Numbers 33-36

Numbers 33

¹These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt according to their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

²And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Jehovah; and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

³They journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

⁴And the Egyptians buried those whom Jehovah had smitten among them, all the firstborn; and upon their gods Jehovah executed judgments.

⁵And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.

⁶And they removed from Succoth and encamped in Etham, which is at the end of the wilderness.

⁷And they removed from Etham, and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is opposite Baal-Zephon, and encamped before Migdol.

⁸And they removed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

⁹And they removed from Marah, and came to Elim; and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm-trees, and they encamped there.

¹⁰And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.

¹¹And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

¹²And they removed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

¹³And they removed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

¹⁴And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

¹⁵And they removed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.

¹⁶And they removed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

¹⁷And they removed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.

¹⁸And they removed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.

¹⁹And they removed from Rithmah, and encamped at Rimmon-perez.

²⁰And they removed from Rimmon-perez, and encamped in Libnah.

²¹And they removed from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah.

²²And they removed from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.

²³And they removed from Kehelathah, and encamped in mount Shapher.

²⁴And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.

²⁵And they removed from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.

²⁶And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.

²⁷And they removed from Tahath, and encamped at Terah.

²⁸And they removed from Terah, and encamped in Mithcah.

²⁹And they removed from Mithcah, and encamped in Hashmonah.

³⁰And they removed from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.

³¹And they removed from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene-Jaakan.

³²And they removed from Bene-Jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad.

³³And they removed from Hor-hagidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.

³⁴And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Abronah.

³⁵And they removed from Abronah, and encamped at Ezion-geber.

³⁶And they removed from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

³⁷And they removed from Kadesh, and encamped in mount Hor, in the border of the land of Edom.

³⁸And Aaron the priest went up mount Hor by the commandment of Jehovah, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first of the month.

³⁹And Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on mount Hor.

⁴⁰And the Canaanite, the king of Arad who dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

⁴¹And they removed from mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.

⁴²And they removed from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.

⁴³And they removed from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.

⁴⁴And they removed from Oboth, and encamped in Ijim-Abarim, in the border of Moab.

⁴⁵And they removed from Ijim, and encamped in Dibon-Gad.

⁴⁶And they removed from Dibon-Gad, and encamped in Almon-Diblathaim.

⁴⁷And they removed from Almon-Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

⁴⁸And they removed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan of Jericho.

⁴⁹And they encamped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth unto Abel-Shittim, in the plains of Moab.

⁵⁰And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan of Jericho, saying,

⁵¹Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

⁵²then ye shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and ye shall destroy all their figured images, and all their molten images shall ye destroy, and all their high places shall ye lay waste;

⁵³and ye shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein, for to you have I given the land to possess it.

⁵⁴And ye shall take for yourselves the land as an inheritance by lot according to your families: to the many ye shall increase their inheritance, and to the few thou shalt diminish their inheritance: where the lot falleth to him, there shall be each man's inheritance; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye take for yourselves the inheritance.

⁵⁵But if ye will not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, those that ye let remain of them shall be thorns in your eyes, and pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell.

⁵⁶And it shall come to pass that I will do unto you as I thought to do unto them.

Numbers 34

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

²Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan, this shall be the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof.

³Then your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside of Edom, and your southern border shall be from the end of the salt sea eastward;

⁴and your border shall turn from the south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin, and shall end southward at Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-Addar, and pass on to Azmon.

⁵And the border shall turn from Azmon unto the torrent of Egypt, and shall end at the sea.

⁶And as west border ye shall have the great sea, and its coast. This shall be your west border.

⁷And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor;

⁸from mount Hor ye shall mark out the entrance to Hamath, and the end of the border shall be toward Zedad;

⁹and the border shall go to Ziphron, and shall end at Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border.

¹⁰And ye shall mark out for you as eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:

¹¹and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall strike upon the extremity of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

¹²and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and shall end at the salt sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.

¹³And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall take for yourselves as inheritance by lot, which Jehovah commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.

¹⁴For the tribe of the children of the Reubenites according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of the Gadites according to their fathers' houses, have received, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance;

¹⁵the two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side the Jordan of Jericho eastward, toward the sun-rising.

¹⁶And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁷These are the names of the men who shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

¹⁸And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land.

