Numbers:15-25
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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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 ,
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And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD ,
a burnt offering ,
or a sacrifice in performing a vow ,
or in a freewill offering ,
or in your solemn feasts ,
to make a sweet savour unto the LORD ,
of the herd ,
or of the flock :
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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 .
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And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice ,
for one lamb .
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Or for a ram ,
thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil .
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And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine ,
for a sweet savour unto the LORD .
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And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering ,
or for a sacrifice in performing a vow ,
or peace offerings unto the LORD :
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Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil .
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And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine ,
for an offering made by fire ,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD .
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Thus shall it be done for one bullock ,
or for one ram ,
or for a lamb ,
or a kid .
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According to the number that ye shall prepare ,
so shall ye do to every one according to their number .
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All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner ,
in offering an offering made by fire ,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD .
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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 .
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One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation ,
and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you ,
an ordinance for ever in your generations :
as ye are ,
so shall the stranger be before the LORD .
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One law and one manner shall be for you ,
and for the stranger that sojourneth with you .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Speak unto the children of Israel ,
and say unto them ,
When ye come into the land whither I bring you ,
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Then it shall be ,
that ,
when ye eat of the bread of the land ,
ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD .
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Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering :
as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor ,
so shall ye heave it .
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Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations .
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And if ye have erred ,
and not observed all these commandments ,
which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses ,
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Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses ,
from the day that the LORD commanded Moses ,
and henceforward among your generations ;
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Then it shall be ,
if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation ,
that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering ,
for a sweet savour unto the LORD ,
with his meat offering ,
and his drink offering ,
according to the manner ,
and one kid of the goats for a sin offering .
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And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel ,
and it shall be forgiven them ;
for it is ignorance :
and they shall bring their offering ,
a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD ,
and their sin offering before the LORD ,
for their ignorance :
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And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel ,
and the stranger that sojourneth among them ;
seeing all the people were in ignorance .
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And if any soul sin through ignorance ,
then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering .
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And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly ,
when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD ,
to make an atonement for him ;
and it shall be forgiven him .
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Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance ,
both for him that is born among the children of Israel ,
and for the stranger that sojourneth among them .
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But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously ,
whether he be born in the land ,
or a stranger ,
the same reproacheth the LORD ;
and that soul shall be cut off from among his people .
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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 .
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And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness ,
they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day .
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And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron ,
and unto all the congregation .
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And they put him in ward ,
because it was not declared what should be done to him .
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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 .
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And all the congregation brought him without the camp ,
and stoned him with stones ,
and he died ;
as the LORD commanded Moses .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Speak unto the children of Israel ,
and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations ,
and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue :
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And it shall be unto you for a fringe ,
that ye may look upon it ,
and remember all the commandments of the LORD ,
and do them ;
and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes ,
after which ye use to go a whoring :
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That ye may remember ,
and do all my commandments ,
and be holy unto your God .
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I am the LORD your God ,
which brought you out of the land of Egypt ,
to be your God :
I am the LORD your God .
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Now Korah ,
the 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 men :
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And they rose up before Moses ,
with certain of the children of Israel ,
two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly ,
famous in the congregation ,
men of renown :
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And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron ,
and said unto them ,
Ye take too much upon you ,
seeing all the congregation are holy ,
every one of them ,
and the LORD is among them :
wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD ?
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And when Moses heard it ,
he fell upon his face :
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And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company ,
saying ,
Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his ,
and who is holy ;
and will cause him to come near unto him :
even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him .
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This do ;
Take you censers ,
Korah ,
and all his company ;
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And put fire therein ,
and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow :
and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose ,
he shall be holy :
ye take too much upon you ,
ye sons of Levi .
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And Moses said unto Korah ,
Hear ,
I pray you ,
ye sons of Levi :
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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 ?
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And he hath brought thee near to him ,
and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee :
and seek ye the priesthood also ?
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For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD :
and what is Aaron ,
that ye murmur against him ?
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And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram ,
the sons of Eliab :
which said ,
We will not come up :
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Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey ,
to kill us in the wilderness ,
except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us ?
