rsv Numbers:19-21
rsv@Numbers:19:1 @ Now the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,
rsv@Numbers:19:2 @ "This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and upon which a yoke has never come.
rsv@Numbers:19:3 @ And you shall give her to Elea'zar the priest, and she shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him;
rsv@Numbers:19:4 @ and Elea'zar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
rsv@Numbers:19:5 @ And the heifer shall be burned in his sight; her skin, her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burned;
rsv@Numbers:19:6 @ and the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet stuff, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
rsv@Numbers:19:7 @ Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until evening.
rsv@Numbers:19:8 @ He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
rsv@Numbers:19:9 @ And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the people of Israel for the water for impurity, for the removal of sin.
rsv@Numbers:19:10 @ And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. And this shall be to the people of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourns among them, a perpetual statute.
rsv@Numbers:19:11 @ "He who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days;
rsv@Numbers:19:12 @ he shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean; but if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.
rsv@Numbers:19:13 @ Whoever touches a dead person, the body of any man who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
rsv@Numbers:19:14 @ "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: every one who comes into the tent, and every one who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
rsv@Numbers:19:15 @ And every open vessel, which has no cover fastened upon it, is unclean.
rsv@Numbers:19:16 @ Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
rsv@Numbers:19:17 @ For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and running water shall be added in a vessel;
rsv@Numbers:19:18 @ then a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the furnishings, and upon the persons who were there, and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave;
rsv@Numbers:19:19 @ and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.
rsv@Numbers:19:20 @ "But the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; because the water for impurity has not been thrown upon him, he is unclean.
rsv@Numbers:19:21 @ And it shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
rsv@Numbers:19:22 @ And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and any one who touches it shall be unclean until evening."
rsv@Numbers:20:1 @ And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
rsv@Numbers:20:2 @ Now there was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
rsv@Numbers:20:3 @ And the people contended with Moses, and said, "Would that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
rsv@Numbers:20:4 @ Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?
rsv@Numbers:20:5 @ And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; and there is no water to drink."
rsv@Numbers:20:6 @ Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them,
rsv@Numbers:20:7 @ and the LORD said to Moses,
rsv@Numbers:20:8 @ "Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water; so you shall bring water out of the rock for them; so you shall give drink to the congregation and their cattle."
rsv@Numbers:20:9 @ And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
rsv@Numbers:20:10 @ And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock?"
rsv@Numbers:20:11 @ And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.
rsv@Numbers:20:12 @ And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."
rsv@Numbers:20:13 @ These are the waters of Mer'ibah, where the people of Israel contended with the LORD, and he showed himself holy among them.
rsv@Numbers:20:14 @ Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the adversity that has befallen us:
rsv@Numbers:20:15 @ how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers;
rsv@Numbers:20:16 @ and when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel and brought us forth out of Egypt; and here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
rsv@Numbers:20:17 @ Now let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, neither will we drink water from a well; we will go along the King's Highway, we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, until we have passed through your territory."
rsv@Numbers:20:18 @ But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you."
rsv@Numbers:20:19 @ And the people of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my cattle, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more."
rsv@Numbers:20:20 @ But he said, "You shall not pass through." And Edom came out against them with many men, and with a strong force.
rsv@Numbers:20:21 @ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.
rsv@Numbers:20:22 @ And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
rsv@Numbers:20:23 @ And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom,
rsv@Numbers:20:24 @ "Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the people of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Mer'ibah.
rsv@Numbers:20:25 @ Take Aaron and Elea'zar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
rsv@Numbers:20:26 @ and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Elea'zar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there."
rsv@Numbers:20:27 @ Moses did as the LORD commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
rsv@Numbers:20:28 @ And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Elea'zar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Elea'zar came down from the mountain.
rsv@Numbers:20:29 @ And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.
rsv@Numbers:21:1 @ When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
rsv@Numbers:21:2 @ And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, "If thou wilt indeed give this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities."
rsv@Numbers:21:3 @ And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and gave over the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; so the name of the place was called Hormah.
rsv@Numbers:21:4 @ From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the way.
rsv@Numbers:21:5 @ 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 food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food."
rsv@Numbers:21:6 @ Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
rsv@Numbers:21:7 @ And 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." So Moses prayed for the people.
rsv@Numbers:21:8 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."
rsv@Numbers:21:9 @ So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
rsv@Numbers:21:10 @ And the people of Israel set out, and encamped in Oboth.
rsv@Numbers:21:11 @ And they set out from Oboth, and encamped at I'ye-ab'arim, in the wilderness which is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.
rsv@Numbers:21:12 @ From there they set out, and encamped in the Valley of Zered.
rsv@Numbers:21:13 @ From there they set out, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that extends from the boundary of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
rsv@Numbers:21:14 @ Wherefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, "Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,
rsv@Numbers:21:15 @ and the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans to the border of Moab."
rsv@Numbers:21:16 @ And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water."
rsv@Numbers:21:17 @ Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well!--Sing to it!--
rsv@Numbers:21:18 @ the well which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people delved, with the scepter and with their staves." And from the wilderness they went on to Mat'tanah,
rsv@Numbers:21:19 @ and from Mat'tanah to Nahal'iel, and from Nahal'iel to Bamoth,
rsv@Numbers:21:20 @ and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah which looks down upon the desert.
rsv@Numbers:21:21 @ Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
rsv@Numbers:21:22 @ "Let me pass through your land; we will not turn aside into field or vineyard; we will not drink the water of a well; we will go by the King's Highway, until we have passed through your territory."
rsv@Numbers:21:23 @ But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his men together, and went out against Israel to the wilderness, and came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
rsv@Numbers:21:24 @ And Israel slew him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites; for Jazer was the boundary of the Ammonites.
rsv@Numbers:21:25 @ And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
rsv@Numbers:21:26 @ 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, as far as the Arnon.
rsv@Numbers:21:27 @ Therefore the ballad singers say, "Come to Heshbon, let it be built, let the city of Sihon be established.
rsv@Numbers:21:28 @ For fire went forth from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, the lords of the heights of the Arnon.
rsv@Numbers:21:29 @ Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.
rsv@Numbers:21:30 @ So their posterity perished from Heshbon, as far as Dibon, and we laid waste until fire spread to Med'eba."
rsv@Numbers:21:31 @ Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
rsv@Numbers:21:32 @ And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its villages, and dispossessed the Amorites that were there.
rsv@Numbers:21:33 @ Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Ed're-i.
rsv@Numbers:21:34 @ But the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him; for I have given 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, who dwelt at Heshbon."
rsv@Numbers:21:35 @ So they slew him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was not one survivor left to him; and they possessed his land.
rsv@Numbers:22:1 @ Then the people of Israel set out, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
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