The Amalekites discomfit them. CHAP. XV. The law of sundry offerings. the wilderness forty years, and bear your 5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted for a drink-offering shalt thou prepare with. in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in which ve searched the land, even forty days (each day for a year) shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. 35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there thev shall die. 6 the burnt-offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. 7 And for a drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace-offerings unto the LORD: 36 And the men which Moses sent to 9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a search the land, who returned, and made meat-offering of three tenth-deals of flour all the congregation to murmur against mingled with half an hin of oil. him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, 10 And thou shalt bring for a drink-offer37 Even those men that did bring up the ing half an hin of wine, for an offering evil report upon the land, died by the made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the plague before the LORD. LORD: 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Ca11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, leb the son of Jephunneh, which were of or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid. the men that went to search the land, livedstill. 12 According to the number that ye shall 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all prepare, so shall ye do to every one accordthe children of Israel: and the people ing to their number. mourned greatly. 13 All that are born of the country shall 40 And they rose up early in the morn- do these things after this manner, in offering, and gat them up into the top of the ing an offering made by fire, of a sweet mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will savour unto the LORD. go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned. 41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ve transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper. 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. 44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill-top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. 45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah. CHAP. XV. 14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do. 15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stran ger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. 16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. " 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you, 19 Then it shall be, that when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave-offering unto the LORD. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say- of your dough for 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, 3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a free-will-offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock: 4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat-offering of a tenth-deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil. 20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first an heave-offering: as ye do the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it. 21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave-offering in your generations. 22 And if ye have erred, and not ob served all these commandments which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, 23 Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD cominanded Meses, and henceforward among your generations; 24 Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation The sabbath-breakers stoned. NUMBERS. The rebellion of Korah. shall offer one young bullock for a burnt- heart and your own eyes, after which ye use offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, to go a whoring: with his meat-offering, and his drink-offer- 40 That ye may remember, and do all ing, according to the manner, and one kid my commandments, and be holy unto your of the goats for a sin-offering. God. 25 And the priest shall make an atone- 41 I am the LORD your God, which ment for all the congregation of the chil- brought you out of the land of Egypt, to dren of Israel, and it shall be forgiven be your God: I am the LORD your God. them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifi CHAP. XVI. sacrifice made by fire OW Korah, the unto the LORD, and their sin-offering before the LORD, for their ignorance: Now son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took 26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the men; stranger that sojourneth among them; see- 2 And they rose up before Moses, with ing all the people were in ignorance. certain of the children of Israel, two hun 27 And if any soul sin through igno-dred and fifty princes of the assembly, rance, then he shall bring a she-goat of the famous in the congregation, men of refirst year for a sin-offering. nown: 28 And the priest shall make an atone- 3 And they ey gathered themselves togement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, ther against Moses and against Aaron, and when he sinneth by ignorance before the said unto them, Ye take too much upon LORD, to make an atonement for him; and you, secing all the congregation are holy, it shall be forgiven him. every one of them, and the LORD is among 29 Ye shall have one law for him that them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves sinneth through ignorance, both for him above the congregation of the LORD? that is born among the children of Israel, 4 And when Moses heard it, he fell and for the stranger that sojourneth among upon his face: them. 5 And he spake unto Korah and unto 30 But the soul that doeth ought pre- all his company, saying, Even to-morrow sumptuously, whether he be born in the land, the LORD will shew who are his, and who or a stranger, the same reproacheth the is holy; and will cause him to come near LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off'; his iniquity shall be upon him. unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him. 6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company; 7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to-morrow: and 32 And while the children of Israel it shall be that the man whom the LORD were in the wilderness, they found a man doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too that gathered sticks upon the sabbath-much upon you, ye sons of Levi. day. 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. 34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. 35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. 8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi : 9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them? 10 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also ? 36 And all the congregation brought him 11 For which cause both thou and all without the camp, and stoned him with thy company are gathered together against stones, and he died; as the LORD com- the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye manded Moses. 37 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, murmar against him? 12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up: 38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast borders of their garments throughout their brought us up out of a land that floweth generations, and that they put upon the with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilfringe of the borders a riband of blue: derness, except thou make thyself altoge 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, ther a prince over us? that ye may look upon it, and remember all 14 Moreover, thou hast not brought us the commandments of the LORD, and do into a land that floweth with milk and them; and that ye seek not after your own honey, or given us inheritance of fields and Aaron stays the plague. that the ground clave asunder that was under them: The punishment of Korah, &c. CHAP. XVI. vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of hese men? we will not come up. 15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them. 16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow : 17. And take every man his censer, and 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 They, and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. put incense in them, and bring ye before 34 And all Israel that were round about the LORD every man his censer, two hun-them, fled at the cry of them: for they said, dred and fifty censers: thou also and Aaron Lest the earth swallow us up also. each of you his censer. 35 And there came out a fire from the 18 And they took every man his censer, LORD, and consumed the two hundred and and put fire in them, and laid incense fifty men that offered incense. thereon, and stood in the door of the taber- 36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, nacle of the congregation with Moses and saying, Aaron. 37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron 19 And Korah gathered all the congre- the priest, that he take up the censers out gation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation. 20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed. 38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. 39 And Eleazar the priest took the bra 22 And they fell upon their faces, and zen censers, wherewith they that were said, O God, the God of the spirits of all burnt had offered; and they were made flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation? 