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Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey ,
or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards :
wilt thou put out the eyes of these men ?
we will not come up .
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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 .
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And Moses said unto Korah ,
Be thou and all thy company before the LORD ,
thou ,
and they ,
and Aaron ,
to morrow :
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And take every man his censer ,
and put incense in them ,
and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer ,
two hundred and fifty censers ;
thou also ,
and Aaron ,
each of you his censer .
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And they took every man his censer ,
and put fire in them ,
and laid incense thereon ,
and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron .
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And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation :
and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron ,
saying ,
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Separate yourselves from among this congregation ,
that I may consume them in a moment .
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And they fell upon their faces ,
and said ,
O God ,
the God of the spirits of all flesh ,
shall one man sin ,
and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation ?
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Speak unto the congregation ,
saying ,
Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah ,
Dathan ,
and Abiram .
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And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram ;
and the elders of Israel followed him .
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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 .
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So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah ,
Dathan ,
and Abiram ,
on every side :
and Dathan and Abiram came out ,
and stood in the door of their tents ,
and their wives ,
and their sons ,
and their little children .
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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 .
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If these men die the common death of all men ,
or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ;
then the LORD hath not sent me .
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But if the LORD make a new thing ,
and the earth open her mouth ,
and swallow them up ,
with all that appertain unto them ,
and they go down quick into the pit ;
then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD .
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And it came to pass ,
as he had made an end of speaking all these words ,
that the ground clave asunder that was under them :
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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 .
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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 .
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And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them :
for they said ,
Lest the earth swallow us up also .
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And there came out a fire from the LORD ,
and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest ,
that he take up the censers out of the burning ,
and scatter thou the fire yonder ;
for they are hallowed .
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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 .
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And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers ,
wherewith they that were burnt had offered ;
and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar :
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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 .
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But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron ,
saying ,
Ye have killed the people of the LORD .
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And it came to pass ,
when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron ,
that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation :
and ,
behold ,
the cloud covered it ,
and the glory of the LORD appeared .
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And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Get you up from among this congregation ,
that I may consume them as in a moment .
And they fell upon their faces .
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And Moses said unto Aaron ,
Take a censer ,
and put fire therein from off the altar ,
and put on incense ,
and go quickly unto the congregation ,
and make an atonement for them :
for there is wrath gone out from the LORD ;
the plague is begun .
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And Aaron took as Moses commanded ,
and ran into the midst of the congregation ;
and ,
behold ,
the plague was begun among the people :
and he put on incense ,
and made an atonement for the people .
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And he stood between the dead and the living ;
and the plague was stayed .
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Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred ,
beside them that died about the matter of Korah .
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And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation :
and the plague was stayed .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Speak unto the children of Israel ,
and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers ,
of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods :
write thou every man '
s name upon his rod .
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And thou shalt write Aaron '
s name upon the rod of Levi :
for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers .
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And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony ,
where I will meet with you .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that the man '
s rod ,
whom I shall choose ,
shall blossom :
and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel ,
whereby they murmur against you .
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And Moses spake unto the children of Israel ,
and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece ,
for each prince one ,
according to their fathers '
houses ,
even twelve rods :
and the rod of Aaron was among their rods .
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And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness .
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And it came to pass ,
that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness ;
and ,
behold ,
the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded ,
and brought forth buds ,
and bloomed blossoms ,
and yielded almonds .
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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 .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Bring Aaron '
s rod again before the testimony ,
to be kept for a token against the rebels ;
and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me ,
that they die not .
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And Moses did so :
as the LORD commanded him ,
so did he .
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And the children of Israel spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
Behold ,
we die ,
we perish ,
we all perish .
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Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die :
shall we be consumed with dying ?
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And 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 .
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And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi ,
the tribe of thy father ,
bring thou with thee ,
that they may be joined unto thee ,
and minister unto thee :
but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness .
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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 .
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And they shall be joined unto thee ,
and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation ,
for all the service of the tabernacle :
and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you .
