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How the lamps are to be lighted. CHAP. VIII.

Consecration of the Levites.

85 Each charger of silver weighing a before the LORD for an offering of the chilhundred and thirty shekels, each bowl dren of Israel, that they may execute the seventy: all the silver vessels weighed service of the LORD.

two thousand and four hundred shekels, af- 12 And the Levites shall lay their hands ter the shekel of the sanctuary: upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou

86 The golden spoons were twelve, full shalt offer the one for a sin-offering, and of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, the other for a burnt-offering, unto the after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the LORD, to make an atonement for the Legold of the spoons was a hundred and vites. twenty shekels.

13 And thou shalt set the Levites before

87 All the oxen for the burnt-offering Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, for an offering unto the LORD.

the lambs of the first year twelve, with 14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites their meat-offering: and the kids of the from among the children of Israel: and goats for sin-offering, twelve. the Levites shall be mine. 88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of 15 And after that shall the Levites go the peace-offerings were twenty and four in to do the service of the tabernacle of the bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats si congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, ty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This and offer them for an offering. was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.

16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead 89 And when Moses was gone into the of such as open every womb, even instead tabernacle of the congregation to speak of the first-born of all the children of Is with Him, then he heard the voice of one rael, have I taken them unto me. speaking unto him from off the mercy-seat 17 For all the first-born of the children that was upon the ark of testimony, from of Israel are mine, both man and beast: between the two cherubims: and he spake on the day that I smote every first-born unto Him in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

CHAP. VIII.
ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-

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2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.

18 And I have taken the Levites for all the first-born of the children of Israel.

19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Is4 And this work of the candlestick was rael, when the children of Israel come of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto nigh unto the sanctuary.

3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.

the flowers thereof, was beaten work: ac- 20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the cording unto the pattern which the LORD congregation of the children of Israel, did had shewed Moses, so he made the can- to the Levites according unto all that the dlestick. LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.

5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

6 Take the Levites from among the 21 And the Levites were purified, and children of Israel, and cleanse them. they washed their clothes; and Aaron 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to offered them as an offering before the cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purify-LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for ing upon them, and let them shave all their them to cleanse them.

flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and 22 And after that went the Levites in 30 make themselves clean. to do their service in the tabernacle of the

8 Then let them take a young bullock congregation before Aaron, and before his with bis meat-offering,even fine flour min-sons: as the LORD had commanded Mogled with oil, and another young bullock ses concerning the Levites, so did they chalt thou take for a sin-offering. unto them.

9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:

23 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

24 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites From twenty and five years old 10 And thou shalt bring the Levites be- and upward they shall go in to wait upon fore the LORD: and the children of Israel the service of the tabernacle of the con

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25 And from the age of fifty years they

A second passover.

NUMBERS. A cloud guides the Israelites.

shall cease waiting upon the service there- | shall have one ordinance both for the stranof, and shall serve no more: ger, and for him that was born in the land." 26 But shall minister with their breth- 15 And on the day that the tabernaren in the tabernacle of the congrega-cle was reared up, the cloud covered the tion, to keep the charge, and shall do no tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testiservice. Thus shalt thou do unto the Le-mony: and at even there was upon the vites touching their charge. tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

CHAP. IX.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses in the

wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.

4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. 5 And they kept the passover on the 19 And when the cloud tarried long fourteenth day of the first month at even upon the tabernacle many days, then the in the wilderness of Sinai : according to children of Israel kept the charge of the all that the LORD commanded Moses, so LORD, and journeyed not.

- did the children of Israel.

20 And so it was, when the cloud was

6 And there were certain men, who a few days upon the tabernacle; accordwere defiled by the dead body of a man, ing to the commandment of the LORD they that they could not keep the passover on abode in their tents, and according to the that day and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

commandment of the LORD they journeyed. 21 And so it was, when the cloud abode 7 And those men said unto him, We are from even unto the morning, and that the defiled by the dead body of a man: where- cloud was taken up in the morning, then fore are we kept back, that we may not they journeyed: whether it was by day offer an offering of the LORD in his appoint- or by night that the cloud was taken up, ed season among the children of Israel? they journeyed.

