Balak's sacrifices.

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Balaam's parable.

the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not the people shall dwell alone, and shall not that thou stoodest in the way against me: be reckoned among the nations. now therefore, if it displease thee, I will 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, get me back again. and the number of the fourth part of Is

35 And the angel of the LORD said unto rael? Let me die the death of the rightBalaam, Go with the men: but only the eous, and let my last end be like his! word that I shall speak unto thee, that 11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What thou shalt speak: so Balaam went with hast thou done unto me? I took thee to the princes of Balak. curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast

36 And when Balak neard that Ba-blessed them altogether. laam was come, he went out to meet him 12 And he answered and said, Must I unto a city of Moab, which is in the border not take heed to speak that which the of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast. LORD hath put in my mouth?

37 ¶ And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?

38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjath-huzoth.

40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.

13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.

14 ¶ And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.

16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again 41 And it came to pass on the morrow, unto Balak, and say thus. that Balak took Balaam, and brought him 17 And when he came to him, behold, up into the high places of Baal, that he stood by his burnt-offering, and the thence he might see the utmost part of the princes of Moab with him. And Balak people.

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CHAP. XXIII.

ND Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. 2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken? 18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:

19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: bath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not

3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand make it good? by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: per

20 Behold, I have received command

adventure the LORD will come to meet ment to bless: and he hath blessed, and I me and whatsoever he sheweth me I will cannot reverse it.

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tell thee. And he went to a high place. 21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Ja4 And God met Balaam: and he said cob, neither hath he seen perverseness in unto him, I have prepared seven altars, Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and and I have offered upon every altar a bul- the shout of a king is among them. lock and a ram.

5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Retura unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

6 And he returned unto him, and lo, he stood by his burnt-sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn.

23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!

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7 And he took up his parable, and said, 24 Behold, the people shall rise up as Balak the king of Moab hath brought me great lion, and lift up himself as a young from Aram, out of the mountains of the lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and the prey, and drink the blood of the sain. come, defy Israel.

8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

9 For from the top of the rocks I see bim, and from the hills I behold him: 19,

25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?

27 ¶ And Balak said unto Balaam,

Israel's happiness, and the CHAP. XXIV, XXV. Star of Jacob foretold. Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto what the LORD saith, that will I speak! another place; peradventure it will please 14 And now, behold, I go unto my peoGod that thou mayest curse me them from ple: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

thence.

28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon. 29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

CHAP. XXIV.

15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:

16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the Most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having This eyes open:

AND when Balaam saw that it pleased 171 shall see him, but not now: I shall

the LORD to bless Israel, he went behold him, but not nigh: there shall not, as at other times, to seek for enchant-come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre ments, but he set his face toward the wil-shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the derness. corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes, and the Spirit of God came upon him.

3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:

4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign-aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar-trees beside the waters. 7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agg, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.

19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.

20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwelling-place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.

22 Nevertheless, the Kenite shall be wasted, untilAsshur shall carry thee away captive.

23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this! 24 And ships shall come from the coast 8 God brought him forth out of Egypt of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall he hath as it were the strength of a uni-afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for corn: he shall eat up the nations his ene-ever.

mies, and shall break their bones, and 25 And Balaam rose up, and went and pierce them through with his arrows. returned to his place: and Balak also went 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, his way.

and as a great lion: who shall stir him up?

is he that curseth thee.

CHAP. XXV.

Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed AND Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom 10 And Balak's anger was kindled with the daughters of Moab. against Balaam, and he smote his hands 2 And they called the people unto the together and Balak said unto Balaam, Isacrifices of their gods: and the people did called thee to curse mine enemies, and eat, and bowed down to their gods. behold, thou hast altogether blessed them 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

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these three times.

11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take great honour; but lo, the LORD hath kept all the heads of the people, and hang them thee back from honour. up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.

12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,

5 And Moses said unto the judges of 13 I Balak would give me his house Israel, Slay ye every one his men that full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond were joined unto Baal-peor.

the commandment of the LORD, to do 6 And, behold, one of the children of either good or bad of mine own mind; but Israel came and brought unto his brethren

Zimr and Cozbi slain.

NUMBERS.

The Israelites numbered. a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, rael, which went forth out of the land of and in the sight of all the congregation of Egypt.

the children of Israel, who were weeping 5 T Reuben the eldest son of Israel: the before the door of the tabernacle of the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom congregation. cometh the family of the Hanochites: of 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Elea- Pallu, the family of the Palluites: zar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he 6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronrose up from among the congregation, and ites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. took a javelin in his hand; 7 These are the families of the Reuben

8 And he went after the man of Israel ites: and they that were numbered of into the tent, and thrust both of them them were forty and three thousand and through, the man of Israel, and the woman seven hundred and thirty. through her belly: So the plague was 8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. stayed from the children of Israel.

9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

9 And the sons of Eliah; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:

11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath 10 And the earth opened her mouth, away from the children of Israel (while he and swallowed them up together with Kowas zealous for my sake among them) that rah, when that company died, what time I consumed not the children of Israel in the fire devoured two hundred and fifty my jealousy. men: and they became a sign.

12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.