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And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary ,
and the charge of the altar :
that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel .
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And I ,
behold ,
I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel :
to you they are given as a gift for the LORD ,
to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation .
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Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest '
s office for every thing of the altar ,
and within the vail ;
and ye shall serve :
I have given your priest '
s office unto you as a service of gift :
and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death .
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And the LORD spake unto Aaron ,
Behold ,
I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel ;
unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing ,
and to thy sons ,
by an ordinance for ever .
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This shall be thine of the most holy things ,
reserved from the fire :
every oblation of theirs ,
every meat offering of theirs ,
and every sin offering of theirs ,
and every trespass offering of theirs ,
which they shall render unto me ,
shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons .
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In the most holy place shalt thou eat it ;
every male shall eat it :
it shall be holy unto thee .
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And this is thine ;
the heave offering of their gift ,
with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel :
I have given them unto thee ,
and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee ,
by a statute for ever :
every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it .
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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 .
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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 .
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Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine .
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Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh ,
which they bring unto the LORD ,
whether it be of men or beasts ,
shall be thine :
nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem ,
and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem .
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And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem ,
according to thine estimation ,
for the money of five shekels ,
after the shekel of the sanctuary ,
which is twenty gerahs .
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But the firstling of a cow ,
or the firstling of a sheep ,
or the firstling of a goat ,
thou shalt not redeem ;
they are holy :
thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar ,
and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire ,
for a sweet savour unto the LORD .
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And the flesh of them shall be thine ,
as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine .
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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 statute for ever :
it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee .
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And the LORD spake unto Aaron ,
Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land ,
neither shalt thou have any part among them :
I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel .
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And ,
behold ,
I have given the children 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 .
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Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation ,
lest they bear sin ,
and die .
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But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation ,
and they shall bear their iniquity :
it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations ,
that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance .
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But the tithes of the children of Israel ,
which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD ,
I have given to the Levites to inherit :
therefore I have said unto them ,
Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Thus speak unto the Levites ,
and say unto them ,
When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance ,
then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD ,
even a tenth part of the tithe .
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And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you ,
as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor ,
and as the fulness of the winepress .
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Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes ,
which ye receive of the children of Israel ;
and ye shall give thereof the LORD '
S heave offering to Aaron the priest .
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Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD ,
of all the best thereof ,
even the hallowed part thereof out of it .
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Therefore thou shalt say unto them ,
When ye have heaved the best thereof from it ,
then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor ,
and as the increase of the winepress .
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And ye shall eat it in every place ,
ye and your households :
for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation .
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And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it ,
when ye have heaved from it the best of it :
neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel ,
lest ye die .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron ,
saying ,
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This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded ,
saying ,
Speak unto the children of Israel ,
that they bring thee a red heifer without spot ,
wherein is no blemish ,
and upon which never came yoke :
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And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest ,
that he may bring her forth without the camp ,
and one shall slay her before his face :
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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 :
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And one shall burn the heifer in his sight ;
her skin ,
and her flesh ,
and her blood ,
with her dung ,
shall he burn :
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And the priest shall take cedar wood ,
and hyssop ,
and scarlet ,
and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer .
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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 .
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And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water ,
and bathe his flesh in water ,
and shall be unclean until the even .
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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 .
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And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes ,
and be unclean 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 .
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He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days .
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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 .
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Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead ,
and purifieth not himself ,
defileth the tabernacle of the LORD ;
and that soul shall be cut off from Israel :
because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him ,
he shall be unclean ;
his uncleanness is yet upon him .
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This is the law ,
when a man dieth in a tent :
all that come into the tent ,
and all that is in the tent ,
shall be unclean seven days .
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And every open vessel ,
which hath no covering bound upon it ,
is unclean .
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And whosoever toucheth 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 .
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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 :
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And a clean person shall take hyssop ,
and dip it in the water ,
and sprinkle it upon the tent ,
and upon all the vessels ,
and upon the persons that were there ,
and upon him that touched a bone ,
or one slain ,
or one dead ,
or a grave :
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And the clean person shall sprinkle upon 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 .
