上主對以色列發了怒，遂使他們在曠野中漂泊了四十年，直到在上主眼前作惡的那一世代完全死盡。
 戶:32.14    現在，看，你們這些罪人的苗裔，竟起來替代你們先人，再增加上主對以色列的忿怒!
 戶:32.15    如果你們背離了他，他再把民眾拋在曠野裡；這樣，你們就要使這整個民族毀滅了。」
 戶:32.16    他們遂上前來，對他說：「我們願在這裡為我們的牛羊築圈，為我們的家眷建城。
 戶:32.17    但我們必武裝起來，在以色列子民前頭上陣，直到我們領他們進入了自己的地方；至於我們的家眷，為預防本地的居民，應叫他們安居在堅固的城內。
 戶:32.18    不到以色列子民各個都佔有了產業，我們決不回家。
 戶:32.19    我們既然在約但河東得到了產業，在約但河西，就不再同他們分產業了。」
 戶:32.20    梅瑟答覆他們說：「若是你們這樣做，若是你們武裝起來，在上主面前作戰；
 戶:32.21    若是你們個個都武裝著在上主面前過約但河，直到他將自己的敵人驅散，
 戶:32.22    直到上主把那地征服以後，你們纔回家，你們對上主，對以色列就算無罪。那麼，這地照上主的允許，歸你們作為產業。
 戶:32.23    但是，如果你們不這樣去做，你們必獲罪於上主，要知道你們必自招罪罰。
 戶:32.24    你們可為家眷建城，為牛羊築圈；但是你們口頭所許的，卻必要實踐。」
 戶:32.25    加得的子孫和勒烏本的子孫回答梅瑟說：「你僕人們必照我主所吩咐的去做。
 戶:32.26    我們的孩童、婦女、牛羊和一切牲畜，都留在這裡，留在基肋阿得的城裡；
 戶:32.27    至於你的僕人們，凡武裝起來的，都要過河，在上主面前上陣作戰，如我主所吩咐的。」
 戶:32.28    梅瑟遂為他們向大司祭厄肋阿匝爾、農的兒子若蘇厄，以及以色列子民各支派的家長下了指示，
 戶:32.29    向他們說：「若是加得子孫和勒烏本子孫，都武裝起來與你們同過約但河，在上主面前作戰，在你們征服那地以後，就把基肋阿得地方給他們作為產業。
 戶:32.30    但是，如果他們不武裝起來同你們一起過河，就應在客納罕地與你們同分產業。」
 戶:32.31    加得子孫和勒烏本子孫回答說：「凡上主關於你僕人所說的，我們必照做。
 戶:32.32    我們必武裝起來在上主面前過河，往客納罕地去；但約但河東的地方應給我們作產業。」
 戶:32.33    梅瑟遂將阿摩黎人王息紅的國土和巴商王敖格的國土，那地域及其境內的城池，以及那地域四周的城池，都給了他們；給了加得的子孫、勒烏本的子孫和若瑟的兒子默納協半支派。
 戶:32.34    加得的子孫重建了狄朋、阿塔洛特、阿洛厄爾、
 戶:32.35    阿特洛特芍番、雅則爾、約革波哈、
 戶:32.36    貝特尼默辣和貝特哈蘭：這些都是堅固的城邑，並築有羊圈。
 戶:32.37    勒烏本的子孫重建了赫市朋、厄肋阿肋、克黎雅塔因、
 戶:32.38    乃波、巴爾默紅──有些名字已改──和息貝瑪；他們給重建的城邑另起了別名
 戶:32.39    默納協的兒子瑪基爾的子孫去了基肋阿得，佔據了那地方，驅逐了那裡的阿摩黎人。
 戶:32.40    梅瑟遂將基肋阿得給了默納協的兒子瑪基爾；他就在那裡住下了。
 戶:32.41    默納協的兒子雅依爾去佔據了阿摩黎人的村落遂稱這些村落為哈沃特雅依爾。
 戶:32.42    諾巴黑去佔據了刻納特及其屬鎮，給那地方起了自己的名字，叫諾巴黑。
  
 戶:33.1     [由埃及至許地的行程]  以下是以色列子民在梅瑟和亞郎指揮下，分隊出離埃及國後所行的路程。
 戶:33.2     梅瑟記錄了他們遵上主的命啟營的出發點。以下是他們依次出發的行程：
 戶:33.3     他們於正月十五日由辣默色斯起程，即在逾越節第二日，以色列子民大膽地、當著眾埃及人的面出走了，
 戶:33.4     其時埃及人正在埋葬上主在他們中所擊殺的一切長子；上主也懲罰了他們的神祇。
 戶:33.5     以色列子民由辣默色斯起程，在酥苛特紮營。
 戶:33.6     由穌苛特起程，在位於曠野邊界的厄堂紮營。
 戶:33.7     由厄堂起程，轉向巴耳責豐的丕哈希洛特，在米革多耳對面紮營。
 戶:33.8     由丕哈希洛特起程，由海中經過進入曠野，在厄堂曠野中行了三天的路，然後在瑪辣紮營。
 戶:33.9     由瑪辣起程，來到厄林。在厄林有十二水泉和七十株棕櫚樹，就在那裡紮營。
 戶:33.10    由厄林起程，在紅海旁紮營。
 戶:33.11    由紅海起程，在欣曠野紮營。
 戶:33.12    由欣曠野啟程，在多弗卡紮營。
 戶:33.13    由多弗卡起程，在阿路士紮營。
 戶:33.14    由阿路士起程，在勒非丁紮營；民眾在這裡沒有水喝。
 戶:33.15    由勒非丁起程，在西乃曠野紮營。
 戶:33.16    由西乃曠野起程，在克貝洛特阿塔瓦紮營。
 戶:33.17    由克貝洛特阿塔瓦起程，在哈責洛特紮營。
 戶:33.18    由哈責洛特起程，在黎特瑪紮營。
 戶:33.19    由黎特瑪起程，在黎孟培勒茲紮營。
 戶:33.20    由黎孟培勒茲起程，在里貝納紮營。
 戶:33.21    由里貝納起程，在黎撒紮營。
 戶:33.22    由黎撒起程，在刻黑拉達紮營。
 戶:33.23    由刻黑拉達起程，在舍斐爾山紮營。
 戶:33.24    由舍斐爾山起程，在哈辣達紮營。
 戶:33.25    由哈辣達起程，在瑪刻黑羅特紮營。
 戶:33.26    由瑪刻黑羅特起程，在塔哈特紮營。
 戶:33.27    由塔哈特起程，在特辣黑紮營。
 戶:33.28    由特辣黑起程，在米特卡紮營。
 戶:33.29    由米特卡起程，在哈市摩納紮營。
 戶:33.30    由哈市摩納起程，在摩色爾紮營。
 戶:33.31    由摩色爾起程，在貝乃雅干紮營。
 戶:33.32    由貝乃雅干起程，在曷爾哈基加得紮營。
 戶:33.33    由曷爾哈基加得起程，在約特巴達紮營。
 戶:33.34    由約特巴達起程，在阿貝洛納紮營。
 戶:33.35    由阿貝洛納起程，在厄茲雍革貝爾紮營。
 戶:33.36    由厄茲雍革貝爾起程，在親曠野，即卡德士紮營。
 戶:33.37    由卡德士起程，在位於厄東地邊界上的曷爾山下紮營。
 戶:33.38    亞郎大司祭依上主的命，上了曷爾山，死在那裡，時在以色列子民出埃及國後四十年五月初一日。
 戶:33.39    亞郎死在曷爾山上時，已一百二十三歲。
 戶:33.40    其時住在客納罕南部的客納罕人王阿辣得聽說以色列子民來了。
 戶:33.41    他們再由曷爾山下起程，在匝耳摩納紮營。
 戶:33.42    由匝耳摩納起程，在普農紮營。
 戶:33.43    由普農起程，在敖波特紮營。
 戶:33.44    由敖波特起程，在位於摩阿布邊境的依耶阿巴陵紮營。
 戶:33.45    由依耶起程，在狄朋加得紮營。
 戶:33.46    由狄朋加得起程，在阿耳孟狄貝拉塔因紮營。
 戶:33.47    由阿耳孟狄貝拉塔因起程，在乃波前面的阿巴陵山地內紮營。
 戶:33.48    由阿巴陵山地起程，在耶里哥對面，約但河邊，摩阿布曠野紮營；
 戶:33.49    他們在摩阿布曠野裡，沿著約但河邊紮營，由貝特耶史摩特直到阿貝耳史廷。
 戶:33.50    [劃分許地]  在耶里哥對面，約但河邊，摩阿布曠野內，上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:33.51    「你告訴以色列子民說：你們幾時過了約但，進入客納罕地，
 戶:33.52    應由你們面前驅逐當地所有的居民，應毀壞他們的一切偶像，應打碎他們的一切鑄像，應鏟除他們的一切丘壇。
 戶:33.53    你們要佔領那地方，住在那裡，因為我已將那地方給了你們，叫你們佔有。
 戶:33.54    你們要按支派抽籤分配那地方：人數多的多給，人數少的少給。誰的籤落在那裡，那裡就屬於他。你們依照宗祖支派分配你們的產業。
 戶:33.55    但如果你們不把當地的居民由你們面前驅逐，那留下的居民，必要成為你們的眼中刺，腰間針，在你們住的地方內迫害你們；
 戶:33.56    並且我打算了怎樣對待他們，也要怎樣對待你們。」
  
 戶:34.1     [許地的邊界]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:34.2     「你命令以色列子民說：你們幾時進入客納罕地，這地應是你們抽籤分配的產業。客納罕地的邊界是：
 戶:34.3     你們南部的地區，是由親曠野直到厄東邊境。你們南邊的邊界是：由鹽海的極端往東，
 戶:34.4     繞過阿刻辣賓高地的南部，經過親直達卡德士巴爾乃亞南部，再到哈匝爾阿達爾，經過阿茲孟，
 戶:34.5     由阿茲孟邊界再轉向埃及河，直到大海。
 戶:34.6     西部的邊界：大海作你們的邊界，這是你們西方的邊界。
 戶:34.7     你們北方的邊界如下：由大海劃界，直到曷爾山；
 戶:34.8     由曷爾山劃到哈瑪特關口，使邊界直達責辣得。
 戶:34.9     這邊界再伸至齊弗龍，直達哈匝爾厄南：這是你們北方的邊界。
 戶:34.10    你們東部的邊界：自哈匝爾厄南劃到舍番。
 戶:34.11    由舍番邊界下延至阿殷東面的黎貝拉；由此邊界，再下延與基乃勒特海東岸相接。
 戶:34.12    此後，邊界再沿約但河下延，直達鹽海：這是你們疆土四周的邊界。」
 戶:34.13    梅瑟又吩咐以色列子民說：「這就是你們應抽籤分為產業的地方，是上主命令分給九個半支派的，
 戶:34.14    因為勒烏本子孫支派和加得子孫支派，為自己的家族已取得產業；默納協半支派也取得了自己的產業：
 戶:34.15    這兩個半支派，已在耶里哥對面，約但河東岸，向日出之地，取得了產業。」
 戶:34.16    [監管分地的人員]  上主又訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:34.17    「這是給你們分配土地的人名：厄肋阿匝爾大司祭和農的兒子若蘇厄；
 戶:34.18    此外由每支派選派一位首領來分配土地；
 戶:34.19    這些人的名字就是：猶大支派，是耶孚乃的兒子加肋布；
 戶:34.20    西默盎子孫支派，是阿米胡得的兒子舍慕耳；
 戶:34.21    本雅明支派，是基斯隆的兒子厄里達得；
 戶:34.22    丹子孫支派的首領，是約革里的兒子步克；
 戶:34.23    若瑟子孫：默納協子孫支派的首領，是厄缶得的兒子哈尼耳；
 戶:34.24    厄弗辣因子孫支派的首領，是色弗堂的兒子刻慕耳；
 戶:34.25    則步隆子孫支派的首領，是帕爾納客的兒子厄里匝番；
 戶:34.26    依撒加爾子孫支派的首領，是阿倉的兒子帕耳提耳；
 戶:34.27    阿協爾子孫支派的首領，是舍羅米的兒子阿希胡得；
 戶:34.28    納斐塔里子孫支派的首領，是阿米胡得的兒子培達赫耳。」
 戶:34.29    這些人是上主任命，為在客納罕地給以色列子民分配產業的人。」
  
 戶:35.1     [肋未城]  上主在耶里哥對面，約但河邊，摩阿布曠野內，訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:35.2     「你命令以色列子民，應由他們分得的產業內，指定一些城給肋未人居住，將城四周的牧場，也分給肋未人。
 戶:35.3     這些城歸他們居住，城郊的牧場為牧放他們所有的牛羊和一切牲畜。
 戶:35.4     你們劃給肋未城郊的牧場，應由城牆起，周圍向外伸展至二千肘，
 戶:35.5     即由城外向東方量二千肘，向南方量二千肘，向西方量二千肘，向北方量二千肘，城在中央；這些土地為作他們城郊的牧場。
 戶:35.6     分給肋未人的城中，應指定六座為避難城，殺人者可逃入城中。此外還應給他們四十二座城。
 戶:35.7     這樣，劃給肋未人的城，共計四十八座，連城郊的牧場在內。
 戶:35.8     當你們由以色列子民的產業中，劃分給肋未人城邑時，由大支派應多取，由小支派應少取；每支派應依照自己分得的產業，將城邑劃給肋未人。」
 戶:35.9     [避難城]  上主訓示梅瑟說：
 戶:35.10    「你告訴以色列子民說：幾時你們過約但河進入了客納罕地，
 戶:35.11    應選定幾座城作你們的避難城，凡誤殺人的，可逃到那裡。
 戶:35.12    這些城可作為你們脫免復仇者的避難所，好使殺人者不致在未立於會眾前受審判以前，便遭人殺害。
 戶:35.13    你們應指定六座城作為你們的避難城。
 戶:35.14    在約但河東指定三座，在客納罕地指定三座，作為避難城。
 戶:35.15    這六座城為以色列子民和外方人，以及住在你們中間的人，作為避難所；凡誤殺人的，都可逃到那裡去。
 戶:35.16    人若用鐵器打人，將人打死，他就是兇手，兇手應處死刑。
 戶:35.17    人若用手中可砸死人的石頭打人，將人砸死；他就是兇手，兇手應處死刑。
 戶:35.18    或者人若用手中可打死人的木器打人，將人打死，他就是兇手，兇手應處死刑。
 戶:35.19    報血仇的，可將兇手殺死；幾時遇見他，可將他殺死。
 戶:35.20    人若因懷恨撞倒了人，或故意拋物打人，致使那人死了；
 戶:35.21    或者因仇恨用手打人，將人打死；打人的應處死刑，因他是兇手；報血仇的人，幾時遇著兇手，可將他殺死。
 戶:35.22    但是，若人並無怨仇，偶然撞倒人，或無意中拋物傷人，
 戶:35.23    或因沒有看見，使任何能打死人的石頭落在人身上，致使那人死了，彼此並沒有怨仇，也沒有意思害人，
 戶:35.24    對這樣的案件，應在打死人的和要報血仇者之間進行裁判。
 戶:35.25    會眾要把殺人者由報血仇者手內救出，使他回到他曾逃入的避難城內，叫他住在那裡，直到傅過聖油的大司祭去逝。
 戶:35.26    但殺人者如果離開他逃入避難城的邊界以外，
 戶:35.27    報血仇者在避難城邊界以外遇見了他，將殺人者殺死，他並不犯流血的罪，
 戶:35.28    因為那人該留在避難城內，直到大司祭去世；大司祭死後，殺人者方可回到屬自己產業的地方：
 戶:35.29    這是你們世世代代，在你們任何住處，應遵守的法令。
 戶:35.30    凡殺人的案件，應依據幾個證人的口供，才可處決殺人犯；惟獨一人作證，不足以將人宣判死刑。
 戶:35.31    對於被判死刑的殺人犯，你們不可取贖命金，因為他應該死。
 戶:35.32    同樣，你們對逃入避難城的人，亦不可取贖金，准他在大司祭死以前回到本鄉居住。
 戶:35.33    你們不可玷污你們所居之地，因為血能玷污地；在那裏流了血，除非那殺人者的血，為那地沒有其他取潔的方法。
 戶:35.34    你們不可褻瀆你們所居之地，這地也是我居留之地，因為我上主是住在以色列子民中間」。
  
 戶:36.1     [女承嗣人結婚法]  那時若瑟後裔的家族中，有默納協的子孫，瑪基爾的兒子基肋阿得子孫的家族首領，來到梅瑟和以色列子民各家族的首領前說：
 戶:36.2     「上主吩咐我主，以抽籤來分給以色列子民土地為產業，我主又領了上主的命，將我們兄弟責羅斐哈得的產業，分給他的女兒們。
 戶:36.3     現在，如果她們嫁給了以色列子民另一支派的人，她們的產業就脫離了我們祖先的產業，而加在所嫁給的那一支派的產業上：這樣，我們抽籤分得的產業就減少了。
 戶:36.4     甚至一到以色列子民的喜年，她們的產業仍舊加在所嫁的那一支派的產業內，我們祖先支派的產業就少了她們那一份」。
 戶:36.5     梅瑟依上主的指示訓令以色列子民說：「若瑟子孫支派說的有理。
 戶:36.6     上主對於責羅斐哈得的女兒們這樣吩咐說：她們可任意嫁給自己所喜愛的人，但只應嫁給屬於自己祖先支派的人。
 戶:36.7     以色列子民的產業不可由一支派轉移至另一支派，因為以色列子民每人應固守自己祖先支派的產業。
 戶:36.8     以色列子民支派中，凡繼承產業的子女，應嫁給她祖先支派的人為妻，好使每個以色列子民能固守祖先的產業。
 戶:36.9     這樣產業就不會由一支派轉移至另一支派，因為以色列子民各支派應固守自己的產業」。
 戶:36.10    上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟，責羅斐哈得的女兒們就怎樣做了。
 戶:36.11    責羅斐哈得的女兒：瑪赫拉、提爾匝、曷革拉、米耳加和諾阿，都嫁給了自己叔伯的兒子們，
 戶:36.12    即嫁給了若瑟的兒子默納協子孫家族的人：如此她們的產業仍保留在她們祖先家族的支派內。
 戶:36.13    這是上主在耶利哥對面，約旦河邊，摩阿布曠野內，藉梅瑟向以色列子民所頒佈的誡命和規則。   [戶藉紀完篇]
  
 nm:1.1      [Numerus]    36 chapters   [戶藉記]  [英文版]
  