8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.

9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, up, they journeyed. saying, If any man of you or of your poster- 23 At the commandment of the LORD ity shall be unclean by reason of a dead they rested in their tents, and at the combody, or be in a journey afar off, yet he mandment of the LORD they journeyed : shall keep the passover unto the LORD. they kept the charge of the LORD, at the 11 The fourteenth day of the second commandment of the LORD by the hand month at even they shall keep it, and eat of Moses. it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

CHAP. X.

12. They shall leave none of it unto the AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say

morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: 13 But the man that is clean, and is that thou mayest use them for the calling not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep of the assembly, and for the journeying of the passover, even the same soul shall be the camps.

cut off from among his people: because 3 And when they shall blow with them, he brought not the offering of the LORD in all the assembly shall assemble themselves his appointed season, that man shall bear to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the his sin. congregation.

14 And if a stranger shall sojourn 4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, among you, and will keep the passover then the princes, which are heads of the unto the LORD; according to the ordi- thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves nance of the passover, and according to unto thee.

the manner thereof, so shall he do: yel 5 When ye blow an alarm, then the

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CHAP. XI.

The Israelites go to Paran. camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.

The blessing of Moses

cording to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

23 And over the host of the tribe of the

6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the side shall take their journey: they shall son of Pedahzur. blow an alarm for their journeys.

24 And over the host of the tribe of the 7 But when the congregation is to be children of Benjamin was Abidan the son gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye of Gideoni. shall not sound an alarm.

25 And the standard of the camp of

8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, the children of Dan set forward, which was shall blow with the trumpets; and they the rere-ward of all the camps throughout shall be to you for an ordinance for ever their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer throughout your generations. the son of Ammishaddai.

9 And if ye go to war in your land 26 And over the host of the tribe of the against the enemy that oppresseth you, children of Asher was Pagiel the son of then ye shall blow an alarm with the trum- Ocran. pets; and ye shall be remembered before 27 And over the host of the tribe of the the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of from your enemies. Enan.

10 Also in the day of your gladness, 28 Thus were the journeyings of the and in your solemn days, and in the be- children of Israel according to their arginnings of your months, ye shall blow with mies, when they set forward.

the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, 29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the and over the sacrifices of your peace-of-son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' faferings; that they may be to you for a ther-in-law, We are journeying unto the memorial before your God: I am the LORD place of which the LORD said, I will give your God. it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.

11 ¶ And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.

12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran. 13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.

31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee: forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.

32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, 14 In the first place went the standard yea, it shall be, that what goodness the of the camp of the children of Judah ac- LORD shall do unto us, the same will we cording to their armies and over his host do unto thee. was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.

18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

19 And over the host of the tribe f the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting-place for them.

34 And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.

35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.

36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.

CHAP. XI.

20 And over the host of the tribe of the AND when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of heard it and his anger was kindled; Deuel. and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came. 2 And the people cried unto Moses ; 22 And the standard of the camp of an when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the children of Ephraim set forward ac- the fire was quenched.

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Seventy elders appointed.

NUMBERS. Quails are given in wrath.

3 And he called the name of the place ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give Taberah: because the fire of the LORD us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in burnt among them. Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

4¶ And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

5 We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came

6 But now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all, besides this manna, we forth out of Egypt? before our eyes.

21 And Moses said, The people among

7 And the manna was as coriander-seed, whom I am, are six hundred thousand footand the colour thereof as the colour of men; and thou hast said, I will give them bdellium. flesh, that they may eat a whole month. 22 Shall the flocks and the herds be

8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and the fish of the sea be gathered together for made cakes of it: and the taste of it was them, to suffice them?

as the taste of fresh oil.

