Numbers 25-28

Numbers 25

¹Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

²For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.

³So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.

⁴Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.

⁵So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.

⁶Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

⁷And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a spear in his hand,

⁸And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel.

⁹But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

¹⁰And the Lord said to Moses,

¹¹Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.

¹²So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace:

¹³And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel.

¹⁴Now the man of Israel who was put to death with the woman of Midian was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of one of the families of the Simeonites.

¹⁵And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian.

¹⁶Then the Lord said to Moses,

¹⁷Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

¹⁸For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor.

Numbers 26

¹Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,

²Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel.

³So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying,

⁴Let all the people of twenty years old and over be numbered, as the Lord has given orders to Moses and the children of Israel who have come out of Egypt.

⁵Reuben, the first son of Israel: the sons of Reuben by their families: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:

⁶Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

⁷These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

⁸And the sons of Pallu, Eliab

⁹And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against Moses and Aaron and against the Lord:

¹⁰And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.

¹¹But death did not overtake the sons of Korah.

¹²The sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:

¹³Of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

¹⁴These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand, two hundred.

¹⁵The sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:

¹⁶Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:

¹⁷Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

¹⁸These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred.

¹⁹The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan.

²⁰And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

²¹And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

²²These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred.

²³The sons of Issachar by their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Puvah, the family of the Punites:

²⁴Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

²⁵These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered, sixty-four thousand, three hundred.

²⁶The sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

²⁷These are the families of the Zebulunites as they were numbered, sixty thousand, five hundred.

²⁸The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

²⁹The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir was the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

³⁰These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:

³¹And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:

³²And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

³³And Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, had no sons, but only daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

³⁴These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred.

³⁵These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites: of Becher, the family of the Becherites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

³⁶And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites:

³⁷These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.

³⁸The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:

³⁹Of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites: and of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

⁴⁰And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

⁴¹These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six hundred.

⁴²These are the sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan by their families.

⁴³All the families of the Shuhamites, as they were numbered, were sixty-four thousand, four hundred.

⁴⁴The sons of Asher by their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites: of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.

⁴⁵Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites:

⁴⁶And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

⁴⁷These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred.

⁴⁸The sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:

⁴⁹Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.

⁵⁰These are the families of Naphtali by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, four hundred.

⁵¹Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

⁵²And the Lord said to Moses,

⁵³Let there be a division of the land among these, for their heritage, in relation to the number of names.

⁵⁴To those families who are more in number, give a greater heritage; to those who are less in number, a smaller part: to every one let the heritage be given in relation to the number in his family.

⁵⁵But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them.

⁵⁶As it is ordered by the decision of the Lord, let distribution be made between those who are more in number and those who are less.

⁵⁷These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

⁵⁸These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram.

⁵⁹Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam.

⁶⁰Aaron's sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

⁶¹Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.

⁶²Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.

⁶³All these were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

⁶⁴But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.

⁶⁵For the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly overtake them in the waste land. And of them all, only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still living.

Numbers 27

¹Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

²They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,

³Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons.

⁴Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers.

⁵So Moses put their cause before the Lord.

⁶And the Lord said to Moses,

⁷What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.

⁸And say to the children of Israel, If a man has no son at the time of his death, let his heritage go to his daughter.

⁹And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to his brothers.

¹⁰And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.

¹¹And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

¹²And the Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim so that you may see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

¹³And when you have seen it, you will be put to rest with your people, as your brother Aaron was:

¹⁴Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)

¹⁵Then Moses said to the Lord,

¹⁶Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,

¹⁷To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.

¹⁸And the Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and put your hand on him;

¹⁹And take him before Eleazar the priest and all the meeting of the people, and give him his orders before their eyes.

²⁰And put your honour on him, so that all the children of Israel may be under his authority.

²¹He will take his place before Eleazar the priest, so that he may get directions from the Lord for him, with the Urim: at his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in, he and all the children of Israel.

²²So Moses did as the Lord said: he took Joshua and put him before Eleazar the priest and the meeting of the people:

²³And he put his hands on him and gave him his orders, as the Lord had said by Moses.

Numbers 28

¹And the Lord said to Moses,

²Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, Let it be your care to give me my offerings at their regular times, the food of the offerings made by fire to me for a sweet smell.

³Say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you are to give to the Lord; he-lambs of the first year without any mark, two every day as a regular burned offering.

⁴Let one be offered in the morning, and the other at evening;

⁵And the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with the fourth part of a hin of clear oil.

⁶It is a regular burned offering, as it was ordered in Mount Sinai, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

⁷And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a hin for one lamb: in the holy place let the wine be drained out for a drink offering for the Lord.

⁸Let the other lamb be offered at evening; like the meal offering of the morning and its drink offering, let it be offered as an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.

⁹And on the Sabbath day, two he-lambs of the first year, without any mark, and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

¹⁰This is the burned offering for every Sabbath day, in addition to the regular burned offering, and its drink offering.

¹¹And on the first day of every month you are to give a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;

¹²And three tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for every ox; and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one sheep;

¹³And a separate tenth part of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering for every lamb; for a burned offering of a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

¹⁴And their drink offerings are to be half a hin of wine for an ox, and the third part of a hin for a male sheep, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burned offering for every month through all the months of the year.

¹⁵And one he-goat for a sin-offering to the Lord; it is to be offered in addition to the regular burned offering and its drink offering.

¹⁶And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover.

¹⁷On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a feast; for seven days let your food be unleavened cakes.

¹⁸On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work:

¹⁹And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

²⁰And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil: let three tenth parts of an ephah be offered for an ox and two tenth parts for a male sheep;

²¹And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;

²²And one he-goat for a sin-offering to take away your sin.

²³These are to be offered in addition to the morning burned offering, which is a regular burned offering at all times.

²⁴In this way, every day for seven days, give the food of the offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord: it is to be offered in addition to the regular burned offering, and its drink offering.

²⁵Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

²⁶And at the time of the first-fruits, when you give an offering of new meal to the Lord at your feast of weeks, there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work:

²⁷And give a burned offering for a sweet smell to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year;

²⁸And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,

²⁹And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;

³⁰And one he-goat to take away your sin.

³¹These are in addition to the regular burned offering and its meal offering; take care that they are without any mark, and let them be offered with their drink offerings.