 nm:1.1.     In the year following that of the Israelites' departure from the land of Egypt, on the first day of the second month, the LORD said to Moses in the meeting tent in the desert of Sinai:
 nm:1.2.     "Take a census of the whole community of the Israelites, by clans and ancestral houses, registering each male individually.
 nm:1.3.     You and Aaron shall enroll in companies all the men in Israel of twenty years or more who are fit for military service.
 nm:1.4.     "To assist you there shall be a man from each tribe, the head of his ancestral house.
 nm:1.5.     These are the names of those who are to assist you: from Reuben: Elizur, son of Shedeur;
 nm:1.6.     from Simeon: Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai;
 nm:1.7.     from Judah: Nahshon, son of Amminadab;
 nm:1.8.     from Issachar: Nethanel, son of Zuar;
 nm:1.9.     from Zebulun: Eliab, son of Helon;
 nm:1.10.    from Ephraim: Elishama, son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh: Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur, for the descendants of Joseph;
 nm:1.11.    from Benjamin: Abidan, son of Gideoni;
 nm:1.12.    from Dan: Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai;
 nm:1.13.    from Asher: Pagiel, son of Ochran;
 nm:1.14.    from Gad: Eliasaph, son of Reuel;
 nm:1.15.    from Naphtali: Ahira, son of Enan."
 nm:1.16.    These were councilors of the community, princes of their ancestral tribes, chiefs of the troops of Israel.
 nm:1.17.    So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated,
 nm:1.18.    and assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. Every man of twenty years or more then declared his name and lineage according to clan and ancestral house,
 nm:1.19.    as the LORD had commanded Moses. This is their census as taken in the desert of Sinai.
 nm:1.20.    Of the descendants of Reuben, the first-born of Israel, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.21.    forty-six thousand five hundred were enrolled in the tribe of Reuben.
 nm:1.22.    Of the descendants of Simeon, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.23.    fifty-nine thousand three hundred were enrolled in the tribe of Simeon.
 nm:1.24.    Of the descendants of Gad, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.25.    forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty were enrolled in the tribe of Gad.
 nm:1.26.    Of the descendants of Judah, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.27.    seventy-four thousand six hundred were enrolled in the tribe of Judah.
 nm:1.28.    Of the descendants of Issachar, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.29.    fifty-four thousand four hundred were enrolled in the tribe of Issachar.
 nm:1.30.    Of the descendants of Zebulun, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.31.    fifty-seven thousand four hundred were enrolled in the tribe of Zebulun.
 nm:1.32.    Of the descendants of Joseph-Of the descendants of Ephraim, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.33.    forty thousand five hundred were enrolled in the tribe of Ephraim.
 nm:1.34.    Of the descendants of Manasseh, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.35.    thirty-two thousand two hundred were enrolled in the tribe of Manasseh.
 nm:1.36.    Of the descendants of Benjamin, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.37.    thirty-five thousand four hundred were enrolled in the tribe of Benjamin.
 nm:1.38.    Of the descendants of Dan, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.39.    sixty-two thousand seven hundred were enrolled in the tribe of Dan.
 nm:1.40.    Of the descendants of Asher, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.41.    forty-one thousand five hundred were enrolled in the tribe of Asher.
 nm:1.42.    Of the descendants of Naphtali, registered by lineage in clans and ancestral houses: when all the males of twenty years or more who were fit for military service were polled,
 nm:1.43.    fifty-three thousand four hundred were enrolled in the tribe of Naphtali.
 nm:1.44.    It was these who were registered, each according to his ancestral house, in the census taken by Moses and Aaron and the twelve princes of Israel.
 nm:1.45.    The total number of the Israelites of twenty years or more who were fit for military service, registered by ancestral houses,
 nm:1.46.    was six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.
 nm:1.47.    The Levites, however, were not registered by ancestral tribe with the others.
 nm:1.48.    For the LORD had told Moses,
 nm:1.49.    "The tribe of Levi alone you shall not enroll nor include in the census along with the other Israelites.
 nm:1.50.    You are to give the Levites charge of the Dwelling of the commandments with all its equipment and all that belongs to it. It is they who shall carry the Dwelling with all its equipment and who shall be its ministers. They shall therefore camp around the Dwelling.
 nm:1.51.    When the Dwelling is to move on, the Levites shall take it down; when the Dwelling is to be pitched, it is the Levites who shall set it up. Any layman who comes near it shall be put to death.
 nm:1.52.    While the other Israelites shall camp by companies, each in his own division of the camp,
 nm:1.53.    the Levites shall camp around the Dwelling of the commandments. Otherwise God's wrath will strike the Israelite community. The Levites, then, shall have charge of the Dwelling of the commandments."
 nm:1.54.    All this the Israelites fulfilled as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  
 nm:2.1.     The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
 nm:2.2.     "The Israelites shall camp, each in his own division, under the ensigns of their ancestral houses. They shall camp around the meeting tent, but at some distance from it.
 nm:2.3.     "Encamped on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be the divisional camp of Judah, arranged in companies. (The prince of the Judahites was Nahshon, son of Amminadab,
 nm:2.4.     and his soldiers amounted in the census to seventy-four thousand six hundred.)
 nm:2.5.     With Judah shall camp the tribe of Issachar (Their prince was Nethanel, son of Zuar,
 nm:2.6.     and his soldiers amounted in the census to fifty-four thousand four hundred.)
 nm:2.7.     and the tribe of Zebulun. (Their prince was Eliab, son of Helon,
 nm:2.8.     and his soldiers amounted in the census to fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
 nm:2.9.     The total number of those registered by companies in the camp of Judah was one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred.) These shall be first on the march.
 nm:2.10.    "On the south side shall be the divisional camp of Reuben, arranged in companies. (Their prince was Elizur, son of Shedeur,
 nm:2.11.    and his soldiers amounted in the census to forty-six thousand five hundred.)
 nm:2.12.    Beside them shall camp the tribe of Simeon (Their prince was Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai,
 nm:2.13.    and his soldiers amounted in the census to fifty-nine thousand three hundred.)
 nm:2.14.    and next the tribe of Gad. (Their prince was Eliasaph, son of Reuel,
 nm:2.15.    and his soldiers amounted in the census to forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
 nm:2.16.    The total number of those registered by companies in the camp of Reuben was one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty.) These shall be second on the march.
 nm:2.17.    "Then the meeting tent and the camp of the Levites shall set out in the middle of the line. As in camp, so also on the march, every man shall be in his proper place, with his own division.
 nm:2.18.    "On the west side shall be the divisional camp of Ephraim, arranged in companies. (Their prince was Elishama, son of Ammihud,
 nm:2.19.    and his soldiers amounted in the census to forty thousand five hundred.)
 nm:2.20.    Beside them shall camp the tribe of Manasseh (Their prince was Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur,
 nm:2.21.    and his soldiers amounted in the census to thirty-two thousand two hundred.)
 nm:2.22.    and the tribe of Benjamin. (Their prince was Abidan, son of Gideoni,
 nm:2.23.    and his soldiers amounted in the census to thirty-five thousand four hundred.
 nm:2.24.    The total number of those registered by companies in the camp of Ephraim was one hundred and eight thousand one hundred.) These shall be third on the march.
 nm:2.25.    "On the north side shall be the divisional camp of Dan, arranged in companies. (Their prince was Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai,
 nm:2.26.    and his soldiers amounted in the census to sixty-two thousand seven hundred.)
 nm:2.27.    Beside them shall camp the tribe of Asher (Their prince was Pagiel, son of Ochran,
 nm:2.28.    and his soldiers amounted in the census to forty-one thousand five hundred.)
 nm:2.29.    and next the tribe of Naphtali. (Their prince was Ahira, son of Enan,
 nm:2.30.    and his soldiers amounted in the census to fifty-three thousand four hundred.
 nm:2.31.    The total number of those registered by companies in the camp of Dan was one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred.) These shall be the last of the divisions on the march."
 nm:2.32.    This was the census of the Israelites taken by ancestral houses. The total number of those registered by companies in the camps was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
 nm:2.33.    The Levites, however, were not registered with the other Israelites, for so the LORD had commanded Moses.
 nm:2.34.    The Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses; both in camp and on the march they were in their own divisions, every man according to his clan and his ancestral house.
  
 nm:3.1.     The following were the descendants of Aaron and Moses at the time that the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.
 nm:3.2.     The sons of Aaron were Nadab his first-born, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
 nm:3.3.     These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests who were ordained to exercise the priesthood.
 nm:3.4.     But when Nadab and Abihu offered profane fire before the LORD in the desert of Sinai, they met death in the presence of the LORD, and left no sons. Thereafter only Eleazar and Ithamar performed the priestly functions under the direction of their father Aaron.
 nm:3.5.     Now the LORD said to Moses:
 nm:3.6.     "Summon the tribe of Levi and present them to Aaron the priest, as his assistants.
 nm:3.7.     They shall discharge his obligations and those of the whole community before the meeting tent by serving at the Dwelling.
 nm:3.8.     They shall have custody of all the furnishings of the meeting tent and discharge the duties of the Israelites in the service of the Dwelling.
 nm:3.9.     You shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they have been set aside from among the Israelites as dedicated to me.
 nm:3.10.    But only Aaron and his descendants shall you appoint to have charge of the priestly functions. Any layman who comes near shall be put to death."
 nm:3.11.    The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:3.12.    "It is I who have chosen the Levites from the Israelites in place of every first-born that opens the womb among the Israelites. The Levites, therefore, are mine,
 nm:3.13.    because every first-born is mine. When I slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I made all the first-born in Israel sacred to me, both of man and of beast. They belong to me; I am the LORD."
 nm:3.14.    The LORD said to Moses in the desert of Sinai,
 nm:3.15.    "Take a census of the Levites by ancestral houses and clans, registering every male of a month or more."
 nm:3.16.    Moses, therefore, took their census in accordance with the command the LORD had given him.
 nm:3.17.    The sons of Levi were named Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
 nm:3.18.    The descendants of Gershon, by clans, were named Libni and Shimei.
 nm:3.19.    The descendants of Kohath, by clans, were Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.
 nm:3.20.    The descendants of Merari, by clans, were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites by ancestral houses.
 nm:3.21.    To Gershon belonged the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these were the clans of the Gershonites.
 nm:3.22.    When all their males of a month or more were registered, they numbered seven thousand five hundred.
 nm:3.23.    The clans of the Gershonites camped behind the Dwelling, to the west.
 nm:3.24.    The prince of their ancestral house was Eliasaph, son of Lael.
 nm:3.25.    At the meeting tent they had charge of whatever pertained to the Dwelling, the tent and its covering, the curtain at the entrance of the meeting tent,
 nm:3.26.    the hangings of the court, the curtain at the entrance of the court enclosing both the Dwelling and the altar, and the ropes.
 nm:3.27.    To Kohath belonged the clans of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites; these were the clans of the Kohathites.
 nm:3.28.    When all their males of a month or more were registered, they numbered eight thousand three hundred. They had charge of the sanctuary.
 nm:3.29.    The clans of the Kohathites camped at the south side of the Dwelling.
 nm:3.30.    The prince of their ancestral house was Elizaphan, son of Uzziel.
 nm:3.31.    They had charge of whatever pertained to the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the utensils with which the ministry of the sanctuary was exercised, and the veil.
 nm:3.32.    The chief prince of the Levites, however, was Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest; he was supervisor over those who had charge of the sanctuary.
 nm:3.33.    To Merari belonged the clans of the Mahlites and the Mushites; these were the clans of Merari.
 nm:3.34.    When all their males of a month or more were registered, they numbered six thousand two hundred.
 nm:3.35.    The prince of the ancestral house of the clans of Merari was Zuriel, son of Abihail. They camped at the north side of the Dwelling.
 nm:3.36.    The Merarites were charged with the care of whatever pertained to the boards of the Dwelling, its bars, columns, pedestals, and all its fittings,
 nm:3.37.    as well as the columns of the surrounding court with their pedestals, pegs and ropes.
 nm:3.38.    East of the Dwelling, that is, in front of the meeting tent, toward the sunrise, were camped Moses and Aaron and the latter's sons. They discharged the obligations of the sanctuary for the Israelites. Any layman who came near was to be put to death.
 nm:3.39.    The total number of male Levites a month old or more whom Moses had registered by clans in keeping with the LORD'S command, was twenty-two thousand.
 nm:3.40.    The LORD then said to Moses, "Take a census of all the first-born males of the Israelites a month old or more, and compute their total number.
 nm:3.41.    Then assign the Levites to me, the LORD, in place of all the first-born of the Israelites, as well as their cattle in place of all the first-born among the cattle of the Israelites."
 nm:3.42.    So Moses took a census of all the first-born of the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him.
 nm:3.43.    When all the first-born males of a month or more were registered, they numbered twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.
 nm:3.44.    The LORD said to Moses:
 nm:3.45.    "Take the Levites in place of all the first-born of the Israelites, and the Levites' cattle in place of their cattle, that the Levites may belong to me. I am the LORD.
 nm:3.46.    As ransom for the two hundred and seventy-three first-born of the Israelites who outnumber the Levites,
 nm:3.47.    you shall take five shekels for each individual, according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
 nm:3.48.    Give this silver to Aaron and his sons as ransom for the extra number."
 nm:3.49.    So Moses took the silver as ransom from those who were left when the rest had been redeemed by the Levites.
 nm:3.50.    From the first-born of the Israelites he received in silver one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels according to the sanctuary standard.
 nm:3.51.    He then gave this ransom silver to Aaron and his sons, as the LORD had commanded him.
  
 nm:4.1.     The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
 nm:4.2.     "Among the Levites take a total of the Kohathites, by clans and ancestral houses, all the men of the Kohathites
 nm:4.3.     between thirty and fifty years of age; these are to undertake obligatory tasks in the meeting tent.
 nm:4.4.     "The service of the Kohathites in the meeting tent concerns the most sacred objects.
 nm:4.5.     In breaking camp, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the commandments with it.
 nm:4.6.     Over these they shall put a cover of tahash skin, and on top of this spread an all-violet cloth. They shall then put the poles in place.
 nm:4.7.     On the table of the Presence they shall spread a violet cloth and put on it the plates and cups, as well as the bowls and pitchers for libations; the established bread offering shall remain on the table.
 nm:4.8.     Over these they shall spread a scarlet cloth and cover all this with tahash skin. They shall then put the poles in place.
 nm:4.9.     They shall use a violet cloth to cover the lampstand with its lamps, trimming shears, and trays, as well as the various containers of oil from which it is supplied.
 nm:4.10.    The lampstand with all its utensils they shall then enclose in a covering of tahash skin, and place on a litter.
 nm:4.11.    Over the golden altar they shall spread a violet cloth, and cover this also with a covering of tahash skin. They shall then put the poles in place.
 nm:4.12.    Taking the utensils of the sanctuary service, they shall wrap them all in violet cloth and cover them with tahash skin. They shall then place them on a litter.
 nm:4.13.    After cleansing the altar of its ashes, they shall spread a purple cloth over it.
 nm:4.14.    On this they shall put all the utensils with which it is served: the fire pans, forks, shovels, basins, and all the utensils of the altar. They shall then spread a covering of tahash skin over this, and put the poles in place.
 nm:4.15.    "Only after Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sacred objects and all their utensils on breaking camp, shall the Kohathites enter to carry them. But they shall not touch the sacred objects; if they do they will die. These, then, are the objects in the meeting tent that the Kohathites shall carry.
 nm:4.16.    "Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, shall be in charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the established cereal offering, and the anointing oil. He shall be in charge of the whole Dwelling with all the sacred objects and utensils that are in it."
 nm:4.17.    The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
 nm:4.18.    "Do not let the group of Kohathite clans perish from the body of the Levites.
 nm:4.19.    That they may live and not die when they approach the most sacred objects, this is what you shall do for them: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign to each of them his task and what he must carry;
 nm:4.20.    but the Kohathites shall not go in to look upon the sacred objects, even for an instant; if they do, they will die."
 nm:4.21.    The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:4.22.    "Take a total among the Gershonites also, by ancestral houses and clans,
 nm:4.23.    of all the men between thirty and fifty years of age; these are to undertake obligatory tasks in the meeting tent.
 nm:4.24.    This is the task of the clans of the Gershonites, what they must do and what they must carry:
 nm:4.25.    they shall carry the sheets of the Dwelling, the meeting tent with its covering and the outer wrapping of tahash skin, the curtain at the entrance of the meeting tent,
 nm:4.26.    the hangings of the court, the curtain at the entrance of the court that encloses both the Dwelling and the altar, together with their ropes and all other objects necessary in their use. Whatever is to be done with these things shall be their task.
 nm:4.27.    The service of the Gershonites shall be entirely under the direction of Aaron and his sons, with regard to what they must do and what they must carry; you shall make each man of them responsible for what he is to carry.
 nm:4.28.    This, then, is the task of the Gershonites in the meeting tent; and they shall be under the supervision of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
 nm:4.29.    "Among the Merarites, too, you shall enroll by clans and ancestral houses
 nm:4.30.    all their men between thirty and fifty years of age; these are to undertake obligatory tasks in the meeting tent.
 nm:4.31.    This is what they shall be responsible for carrying, all the years of their service in the meeting tent: the boards of the Dwelling with its bars, columns and pedestals,
 nm:4.32.    and the columns of the surrounding court with their pedestals, pegs and ropes. You shall designate for each man of them all the objects connected with his service, which he shall be responsible for carrying.
 nm:4.33.    This, then, is the task of the clans of the Merarites during all their service in the meeting tent under the supervision of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest."
 nm:4.34.    So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the community made a registration among the Kohathites, by clans and ancestral houses,
 nm:4.35.    of all the men between thirty and fifty years of age. These were to undertake obligatory tasks in the meeting tent;
 nm:4.36.    as registered by clans, they numbered two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
 nm:4.37.    Such was the census of all the men of the Kohathite clans who were to serve in the meeting tent, which Moses took, together with Aaron, as the LORD bade him.
 nm:4.38.    The registration was then made among the Gershonites, by clans and ancestral houses,
 nm:4.39.    of all the men between thirty and fifty years of age. These were to undertake obligatory tasks in the meeting tent;
 nm:4.40.    as registered by clans and ancestral houses, they numbered two thousand six hundred and thirty.
 nm:4.41.    Such was the census of all the men of the Gershonite clans who were to serve in the meeting tent, which Moses took, together with Aaron, at the LORD'S bidding.
 nm:4.42.    Then the registration was made among the Merarites, by clans and ancestral houses,
 nm:4.43.    of all the men from thirty up to fifty years of age. These were to undertake obligatory tasks in the meeting tent;
 nm:4.44.    as registered by clans, they numbered three thousand two hundred.
 nm:4.45.    Such was the census of the men of the Merarite clans which Moses took, together with Aaron, as the LORD bade him.
 nm:4.46.    Therefore, when Moses and Aaron and the Israelites princes had completed the registration among the Levites, by clans and ancestral houses,
 nm:4.47.    of all the men between thirty and fifty years of age who were to undertake tasks of service or transport of the meeting tent,
 nm:4.48.    the total number registered was eight thousand five hundred and eighty.
 nm:4.49.    According to the LORD'S bidding to Moses, they gave them their individual assignments for service and for transport; so the LORD had commanded Moses.
  