¹⁹And these are the names of the men: for the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;

²⁰and for the tribe of the children of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammihud;

²¹for the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon;

²²and for the tribe of the children of Dan, a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli;

²³for the children of Joseph: for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod,

²⁴and for the tribe of the children of Ephraim, a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan;

²⁵and for the tribe of the children of Zebulun, a prince, Elizaphan the son of Pharnach;

²⁶and for the tribe of the children of Issachar, a prince, Phaltiel the son of Azzan;

²⁷and for the tribe of the children of Asher, a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi;

²⁸and for the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a prince, Phedahel the son of Ammihud.

²⁹These are they whom Jehovah commanded to distribute to the children of Israel their inheritance in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 35

¹And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan of Jericho, saying,

²Command the children of Israel, that of the inheritance of their possession they give unto the Levites cities to dwell in; and a suburb for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites.

³And the cities shall they have to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

⁴And the suburbs of the cities that ye shall give unto the Levites shall be from the walls of the city outward, a thousand cubits round about.

⁵And ye shall measure, without the city, the east side two thousand cubits, and the south side two thousand cubits, and the west side two thousand cubits, and the north side two thousand cubits, and the city shall be in the midst: they shall have this as suburbs of the cities.

⁶And among the cities that ye shall give unto the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither, -- and besides them ye shall give forty-two cities:

⁷all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.

⁸And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have much ye shall take much, and from them that have little ye shall take little; each one according to his inheritance which he will inherit shall give of his cities to the Levites.

⁹And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁰Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

¹¹then ye shall appoint for yourselves cities: cities of refuge shall they be for you; that a manslayer may flee thither, who without intent smiteth a person mortally.

¹²And ye shall have these cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he have stood before the assembly in judgment.

¹³And the cities that ye shall give shall be six cities of refuge for you.

¹⁴Three cities shall ye give on this side of the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

¹⁵For the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them shall these six cities be a refuge, that one who smiteth a person mortally without intent may flee thither.

¹⁶And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death.

¹⁷And if he have smitten him with a stone from the hand, wherewith one may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death.

¹⁸Or if he have smitten him with an instrument of wood, in the hand, wherewith one may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death;

¹⁹the avenger of blood, he shall put the murderer to death; when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

²⁰And if he thrust at him out of hatred, or hurl at him intentionally, so that he die,

²¹or from enmity smite him with his hand, so that he die, he that smote him shall certainly be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meeteth him. --

²²But if he have thrust at him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him anything unintentionally,

²³or have smitten him with any stone wherewith one may die, without seeing him, and have cast it upon him so that he die, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

²⁴then the assembly shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these judgments;

²⁵and the assembly shall rescue the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he had fled; and he shall abide in it until the death of the high-priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

²⁶But if the manslayer shall in any way come outside the limits of the city of his refuge whither he hath fled,

²⁷and the avenger of blood find him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer, there shall be no blood-guiltiness upon him;

²⁸for the manslayer should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high-priest; but after the death of the high-priest he may return into the land of his possession.

²⁹And this shall be unto you a statute of right throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

³⁰Whoever shall smite a person mortally, at the mouth of witnesses shall the murderer be put to death; but one witness shall not testify against a person to cause him to die.

³¹And ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall certainly be put to death.

³²And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that hath fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

³³And ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and there can be no atonement made for the land, for the blood that hath been shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

³⁴And ye shall not defile the land that ye inhabit, in the midst whereof I dwell; for I am Jehovah who dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.

Numbers 36

¹And the chief fathers of families of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:

²and they said, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

³Now if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong; and it shall be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

⁴And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall come, then shall their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong; and their inheritance shall be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

⁵And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Jehovah, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.

⁶This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry whom they please; only they shall marry one of the tribe of their father,

⁷that no inheritance of the children of Israel pass from tribe to tribe; for every one of the children of Israel shall keep to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

⁸And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance among the tribes of the children of Israel, shall be married to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every one the inheritance of his fathers,

⁹and the inheritance shall not pass from one tribe to another tribe; for each of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep to his inheritance.

¹⁰Even as Jehovah had commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad;

¹¹and Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their uncles' sons.

¹²To those that were of the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph were they married; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

¹³These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded through Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan of Jericho.