13 And he shall have it, and his seed 12 The sons of Simeon after their after him, even the covenant of an ever-families of Nemuel, the family of the lasting priesthood; because he was zealous Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the for his God, and made an atonement for Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the the children of Israel. Jachinites:

14 Now the name of the Israelite that 13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: was slain, even that was slain with the of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.

15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.

16 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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

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

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

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

17 Vex the Midianites and smite them: 18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the 18 These are the families of the chilmatter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, dren of Gad, according to those that were the daughter of a prince of Midian their numbered of them, forty thousand and five sister, which was slain in the day of the hundred. plague for Peor's sake.

CHAP. XXVI.

19 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land

AND it came to pass after the plague, of Canaan.

that the LORD spake unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.

3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.

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

22 These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and

4 Take the sum of the people, from five hundred. twenty years old and upward; as the LORD 23 Of the sons of Issachar after their commanded Moses and the children of Is-families: of Tola, the family of the To

The Israelites numbered.

CHAP. XXVI.

The land divided. laites: of Pua, the family of the Punites: families: of Shuham, the family of the 24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashub- Shuhamites. These are the families of ites: of Shimron, the family of the Shim- Dan after their families.

ronites.

43 All the families of the Shuhamites 25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand them, threescore and four thousand and and four hundred.

three hundred.

44 Of the children of Asher after their

26 Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimfamilies of Sered, the family of the Sar- nites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: dites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. of Jahleel, the family of the Jableelites.

27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.

28 The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.

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

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

47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three

29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir thousand and four hundred. begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.

48 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the 30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Gunites: Helek, the family of the Helekites:

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

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

50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that 32 And of Shemida, the family of the were numbered of them, were forty and Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family five thousand and four hundred. of the Hepherites.

51 These were the numbered of the 33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher children of Israel, six hundred thousand had no sons, but daughters: and the names and a thousand seven hundred and thirty. of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mah- 52 And the LORD spake unto Moses, lah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. saying, 34 These are the families of Manasseh, 53 Unto these the land shall be divided and those that were numbered of them, for an inheritance, according to the numfifty and two thousand and seven hundred. ber of names. 35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalbites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

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

54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given, according to those that were numbered of him.

55 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of 37 These are the families of the sons of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. Ephraim according to those that were 56 According to the lot shall the possesnumbered of them, thirty and two thousand sion thereof be divided between many and five hundred. These are the sons of and few. Joseph after their families.

57 ¶ And these are they that were num38 The sons of Benjamin after their fa-bered of the Levites after their families: milies of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. 39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shu- 58 These are the families of the Lephamites: of Hupham, the family of the vites: the family of the Libnites, the famiHuphamites. ly of the Hebronites, the family of the 40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: family of the Korathites. And Kohath and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. begať Amram.

41 These are the sons of Benjamin af- 59 And the name of Amram's wife was ter their families: and they that were num- Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her bered of them were forty and five thousand mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she and six hundred. bare unto Amram, Aaron and Moses, and

42 These are the sons of Dan after their Miriam their sister.

The law of inheritances.

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Moses is told of his death.

60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. kinsman that is next to him of his family, 61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto they offered strange fire before the LORD. the children of Israel a statute of judg 62 And those that were numbered of ment, as the LORD commanded Moses. them were twenty and three thousand, all 12 And the LORD said unto Moses, males from a month old and upward: for Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and they were not numbered among the chil- see the land which I have given unto the dren of Israel. because there was no inhe-children of Israel.

ritance given them among the children of 13 And when thou hast seen it, thou Israel. also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

63 T These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

14 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the 64 But among these there was not a water before their eyes: that is the water of man of them whom Moses and Aaron the Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of priest numbered, when they numbered the Zin. children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save CaJeb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. CHAP. XXVII.

HEN came the daughters of Zelophe

Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes, and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

15 And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,

16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh,set a man over the congregation, 17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD

18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thy hand upon him;

19 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: and give him a charge in their sight.

20 And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, 4 Why should the name of our father be and all the children of Israel with him, done away from among his family, because even all the congregation.

he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a 22 And Moses did as the LORD compossession among the brethren of our father. (manded him: and he took Joshua, and set 5 And Moses brought their cause before him before Eleazar the priest, and before the LORD.

all the congregation:

6 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, 23 And he laid his hands upon him, and saying, gave him a charge, as the LORD command7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak ed by the hand of Moses. right thou shalt surely give them a pos:

CHAP. XXVIII.

session of an inheritance among their fa- AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say

ther's brethren; and thou shalt cause the in

ing,

heritance of their father to pass unto them. 2 Command the children of Israel, and 8 And thou shalt speak unto the chil-say unto them, My offering, and my bread dren of Israel, saying, If a man die, and for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet have no son, then ye shall cause his inhe-savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer ritance to pass unto his daughter. unto me in their due season.

9 And if he have no daughter, then ye 3¶ And thou shalt say unto them, This shall give his inheritance unto his brethren. is the offering made by fire which ye shall 10 And if he have no brethren, then ye offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first shall give his inheritance unto his father's year without spot day by day, for a conbrethren. tinual burnt-offering. 11 And if his father have no brethren, 4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the