 nm:5.1.     The LORD said to Moses:
 nm:5.2.     "Order the Israelites to expel from camp every leper, and everyone suffering from a discharge, and everyone who has become unclean by contact with a corpse.
 nm:5.3.     Male and female alike, you shall compel them to go out of the camp; they are not to defile the camp in which I dwell."
 nm:5.4.     The Israelites obeyed the command that the LORD had given Moses; they expelled them from the camp.
 nm:5.5.     The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:5.6.     "Tell the Israelites: If a man (or a woman) commits a fault against his fellow man and wrongs him, thus breaking faith with the LORD,
 nm:5.7.     he shall confess the wrong he has done, restore his ill-gotten goods in full, and in addition give one fifth of their value to the one he has wronged.
 nm:5.8.     However, if the latter has no next of kin to whom restoration of the ill-gotten goods can be made, the goods to be restored shall be the LORD'S and shall fall to the priest; this is apart from the atonement ram with which the priest makes amends for the guilty man.
 nm:5.9.     Likewise, every sacred contribution that the Israelites are bound to make shall fall to the priest.
 nm:5.10.    Each Israelite man may dispose of his own sacred contributions; they become the property of the priest to whom he gives them."
 nm:5.11.    The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:5.12.    "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: If a man's wife goes astray and becomes unfaithful to him
 nm:5.13.    by having intercourse with another man, though her husband has not sufficient evidence of the fact, so that her impurity remains unproved for lack of a witness who might have caught her in the act;
 nm:5.14.    or if a man is overcome by a feeling of jealousy that makes him suspect his wife, whether she was actually impure or not:
 nm:5.15.    he shall bring his wife to the priest and shall take along as an offering for her a tenth of an ephah of barley meal. However, he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense over it, since it is a cereal offering of jealousy, a cereal offering for an appeal in a question of guilt.
 nm:5.16.    "The priest shall first have the woman come forward and stand before the LORD.
 nm:5.17.    In an earthen vessel he shall meanwhile put some holy water, as well as some dust that he has taken from the floor of the Dwelling.
 nm:5.18.    Then, as the woman stands before the LORD, the priest shall uncover her head and place in her hands the cereal offering of her appeal, that is, the cereal offering of jealousy, while he himself shall hold the bitter water that brings a curse.
 nm:5.19.    Then he shall adjure the woman, saying to her, 'If no other man has had intercourse with you, and you have not gone astray by impurity while under the authority of your husband, be immune to the curse brought by this bitter water.
 nm:5.20.    But if you have gone astray while under the authority of your husband and have acted impurely by letting a man other than your husband have intercourse with you'--
 nm:5.21.    so shall the priest adjure the woman with this oath of imprecation--'may the LORD make you an example of malediction and imprecation among your people by causing your thighs to waste away and your belly to swell!
 nm:5.22.    May this water, then, that brings a curse, enter your body to make your belly swell and your thighs waste away!' And the woman shall say, 'Amen, amen!'
 nm:5.23.    The priest shall put these imprecations in writing and shall then wash them off into the bitter water,
 nm:5.24.    which he is to have the woman drink, so that it may go into her with all its bitter curse.
 nm:5.25.    But first he shall take the cereal offering of jealousy from the woman's hand, and having waved this offering before the LORD, shall put it near the altar,
 nm:5.26.    where he shall take a handful of the cereal offering as its token offering and burn it on the altar. Only then shall he have the woman drink the water.
 nm:5.27.    Once she has done so, if she has been impure and unfaithful to her husband, this bitter water that brings a curse will go into her, and her belly will swell and her thighs will waste away, so that she will become an example of imprecation among her people.
 nm:5.28.    If, however, the woman has not defiled herself, but is still pure, she will be immune and will still be able to bear children.
 nm:5.29.    "This, then, is the law for jealousy: When a woman goes astray while under the authority of her husband and acts impurely,
 nm:5.30.    or when such a feeling of jealousy comes over a man that he becomes suspicious of his wife, he shall have her stand before the LORD, and the priest shall apply this law in full to her.
 nm:5.31.    The man shall be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear such guilt as she may have."
  
 nm:6.1.     The LORD said to Moses:
 nm:6.2.     "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When a man (or a woman) solemnly takes the nazirite vow to dedicate himself to the LORD,
 nm:6.3.     he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he may neither drink wine vinegar, other vinegar, of any kind of grape juice, nor eat either fresh or dried grapes.
 nm:6.4.     As long as he is a nazirite he shall not eat anything of the produce of the vine; not even unripe grapes or grapeskins.
 nm:6.5.     While he is under the nazirite vow, no razor shall touch his hair. Until the period of his dedication to the LORD is over, he shall be sacred, and shall let the hair of his head grow freely.
 nm:6.6.     As long as he is dedicated to the LORD, he shall not enter where a dead person is.
 nm:6.7.     Not even for his father or mother, his sister or brother, should they die, may he become unclean, since his head bears his dedication to God.
 nm:6.8.     As long as he is a nazirite he is sacred to the LORD.
 nm:6.9.     "If someone dies very suddenly in his presence, so that his dedicated head becomes unclean, he shall shave his head on the day of his purification, that is, on the seventh day.
 nm:6.10.    On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest at the entrance of the meeting tent.
 nm:6.11.    The priest shall offer up the one as a sin offering and the other as a holocaust, thus making atonement for him for the sin he has committed by reason of the dead person. On the same day he shall reconsecrate his head
 nm:6.12.    and begin anew the period of his dedication to the LORD as a nazirite, bringing a yearling lamb as a guilt offering. The previous period is not valid, because his dedicated head became unclean.
 nm:6.13.    "This is the ritual for the nazirite: On the day he completes the period of his dedication he shall go to the entrance of the meeting tent,
 nm:6.14.    bringing as his offering to the LORD one unblemished yearling lamb for a holocaust, one unblemished yearling ewe lamb for a sin offering, one unblemished ram as a peace offering, along with their cereal offerings and libations,
 nm:6.15.    and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and of unleavened wafers spread with oil.
 nm:6.16.    The priest shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer up the sin offering and the holocaust for him.
 nm:6.17.    He shall then offer up the ram as a peace offering to the LORD, with its cereal offering and libation, and the basket of unleavened cakes.
 nm:6.18.    Then at the entrance of the meeting tent the nazirite shall shave his dedicated head, collect the hair, and put it in the fire that is under the peace offering.
 nm:6.19.    After the nazirite has shaved off his dedicated hair, the priest shall take a boiled shoulder of the ram, as well as one unleavened cake and one unleavened wafer from the basket, and shall place them in the hands of the nazirite.
 nm:6.20.    The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. They become sacred and shall belong to the priest, along with the breast of the wave offering and the leg of the raised offering. Only after this may the nazirite drink wine.
 nm:6.21.    "This, then, is the law for the nazirite; this is the offering to the LORD which is included in his vow of dedication apart from anything else which his means may allow. Thus shall he carry out the law of his dedication in keeping with the vow he has taken."
 nm:6.22.    The LORD said to Moses:
 nm:6.23.    "Speak to Aaron and his sons and tell them: This is how you shall bless the Israelites. Say to them:
 nm:6.24.    The LORD bless you and keep you!
 nm:6.25.    The LORD let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you!
 nm:6.26.    The LORD look upon you kindly and give you peace!
 nm:6.27.    So shall they invoke my name upon the Israelites, and I will bless them."
  
 nm:7.1.     Now, when Moses had completed the erection of the Dwelling and had anointed and consecrated it with all its equipment (as well as the altar with all its equipment),
 nm:7.2.     an offering was made by the princes of Israel, who were heads of ancestral houses; the same princes of the tribes who supervised the census.
 nm:7.3.     The offering they brought before the LORD consisted of six baggage wagons and twelve oxen, that is, a wagon for every two princes, and an ox for every prince. These they presented as their offering before the Dwelling.
 nm:7.4.     The LORD then said to Moses,
 nm:7.5.     "Accept their offering, that these things may be put to use in the service of the meeting tent. Assign them to the Levites, to each group in proportion to its duties."
 nm:7.6.     So Moses accepted the wagons and oxen, and assigned them to the Levites.
 nm:7.7.     He gave two wagons and four oxen to the Gershonites in proportion to their duties,
 nm:7.8.     and four wagons and eight oxen to the Merarites in proportion to their duties, under the supervision of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
 nm:7.9.     He gave none to the Kohathites, because they had to carry on their shoulders the sacred objects which were their charge.
 nm:7.10.    For the dedication of the altar also, the princes brought offerings before the altar on the day it was anointed.
 nm:7.11.    But the LORD said to Moses, "Let one prince a day present his offering for the dedication of the altar."
 nm:7.12.    The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon, son of Amminadab, prince of the tribe of Judah.
 nm:7.13.    His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.14.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.15.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.16.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.17.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Nahshon, son of Amminadab.
 nm:7.18.    On the second day Nethanel, son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, made his offering.
 nm:7.19.    He presented as his offering one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.20.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.21.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.22.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.23.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Nethanel, son of Zuar.
 nm:7.24.    On the third day it was the turn of Eliab, son of Helon, prince of the Zebulunites.
 nm:7.25.    His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.26.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.27.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.28.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.29.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Eliab, son of Helon.
 nm:7.30.    On the fourth day it was the turn of Elizur, son of Shedeur, prince of the Reubenites.
 nm:7.31.    His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.32.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.33.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.34.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.35.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Elizur, son of Shedeur.
 nm:7.36.    On the fifth day it was the turn of Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai, prince of the Simeonites.
 nm:7.37.    His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.38.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.39.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.40.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.41.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai.
 nm:7.42.    On the sixth day it was the turn of Eliasaph, son of Reuel, prince of the Gadites.
 nm:7.43.    His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.44.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.45.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.46.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.47.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Eliasaph, son of Reuel.
 nm:7.48.    On the seventh day it was the turn of Elishama, son of Ammihud, prince of the Ephraimites.
 nm:7.49.    His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.50.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.51.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.52.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.53.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Elishama, son of Ammihud.
 nm:7.54.    On the eighth day it was the turn of Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur, prince of the Manassehites.
 nm:7.55.    His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.56.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.57.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.58.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.59.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur.
 nm:7.60.    On the ninth day it was the turn of Abidan, son of Gideoni, prince of the Benjaminites.
 nm:7.61.    His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.62.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.63.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.64.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.65.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Abidan, son of Gideoni.
 nm:7.66.    On the tenth day it was the turn of Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai, prince of the Danites.
 nm:7.67.    His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.68.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.69.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.70.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.71.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai.
 nm:7.72.    On the eleventh day it was the turn of Pagiel, son of Ochran, prince of the Asherites.
 nm:7.73.    His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing one hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.74.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.75.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.76.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.77.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Pagiel, son of Ochran.
 nm:7.78.    On the twelfth day it was the turn of Ahira, son of Enan, prince of the Naphtalites.
 nm:7.79.    His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 nm:7.80.    one gold cup of ten shekels' weight filled with incense;
 nm:7.81.    one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust;
 nm:7.82.    one goat for a sin offering;
 nm:7.83.    and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Ahira, son of Enan.
 nm:7.84.    These were the offerings for the dedication of the altar, given by the princes of Israel on the occasion of its anointing: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, and twelve gold cups.
 nm:7.85.    Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each silver basin seventy, so that all the silver of these vessels amounted to two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary standard.
 nm:7.86.    The twelve gold cups that were filled with incense weighed ten shekels apiece, according to the sanctuary standard, so that all the gold of the cups amounted to one hundred and twenty shekels.
 nm:7.87.    The animals for the holocausts were, in all, twelve young bulls, twelve rams, and twelve yearling lambs, with their cereal offerings; those for the sin offerings were twelve goats.
 nm:7.88.    The animals for the peace offerings were, in all, twenty-four oxen, sixty rams, sixty goats, and sixty yearling lambs. These, then, were the offerings for the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.
 nm:7.89.    When Moses entered the meeting tent to speak with him, he heard the voice addressing him from above the propitiatory on the ark of the commandments, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him. . . .
  
 nm:8.1.     The LORD spoke to Moses, and said,
 nm:8.2.     "Give Aaron this command: When you set up the seven lamps, have them throw their light toward the front of the lampstand."
 nm:8.3.     Aaron did so, setting up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 nm:8.4.     The lampstand was made of beaten gold in both its shaft and its branches, according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses.
 nm:8.5.     The LORD said to Moses:
 nm:8.6.     "Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.
 nm:8.7.     This is what you shall do to them to purify them. Sprinkle them with the water of remission; then have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.
 nm:8.8.     They shall take a young bull, along with its cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil; you shall take another young bull for a sin offering.
 nm:8.9.     Then have the Levites come forward in front of the meeting tent, where you shall assemble also the whole community of the Israelites.
 nm:8.10.    While the Levites are present before the LORD, the Israelites shall lay their hands upon them.
 nm:8.11.    Let Aaron then offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the Israelites, thus devoting them to the service of the LORD.
 nm:8.12.    The Levites in turn shall lay their hands on the heads of the bullocks, which shall then be immolated, the one as a sin offering and the other as a holocaust to the LORD, in atonement for the Levites.
 nm:8.13.    Thus, then, shall you have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, to be offered as a wave offering to the LORD;
 nm:8.14.    and thus shall you set aside the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, that they may be mine.
 nm:8.15.    "Only then shall the Levites enter upon their service in the meeting tent. You shall purify them and offer them as a wave offering;
 nm:8.16.    because they, among the Israelites, are strictly dedicated to me; I have taken them for myself in place of every first-born that opens the womb among the Israelites.
 nm:8.17.    Indeed, all the first-born among the Israelites, both of man and of beast, belong to me; I consecrated them to myself on the day I slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt.
 nm:8.18.    But in place of all the first-born Israelites I have taken the Levites;
 nm:8.19.    and I have given these dedicated Israelites to Aaron and his sons to discharge the duties of the Israelites in the meeting tent and to make atonement for them, so that no plague may strike among the Israelites should they come near the sanctuary."
 nm:8.20.    Thus, then, did Moses and Aaron and the whole community of the Israelites deal with the Levites, carrying out exactly the command which the LORD had given Moses concerning them.
 nm:8.21.    When the Levites had cleansed themselves of sin and washed their clothes, Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the LORD, and made atonement for them to purify them.
 nm:8.22.    Only then did they enter upon their service in the meeting tent under the supervision of Aaron and his sons. The command which the LORD had given Moses concerning the Levites was carried out.
 nm:8.23.    The LORD said to Moses:
 nm:8.24.    "This is the rule for the Levites. Each from his twenty-fifth year onward shall perform the required service in the meeting tent.
 nm:8.25.    When he is fifty years old, he shall retire from the required service and work no longer.
 nm:8.26.    His service with his fellow Levites shall consist in sharing their responsibilities in the meeting tent, but he shall not do the work. This, then, is how you are to regulate the duties of the Levites."
  
 nm:9.1.     In the first month of the year following their departure from the land of Egypt, the Lord said to Moses in the desert of Sinai,
 nm:9.2.     "Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover at the prescribed time.
 nm:9.3.     The evening twilight of the fourteenth day of this month is the prescribed time when you shall celebrate it, observing all its rules and regulations."
 nm:9.4.     Moses, therefore, told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover.
 nm:9.5.     And they did so, celebrating the Passover in the desert of Sinai during the evening twilight of the fourteenth day of the first month, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 nm:9.6.     There were some, however, who were unclean because of a human corpse and so could not keep the Passover that day. These men came up to Moses and Aaron that same day
 nm:9.7.     and said, "Although we are unclean because of a corpse, why should we be deprived of presenting the LORD'S offering at its proper time along with the other Israelites?"
 nm:9.8.     Moses answered them, "Wait until I learn what the LORD will command in your regard."
 nm:9.9.     The LORD then said to Moses:
 nm:9.10.    "Speak to the Israelites and say: If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean because of a corpse, or if he is absent on a journey, he may still keep the LORD'S Passover.
 nm:9.11.    But he shall keep it in the second month, during the evening twilight of the fourteenth day of that month, eating it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs,
 nm:9.12.    and not leaving any of it over till morning, nor breaking any of its bones, but observing all the rules of the Passover.
 nm:9.13.    However, anyone who is clean and not away on a journey, who yet fails to keep the Passover, shall be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD'S offering at the prescribed time. That man shall bear the consequences of his sin.
 nm:9.14.    "If an alien who lives among you wishes to keep the LORD'S Passover, he too shall observe the rules and regulations for the Passover. You shall have the same law for the resident alien as for the native of the land."
 nm:9.15.    On the day when the Dwelling was erected, the cloud covered the Dwelling, the tent of the commandments; but from evening until morning it took on the appearance of fire over the Dwelling.
 nm:9.16.    It was always so: during the day the Dwelling was covered by the cloud, which at night had the appearance of fire.
 nm:9.17.    Whenever the cloud rose from the tent, the Israelites would break camp; wherever the cloud came to rest, they would pitch camp.
 nm:9.18.    At the bidding of the LORD the Israelites moved on, and at his bidding they encamped. As long as the cloud stayed over the Dwelling, they remained in camp.
 nm:9.19.    Even when the cloud tarried many days over the Dwelling, the Israelites obeyed the LORD and would not move on;
 nm:9.20.    yet sometimes the cloud was over the Dwelling only for a few days. It was at the bidding of the LORD that they stayed in camp, and it was at his bidding that they departed.
 nm:9.21.    Sometimes the cloud remained there only from evening until morning; and when it rose in the morning, they would depart. Or if the cloud lifted during the day, or even at night, they would then set out.
 nm:9.22.    Whether the cloud tarried over the Dwelling for two days or for a month or longer, the Israelites remained in camp and did not depart; but when it lifted, they moved on.
 nm:9.23.    Thus, it was always at the bidding of the LORD that they encamped, and at his bidding that they set out; ever heeding the charge of the LORD, as he had bidden them through Moses.
  
 nm:10.1.    The LORD said to Moses:
 nm:10.2.    "Make two trumpets of beaten silver, which you shall use in assembling the community and in breaking camp.
 nm:10.3.    When both are blown, the whole community shall gather round you at the entrance of the meeting tent;
 nm:10.4.    but when one of them is blown, only the princes, the chiefs of the troops of Israel, shall gather round you.
 nm:10.5.    When you sound the first alarm, those encamped on the east side shall set out;
 nm:10.6.    when you sound the second alarm, those encamped on the south side shall set out; when you sound the third alarm, those encamped on the west side shall set out; when you sound the fourth alarm, those encamped on the north side shall set out. Thus shall the alarm be sounded for them to depart.
 nm:10.7.    But in calling forth an assembly you are to blow an ordinary blast, without sounding the alarm.
 nm:10.8.    "It is the sons of Aaron, the priests, who shall blow the trumpets; and the use of them is prescribed by perpetual statute for you and your descendants.
 nm:10.9.    When in your own land you go to war against an enemy that is attacking you, you shall sound the alarm on the trumpets, and the LORD, your God, will remember you and save you from your foes.
 nm:10.10.   On your days of celebration, your festivals, and your new-moon feasts, you shall blow the trumpets over your holocausts and your peace offerings; this will serve as a reminder of you before your God. I, the LORD, am your God."
 nm:10.11.   In the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud rose from the Dwelling of the commandments.
 nm:10.12.   The Israelites moved on from the desert of Sinai by stages, until the cloud came to rest in the desert of Paran.
 nm:10.13.   The first time that they broke camp at the bidding of the LORD through Moses,
 nm:10.14.   the camp of the Judahites, under its own standard and arranged in companies, was the first to set out. Nahshon, son of Amminadab, was over their host,
 nm:10.15.   and Nethanel, son of Zuar, over the host of the tribe of Issachar,
 nm:10.16.   and Eliab, son of Helon, over the host of the tribe of Zebulun.
 nm:10.17.   Then, after the Dwelling was dismantled, the clans of Gershon and Merari set out, carrying the Dwelling.
 nm:10.18.   The camp of the Reubenites, under its own standard and arranged in companies, was the next to set out, with Elizur, son of Shedeur, over their host,
 nm:10.19.   and Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai, over the host of the tribe of Simeon,
 nm:10.20.   and Eliasaph, son of Reuel, over the host of the tribe of Gad.
 nm:10.21.   The clan of Kohath then set out, carrying the sacred objects for the Dwelling, which was to be erected before their arrival.
 nm:10.22.   The camp of the Ephraimites next set out, under its own standard and arranged in companies, with Elishama, son of Ammihud, over their host,
 nm:10.23.   and Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur, over the host of the tribe of Manasseh,
 nm:10.24.   and Abidan, son of Gideoni, over the host of the tribe of Benjamin.
 nm:10.25.   Finally, as rear guard for all the camps, the camp of the Danites set out, under its own standard and arranged in companies, with Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai, over their host,
 nm:10.26.   and Pagiel, son of Ochran, over the host of the tribe of Asher,
 nm:10.27.   and Ahira, son of Enan, over the host of the tribe of Naphtali.
 nm:10.28.   This was the order of departure for the Israelites, company by company. As they were setting out,
 nm:10.29.   Moses said to his brother-in-law Hobab, son of Reuel the Midianite, "We are setting out for the place which the LORD has promised to give us. Come with us, and we will be generous toward you, for the LORD has promised prosperity to Israel."
 nm:10.30.   But he answered, "No, I will not come. I am going instead to my own country and to my own kindred."
 nm:10.31.   Moses said, "Please, do not leave us; you know where we can camp in the desert, and you will serve as eyes for us.
 nm:10.32.   If you come with us, we will share with you the prosperity the LORD will bestow on us."
 nm:10.33.   They moved on from the mountain of the LORD, a three days' journey, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD which was to seek out their resting place went the three days' journey with them.
 nm:10.34.   And when they set out from camp, the cloud of the LORD was over them by day.
 nm:10.35.   Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, "Arise, O LORD, that your enemies may be scattered, and those who hate you may flee before you."
 nm:10.36.   And when it came to rest, he would say, "Return, O LORD, you who ride upon the clouds, to the troops of Israel."
  