23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is

9 Ard when the dew fell upon the camp the LORD's hand waxed short? thou shalt in the night, the manna fell upon it. see now whether my word shall come to

10 Then Moses heard the people pass unto thee, or not. weep throughout their families, every man 24 ¶ And Moses went out, and told the in the door of his tent and the anger of people the words of the LORD, and gatherthe LORD was kindled greatly; Moses ed the seventy men of the elders of the also was displeased. people, and set them round about the

11 And Moses said unto the LORD, tabernacle. Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? 25 And the LORD came down in acloud, and wherefore have I not found favour in and spake unto him, and took of the spirit thy sight, that thou layest the burden of that was upon him, and gave it unto the all this people upon me?

12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

seventy elders: and it came to pass, that when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.

26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested upon them; and they were 13 Whence should I have flesh to give of them that were written, but went not unto all this people? for they weep unto out unto the tabernacle: and they propheme, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. sied in the camp.

14 I am not able to bear all this people 27 And there ran a young man, and alone, because it is too heavy for me. told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill do prophesy in the camp.

me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the serfound favour in thy sight; and let me not vant of Moses, one of his young men, ansce my wretchedness. swered and said, My lord Moses, forbid

16 And the LORD said unto Moses, them. Gather unto me seventy men of the elders 29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the thou for my sake? would God that all the elders of the people, and officers over LORD's people were prophets, and that the them; and bring them unto the tabernacle LORD would put his Spirit upon them. of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

17 And I will come down and talk with 31 ¶ And there went forth a wind from thee there: and I will take of the spirit the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, which is upon thee, and will put it upon and let them fall by the camp, as it were a them; and they shall bear the burden of day's journey on this side, and as it were the people with thee, that thou bear it not a day's journey on the other side, round thyself alone. about the camp, and as it were two cubits

18 And say thou unto the people, Sanc-high upon the face of the earth. tify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye 32 And the people stood up all that day, shall eat flesh for ye have wept in the and all that night, and all the next day,

Mriam's and Aaron's sedition. CHAP. XII. XIII.

Spies are sent out.

and they gathered the quails: he that be shut out from the camp seven days, and gathered least gathered ten homers: and after that let her be received in again. they spread them all abroad for themselves 15 And Miriam was shut out from the round about the camp. camp seven days: and the people journey33 And while the flesh was yet between ed not till Miriam was brought in again. their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath 16 And afterward the people removed of the LORD was kindled against the peo- from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderple, and the LORD smote the people withness of Paran.

a very great plague.

34 And he called the name of that place

Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

35 And the people journeyed from Kibroth-battaavah unto Hazeroth: and abode at Hazeroth.

CHAP. XII.

AND Miriam and Aaron spake against

CHAP. XIII.

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2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.

3 And Moses by the commandment of Moses because of the Ethiopian wo- the LORD sent them from the wilderness of man whom he had married: for he had Paran: all those men were heads of the married an Ethiopian woman. children of Israel.

2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it."

3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)

4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out. 5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and MiLiam: and they both came forth.

6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. 7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house.

8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall be behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

4 And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zac

cur.

5 of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.

6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.

9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.

10 of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.

11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. 12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.

13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.

14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.

15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

16 These are the names of the men 9 And the anger of the LORD was kin- which Moses sent to spy out the land. And dled against them; and he departed. Moses called Oshea the son of Nun,Jeho10 And the cloud departed from off the shua.

tabernacle; and behold, Miriam became 17 And Moses sent them to spy out leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked the land of Canaan, and said unto them, upon Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. Get you up this way southward, and go up 11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, into the mountain:

my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin 18 And see the land, what it is; and apon us, wherein we have done foolishly, the people that dwelleth therein, whether and wherein we have sinned. they be strong or weak, few or many:

12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom 19 And what the land is that they dwell the flesh is half consumed when he cometh in, whether it be good or bad; and what out of his mother's womb. cities they be that they dwell in, whether 13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, in tents, or in strong holds; saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech 20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If or not. And be ye of good courage, and her father had but spit in her face, should bring of the fruit of the land. Now the she not be ashamed seven days? let her time was the time of the first ripe grapes

thee.

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