Numbers 29-32

Numbers 29

¹In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns;

²And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them:

³And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,

⁴And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;

⁵And one he-goat for a sin-offering, to take away your sin:

⁶In addition to the burned offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, as they are ordered, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

⁷And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a holy meeting; keep yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of work;

⁸And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year: only those without any mark on them may be used:

⁹And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,

¹⁰A separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;

¹¹One he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the offering for taking away your sin, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.

¹²And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;

¹³And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, thirteen oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, all without any mark on them;

¹⁴And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every one of the thirteen oxen, two tenth parts for every male sheep,

¹⁵And a separate tenth part for every one of the fourteen lambs;

¹⁶And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

¹⁷On the second day of the feast give an offering of twelve oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them;

¹⁸And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen and the sheep and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

¹⁹And one he-goat for a sin-offering in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.

²⁰And on the third day eleven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;

²¹And their meal offering and drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

²²And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

²³And on the fourth day ten oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

²⁴And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered.

²⁵And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

²⁶And on the fifth day nine oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

²⁷And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

²⁸And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

²⁹And on the sixth day eight oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

³⁰And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

³¹And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offerings.

³²And on the seventh day seven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

³³And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

³⁴And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

³⁵On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;

³⁶And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

³⁷With the meal offering and the drink offerings for the ox, the male sheep, and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

³⁸And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

³⁹These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings.

⁴⁰So Moses gave the children of Israel all these directions as the Lord had given him orders.

Numbers 30

¹And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, This is the order of the Lord.

²When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.

³If a woman, being young and under the authority of her father, takes an oath to the Lord or gives an undertaking;

⁴If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking she has given, says nothing to her, then all her oaths and every undertaking she has given will have force.

⁵But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

⁶And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is under an oath or an undertaking given without thought;

⁷If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force.

⁸But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

⁹But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force.

¹⁰If she made an oath while she was under the authority of her husband,

¹¹And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every undertaking she gave will have force.

¹²But if her husband, on hearing of it, made them without force or effect, then whatever she has said about her oaths or her undertaking has no force: her husband has made them without effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

¹³Every oath, and every undertaking which she gives, to keep herself from pleasure, may be supported or broken by her husband.

¹⁴But if the days go on, and her husband says nothing whatever to her, then he is giving the support of his authority to her oaths and undertakings, because at the time of hearing them he said nothing to her.

¹⁵But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.

¹⁶These are the laws which the Lord gave Moses in relation to a man and his wife, or a father and a young daughter who is under his authority.

Numbers 31

¹Then the Lord said to Moses,

²Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.

³So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.

⁴From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.

⁵So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.

⁶And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war.

⁷And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.

⁸They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.

⁹The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;

¹⁰And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,

¹¹They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.

¹²And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

¹³Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the people went out to them before they had come into the tent-circle.

¹⁴And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.

¹⁵And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?

¹⁶It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

¹⁷So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

¹⁸But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

¹⁹You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.

²⁰And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean.

²¹Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses:

²²But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,

²³And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water.

²⁴And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you will be clean, and then you may come into the tent-circle.

²⁵And the Lord said to Moses,

²⁶Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people:

²⁷And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:

²⁸And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep:

²⁹Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.

³⁰And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.

³¹So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

³²Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

³³And seventy-two thousand oxen,

³⁴And sixty-one thousand asses;

³⁵And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.

³⁶And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

³⁷Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.

³⁸The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two;

³⁹The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one.

⁴⁰And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.

⁴¹And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

⁴²And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,

⁴³(Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

⁴⁴And thirty-six thousand oxen,

⁴⁵And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,

⁴⁶And sixteen thousand persons;)

⁴⁷Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

⁴⁸Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses,

⁴⁹And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present;

⁵⁰And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord.

⁵¹So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments.

⁵²And the gold which the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds gave, as an offering to be lifted up before the Lord, came to sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels.

⁵³(For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)

⁵⁴Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it into the Tent of meeting, to be a sign in memory of the children of Israel before the Lord.

Numbers 32

¹Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle;

²The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting,

³Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

⁴The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

⁵And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.

⁶And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here?

⁷Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?

⁸So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

⁹For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they took from the children of Israel the desire to go into the land which the Lord had given them.

¹⁰And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

¹¹Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;

¹²But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua, the son of Nun: because they have been true to the Lord.

¹³Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

¹⁴And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

¹⁵For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

¹⁶Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;

¹⁷But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.

¹⁸We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

¹⁹For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.

²⁰Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,

²¹Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,

²²And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.

²³But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

²⁴So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.

²⁵And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said to Moses, Your servants will do as my lord says.

²⁶Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead;

²⁷But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.

²⁸So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel.

²⁹And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage:

³⁰But if they do not go over with you armed, they will have to take their heritage with you in the land of Canaan.

³¹Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said, As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do.

³²We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.

³³So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them.

³⁴And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer;

³⁵And Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah;

³⁶And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.

³⁷And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim;

³⁸And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.

³⁹And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

⁴⁰And Moses gave Gilead to Machir, the son of Manasseh; and he made it his living-place.

⁴¹And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the towns of Gilead, naming them Havvoth-Jair.

⁴²And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns, naming it Nobah, after himself.