 nm:11.1.    Now the people complained in the hearing of the LORD; and when he heard it his wrath flared up so that the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
 nm:11.2.    But when the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died out.
 nm:11.3.    Hence that place was called Taberah, because there the fire of the LORD burned among them.
 nm:11.4.    The foreign elements among them were so greedy for meat that even the Israelites lamented again, "Would that we had meat for food!
 nm:11.5.    We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt, and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
 nm:11.6.    But now we are famished; we see nothing before us but this manna."
 nm:11.7.    Manna was like coriander seed and had the appearance of bdellium.
 nm:11.8.    When they had gone about and gathered it up, the people would grind it between millstones or pound it in a mortar, then cook it in a pot and make it into loaves, which tasted like cakes made with oil.
 nm:11.9.    At night, when the dew fell upon the camp, the manna also fell.
 nm:11.10.   When Moses heard the people, family after family, crying at the entrance of their tents, so that the LORD became very angry, he was grieved.
 nm:11.11.   "Why do you treat your servant so badly?" Moses asked the LORD. "Why are you so displeased with me that you burden me with all this people?
 nm:11.12.   Was it I who conceived all this people? or was it I who gave them birth, that you tell me to carry them at my bosom, like a foster father carrying an infant, to the land you have promised under oath to their fathers?
 nm:11.13.   Where can I get meat to give to all this people? For they are crying to me, 'Give us meat for our food.'
 nm:11.14.   I cannot carry all this people by myself, for they are too heavy for me.
 nm:11.15.   If this is the way you will deal with me, then please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I need no longer face this distress."
 nm:11.16.   Then the LORD said to Moses, "Assemble for me seventy of the elders of Israel, men you know for true elders and authorities among the people, and bring them to the meeting tent. When they are in place beside you,
 nm:11.17.   I will come down and speak with you there. I will also take some of the spirit that is on you and will bestow it on them, that they may share the burden of the people with you. You will then not have to bear it by yourself.
 nm:11.18.   "To the people, however, you shall say: Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, when you shall have meat to eat. For in the hearing of the LORD you have cried, 'Would that we had meat for food! Oh, how well off we were in Egypt!' Therefore the LORD will give you meat for food,
 nm:11.19.   and you will eat it, not for one day, or two days, or five, or ten, or twenty days,
 nm:11.20.   but for a whole month-until it comes out of your very nostrils and becomes loathsome to you. For you have spurned the LORD who is in your midst, and in his presence you have wailed, 'Why did we ever leave Egypt?'"
 nm:11.21.   But Moses said, "The people around me include six hundred thousand soldiers; yet you say, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month.'
 nm:11.22.   Can enough sheep and cattle be slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?"
 nm:11.23.   The LORD answered Moses, "Is this beyond the LORD'S reach? You shall see now whether or not what I have promised you takes place."
 nm:11.24.   So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. Gathering seventy elders of the people, he had them stand around the tent.
 nm:11.25.   The LORD then came down in the cloud and spoke to him. Taking some of the spirit that was on Moses, he bestowed it on the seventy elders; and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied.
 nm:11.26.   Now two men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, were not in the gathering but had been left in the camp. They too had been on the list, but had not gone out to the tent; yet the spirit came to rest on them also, and they prophesied in the camp.
 nm:11.27.   So, when a young man quickly told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp,"
 nm:11.28.   Joshua, son of Nun, who from his youth had been Moses' aide, said, "Moses, my lord, stop them."
 nm:11.29.   But Moses answered him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the people of the LORD were prophets! Would that the LORD might bestow his spirit on them all!"
 nm:11.30.   Then Moses retired to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.
 nm:11.31.   There arose a wind sent by the LORD, that drove in quail from the sea and brought them down over the camp site at a height of two cubits from the ground for the distance of a day's journey all around the camp.
 nm:11.32.   All that day, all night, and all the next day the people gathered in the quail. Even the one who got the least gathered ten homers of them. Then they spread them out all around the camp.
 nm:11.33.   But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it could be consumed, the LORD'S wrath flared up against the people, and he struck them with a very great plague.
 nm:11.34.   So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah, because it was there that the greedy people were buried.
 nm:11.35.   From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth.
  
 nm:12.1.    While they were in Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on the pretext of the marriage he had contracted with a Cushite woman.
 nm:12.2.    They complained, "Is it through Moses alone that the LORD speaks? Does he not speak through us also?" And the LORD heard this.
 nm:12.3.    Now, Moses himself was by far the meekest man on the face of the earth.
 nm:12.4.    So at once the LORD said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the meeting tent." And the three of them went.
 nm:12.5.    Then the LORD came down in the column of cloud, and standing at the entrance of the tent, called Aaron and Miriam. When both came forward,
 nm:12.6.    he said, "Now listen to the words of the LORD: Should there be a prophet among you, in visions will I reveal myself to him, in dreams will I speak to him;
 nm:12.7.    Not so with my servant Moses! Throughout my house he bears my trust:
 nm:12.8.    face to face I speak to him, plainly and not in riddles. The presence of the LORD he beholds. Why, then, did you not fear to speak against my servant Moses?"
 nm:12.9.    So angry was the LORD against them that when he departed,
 nm:12.10.   and the cloud withdrew from the tent, there was Miriam, a snow-white leper! When Aaron turned and saw her a leper,
 nm:12.11.   "Ah, my lord!" he said to Moses, "please do not charge us with the sin that we have foolishly committed!
 nm:12.12.   Let her not thus be like the stillborn babe that comes forth from its mother's womb with its flesh half consumed."
 nm:12.13.   Then Moses cried to the LORD, "Please, not this! Pray, heal her!"
 nm:12.14.   But the LORD answered Moses, "Suppose her father had spit in her face, would she not hide in shame for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; only then may she be brought back."
 nm:12.15.   So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not start out again until she was brought back.
 nm:12.16.   After that the people set out from Hazeroth and encamped in the desert of Paran.
  
 nm:13.1.    The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:13.2.    "Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe, all of them princes."
 nm:13.3.    So Moses dispatched them from the desert of Paran, as the LORD had ordered. All of them were leaders among the Israelites;
 nm:13.4.    by name they were: Shammua, son of Zaccur, of the tribe of Reuben;
 nm:13.5.    Shaphat, son of Hori, of the tribe of Simeon;
 nm:13.6.    Caleb, son of Jephunneh, of the tribe of Judah;
 nm:13.7.    Igal (son of Joseph), of the tribe of Issachar;
 nm:13.8.    Hoshea, son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim;
 nm:13.9.    Palti, son of Raphu, of the tribe of Benjamin;
 nm:13.10.   Gaddiel, son of Sodi, of the tribe of Zebulun;
 nm:13.11.   Gaddi, son of Susi, of the tribe of Manasseh, for the Josephites, with
 nm:13.12.   Ammiel, son of Gemalli, of the tribe of Dan;
 nm:13.13.   Sethur, son of Michael, of the tribe of Asher;
 nm:13.14.   Nahbi, son of Vophsi, of the tribe of Naphtali;
 nm:13.15.   Geuel, son of Machi, of the tribe of Gad.
 nm:13.16.   These are the names of the men whom Moses sent out to reconnoiter the land. But Hoshea, son of Nun, Moses called Joshua.
 nm:13.17.   In sending them to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, Moses said to them, "Go up here in the Negeb, up into the highlands,
 nm:13.18.   and see what kind of land it is. Are the people living there strong or weak, few or many?
 nm:13.19.   Is the country in which they live good or bad? Are the towns in which they dwell open or fortified?
 nm:13.20.   Is the soil fertile or barren, wooded or clear? And do your best to get some of the fruit of the land." It was then the season for early grapes.
 nm:13.21.   So they went up and reconnoitered the land from the desert of Zin as far as where Rehob adjoins Labo of Hamath.
 nm:13.22.   Going up by way of the Negeb, they reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, descendants of the Anakim, were living. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
 nm:13.23.   They also reached the Wadi Eshcol, where they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes on it, which two of them carried on a pole, as well as some pomegranates and figs.
 nm:13.24.   It was because of the cluster the Israelites cut there that they called the place Wadi Eshcol.
 nm:13.25.   After reconnoitering the land for forty days they returned,
 nm:13.26.   met Moses and Aaron and the whole community of the Israelites in the desert of Paran at Kadesh, made a report to them all, and showed them the fruit of the country.
 nm:13.27.   They told Moses: "We went into the land to which you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey, and here is its fruit.
 nm:13.28.   However, the people who are living in the land are fierce, and the towns are fortified and very strong. Besides, we saw descendants of the Anakim there.
 nm:13.29.   Amalekites live in the region of the Negeb; Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites dwell in the highlands, and Canaanites along the seacoast and the banks of the Jordan."
 nm:13.30.   Caleb, however, to quiet the people toward Moses, said, "We ought to go up and seize the land, for we can certainly do so."
 nm:13.31.   But the men who had gone up with him said, "We cannot attack these people; they are too strong for us."
 nm:13.32.   So they spread discouraging reports among the Israelites about the land they had scouted, saying, "The land that we explored is a country that consumes its inhabitants. And all the people we saw there are huge men,
 nm:13.33.   veritable giants (the Anakim were a race of giants); we felt like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them."
  
 nm:14.1.    At this, the whole community broke out with loud cries, and even in the night the people wailed.
 nm:14.2.    All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, the whole community saying to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that here in the desert we were dead!
 nm:14.3.    Why is the LORD bringing us into this land only to have us fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be taken as booty. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"
 nm:14.4.    So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and go back to Egypt."
 nm:14.5.    But Moses and Aaron fell prostrate before the whole assembled community of the Israelites;
 nm:14.6.    while Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, who had been in the party that scouted the land, tore their garments
 nm:14.7.    and said to the whole community of the Israelites, "The country which we went through and explored is a fine, rich land.
 nm:14.8.    If the LORD is pleased with us, he will bring us in and give us that land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
 nm:14.9.    But do not rebel against the LORD! You need not be afraid of the people of that land; they are but food for us! Their defense has left them, but the LORD is with us. Therefore, do not be afraid of them."
 nm:14.10.   In answer, the whole community threatened to stone them. But then the glory of the LORD appeared at the meeting tent to all the Israelites.
 nm:14.11.   And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn me? How long will they refuse to believe in me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
 nm:14.12.   I will strike them with pestilence and wipe them out. Then I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
 nm:14.13.   But Moses said to the LORD: "Are the Egyptians to hear of this? For by your power you brought out this people from among them.
 nm:14.14.   And are they to tell of it to the inhabitants of this land? It has been heard that you, O LORD, are in the midst of this people; you, LORD, who plainly reveal yourself! Your cloud stands over them, and you go before them by day in a column of cloud and by night in a column of fire.
 nm:14.15.   If now you slay this whole people, the nations who have heard such reports of you will say,
 nm:14.16.   'The LORD was not able to bring this people into the land he swore to give them; that is why he slaughtered them in the desert.'
 nm:14.17.   Now then, let the power of my Lord be displayed in its greatness, even as you have said,
 nm:14.18.   'The LORD is slow to anger and rich in kindness, forgiving wickedness and crime; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children to the third and fourth generation for their fathers' wickedness.'
 nm:14.19.   Pardon, then, the wickedness of this people in keeping with your great kindness, even as you have forgiven them from Egypt until now."
 nm:14.20.   The LORD answered: "I pardon them as you have asked.
 nm:14.21.   Yet, by my life and the LORD'S glory that fills the whole earth,
 nm:14.22.   of all the men who have seen my glory and the signs I worked in Egypt and in the desert, and who nevertheless have put me to the test ten times already and have failed to heed my voice,
 nm:14.23.   not one shall see the land which I promised on oath to their fathers. None of these who have spurned me shall see it.
 nm:14.24.   But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me unreservedly, I will bring him into the land where he has just been, and his descendants shall possess it.
 nm:14.25.   But now, since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn away tomorrow and set out in the desert on the Red Sea road."
 nm:14.26.   The LORD also said to Moses and Aaron:
 nm:14.27.   "How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the Israelites against me.
 nm:14.28.   Tell them: By my life, says the LORD, I will do to you just what I have heard you say.
 nm:14.29.   Here in the desert shall your dead bodies fall. Of all your men of twenty years or more, registered in the census, who grumbled against me,
 nm:14.30.   not one shall enter the land where I solemnly swore to settle you, except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun.
 nm:14.31.   Your little ones, however, who you said would be taken as booty, I will bring in, and they shall appreciate the land you spurned.
 nm:14.32.   But as for you, your bodies shall fall here in the desert,
 nm:14.33.   here where your children must wander for forty years, suffering for your faithlessness, till the last of you lies dead in the desert.
 nm:14.34.   Forty days you spent in scouting the land; forty years shall you suffer for your crimes: one year for each day. Thus you will realize what it means to oppose me.
 nm:14.35.   I, the LORD, have sworn to do this to all this wicked community that conspired against me: here in the desert they shall die to the last man."
 nm:14.36.   And so it happened to the men whom Moses had sent to reconnoiter the land and who on returning had set the whole community grumbling against him by spreading discouraging reports about the land;
 nm:14.37.   these men who had given out the bad report about the land were struck down by the LORD and died.
 nm:14.38.   Of all the men who had gone to reconnoiter the land, only Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, survived.
 nm:14.39.   When Moses repeated these words to all the Israelites, the people felt great remorse.
 nm:14.40.   Early the next morning they started up into the foothills, saying, "Here we are, ready to go up to the place that the LORD spoke of: for we were indeed doing wrong."
 nm:14.41.   But Moses said, "Why are you again disobeying the LORD'S orders? This cannot succeed.
 nm:14.42.   Do not go up, because the LORD is not in your midst; if you go, you will be beaten down before your enemies.
 nm:14.43.   For there the Amalekites and Canaanites face you, and you will fall by the sword. You have turned back from following the LORD; therefore the LORD will not be with you."
 nm:14.44.   Yet they dared to go up into the foothills, even though neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses left the camp.
 nm:14.45.   And the Amalekites and Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country came down and defeated them, beating them back as far as Hormah.
  
 nm:15.1.    The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:15.2.    "Give the Israelites these instructions: When you have entered the land that I will give you for your homesteads,
 nm:15.3.    if you make to the LORD a sweet-smelling oblation from the herd or from the flock, in holocaust, in fulfillment of a vow, or as a freewill offering, or for one of your festivals,
 nm:15.4.    whoever does so shall also present to the LORD a cereal offering consisting of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil,
 nm:15.5.    as well as a libation of a fourth of a hin of wine, with each lamb sacrificed in holocaust or otherwise.
 nm:15.6.    With each sacrifice of a ram you shall present a cereal offering of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil,
 nm:15.7.    and a libation of a third of a hin of wine, thus making a sweet-smelling offering to the LORD.
 nm:15.8.    When you sacrifice an ox as a holocaust, or in fulfillment of a vow, or as a peace offering to the LORD,
 nm:15.9.    with it you shall present a cereal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil,
 nm:15.10.   and a libation of half a hin of wine, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 nm:15.11.   The same is to be done for each ox, ram, lamb or goat.
 nm:15.12.   Whatever the number you offer, do the same for each of them.
 nm:15.13.   "All the native-born shall make these offerings in the same way, whenever they present a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 nm:15.14.   Likewise, in any future generation, any alien residing with you permanently or for a time, who presents a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD, shall do as you do.
 nm:15.15.   There is but one rule for you and for the resident alien, a perpetual rule for all your descendants. Before the LORD you and the alien are alike,
 nm:15.16.   with the same law and the same application of it for the alien residing among you as for yourselves."
 nm:15.17.   The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:15.18.   "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land into which I will bring you
 nm:15.19.   and begin to eat of the food of that land, you shall offer the LORD a contribution
 nm:15.20.   consisting of a cake of your first batch of dough. You shall offer it just as you offer a contribution from the threshing floor.
 nm:15.21.   Throughout your generations you shall give a contribution to the LORD from your first batch of dough.
 nm:15.22.   "When through inadvertence you fail to carry out any of these commandments which the LORD gives to Moses,
 nm:15.23.   and through Moses to you, from the time the LORD first issues the commandment down through your generations:
 nm:15.24.   if the community itself unwittingly becomes guilty of the fault of inadvertence, the whole community shall offer the holocaust of one young bull as a sweet-smelling oblation pleasing to the LORD, along with its prescribed cereal offering and libation, as well as one he-goat as a sin offering.
 nm:15.25.   Then the priest shall make atonement for the whole Israelite community; thus they will be forgiven the inadvertence for which they have brought their holocaust as an oblation to the LORD.
 nm:15.26.   Not only the whole Israelite community, but also the aliens residing among you, shall be forgiven, since the fault of inadvertence affects all the people.
 nm:15.27.   "However, if it is an individual who sins inadvertently, he shall bring a yearling she-goat as a sin offering,
 nm:15.28.   and the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for him who sinned inadvertently; when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven.
 nm:15.29.   You shall have but one law for him who sins inadvertently, whether he be a native Israelite or an alien residing with you.
 nm:15.30.   "But anyone who sins defiantly, whether he be a native or an alien, insults the LORD, and shall be cut off from among his people.
 nm:15.31.   Since he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, he must be cut off. He has only himself to blame."
 nm:15.32.   While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was discovered gathering wood on the sabbath day.
 nm:15.33.   Those who caught him at it brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly.
 nm:15.34.   But they kept him in custody, for there was no clear decision as to what should be done with him.
 nm:15.35.   Then the LORD said to Moses, "This man shall be put to death; let the whole community stone him outside the camp."
 nm:15.36.   So the whole community led him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 nm:15.37.   The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:15.38.   "Speak to the Israelites and tell them that they and their descendants must put tassels on the corners of their garments, fastening each corner tassel with a violet cord.
 nm:15.39.   When you use these tassels, let the sight of them remind you to keep all the commandments of the LORD, without going wantonly astray after the desires of your hearts and eyes.
 nm:15.40.   Thus you will remember to keep all my commandments and be holy to your God.
 nm:15.41.   I, the LORD, am your God who, as God, brought you out of Egypt that I, the LORD, may be your God."
  
