Numbers:19-21

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* And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron , saying , * This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded , saying , Speak to the children of Israel , that they bring you a red heifer without spot , wherein is no blemish , and on which never came yoke : * And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest , that he may bring her forth without the camp , and one shall slay her before his face : * 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 : * And one shall burn the heifer in his sight ; her skin , and her flesh , and her blood , with her dung , shall he burn : * And the priest shall take cedar wood , and hyssop , and scarlet , and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer . * Then the priest shall wash his clothes , and he shall bathe his flesh in water , and afterward he shall come into the camp , and the priest shall be unclean until the even . * And he that burns her shall wash his clothes in water , and bathe his flesh in water , and shall be unclean until the even . * 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 : it is a purification for sin . * And he that gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes , and be unclean until the even : and it shall be to the children of Israel , and to the stranger that sojournes among them , for a statute for ever . * He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days . * He shall purify himself with it on the third day , and on the seventh day he shall be clean : but if he purify not himself the third day , then the seventh day he shall not be clean . * Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead , and purifies not himself , defiles the tabernacle of the LORD ; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel : because the water of separation was not sprinkled on him , he shall be unclean ; his uncleanness is yet on him . * This is the law , when a man dies in a tent : all that come into the tent , and all that is in the tent , shall be unclean seven days . * And every open vessel , which has no covering bound on it , is unclean . * And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields , or a dead body , or a bone of a man , or a grave , shall be unclean seven days . * And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin , and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel : * And a clean person shall take hyssop , and dip it in the water , and sprinkle it on the tent , and on all the vessels , and on the persons that were there , and on him that touched a bone , or one slain , or one dead , or a grave : * And the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day , and on the seventh day : and on the seventh day he shall purify himself , and wash his clothes , and bathe himself in water , and shall be clean at even . * But the man that shall be unclean , and shall not purify himself , that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation , because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD : the water of separation has not been sprinkled on him ; he is unclean . * And it shall be a perpetual statute to them , that he that sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes ; and he that touches the water of separation shall be unclean until even . * And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean ; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even . * Then came the children of Israel , even the whole congregation , into the desert of Zin in the first month : and the people stayed in Kadesh ; and Miriam died there , and was buried there . * And there was no water for the congregation : and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron . * And the people strived with Moses , and spoke , saying , Would God that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD ! * And why have you brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness , that we and our cattle should die there ? * And why have you made us to come up out of Egypt , to bring us in to this evil place ? it is no place of seed , or of figs , or of vines , or of pomegranates ; neither is there any water to drink . * And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation , and they fell on their faces : and the glory of the LORD appeared to them . * And the LORD spoke to Moses , saying , * Take the rod , and gather you the assembly together , you , and Aaron your brother , and speak you to the rock before their eyes ; and it shall give forth his water , and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock : so you shall give the congregation and their beasts drink . * And Moses took the rod from before the LORD , as he commanded him . * And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock , and he said to them , Hear now , you rebels ; must we fetch you water out of this rock ? * And Moses lifted up his hand , and with his rod he smote the rock twice : and the water came out abundantly , and the congregation drank , and their beasts also . * And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron , Because you believed me not , to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel , therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them . * This is the water of Meribah ; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD , and he was sanctified in them . * And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom , Thus said your brother Israel , You know all the travail that has befallen us : * How our fathers went down into Egypt , and we have dwelled in Egypt a long time ; and the Egyptians vexed us , and our fathers : * And when we cried to the LORD , he heard our voice , and sent an angel , and has brought us forth out of Egypt : and , behold , we are in Kadesh , a city in the uttermost of your border : * Let us pass , I pray you , through your country : we will not pass through the fields , or through the vineyards , neither will we drink of the water of the wells : we will go by the king ' high way , we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left , until we have passed your borders . * And Edom said to him , You shall not pass by me , lest I come out against you with the sword . * And the children of Israel said to him , We will go by the high way : and if I and my cattle drink of your water , then I will pay for it : I will only , without doing anything else , go through on my feet . * And he said , You shall not go through . And Edom came out