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But the man that shall be unclean ,
and shall not purify himself ,
that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation ,
because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD :
the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him ;
he is unclean .
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And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them ,
that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes ;
and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even .
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And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean ;
and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even .
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Then came the children of Israel ,
even the whole congregation ,
into the desert of Zin in the first month :
and the people abode in Kadesh ;
and Miriam died there ,
and was buried there .
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And there was no water for the congregation :
and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron .
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And the people chode with Moses ,
and spake ,
saying ,
Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD !
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And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness ,
that we and our cattle should die there ?
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And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt ,
to bring us in unto 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 .
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And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation ,
and they fell upon their faces :
and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Take the rod ,
and gather thou the assembly together ,
thou ,
and Aaron thy brother ,
and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes ;
and it shall give forth his water ,
and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock :
so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink .
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And Moses took the rod from before the LORD ,
as he commanded him .
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And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock ,
and he said unto them ,
Hear now ,
ye rebels ;
must we fetch you water out of this rock ?
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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 .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron ,
Because ye believed me not ,
to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel ,
therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them .
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This is the water of Meribah ;
because the children of Israel strove with the LORD ,
and he was sanctified in them .
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And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom ,
Thus saith thy brother Israel ,
Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us :
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How our fathers went down into Egypt ,
and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time ;
and the Egyptians vexed us ,
and our fathers :
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And when we cried unto the LORD ,
he heard our voice ,
and sent an angel ,
and hath brought us forth out of Egypt :
and ,
behold ,
we are in Kadesh ,
a city in the uttermost of thy border :
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Let us pass ,
I pray thee ,
through thy 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 '
s high way ,
we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left ,
until we have passed thy borders .
*
And Edom said unto him ,
Thou shalt not pass by me ,
lest I come out against thee with the sword .
*
And the children of Israel said unto him ,
We will go by the high way :
and if I and my cattle drink of thy water ,
then I will pay for it :
I will only ,
without doing any thing else ,
go through on my feet .
*
And he said ,
Thou shalt 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 :
wherefore Israel turned away from him .
*
And the children of Israel ,
even the whole congregation ,
journeyed from Kadesh ,
and came unto mount Hor .
*
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor ,
by the coast of the land of Edom ,
saying ,
*
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people :
for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel ,
because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah .
*
Take Aaron and Eleazar his son ,
and bring them up unto mount Hor :
*
And strip Aaron of his garments ,
and put them upon Eleazar his son :
and Aaron shall be gathered unto 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 upon 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 dwelt 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 unto the LORD ,
and said ,
If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand ,
then I will utterly destroy their cities .
*
And the LORD hearkened 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 spake against God ,
and against Moses ,
Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness ?
for there is no bread ,
neither is there any water ;
and our soul loatheth 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 thee ;
pray unto the LORD ,
that he take away the serpents from us .
And Moses prayed for the people .
*
And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Make thee a fiery serpent ,
and set it upon a pole :
and it shall come to pass ,
that every one that is bitten ,
when he looketh upon it ,
shall live .
*
And Moses made a serpent of brass ,
and put it upon 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 sunrising .
*
From thence they removed ,
and pitched in the valley of Zared .
*
From thence they removed ,
and pitched on the other side of Arnon ,
which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites :
for Arnon is the border of Moab ,
between Moab and the Amorites .
*
Wherefore 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 goeth down to the dwelling of Ar ,
and lieth upon the border of Moab .
*
And from thence they went to Beer :
that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses ,
Gather the people together ,
and I will give them water .
*
Then Israel sang this song ,
Spring up ,
O well ;
sing ye unto it :
*
The princes digged the well ,
the nobles of the people digged 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 looketh toward Jeshimon .
*
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites ,
saying ,
*
Let me pass through thy 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 '
s high way ,
until we be past thy 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 unto Jabbok ,
even unto the children of Ammon :
for the border of the children of Ammon was strong .
*
And Israel took all these cities :
and Israel dwelt 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 unto Arnon .
