 chapters 21 through 27 of the Book of Numbers from the World English Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The Book of Numbers from the World English Bible, chapters 21 through 27. The Canaanite, the king of Arad who lived in the south, heard tell that Israel came by way of Atharim, and he fought against Israel and took some of them captive. Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh and said, if you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities, and the name of the place was called Hormah. They travelled from Mount Hore by way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom, and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. The people spoke against God and against Moses. Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread and there is no water, and our soul loathes this light bread? Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, and many people of Israel died. The people came to Moses and said, we have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh that he may take away the serpents from us. Moses prayed for the people. Yahweh said to Moses, make a fiery serpent and set it on a standard, and it shall happen that everyone who is bitten when he sees it shall live. Moses made a serpent of brass and set it on the standard, and it happened that if a serpent had bitten any man when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived. The children of Israel travelled and encamped at Oboth. They travelled from Oboth and encamped at Ayah Barim in the wilderness which is before Moab towards the sunrise. From there they travelled and encamped in the valley of Zered. From there they travelled and encamped on the other side of the Arnon which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Anomerites. For the Arnon is the border of Moab between Moab and the Amorites. Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of Yahweh, Vaheb in Sulphar, the valleys of the Arnon, the slope of the valleys that inclined towards the dwelling of Ah leans on the border of Moab. From there they travelled to Beir, that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, gather the people together and I will give them water. Then sang Israel this song. Spring up well, sing to it the well which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug with the scepter and with their poles. From the wilderness they travelled to Matanah and from Matanah to Nahaliel and from Nahaliel to Bar Moth and from Bar Moth to the valley that is in the field of Moab to the top of Piscar which looks down on the desert. Israel sent messengers to Sion, King of the Amorites, saying let me pass through your land, we will not turn aside into field or into vineyard, we will not drink of the water of the wells, we will go by the king's highway until we have passed your border. Sion would not allow Israel to pass through his border but Sion gathered all his people together and went out against Israel into the wilderness and came to Jahaz and he fought against Israel. Israel struck him with the edge of the sword and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabok even to the children of Ammon for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. Israel took all these cities and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites in Heshbon and in all its towns. Heshbon was the city of Sion, the king of the Amorites who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand even to the Arnon. Therefore those who speak in Proverbs say come to Heshbon, let the city of Sion be built and established for a fire has gone out in Heshbon. A flame from the city of Sion it has devoured Ar of Moab. The lords of the high places of the Arnon woe to you Moab. You are undone, people of Chemosh. He has given his sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity to Sion, king of the Amorites. We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Daimon. We have laid waste even to Nofar which reaches to Mediba. Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. Moses sent to spy out Jazar and they took its town and drove out the Amorites who were there. They turned and went up by the way of Bashan and Og the king of Bashan went out against them he and all his people to battle of Edry. Yahweh said to Moses don't fear him for I have delivered him into your hand and all his people and his land and you shall do to him as you did to Sion king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon. So they struck him and his sons and all his people till there was none left him remaining and they possessed his land. The children of Israel travelled and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. Moab was very afraid of the people because they were many and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. Moab said to the children of Midian now this multitude will lick up all that is around us as the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. He sent messengers to Balam the son of Beor to Pethor which is by the river to the land of the children of his people to call him saying behold there is a people who came out from Egypt behold they cover the surface of the earth and they are staying opposite me. Please come now therefore curse me this people for they are too mighty for me perhaps I shall prevail that we may strike them and that I may drive them out of the land for I know that he who you bless is blessed and he whom you curse is cursed. The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hands and they came to Balam and spoke to him the words of Balak. He said to them lodge here this night and I will bring you word again as Yahweh shall speak to me. The Princess of Moab stayed with Balam God came to Balam and said who are these men with you? Balam said to God Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab has said to me behold the people that has come out of Egypt it covers the surface of the earth now come curse me them perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and shall drive them out God said to Balam you shall not go with them you shall not curse the people for they are blessed Balam rose up in the morning and said to the princes of Balak go to your land for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you the princes of Moab rose up and they went to Balak and said Balam refuses to come with us Balak sent yet again princes more and more honorable than they they came to Balam and said to him thus says Balak the son of Zippor please let nothing hinder you from coming to me for I will promote you to very great honor and whatever you say to me I will do please come therefore and curse this people for me Balam answered the servants of Balak if Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold I cannot go beyond the word of Yahweh my God to do less or more now therefore please wait also here this night that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more God came to Balam that night and said to him if the men have come to call you rise up go with them but only the word which I speak to you that you shall do Balam rose up in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab God's anger was kindled because he went and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way now he was riding on his donkey and his two servants were with him the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand and the donkey turned aside out of the way and went into the field and Balam struck the donkey to turn her into the way then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards a wall being on this side and a wall on that side the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh and she thrust herself to the wall and crushed Balam's foot against the wall and he struck her again the angel of Yahweh went further and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh and she laid down under Balam and Balam's anger was kindled and he struck the donkey with his staff Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey and she said to Balam what have I done to you that you struck me these three times Balam said to the donkey because you have mocked me I wish there were a sword in my hand for now I would have killed you the donkey said to Balam am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life long to this day was I ever in the habit of doing so to you he said no then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balam and he saw the angel of Yahweh in the way with his sword drawn in his hand and he bowed his head and fell on his face the angel of Yahweh said to him why have you struck your donkey these three times behold I have come forth as an adversary because your way is perverse before me and the donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times