 nm:16.1.    Korah, son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, (and Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, son of Pallu, son of Reuben) took
 nm:16.2.    two hundred and fifty Israelites who were leaders in the community, members of the council and men of note. They stood before Moses,
 nm:16.3.    and held an assembly against Moses and Aaron, to whom they said, "Enough from you! The whole community, all of them, are holy; the LORD is in their midst. Why then should you set yourselves over the LORD'S congregation?"
 nm:16.4.    When Moses heard this, he fell prostrate.
 nm:16.5.    Then he said to Korah and to all his band, "May the LORD make known tomorrow morning who belongs to him and who is the holy one and whom he will have draw near to him! Whom he chooses, he will have draw near him.
 nm:16.6.    Do this: take your censers (Korah and all his band)
 nm:16.7.    and put fire in them and place incense in them before the LORD tomorrow. He whom the LORD then chooses is the holy one. Enough from you Levites!"
 nm:16.8.    Moses also said to Korah, "Listen to me, you Levites!
 nm:16.9.    Is it too little for you that the God of Israel has singled you out from the community of Israel, to have you draw near him for the service of the LORD'S Dwelling and to stand before the community to minister for them?
 nm:16.10.   He has allowed you and your kinsmen, the descendants of Levi, to approach him, and yet you now seek the priesthood too.
 nm:16.11.   It is therefore against the LORD that you and all your band are conspiring. For what has Aaron done that you should grumble against him?"
 nm:16.12.   Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, but they answered, "We will not go.
 nm:16.13.   Are you not satisfied with having led us here away from a land flowing with milk and honey, to make us perish in the desert, that you must now lord it over us?
 nm:16.14.   Far from bringing us to a land flowing with milk and honey, or giving us fields and vineyards for our inheritance, will you also gouge out our eyes? No, we will not go."
 nm:16.15.   Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, "Pay no heed to their offering. I have never taken a single ass from them, nor have I wronged any one of them."
 nm:16.16.   Moses said to Korah, "You and all your band shall appear before the LORD tomorrow-you and they and Aaron too.
 nm:16.17.   Then each of your two hundred and fifty followers shall take his own censer, put incense in it, and offer it to the LORD; and you and Aaron, each with his own censer, shall do the same."
 nm:16.18.   So they all took their censers, and laying incense on the fire they had put in them, they took their stand by the entrance of the meeting tent along with Moses and Aaron.
 nm:16.19.   Then, when Korah had assembled all his band against them at the entrance of the meeting tent, the glory of the LORD appeared to the entire community,
 nm:16.20.   and the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
 nm:16.21.   "Stand apart from this band, that I may consume them at once."
 nm:16.22.   But they fell prostrate and cried out, "O God, God of the spirits of all mankind, will one man's sin make you angry with the whole community?"
 nm:16.23.   The LORD answered Moses,
 nm:16.24.   "Speak to the community and tell them: Withdraw from the space around the Dwelling" (of Korah, Dathan and Abiram).
 nm:16.25.   Moses, followed by the elders of Israel, arose and went to Dathan and Abiram.
 nm:16.26.   Then he warned the community, "Keep away from the tents of these wicked men and do not touch anything that is theirs: otherwise you too will be swept away because of all their sins."
 nm:16.27.   When Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing at the entrances of their tents with their wives and sons and little ones,
 nm:16.28.   Moses said, "This is how you shall know that it was the LORD who sent me to do all I have done, and that it was not I who planned it:
 nm:16.29.   if these men die an ordinary death, merely suffering the fate common to all mankind, then it was not the LORD who sent me.
 nm:16.30.   But if the LORD does something entirely new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them alive down into the nether world, with all belonging to them, then you will know that these men have defied the LORD."
 nm:16.31.   No sooner had he finished saying all this than the ground beneath them split open,
 nm:16.32.   and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their families (and all of Korah's men) and all their possessions.
 nm:16.33.   They went down alive to the nether world with all belonging to them; the earth closed over them, and they perished from the community.
 nm:16.34.   But all the Israelites near them fled at their shrieks, saying, "The earth might swallow us too!"
 nm:16.35.   So they withdrew from the space around the Dwelling (of Korah, Dathan and Abiram). And fire from the LORD came forth which consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.
  
 nm:17.1.    The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:17.2.    "Tell Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, to remove the censers from the embers; and scatter the fire some distance away,
 nm:17.3.    for these sinners have consecrated the censers at the cost of their lives. Have them hammered into plates to cover the altar, because in being presented before the LORD they have become sacred. In this way they shall serve as a sign to the Israelites."
 nm:17.4.    So Eleazar the priest had the bronze censers of those burned during the offering hammered into a covering for the altar,
 nm:17.5.    in keeping with the orders which the LORD had given him through Moses. This cover was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no layman, no one who was not a descendant of Aaron, should approach the altar to offer incense before the LORD, lest he meet the fate of Korah and his band.
 nm:17.6.    The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, "It is you who have slain the LORD'S people."
 nm:17.7.    But while the community was deliberating against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the meeting tent, and the cloud now covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.
 nm:17.8.    Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the meeting tent,
 nm:17.9.    and the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
 nm:17.10.   "Depart from this community, that I may consume them at once." But they fell prostrate.
 nm:17.11.   Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, and bring it quickly to the community to make atonement for them; for wrath has come forth from the LORD and the blow is falling."
 nm:17.12.   Obeying the orders of Moses, Aaron took his censer and ran in among the community, where the blow was already falling on the people. Then, as he offered the incense and made atonement for the people,
 nm:17.13.   standing there between the living and the dead, the scourge was checked.
 nm:17.14.   Yet fourteen thousand seven hundred died from the scourge, in addition to those who died because of Korah.
 nm:17.15.   When the scourge had been checked, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the meeting tent.
 nm:17.16.   The LORD now said to Moses,
 nm:17.17.   "Speak to the Israelites and get one staff from them for each ancestral house, twelve staffs in all, one from each of their tribal princes. Mark each man's name on his staff;
 nm:17.18.   and mark Aaron's name on Levi's staff, for the head of Levi's ancestral house shall also have a staff.
 nm:17.19.   Then lay them down in the meeting tent, in front of the commandments, where I meet you.
 nm:17.20.   There the staff of the man of my choice shall sprout. Thus will I suppress from my presence the Israelites' grumbling against you."
 nm:17.21.   So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and their princes gave him staffs, twelve in all, one from each tribal prince; and Aaron's staff was with them.
 nm:17.22.   Then Moses laid the staffs down before the LORD in the tent of the commandments.
 nm:17.23.   The next day, when Moses entered the tent, Aaron's staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted and put forth not only shoots, but blossoms as well, and even bore ripe almonds!
 nm:17.24.   Moses thereupon brought out all the staffs from the LORD'S presence to the Israelites. After each prince identified his own staff and took it,
 nm:17.25.   the LORD said to Moses, "Put back Aaron's staff in front of the commandments, to be kept there as a warning to the rebellious, so that their grumbling may cease before me; if it does not, they will die."
 nm:17.26.   And Moses did as the LORD had commanded him.
 nm:17.27.   Then the Israelites cried out to Moses, "We are perishing; we are lost, we are all lost!
 nm:17.28.   Every time anyone approaches the Dwelling of the LORD, he dies! Are we to perish to the last man?"
  
 nm:18.1.    The LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons as well as the other members of your ancestral house shall be responsible for the sanctuary; but the responsibility of the priesthood shall rest on you and your sons alone.
 nm:18.2.    Bring with you also your other kinsmen of the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, as your associates and assistants, while you and your sons are in front of the tent of the commandments.
 nm:18.3.    They shall look after your persons and the whole tent; however, they shall not come near the sacred vessels or the altar, lest both they and you die.
 nm:18.4.    As your associates they shall have charge of all the work connected with the meeting tent. But no layman shall come near you.
 nm:18.5.    You shall have charge of the sanctuary and of the altar, that wrath may not fall again upon the Israelites.
 nm:18.6.    "Remember, it is I who have taken your kinsmen, the Levites, from the body of the Israelites; they are a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD for the service of the meeting tent.
 nm:18.7.    But only you and your sons are to have charge of performing the priestly functions in whatever concerns the altar and the room within the veil. I give you the priesthood as a gift. Any layman who draws near shall be put to death."
 nm:18.8.    The LORD said to Aaron, "I myself have given you charge of the contributions made to me in the various sacred offerings of the Israelites; by perpetual ordinance I have assigned them to you and to your sons as your priestly share.
 nm:18.9.    You shall have the right to share in the oblations that are most sacred, in whatever they offer me as cereal offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings; these shares shall accrue to you and to your sons.
 nm:18.10.   In eating them you shall treat them as most sacred; every male among you may partake of them. As sacred, they belong to you.
 nm:18.11.   "You shall also have what is removed from the gift in every wave offering of the Israelites; by perpetual ordinance I have assigned it to you and to your sons and daughters. All in your family who are clean may partake of it.
 nm:18.12.   I have also assigned to you all the best of the new oil and of the new wine and grain that they give to the LORD as their first fruits;
 nm:18.13.   and likewise, of whatever grows on their land, the first products that they bring in to the LORD shall be yours; all of your family who are clean may partake of them.
 nm:18.14.   Whatever is doomed in Israel shall be yours.
 nm:18.15.   Every living thing that opens the womb, whether of man or of beast, such as are to be offered to the LORD, shall be yours; but you must let the first-born of man, as well as of unclean animals, be redeemed.
 nm:18.16.   The ransom for a boy is to be paid when he is a month old; it is fixed at five silver shekels according to the sanctuary standard, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
 nm:18.17.   But the first-born of cattle, sheep or goats shall not be redeemed; they are sacred. Their blood you must splash on the altar and their fat you must burn as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 nm:18.18.   Their meat, however, shall be yours, just as the breast and the right leg of the wave offering belong to you.
 nm:18.19.   By perpetual ordinance I have assigned to you and to your sons and daughters all the contributions from the sacred gifts which the Israelites make to the LORD; this is an inviolable covenant to last forever before the LORD, for you and for your descendants."
 nm:18.20.   Then the LORD said to Aaron, "You shall not have any heritage in the land of the Israelites nor hold any portion among them; I will be your portion and your heritage among them.
 nm:18.21.   "To the Levites, however, I hereby assign all tithes in Israel as their heritage in recompense for the service they perform in the meeting tent.
 nm:18.22.   The Israelites may no longer approach the meeting tent; else they will incur guilt deserving death.
 nm:18.23.   Only the Levites are to perform the service of the meeting tent, and they alone shall be held responsible; this is a perpetual ordinance for all your generations. The Levites, therefore, shall not have any heritage among the Israelites,
 nm:18.24.   for I have assigned to them as their heritage the tithes which the Israelites give as a contribution to the LORD. That is why I have ordered that they are not to have any heritage among the Israelites."
 nm:18.25.   The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:18.26.   "Give the Levites these instructions: When you receive from the Israelites the tithes I have assigned you from them as your heritage, you are to make a contribution from them to the LORD, a tithe of the tithes;
 nm:18.27.   and your contribution will be credited to you as if it were grain from the threshing floor or new wine from the press.
 nm:18.28.   Thus you too shall make a contribution from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites, handing over to Aaron the priest the part to be contributed to the LORD.
 nm:18.29.   From all the gifts that you receive, and from the best parts, you are to consecrate to the LORD your own full contribution.
 nm:18.30.   "Tell them also: Once you have made your contribution from the best part, the rest of the tithes will be credited to you Levites as if it were produce of the threshing floor or of the winepress.
 nm:18.31.   Your families, as well as you, may eat them anywhere, since they are your recompense for service at the meeting tent.
 nm:18.32.   You will incur no guilt so long as you make a contribution of the best part. Do not profane the sacred gifts of the Israelites and so bring death on yourselves."
  
 nm:19.1.    The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
 nm:19.2.    "This is the regulation which the law of the LORD prescribes. Tell the Israelites to procure for you a red heifer that is free from every blemish and defect and on which no yoke has ever been laid.
 nm:19.3.    This is to be given to Eleazar the priest, to be led outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
 nm:19.4.    Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the meeting tent.
 nm:19.5.    Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight, with its hide and flesh, its blood and offal;
 nm:19.6.    and the priest shall take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire in which the heifer is being burned.
 nm:19.7.    The priest shall then wash his garments and bathe his body in water. He remains unclean until the evening, and only afterward may he return to the camp.
 nm:19.8.    Likewise, he who burned the heifer shall wash his garments, bathe his body in water, and be unclean until evening.
 nm:19.9.    Finally, a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them in a clean place outside the camp. There they are to be kept for preparing lustral water for the Israelite community. The heifer is a sin offering.
 nm:19.10.   He who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer shall also wash his garments and be unclean until evening. This is a perpetual ordinance, both for the Israelites and for the aliens residing among them.
 nm:19.11.   "Whoever touches the dead body of any human being shall be unclean for seven days;
 nm:19.12.   he shall purify himself with the water on the third and on the seventh day, and then he will be clean again. But if he fails to purify himself on the third and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.
 nm:19.13.   Everyone who fails to purify himself after touching the body of any deceased person, defiles the Dwelling of the LORD and shall be cut off from Israel. Since the lustral water has not been splashed over him, he remains unclean: his uncleanness still clings to him.
 nm:19.14.   "This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, everyone who enters the tent, as well as everyone already in it, shall be unclean for seven days;
 nm:19.15.   likewise, every vessel that is open, or with its lid unfastened, shall be unclean.
 nm:19.16.   Moreover, everyone who in the open country touches a dead person, whether he was slain by the sword or died naturally, or who touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.
 nm:19.17.   For anyone who is thus unclean, ashes from the sin offering shall be put in a vessel, and spring water shall be poured on them.
 nm:19.18.   Then a man who is clean shall take some hyssop, dip it in this water, and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the vessels and persons that were in it, or on him who touched a bone, a slain person or other dead body, or a grave.
 nm:19.19.   The clean man shall sprinkle the unclean on the third and on the seventh day; thus purified on the seventh day, he shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water, and in the evening he will be clean again.
 nm:19.20.   Any unclean man who fails to have himself purified shall be cut off from the community, because he defiles the sanctuary of the LORD. As long as the lustral water has not been splashed over him, he remains unclean.
 nm:19.21.   This shall be a perpetual ordinance for you. "One who sprinkles the lustral water shall wash his garments, and anyone who comes in contact with this water shall be unclean until evening.
 nm:19.22.   Moreover, whatever the unclean person touches becomes unclean itself, and anyone who touches it becomes unclean until evening."
  
 nm:20.1.    The whole Israelite community arrived in the desert of Zin in the first month, and the people settled at Kadesh. It was here that Miriam died, and here that she was buried.
 nm:20.2.    As the community had no water, they held a council against Moses and Aaron.
 nm:20.3.    The people contended with Moses, exclaiming, "Would that we too had perished with our kinsmen in the LORD'S presence!
 nm:20.4.    Why have you brought the LORD'S community into this desert where we and our livestock are dying?
 nm:20.5.    Why did you lead us out of Egypt, only to bring us to this wretched place which has neither grain nor figs nor vines nor pomegranates? Here there is not even water to drink!"
 nm:20.6.    But Moses and Aaron went away from the assembly to the entrance of the meeting tent, where they fell prostrate. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to them,
 nm:20.7.    and the LORD said to Moses,
 nm:20.8.    "Take the staff and assemble the community, you and your brother Aaron, and in their presence order the rock to yield its waters. From the rock you shall bring forth water for the community and their livestock to drink."
 nm:20.9.    So Moses took the staff from its place before the LORD, as he was ordered.
 nm:20.10.   He and Aaron assembled the community in front of the rock, where he said to them, "Listen to me, you rebels! Are we to bring water for you out of this rock?"
 nm:20.11.   Then, raising his hand, Moses struck the rock twice with his staff, and water gushed out in abundance for the community and their livestock to drink.
 nm:20.12.   But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you were not faithful to me in showing forth my sanctity before the Israelites, you shall not lead this community into the land I will give them."
 nm:20.13.   These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites contended against the LORD, and where he revealed his sanctity among them.
 nm:20.14.   From Kadesh Moses sent men to the king of Edom with the message: "Your brother Israel has this to say: You know of all the hardships that have befallen us,
 nm:20.15.   how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we stayed a long time, how the Egyptians maltreated us and our fathers,
 nm:20.16.   and how, when we cried to the LORD, he heard our cry and sent an angel who led us out of Egypt. Now here we are at the town of Kadesh at the edge of your territory.
 nm:20.17.   Kindly let us pass through your country. We will not cross any fields or vineyards, nor drink any well water, but we will go straight along the royal road without turning to the right or to the left, until we have passed through your territory."
 nm:20.18.   But Edom answered him, "You shall not pass through here; if you do, I will advance against you with the sword."
 nm:20.19.   The Israelites insisted, "We want only to go up along the highway. If we or our livestock drink any of your water, we will pay for it. Surely there is no harm in merely letting us march through."
 nm:20.20.   But Edom still said, "No, you shall not pass through," and advanced against them with a large and heavily armed force.
 nm:20.21.   Therefore, since Edom refused to let them pass through their territory, Israel detoured around them.
 nm:20.22.   Setting out from Kadesh, the whole Israelite community came to Mount Hor.
 nm:20.23.   There at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
 nm:20.24.   "Aaron is about to be taken to his people; he shall not enter the land I am giving to the Israelites, because you both rebelled against my commandment at the waters of Meribah.
 nm:20.25.   Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up on Mount Hor.
 nm:20.26.   Then strip Aaron of his garments and put them on his son Eleazar; for there Aaron shall be taken in death."
 nm:20.27.   Moses did as the LORD commanded. When they had climbed Mount Hor in view of the whole community,
 nm:20.28.   Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on his son Eleazar. Then Aaron died there on top of the mountain. When Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain,
 nm:20.29.   all the community understood that Aaron had passed away; and for thirty days the whole house of Israel mourned him.
  
 nm:21.1.    When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that the Israelites were coming along the way of Atharim, he engaged them in battle and took some of them captive.
 nm:21.2.    Israel then made this vow to the LORD: "If you deliver this people into my hand, I will doom their cities."
 nm:21.3.    Later, when the LORD heeded Israel's prayer and delivered up the Canaanites, they doomed them and their cities. Hence that place was named Hormah.
 nm:21.4.    From Mount Hor they set out on the Red Sea road, to by-pass the land of Edom. But with their patience worn out by the journey,
 nm:21.5.    the people complained against God and Moses, "Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!"
 nm:21.6.    In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died.
 nm:21.7.    Then the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you. Pray the LORD to take the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people,
 nm:21.8.    and the LORD said to Moses, "Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if anyone who has been bitten looks at it, he will recover."
 nm:21.9.    Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he recovered.
 nm:21.10.   The Israelites moved on and encamped in Oboth.
 nm:21.11.   Setting out from Oboth, they encamped in Iye-abarim in the desert fronting Moab on the east.
 nm:21.12.   Setting out from there, they encamped in the Wadi Zered.
 nm:21.13.   Setting out from there, they encamped on the other side of the Arnon, in the desert that extends from the territory of the Amorites; for the Arnon forms Moab's boundary with the Amorites.
 nm:21.14.   Hence it is said in the "Book of the Wars of the LORD": "Waheb in Suphah and the wadies,
 nm:21.15.   Arnon and the wadi gorges That reach back toward the site of Ar and slant to the border of Moab."
 nm:21.16.   From there they went to Beer, where there was the well of which the LORD said to Moses, "Bring the people together, and I will give them water."
 nm:21.17.   Then it was that Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well!--so sing to it--
 nm:21.18.   The well that the princes sank, that the nobles of the people dug, with their scepters and their staffs." From Beer they went to Mattanah,
 nm:21.19.   from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
 nm:21.20.   from Bamoth to the cleft in the plateau of Moab at the headland of Pisgah that overlooks Jeshimon.
 nm:21.21.   Now Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, with the message,
 nm:21.22.   "Let us pass through your country. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, nor will we drink any well water, but we will go straight along the royal road until we have passed through your territory."
 nm:21.23.   Sihon, however, would not let Israel pass through his territory, but mustered all his forces and advanced into the desert against Israel. When he reached Jahaz, he engaged Israel in battle.
 nm:21.24.   But Israel defeated him at the point of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and as far as the country of the Ammonites, whose boundary was at Jazer.
 nm:21.25.   Israel seized all the towns here and settled in these towns of the Amorites, in Heshbon and all its dependencies.
 nm:21.26.   Now Heshbon was the capital of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had seized all his land from Jazer to the Arnon.
 nm:21.27.   That is why the poets say: "Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt, let Sihon's capital be firmly constructed.
 nm:21.28.   For fire went forth from Heshbon and a blaze from the city of Sihon; It consumed the cities of Moab and swallowed up the high places of the Arnon.
 nm:21.29.   Woe to you, O Moab! You are ruined, O people of Chemosh! He let his sons become fugitives and his daughters be taken captive by the Amorite king Sihon.
 nm:21.30.   Their plowland is ruined from Heshbon to Dibon; Ar is laid waste; fires blaze as far as Medeba."
 nm:21.31.   When Israel had settled in the land of the Amorites,
 nm:21.32.   Moses sent spies to Jazer; Israel then captured it with its dependencies and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
 nm:21.33.   Then they turned and went up along the road to Bashan. But Og, king of Bashan, advanced against them with all his people to give battle at Edrei.
 nm:21.34.   The LORD, however, said to Moses, "Do not be afraid of him; for into your hand I will deliver him with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon."
 nm:21.35.   So they struck him down with his sons and all his people, until not a survivor was left to him, and they took possession of his land.
  