against him with much people , and with a strong hand . * Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border : why Israel turned away from him . * And the children of Israel , even the whole congregation , journeyed from Kadesh , and came to mount Hor . * And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in mount Hor , by the coast of the land of Edom , saying , * Aaron shall be gathered to his people : for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel , because you rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah . * Take Aaron and Eleazar his son , and bring them up to mount Hor : * And strip Aaron of his garments , and put them on Eleazar his son : and Aaron shall be gathered to his people , and shall die there . * And Moses did as the LORD commanded : and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation . * And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments , and put them on Eleazar his son ; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount : and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount . * And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead , they mourned for Aaron thirty days , even all the house of Israel . * And when king Arad the Canaanite , which dwelled in the south , heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies ; then he fought against Israel , and took some of them prisoners . * And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD , and said , If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand , then I will utterly destroy their cities . * And the LORD listened to the voice of Israel , and delivered up the Canaanites ; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities : and he called the name of the place Hormah . * And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea , to compass the land of Edom : and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way . * And the people spoke against God , and against Moses , Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness ? for there is no bread , neither is there any water ; and our soul loathes this light bread . * And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people , and they bit the people ; and much people of Israel died . * Therefore the people came to Moses , and said , We have sinned , for we have spoken against the LORD , and against you ; pray to the LORD , that he take away the serpents from us . And Moses prayed for the people . * And the LORD said to Moses , Make you a fiery serpent , and set it on a pole : and it shall come to pass , that every one that is bitten , when he looks on it , shall live . * And Moses made a serpent of brass , and put it on a pole , and it came to pass , that if a serpent had bitten any man , when he beheld the serpent of brass , he lived . * And the children of Israel set forward , and pitched in Oboth . * And they journeyed from Oboth , and pitched at Ijeabarim , in the wilderness which is before Moab , toward the sun rise . * From there they removed , and pitched in the valley of Zared . * From there they removed , and pitched on the other side of Arnon , which is in the wilderness that comes out of the coasts of the Amorites : for Arnon is the border of Moab , between Moab and the Amorites . * Why it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD , What he did in the Red sea , and in the brooks of Arnon , * And at the stream of the brooks that goes down to the dwelling of Ar , and lies on the border of Moab . * And from there they went to Beer : that is the well whereof the LORD spoke to Moses , Gather the people together , and I will give them water . * Then Israel sang this song , Spring up , O well ; sing you to it : * The princes dig the well , the nobles of the people dig it , by the direction of the lawgiver , with their staves . And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah : * And from Mattanah to Nahaliel : and from Nahaliel to Bamoth : * And from Bamoth in the valley , that is in the country of Moab , to the top of Pisgah , which looks toward Jeshimon . * And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites , saying , * Let me pass through your land : we will not turn into the fields , or into the vineyards ; we will not drink of the waters of the well : but we will go along by the king ' high way , until we be past your borders . * And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border : but Sihon gathered all his people together , and went out against Israel into the wilderness : and he came to Jahaz , and fought against Israel . * And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword , and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok , even to the children of Ammon : for the border of the children of Ammon was strong . * And Israel took all these cities : and Israel dwelled in all the cities of the Amorites , in Heshbon , and in all the villages thereof . * For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites , who had fought against the former king of Moab , and taken all his land out of his hand , even to Arnon . * Why they that speak in proverbs say , Come into Heshbon , let the city of Sihon be built and prepared : * For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon , a flame from the city of Sihon : it has consumed Ar of Moab , and the lords of the high places of Arnon . * Woe to you , Moab ! you are undone , O people of Chemosh : he has given his sons that escaped , and his daughters , into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites . * We have shot at them ; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon , and we have laid them waste even to Nophah , which reaches to Medeba . * Thus Israel dwelled in the land of the Amorites . * And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer , and they took the villages thereof , and drove out the Amorites that were there . * And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan : and Og the king of Bashan went out against them , he , and all his people , to the battle at Edrei . * And the LORD said to Moses , Fear him not : for I have delivered him into your hand , and all his people , and his land ; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites , which dwelled at Heshbon . * So they smote him , and his sons , and all his people , until there was none left him alive : and they possessed his land . * And the children of Israel set forward , and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho .

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