Bible-Reading.comNumbers 29
1“On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.
2As a pleasing aroma to the LORD, you are to present a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
3together with their grain offerings of fine flour mixed with oil—three-tenths of an ephah with the bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,
4and a tenth of an ephah with each of the seven male lambs.
5Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
6These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
7On the tenth day of this seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you shall humble yourselves; you must not do any work.
8Present as a pleasing aroma to the LORD a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
9together with their grain offerings of fine flour mixed with oil—three-tenths of an ephah with the bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,
10and a tenth of an ephah with each of the seven lambs.
11Include one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings.
12On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days.
13As a pleasing aroma to the LORD, you are to present an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
14along with the grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil with each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths of an ephah with each of the two rams,
15and a tenth of an ephah with each of the fourteen lambs.
16Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
17On the second day you are to present twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
18along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
19Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
20On the third day you are to present eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
21along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
22Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
23On the fourth day you are to present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
24along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
25Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
26On the fifth day you are to present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
27along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
28Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
29On the sixth day you are to present eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
30along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
31Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
32On the seventh day you are to present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
33along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
34Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
35On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
36As a pleasing aroma to the LORD, you are to present an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
37along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
38Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
39You are to present these offerings to the LORD at your appointed times, in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, or peace offerings.”
40So Moses spoke all this to the Israelites just as the LORD had commanded him.
Numbers 30
1Then Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:
2If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.
3And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,
4and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
5But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.
6If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,
7and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
8But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.
9Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.
10If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,
11and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
12But if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.
13Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.
14But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.
15But if he nullifies them after he hears of them, then he will bear her iniquity.”
16These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, and between a father and a young daughter still in his home.
Numbers 31
1And the LORD said to Moses,
2“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
3So Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.
4Send into battle a thousand men from each tribe of Israel.”
5So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.
6And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.
7Then they waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
8Among the slain were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
9The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.
10Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,
11and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.
12They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.
13And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.
14But Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who were returning from the battle.
15“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.
16“Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
17So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,
18but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.
19All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.
20And purify every garment and leather good, everything made of goat’s hair, and every article of wood.”
21Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses:
22Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
23everything that can withstand the fire—must be put through the fire, and it will be clean. But it must still be purified with the water of purification. And everything that cannot withstand the fire must pass through the water.
24On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”
25The LORD said to Moses,
26“You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what was captured, both of man and beast.
27Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to battle and the rest of the congregation.
28Set aside a tribute for the LORD from what belongs to the soldiers who went into battle: one out of every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, or sheep.
29Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.
30From the Israelites’ half, take one out of every fifty, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”
31So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD had commanded Moses,
32and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,
3372,000 cattle,
3461,000 donkeys,
35and 32,000 women who had not slept with a man.
36This was the half portion for those who had gone to war: 337,500 sheep,
37including a tribute to the LORD of 675,
3836,000 cattle, including a tribute to the LORD of 72,
3930,500 donkeys, including a tribute to the LORD of 61,
40and 16,000 people, including a tribute to the LORD of 32.
41Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as an offering for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
42From the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,
43this half belonged to the congregation: 337,500 sheep,
4436,000 cattle,
4530,500 donkeys,
46and 16,000 people.
47From the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
48Then the officers who were over the units of the army—the commanders of thousands and of hundreds—approached Moses
49and said, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.
50So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
51So Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them all the articles made out of gold.
52All the gold that the commanders of thousands and of hundreds presented as an offering to the LORD weighed 16,750 shekels.
53Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.
54And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.