 nm:22.1.    Then the Israelites moved on and encamped in the plains of Moab on the other side of the Jericho stretch of the Jordan.
 nm:22.2.    Now Balak, son of Zippor, saw all that Israel did to the Amorites.
 nm:22.3.    Indeed, Moab feared the Israelites greatly because of their numbers, and detested them.
 nm:22.4.    So Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Soon this horde will devour all the country around us as an ox devours the grass of the field." And Balak, Zippor's son, who was king of Moab at that time,
 nm:22.5.    sent messengers to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor on the Euphrates, in the land of the Amawites, summoning him with these words, "A people has come here from Egypt who now cover the face of the earth and are settling down opposite us!
 nm:22.6.    Please come and curse this people for us; they are stronger than we are. We may then be able to defeat them and drive them out of the country. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed and whoever you curse is cursed."
 nm:22.7.    Then the elders of Moab and of Midian left with the divination fee in hand and went to Balaam. When they had given him Balak's message,
 nm:22.8.    he said to them in reply, "Stay here overnight, and I will give you whatever answer the LORD gives me." So the princes of Moab lodged with Balaam.
 nm:22.9.    Then God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men visiting you?"
 nm:22.10.   Balaam answered God, "Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me the message:
 nm:22.11.   'This people that came here from Egypt now cover the face of the earth. Please come and lay a curse on them for us; we may then be able to give them battle and drive them out.'"
 nm:22.12.   But God said to Balaam, "Do not go with them and do not curse this people, for they are blessed."
 nm:22.13.   The next morning Balaam arose and told the princes of Balak, "Go back to your own country, for the LORD has refused to let me go with you."
 nm:22.14.   So the princes of Moab went back to Balak with the report, "Balaam refused to come with us."
 nm:22.15.   Balak again sent princes, who were more numerous and more distinguished than the others.
 nm:22.16.   On coming to Balaam they told him, "This is what Balak, son of Zippor, has to say: Please do not refuse to come to me.
 nm:22.17.   I will reward you very handsomely and will do anything you ask of me. Please come and lay a curse on this people for me."
 nm:22.18.   But Balaam replied to Balak's officials, "Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything, small or great, contrary to the command of the LORD, my God.
 nm:22.19.   But, you too shall stay here overnight, till I learn what else the LORD may tell me."
 nm:22.20.   That night God came to Balaam and said to him, "If these men have come to summon you, you may go with them; yet only on the condition that you do exactly as I tell you."
 nm:22.21.   So the next morning when Balaam arose, he saddled his ass, and went off with the princes of Moab.
 nm:22.22.   But now the anger of God flared up at him for going, and the angel of the LORD stationed himself on the road to hinder him as he was riding along on his ass, accompanied by two of his servants.
 nm:22.23.   When the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing on the road with sword drawn, she turned off the road and went into the field, and Balaam had to beat her to bring her back on the road.
 nm:22.24.   Then the angel of the LORD took his stand in a narrow lane between vineyards with a stone wall on each side.
 nm:22.25.   When the ass saw the angel of the LORD there, she shrank against the wall; and since she squeezed Balaam's leg against it, he beat her again.
 nm:22.26.   The angel of the LORD then went ahead, and stopped next in a passage so narrow that there was no room to move either to the right or to the left.
 nm:22.27.   When the ass saw the angel of the LORD there, she cowered under Balaam. So, in anger, he again beat the ass with his stick.
 nm:22.28.   But now the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she asked Balaam, "What have I done to you that you should beat me these three times?"
 nm:22.29.   "You have acted so willfully against me," said Balaam to the ass, "that if I but had a sword at hand, I would kill you here and now."
 nm:22.30.   But the ass said to Balaam, "Am I not your own beast, and have you not always ridden upon me until now? Have I been in the habit of treating you this way before?" "No," replied Balaam.
 nm:22.31.   Then the LORD removed the veil from Balaam's eyes, so that he too saw the angel of the LORD standing on the road with sword drawn; and he fell on his knees and bowed to the ground.
 nm:22.32.   But the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you beaten your ass these three times? It is I who have come armed to hinder you because this rash journey of yours is directly opposed to me.
 nm:22.33.   When the ass saw me, she turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away from me, I would have killed you; her I would have spared."
 nm:22.34.   Then Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned. Yet I did not know that you stood against me to oppose my journey. Since it has displeased you, I will go back home."
 nm:22.35.   But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but you may say only what I tell you." So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.
 nm:22.36.   When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the boundary city Ir-Moab on the Arnon at the end of the Moabite territory.
 nm:22.37.   And he said to Balaam, "I sent an urgent summons to you! Why did you not come to me? Did you think I could not reward you?"
 nm:22.38.   Balaam answered him, "Well, I have come to you after all. But what power have I to say anything? I can speak only what God puts in my mouth."
 nm:22.39.   Then Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
 nm:22.40.   Here Balak slaughtered oxen and sheep, and sent portions to Balaam and to the princes who were with him.
 nm:22.41.   The next morning Balak took Balaam up on Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw some of the clans.
  
 nm:23.1.    Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build me seven altars, and prepare seven bullocks and seven rams for me here."
 nm:23.2.    So he did as Balaam had ordered, offering a bullock and a ram on each altar. And Balak said to him, "I have erected the seven altars, and have offered a bullock and a ram on each."
 nm:23.3.    Balaam then said to him, "Stand here by your holocaust while I go over there. Perhaps the LORD will meet me, and then I will tell you whatever he lets me see." He went out on the barren height,
 nm:23.4.    and God met him.
 nm:23.5.    When he had put an utterance in Balaam's mouth, the LORD said to him, "Go back to Balak, and speak accordingly."
 nm:23.6.    So he went back to Balak, who was still standing by his holocaust together with all the princes of Moab.
 nm:23.7.    Then Balaam gave voice to his oracle: From Aram has Balak brought me here, Moab's king, from the Eastern Mountains: "Come and lay a curse for me on Jacob, come and denounce Israel."
 nm:23.8.    How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?
 nm:23.9.    For from the top of the crags I see him, from the heights I behold him. Here is a people that lives apart and does not reckon itself among the nations.
 nm:23.10.   Who has ever counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered Israel's wind-borne particles? May I die the death of the just, may my descendants be as many as theirs!
 nm:23.11.   "What have you done to me?" cried Balak to Balaam. "It was to curse my foes that I brought you here; instead, you have even blessed them."
 nm:23.12.   Balaam replied, "Is it not what the LORD puts in my mouth that I must repeat with care?"
 nm:23.13.   Then Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place from which you can see only some and not all of them, and from there curse them for me."
 nm:23.14.   So he brought him to the lookout field on the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bullock and a ram on each of them.
 nm:23.15.   Balaam then said to Balak, "Stand here by your holocaust, while I seek a meeting over there."
 nm:23.16.   Then the LORD met Balaam, and having put an utterance in his mouth, he said to him, "Go back to Balak, and speak accordingly."
 nm:23.17.   So he went back to Balak, who was still standing by his holocaust together with the princes of Moab. When Balak asked him, "What did the LORD say?"
 nm:23.18.   Balaam gave voice to his oracle: Be aroused, O Balak, and hearken; give ear to my testimony, O son of Zippor!
 nm:23.19.   God is not man that he should speak falsely, nor human, that he should change his mind. Is he one to speak and not act, to decree and not fulfill?
 nm:23.20.   It is a blessing I have been given to pronounce; a blessing which I cannot restrain.
 nm:23.21.   Misfortune is not observed in Jacob, nor misery seen in Israel. The LORD, his God, is with him; with him is the triumph of his King.
 nm:23.22.   It is God who brought him out of Egypt, a wild bull of towering might.
 nm:23.23.   No, there is no sorcery against Jacob, nor omen against Israel. It shall yet be said of Jacob, and of Israel, "Behold what God has wrought!"
 nm:23.24.   Here is a people that springs up like a lioness, and stalks forth like a lion; It rests not till it has devoured its prey and has drunk the blood of the slain.
 nm:23.25.   "Even though you cannot curse them," said Balak to Balaam, "at least do not bless them."
 nm:23.26.   But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not warn you that I must do all that the LORD tells me?"
 nm:23.27.   Then Balak said to Balaam, "Come, let me bring you to another place; perhaps God will approve of your cursing them for me from there."
 nm:23.28.   So he took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks Jeshimon.
 nm:23.29.   Balaam then said to him, "Here build me seven altars; and here prepare for me seven bullocks and seven rams."
 nm:23.30.   And Balak did as Balaam had ordered, offering a bullock and a ram on each altar.
  
 nm:24.1.    Balaam, however, perceiving that the LORD was pleased to bless Israel, did not go aside as before to seek omens, but turned his gaze toward the desert.
 nm:24.2.    When he raised his eyes and saw Israel encamped, tribe by tribe, the spirit of God came upon him,
 nm:24.3.    and he gave voice to his oracle: The utterance of Balaam, son of Beor, the utterance of the man whose eye is true,
 nm:24.4.    The utterance of one who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows, Of one who sees what the Almighty sees, enraptured, and with eyes unveiled:
 nm:24.5.    How goodly are your tents, O Jacob; your encampments, O Israel!
 nm:24.6.    They are like gardens beside a stream, like the cedars planted by the LORD.
 nm:24.7.    His wells shall yield free-flowing waters, he shall have the sea within reach; His king shall rise higher than. . . . and his royalty shall be exalted.
 nm:24.8.    It is God who brought him out of Egypt, a wild bull of towering might. He shall devour the nations like grass, their bones he shall strip bare.
 nm:24.9.    He lies crouching like a lion, or like a lioness; who shall arouse him? Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you!
 nm:24.10.   Balak beat his palms together in a blaze of anger at Balaam and said to him, "It was to curse my foes that I summoned you here; yet three times now you have even blessed them instead!
 nm:24.11.   Be off at once, then, to your home. I promised to reward you richly, but the LORD has withheld the reward from you!"
 nm:24.12.   Balaam replied to Balak, "Did I not warn the very messengers whom you sent to me,
 nm:24.13.   'Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, I could not of my own accord to anything, good or evil, contrary to the command of the LORD'? Whatever the LORD says I must repeat.
 nm:24.14.   "But now that I am about to go to my own people, let me first warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come."
 nm:24.15.   Then Balaam gave voice to his oracle: The utterance of Balaam, son of Beor, the utterance of the man whose eye is true,
 nm:24.16.   The utterance of one who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows, Of one who sees what the Almighty sees, enraptured and with eyes unveiled.
 nm:24.17.   I see him, though not now; I behold him, though not near: A star shall advance from Jacob, and a staff shall rise from Israel, That shall smite the brows of Moab, and the skulls of all the Shuthites,
 nm:24.18.   Till Edom is dispossessed, and no fugitive is left in Seir. Israel shall do valiantly,
 nm:24.19.   and Jacob shall overcome his foes.
 nm:24.20.   Upon seeing Amalek, Balaam gave voice to his oracle: First of the peoples was Amalek, but his end is to perish forever.
 nm:24.21.   Upon seeing the Kenites, he gave voice to his oracle: Your abode is enduring, O smith, and your nest is set on a cliff;
 nm:24.22.   Yet destined for burning-- even as I watch--are your inhabitants.
 nm:24.23.   Upon seeing. . . . he gave voice to his oracle: Alas, who shall survive of Ishmael,
 nm:24.24.   to deliver his people from the hands of the Kittim? When they have conquered Asshur and conquered Eber, He too shall perish forever.
 nm:24.25.   Then Balaam set out on his journey home; and Balak also went his way.
  
 nm:25.1.    While Israel was living at Shittim, the people degraded themselves by having illicit relations with the Moabite women.
 nm:25.2.    These then invited the people to the sacrifices of their god, and the people ate of the sacrifices and worshiped their god.
 nm:25.3.    When Israel thus submitted to the rites of Baal of Peor, the LORD'S anger flared up against Israel,
 nm:25.4.    and he said to Moses, "Gather all the leaders of the people, and hold a public execution of the guilty ones before the LORD, that his blazing wrath may be turned away from Israel."
 nm:25.5.    So Moses told the Israelite judges, "Each of you shall kill those of his men who have submitted to the rites of Baal of Peor."
 nm:25.6.    Yet a certain Israelite came and brought in a Midianite woman to his clansmen in the view of Moses and of the whole Israelite community, while they were weeping at the entrance of the meeting tent.
 nm:25.7.    When Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, and taking a lance in hand,
 nm:25.8.    followed the Israelite into his retreat where he pierced the pair of them, the Israelite and the woman. Thus the slaughter of Israelites was checked;
 nm:25.9.    but only after twenty-four thousand had died.
 nm:25.10.   Then the LORD said to Moses,
 nm:25.11.   "Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger from the Israelites by his zeal for my honor among them; that is why I did not put an end to the Israelites for the offense to my honor.
 nm:25.12.   Announce, therefore, that I hereby give him my pledge of friendship,
 nm:25.13.   which shall be for him and for his descendants after him the pledge of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous on behalf of his God and thus made amends for the Israelites."
 nm:25.14.   The Israelite slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri, son of Salu, prince of an ancestral house of the Simeonites.
 nm:25.15.   The slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, daughter of Zur, who was head of a clan, an ancestral house, in Midian.
 nm:25.16.   The LORD then said to Moses,
 nm:25.17.   "Treat the Midianites as enemies and crush them,
 nm:25.18.   for they have been your enemies by their wily dealings with you as regards Peor and as regards their kinswoman Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite prince, who was killed at the time of the slaughter because of Peor."
  
 nm:26.1.    After the slaughter, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar; son of Aaron the priest,
 nm:26.2.    "Take a census, by ancestral houses, throughout the community of the Israelites of all those of twenty years or more who are fit for military service in Israel."
 nm:26.3.    So on the plains of Moab along the Jericho stretch of the Jordan, Moses and the priest Eleazar registered
 nm:26.4.    those of twenty years or more, as the LORD had commanded Moses. The Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt were as follows:
 nm:26.5.    Of Reuben, the first-born of Israel, the Reubenites by clans were: through Hanoch the clan of the Hanochites, through Pallu the clan of the Palluites,
 nm:26.6.    through Hezron the clan of the Hezronites, through Carmi the clan of the Carmites.
 nm:26.7.    These were the clans of the Reubenites, of whom forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty men were registered.
 nm:26.8.    From Pallu descended Eliab,
 nm:26.9.    and the descendants of Eliab were Dathan and Abiram-the same Dathan and Abiram, councilors of the community, who revolted against Moses and Aaron (like Korah's band when it rebelled against the LORD).
 nm:26.10.   The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them as a warning (Korah too and the band that died when the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men.
 nm:26.11.   The descendents of Korah, however, did not die out).
 nm:26.12.   The Simeonites by clans were: through Nemuel the clan of the Nemuelites, through Jamin the clan of the Jaminites, through Jachin the clan of the Jachinites,
 nm:26.13.   through Sohar the clan of the Soharites, through Shaul the clan of the Shaulites.
 nm:26.14.   These were the clans of the Simeonites, of whom twenty-two thousand two hundred men were registered.
 nm:26.15.   The Gadites by clans were: through Zephon the clan of the Zephonites, through Haggi the clan of the Haggites, through Shuni the clan of the Shunites,
 nm:26.16.   through Ozni the clan of the Oznites, through Eri the clan of the Erites,
 nm:26.17.   through Arod the clan of the Arodites, through Areli the clan of the Arelites.
 nm:26.18.   These were the clans of the Gadites, of whom forty thousand five hundred men were registered.
 nm:26.19.   The sons of Judah who died in the land of Canaan were Er and Onan.
 nm:26.20.   The Judahites by clans were: through Shelah the clan of the Shelahites, through Perez the clan of the Perezites, through Zerah the clan of the Zerahites.
 nm:26.21.   The Perezites were: through Hezron the clan of the Hezronites, through Hamul the clan of the Hamulites.
 nm:26.22.   These were the clans of Judah, of whom seventy-six thousand five hundred men were registered.
 nm:26.23.   The Issacharites by clans were: through Tola the clan of the Tolaites, through Puvah the clan of the Puvahites,
 nm:26.24.   through Jashub the clan of the Jashubites, through Shimron the clan of the Shimronites.
 nm:26.25.   These were the clans of Issachar, of whom sixty-four thousand three hundred men were registered.
 nm:26.26.   The Zebulunites by clans were: through Sered the clan of the Seredites, through Elon the clan of the Elonites, through Jahleel the clan of the Jahleelites.
 nm:26.27.   These were the clans of the Zebulunites, of whom sixty thousand five hundred men were registered.
 nm:26.28.   The sons of Joseph were Manasseh and Ephraim.
 nm:26.29.   The Manassehites by clans were: through Machir the clan of the Machirites, through Gilead, a descendant of Machir, the clan of the Gileadites.
 nm:26.30.   The Gileadites were: through Abiezer the clan of the Abiezrites, through Helek the clan of the Helekites,
 nm:26.31.   through Asriel the clan of the Asrielites, through Shechem the clan of the Shechemites,
 nm:26.32.   through Shemida the clan of the Shemidaites, through Hepher the clan of the Hepherites.
 nm:26.33.   Zelophehad, son of Hepher, had no sons, but only daughters, whose names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.
 nm:26.34.   These were the clans of Manasseh, of whom fifty-two thousand seven hundred men were registered.
 nm:26.35.   The Ephraimites by clans were: through Shuthelah the clan of the Shuthelahites, through Becher the clan of the Bechrites, through Tahan the clan of the Tahanites.
 nm:26.36.   The Shuthelahites were: through Eran the clan of the Eranites.
 nm:26.37.   These were the clans of the Ephraimites, of whom thirty-two thousand five hundred men were registered. These were the descendants of Joseph by clans.
 nm:26.38.   The Benjaminites by clans were: through Bela the clan of the Belaites, through Ashbel the clan of the Ashbelites, through Ahiram the clan of the Ahiramites,
 nm:26.39.   through Shupham the clan of the Shuphamites, through Hupham the clan of the Huphamites.
 nm:26.40.   The descendants of Bela were Arad and Naaman: through Arad the clan of the Aradites, through Naaman the clan of the Naamanites.
 nm:26.41.   These were the Benjaminites by clans, of whom forty-five thousand six hundred men were registered.
 nm:26.42.   The Danites by clans were: through Shuham the clan of the Shuhamites. These were the clans of Dan,
 nm:26.43.   of whom sixty-four thousand four hundred men were registered.
 nm:26.44.   The Asherites by clans were: through Imnah the clan of the Imnites, through Ishvi the clan of the Ishvites, through Beriah the clan of the Beriites,
 nm:26.45.   through Heber the clan of the Heberites, through Malchiel the clan of the Malchielites.
 nm:26.46.   The name of Asher's daughter was Serah.
 nm:26.47.   These were the clans of Asher, of whom fifty-three thousand four hundred men were registered.
 nm:26.48.   The Naphtalites by clans were: through Jahzeel the clan of the Jahzeelites, through Guni the clan of the Gunites,
 nm:26.49.   through Jezer the clan of the Jezerites, through Shillem the clan of the Shillemites.
 nm:26.50.   These were the clans of Naphtali, of whom forty-five thousand four hundred men were registered.
 nm:26.51.   These six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty were the Israelites who were registered.
 nm:26.52.   The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:26.53.   "Among these groups the land shall be divided as their heritage in keeping with the number of individuals in each group.
 nm:26.54.   To a large group you shall assign a large heritage, to a small group a small heritage, each group receiving its heritage in proportion to the number of men registered in it.
 nm:26.55.   But the land shall be divided by lot, as the heritage of the various ancestral tribes.
 nm:26.56.   As the lot falls shall each group, large or small, be assigned its heritage."
 nm:26.57.   The Levites registered by clans were: through Gershon the clan of the Gershonites, through Kohath the clan of the Kohathites, through Merari the clan of the Merarites.
 nm:26.58.   These also were clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites, the clan of the Hebronites, the clan of the Mahlites, the clan of the Mushites, the clan of the Korahites. Among the descendants of Kohath was Amram,
 nm:26.59.   whose wife was named Jochebed. She also was of the tribe of Levi, born to the tribe in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam.
 nm:26.60.   To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
 nm:26.61.   But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered profane fire before the LORD.
 nm:26.62.   The total number of male Levites one month or more of age, who were registered, was twenty-three thousand. They were not registered with the other Israelites, however, for no heritage was given them among the Israelites.
 nm:26.63.   These, then, were the men registered by Moses and the priest Eleazar in the census of the Israelites taken on the plains of Moab along the Jericho stretch of the Jordan.
 nm:26.64.   Among them there was not a man of those who had been registered by Moses and the priest Aaron in the census of the Israelites taken in the desert of Sinai.
 nm:26.65.   For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the desert, and not one of them was left except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun.
  