unless she had turned aside from me surely now I would have killed you and saved her alive Balam said to the angel of Yahweh I have sinned for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me now therefore if it displeases you I will go back again the angel of Yahweh said to Balam go with the men but only the word that I shall speak to you that you shall speak so Balam went with the princes of Balak when Balak heard that Balam had come he went out to meet him in the city of Moab which is on the border of the Arnon the utmost part of the border Balak said to Balam didn't I earnestly send to you to call you why didn't you come to me am I not able indeed to promote you to honour Balam said to Balak behold I have come to you have I now any power at all to speak anything the word that God puts into my mouth that shall I speak Balam went with Balak and they came to Kyriath Hasoth Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep and sent to Balam and the princes who were with him it happened in the morning that Balak took Balam and brought him up into the high places of Baal and he saw from there the utmost part of the people Balam said to Balak build me here seven altars and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams Balak did as Balam has spoken and Balak and Balam offered on every altar a bull and a ram Balam said to Balak stand by your burnt offering and I will go perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me and whatever he shows me I will tell you he went to a bare height God met Balam and he said to him I have prepared the seven altars and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar he said a word in Balam's mouth and said return to Balak and thus you shall speak he returned to him and behold he was standing by his burnt offering he and all the princes of Moab he took up his parable and said from Eram has Balak brought me the king of Moab from the mountains of the east come curse Jacob for me come defy Israel how shall I curse whom God has not cursed how shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied from the top of the rocks I see him from the hills I see him behold it is a people that dwells alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations who shall count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth parts of Israel let me die the death of the righteous let my last end be like his Balak said to Balam what have you done to me I took you to curse my enemies and behold you have blessed them all together he answered and said must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth Balak said to him please come with me to another place where you may see them use to see but the utmost part of them and shall not see them all and curse me them from there he took him into the field of Zofim to the top of Piscar and built seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar he said to Balak stand here by your burnt offering while I meet over there Yahweh met Balam and put a word in his mouth and said return to Balak and say this he came to him and behold he was standing by his burnt offering and the princes of Moab with him Balak said to him what has Yahweh spoken he took up his parable and said rise up Balak and hear listen to me you son of Zippor God is not a man that he should lie nor the son of man that he should repent has he said or will he not do it or has he spoken and will he not make it good behold I have received a command to bless he has blessed and I can't reverse it he has not seen iniquity in Jacob neither has he seen perverseness in Israel Yahweh his God is with him the shout of a king is among them God brings them out of Egypt he has as it were the strength of a wild ox surely there is no enchantment with Jacob neither is there any divination with Israel now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel what has God done behold the people rises up as a lioness as a lion he lifts himself up he shall not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks the blood of the slain Balak said to Balam neither cursed them at all nor blessed them at all but Balam answered Balak didn't I tell you saying all that Yahweh speaks that I must do Balak said to Balam come now I will take you to another place perhaps it will please God that you may curse them from there Balak took Balam Balam to the top of Peor the looks down on the desert Balam said to Balak build me here seven altars and prepare me seven bulls and seven rams Balak did as Balam has said and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar when Balam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel he didn't go as at the other times to meet with enchantments but he set his face towards the wilderness Balam lifted up his eyes and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes and the spirit of God came on him he took up his parable and said Balam, the son of Beor says the man whose eyes was closed says who sees the vision of the Almighty falling down and having his eyes open how goodly are your tents Jacob and your tents Israel as valleys they are spread forth as gardens by the riverside as aloes which Yahweh has planted as cedar trees beside the waters water shall flow from his buckets his seed shall be in many waters his king shall be higher than a garg his kingdom shall be exalted God brings him out of Egypt he has as it were the strength of the wild ox he shall eat up the nations his adversaries shall break their bones into pieces and pierce them with his arrows he couched he lay down as a lion as a lioness who shall rout him up everyone who blesses you is blessed everyone who curses you is cursed Balak's anger was kindled against Balam and he struck his hands together and Balak said to Balam I called you to curse my enemies and behold you have altogether blessed them these three times therefore now flee you to your place I thought to promote you to great honour but behold Yahweh has kept you back from honour Balam said to Balak didn't I also tell your messengers who sent to me saying if Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold I cannot go beyond the words of Yahweh to do either good or bad of my own mind I will say what Yahweh says now behold I go to my people come I will inform you this people shall do to your people in the latter days he took up his parable and said Balam, the son of Beor says the man whose eye was closed says he says who hears the words of God knows the knowledge of the most high and who sees the vision of the Almighty falling down and having his eyes open I see him but not now I see him but not near the car will come out of Jacob a scepter will rise out of Israel and shall strike through the corners of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheath Edom shall be possessed Seir, his enemies also shall be a possession while Israel does valiantly out of Jacob shall one have dominion and shall destroy the remnant from the city he looked at Amalek took up his parable and said Amalek was the first of the nations but his latter end shall come to destruction he looked at the keenight and took up his parable and said your dwelling place is strong your nest is set in the rock nevertheless Cain shall be wasted until Asur carries your way captive he took up his parable and said alas who shall live when God does this but ships shall come from the coast of Kittim they shall afflict Asur and afflict Eber he also shall come to destruction Balaam rose up and went and returned to his place and Balaak also went his way Israel stayed in Sheetim and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods and the people ate and bowed down to their gods Israel joined himself to Baal Peor Anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel Yahweh said to Moses take all the chiefs of the people and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel Moses said to the judges of Israel everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor behold one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midunite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting when Phineas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it he rose up from the mist of the congregation and took a spear in his hand and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion and thrust both of them through the man of Israel and the woman through her body so the plague was stayed from the children which died by the plague were 24,000 Yahweh spoke to Moses saying Phineas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has turned my wrath from the children of Israel in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy therefore say behold I give to him my covenant of peace and it shall be to him and to his seed after him the covenant of