*
Wherefore 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 hath consumed Ar of Moab ,
and the lords of the high places of Arnon .
*
Woe to thee ,
Moab !
thou art undone ,
O people of Chemosh :
he hath given his sons that escaped ,
and his daughters ,
into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites .
*
We have shot at them ;
Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon ,
and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah ,
which reacheth unto Medeba .
*
Thus Israel dwelt 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 unto Moses ,
Fear him not :
for I have delivered him into thy hand ,
and all his people ,
and his land ;
and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites ,
which dwelt 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 .
*
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites .
*
And Moab was sore afraid of the people ,
because they were many :
and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel .
*
And Moab said unto the elders of Midian ,
Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us ,
as the ox licketh up the grass of the field .
And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time .
*
He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor ,
which is by the river of the land of the children of his people ,
to call him ,
saying ,
Behold ,
there is a people come out from Egypt :
behold ,
they cover the face of the earth ,
and they abide over against me :
*
Come now therefore ,
I pray thee ,
curse me this people ;
for they are too mighty for me :
peradventure I shall prevail ,
that we may smite them ,
and that I may drive them out of the land :
for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed ,
and he whom thou cursest is cursed .
*
And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand ;
and they came unto Balaam ,
and spake unto him the words of Balak .
*
And he said unto them ,
Lodge here this night ,
and I will bring you word again ,
as the LORD shall speak unto me :
and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam .
*
And God came unto Balaam ,
and said ,
What men are these with thee ?
*
And Balaam said unto God ,
Balak the son of Zippor ,
king of Moab ,
hath sent unto me ,
saying ,
*
Behold ,
there is a people come out of Egypt ,
which covereth the face of the earth :
come now ,
curse me them ;
peradventure I shall be able to overcome them ,
and drive them out .
*
And God said unto Balaam ,
Thou shalt not go with them ;
thou shalt not curse the people :
for they are blessed .
*
And Balaam rose up in the morning ,
and said unto the princes of Balak ,
Get you into your land :
for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you .
*
And the princes of Moab rose up ,
and they went unto Balak ,
and said ,
Balaam refuseth to come with us .
*
And Balak sent yet again princes ,
more ,
and more honourable than they .
*
And they came to Balaam ,
and said to him ,
Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor ,
Let nothing ,
I pray thee ,
hinder thee from coming unto me :
*
For I will promote thee unto very great honour ,
and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me :
come therefore ,
I pray thee ,
curse me this people .
*
And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak ,
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold ,
I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God ,
to do less or more .
*
Now therefore ,
I pray you ,
tarry ye also here this night ,
that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more .
*
And God came unto Balaam at night ,
and said unto him ,
If the men come to call thee ,
rise up ,
and go with them ;
but yet the word which I shall say unto thee ,
that shalt thou do .
*
And Balaam rose up in the morning ,
and saddled his ass ,
and went with the princes of Moab .
*
And God '
s anger was kindled because he went :
and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him .
Now he was riding upon his ass ,
and his two servants were with him .
*
And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way ,
and his sword drawn in his hand :
and the ass turned aside out of the way ,
and went into the field :
and Balaam smote the ass ,
to turn her into the way .
*
But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards ,
a wall being on this side ,
and a wall on that side .
*
And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD ,
she thrust herself unto the wall ,
and crushed Balaam '
s foot against the wall :
and he smote her again .
*
And the angel of the LORD went further ,
and stood in a narrow place ,
where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left .
*
And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD ,
she fell down under Balaam :
and Balaam '
s anger was kindled ,
and he smote the ass with a staff .
*
And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass ,
and she said unto Balaam ,
What have I done unto thee ,
that thou hast smitten me these three times ?
*
And Balaam said unto the ass ,
Because thou hast mocked me :
I would there were a sword in mine hand ,
for now would I kill thee .
*
And the ass said unto Balaam ,
Am not I thine ass ,
upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day ?
was I ever wont to do so unto thee ?
And he said ,
Nay .
*
Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam ,
and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way ,
and his sword drawn in his hand :
and he bowed down his head ,
and fell flat on his face .