 nm:27.1.    Zelophehad, son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, son of Joseph, had daughters named Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah. They came forward,
 nm:27.2.    and standing in the presence of Moses, the priest Eleazar, the princes, and the whole community at the entrance of the meeting tent, said:
 nm:27.3.    "Our father died in the desert. Although he did not join those who banded together against the LORD (in Korah's band), he died for his own sin without leaving any sons.
 nm:27.4.    But why should our father's name be withdrawn from his clan merely because he had no son? Let us, therefore, have property among our father's kinsmen."
 nm:27.5.    When Moses laid their case before the LORD,
 nm:27.6.    the LORD said to him,
 nm:27.7.    "The plea of Zelophehad's daughters is just; you shall give them hereditary property among their father's kinsmen, letting their father's heritage pass on to them.
 nm:27.8.    Therefore, tell the Israelites: If a man dies without leaving a son, you shall let his heritage pass on to his daughter;
 nm:27.9.    if he has no daughter, you shall give his heritage to his brothers;
 nm:27.10.   if he has no brothers, you shall give his heritage to his father's brothers;
 nm:27.11.   if his father had no brothers, you shall give his heritage to his nearest relative in his clan, who shall then take possession of it." This is the legal norm for the Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.
 nm:27.12.   The LORD said to Moses, "Go up here into the Abarim Mountains and view the land that I am giving to the Israelites.
 nm:27.13.   When you have viewed it, you too shall be taken to your people, as was your brother Aaron,
 nm:27.14.   because in the rebellion of the community in the desert of Zin you both rebelled against my order to manifest my sanctity to them by means of the water." (This is the water of Meribah of Kadesh in the desert of Zin.)
 nm:27.15.   Then Moses said to the LORD,
 nm:27.16.   "May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all mankind, set over the community a man
 nm:27.17.   who shall act as their leader in all things, to guide them in all their actions; that the LORD'S community may not be like sheep without a shepherd."
 nm:27.18.   And the LORD replied to Moses, "Take Joshua, son of Nun, a man of spirit, and lay your hand upon him.
 nm:27.19.   Have him stand in the presence of the priest Eleazar and of the whole community, and commission him before their eyes.
 nm:27.20.   Invest him with some of your own dignity, that the whole Israelite community may obey him.
 nm:27.21.   He shall present himself to the priest Eleazar, to have him seek out for him the decisions of the Urim in the LORD'S presence; and as he directs, Joshua, all the Israelites with him, and the community as a whole shall perform all their actions."
 nm:27.22.   Moses did as the LORD had commanded him. Taking Joshua and having him stand in the presence of the priest Eleazar and of the whole community,
 nm:27.23.   he laid his hands on him and gave him his commission, as the LORD had directed through Moses.
  
 nm:28.1.    The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:28.2.    "Give the Israelites this commandment: At the times I have appointed, you shall be careful to present to me the food offerings that are offered to me as sweet-smelling oblations.
 nm:28.3.    "You shall tell them therefore: This is the oblation which you shall offer to the LORD: two unblemished yearling lambs each day as the established holocaust,
 nm:28.4.    offering one lamb in the morning and the other during the evening twilight,
 nm:28.5.    each with a cereal offering of one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil of crushed olives.
 nm:28.6.    This is the established holocaust that was offered at Mount Sinai as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 nm:28.7.    And as the libation for the first lamb, you shall pour out to the LORD in the sanctuary a fourth of a hin of wine.
 nm:28.8.    The other lamb, to be offered during the evening twilight, you shall offer with the same cereal offering and the same libation as in the morning, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 nm:28.9.    "On the sabbath day you shall offer two unblemished yearling lambs, with their cereal offering, two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and with their libations.
 nm:28.10.   Each sabbath there shall be the sabbath holocaust in addition to the established holocaust and its libation.
 nm:28.11.   "On the first of each month you shall offer as a holocaust to the LORD two bullocks, one ram, and seven unblemished yearling lambs,
 nm:28.12.   with three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as the cereal offering for each bullock, two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as the cereal offering for the ram,
 nm:28.13.   and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as the cereal offering for each lamb, that the holocaust may be a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 nm:28.14.   Their libations shall be half a hin of wine for each bullock, a third of a hin for the ram, and a fourth of a hin for each lamb. This is the new moon holocaust for every new moon of the year.
 nm:28.15.   Moreover, one goat shall be sacrificed as a sin offering to the LORD. These are to be offered in addition to the established holocaust and its libation.
 nm:28.16.   "On the fourteenth day of the first month falls the Passover of the LORD,
 nm:28.17.   and the fifteenth day of this month is the pilgrimage feast. For seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
 nm:28.18.   On the first of these days you shall hold a sacred assembly, and do no sort of work.
 nm:28.19.   As an oblation you shall offer a holocaust to the LORD, which shall consist of two bullocks, one ram, and seven yearling lambs that you are sure are unblemished,
 nm:28.20.   with their cereal offerings of fine flour mixed with oil; offering three tenths of an ephah for each bullock, two tenths for the ram,
 nm:28.21.   and one tenth for each of the seven lambs;
 nm:28.22.   and offer one goat as a sin offering in atonement for yourselves.
 nm:28.23.   These offerings you shall make in addition to the established morning holocaust:
 nm:28.24.   you shall make exactly the same offerings each day for seven days as food offerings, in addition to the established holocaust with its libation, for a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 nm:28.25.   On the seventh day you shall hold a sacred assembly, and do no sort of work.
 nm:28.26.   "On the day of first fruits, on your feast of Weeks, when you present to the LORD the new cereal offering, you shall hold a sacred assembly, and do no sort of work.
 nm:28.27.   You shall offer as a sweet-smelling holocaust to the LORD two bullocks, one ram, and seven yearling lambs that you are sure are unblemished,
 nm:28.28.   with their cereal offerings of fine flour mixed with oil; offering three tenths of an ephah for each bullock, two tenths for the ram,
 nm:28.29.   and one tenth for each of the seven lambs.
 nm:28.30.   Moreover, one goat shall be offered as a sin offering in atonement for yourselves.
 nm:28.31.   You shall make these offerings, together with their libations, in addition to the established holocaust with its cereal offering.
  
 nm:29.1.    "On the first day of the seventh month you shall hold a sacred assembly, and do no sort of work; it shall be a day on which you sound the trumpet.
 nm:29.2.    You shall offer as a sweet-smelling holocaust to the LORD one bullock, one ram, and seven unblemished yearling lambs,
 nm:29.3.    with their cereal offerings of fine flour mixed with oil; offering three tenths of an ephah for the bullock, two tenths for the ram,
 nm:29.4.    and one tenth for each of the seven lambs.
 nm:29.5.    Moreover, one goat shall be offered as a sin offering in atonement for yourselves.
 nm:29.6.    These are to be offered in addition to the ordinary new-moon holocaust with its cereal offering, and in addition to the established holocaust with its cereal offering, together with the libations prescribed for them, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
 nm:29.7.    "On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall hold a sacred assembly, and mortify yourselves, and do no sort of work.
 nm:29.8.    You shall offer as a sweet-smelling holocaust to the LORD one bullock, one ram, and seven yearling lambs that you are sure are unblemished,
 nm:29.9.    with their cereal offerings of fine flour mixed with oil; offering three tenths of an ephah for the bullock, two tenths for the ram,
 nm:29.10.   and one tenth for each of the seven lambs.
 nm:29.11.   Moreover, one goat shall be sacrificed as a sin offering. These are to be offered in addition to the atonement sin offering, the established holocaust with its cereal offering, and their libations.
 nm:29.12.   "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall hold a sacred assembly, and do no sort of work; then, for seven days following, you shall celebrate a pilgrimage feast to the LORD.
 nm:29.13.   You shall offer as a sweet-smelling holocaust to the LORD thirteen bullocks, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs that are unblemished,
 nm:29.14.   with their cereal offerings of fine flour mixed with oil; offering three tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bullocks, two tenths for each of the two rams,
 nm:29.15.   and one tenth for each of the fourteen lambs.
 nm:29.16.   Moreover, one goat shall be sacrificed as a sin offering. These are to be offered in addition to the established holocaust with its cereal offering and libation.
 nm:29.17.   "On the second day you shall offer twelve bullocks, two rams, and fourteen unblemished yearling lambs,
 nm:29.18.   with their cereal offerings and libations as prescribed for the bullocks, rams and lambs in proportion to their number,
 nm:29.19.   as well as one goat for a sin offering, besides the established holocaust with its cereal offering and libation.
 nm:29.20.   "On the third day you shall offer eleven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen unblemished yearling lambs,
 nm:29.21.   with their cereal offerings and libations as prescribed for the bullocks, rams and lambs in proportion to their number,
 nm:29.22.   as well as one goat for a sin offering, besides the established holocaust with its cereal offering and libation.
 nm:29.23.   "On the fourth day you shall offer ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen unblemished yearling lambs,
 nm:29.24.   with their cereal offerings and libations as prescribed for the bullocks, rams and lambs in proportion to their number,
 nm:29.25.   as well as one goat for a sin offering, besides the established holocaust with its cereal offering and libation.
 nm:29.26.   "On the fifth day you shall offer nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen unblemished yearling lambs,
 nm:29.27.   with their cereal offerings and libations as prescribed for the bullocks, rams and lambs in proportion to their number,
 nm:29.28.   as well as one goat for a sin offering, besides the established holocaust with its cereal offering and libation.
 nm:29.29.   "On the sixth day you shall offer eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen unblemished yearling lambs,
 nm:29.30.   with their cereal offerings and libations as prescribed for the bullocks, rams and lambs in proportion to their number,
 nm:29.31.   as well as one goat for a sin offering, besides the established holocaust with its cereal offering and libation.
 nm:29.32.   "On the seventh day you shall offer seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen unblemished yearling lambs,
 nm:29.33.   with their cereal offerings and libations as prescribed for the bullocks, rams and lambs in proportion to their number,
 nm:29.34.   as well as one goat for a sin offering, besides the established holocaust with its cereal offering and libation.
 nm:29.35.   "On the eighth day you shall hold a solemn meeting, and do no sort of work.
 nm:29.36.   You shall offer up in holocaust as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD one bullock, one ram, and seven unblemished yearling lambs,
 nm:29.37.   with their cereal offerings and libations as prescribed for the bullocks, rams and lambs in proportion to their number,
 nm:29.38.   as well as one goat for a sin offering, besides the established holocaust with its cereal offering and libation.
 nm:29.39.   "These are the offerings you shall make to the LORD on your festivals, besides whatever holocausts, cereal offerings, libations, and peace offerings you present as your votive or freewill offerings."
  
 nm:30.1.    Moses then gave the Israelites these instructions, just as the LORD had ordered him.
 nm:30.2.    Moses said to the heads of the Israelite tribes, "This is what the LORD has commanded:
 nm:30.3.    When a man makes a vow to the LORD or binds himself under oath to a pledge of abstinence, he shall not violate his word, but must fulfill exactly the promise he has uttered.
 nm:30.4.    "When a woman, while still a maiden in her father's house, makes a vow to the LORD, or binds herself to a pledge,
 nm:30.5.    if her father learns of her vow or the pledge to which she bound herself and says nothing to her about it, then any vow or any pledge she has made remains valid.
 nm:30.6.    But if on the day he learns of it her father expresses to her his disapproval, then any vow or any pledge she has made becomes null and void; and the LORD releases her from it, since her father has expressed to her his disapproval.
 nm:30.7.    "If she marries while under a vow or under a rash pledge to which she bound herself,
 nm:30.8.    and her husband learns of it, yet says nothing to her that day about it, then the vow or pledge she had made remains valid.
 nm:30.9.    But if on the day he learns of it her husband expresses to her his disapproval, he thereby annuls the vow she had made or the rash pledge to which she had bound herself, and the LORD releases her from it.
 nm:30.10.   The vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, or any pledge to which such a woman binds herself, is valid.
 nm:30.11.   "If it is in her husband's house that she makes a vow or binds herself under oath to a pledge,
 nm:30.12.   and her husband learns of it yet says nothing to express to her his disapproval, then any vow or any pledge she has made remains valid.
 nm:30.13.   But if on the day he learns of them her husband annuls them, then whatever she has expressly promised in her vow or in her pledge becomes null and void; since her husband has annulled them, the LORD releases her from them.
 nm:30.14.   "Any vow or any pledge that she makes under oath to mortify herself, her husband can either allow to remain valid or render null and void.
 nm:30.15.   But if her husband, day after day, says nothing at all to her about them, he thereby allows as valid any vow or any pledge she has made; he has allowed them to remain valid, because on the day he learned of them he said nothing to her about them.
 nm:30.16.   If, however, he countermands them some time after he first learned of them, he is responsible for her guilt."
 nm:30.17.   These are the statutes which the LORD prescribed through Moses concerning the relationship between a husband and his wife, as well as between a father and his daughter while she is still a maiden in her father's house.
  
 nm:31.1.    The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:31.2.    "Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites, and then you shall be taken to your people."
 nm:31.3.    So Moses told the people, "Select men from your midst and arm them for war, to attack the Midianites and execute the LORD'S vengeance on them.
 nm:31.4.    From each of the tribes of Israel you shall send a band of one thousand men to war."
 nm:31.5.    From the clans of Israel, therefore, a thousand men of each tribe were levied, so that there were twelve thousand men armed for war.
 nm:31.6.    Moses sent them out on the campaign, a thousand from each tribe, with Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest for the campaign, who had with him the sacred vessels and the trumpets for sounding the alarm.
 nm:31.7.    They waged war against the Midianites, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and killed every male among them.
 nm:31.8.    Besides those slain in battle, they killed the five Midianite kings: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba; and they also executed Balaam, son of Beor, with the sword.
 nm:31.9.    But the Israelites kept the women of the Midianites with their little ones as captives, and all their herds and flocks and wealth as spoil,
 nm:31.10.   while they set on fire all the towns where they had settled and all their encampments.
 nm:31.11.   Then they took all the booty, with the people and beasts they had captured, and brought the captives, together with the spoils and booty,
 nm:31.12.   to Moses and the priest Eleazar and to the Israelite community at their camp on the plains of Moab, along the Jericho stretch of the Jordan.
 nm:31.13.   When Moses and the priest Eleazar, with all the princes of the community, went outside the camp to meet them,
 nm:31.14.   Moses became angry with the officers of the army, the clan and company commanders, who were returning from combat.
 nm:31.15.   "So you have spared all the women!" he exclaimed.
 nm:31.16.   "Why, they are the very ones who on Balaam's advice prompted the unfaithfulness of the Israelites toward the LORD in the Peor affair, which began the slaughter of the LORD'S community.
 nm:31.17.   Slay, therefore, every male child and every woman who has had intercourse with a man.
 nm:31.18.   But you may spare and keep for yourselves all girls who had no intercourse with a man.
 nm:31.19.   "Moreover, you shall stay outside the camp for seven days, and those of you who have slain anyone or touched anyone slain in battle shall purify yourselves on the third and on the seventh day. This applies both to you and to your captives.
 nm:31.20.   You shall also purify every article of cloth, leather, goats' hair, or wood."
 nm:31.21.   Eleazar the priest told the soldiers who had returned from combat: "This is what the law, as prescribed by the LORD to Moses, ordains:
 nm:31.22.   Whatever can stand fire, such as gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin and lead,
 nm:31.23.   you shall put into the fire, that it may become clean; however, it must also be purified with lustral water. But whatever cannot stand fire you shall put into the water.
 nm:31.24.   On the seventh day you shall wash your clothes, and then you will again be clean. After that you may enter the camp."
 nm:31.25.   The LORD said to Moses:
 nm:31.26.   "With the help of the priest Eleazar and of the heads of the ancestral houses, count up all the human captives and the beasts that have been taken;
 nm:31.27.   then divide them evenly, giving half to those who took active part in the war by going out to combat, and half to the rest of the community.
 nm:31.28.   You shall levy a tax for the LORD on the warriors who went out to combat: one out of every five hundred persons, oxen, asses and sheep
 nm:31.29.   in their half of the spoil you shall turn over to the priest Eleazar as a contribution to the LORD.
 nm:31.30.   From the Israelites' half you shall take one out of every fifty persons, and the same from the different beasts, oxen, asses and sheep, and give them to the Levites, who have charge of the LORD'S Dwelling."
 nm:31.31.   So Moses and the priest Eleazar did this, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
 nm:31.32.   This booty, what was left of the loot which the soldiers had taken, amounted to six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,
 nm:31.33.   seventy-two thousand oxen,
 nm:31.34.   sixty-one thousand asses,
 nm:31.35.   and thirty-two thousand girls who were still virgins.
 nm:31.36.   The half that fell to those who had gone out to combat was: three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
 nm:31.37.   of which six hundred and seventy-five fell as tax to the LORD;
 nm:31.38.   thirty-six thousand oxen, of which seventy-two fell as tax to the LORD;
 nm:31.39.   thirty thousand five hundred asses, of which sixty-one fell as tax to the LORD;
 nm:31.40.   and sixteen thousand persons, of whom thirty-two fell as tax to the LORD.
 nm:31.41.   The taxes contributed to the LORD, Moses gave to the priest Eleazar, as the LORD had commanded him.
 nm:31.42.   The half for the other Israelites, which fell to the community when Moses had taken it from the soldiers, was:
 nm:31.43.   three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
 nm:31.44.   thirty-six thousand oxen,
 nm:31.45.   thirty thousand five hundred asses,
 nm:31.46.   and sixteen thousand persons.
 nm:31.47.   From this, the Israelites' share, Moses, as the LORD had ordered, took one out of every fifty, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites, who had charge of the LORD'S Dwelling.
 nm:31.48.   Then the officers who had been clan and company commanders of the army came up to Moses
 nm:31.49.   and said to him, "Your servants have counted up the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing.
 nm:31.50.   So, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD, each of us will bring as an offering to the LORD some gold article he has picked up, such as an anklet, a bracelet, a ring, an earring, or a necklace."
 nm:31.51.   Moses and the priest Eleazar accepted this gold from them, all of it in well-wrought articles.
 nm:31.52.   The gold that they gave as a contribution to the LORD amounted in all to sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. This was from the clan and company commanders;
 nm:31.53.   what the common soldiers had looted each one kept for himself.
 nm:31.54.   Moses, then, and the priest Eleazar accepted the gold from the clan and company commanders, and put it in the meeting tent as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.
  