an everlasting priesthood because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the children of Israel now the name of the man of Israel that was slain who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri the son of Salu a prince of a father's house among the Simeonites the name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cosby the son of Zour he was head of a people's of a father's house of Midian Yahweh spoke to Moses saying harass the Midianites and strike them for they harassed you with their wiles for which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cosby the daughter of the prince of Midian their sister who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor it happened after the plague that Yahweh spoke to Moses to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saying take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel from 20 years old and upwards by their father's house all who were able to go forth to war in Israel Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho saying take a census from 20 years old and upwards as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel these are those that came out of the land of Egypt Reuben the first born of Israel the sons of Reuben of Hanok the family of the Hanokites of Palu the family of the Paloites of Hezron the family of the Hezronites of Kami the family of the Karmites these are the family of the Reubenites and those who were numbered of them were 43,730 the sons of Palu Eliab the sons of Eliab Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram these are the Dathan and Abiram who were called of the congregation who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they strove against Yahweh and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died what time the fire devoured the 250 men and they became a sign notwithstanding the sons of Korah didn't die the sons of Simeon after their families of Nemuel the family of the Nemuelites of Jamin the family of the Jakinites of Zera the family of the Zeraites 2200 the sons of God after their families of Zafon the family of the Zafonites of Hagai the family of the Hagites of Shuni and the family of the Shunites of Ozni of Eri the family of the Ereites of Arod of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them 40500 the sons of Judah Er and Onan and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan the sons of Judah after their families were of Sheela the family of the Sheelaites of Peres the family of the Peresites of Zera the family of the Zeraites the sons of Peres were of Hezron the family of the Hezronites of Hamel the family of the Hamelites these are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them 76500 the sons of Icha after their families of Tola the family of the Toleites of Puvar the family of the Punites of Jashub the family of the Jashubites of Shimron the family of the Shimronites these are the families of Ishakar according to those who were numbered of them 64300 the sons of Zebulun after their families of Sered the families of the Seridites of Elon the families of the Elonites of Jahil the families of the Jahilites these are the families of the Zebulites according to those who were numbered of them 60500 the sons of Joseph after their families Manasseh and Ephrem the sons of Manasseh of Machir of the families of the Machirites and Machir became the father of Gilead of Gilead the family of the Gileadites these are the sons of Gilead of Eazar the family of the Eazites of Helik the family of the Helikites and Ezreal the family of the Ezrealites and Shechem the family of the Shechemites and Shemida the family of the Shechemidites and Hepha the family of the Hepha-dites Zelofehad the son of Hepha had no sons but daughters the names of the daughters of Zelofehad were Mahla and Noah Nogla Milka and Zetizar these are the families of Manasseh and those who were numbered of them were 52700 these are the sons of Ephrem after their families of Shuthelah the family of the Shuthelites and Bekhar the family of the Bekharites of Taharn and the family of the Taharnites these are the sons of Shuthelah of Eram the families of the Eronites these are the families of the sons of Ephrem according to those who were numbered of them 32500 these are the sons of Joseph after their families the sons of Benjamin after their families of Bela the family of the Bellites of Aspel the family of the Aspelites of Eram of the family of the Aeromites of Shupafarm this family of the Shupafarmites of Hufam the family of the Hufemites the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman the family of the Ardites of Naaman the family of the Naamites these are the sons of Benjamin after their families and those who were numbered of them were These are the sons of Dan after their families, of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families, all the families of the Shuhamites according to those who were numbered of them were sixty-four thousand four hundred. The sons of Asha after their families, of Imna, the family of the Imnites, of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites, of Beria, the family of the Berites, of the sons of Beria, of Heba, and the family of the Heberites, of Malachial, and the family of the Malachialites. The names of the daughters of Asha were Sera. These are the families of the sons of Asha, according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred. The sons of Neftali and their families, of Jazeel, the family of the Jazeelites, of Gooni and the family of the Goonites, of Jeze, the family of the Jezeites, of Shillim, the family of the Shillimites. These are the families of Neftali, according to their families, and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred. These are those who were numbered with the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance, according to the number of names. To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given. Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot, according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer. These are those who were numbered after the Leobites after their families, of Gershon the family of the Gershonites, of Korath the family of the Corithites, of Merara the family of the Meraraites, these are the family of Levi the family of the Lebinites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Marhalites, the family of the Mooshites, the family of the Coherites. Korath became the father of Amram. The name of Amram's wife was Jochabed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt, and she was born to Amram, Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam their sister. To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamach. Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh. Those who were numbered of them were 23,000, every male from a month old and upwards, for they were not numbered among children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel. These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. But among these was not a man of them who were not numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. But Yahweh had said to them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. There was not a man left of them, except Kaleb, the son of Jefunah, then Joshua, the son of Nun. Then drew near the daughters of Silophehad, the son of Hefe, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manase, of the families of Manase, the son of Joseph. And these are the names of his daughters, Marlar, Noah, and Hoglar, and Milka and Tiazar. They stood before Moses and before Eleazar, the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting, saying, Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah. But he died in his own sin, and he had no sons. Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father. Moses brought their cause before Yahweh. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, The daughters of Silophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's sons, and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them. You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughters. If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers. If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsmen, who is next to him of his family. And he shall possess it, and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute and an audience, as Yahweh commanded Moses. Yahweh said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Aberim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel. When you have seen it, you shall also be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered, because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zinn. In the strife of the congregation to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. These are the waters of Meribah, of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zinn. Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying, Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in. That the congregation of Yahweh not be a sheep, which have no shepherd. Yahweh said to Moses, Take Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand upon him, and set him before Eleazar the priest, before all the congregation, and commission him in their sight. You shall put of your honour on him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey. He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim, before Yahweh. At his word shall they go out, and at his word shall they come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation. Moses did as Yahweh commanded him, and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation, and he laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as Yahweh spoke by Moses. End of chapters 21 through 27. Chapter 28 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, and tell them, My offering, my food for my offerings, made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, you shall observe to offer to me in their due season. You shall tell them, This is the offering made by fire, which you shall offer to Yahweh, male lambs a year old, without blemish, two day by day, as a continual burnt offering. You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening, with the tenth part of an ephot of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hen of beaten oil. It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, on offering made by fire to Yahweh. Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hen for the one lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place. The other lamb you shall offer at evening, as the meal offering of the morning, and as a drink offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. On the Sabbath day, two male lambs, a year old, without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephot of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and the drink offering of it. This is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it. In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh, two young bulls, and one lamb, seven male lambs, a year old, without blemish, and three tenth parts of an ephot of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil for each bull, and two tenth parts of a fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil for the one lamb, and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, to every lamb, for a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. Their drink offerings shall be half a hen of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hen for the ram, and the fourth part of a hen for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year, one male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh. It shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and the drink offering of it. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh's Passover. On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast, seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. In the first day shall be a holy convocation, you shall do no servile work, but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh, two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs, a year old. They shall be to you without blemish, and their meal offering fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenth parts for a bull, and two tenth parts for the ram. You shall offer a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs, and one male goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you. You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. In this way you shall offer daily for seven days the food of the offering made by fire of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. It shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and the drink offering of it. On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation, you shall do no servile work. Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall do no servile work, but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. Two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs, a year old, and their meal offering fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs, one male goat to make atonement for you. Besides the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it, you shall offer them, they shall be to you without blemish, and their drink offerings. Chapter 29 In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation, you shall do no servile work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets to you. You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs, a year old, without blemish, and their meal offering fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram, and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs, and one male goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you. Besides the burnt offering of the new moon and the meal offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall afflict your souls, you shall do no kind of work, but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma, one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs, a year old. They shall be to you without blemish, and their meal offering fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs, one male goat for a sin offering, besides a sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you shall have a holy convocation, you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days, and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. Thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old. They shall be without blemish, and their meal offering fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs, and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number after the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings. On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offerings, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, their meal offering, and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offerings of it. On the seventh day, seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. On the eighth day, you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall do no servile work, but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. One bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish, their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering. Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it, you shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows and your free will offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings. Moses told the children of Israel, according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses. CHAPTER 30 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is a thing which Yahweh has commanded. When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that precedes out of his mouth. Also, when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth, and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand. And every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand. But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears none of her vows, or if her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand, and Yahweh will forgive her because her father disallowed her. If she has a husband while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul, and her husband hears it, and holds his peace at her in the day that he hears it, then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand. But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul, and Yahweh will forgive her. But the vow of a widow, or of her is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her. If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and didn't disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand. But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, that whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand, her husband has made them void, and Yahweh will forgive her. Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. But if her husband altogether holds his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her. He has established them because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them. But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter being in her youth in her father's house. Chapter 31 Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites, afterward you shall be gathered to your people. Moses spoke to the people saying, Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian. Of every tribe one thousand throughout all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war. So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. Moses sent them one thousand of every tribe to the war, them and Phineas the son of Eliezer the priest, to the war with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. They warred against Midian as Yahweh commanded Moses and they killed every male. They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi and Rekam and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam also the son of Yor they killed with the sword. The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones and all their livestock and all their flocks and all their goods they took for a prey. All their cities and the places in which they lived and all their encampments they burnt with fire. They took all the spoil and all the prey both of man and of animal. They brought the captives and the prey and the spoil to Moses and to Eliezer the priest and to the congregation of the children of Israel to the camp at the plains of Moab which are by the Jordan at Jericho. Moses and Eliezer the priest and all the princes of the congregation went forth to meet them outside of the camp. Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who came from the service of the war. Moses said to them, have you saved all the women alive? Behold these caused the children of Israel through the council of Balaam to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Pior and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him, but all the girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. In camp outside of the camp seven days, whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives, as to every garment and all that is made of skin and all work of goat's hair and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves. Eliezer the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle. This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses. However the gold and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, everything that may withstand the fire you shall make go through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity, and all that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water. You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean, and afterward you shall come into the camp. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you and Eliezer the priest, and the heads of the father's households of the congregation, and divide the prey into two parts, between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. Levy attribute to Yahweh of the men of war, who went out to battle, one soul of five hundred, of the persons of the cattle and of the donkeys, and of the flocks. Take it of their half, and give it to Eliezer the priest, for Yahweh's way of offering. Of the children of Israel's half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh. Moses and Eliezer the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses. Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, and seventy-two thousand head of cattle, and sixty-one thousand donkeys, and thirty-two thousand persons and all of the women who had not known man by lying with him. The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was the number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two. The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one. The persons were sixteen thousand, of which Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two persons. Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's way of offering to Eliezer the priest, as Yahweh commanded of Moses. Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred, now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, and thirty-six thousand head of cattle, and thirty-thousand five hundred donkeys, and sixteen thousand persons. Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses. The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds came near to Moses, and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and their lax not one man of us. We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh. Moses and Eliezer the priest took their gold, even all work jewels, all the gold of the way of offering they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands and of the captains of hundreds, with sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels. The men of war had taken booty every man for himself. Moses and Eliezer the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh. CHAPTER 32 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock, and when they saw the land of Jezer and the land of Gilead, that behold the place was a place for livestock, the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and the Eliezer the priest, and the princes of the congregation sang, Adiroth and Daimon and Jezer and Nimrah and Heshbon and Eliella and Sebem and Nebo and Beon, the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock and your servants have livestock. They said, if we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession, don't bring us over the Jordan. Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, shall your brothers go to the war and shall you sit here? Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them? Your fathers did so when I sent them from Qadesh, Barnia to see the land, for when they went up to the valley of Eshkol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, and they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them. Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore saying, surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upward shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me, except Caleb, the son of Japhana, the kenozite, and Joshua, the son of Nun, because they have followed Yahweh completely. Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh was consumed. Behold, you have risen up in your father's place an increase of sinful men to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel, for if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people. They came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones, but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place, and our little one shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance, for we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and forward, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward. Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war, and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him, and the land is subdued before Yahweh, then afterward you shall return and be guiltless towards Yahweh and towards Israel, and this land shall be to you for possession before Yahweh. But if you do not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh, and be sure your sin will find you out. Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do that which has preceded out of your mouth. The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses saying, Your servants will do as my Lord commands. Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead, but Your servants will pass over every man who is armed for war before Yahweh to battle, as my Lord says. So Moses commanded concerning them to Eliezer the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the father's households of the tribes of the children of Israel. Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for possession. But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do. We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan. Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og, king of Baishon, the land according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land. The children of Gad built Daimon, and Adiroth, and Error, and Atroshofen, and Jazeir, and Jagbaha, and Beth Nimra, and Beth Heron, fortified cities and folds for sheep. The children of Reuben built Hoshbon, and Eliella, and Curiathum, and Nebo, and Baal-Meon, their names being changed, and Sybma, and they gave the other names to the cities which they built. The children of Makar, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein. Moses gave Gilead to Makar, the son of Manasseh, and he lived therein. Jer, the son of Manasseh, went and took its towns and called them Havath Jer. Nebo went and took Kenneth, and its villages, and called it Noba, after his own name. Chapter 33 These are the journeys of the children of Israel when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh, and these are their journeys according to their goings out. They traveled from Ramses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, while the Egyptians were bearing all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them, on their gods also Yahweh executed judgments. The children of Israel traveled from Ramses and encamped in Sukkoth. They traveled from Sukkoth and encamped in Ethem, which is in the edge of the wilderness. They traveled from Ethem, and turned back to Paiha Hyroth, which is before Baal Zephan, and they encamped before Migdal. They traveled from before Hyroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went three days' journey into the wilderness of Ethem and encamped in Mara. They traveled from Mara and came to Elam, and in Elam were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there. They traveled from Elam and encamped by the Red Sea. They traveled from the Red Sea and encamped into the wilderness of Sin. They traveled from the wilderness of Sin and encamped in Dopka. They traveled from Dopka and encamped in Elush. They traveled from Elush and encamped in Rafitim, where there was no water for the people to drink. They traveled from Rafitim and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai and encamped in Kibreth Hadeva. They traveled from Kibreth Hadeva and encamped in Hazaroth. They traveled from Hazaroth and encamped in Rithma. They traveled from Rithma and encamped in Riemann-Pires. They traveled from Riemann-Pires and encamped in Livna. They traveled from Livna and encamped in Risa. They traveled from Risa and encamped in Chialeda. They traveled from Chialeda and encamped in Mount Sheper. They traveled from Mount Sheper and encamped in Hereda. They traveled from Hereda and encamped in Makaloth. They travel from Makuloth and encamped in Tehoth. They traveled from Mitka and encamped in Hashemona. They traveled from Hashemona and encamped in Moseroth. They traveled from Moseroth and encamped in Vinny-Jaykin. They traveled from Vinny-Jaykin and encamped in Hor-Hagi-Dad. They traveled from Hor-Hagi-Dad and encamped in Jot-Batha. They traveled from Jot-Batha and encamped in Ebrona. They traveled from Ebrona and encamped in Ezion-Geber. They traveled from Ezion, Ghiber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, the same as Kadesh. They traveled from Kadesh and encamped in Mount Hore, in the edge of the land of Edom. Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hore at the commandment of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month. Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hore. The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. They traveled from Mount Hore, and encamped in Zalmona. They traveled from Zalmona, and encamped in Phunyan. They traveled from Phunyan, and encamped in Oboth. They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Ayah Eberim, in the border of Moab. They traveled from Ayam, and encamped in Diaban Gad. They traveled from Diaban Gad, and encamped in Alman Deblatham. They traveled from Alman Deblatham, and encamped in the mountains of Eberim, before Nebo. They traveled from the mountains of Eberim, and encamped in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan at Jericho. They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth DeSimoth, even to Abel Shidem, in the plains of Moab. Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places. You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein, for I have given the land to you to possess it. You shall inherit the land by lot, according to your families, to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Whatever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit, according to the tribes of your fathers. But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell. It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you. Chapter 34 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, and tell them. When you come into the land of Canaan, this is a land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan, according to its borders. Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin, along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea, eastward, and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Acrebim, and pass along to Zin, and the goings out of it shall be southward of Quresh Barnea, and it shall go forth to Hazer Adder, and pass along to Asmon, and the border shall turn about from Asmon to the brook of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border, this shall be your west border. This shall be your north border, from the great sea you shall mark out for you Mount Hore, for Mount Hore you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath, and the goings out of the border shall be at Zidad, and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazer Enan, this shall be your north border. You shall mark out your east border from Hazer Enan to Shepham, and the border shall go down from Shephan to Riblah, and on the east side of Ain, and the border shall go down and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinareth, eastward, and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea, this shall be your land according to its borders around it. Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is a land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe, for the tribe of the children of Reuben, according to their father's houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad, according to their father's houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance. The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward, toward the sunrise. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance. Elias are the priests, and Joshua the son of none. You shall take one prince of every tribe to divide the land for inheritance. These are the names of the men of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Defunah, of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel, the son of Ahmahud, of the tribe of Benjamin, Eladad, the son of Chislan, of the tribe of the children of Dan of Prince, Buki, the son of Jogli, of the children of Joseph, of the tribe of the children of Manasseh, of Prince, Haniel, the son of Ephod, of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, of Prince, Kimuel, the son of Shifton, of the tribe of the children of Zebulon, of Prince, Elezefin, the son of Parnach, of the tribe of the children of Issachar, of Prince, Paltiel, the son of Azon, of the tribe of the children of Asher, of Prince, Ahayud, the son of Sholomai, of the tribe of the children of Naftaliya Prince, Petahel, the son of Amarhud. These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan. CHAPTER 35 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordanate Jericho, saying, Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in, and ye shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites. The city shall they have to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals. The suburbs of the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it. Ye shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. The cities which ye shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee to, and besides them ye shall give forty-two cities. All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs. Concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall take many, and from the few ye shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of the cities to the Levites. Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel and tell them. When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then ye shall appoint ye cities to be cities of refuge for ye, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. The city shall be to you for refuge from the Avenger, that the manslayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment. The cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge. Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and ye shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge. For the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. But if he struck him with an instrument of iron so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. If he struck him with a stone in the hand by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer, and the murderer shall surely be put to death. Or, if he struck him with a weapon of wood in hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer, the murderer shall surely be put to death. The Avenger of Blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him he shall put him to If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him lying in wait, so that he died, or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The Avenger of Blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him. But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without laying in wait, or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm, then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the Avenger of Blood according to these ordinances. And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the Avenger of Blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled, and he shall dwell therein until the death of the High Priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees, and the Avenger of Blood find him, outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the Avenger of Blood kill the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood, because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the High Priest, that after the death of the High Priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession. These things shall be for statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Whoever kills any person the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses, but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death. You shall take no ransom for him who was fled to a city of refuge that he may come again to dwell in the land until the death of the Priest. So you shall not pollute the land in which you are. For blood it pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it. You shall not defy the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell, for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel. CHAPTER 36 The heads of the father's households, of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Makur, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the father's households, of the children of Israel, and they said, Yahweh commanded my Lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel, and my Lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zalofahad, our brother, to his daughters. If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe wherein to they shall belong. So will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe wherein to they shall belong. So will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribes of our fathers. Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Yahweh saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right. This is a thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zalophahad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best, only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married. So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe, for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance. The daughters of Zalophahad did as Yahweh commanded Moses. For Mela, Tiresa, and Hogla, and Milka, and Noah, the daughters of Zalophahad, were married to their fathers' brothers' sons. They were married into the families of the sons of the Manasseh, the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. CHAPTERS 1-4 CHAPTER 1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suf, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazaroth, and Dizahab. It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-Barnea. It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them. After he had struck Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshban, and Og, the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth at Edriai, beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain, turn and take your journey and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the south, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them. I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone. Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude. Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you as he has promised you. How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance and your burden and your strife? Take wise men of understanding and well-known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. You answered me and said, The thing which you have spoken is good to do. So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and officers according to your tribes. I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. You shall not show partiality and judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it. I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do. We travelled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Emirates, as Yahweh our God commanded us, and we came to Kadesh-Barnia. I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Emirates, which Yahweh our God gives to us. Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as Yahweh the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. You came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come. The thing pleased me well, and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe, and they turned and went up into the hill-country, and came to the valley of Eshkol, and spied it out. They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us. Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahweh hated us, He has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Emirates, to destroy us. Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky, and more over we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. Then I said to you, Don't dread, neither be afraid of them, Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place. Yet in this thing you didn't believe Yahweh your God, who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day. Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers, except Caleb the son of Japhene, he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh. Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sake, saying, You also shall not go in there, Joshua the son of none who stands before you, he shall go in there. Encourage you him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. Moreover your little ones whom you said should be a prey, and your children who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it. But as for you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness, by the way to the Red Sea. Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us. Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill-country. Yahweh said to me, Tell them, Don't go up, neither fight, for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies. So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen. But you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country. The Amorites, who lived in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in seer, even to Hormah. You returned and wept before Yahweh, but Yahweh didn't listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you. So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained. Chapter 2 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness, by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me, and we encircled Mount Seer many days. Yahweh spoke to me, saying, You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward, command the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in seer, and they will be afraid of you. Take good heed to yourselves, therefore. Don't contend with them, for I will not give you of their land. No, not so much as for the soul of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seer to Esau for a possession. You shall purchase food of them for money that you may eat, and you shall also buy water of them for money that you may drink. For Yahweh, your God, has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years Yahweh, your God, has been with you. You have lacked nothing. So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in seer, from the way of the Aravah, from Elaph, and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. Yahweh said to me, Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle, for I will not give you of his land for a possession, because I have given R to the children of Lot for a possession. The Emim lived therein before, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim. These also are accounted Refayim as the Anakim. But the Moabites call them Emim. The Horites also lived in seer before, but the children of Esau succeeded them, and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them. Now rise up and cross over the Brook Zered. We went over the Brook Zered. The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we had come over the Brook Zered, were thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them. Moreover, the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed. So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, that Yahweh spoke to me saying, You are this day to pass over R, the border of Moab, and when you come near over against the children of Ammon, don't bother them, nor contend with them, for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession. That also is accounted a land of Refayim. Refayim lived therein before, but the Ammonites call them Zamzumim, a people great and many and tall as the Anakim, but Yahweh destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them and lived in their place, as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them, and they succeeded them and lived in their place even to this day, and the Avim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Kaftorim, who came forth out of Kaftor, destroyed them, and lived in their place. Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the Valley of the Arnan. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, King of Heshban, and his land. Begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you. I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kiddimoth to Sihon, King of Heshban, with words of peace, saying, Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left. You shall sell me food for money that I may eat, and give me water for money that I may drink. Only let me pass through on my feet, as the children of Esau who dwell in Seer, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did to me, until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us. But Sihon, King of Heshban, would not let us pass by him, for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate that he might deliver him into your hand as at this day. Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon in his land before you. Begin to possess that you may inherit his land. Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. Yahweh our God delivered him up before us, and we struck him and his sons and all his people. We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city. With the women and the little ones, we left none remaining, only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. From our where, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnan, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us, only to the land of the children of Amun you didn't come near. All the side of the river Jabbaq, and the cities of the hill-country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us. CHAPTER 3 Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan, and Arg the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edriai. Yahweh said to me, Don't fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people, and his land into your hand, and you shall do to him, as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshban. So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we struck him until none was left to him remaining. We took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we didn't take from them. Sixty cities, all the region of Argab, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides the unwalled towns, a great many. We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon, king of Heshban, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. We took the land at that time, out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnan, to Mount Hermon, the Sidonians call Hermon, Cyrean, and the Amorites call it Senir. We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salika and Edriai, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, for only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of the Refayim. Behold, his bed-stead was a bed-stead of iron. Isn't it, in Raba of the Children of Ammon, nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man. This land we took in possession at that time, from Arowair, which is by the valley of the Arnan, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and its cities gave eye to the Rubinites and to the Gadites, and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave eye to the half-tribe of Manasseh. All the region of Argab, even all Bashan. The same is called the land of Refayim. Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the region of Argab to the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havoth Jair, to this day. I gave Gilead to make here. To the Rubinites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead, even to the valley of the Arnan, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabak, which is the border of the children of Amman. The Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinareth, even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pizka, eastward. I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh, your God has given you this land to possess it. You shall pass overarmed before your brothers, the children of Israel, all the men of Valar. But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, I know that you have much livestock, shall live in your cities which I have given you, until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall return every man to his possession, which I have given you. I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings. So shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over. You shall not fear them, for Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you. I begged Yahweh at that time, saying, Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what God is there in heaven, or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts? Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and didn't listen to me. And Yahweh said to me, Let it suffice you, speak no more to me of this matter. Go up to the top of Pischa, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan. But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him, for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see. So we stayed in the valley over against Bethpior. Chapter 4 Now Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you to do them, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you. You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you. Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal-Peor. For all the men who followed Baal-Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you. But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive this day. Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it. Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what great nation is there that has a God so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him? What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. But make them known to your children and your children's children, the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children. You came near and stood under the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the voice of words, but you saw no form. You only heard a voice. He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. And he wrote them on two tables of stone. Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it. Take therefore good heed to yourselves, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire. Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth, and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky. But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance as at this day. Furthermore, Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land. Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you. For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God to provoke him to anger, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land, whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed. Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few a number among the nations where Yahweh shall lead you away. There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice. For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it. Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him. Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you, and on earth he made you to see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt. To drive out nations from before you, greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance as at this day. Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh he is God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, there is none else. You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you forever. Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live, Bezer in the wilderness in the plain country for the Rubinites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites. This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshban, who Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came forth out of Egypt. They took his land in possession, and the land of Arr, king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, toward the sunrise, from Arroir, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnan, even to Mount Sihon, the same is Hermon, and all the Arabah, beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisca. The end of Deuteronomy chapters one through four from the World English Bible, narrated by Mark Penfold.