*
And the angel of the LORD said unto him ,
Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times ?
behold ,
I went out to withstand thee ,
because thy way is perverse before me :
*
And the ass saw me ,
and turned from me these three times :
unless she had turned from me ,
surely now also I had slain thee ,
and saved her alive .
*
And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD ,
I have sinned ;
for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me :
now therefore ,
if it displease thee ,
I will get me back again .
*
And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam ,
Go with the men :
but only the word that I shall speak unto thee ,
that thou shalt speak .
So Balaam went with the princes of Balak .
*
And when Balak heard that Balaam was come ,
he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab ,
which is in the border of Arnon ,
which is in the utmost coast .
*
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 ?
*
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 .
*
And Balaam went with Balak ,
and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth .
*
And Balak offered oxen and sheep ,
and sent to Balaam ,
and to the princes that were with him .
*
And it came to pass on the morrow ,
that Balak took Balaam ,
and brought him up into the high places of Baal ,
that thence he might see the utmost part of the people .
*
And Balaam said unto Balak ,
Build me here seven altars ,
and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams .
*
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken ;
and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram .
*
And Balaam said unto Balak ,
Stand by thy burnt offering ,
and I will go :
peradventure the LORD will come to meet me :
and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee .
And he went to an high place .
*
And God met Balaam :
and he said unto him ,
I have prepared seven altars ,
and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram .
*
And the LORD put a word in Balaam '
s mouth ,
and said ,
Return unto Balak ,
and thus thou shalt speak .
*
And he returned unto him ,
and ,
lo ,
he stood by his burnt sacrifice ,
he ,
and all the princes of Moab .
*
And he took up his parable ,
and said ,
Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram ,
out of the mountains of the east ,
saying ,
Come ,
curse me Jacob ,
and come ,
defy Israel .
*
How shall I curse ,
whom God hath not cursed ?
or how shall I defy ,
whom the LORD hath not defied ?
*
For from the top of the rocks I see him ,
and from the hills I behold him :
lo ,
the people shall dwell alone ,
and shall not be reckoned among the nations .
*
Who can count the dust of Jacob ,
and the number of the fourth part of Israel ?
Let me die the death of the righteous ,
and let my last end be like his !
*
And Balak said unto Balaam ,
What hast thou done unto me ?
I took thee to curse mine enemies ,
and ,
behold ,
thou hast blessed them altogether .
*
And he answered and said ,
Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth ?
*
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 .
*
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 .
*
And he said unto Balak ,
Stand here by thy burnt offering ,
while I meet the LORD yonder .
*
And the LORD met Balaam ,
and put a word in his mouth ,
and said ,
Go again unto Balak ,
and say thus .
*
And when he came to him ,
behold ,
he stood by his burnt offering ,
and the princes of Moab with him .
And Balak said unto him ,
What hath the LORD spoken ?
*
And he took up his parable ,
and said ,
Rise up ,
Balak ,
and hear ;
hearken unto me ,
thou son of Zippor :
*
God is not a man ,
that he should lie ;
neither the son of man ,
that he should repent :
hath he said ,
and shall he not do it ?
or hath he spoken ,
and shall he not make it good ?
*
Behold ,
I have received commandment to bless :
and he hath blessed ;
and I cannot reverse it .
*
He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob ,
neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel :
the LORD his God is with him ,
and the shout of a king is among them .
*
God brought them out of Egypt ;
he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn .
*
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 !
*
Behold ,
the people shall rise up as a great lion ,
and lift up himself as a young lion :
he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey ,
and drink the blood of the slain .
*
And Balak said unto Balaam ,
Neither curse them at all ,
nor bless them at all .
*
But Balaam answered and said unto Balak ,
Told not I thee ,
saying ,
All that the LORD speaketh ,
that I must do ?
*
And Balak said unto Balaam ,
Come ,
I pray thee ,
I will bring thee unto another place ;
peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence .
*
And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor ,
that looketh toward Jeshimon .
*
And Balaam said unto Balak ,
Build me here seven altars ,
and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams .
*
And Balak did as Balaam had said ,
and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar .
*
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel ,
he went not ,
as at other times ,
to seek for enchantments ,
but he set his face toward the wilderness .
*
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 .
*
And he took up his parable ,
and said ,
Balaam the son of Beor hath said ,
and the man whose eyes are open hath said :
*
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 :
*
How goodly are thy tents ,
O Jacob ,
and thy tabernacles ,
O Israel !
*
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 .
*
He shall pour the water out of his buckets ,
and his seed shall be in many waters ,
and his king shall be higher than Agag ,
and his kingdom shall be exalted .
*
God brought him forth out of Egypt ;
he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn :
he shall eat up the nations his enemies ,
and shall break their bones ,
and pierce them through with his arrows .
*
He couched ,
he lay down as a lion ,
and as a great lion :
who shall stir him up ?
Blessed is he that blesseth thee ,
and cursed is he that curseth thee .
*
And Balak '
s anger was kindled against Balaam ,
and he smote his hands together :
and Balak said unto Balaam ,
I called thee to curse mine enemies ,
and ,
behold ,
thou hast altogether blessed them these three times .
*
Therefore now flee thou to thy place :
I thought to promote thee unto great honour ;
but ,
lo ,
the LORD hath kept thee back from honour .
*
And Balaam said unto Balak ,
Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me ,
saying ,
*
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold ,
I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD ,
to do either good or bad of mine own mind ;
but what the LORD saith ,
that will I speak ?
*
And now ,
behold ,
I go unto my people :
come therefore ,
and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days .
*
And he took up his parable ,
and said ,
Balaam the son of Beor hath said ,
and the man whose eyes are open hath said :
*
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 his eyes open :
*
I shall see him ,
but not now :
I shall behold him ,
but not nigh :
there shall come a Star out of Jacob ,
and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel ,
and shall smite the corners of Moab ,
and destroy all the children of Sheth .
*
And Edom shall be a possession ,
Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies ;
and Israel shall do valiantly .
*
Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion ,
and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city .
*
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 .
*
And he looked on the Kenites ,
and took up his parable ,
and said ,
Strong is thy dwellingplace ,
and thou puttest thy nest in a rock .
*
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted ,
until Asshur shall carry thee away captive .
*
And he took up his parable ,
and said ,
Alas ,
who shall live when God doeth this !
*
And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim ,
and shall afflict Asshur ,
and shall afflict Eber ,
and he also shall perish for ever .
*
And Balaam rose up ,
and went and returned to his place :
and Balak also went his way .
*
And Israel abode in Shittim ,
and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab .
*
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods :
and the people did eat ,
and bowed down to their gods .
*
And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor :
and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel .
*
And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Take all the heads of the people ,
and hang them up before the LORD against the sun ,
that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel .
*
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel ,
Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor .
*
And ,
behold ,
one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses ,
and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel ,
who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation .
*
And when Phinehas ,
the son of Eleazar ,
the son of Aaron the priest ,
saw it ,
he rose up from among the congregation ,
and took a javelin in his hand ;
*
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent ,
and thrust both of them through ,
the man of Israel ,
and the woman through her belly .
So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel .
*
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand .
*
And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
*
Phinehas ,
the son of Eleazar ,
the son of Aaron the priest ,
hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel ,
while he was zealous for my sake among them ,
that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy .
*
Wherefore say ,
Behold ,
I give unto him my covenant of peace :
*
And he shall have it ,
and his seed after him ,
even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood ;
because he was zealous for his God ,
and made an atonement for the children of Israel .
*
Now the name of the Israelite that was slain ,
even that was slain with the Midianitish woman ,
was Zimri ,
the son of Salu ,
a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites .
*
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 .
*
And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
*
Vex the Midianites ,
and smite them :
*
For they vex you with their wiles ,
wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor ,
and in the matter of Cozbi ,
the daughter of a prince of Midian ,
their sister ,
which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor '
s sake .
*
And it came to pass after the plague ,
that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest ,
saying ,
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