 nm:32.1.    Now the Reubenites and Gadites had a very large number of livestock. Noticing that the land of Jazer and of Gilead was grazing country,
 nm:32.2.    they came to Moses and the priest Eleazar and to the princes of the community and said,
 nm:32.3.    "The region of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Baal-meon,
 nm:32.4.    which the LORD has laid low before the community of Israel, is grazing country. Now, since your servants have livestock,"
 nm:32.5.    they continued, "if we find favor with you, let this land be given to your servants as their property. Do not make us cross the Jordan."
 nm:32.6.    But Moses answered the Gadites and Reubenites: "Are your kinsmen, then, to engage in war, while you remain here?
 nm:32.7.    Why do you wish to discourage the Israelites from crossing to the land the LORD has given them?
 nm:32.8.    That is just what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to reconnoiter the land.
 nm:32.9.    They went up to the Wadi Eshcol and reconnoitered the land, then so discouraged the Israelites that they would not enter the land the LORD had given them.
 nm:32.10.   At that time the wrath of the LORD flared up, and he swore,
 nm:32.11.   'Because they have not followed me unreservedly, none of these men of twenty years or more who have come up from Egypt shall ever see this country I promised under oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob,
 nm:32.12.   except the Kenizzite Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun, who have followed the LORD unreservedly.'
 nm:32.13.   So in his anger with the Israelites the LORD made them wander in the desert forty years, until the whole generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD had died out.
 nm:32.14.   And now here you are, a brood of sinners, rising up in your fathers' place to add still more to the LORD'S blazing wrath against the Israelites.
 nm:32.15.   If you turn away from following him, he will make them stay still longer in the desert, and so you will bring about the ruin of this whole nation."
 nm:32.16.   But they were insistent with him: "We wish only to build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and towns for our families;
 nm:32.17.   but we ourselves will march as troops in the van of the Israelites, until we have led them to their destination. Meanwhile our families can remain here in the fortified towns, safe from attack by the natives.
 nm:32.18.   We will not return to our homes until every one of the Israelites has taken possession of his heritage,
 nm:32.19.   and will not claim any heritage with them once we cross the Jordan, so long as we receive a heritage for ourselves on this eastern side of the Jordan."
 nm:32.20.   Moses said to them in reply: "If you keep your word to march as troops in the LORD'S vanguard
 nm:32.21.   and to cross the Jordan in full force before the LORD until he has driven his enemies out of his way
 nm:32.22.   and the land is subdued before him, then you may return here, quit of every obligation to the LORD and to Israel, and this region shall be your possession before the LORD.
 nm:32.23.   But if you do not do this, you will sin against the LORD, and you can be sure that you will not escape the consequences of your sin.
 nm:32.24.   Build the towns, then, for your families, and the folds for your flocks, but also fulfill your express promise."
 nm:32.25.   The Gadites and Reubenites answered Moses, "Your servants will do as you command, my lord.
 nm:32.26.   While our wives and children, our herds and other livestock remain in the towns of Gilead,
 nm:32.27.   all your servants will go across as armed troops to battle before the LORD, just as your lordship says."
 nm:32.28.   Moses, therefore, gave this order in their regard to the priest Eleazar, to Joshua, son of Nun, and to the heads of the ancestral tribes of the Israelites:
 nm:32.29.   "If all the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you as combat troops before the LORD, you shall give them Gilead as their property when the land has been subdued before you.
 nm:32.30.   But if they will not go across with you as combat troops before the LORD, you shall bring their wives and children and livestock across before you into Canaan, and they shall have their property with you in the land of Canaan."
 nm:32.31.   To this the Gadites and Reubenites replied, "We will do what the LORD has commanded us, your servants.
 nm:32.32.   We ourselves will go across into the land of Canaan as troops before the LORD, but we will retain our hereditary property on this side of the Jordan."
 nm:32.33.   So Moses gave them (the Gadites and Reubenites, as well as half the tribe of Manasseh, son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan,) the land with its towns and the districts that surrounded them.
 nm:32.34.   The Gadites rebuilt the fortified towns of Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
 nm:32.35.   Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
 nm:32.36.   Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, and they built sheepfolds.
 nm:32.37.   The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
 nm:32.38.   Nebo, Baal-meon (names to be changed!), and Sibmah. These towns, which they rebuilt, they called by their old names.
 nm:32.39.   The descendants of Machir, son of Manasseh, invaded Gilead and captured it, driving out the Amorites who were there.
 nm:32.40.   (Moses gave Gilead to Machir, son of Manasseh, and he settled there.)
 nm:32.41.   Jair, a Manassehite clan, campaigned against the tent villages, captured them and called them Havvoth-jair.
 nm:32.42.   Nobah also campaigned against Kenath, captured it with its dependencies and called it Nobah after his own name.
  
 nm:33.1.    The following are the stages by which the Israelites journeyed up by companies from the land of Egypt under the guidance of Moses and Aaron.
 nm:33.2.    By the LORD'S command Moses recorded the starting places of the various stages. The starting places of the successive stages were:
 nm:33.3.    They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the Passover morrow the Israelites went forth in triumph, in view of all Egypt,
 nm:33.4.    While the Egyptians buried their first-born all of whom the LORD had struck down; on their gods, too, the LORD executed judgments.
 nm:33.5.    Setting out from Rameses, the Israelites camped at Succoth.
 nm:33.6.    Setting out from Succoth, they camped at Etham near the edge of the desert.
 nm:33.7.    Setting out from Etham, they turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is opposite Baal-zephon, and they camped opposite Migdol.
 nm:33.8.    Setting out from Pi-hahiroth, they crossed over through the sea into the desert, and after a three days' journey in the desert of Etham, they camped at Marah.
 nm:33.9.    Setting out from Marah, they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
 nm:33.10.   Setting out from Elim, they camped beside the Red Sea.
 nm:33.11.   Setting out from the Red Sea, they camped in the desert of Sin.
 nm:33.12.   Setting out from the desert of Sin, they camped at Dophkah.
 nm:33.13.   Setting out from Dophkah, they camped at Alush.
 nm:33.14.   Setting out from Alush, they camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
 nm:33.15.   Setting out from Rephidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai.
 nm:33.16.   Setting out from the desert of Sinai, they camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
 nm:33.17.   Setting out from Kibroth-hattaavah, they camped at Hazeroth.
 nm:33.18.   Setting out from Hazeroth, they camped at Rithmah.
 nm:33.19.   Setting out from Rithmah, they camped at Rimmon-perez.
 nm:33.20.   Setting out from Rimmon-perez, they camped at Libnah.
 nm:33.21.   Setting out from Libnah, they camped at Rissah.
 nm:33.22.   Setting out from Rissah, they camped at Kehelathah.
 nm:33.23.   Setting out from Kehelathah, they camped at Mount Shepher.
 nm:33.24.   Setting out from Mount Shepher, they camped at Haradah.
 nm:33.25.   Setting out from Haradah, they camped at Makheloth.
 nm:33.26.   Setting out from Makheloth, they camped at Tahath.
 nm:33.27.   Setting out from Tahath, they camped at Terah.
 nm:33.28.   Setting out from Terah, they camped at Mithkah.
 nm:33.29.   Setting out from Mithkah, they camped at Hashmonah.
 nm:33.30.   Setting out from Hashmonah,-They camped at Moseroth.
 nm:33.31.   Setting out from Moseroth, they camped at Bene-jaakan.
 nm:33.32.   Setting out from Bene-jaakan, they camped at Mount Gidgad.
 nm:33.33.   Setting out from Mount Gidgad, they camped at Jotbathah.
 nm:33.34.   Setting out from Jotbathah, they camped at Abronah.
 nm:33.35.   Setting out from Abronah, they camped at Ezion-geber.
 nm:33.36.   Setting out from Ezion-geber,-They camped in the desert of Zin, at Kadesh.
 nm:33.37.   Setting out from Kadesh, they camped at Mount Hor on the border of the land of Edom.
 nm:33.38.   (Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor at the LORD'S command, and there he died in the fortieth year from the departure of the Israelites from the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
 nm:33.39.   Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
 nm:33.40.   Now, when the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming. . . . )
 nm:33.41.   Setting out from Mount Hor,-They camped at Zalmonah.
 nm:33.42.   Setting out from Zalmonah, they camped at Punon.
 nm:33.43.   Setting out from Punon, they camped at Oboth.
 nm:33.44.   Setting out from Oboth, they camped at Iye-abarim on the border of Moab.
 nm:33.45.   Setting out from Iye-abarim, they camped at Dibon-gad.
 nm:33.46.   Setting out from Dibon-gad, they camped at Almon-diblathaim.
 nm:33.47.   Setting out from Almon-diblathaim, they camped in the Abarim Mountains opposite Nebo.
 nm:33.48.   Setting out from the Abarim Mountains, they camped on the plains of Moab along the Jericho stretch of the Jordan.
 nm:33.49.   Their camp along the Jordan on the plains of Moab extended from Beth-jeshimoth to Abelshittim.
 nm:33.50.   The LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab beside the Jericho stretch of the Jordan and said to him:
 nm:33.51.   "Tell the Israelites: When you go across the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
 nm:33.52.   drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you; destroy all their stone figures and molten images, and demolish all their high places.
 nm:33.53.   "You shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land as your property.
 nm:33.54.   You shall apportion the land among yourselves by lot, clan by clan, assigning a large heritage to a large group and a small heritage to a small group. Wherever anyone's lot falls, there shall his property be within the heritage of his ancestral tribe.
 nm:33.55.   "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those whom you allow to remain will become as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the country where you live,
 nm:33.56.   and I will treat you as I had intended to treat them."
  
 nm:34.1.    The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:34.2.    "Give the Israelites this order: When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the territory that shall fall to you as your heritage--the land of Canaan with its boundaries:
 nm:34.3.    "Your southern boundary shall be at the desert of Zin along the border of Edom; on the east it shall begin at the end of the Salt Sea,
 nm:34.4.    and turning south of the Akrabbim Pass, it shall cross Zin, and extend south of Kadesh-barnea to Hazar-addar; thence it shall cross to Azmon,
 nm:34.5.    and turning from Azmon to the Wadi of Egypt, shall terminate at the Sea.
 nm:34.6.    "For your western boundary you shall have the Great Sea with its coast; this shall be your western boundary.
 nm:34.7.    "The following shall be your boundary on the north: from the Great Sea you shall draw a line to Mount Hor,
 nm:34.8.    and shall continue it from Mount Hor to Labo in the land of Hamath, with the boundary extending through Zedad.
 nm:34.9.    Thence the boundary shall reach to Ziphron and terminate at Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern boundary.
 nm:34.10.   "For your eastern boundary you shall draw a line from Hazar-enan to Shepham.
 nm:34.11.   From Shepham the boundary shall go down to Ar-Baal, east of Ain, and descending further, shall strike the ridge on the east side of the Sea of Chinnereth;
 nm:34.12.   thence the boundary shall continue along the Jordan and terminate with the Salt Sea. "This is the land that shall be yours, with the boundaries that surround it."
 nm:34.13.   Moses also gave this order to the Israelites: "This is the land, to be apportioned among you by lot, which the LORD has commanded to be given to the nine and one half tribes.
 nm:34.14.   For all the ancestral houses of the tribe of Reuben, and the ancestral houses of the tribe of Gad, as well as half of the tribe of Manasseh, have already received their heritage;
 nm:34.15.   these two and one half tribes have received their heritage on the eastern side of the Jericho stretch of the Jordan, toward the sunrise."
 nm:34.16.   The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:34.17.   "These are the names of the men who shall apportion the land among you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, son of Nun,
 nm:34.18.   and one prince from each of the tribes whom you shall designate for this task.
 nm:34.19.   These shall be as follows: from the tribe of Judah: Caleb, son of Jephunneh,
 nm:34.20.   from the tribe of Simeon: Samuel, son of Ammihud;
 nm:34.21.   from the tribe of Benjamin: Elidad, son of Chislon;
 nm:34.22.   from the tribe of Dan: Bukki, son of Jogli;
 nm:34.23.   from the tribe of Manasseh: Hanniel, son of Ephod; and
 nm:34.24.   from the tribe of Ephraim: Kemuel, son of Shiphtan, for the descendants of Joseph;
 nm:34.25.   from the tribe of Zebulun: Elizaphan, son of Parnach;
 nm:34.26.   from the tribe of Issachar: Paltiel, son of Azzan;
 nm:34.27.   from the tribe of Asher: Ahihud, son of Shelomi;
 nm:34.28.   from the tribe of Naphtali: Pedahel, son of Ammihud."
 nm:34.29.   These are they whom the LORD commanded to assign the Israelites their heritage in the land of Canaan.
  
 nm:35.1.    The LORD gave these instructions to Moses on the plains of Moab beside the Jericho stretch of the Jordan:
 nm:35.2.    "Tell the Israelites that out of their hereditary property they shall give the Levites cities for homes, as well as pasture lands around the cities.
 nm:35.3.    The cities shall serve them to dwell in, and the pasture lands shall serve their herds and flocks and other animals.
 nm:35.4.    The pasture lands of the cities to be assigned the Levites shall extend a thousand cubits from the city walls in each direction.
 nm:35.5.    Thus you shall measure out two thousand cubits outside the city along each side-east, south, west and north-with the city lying in the center. This shall serve them as the pasture lands of their cities.
 nm:35.6.    "Now these are the cities you shall give to the Levites: the six cities of asylum which you must establish as places where a homicide can take refuge, and in addition forty-two other cities--
 nm:35.7.    a total of forty-eight cities with their pasture lands to be assigned the Levites.
 nm:35.8.    In assigning the cities from the property of the Israelites, take more from a larger group and fewer from a smaller one, so that each group will cede cities to the Levites in proportion to its own heritage."
 nm:35.9.    The LORD said to Moses,
 nm:35.10.   "Tell the Israelites: When you go across the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
 nm:35.11.   select for yourselves cities to serve as cities of asylum, where a homicide who has killed someone unintentionally may take refuge.
 nm:35.12.   These cities shall serve you as places of asylum from the avenger of blood, so that a homicide shall not be put to death unless he is first tried before the community.
 nm:35.13.   Six cities of asylum shall you assign:
 nm:35.14.   three beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of Canaan.
 nm:35.15.   These six cities of asylum shall serve not only the Israelites but all the resident or transient aliens among them, so that anyone who has killed another unintentionally may take refuge there.
 nm:35.16.   "If a man strikes another with an iron instrument and causes his death, he is a murderer and shall be put to death.
 nm:35.17.   If a man strikes another with a death-dealing stone in his hand and causes his death, he is a murderer and shall be put to death.
 nm:35.18.   If a man strikes another with a death-dealing club in his hand and causes his death, he is a murderer and shall be put to death.
 nm:35.19.   The avenger of blood may execute the murderer, putting him to death on sight.
 nm:35.20.   "If a man pushes another out of hatred, or after lying in wait for him throws something at him, and causes his death,
 nm:35.21.   or if he strikes another out of enmity and causes his death, he shall be put to death as a murderer. The avenger of blood may execute the murderer on sight.
 nm:35.22.   "However, if a man pushes another accidentally and not out of enmity, or if without lying in wait for him he throws some object at him,
 nm:35.23.   or without seeing him throws a death-dealing stone which strikes him and causes his death, although he was not his enemy nor seeking to harm him:
 nm:35.24.   then the community, deciding the case between the slayer and the avenger of blood in accordance with these norms,
 nm:35.25.   shall free the homicide from the avenger of blood and shall remand him to the city of asylum where he took refuge; and he shall stay there until the death of the high priest who has been anointed with sacred oil.
 nm:35.26.   If the homicide of his own accord leaves the bounds of the city of asylum where he has taken refuge,
 nm:35.27.   and the avenger of blood finds him beyond these bounds and kills him, the avenger incurs no bloodguilt;
 nm:35.28.   the homicide was bound to stay in his city of asylum until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the homicide return to his own district.
 nm:35.29.   "These shall be norms for you and all your descendants, wherever you live, for rendering judgment.
 nm:35.30.   "Whenever someone kills another, the evidence of witnesses is required for the execution of the murderer. The evidence of a single witness is not sufficient for putting a person to death.
 nm:35.31.   "You shall not accept indemnity in place of the life of a murderer who deserves the death penalty; he must be put to death.
 nm:35.32.   Nor shall you accept indemnity to allow a refugee to leave his city of asylum and again dwell elsewhere in the land before the death of the high priest.
 nm:35.33.   You shall not desecrate the land where you live. Since bloodshed desecrates the land, the land can have no atonement for the blood shed on it except through the blood of him who shed it.
 nm:35.34.   Do not defile the land in which you live and in the midst of which I dwell; for I am the LORD who dwells in the midst of the Israelites."

 nm:36.1.    The heads of the ancestral houses in the clan of descendants of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh-one of the Josephite clans-came up and laid this plea before Moses and the priest Eleazar and before the princes who were the heads of the ancestral houses of the other Israelites.
 nm:36.2.    They said: "The LORD commanded you, my lord, to apportion the land by lot among the Israelites; and you, my lord, were also commanded by the LORD to give the heritage of our kinsman Zelophehad to his daughters.
 nm:36.3.    But if they marry into one of the other Israelite tribes, their heritage will be withdrawn from our ancestral heritage and will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry; thus the heritage that fell to us by lot will be diminished.
 nm:36.4.    When the Israelites celebrate the jubilee year, the heritage of these women will be permanently added to that of the tribe into which they marry and will be withdrawn from that of our ancestral tribe."
 nm:36.5.    So Moses gave this regulation to the Israelites according to the instructions of the LORD: "The tribe of the Josephites are right in what they say.
 nm:36.6.    This is what the LORD commands with regard to the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry into a clan of their ancestral tribe,
 nm:36.7.    so that no heritage of the Israelites will pass from one tribe to another, but all the Israelites will retain their own ancestral heritage.
 nm:36.8.    Therefore, every daughter who inherits property in any of the Israelite tribes shall marry someone belonging to a clan of her own ancestral tribe, in order that all the Israelites may remain in possession of their own ancestral heritage.
 nm:36.9.    Thus, no heritage can pass from one tribe to another, but all the Israelite tribes will retain their own ancestral heritage."
 nm:36.10.   The daughters of Zelophehad obeyed the command which the LORD had given to Moses.
 nm:36.11.   Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, Zelophehad's daughters, married relatives on their father's side
 nm:36.12.   within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh, son of Joseph; hence their heritage remained in the tribe of their father's clan.
 nm:36.13.   These are the commandments and decisions which the LORD prescribed for the Israelites through Moses, on the plains of Moab beside the Jericho stretch of the Jordan. [end of Numerus]