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. broad plates for a covering of the altar: 40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses. 41 But on the morrow all the congre 25 And Moses rose up, and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Is-gation of the children of Israel murmured rael followed him. 26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. against Moses and against Aaron, saying, 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle the tabernacle of the congregation: anu beof Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every hold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, the Lord appeared. and stood in the door of their tents, and 43 And Moses and Aaron came before their wives, and their sons, and their little the tabernacle of the congregation. children. 28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. sent me. 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. 29 If these men die the common death 46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take of all men, or if they be visited after the visi- a censer, and put fire therein from off the tation of all men; then the LORD hath not altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atone30 But if the Lord make a new thing, ment for them for there is wrath gone out and the earth open her mouth, and swallow from the LORD; the plague is begun. them up, with all that appertain unto them, 47 And Aaron took as Moses commandand they go down quick into the pit; then ed, and ran into the midst of the congregaye shall understand that these men have tion; and behold, the plague was begun provoked the LORD. among the people: and he put on incense, 31 And it came to pass, as he had and made an atonement for the people. made an end of speaking all these words, 48 And he stood between the dead Aaron's rod budding. NUMBERS. The portion of the priests. and the living; and the plague was Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou stayed. with thee, that they may be joined unto 49 Now they that died in the plague thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, thy sons with thee shall minister before the beside them that died about the matter of tabernacle of witness. Korah. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. 4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and congregation, for all the service of the tatake of every one of them a rod according bernacle: and a stranger shall not come to the house of their fathers, of all their nigh unto you. princes according to the house of their fa- 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the thers, twelve rods: write thou eiery man's name upon his rod. sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel. 3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be 6 And I, behold, I have taken your brefor the head of the house of their fathers. thren the Levites from among the children 4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you. of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 5 And it shall come to pass, that the 7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blos- shall keep your priest's office for every som: and I will make to cease from me the thing of the altar, and within the vail; and murmurings of the children of Israel, where- ye shall serve: I have given your priest's by they murmur against you. office unto you as a service of gift: and the 6 And Moses spake unto the children stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to of Israel, and every one of their princes death. gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, 8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, according to their fathers' houses, even Behold, I also have given thee the charge twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was of mine heave-offerings of all the hallowed among their rods. things of the children of Israel; unto thee 7 And Moses laid up the rods before the have I given them by reason of the anointLORD in the tabernacle of witness. ing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for 8 And it came to pass, that on the mor-ever. row Moses went into the tabernacle of wit- 9 This shall be thine of the most holy ness; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the things reserved from the fire: every oblation house of Levi was budded, and brought of theirs, every meat-offering of theirs, and forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yield- every sin-offering of theirs, and every tree ed almonds. 9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod. pass-offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. 10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. 10 And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again, before the testi- 11 And this is thine; the heave-offering mony, to be kept for a token against the of their gift, with all the wave-offerings of rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their the children of Israel: I have given them murmurings from me, that they die not. unto thee, and to thy sons, and to thy 11 And Moses did so: as the LORD Com-daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. manded him, so did he. 12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish. 13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying? CHAP. XVIII. A 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee. 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it. 14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. ND the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 15 Every thing that openeth the matrix 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of in all flesh, which they bring unto the CHAP. XIX. The Levites' portion. The water of separation. LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall and ye shall give thereof the LORD's heave be thine: nevertheless, the first-born of offering to Aaron the priest. man shalt thou surely redeem, and the first- 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer ling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. every heave-offering of the LORD, of all the 16 And those that are to be redeemed best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof from a month old shalt thou redeem, ac-out of it. cording to thine estimation, for the money 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanc- When ye have heaved the best thereof from tuary, which is twenty gerahs. it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites 17 But the firstling of a cow, or the first- as the increase of the threshing-floor, and ling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, as the increase of the wine-press. thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou 31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and your households: for it is your reward and shalt burn their fat for an offering for your service in the tabernacle of the made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the congregation. LORD. 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, it, when ye have heaved from it the best of as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things are thine. of the children of Israel, lest ye die. A ND the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 19 All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a sta- 2 This is the ordinance of the law which tute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee. unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is 20 And the Lord spake unto Aaron, no blemish, and upon which never came Thou shalt have no inheritance in their yoke: land, neither shalt thou have any part 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the among them: I am thy part and thine in- priest, that he may bring her forth without heritance among the children of Israel. the camp, and one shall slay her before his 21 And behold, I have given the chil-face: dren of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times: 22 Neither must the children of Israel 5 And one shall burn the heifer in his henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her the congregation, lest they bear sin, and blood, with her dung, shall he burn: die. 6 And the priest shall take cedar-wood, 23 But the Levites shall do the service of and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the the tabernacle of the congregation, and midst of the burning of the heifer. they shall bear their iniquity: It shall be 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, a statute for ever throughout your genera- and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and tions, that among the children of Israel afterward he shall come into the camp, they have no inheritance. and the priest shall be unclean until the 24 But the tithes of the children of Is-even. rael, which they offer as an heave-offering 8 And he that burneth her shall wash his unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in wato inherit: therefore I have said unto them, ter, and shall be unclean until the even. Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 25 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: 26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the chil- it is a purification for sin. dren of Israel the tithes which I have given 10 And he that gathereth the ashes of you from them for your inheritance, then ye the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be un shall offer up an heave-offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. 27 And this your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the wine-press. clean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. 11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall purify himself with it on the 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave-offering unto the LORD of all your tithes third day, and on the seventh day he shall which ye receive of the children of Israel; be clean: but if he purify not himself the |