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The Hebrews, from its first words, call it +VAIEDABBER. It contains the transactions of the Israelites from the +second month of the second year after their going out of Egypt, until +the beginning of the eleventh month of the fortieth year; that is, a +history almost of thirty-nine years. + + +Numbers Chapter 1 + +The children of Israel are numbered: the Levites are designed to serve +the tabernacle. + +1:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the +tabernacle of the covenant, the first day of the second month, the +second year of their going out of Egypt, saying: + +1:2. Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by +their families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are +of the male sex, + +1:3. From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for +war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron. + +1:4. And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the +houses in their kindreds, + +1:5. Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur. + +1:6. Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai. + +1:7. Of Juda, Nahasson the son of Aminadab. + +1:8. Of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Suar. + +1:9. Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon. + +1:10. And of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud: +of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur. + +1:11. Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon. + +1:12. Of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai. + +1:13. Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran. + +1:14. Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel. + +1:15. Of Nephtali, Ahira the son of Enan. + +1:16. These are the most noble princes of the multitude by their tribes +and kindreds, and the chiefs of the army of Israel: + +1:17. Whom Moses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common +people: + +1:18. And assembled them on the first day of the second month, reckoning +them up by the kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and names +of every one from twenty years old and upward, + +1:19. As the Lord had commanded Moses. And they were numbered in the +desert of Sinai. + +1:20. Of Ruben the eldest son of Israel, by their generations and +families and houses and names of every head, all that were of the male +sex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to +war, + +1:21. Were forty-six thousand five hundred. + +1:22. Of the sons of Simeon by their generations and families, and +houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names and heads of +every one, all that were of the male sex, from twenty years old and +upward, that were able to go forth to war, + +1:23. Fifty-nine thousand three hundred. + +1:24. Of the sons of Gad, by their generations and families and houses +of their kindreds were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty +years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, + +1:25. Forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. + +1:26. Of the sons of Juda, by their generations and families and houses +of their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years old and +upward, all that were able to go forth to war, + +1:27. Were reckoned up seventy-four thousand six hundred. + +1:28. Of the sons of Issachar, by their generations and families and +houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years +old and upward, all that could go forth to war, + +1:29. Were reckoned up fifty-four thousand four hundred. + +1:30. Of the sons of Zabulon, by the generations and families and houses +of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from +twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, + +1:31. Fifty-seven thousand four hundred. + +1:32. Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, by the +generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up +by the names of every one, from twenty years old and upward, all that +were able to go forth to war, + +1:33. Forty thousand five hundred. + +1:34. Moreover of the sons of Manasses, by the generations and families +and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one +from twenty years old and upward, all that could go forth to war, + +1:35. Thirty-two thousand two hundred. + +1:36. Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations and families and +houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one +from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, + +1:37. Thirty-five thousand four hundred. + +1:38. Of the sons of Dan, by their generations and families and houses +of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from +twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, + +1:39. Sixty-two thousand seven hundred. + +1:40. Of the sons of Aser, by their generations and families and houses +of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from +twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, + +1:41. Forty-one thousand and five hundred. + +1:42. Of the sons of Nephtali, by their generations and families and +houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one +from twenty years old and upward, were able to go forth to war, + +1:43. Fifty-three thousand four hundred. + +1:44. These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and the +twelve princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their kindreds. + +1:45. And the whole number of the children of Israel by their houses and +families, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go to war, + +1:46. Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men. + +1:47. But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered +with them. + +1:48. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +1:49. Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum +of them with the children of Israel: + +1:50. But appoint them over the tabernacle of the testimony, and all the +vessels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They shall +carry the tabernacle and all the furniture thereof: and they shall +minister, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. + +1:51. When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the +tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger +soever cometh to it, shall be slain. + +1:52. And the children of Israel shall camp every man by his troops and +bands and army. + +1:53. But the Levites shall pitch their tents round about the +tabernacle, lest there come indignation upon the multitude of the +children of Israel, and they shall keep watch, and guard the tabernacle +of the testimony. + +1:54. And the children of Israel did according to all things which the +Lord had commanded Moses. + +Numbers Chapter 2 + +The order of the tribes in their camp. + +2:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: + +2:2. All the children of Israel shall camp by their troops, ensigns, and +standards, and the houses of their kindreds, round about the tabernacle +of the covenant. + +2:3. On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the bands of his army: +and the prince of his sons; shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab. + +2:4. And the whole sum of the fighting men of his stock, were seventy- +four thousand six hundred. + +2:5. Next unto him they of the tribe of Issachar encamped, whose prince +was Nathanael, the son of Suar. + +2:6. And the whole number of his fighting men were fifty-four thousand +four hundred. + +2:7. In the tribe of Zabulon the prince was Eliab the son of Helon. + +2:8. And all the army of fighting men of his stock, were fifty-seven +thousand four hundred. + +2:9. All that were numbered in the camp of Juda, were a hundred and +eighty-six thousand four hundred: and they by their troops shall march +first. + +2:10. In the camp of the sons of Ruben, on the south side, the prince +shall be Elisur the son of Sedeur: + +2:11. And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were +forty-six thousand five hundred. + +2:12. Beside him camped they of the tribe of Simeon: whose prince was +Salamiel the son of Surisaddai. + +2:13. And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were +fifty-nine thousand three hundred. + +2:14. In the tribe of Gad the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel. + +2:15. And the whole army of his righting men that were numbered, were +forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. + +2:16. All that were reckoned up in the camp of Ruben, were a hundred and +fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, by their troops: they shall +march in the second place. + +2:17. And the tabernacle of the testimony shall be carried by the +officers of the Levites and their troops. As it shall be set up, so +shall it be taken down. Every one shall march according to their places, +and ranks. + +2:18. On the west side shall be the camp of the sons of Ephraim, whose +prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud. + +2:19. The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty +thousand five hundred. + +2:20. And with them the tribe of the sons of Manasses, whose prince was +Gamaliel the son of Phadassur. + +2:21. And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were +thirty-two thousand two hundred. + +2:22. In the tribe of the sons of Benjamin the prince was Abidan the son +of Gedeon. + +2:23. And the whole army of fighting men, that were reckoned up, were +thirty-five thousand four hundred. + +2:24. All that were numbered in the camp of Ephraim, were a hundred and +eight-thousand one hundred by their troops: they shall march in the +third place. + +2:25. On the north side camped the sons of Dan: whose prince was Ahiezar +the son of Ammisaddai. + +2:26. The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were +sixty-two thousand seven hundred. + +2:27. Beside him they of the tribe of Aser pitched their tents: whose +prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran. + +2:28. The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were +forty-one thousand five hundred. + +2:29. Of the tribe of the sons of Nephtali the prince was Ahira the son +of Enan. + +2:30. The whole army of his fighting men, were fifty-three thousand four +hundred. + +2:31. All that were numbered in the camp of Dan, were a hundred and +fifty-seven thousand six hundred: and they shall march last. + +2:32. This is the number of the children of Israel, of their army +divided according to the houses of their kindreds and their troops, six +hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. + +2:33. And the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel: +for so the Lord had commanded Moses. + +2:34. And the children of Israel did according to all things that the +Lord had commanded. They camped by their troops, and marched by the +families and houses of their fathers. + +Numbers Chapter 3 + +The Levites are numbered and their offices distinguished. They are taken +in the place of the firstborn of the children of Israel. + +3:1. These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the +Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai. + +3:2. And these the names of the sons of Aaron: his firstborn Nadab, then +Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar. + +3:3. These the names of the sons of Aaron the priests that were +anointed, and whose hands were filled and consecrated, to do the +functions of priesthood. + +3:4. Now Nadab and Abiu died, without children, when they offered +strange fire before the Lord, in the desert of Sinai: and Eleazar and +Ithamar performed the priestly office in the presence of Aaron their +father. + +3:5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +3:6. Bring the tribe of Levi, and make them stand in the sight of Aaron +the priest to minister to him, and let them watch, + +3:7. And observe whatsoever appertaineth to the service of the multitude +before the tabernacle of the testimony, + +3:8. And let them keep the vessels of the tabernacle, serving in the +ministry thereof. + +3:9. And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift, + +3:10. To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered by the +children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the +service of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth to minister, shall +be put to death. + +3:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +3:12. I have taken the Levites from the children of Israel, for every +firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, and the +Levites shall be mine. + +3:13. For every firstborn is mine: since I struck the firstborn in the +land of Egypt: I have sanctified to myself whatsoever is firstborn in +Israel both of man and beast, they are mine: I am the Lord. + +3:14. And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying: + +3:15. Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their +families, every male from one month and upward. + +3:16. Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded. + +3:17. And there were found sons of Levi by their names, Gerson and Caath +Merari. + +3:18. The sons of Gerson: Lebni and Semei. + +3:19. The sons of Caath: Amram, and Jesaar, Hebron and Oziel: + +3:20. The sons of Merari, Moholi and Musi. + +3:21. Of Gerson were two families, the Lebnites, and the Semeites: + +3:22. Of which were numbered, people of the male sex from one month and +upward, seven thousand five hundred. + +3:23. These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west, + +3:24. Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael. + +3:25. And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of the covenant: + +3:26. The tabernacle itself and the cover thereof, the hanging that is +drawn before the doors of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the +curtains of the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of +the court of the tabernacle, and whatsoever belongeth to the rite of the +altar, the cords of the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof. + +3:27. Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and +Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the +Caathites reckoned up by their names: + +3:28. All of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six +hundred: they shall have the guard of the sanctuary, + +3:29. And shall camp on the south side. + +3:30. And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel: + +3:31. And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick, +the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister, +and the veil, and all the furniture of this kind. + +3:32. And the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar, the son of +Aaron the priest, shall be over them that watch for the guard of the +sanctuary. + +3:33. And of Merari are the families of the Moholites, and Musites, +reckoned up by their names: + +3:34. All of the male kind from one month and upward, six thousand two +hundred. + +3:35. Their prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel: their shall camp on the +north side. + +3:36. Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the +bars, and the pillars and their sockets, and all things that pertain to +this kind of service: + +3:37. And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets, and +the pins with their cords. + +3:38. Before the tabernacle of the covenant, that is to say on the east +side shall Moses and Aaron camp, with their sons, having the custody of +the sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger +soever cometh unto it, shall be put to death. + +3:39. All the Levites, that I Moses and Aaron numbered according to the +precept of the Lord, by their f families, of the male kind from one +month and upward, were twenty-two thousand. + +3:40. And the Lord said to Moses: Number the firstborn of the male sex +of the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou shalt +take the sum of them. + +3:41. And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of the +children of Israel, I am the Lord: and their cattle for all the +firstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel: + +3:42. Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had commanded, the firstborn of the +children of Israel: + +3:43. And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were +twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three. + +3:44. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +3:45. Take the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel, and +the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and the Levites shall be +mine. I am the Lord. + +3:46. But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the +firstborn of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the +Levites, + +3:47. Thou shalt take five sicles for every bead, according to the +weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols. + +3:48. And thou shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons, the price of +them that are above. + +3:49. Moses therefore took the money of them that were above, and whom +they had redeemed from the Levites, + +3:50. For the firstborn of the children of Israel, one thousand three +hundred and sixty-five sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, + +3:51. And gave it to Aaron and his sons according to the word that the +Lord had commanded him. + +Numbers Chapter 4 + +The age and time of the Levites' service: their offices and burdens. + +4:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron, saying: + +4:2. Take the sum of the sons of Caath from the midst of the Levites, by +their houses and families. + +4:3. From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old, of all that +go in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant. + +4:4. This is the service of the sons of Caath: + +4:5. When the camp is; to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall go into +the tabernacle of the covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take +down the veil that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap up the ark of +the testimony in it, + +4:6. And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall +spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars. + +4:7. They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of +violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups +and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it: + +4:8. And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they +shall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars. + +4:9. They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover +the candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and +all the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps: + +4:10. And over all they shall put a cover of violet skins and put in the +bars. + +4:11. And they shall wrap up the golden altar also in a cloth of violet, +and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars. + +4:12. All the vessels wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, they +shall wrap up in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of +violet skins, and put in the bars. + +4:13. They shall cleanse the altar also from the ashes, and shall wrap +it up in a purple cloth, + +4:14. And shall put it with all the vessels that they use in the +ministry thereof, that is to say, firepans, fleshhooks and forks, +pothooks and shovels. They shall cover all the vessels of the altar +together with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars. + +4:15. And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary and the +vessels thereof at the removing of the camp, then shall the sons of +Caath enter in to carry the things wrapped up: and they shall not touch +the vessels of the sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of +the sons of Caath: in the tabernacle of the covenant: + +4:16. And over them shall be Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, to +whose charge pertaineth the oil to dress the lamps, and the sweet +incense, and the sacrifice, that is always offered, and the oil of +unction, and whatsoever pertaineth to the service of the tabernacle, and +of all the vessels that are in the sanctuary. + +4:17. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: + +4:18. Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites: + +4:19. But do this to them, that they may live, and not die, by touching +the holies of holies. Aaron and his sons shall go in, and they shall +appoint every man his work, and shall divide the burdens that every man +is to carry. + +4:20. Let not others by any curiosity see the things that are in the +sanctuary before they be wrapped up, otherwise they shall die. + +4:21. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +4:22. Take the sum of the sons of Gerson also by their houses and +families and kindreds. + +4:23. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old. Number +them all that go in and minister in the tabernacle of the covenant. + +4:24. This is the office of the family of the Gersonites: + +4:25. To carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the roof of the +covenant, the other covering, and the violet covering over all, and the +hanging that hangeth in the entry of the tabernacle of the covenant, + +4:26. The curtains of the court, and the veil in the entry that is +before tabernacle. All things that pertain to the altar, the cords and +the vessels of the ministry, + +4:27. The sons of Gerson shall carry, by the commandment of Aaron and +his sons: and each man shall know to what burden he must be assigned. + +4:28. This is the service of the family of the Gersonites in the +tabernacle of the covenant, and they shall be under the hand of Ithamar +the son of Aaron the priest. + +4:29. Thou shalt reckon up the sons of Merari also by the families and +houses of their fathers, + +4:30. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that +go in to the office of their ministry, and to the service of the +covenant of the testimony. + +4:31. These are their burdens: They shall carry the boards of the +tabernacle and the bars thereof, the pillars and their sockets, + +4:32. The pillars also of the court round about, with their sockets and +pins and cords. They shall receive by account all the vessels and +furniture, and so shall carry them. + +4:33. This is the office of the family of the Merarites, and their +ministry in the tabernacle of the covenant: and they shall be under the +hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. + +4:34. So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the synagogue reckoned up +the sons of Caath, by their kindreds and the houses of their fathers, + +4:35. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that +go in to the ministry of the tabernacle of the covenant: + +4:36. And they were found two thousand seven hundred and fifty. + +4:37. This is the number of the people of Caath that go in to the +tabernacle of the covenant: these did Moses and Aaron number according +to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses. + +4:38. The sons of Gerson also were numbered by the kindreds and houses +of their fathers, + +4:39. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that +go in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant: + +4:40. And they were found two thousand six hundred and thirty. + +4:41. This is the people of the Gersonites, whom Moses and Aaron +numbered according to the word of the Lord. + +4:42. The sons of Merari also were numbered by the kindreds and houses +of their fathers, + +4:43. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that +go in to fulfil the rites of the tabernacle of the covenant: + +4:44. And they were found three thousand two hundred. + +4:45. This is the number of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron +reckoned up according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of +Moses. + +4:46. All that were reckoned up of the Levites, and whom Moses and Aaron +and the princes of Israel took by name, by the kindreds and houses of +their fathers, + +4:47. From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old, that go +into the ministry of the tabernacle, and to carry the burdens, + +4:48. Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty. + +4:49. Moses reckoned them up according to the word of the Lord, every +one according to their office and burdens, as the Lord had commanded +him. + +Numbers Chapter 5 + +The unclean are removed out of the camp: confession of sins, and +satisfaction: firstfruits and oblations belonging to the priests: trial +of jealousy. + +5:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +5:2. Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp +every leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the +dead: + +5:3. Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest they +defile it when I shall dwell with you, + +5:4. And the children of Israel did so, and they cast them forth without +the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses. + +5:5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +5:6. Say to the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall have +committed any of all the sins that men are wont to commit, and by +negligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and +offended, + +5:7. They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and +the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned. + +Shall confess... This confession and satisfaction, ordained in the Old +Law, was a figure of the sacrament of penance. + +5:8. But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the +Lord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is offered for +expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice. + +5:9. All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, +belong to the priest: + +5:10. And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is +delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his. + +5:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +5:12. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The +man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband, + +5:13. Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover +it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, +because she was not found in the adultery: + +5:14. If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, +who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion, + +The spirit of jealousy, etc... This ordinance was designed to clear the +innocent, and to prevent jealous husbands from doing mischief to their +wives: as likewise to give all a horror of adultery, by punishing it in +so remarkable a manner. + +5:15. He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for +her, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil +thereon, nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of +jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery. + +5:16. The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord. + +5:17. And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall +cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it. + +5:18. And when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover +her head, and shall put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and +the oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter +waters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration. + +5:19. And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not +slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband's +bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not +hurt thee. + +5:20. But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and +hast lain with another man: + +5:21. These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse, +and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot, +and may thy belly swell and burst asunder. + +5:22. Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly, and may thy womb swell +and thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer, Amen, amen. + +5:23. And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash +them out with the most bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the +curses, + +5:24. And he shall give them her to drink. And when she hath drunk them +up, + +5:25. The priest shall take from her hand the sacrifice of jealousy, and +shall elevate it before the Lord, and shall put it upon the altar: yet +so as first, + +5:26. To take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, and +burn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman +to drink. + +5:27. And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having +despised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go +through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman +shall be a curse, and an example to all the people. + +5:28. But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear +children. + +5:29. This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her +husband, and be defiled, + +5:30. And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her +before the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that +are here written: + +5:31. The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity. + +Numbers Chapter 6 + +The law of the Nazarites: the form of blessing the people. + +6:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +6:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When a +man, or woman, shall make a vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate +themselves to the Lord: + +6:3. They shall abstain from wine, and from every thing that may make a +man drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other drink, +nor any thing that is pressed out of the grape: nor shall they eat +grapes either fresh or dried. + +6:4. All the days that they are consecrated to the Lord by vow: they +shall eat nothing that cometh of the vineyard, from the raisin even to +the kernel. + +6:5. All the time of his separation no razor shall pass over his head, +until the day be fulfilled of his consecration to the Lord. He shall be +holy, and shall let the hair of his head grow. + +6:6. All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead, + +6:7. Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for +his mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, +because the consecration of his God is upon his head. + +6:8. All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord. + +6:9. But if any man die suddenly before him: the head of his +consecration shall be defiled: and he shall shave it forthwith on the +same day of his purification, and again on the seventh day. + +6:10. And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young +pigeons to the priest in the entry of the covenant of the testimony. + +6:11. And the priest shall offer one for sin, and the other for a +holocaust, and shall pray for him, for that he hath sinned by the dead: +and he shall sanctify his head that day: + +6:12. And shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, +offering a lamb of one year for sin: yet so that the former days be made +void, because his sanctification was profaned. + +6:13. This is the law of consecration. When the days which he had +determined by vow shall be expired, he shall bring him to the door of +the tabernacle of the covenant, + +6:14. And shall offer his oblation to the Lord: one he lamb of a year +old without blemish for a holocaust, and one ewe lamb of a year old +without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for a +victim of peace offering, + +6:15. A basket also of unleavened bread, tempered with oil, and wafers +without leaven anointed with oil, and the libations of each: + +6:16. And the priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall offer +both the sin offering and the holocaust. + +6:17. But the ram he shall immolate for a sacrifice of peace offering to +the Lord, offering at the same time the basket of unleavened bread, and +the libations that are due by custom. + +6:18. Then shall the hair of the consecration of the Nazarite, be shaved +off before the door of the tabernacle of the covenant: and he shall take +his hair, and lay it upon the fire, which is under the sacrifice of the +peace offerings. + +6:19. And shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened +cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he shall deliver +them into the hands of the Nazarite, after his head is shaven. + +6:20. And receiving them again from him, he shall elevate them in the +sight of the Lord: and they being sanctified shall belong to the priest, +as the breast, which was commanded to be separated, and the shoulder. +After this the Nazarite may drink wine. + +6:21. This is the law of the Nazarite, when he hath vowed his oblation +to the Lord in the time of his consecration, besides those things which +his hand shall find, according to that which he had vowed in his mind, +so shall he do for the fulfilling of his sanctification. + +6:22. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +6:23. Say to Aaron and his sons: Thus shall you bless the children of +Israel, and you shall say to them: + +6:24. The Lord bless thee, and keep thee. + +6:25. The Lord shew his face to thee, and have mercy on thee. + +6:26. The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and give thee peace. + +6:27. And they shall invoke my name upon the children of Israel, and I +will bless them. + +Numbers Chapter 7 + +The offerings of the princes at the dedication of the tabernacle. God +speaketh to Moses from the propitiatory. + +7:1. And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the +tabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all +its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof, + +7:2. The princes of Israel and the heads of the families, in every +tribe, who were the rulers of them who had been numbered, offered + +7:3. Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen. +Two princes offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered them +before the tabernacle. + +7:4. And the Lord said to Moses: + +7:5. Receive them from them to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle, +and thou shalt deliver them to the Levites according to the order of +their ministry. + +7:6. Moses therefore receiving the wagons and the oxen, delivered them +to the Levites. + +7:7. Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gerson, according +to their necessity. + +7:8. The other four wagons, and eight oxen he gave to the sons of +Merari, according to their offices and service, under the hand of +Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. + +7:9. But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they +serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders. + +7:10. And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar on the day +when it was anointed, their oblation before the altar. + +7:11. And the Lord said to Moses: Let each of the princes one day after +another offer their gifts for the dedication of the altar. + +7:12. The first day Nahasson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of Juda +offered his offering: + +7:13. And his offering was a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty +sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the +sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:14. A little mortar of ten sicles of gold full of incense: + +7:15. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and lamb of a year old for a +holocaust: + +7:16. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:17. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, +five he goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of +Nahasson the son of Aminadab. + +7:18. The second day Nathanael the son of Suar, prince of the tribe of +Issachar, made his offering, + +7:19. A silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver +bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both +full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:20. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: + +7:21. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a +holocaust: + +7:22. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:23. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, +five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of +Nathanael the son of Suar. + +7:24. The third day the prince of the sons of Zabulon, Eliab the son of +Helon, + +7:25. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a +silver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full +of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:26. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: + +7:27. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a +holocaust: + +7:28. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:29. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, +five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This is the oblation of Eliab +the son of Helon. + +7:30. The fourth day the prince of the sons of Ruben, Elisur the son of +Sedeur, + +7:31. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a +silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, +both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:32. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: + +7:33. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old, for a +holocaust: + +7:34. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:35. And for victims of peace offerings two oxen, five rams, five buck +goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisur the son +of Sedeur. + +7:36. The fifth day the prince of the sons of Simeon, Salamiel the son +of Surisaddai, + +7:37. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a +silver bowl of seventy sicles after the weight of the sanctuary, both +full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:38. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: + +7:39. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a +holocaust: + +7:40. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:41. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five +buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Salamiel +the son of Surisaddai. + +7:42. The sixth day the prince of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph the son of +Duel, + +7:43. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a +silver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full +of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:44. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: + +7:45. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a +holocaust: + +7:46. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:47. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five +buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph +the son of Duel. + +7:48. The seventh day the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elisama the son +of Ammiud, + +7:49. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a +silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, +both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:50. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: + +7:51. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a +holocaust: + +7:52. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:53. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five +buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisama +the son of Ammiud. + +7:54. The eighth day the prince of the sons of Manasses, Gamaliel the +son of Phadassur, + +7:55. Offered a silver dish, weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a +silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, +both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:56. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: + +7:57. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a +holocaust: + +7:58. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:59. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five +buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel +the son of Phadassur. + +7:60. The ninth day the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan the son +of Gedeon, + +7:61. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a +silver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full +of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:62. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: + +7:63. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a +holocaust: + +7:64. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:65. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five +buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Abidan +the son of Gedeon. + +7:66. The tenth day the princes of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer the son of +Ammisaddai, + +7:67. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a +silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, +both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:68. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: + +7:69. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a +holocaust: + +7:70. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:71. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five +buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer +the son of Ammisaddai. + +7:72. The eleventh day the prince of the sons of Aser, Phegiel the son +of Ochran, + +7:73. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a +silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, +both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:74. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: + +7:75. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a +holocaust: + +7:76. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:77. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five +buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Phegiel +the son of Ochran. + +7:78. The twelfth day the prince of the sons of Nephtali, Ahira the son +of Enan, + +7:79. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a +silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, +both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: + +7:80. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: + +7:81. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a +holocaust: + +7:82. And a buck goat for sin: + +7:83. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five +buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the +son of Enan. + +7:84. These were the offerings made by the princes of Israel in the +dedication of the altar, in the day wherein it was consecrated. Twelve +dishes of silver: twelve silver bowls: twelve little mortars of gold: + +7:85. Each dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles of silver, and each +bowl seventy sicles: that is, putting all the vessels of silver +together, two thousand four hundred sicles, by the weight of the +sanctuary. + +7:86. Twelve little mortars of gold full of incense, weighing ten sicles +apiece, by the weight of the sanctuary: that is, in all a hundred and +twenty sicles of gold. + +7:87. Twelve oxen out of the herd for a holocaust, twelve rams, twelve +lambs of a year old, and their libations: twelve buck goats for sin. + +7:88. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, oxen twenty-four, rams +sixty, buck goats sixty, lambs of a year old sixty. These things were +offered in the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed. + +7:89. And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the covenant, to +consult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to him from the +propitiatory, that is over the ark between the two cherubims, and from +this place he spoke to him. + +Numbers Chapter 8 + + +The seven lamps are placed on the golden candlestick, to shine towards +the loaves of proposition: the ordination of the Levites: and to what +age they shall serve in the tabernacle. + +8:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +8:2. Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place +the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give +orders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards the +table of the loaves of proposition, over against that part shall they +give light, towards which the candlestick looketh. + +8:3. And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as the +Lord had commanded Moses. + +8:4. Now this was the work of the candlestick, it was of beaten gold, +both the shaft in the middle, and all that came out of both sides of the +branches: according to the pattern which the Lord had shewn to Moses, so +he made the candlestick. + +8:5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +8:6. Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and +thou shalt purify them, + +8:7. According to this rite: Let them be sprinkled with the water of +purification, and let them shave all the hairs of their flesh. And when +they shall have washed their garments, and are cleansed, + +Let them be sprinkled with the water of purification... This was the +holy water mixed with the ashes of the red cow, Num. 19., appointed for +purifying all that were unclean. It was a figure of the blood of Christ, +applied to our souls by his holy sacraments. + +8:8. They shall take an ox of the herd, and for the offering thereof +fine flour tempered with oil: and thou shalt take another ox of the herd +for a sin offering: + +8:9. And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the +covenant, calling together all the multitude of the children of Israel: + +8:10. And when the Levites are before the Lord, the children of Israel +shall put their hands upon them: + +8:11. And Aaron shall offer the Levites, as a gift in the sight of the +Lord from the children of Israel, that they may serve in his ministry. + +8:12. The Levites also shall put their hands upon the heads of the oxen, +of which thou shalt sacrifice one for sin, and the other for a holocaust +to the Lord, to pray for them. + +8:13. And thou shalt set the Levites in the sight of Aaron and of his, +and shalt consecrate them being offered to the Lord, + +8:14. And shalt separate them from the midst of the children of Israel, +to be mine. + +8:15. And afterwards they shall enter into the tabernacle of the +covenant, to serve me. And thus shalt thou purify and consecrate them +for an oblation of the Lord: for as a gift they were given me by the +children of Israel. + +8:16. I have taken them instead of the firstborn that open every womb in +Israel, + +8:17. For all the firstborn of the children of Israel, both of men and +of beasts, are mine. From the day that I slew every firstborn in the +land of Egypt, have I sanctified them to myself: + +8:18. And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children +of Israel: + +8:19. And have delivered them for a gift to Aaron and his sons out of +the midst of the people, to serve me for Israel in the tabernacle of the +covenant, and to pray for them, lest there should be a plague among the +people, if they should presume to approach unto my sanctuary. + +8:20. And Moses and Aaron and all the multitude of the children of +Israel did with the Levites all that the Lord had commanded Moses, + +8:21. And they were purified, and washed their garments. And Aaron +lifted them up in the sight of the Lord, and prayed for them, + +8:22. That being purified they might go into the tabernacle of the +covenant to do their services before Aaron and his sons. As the Lord had +commanded Moses touching the Levites, so was it done. + +8:23. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +8:24. This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and +upwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant. + +8:25. And when they shall have accomplished the fiftieth year of their +age, they shall cease to serve: + +8:26. And they shall be the ministers of their brethren in the +tabernacle of the covenant, to keep the things that are committed to +their care, but not to do the works. Thus shalt thou order the Levites +touching their charge. + +Numbers Chapter 9 + +The precept of the pasch is renewed: the unclean and travellers are to +observe it the second month: the camp is guided by the pillar of the +cloud. + +9:1. The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, the second year +after they were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, +saying: + +9:2. Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time, + +Make the phase... That is, keep the paschal solemnity, and eat the +paschal lamb. + +9:3. The fourteenth day of this month in the evening, according to all +the ceremonies and justifications thereof. + +9:4. And Moses commanded the children of Israel that they should make +the phase. + +9:5. And they made it in its proper time: the fourteenth day of the +month at evening, in mount Sinai. The children of Israel did according +to all things that the Lord had commanded Moses. + +9:6. But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man, +who could not make the phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron, + +Behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man, etc... +That is, by having touched or come near a dead body, out of which the +soul was departed. + +9:7. Said to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why +are we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to the +Lord among the children of Israel? + +9:8. And Moses answered them: Stay that I may consult the Lord what he +will ordain concerning you. + +9:9. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +9:10. Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by +occasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar off in your +nation, let him make the phase to the Lord. + +9:11. In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the +evening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild lettuce: + +9:12. They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, nor break a +bone thereof, they shall observe all the ceremonies of the phase. + +9:13. But if any man is clean, and was not on a journey, and did not +make the phase, that soul shall be cut off from among his people, +because he offered not sacrifice to the Lord in due season: he shall +bear his sin. + +9:14. The sojourner also and the stranger if they be among you, shall +make the phase to the Lord according to the ceremonies and +justifications thereof. The same ordinances shall be with you both for +the stranger, and for him that was born in the land. + +9:15. Now on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, a cloud covered +it. But from the evening there was over the tabernacle, as it were, the +appearance of fire until the morning. + +9:16. So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it +were the appearance of fire. + +9:17. And when the cloud that covered the tabernacle was taken up, then +the children of Israel marched forward: and in the place where the cloud +stood still, there they camped. + +9:18. At the commandment of the Lord they marched, and at his +commandment they pitched the tabernacle. All the days that the cloud +abode over the tabernacle, they remained in the same place: + +9:19. And if it was so that it continued over it a long time, the +children of Israel kept the watches of the Lord, and marched not, + +9:20. For as many days soever as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. +At the commandment of the Lord they pitched their tents, and at his +commandment they took them down. + +9:21. If the cloud tarried from evening until morning, and immediately +at break of day left the tabernacle, they marched forward: and if it +departed after a day and a night, they took down their tents. + +9:22. But if it remained over the tabernacle for two days or a month or +a longer time, the children of Israel remained in the same place, and +marched not: but immediately as soon as it departed, they removed the +camp. + +9:23. By the word of the Lord they pitched their tents, and by his word +they marched: and kept the watches of the Lord according to his +commandment by the hand of Moses. + +Numbers Chapter 10 + +The silver trumpets and their use. They march from Sinai. + +10:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +10:2. Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest +call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed. + +10:3. And when thou shalt sound the trumpets, all the multitude shall +gather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant. + +10:4. If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the multitude +of Israel shall come to thee. + +10:5. But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with +interruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward. + +10:6. And at the second sounding and like noise of the trumpet, they who +lie on the south side shall take up their tents. And after this manner +shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound for a march. + +10:7. But when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the +trumpets shall be plain, and they shall not make a broken sound. + +10:8. And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and +this shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations. + +10:9. If you go forth to war out of your land against the enemies that +fight against you, you shall sound aloud with the trumpets, and there +shall be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God, that you may be +delivered out of the hands of your enemies. + +10:10. If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival +days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets +over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they +may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God. + +10:11. The second year, in the second month, the twentieth day of the +month, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the covenant. + +10:12. And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the +desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan. + +10:13. And the first went forward according to the commandment of the +Lord by the hand of Moses. + +10:14. The sons of Juda by their troops: whose prince was Nahasson the +son of Aminadab. + +10:15. In the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince was Nathanael +the son of Suar. + +10:16. In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Eliab the son of Helon. + +10:17. And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and +Merari set forward, bearing it. + +10:18. And the sons of Ruben also marched, by their troops and ranks, +whose prince was Helisur the son of Sedeur. + +10:19. And in the tribe of Simeon, the prince was Salamiel the son of +Surisaddai. + +10:20. And in the tribe of Gad, the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel. + +10:21. Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long +was the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of setting it +up. + +10:22. The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in +whose army the prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud. + +10:23. And in the tribe of the sons of Manasses, the prince was Gamaliel +the son of Phadassur. + +10:24. And in the tribe of Benjamin, the prince was Abidan the son of +Gedeon. + +10:25. The last of all the camp marched the sons of Dan by their troops, +in whose army the prince was Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai. + +10:26. And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the prince was Phegiel the +son of Ochran. + +10:27. And in the tribe of the sons of Nephtali, the prince was Ahira +the son of Enan. + +10:28. This was the order of the camps, and marches of the children of +Israel by their troops, when they set forward. + +10:29. And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his +kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us: +come with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised good +things to Israel. + +10:30. But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return +to my country, wherein I was born. + +10:31. And he said: Do not leave us: for thou knowest in what places we +should encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide. + +10:32. And if thou comest with us, we will give thee what is the best of +the riches which the Lord shall deliver to us. + +10:33. So they marched from the mount of the Lord three days' journey, +and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them, for three days +providing a place for the camp. + +10:34. The cloud also of the Lord was over them by day when they +marched. + +10:35. And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O Lord, and +let thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee from +before thy face. + +10:36. And when it was set down, he said: Return, O Lord, to the +multitude of the host of Israel. + +Numbers Chapter 11 + +The people murmur and are punished with fire. God appointeth seventy +ancients for assistants to Moses. They prophesy. The people have their +fill of flesh, but forthwith many die of the plague. + +11:1. In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against the +Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard it +he was angry. And the fire of the Lord being kindled against them, +devoured them that were at the uttermost part of the camp. + +11:2. And when the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and +the fire was swallowed up. + +11:3. And he called the name of that place, The burning: for that the +fire of the Lord had been kindled against them. + +The burning... Hebrew, Taberah. + +11:4. For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned +with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being +joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat? + +A mixt multitude... These were people that came with them out of Egypt, +who were not of the race of Israel; who, by their murmuring, drew also +the children of Israel to murmur: this should teach us the danger of +associating ourselves with the children of Egypt, that is, with the +lovers and admirers of this wicked world. + +11:5. We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free cost: the cucumbers +come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and +the garlic. + +11:6. Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna. + +11:7. Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the colour of bdellium. + +Bdellium... Bdellium, according to Pliny, 1.21, c. 9. was of the colour +of a man's nail, white and bright. + +11:8. And the people went about, and gathering it, ground it in a mill, +or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot, and made cakes thereof +of the taste of bread tempered with oil. + +11:9. And when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the manna also +fell with it. + +11:10. Now Moses heard the people weeping by their families, every one +at the door of his tent. And the wrath of the Lord was exceedingly +enkindled: to Moses also the thing seemed insupportable. + +11:11. And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? +Wherefore do I not find favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the +weight of all this people upon me? + +11:12. Have I conceived all this multitude, or begotten them, that thou +shouldst say to me: Carry them in thy bosom as the nurse is wont to +carry the little infant, and bear them into the land, for which thou +hast sworn to their fathers? + +11:13. Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? They +weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat. + +11:14. I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too +heavy for me. + +11:15. But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me, +and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great +evils. + +11:16. And the Lord said to Moses: Gather unto me seventy men of the +ancients of Israel, whom thou knowest to be ancients and masters of the +people: and thou shalt bring them to the door of the tabernacle of the +covenant, and shalt make them stand there with thee, + +Seventy men... This was the first institution of the council or senate, +called the Sanhedrin, consisting of seventy or seventy-two senators or +counsellors. + +11:17. That I may come down and speak with thee: and I will take of thy +spirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden +of the people, and thou mayest not be burthened alone. + +11:18. And thou shalt say to the people: Be ye sanctified: to morrow you +shall eat flesh: for I have heard you say: Who will give us flesh to +eat? It was well with us in Egypt. That the Lord may give you flesh, and +you may eat: + +11:19. Not for one day, nor two, nor five, nor ten, no nor for twenty. + +11:20. But even for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils, +and become loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord, who is +in the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out +of Egypt? + +11:21. And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this +people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month? + +11:22. Shall then a multitude of sheep and oxen be killed, that it may +suffice for their food? or shall the fishes of the sea be gathered +together to fill them? + +11:23. And the Lord answered him: Is the hand of the Lord unable? Thou +shalt presently see whether my word shall come to pass or no. + +11:24. Moses therefore came, and told the people the words of the Lord, +and assembled seventy men of the ancients of Israel, and made them to +stand about the tabernacle. + +11:25. And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, taking away +of the spirit that was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And when +the spirit had rested on them they prophesied, nor did they cease +afterwards. + +11:26. Now there remained in the camp two of the men, of whom one was +called Eldad, and the other Medad, upon whom the spirit rested; for they +also had been enrolled, but were not gone forth to the tabernacle. + +11:27. And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a young man, and +told Moses, saying: Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp. + +11:28. Forthwith Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and chosen +out of many, said: My lord Moses forbid them. + +11:29. But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me? O that all the +people might prophesy, and that the Lord would give them his spirit! + +11:30. And Moses returned, with the ancients of Israel, into the camp. + +11:31. And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the +sea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one day's +journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in the air +two cubits high above the ground. + +11:32. The people therefore rising up all that day, and night, and the +next day, gathered together of quails, he that did least, ten cores: and +they dried them round about the camp. + +11:33. As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind +of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against +the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague. + +11:34. And that place was called, The graves of lust: for there they +buried the people that had lusted. And departing from the graves of +lust, they came unto Haseroth, and abode there. + +The graves of lust... Or, the sepulchres of concupiscence: so called +from their irregular desire of flesh. In Hebrew, Kibroth. Hattaavah. + +Numbers Chapter 12 + +Mary and Aaron murmur against Moses, whom God praiseth above other +prophets. Mary being struck with leprosy, Aaron confesseth his fault. +Moses prayeth for her, and after seven days' separation from the camp, +she is restored. + +12:1. And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the +Ethiopian, + +Ethiopian... Sephora the wife of Moses was of Madian, which bordered +upon the land of Chus or Ethiopia: where note, that the Ethiopia here +spoken of is not that of Africa but that of Arabia. + +12:2. And they said: Hath the Lord spoken by Moses only? Hath he not +also spoken to us in like manner? And when the Lord heard this, + +12:3. (For Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon +earth) + +Exceeding meek... Moses being the meekest of men, would not contend for +himself; therefore, God inspired him to write here his own defence: and +the Holy Spirit, whose dictate he wrote, obliged him to declare the +truth, though it was so much to his own praise. + +12:4. Immediately he spoke to him, and to Aaron and Mary: Come out you +three only to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were come +out, + +12:5. The Lord came down in a pillar of the cloud, and stood in the +entry of the tabernacle calling to Aaron and Mary. And when they were +come, + +12:6. He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of +the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a +dream. + +12:7. But it is not so with my servant Moses who is most faithful in all +my house: + +12:8. For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and plainly, and not by riddles +and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak +ill of my servant Moses? + +12:9. And being angry with them he went away: + +12:10. The cloud also that was over the tabernacle departed: and behold +Mary appeared white as snow with a leprosy. And when Aaron had looked on +her, and saw her all covered with leprosy, + +12:11. He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this +sin, which we have foolishly committed: + +12:12. Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth +from the mother's womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed with +the leprosy. + +12:13. And Moses cried to the Lord, saying O God, I beseech thee heal +her. + +12:14. And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her +face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let +her be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall +be called again. + +12:15. Mary therefore was put out of the camp seven days: and the people +moved not from that place until Mary was called again. + +Numbers Chapter 13 + +The twelve spies are sent to view the land. The relation they make of +it. + +13:1. And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in +the desert of Pharan. + +13:2. And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying. + +13:3. Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the +children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers. + +13:4. Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of +Pharan, principal men, whose names are these: + +13:5. Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur. + +13:6. Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Huri. + +13:7. Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone. + +13:8. Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. + +13:9. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun. + +13:10. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu. + +13:11. Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the son of Sodi. + +13:12. Of the tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre of Manasses, Gaddi the son +of Susi. + +13:13. Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. + +13:14. Of the tribe of Aser, Sthur the son of Michael. + +13:15. Of the tribe of Nephtali, Nahabi the son of Vapsi. + +13:16. Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi. + +13:17. These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the land: +and he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue. + +13:18. And Moses sent them to view the land of Chanaan, and said to +them: Go you up by the south side. And when you shall come to the +mountains, + +13:19. View the land, of what sort it is, and the people that are the +inhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or +many: + +13:20. The land itself, whether it be good or bad: what manner of +cities, walled or without walls: + +13:21. The ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good +courage, and bring us of the fruits of the land. Now it was the time +when the firstripe grapes are fit to be eaten. + +13:22. And when they were gone up, they viewed the land from the desert +of Sin, unto Rohob as you enter into Emath. + +13:23. And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where +were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was +built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt. + +13:24. And forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they +cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon +a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that +place: + +13:25. Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of the +cluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had +carried a cluster of grapes. + +13:26. And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, +having gone round all the country, + +13:27. And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the +children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And +speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits +of the land: + +13:28. And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou +sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be +known by these fruits: + +13:29. But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and +walled. We saw there the race of Enac. + +13:30. Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and +the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea +and near the streams of the Jordan. + +13:31. In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that +rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we +shall be able to conquer it. + +13:32. But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able +to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we. + +13:33. And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the +children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its +inhabitants: the people, that we beheld are of a tall stature. + +Spoke ill, etc... These men, who by their misrepresentations of the land +of promise, discouraged the Israelites from attempting the conquest of +it, were a figure of worldlings, who, by decrying or misrepresenting +true devotion, discourage Christians from seeking in earnest and +acquiring so great a good, and thereby securing to themselves a happy +eternity. + +13:34. There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant +kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts. + +Numbers Chapter 14 + +The people murmur. God threateneth to destroy them. He is appeased by +Moses, yet so as to exclude the murmurers from entering the promised +land. The authors of the sedition are struck dead. The rest going to +fight against the will of God are beaten. + +14:1. Therefore the whole multitude crying wept that night. + +14:2. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, +saying: + +14:3. Would God that we had died in Egypt: and would God we may die in +this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, +lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away +captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt? + +14:4. And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us +return into Egypt. + +14:5. And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the +ground before the multitude of the children of Israel. + +14:6. But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who +themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments, + +14:7. And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land +which we have gone round is very good: + +14:8. If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a +land flowing with milk and honey. + +14:9. Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of +this land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from +them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not. + +14:10. And when all the multitude cried out, and would have stoned them, +the glory of the Lord appeared over the tabernacle of the covenant to +all the children of Israel. + +14:11. And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? +how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought +before them? + +14:12. I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume +them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier +than this is. + +14:13. And Moses said to the Lord: That the Egyptians, from the midst of +whom thou hast brought forth this people, + +14:14. And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O +Lord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud +protecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by +day, and in a pillar of fire by night,) + +14:15. May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were +one man and may say: + +14:16. He could not bring the people into the land for which he had +sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness. + +14:17. Let then the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast +sworn, saying: + +14:18. The Lord is patient and full of mercy, by taking away iniquity +and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the +fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. + +Clear... i. e., who deserves punishment. + +14:19. Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to +the greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from +their going out of Egypt unto this place. + +14:20. And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word. + +14:21. As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of +the Lord. + +14:22. But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that +I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten +times, and have not obeyed my voice, + +14:23. Shall not see the land for which I swore to their fathers, +neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it. + +14:24. My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed +me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed +shall possess it. + +14:25. For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. To +morrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of the +Red Sea. + +14:26. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: + +14:27. How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have +heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. + +14:28. Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as +you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you. + +14:29. In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were +numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me, + +14:30. Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to +make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the +son of Nun. + +14:31. But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey +to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you +have despised. + +14:32. Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness. + +14:33. Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall +bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed +in the desert, + +Shall bear your fornication... That is, shall bear the punishment of +your disloyalty to God, which in the scripture language is here called a +fornication, in a spiritual sense. + +14:34. According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the +land: a year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall +receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge: + +14:35. For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, +that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it +faint away and die. + +14:36. Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and +who at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him, +speaking ill of the land that it was naught, + +14:37. Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord. + +14:38. But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb had gone to view the land. + +14:39. And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel, +and the people mourned exceedingly. + +14:40. And behold rising up very early in the morning, they went up to +the top of the mountain, and said: We are ready to go up to the place, +of which the Lord hath spoken: for we have sinned. + +14:41. And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, +which shall not succeed prosperously with you? + +14:42. Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before +your enemies. + +14:43. The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their +sword you shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord, neither +will the Lord be with you. + +14:44. But they being blinded went up to the top of the mountain. But +the ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses departed not from the +camp. + +14:45. And the Amalecite came down, and the Chanaanite that dwelt in the +mountain: and smiting and slaying them pursued them as far as Horma. + +Numbers Chapter 15 + +Certain laws concerning sacrifices. Sabbath breaking is punished with +death. The law of fringes on their garments. + +15:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +15:2. Speak to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them: When +you shall be come unto the land of your habitation, which I will give +you, + +15:3. And shall make an offering to the Lord, for a holocaust, or a +victim, paying your vows, or voluntarily offering gifts, or in your +solemnities burning a sweet savour unto the Lord, of oxen or of sheep: + +15:4. Whosoever immolateth the victim, shall offer a sacrifice of fine +flour, the tenth part of an ephi, tempered with the fourth part of a hin +of oil: + +15:5. And he shall give the same measure of wine to pour out in +libations for the holocaust or for the victim. For every lamb, + +15:6. And for every ram there shall be a sacrifice of flour of two +tenths, which shall be tempered with the third part of a hin of oil: + +15:7. And he shall offer the third part the same measure of wine for the +libation, for a sweet savour to the Lord. + +15:8. But when thou offerest a holocaust or sacrifice of oxen, to fulfil +thy vow or for victims of peace offerings, + +15:9. Thou shalt give for every ox three tenths of flour tempered with +half a hin of oil, + +15:10. And wine for libations of the same measure, for an offering of +most sweet savour to the Lord. + +15:11. Thus shalt thou do + +15:12. For every ox and ram and lamb and kid. + +15:13. Both they that are born in the land, and the strangers + +15:14. Shall offer sacrifices after the same rite. + +15:15. There shall be all one law and judgment both for you and for them +who are strangers in the land. + +15:16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +15:17. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: + +15:18. When you are come into the land which I will give you, + +15:19. And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate +firstfruits to the Lord, + +15:20. Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your +barnfloors: + +15:21. So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord. + +15:22. And if through ignorance you omit any of these things, which the +Lord hath spoken to Moses, + +15:23. And by him hath commanded you from the day that he began to +command and thenceforward, + +15:24. And the multitude have forgotten to do it: they shall offer a +calf out of the herd, a holocaust for a most sweet savour to the Lord, +and the sacrifice and libations thereof, as the ceremonies require, and +a buck goat for sin: + +15:25. And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children +of Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned +ignorantly, offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for +themselves and for their sin and their Ignorance: + +15:26. And it shall be forgiven all the people of the children of +Israel: and the strangers that sojourn among them: because it is the +fault of all the people through ignorance. + +15:27. But if one soul shall sin ignorantly, he shall offer a she goat +of a year old for his sin. + +15:28. And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned ignorantly +before the Lord: and he shall obtain his pardon, and it shall be +forgiven him. + +15:29. The same law shall be for all that sin by ignorance, whether they +be natives or strangers. + +15:30. But the soul that committeth any thing through pride, whether he +be born in the land or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious +against the Lord) shall be cut off from among his people: + +15:31. For he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made void his +precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity. + +15:32. And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the +wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day, + +15:33. That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole multitude. + +15:34. And they put him into prison, not knowing what they should do +with him. + +15:35. And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man die, let all the +multitude stone him without the camp. + +15:36. And when they had brought him out, they stoned him, and he died +as the Lord had commanded. + +15:37. The Lord also said to Moses: + +15:38. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them to make +to themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in them +ribands of blue: + +Fringes... The Pharisees enlarged these fringes through hypocrisy, Matt. +23.5, to appear more zealous than other men for the law of God. + +15:39. That when they shall see them, they may remember all the +commandments of the Lord, and not follow their own thoughts and eyes +going astray after divers things, + +15:40. But rather being mindful of the precepts of the Lord, may do them +and be holy to their God. + +15:41. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, +that I might be your God. + +Numbers Chapter 16 + +The schism of Core and his adherents: their punishment. + +16:1. And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of +Levi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of +Pheleth of the children of Ruben, + +16:2. Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others +of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the +time of assembly were called by name. + +Rose up... The crime of these men, which was punished in so remarkable a +manner, was that of schism, and of rebellion against the authority +established by God in the church; and their pretending to the priesthood +without being lawfully called and sent: the same is the case of all +modern sectaries. + +16:3. And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron, they said: Let +it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of holy ones, +and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above the people +of the Lord? + +16:4. When Moses heard this, he fell flat on his face: + +16:5. And speaking to Core and all the multitude, he said: In the +morning the Lord will make known who belong to him, and the holy he will +join to himself: and whom he shall choose, they shall approach to him. + +16:6. Do this therefore: Take every man of you your censers, thou Core, +and all thy company. + +16:7. And putting fire in them to morrow, put incense upon it before the +Lord: and whomsoever he shall choose, the same shall be holy: you take +too much upon you, ye sons of Levi. + +16:8. And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi. + +16:9. Is it a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath spared +you from all the people, and joined you to himself, that you should +serve him in the service of the tabernacle, and should stand before the +congregation of the people, and should minister to him? + +16:10. Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi +to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the +priesthood also, + +16:11. And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what +is Aaron that you murmur against him? + +16:12. Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab. But +they answered: We will not come. + +16:13. Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a +land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except +thou rule also like a lord over us? + +16:14. Thou hast brought us indeed into a land that floweth with rivers +of milk and honey, and hast given us possessions of fields and +vineyards; wilt thou also pull out our eyes? We will not come. + +16:15. Moses therefore being very angry, said to the Lord: Respect not +their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as +a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them. + +Very angry... This anger was a zeal against sin; and an indignation at +the affront offered to God; like that which the same holy prophet +conceived upon the sight of the golden calf, Ex. 32.19. + +16:16. And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart +before the Lord to morrow, and Aaron apart. + +16:17. Take every one of you censers, and put incense upon them, +offering to the Lord two hundred and fifty censers: let Aaron also hold +his censer. + +16:18. When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing, + +16:19. And had drawn up all the multitude against them to the door of +the tabernacle, the glory of the Lord appeared to them all. + +16:20. And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron, said: + +16:21. Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may +presently destroy them. + +16:22. They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of +the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against +all? + +16:23. And the Lord said to Moses: + +16:24. Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents of +Core and Dathan and Abiron. + +16:25. And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients +of Israel following him, + +16:26. He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked +men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins. + +16:27. And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan +and Abiron coming out stood in the entry of their pavilions with their +wives and children, and all the people. + +16:28. And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me +to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my own +head: + +16:29. If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited +with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord +did not send me. + +16:30. But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth +swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down +alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord. + +16:31. And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth +broke asunder under their feet: + +16:32. And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all +their substance. + +16:33. And they went down alive into hell, the ground closing upon them, +and they perished from among the people. + +16:34. But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of +them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up +also. + +16:35. And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred +and fifty men that offered the incense. + +16:36. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +16:37. Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the +censers that lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side and +the other: because they are sanctified + +16:38. In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, +and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them +to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may +see them for a sign and a memorial. + +16:39. Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherein they had +offered, whom the burning fire had devoured, and beat them into plates, +fastening them to the altar: + +16:40. That the children of Israel might have for the time to come +wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that is +not of the seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the Lord, +lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation, +according as the Lord spoke to Moses. + +16:41. The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel +murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of +the Lord. + +16:42. And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased, + +16:43. Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when +they were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord +appeared. + +16:44. And the Lord said to Moses: + +16:45. Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I +destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground, + +16:46. Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from +the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for +them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague +rageth. + +16:47. When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the +multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the +incense: + +16:48. And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the +people, and the plague ceased. + +16:49. And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and +seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of +Core. + +16:50. And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the +covenant after the destruction was over. + +Numbers Chapter 17 + +The priesthood is confirmed to Aaron by the miracle of the blooming of +his rod, which is kept for a monument in the tabernacle. + +17:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +17:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a +rod by their kindreds, of all the princes of the tribes, twelve rods, +and write the name of every man upon his rod. + +17:3. And the name of Aaron shall be for the tribe of Levi, and one rod +shall contain all their families: + +17:4. And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the covenant +before the testimony, where I will speak to thee. + +17:5. Whomsoever of these I shall choose, his rod shall blossom: and I +will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, +wherewith they murmur against you. + +17:6. And Moses spoke to the children of Israel: and all the princes +gave him rods one for every tribe: and there were twelve rods besides +the rod of Aaron. + +17:7. And when Moses had Laid them up before the Lord in the tabernacle +of the testimony: + +17:8. He returned on the following day, and found that the rod of Aaron +for the house of Levi, was budded: and that the buds swelling it hid +bloomed blossoms, which spreading the leaves, were formed into almonds. + +The rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was budded, etc... This rod of +Aaron which thus miraculously brought forth fruit, was a figure of the +blessed Virgin conceiving and bringing forth her Son without any +prejudice to her virginity. + +17:9. Moses therefore brought out all the rods from before the Lord to +all the children of Israel: and they saw, and every one received their +rods. + +17:10. And the Lord said to Moses: Carry back the rod of Aaron into the +tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be kept there for a token of +the rebellious children of Israel, and that their complaints may cease +from me lest they die. + +17:11. And Moses did as the Lord had commanded. + +17:12. And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are consumed, +we all perish. + +17:13. Whosoever approacheth to the tabernacle of the Lord, he dieth. +Are we all to a man to be utterly destroyed? + +Numbers Chapter 18 + +The charge of the priests and of the Levites, and their portion. + +18:1. And the Lord said to 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 sins of your priesthood. + +Thou, and thy father's house with thee, shall bear the iniquity of the +sanctuary... That is, you shall be punished if, through negligence or +want of due attention, you err in the discharge of the sacred functions +for which you were ordained. + +18:2. And take with thee thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, and the +sceptre of thy father, and let them be ready in hand, and minister to +thee: but thou and thy sons shall minister in the tabernacle of the +testimony. + +18:3. And the Levites shall watch to do thy commands, and about all the +works of the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of +the sanctuary nor the altar, lest both they die, and you also perish +with them. + +18:4. But let them be with thee, and watch in the charge of the +tabernacle, and in all the ceremonies thereof. A stranger shall not join +himself with you. + +18:5. Watch ye in the charge of the sanctuary, and in the ministry of +the altar: lest indignation rise upon the children of Israel. + +18:6. I have given you your brethren the Levites from among the children +of Israel, and have delivered them for a gift to the Lord, to serve in +the ministries of the tabernacle. + +18:7. But thou and thy sons look ye to the priesthood: and all things +that pertain to the service of the altar, and that are within the veil, +shall be executed by the priests. If any stranger shall approach, he +shall be slain. + +18:8. And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge of +my firstfruits. All things that are sanctified by the children of +Israel, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly +office, by everlasting ordinances. + +18:9. These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are sanctified, +and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice, and +whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh holy +of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons. + +18:10. Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat +thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee. + +18:11. But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and +offer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by a +perpetual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them. + +18:12. All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, +whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to +thee. + +18:13. All the firstripe of the fruits, that the ground bringeth forth, +and which are brought to the Lord, shall be for thy use: he that is +clean in thy house, shall eat them. + +18:14. Every thing that the children of Israel shall give by vow, shall +be thine. + +18:15. Whatsoever is firstborn of all flesh, which they offer to the +Lord, whether it be of men, or of beasts, shall belong to thee: only for +the firstborn of man thou shalt take a price, and every beast that is +unclean thou shalt cause to be redeemed, + +18:16. And the redemption of it shall be after one month, for five +sicles of silver, by the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty +obols. + +18:17. But the firstling of a cow, and of a sheep and of a goat thou +shalt not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the Lord. +Their blood only thou shalt pour upon the altar, and their fat thou +shalt burn for a most sweet odour to the Lord. + +18:18. But the flesh shall fall to thy use, as the consecrated breast, +and the right shoulder shall be thine. + +18:19. All the firstfruits of the sanctuary which the children of Israel +offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and daughters, +by a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt for ever before the +Lord, to thee and to thy sons. + +A covenant of salt... It is a proverbial expression, signifying a +covenant not to be altered or corrupted; as salt is used to keep things +from corruption; a covenant perpetual, like that by which it was +appointed, that salt should be used in every sacrifice. Lev. 2. + +18:20. And the Lord said to Aaron: You shall possess nothing in their +land, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and +inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel. + +18:21. And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for +a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle +of the covenant: + +18:22. That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the +tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin, + +Deadly sin... That is, sin which will bring death after it. + +18:23. But only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and +bear the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in +your generations. They shall not possess any other thing, + +18:24. But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have +separated for their uses and necessities. + +18:25. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +18:26. Command the Levites, and declare unto them: When you shall +receive of the children of Israel the tithes, which I have given you, +offer the firstfruits of them to the Lord, that is to say, the tenth +part of the tenth: + +18:27. That it may be reckoned to you as an oblation of firstfruits, as +well of the barnfloors as of the winepresses: + +18:28. And of all the things of which you receive tithes, offer the +firstfruits to the Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest. + +18:29. All the things that you shall offer of the tithes, and shall +separate for the gifts of the Lord, shall be the best and choicest +things. + +18:30. And thou shalt say to them: If you offer all the goodly and the +better things of the tithes, it shall be reckoned to you as if you had +given the firstfruits of the barnfloor and the winepress: + +18:31. And you shall eat them in all your places, both you and your +families: because it is your reward for the ministry, wherewith you +serve in the tabernacle of the testimony. + +18:32. And you shall not sin in this point, by reserving the choicest +and fat things to yourselves, lest you profane the oblations of the +children of Israel, and die. + +Numbers Chapter 19 + +The law of the sacrifice of the red cow, and the water of expiation. + +19:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: + +19:2. This is the observance of the victim, which the Lord hath +ordained. Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee a +red cow of full age, in which there is no blemish, and which hath not +carried the yoke: + +A red cow, etc... This red cow, offered in sacrifice for sin, and +consumed with fire without the camp, with the ashes of which, mingled +with water, the unclean were to be expiated and purified; was a figure +of the passion of Christ, by whose precious blood applied to our souls +in the holy sacraments, we are cleansed from our sins. + +19:3. And you shall deliver her to Eleazar the priest, who shall bring +her forth without the camp, and shall immolate her in the sight of all: + +19:4. And dipping his finger in her blood, shall sprinkle it over +against the door of the tabernacle seven times, + +19:5. And shall burn her in the sight of all delivering up to the fire +her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, and her dung. + +19:6. The priest shall also take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet +twice dyed, and cast it into the flame, with which the cow is consumed. + +19:7. And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter into +the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening. + +19:8. He also that hath burned her, shall wash his garments, and his +body, and shall be unclean until the evening. + +19:9. And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the cow, and +shall pour them forth without the camp in a most clean place, that they +may be reserved for the multitude of the children of Israel, and for a +water of aspersion: because the cow was burnt for sin. + +19:10. And when he that carried the ashes of the cow, hath washed his +garments, he shall be unclean until the evening. The children of Israel, +and the strangers that dwell among them, shall observe this for a holy +thing by a perpetual ordinance. + +19:11. He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean +seven days, + +19:12. Shall be sprinkled with this water on the third day, and on the +seventh, and so shall be cleansed. If he were not sprinkled on the third +day, he cannot be cleansed on the seventh. + +19:13. Every one that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is not sprinkled +with this mixture, shall profane the tabernacle of the Lord, and shall +perish out of Israel: because he was not sprinkled with the water of +expiation, he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain upon +him. + +19:14. This is the law of a man that dieth in a tent: All that go into +his tent and all the vessels that are there, shall be unclean seven +days. + +19:15. The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be +unclean. + +19:16. If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was slain, +or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean +seven days. + +19:17. And they shall take of the ashes of the burning and of the sin +offering, and shall pour living waters upon them into a vessel. + +19:18. And a man that is clean shall dip hyssop in them, and shall +sprinkle therewith all the tent, and all the furniture, and the men that +are defiled with touching any such thing: + +19:19. And in this manner he that is clean shall purify the unclean on +the third and on the seventh day. And being expiated the seventh day, he +shall wash both himself and his garments, and be unclean until the +evening. + +19:20. If any man be not expiated after this rite, his soul shall perish +out of the midst of the church: because he hath profaned the sanctuary +of the Lord, and was not sprinkled with the water of purification. + +19:21. This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that +sprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every one that shall touch +the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening. + +19:22. Whatsoever a person toucheth who is unclean, he shall make it +unclean: and the person that toucheth any of these things, shall be +unclean until the evening. + +Numbers Chapter 20 + +The death of Mary the sister of Moses. The people murmur for want of +water: God giveth it them from the rock. The death of Aaron. + +20:1. And the children of Israel, and all the multitude came into the +desert of Sin, in the first month: and the people abode in Cades. And +Mary died there, and was buried in the same place. + +20:2. And the people wanting water, came together against Moses and +Aaron: + +20:3. And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among +our brethren before the Lord. + +20:4. Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the +wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die? + +20:5. Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, and have brought us +into this wretched place which cannot be sowed, nor bringeth forth figs, +nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink? + +20:6. And Moses and Aaron leaving the multitude, went into the +tabernacle of the covenant, and fell flat upon the ground, and cried to +the Lord, and said. O Lord God, hear the cry of this people, and open to +them thy treasure, a fountain of living water, that being satisfied, +they may cease to murmur. And the glory of the Lord appeared over them. + +20:7. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +20:8. Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy +brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. +And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the +multitude and their cattle shall drink. + +20:9. Moses therefore took the rod, which was before the Lord, as he had +commanded him, + +20:10. And having gathered together the multitude before the rock, he +said to them: Hear, ye rebellious and incredulous: Can we bring you +forth water out of this rock? + +20:11. And when Moses bad lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice +with the rod, there came forth water in great abundance, so that the +people and their cattle drank, + +The rock... This rock was a figure of Christ, and the water that issued +out from the rock, of his precious blood, the source of all our good. + +20:12. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not +believed me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not +bring these people into the land, which I will give them. + +You have not believed, etc... The fault of Moses and Aaron, on this +occasion, was a certain diffidence and weakness of faith; not doubting +of God's power or veracity; but apprehending the unworthiness of that +rebellious and incredulous people, and therefore speaking with some +ambiguity. + +20:13. This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel +strove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them. + +The Water of contradiction... Or strife. Hebrew, Meribah. + +20:14. In the mean time Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of +Edom, to say: Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the labour +that hath come upon us: + +20:15. In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we +dwelt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers. + +20:16. And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an angel, +who hath brought us out of Egypt. Lo, we are now in the city of Cades, +which is in the uttermost of thy borders, + +20:17. And we beseech thee that we may have leave to pass through thy +country. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, +we will not drink the waters of thy wells, but we will go by the common +highway, neither turning aside to the right hand, nor to the left, till +we are past thy borders. + +20:18. And Edom answered them: Thou shalt not pass by me: if thou dost I +will come out armed against thee. + +20:19. And the children of Israel said: We will go by the beaten way: +and if we and our cattle drink of thy waters, we will give thee what is +just: there shall be no difficulty in the price, only let us pass +speedily. + +20:20. But he answered: Thou shalt not pass. And immediately he came +forth to meet them with an infinite multitude, and a strong hand, + +20:21. Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage +through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from him. + +20:22. And when they had removed the camp from Cades, they came to mount +Hor, which is in the borders of the land of Edom: + +20:23. Where the Lord spoke to Moses: + +20:24. Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not go into +the land which I have given the children of Israel, because he was +incredulous to my words, at the waters of contradiction. + +20:25. Take Aaron and his son with him, and bring them up into mount +Hor: + +20:26. And when thou hast stripped the father of his vesture, thou shalt +vest therewith Eleazar his son: Aaron shall be gathered to his people, +and die there. + +20:27. Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went up into mount +Hor before all the multitude. + +20:28. And when he had stripped Aaron of his vestments, he vested +Eleazar his son with them. + +20:29. And Aaron being dead in the top of the mountain, he came down +with Eleazar. + +20:30. And all the multitude seeing that Aaron was dead, mourned for him +thirty days throughout all their families. + +Numbers Chapter 21 + +King Arad is overcome. The people murmur and are punished with fiery +serpents: they are healed by the brazen serpent. They conquer the kings +Sehon and Og. + +21:1. And when king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, +had heard this, to wit, that Israel was come by the way of the spies, he +fought against them, and overcoming them carried off their spoils. + +21:2. But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt +deliver thus people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities. + +21:3. And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the +Chanaanite, and they cut them off and destroyed their cities: and they +called the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema. + +Anathema... That is, a thing devoted to utter destruction. + +21:4. And they marched from mount Hor, by the way that leadeth to the +Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom. And the people began to be weary +of their journey and labour: + +21:5. And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou +bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor +have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food. + +Very light food... So they call the heavenly manna: thus worldlings +loathe the things of heaven, for which they have no relish. + +21:6. Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit +them and killed many of them. + +Fiery serpents... They are so called, because they that were bitten by +them were burnt with a violent heat. + +21:7. Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because +we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away +these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. + +21:8. And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up for +a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live. + +21:9. Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: +which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed. + +A brazen serpent... This was a figure of Christ crucified, and of the +efficacy of a lively faith in him, against the bites of the hellish +serpent. John 3.14. + +21:10. And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth. + +21:11. And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in the +wilderness, that faceth Moab toward the east. + +21:12. And removing from thence, they came to the torrent Zared: + +21:13. Which they left and encamped over against Arnon, which is in the +desert and standeth out on the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is +the border of Moab, dividing the Moabites and the Amorrhites. + +21:14. Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he +did in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Arnon. + +The book of the wars, etc... An ancient book, which, like several others +quoted in scripture, has been lost. + +21:15. The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in +Ar, and lie down in the borders of the Moabites. + +21:16. When they went from that place, the well appeared whereof the +Lord said to Moses: Gather the people together, and I will give them +water. + +21:17. Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung +thereto: + +21:18. The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people +prepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. And +they marched from the wilderness to Mathana. + +21:19. From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth. + +21:20. From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of +Phasga, which looked towards the desert. + +21:21. And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, +saying: + +21:22. I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land: we +will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards, we will not drink +waters of the wells, we will go the king's highway, till we be past thy +borders. + +21:23. And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders: +but rather gathering an army, went forth to meet them in the desert, and +came to Jasa and fought against them. + +21:24. And he was slain by them with the edge of the sword, and they +possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and to the confines of +the children of Ammon: for the borders of the Ammonites, were kept with +a strong garrison. + +21:25. So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the +Amorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and in the villages thereof. + +21:26. Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who +fought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been of +his dominion, as far as the Arnon. + +21:27. Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the +city of Sehon be built and set up: + +21:28. A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, +and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high +places of the Arnon. + +21:29. Woe to thee Moab: thou art undone, O people of Chamos. He hath +given his sons to flight, and his daughters into captivity to Sehon the +king of the Amorrhites. + +21:30. Their yoke is perished from Hesebon unto Dibon, they came weary +to Nophe, and unto Medaba. + +21:31. So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorrhite. + +21:32. And Moses sent some to take a view of Jazer: and they took the +villages of it, and conquered the inhabitants. + +21:33. And they turned themselves, and went up by the way of Basan, and +Og the king of Basan came against them with all his people, to fight in +Edrai. + +21:34. And the Lord said to Moses: Fear him not, for I have delivered +him and all his people, and his country into thy hand: and thou shalt do +to him as thou didst to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, the inhabitant +of Hesebon. + +21:35. So they slew him also with his sons, and all his people, not +letting any one escape, and they possessed his land. + +Numbers Chapter 22 + +Balac, king of Moab, sendeth twice for Balaam to curse Israel. In his +way Balaam is rebuked by an angel. + +22:1. And they went forward and encamped in the plains of Moab, over +against where Jericho is situate beyond the Jordan. + +22:2. And Balac the son of Sephor, seeing all that Israel had done to +the Amorrhite, + +22:3. And that the Moabites were in great fear of him, and were not able +to sustain his assault, + +22:4. He said to the elders of Madian: So will this people destroy all +that dwell in our borders, as the ox is wont to eat the grass to the +very roots. Now he was at that time king in Moab. + +22:5. He sent therefore messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, a +soothsayer, who dwelt by the river of the land of the children of Ammon, +to call him, and to say: Behold a people is come out of Egypt, that hath +covered the face of the earth, sitting over against me. + +22:6. Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier than +I: if by any means I may beat them and drive them out of my land: for I +know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and he whom thou shalt +curse is cursed. + +22:7. And the ancients of Moab, and the elders of Madian, went with the +price of divination in their hands. And where they were come to Balaam, +and had told him all the words of Balac: + +22:8. He answered: Tarry here this night and I will answer whatsoever +the Lord shall say to me. And while they stayed with Balaam, God came +and said to him: + +22:9. What mean these men that are with thee? + +22:10. He answered: Balac the son of Sephor king of the Moabites hath +sent to me, + +22:11. Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered +the face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight +with them and drive them away. + +22:12. And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt +thou curse the people: because it is blessed. + +22:13. And he rose in the morning and said to the princes: Go into your +country, because the Lord hath forbid me to come with you. + +22:14. The princes returning, said to Balac: Balaam would not come with +us. + +22:15. Then he sent many more and more noble than he had sent before: + +22:16. Who, when they were come to Balaam, said: Thus saith Balac the +son of Sephor, Delay not to come to me: + +22:17. For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever thou +wilt: come and curse this people. + +22:18. Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver +and gold, I cannot alter the word of the Lord my God, to speak either +more or less. + +22:19. I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what the +Lord will answer me once more. + +To stay... His desiring them to stay, after he had been fully informed +already that it was not God's will he should go, came from the +inclination he had to gratify Balac, for the sake of worldly gain. And +this perverse disposition God punished by permitting him to go (though +not to curse the people as he would willingly have done), and suffering +him to fall still deeper and deeper into sin, till he came at last to +give that abominable counsel against the people of God, which ended in +his own destruction. So sad a thing it is to indulge a passion for +money. + +22:20. God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If +these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that +thou do what I shall command thee. + +22:21. Balaam arose in the morning, and saddling his ass went with them. + +22:22. And God was angry. And an angel of the Lord stood in the way +against Balaam, who sat on the ass, and had two servants with him. + +22:23. The ass seeing the angel standing in the way, with a drawn sword, +turned herself out of the way, and went into the field. And when Balaam +beat her, and had a mind to bring her again to the way, + +22:24. The angel stood in a narrow place between two walls, wherewith +the vineyards were enclosed. + +22:25. And the ass seeing him, thrust herself close to the wall, and +bruised the foot of the rider. But he beat her again: + +22:26. And nevertheless the angel going on to a narrow place, where +there was no way to turn aside either to the right hand or to the left, +stood to meet him. + +22:27. And when the ass saw the angel standing, she fell under the feet +of the rider: who being angry beat her sides more vehemently with a +staff. + +22:28. And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said: What have +I done to thee? Why strikest thou me, lo, now this third time? + +Opened the mouth, etc... The angel moved the tongue of the ass, to utter +these speeches, to rebuke, by the mouth of a brute beast, the brutal +fury and folly of Balaam. + +22:29. Balaam answered: Because thou hast deserved it, and hast served +me ill: I would I had a sword that I might kill thee. + +22:30. The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which thou hast been always +accustomed to ride until this present day? tell me if I ever did the +like thing to thee. But he said: Never. + +22:31. Forthwith the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the +angel standing in the way with a drawn sword, and he worshipped him +falling flat on the ground. + +22:32. And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou thy ass these three +times? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and +contrary to me: + +Perverse... Because thy inclinations are wicked in being willing for the +sake of gain to curse the people of whom I am the guardian. + +22:33. And unless the ass had turned out of the way, giving place to me +who stood against thee, I had slain thee, and she should have lived. + +22:34. Balaam said: I have sinned, not knowing that thou didst stand +against me: and now if it displease thee that I go, I will return. + +22:35. The angel said: Go with these men, and see thou speak no other +thing than what I shall command thee. He went therefore with the +princes. + +22:36. And when Balac heard it he came forth to meet him in a town of +the Moabites, that is situate in the uttermost borders of Arnon. + +22:37. And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst +thou not come immediately to me? was it because I am not able to reward +thy coming? + +22:38. He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I have power to speak any +other thing but that which God shall put in my mouth? + +22:39. So they went on together, and came into a city, that was in the +uttermost borders of his kingdom. + +22:40. And when Balac had killed oxen and sheep, he sent presents to +Balaam, and to the princes that were with him. + +22:41. And when morning was come, he brought him to the high places of +Baal, and he beheld the uttermost part of the people. + +Numbers Chapter 23 + +Balaam, instead of cursing Israel, is obliged to bless them, and +prophesy good things of them. + +23:1. And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare +as many calves, and the same number of rams. + +23:2. And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid +together a calf and a ram upon every altar. + +23:3. And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering, +until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he +shall command, I will speak to thee. + +23:4. And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking +to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a +calf and a ram. + +23:5. And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, +and thus shalt thou speak. + +23:6. Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all +the princes of the Moabites: + +23:7. And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites +hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said +he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel. + +23:8. How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means +should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not? + +23:9. I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him +from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned +among the nations. + +23:10. Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock +of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be +like to them. + +23:11. And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for +thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them. + +23:12. He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord +commandeth? + +23:13. Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence +thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them +from thence. + +23:14. And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of +mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf +and a ram, + +23:15. He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to +meet him. + +23:16. And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, +he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him. + +23:17. Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the +princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the +Lord spoken? + +23:18. But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: +hear, thou son of Sephor: + +23:19. God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that +he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he +spoken, and will he not fulfil? + +23:20. I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder. + +23:21. There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be +seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the +victory of the king in him. + +23:22. God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the +rhinoceros. + +23:23. There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In +their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath +wrought. + +23:24. Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness, and shall lift +itself up as a lion: it shall not lie down till it devour the prey, and +drink the blood of the slain. + +23:25. And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him. + +23:26. And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should +command me, that I would do? + +23:27. And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another +place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from +thence. + +23:28. And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which +looketh towards the wilderness, + +23:29. Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as +many calves, and the same number of rams. + +23:30. Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf +and a ram. + +Numbers Chapter 24 + +Balaam still continues to prophesy good things in favour of Israel. + +24:1. And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless +Israel, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but +setting his face towards the desert, + +24:2. And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel abiding in their tents by +their tribes: and the spirit of God rushing upon him, + +24:3. He took up his parable and said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: +The man hath said, whose eye is stopped up: + +24:4. The bearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beheld the +vision of the Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened: + +24:5. How beautiful are thy tabernacles O Jacob, and thy tents, O +Israel! + +24:6. As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as +tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside. + +24:7. Water shall flow out of his bucket, and his seed shall be in many +waters. For Agag his king shall be removed, and his kingdom shall be +taken away. + +24:8. God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the +rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and +break their bones, and pierce them with arrows. + +24:9. Lying down he hath slept as a lion, and as a lioness, whom none +shall dare to rouse. He that blesseth thee, shall also himself be +blessed: he that curseth thee shall be reckoned accursed. + +24:10. And Balac being angry against Balaam, clapped his hands together +and said: I called thee to curse my enemies, and thou on the contrary +hast blessed them three times. + +24:11. Return to thy place. I had determined indeed greatly to honour +thee, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour designed for thee. + +24:12. Balaam made answer to Balac: Did I not say to thy messengers, +whom thou sentest to me: + +24:13. If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I +cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to utter any thing of my +own head either good or evil: but whatsoever the Lord shall say, that I +will speak? + +24:14. But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this +people shall do to thy people in the latter days. + +24:15. Therefore taking up his parable, again he said: Balaam the son of +Beor hath said: The man whose eye is stopped up, hath said: + +24:16. The hearer of the words of God hath said, who knoweth the +doctrine of the Highest, and seeth the visions of the Almighty, who +falling hath his eyes opened: + +24:17. I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near. A +STAR SHALL RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall spring up from Israel: +and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste all the children of +Seth + +24:18. And he shall possess Idumea: the inheritance of Seir shall come +to their enemies, but Israel shall do manfully. + +24:19. Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule, and shall destroy the +remains of the city. + +24:20. And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec +the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed. + +24:21. He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy +habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock, + +24:22. And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be +able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive. + +24:23. And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live +when God shall do these things? + +24:24. They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the +Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves +also shall perish. + +24:25. And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned +the way that he came. + +Numbers Chapter 25 + +The people fall into fornication and idolatry; for which twenty-four +thousand are slain. The zeal of Phinees. + +25:1. And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed +fornication with the daughters of Moab, + +25:2. Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and +adored their gods. + +25:3. And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being +angry, + +Initiated to Beelphegor... That is, they took to the worship of +Beelphegor, an obscene idol of the Moabites, and were consecrated, as it +were, to him. + +25:4. Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them +up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from +Israel. + +25:5. And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his +neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor. + +25:6. And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his +brethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses and of all the +children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle. + +25:7. And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest +saw it, he rose up from the midst of the multitude, and taking a dagger, + +25:8. Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust +both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the +genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel. + +25:9. And there were slain four and twenty thousand men. + +25:10. And the Lord said to Moses: + +25:11. Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath +turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved +with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children +of Israel in my zeal. + +25:12. Therefore say to him: behold I give him the peace of my covenant, + +25:13. And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him +and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made +atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel. + +25:14. And the name of the Israelite, that was slain with the woman of +Madian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a prince of the kindred and tribe of +Simeon. + +25:15. And the Madianite woman, that was slain with him, was called +Cozbi the daughter of Sur, a most noble prince among the Madianites. + +25:16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +25:17. Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and slay you them: + +25:18. Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have +guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a +daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague +for the sacrilege of Phogor. + +Numbers Chapter 26 + +The people are again numbered by their tribes and families. + +26:1. After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and +to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest: + +26:2. Number the whole sum of the children of Israel from twenty years +old and upward, by their houses and kindreds, all that are able to go +forth to war. + +26:3. Moses therefore and Eleazar the priest, being in the plains of +Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho, spoke to them that were + +26:4. From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord had commanded: and +this is the number of them: + +26:5. Ruben the firstborn of Israel. His sons were Henoch, of whom is +the family of the Henochites: and Phallu, of whom is the family of the +Phalluites: + +26:6. And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi, +of whom is the family of the Charmites. + +26:7. These are the families of the stock of Ruben: whose number was +found to be forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty. + +26:8. The son of Phallu was Eliab. + +26:9. His sons, were Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and +Abiron the princes of the people, that rose against Moses and Aaron in +the sedition of Core, when they rebelled against the Lord: + +26:10. And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others +dying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a +great miracle wrought, + +26:11. That when Core perished, his sons did not perish. + +26:12. The sons of Simeon by their kindreds: Namuel, of him is the +family of the Namuelites: Jamin, of him is the family of the Jaminites: +Jachim, of him is the family of the Jachimites: + +26:13. Zare, of him is the family of the Zarites: Saul, of him is the +family of the Saulites. + +26:14. These are the families of the stock of Simeon, of which the whole +number was twenty-two thousand two hundred. + +26:15. The sons of Gad by their kindreds: Sephon, of him is the family +of the Sephonites: Aggi, of him is the family of the Aggites: Suni, of +him is the family of the Sunites: + +26:16. Ozni, of him is the family of the Oznites: Her, of him is the +family of the Herites: + +26:17. Arod, of him is the family of the Arodites: Ariel, of him is the +family of the Arielites. + +26:18. These are the families of Gad, of which the whole number was +forty thousand five hundred. + +26:19. The sons of Juda, Her and Onan, who both died in the land of +Chanaan. + +26:20. And the sons of Juda by their kindreds were: Sela, of whom is the +family of the Selaites: Phares, of whom is the family of the Pharesites: +Zare, of whom is the family of the Zarites. + +26:21. Moreover the sons of Phares were: Hesron, of whom is the family +of the Hesronites: and Hamul, of whom is the family of the Hamulites. + +26:22. These are the families of Juda, of which the whole number was +seventy-six thousand five hundred. + +26:23. The sons of Issachar, by their kindreds: Thola of whom is the +family of the Tholaites: Phua, of whom is the family of the Phuaites: + +26:24. Jasub, of whom is the family of the Jasubites: Semran, of whom is +the family of the Semranites. + +26:25. These are the kindreds of Issachar, whose number was sixty-four +thousand three hundred. + +26:26. The sons of Zabulon by their kindreds: Sared, of whom is the +family of the Saredites: Elon, of whom is the family of the Elonites: +Jalel, of whom is the family of the Jalelites. + +26:27. These are the kindreds of Zabulon, whose number was sixty +thousand five hundred. + +26:28. The sons of Joseph by their kindred, Manasses and Ephraim. + +26:29. Of Manasses was born Machir, of whom is the family of the +Machirites. Machir begot Galaad, of whom is the family of the +Galaadites. + +26:30. Galaad had sons: Jezer, of whom is the family of the Jezerites: +and Helec, of whom is the family of the Helecites: + +26:31. And Asriel, of whom is the family of the Asrielites: and Sechem, +of whom is the family of the Sechemites: + +26:32. And Semida, of whom is the family of the Semidaites: and Hepher, +of whom is the family of the Hepherites. + +26:33. And Hepher was the father of Salphaad, who had no sons, but only +daughters, whose names are these: Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, +and Thersa. + +26:34. These are the families of Manasses, and the number of them fifty- +two thousand seven hundred. + +26:35. And the sons of Ephraim by their kindreds were these: Suthala, of +whom is the family of the Suthalaites: Becher, of whom is the family of +the Becherites: Thehen, of whom is the family of the Thehenites. + +26:36. Now the son of Suthala was Heran, of whom is the family of the +Heranites. + +26:37. These are the kindreds of the sons of Ephraim: whose number was +thirty-two thousand five hundred. + +26:38. These are the sons of Joseph by their families. The sons of +Benjamin in their kindreds: Bela, of whom is the family of the Belaites: +Asbel, of whom is the family of the Asbelites: Ahiram, of whom is the +family of the Ahiramites: + +26:39. Supham, of whom is the family of the Suphamites: Hupham, of whom +is the family of the Huphamites. + +26:40. The sons of Bela: Hered, and Noeman. Of Hered, is the family of +the Heredites: of Noeman, the family of the Noemanites. + +26:41. These are the sons of Benjamin by their kindreds, whose number +was forty-five thousand six hundred. + +26:42. The sons of Dan by their kindreds: Suham, of whom is the family +of the Suhamites: These are the kindreds of Dan by their families. + +26:43. All were Suhamites, whose number was sixty-four thousand four +hundred. + +26:44. The sons of Aser by their kindreds: Jemna, of whom is the family +of the Jemnaites: Jessui, of whom is the family of the Jessuites: Brie, +of whom is the family of the Brieites. + +26:45. The sons of Brie: Heber, of whom is the family of the Heberites: +and Melchiel, of whom is the family of the Melchielites. + +26:46. And the name of the daughter of Aser, was Sara. + +26:47. These are the kindreds of the sons of Aser, and their number +fifty-three thousand four hundred. + +26:48. The sons of Nephtali by their kindreds: Jesiel, of whom is the +family of the Jesielites: Guni, of whom is the family of the Gunites: + +26:49. Jeser, of whom is the family of the Jeserites: Sellem, of whom is +the family of the Sellemites. + +26:50. These are the kindreds of the sons of Nephtali by their families: +whose number was forty-five thousand four hundred. + +26:51. This is the sum of the children of Israel, that were reckoned up, +six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty. + +26:52. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +26:53. To these shall the land be divided for their possessions +according to the number of names. + +26:54. To the greater number thou shalt give a greater portion, and to +the fewer a less: to every one, as they have now been reckoned up, shall +a possession be delivered: + +26:55. Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families. + +26:56. Whatsoever shall fall by lot, that shall be taken by the more, or +the fewer. + +26:57. This also is the number of the sons of Levi by their families: +Gerson, of whom is the family of the Gersonites: Caath, of whom is the +family of the Caathites: Merari, of whom is the family of the Merarites. + +26:58. These are the families of Levi: The family of Lobni, the family +of Hebroni, the family of Core. Now Caath begot Amram: + +26:59. Who had to wife Jochabed the daughter of Levi, who was born to +him in Egypt. She bore to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses, and +Mary their sister. + +26:60. Of Aaron were born Nadab and Abiu, and Eleazar and Ithamar: + +26:61. Of whom Nadab and Abiu died, when they had offered the strange +fire before the Lord. + +26:62. And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males from +one month old and upward: for they were not reckoned up among the +children of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the +rest. + +26:63. This is the number of the children of Israel, that were enrolled +by Moses and Eleazar the priest, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan, +over against Jericho. + +26:64. Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by +Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai. + +26:65. For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. +And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the +son of Nun. + +Numbers Chapter 27 + +The law of inheritance. Josue is appointed to succeed Moses. + +27:1. Then came the daughters of Salphaad, the son of Hepher, the son of +Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, who was the son of +Joseph: and their names are Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and +Thersa. + +27:2. And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the +princes of the people at the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and +said: + +27:3. Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that +was raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and +he had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, +because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our +father. + +27:4. And Moses referred their cause to the judgment of the Lord. + +27:5. And the Lord said to him: + +27:6. The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a +possession among their father's kindred, and let them succeed him in his +inheritance. + +27:7. And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things: + +27:8. When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his +daughter. + +27:9. If he have no daughter, his brethren shall succeed him. + +27:10. And if he have no brethren, you shall give the inheritance to his +father's brethren. + +27:11. But if he have no uncles by the father, the inheritance shall be +given to them that are the next akin. And this shall be to the children +of Israel sacred by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded Moses. + +27:12. The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into this mountain Abarim, and +view from thence the land which I will give to the children of Israel. + +27:13. And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also shalt go to thy +people, as thy brother Aaron is gone: + +27:14. Because you offended me in the desert of Sin in the contradiction +of the multitude, neither would you sanctify me before them at the +waters. These are the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of +Sin. + +27:15. And Moses answered him: + +27:16. May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, +that may be over this multitude: + +27:17. And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or +bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a +shepherd. + +27:18. And the Lord said to him: take Josue the son of Nun, a man in +whom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him. + +27:19. And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest and all the +multitude: + +27:20. And thou shalt give him precepts in the sight of all, and part of +thy glory, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may hear +him. + +27:21. If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the +Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest +of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word. + +27:22. Moses did as the Lord had commanded. And, when he had taken +Josue, he set him before Eleazar the priest, and all the assembly of the +people, + +27:23. And laying his hands on his head, he repeated all things that the +Lord had commanded. + +Numbers Chapter 28 + +Sacrifices are appointed as well for every day as for sabbaths, and +other festivals. + +28:1. The Lord also said to Moses: + +28:2. Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Offer +ye my oblation and my bread, and burnt sacrifice of most sweet odour, in +their due seasons. + +28:3. These are the sacrifices which you shall offer: Two lambs of a +year old without blemish every day for the perpetual holocaust: + +28:4. One you shall offer in the mornings, and the other in the evening: + +28:5. And the tenth part of an ephi of flour, which shall be tempered +with the, purest oil, of the measure of the fourth part of a hin. + +28:6. It is the continual holocaust which you offered in mount Sinai for +a most sweet odour of a sacrifice by fire to the Lord. + +28:7. And for a libation you shall offer of wine the fourth part of a +hin for every lamb in the sanctuary of the Lord. + +28:8. And you shall offer the other lamb in like manner in the evening +according to all the rites of the morning sacrifice, and of the +libations thereof, an oblation of most sweet odour to the Lord. + +28:9. And on the sabbath day you shall offer two lambs of a year old +without blemish, and two tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice, +and the libations, + +28:10. Which regularly are poured out every sabbath for the perpetual +holocaust. + +28:11. And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to +the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year +old, without blemish, + +28:12. And three tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice for +every calf: and two tenths of flour tempered with oil for every ram: + +28:13. And the tenth of a tenth of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice +for every lamb. It is a holocaust of most sweet odour and an offering by +fire to the Lord. + +28:14. And these shall be the libations of wine that are to be poured +out for every victim: Half a hin for every calf, a third for a ram, and +a fourth for a lamb. This shall be the holocaust for every month, as +they succeed one another in the course of the year. + +28:15. A buck goat also shall be offered to the Lord for a sin offering +over and above the perpetual holocaust with its libations. + +28:16. And in the first month, on the four tenth day of the month, shall +be the phase of the Lord, + +28:17. And on the fifteenth day the solemn feast: seven days shall they +eat unleavened bread. + +28:18. And the first day of them shall be venerable and holy: you shall +not do any servile work therein. + +28:19. And you shall offer a burnt sacrifice a holocaust to the Lord, +two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old, without +blemish: + +28:20. And for the sacrifice of every one three tenths of flour which +shall be tempered with oil to every calf, and two tenths to every ram, + +28:21. And the tenth of a tenth, to every lamb, that is to say, to all +the seven lambs: + +28:22. And one buck goat for sin, to make atonement for you, + +28:23. Besides the morning holocaust which you shall always offer. + +28:24. So shall you do every day of the seven days for the food of the +fire, and for a most sweet odour to the Lord, which shall rise from the +holocaust, and from the libations of each. + +28:25. The seventh day also shall be most solemn and holy unto you, you +shall do no servile work therein. + +28:26. The day also of firstfruits, when after the weeks are +accomplished, you shall offer new fruits to the Lord, shall be venerable +and holy: you shall do no servile work therein. + +28:27. And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the +Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, +without blemish: + +28:28. And in the sacrifices of them three tenths of flour tempered with +oil to every calf, two to every ram, + +28:29. The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which in all are seven lambs: +a buck goat also, + +28:30. Which is slain for expiation: besides the perpetual holocaust and +the libations thereof. + +28:31. You shall offer them all without blemish with their libations. + +Numbers Chapter 29 + +Sacrifices for the festivals of the seventh month. + +29:1. The first day also of the seventh month shall be venerable and +holy unto you; you shall do no servile work therein, because it is the +day of the sounding and of trumpets. + +29:2. And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the +Lord, one calf of the herd, one ram and seven lambs of a year old, +without blemish. + +29:3. And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil +to every calf, two tenths to a ram, + +29:4. One tenth to a lamb, which in all are seven lambs: + +29:5. And a buck goat for sin, which is offered for the expiation of the +people, + +29:6. Besides the holocaust of the first day of the month with the +sacrifices thereof, and the perpetual holocaust with the accustomed +libations. With the same ceremonies you shall offer a burnt sacrifice +for a most sweet odour to the Lord. + +29:7. The tenth day also of this seventh month shall be holy and +venerable unto you, and you shall afflict your souls; you shall do no +servile work therein. + +29:8. And you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord for a most sweet +odour, one calf of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, +without blemish: + +29:9. And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil +to every calf, two tenths to a ram, + +29:10. The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which are in all seven lambs: + +29:11. And a buck goat for sin, besides the things that are wont to be +offered for sin, for expiation, and for the perpetual holocaust with +their sacrifice and libations. + +29:12. And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, which shall be +unto you holy and venerable, you shall do no servile work, but shall +celebrate a solemnity to the Lord seven days. + +29:13. And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the +Lord, thirteen calves of the herd, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a +year old, without blemish: + +29:14. And for their libations three tenths of flour tempered with oil +to every calf, being in all thirteen calves: and two tenths to each ram, +being two rams, + +29:15. And the tenth of a tenth to every lamb, being in all fourteen +lambs: + +29:16. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the +sacrifice and the libation thereof. + +29:17. On the second day you shall offer twelve calves of the herd, two +rams and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish: + +29:18. And the sacrifices and the libations for every one, for the +calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall duly celebrate: + +29:19. And a buck goat for a sin offering besides the perpetual +holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof. + +29:20. The third day you shall offer eleven calves, two rams, and +fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish: + +29:21. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves +and for the rams and for the lambs you shall offer according to the +rite: + +29:22. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the +sacrifice, and the libation thereof. + +29:23. The fourth day you shall offer ten calves, two rams, and fourteen +lambs of a year old, without blemish: + +29:24. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves +and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate in right manner: + +29:25. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the +sacrifice and the libation thereof. + +29:26. The fifth day you shall offer nine calves, two rams, and fourteen +lambs of a year old, without blemish: + +29:27. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves +and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the +rite: + +29:28. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the +sacrifice and the libation thereof. + +29:29. The sixth day you shall offer eight calves, two rams, and +fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish: + +29:30. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves +and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the +rite: + +29:31. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the +sacrifice and the libation thereof. + +29:32. The seventh day you shall offer seven calves and two rams, and +fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish: + +29:33. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves +and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the +rite: + +29:34. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the +sacrifice and the libation thereof. + +29:35. On the eighth day, which is most solemn, you shall do no servile +work: + +29:36. But you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the +Lord, one calf, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish: + +29:37. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves +and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the +rite: + +29:38. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the +sacrifice and the libation thereof. + +29:39. These things shall you offer to the Lord in your solemnities: +besides your vows and voluntary oblations for holocaust, for sacrifice, +for libation, and for victims of peace offerings. + +Numbers Chapter 30 + +Of vows and oaths: and their obligation. + +30:1. And Moses told the children of Israel all that the Lord had +commanded him: + +30:2. And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of +Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: + +30:3. If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he +shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised. + +30:4. If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in +her father's house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the +vow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her +soul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow: + +30:5. Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed. + +30:6. But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid +it, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be +bound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it. + +30:7. If she have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once +going out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath, + +30:8. The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she +shall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised. + +30:9. But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it, and make her promises +and the words wherewith she had bound her soul of no effect: the Lord +will forgive her. + +30:10. The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fulfil whatsoever they +vow. + +30:11. If the wife in the house of her husband, hath bound herself by +vow and by oath, + +30:12. If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow +the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised. + +30:13. But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not be bound by the +promise: because her husband gainsaid it, and the Lord will be merciful +to her. + +30:14. If she vow and bind herself by oath, to afflict her soul by +fasting, or abstinence from other things, it shall depend on the will of +her husband, whether she shall do it, or not do it. + +30:15. But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the +declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and +promised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held +his peace. + +30:16. But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her +iniquity. + +30:17. These are the laws which the Lord appointed to Moses between the +husband and the wife, between the father and the daughter that is as yet +but a girl in age, or that abideth in her father's house. + +Numbers Chapter 31 + +The Madianites are slain for having drawn the people of Israel into sin. +The dividing of the booty. + +31:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +31:2. Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so +thou shalt be gathered to thy people. + +31:3. And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take +the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites. + +31:4. Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be +sent to the war. + +31:5. And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve +thousand men well appointed for battle. + +31:6. And Moses sent them with Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest, +and he delivered to him the holy vessels, and the trumpets to sound. + +31:7. And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome +them, they slew all the men. + +31:8. And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five +princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the +sword. + +31:9. And they took their women, and their children captives, and all +their cattle, and all their goods: and all their possessions they +plundered: + +31:10. And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they +burned. + +31:11. And they carried away the booty, and all that they had taken both +of men and of beasts. + +31:12. And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to +all the multitude of the children of Israel. But the rest of the things +for use they carried to the camp on the plains of Moab, beside the +Jordan over against Jericho. + +31:13. And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the +synagogue went forth to meet them without the camp. + +31:14. And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the +tribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle, + +31:15. Said: Why have you saved the women? + +31:16. Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the +counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin +of Phogor, for which also the people was punished? + +The sin of Phogor... The sin committed in the worship of Beelphegor. + +31:17. Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the +children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men. + +Of children... Women and children, ordinarilly speaking, were not to be +killed in war, Deut. 20.14. But the great Lord of life and death was +pleased to order it otherwise in the present case, in detestation of the +wickedness of this people, who by the counsel of Balaam, had sent their +women among the Israelites on purpose to draw them from God. + +31:18. But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for +yourselves: + +31:19. And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man, +or touched one that is killed, shall be purified the third day and the +seventh day. + +31:20. And of all the spoil, every garment, or vessel, or any thing made +for use, of the skins, or hair of goats, or of wood, shall be purified. + +31:21. Eleazar also the priest spoke to the men of the army, that had +fought, in this manner: This is the ordinance of the law, which the Lord +hath commanded Moses: + +31:22. Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, + +31:23. And all that may pass through the fire, shall be purified by +fire, but whatsoever cannot abide the fire, shall be sanctified with the +water of expiation: + +31:24. And you shall wash your garments the seventh day, and being +purified, you shall afterwards enter into the camp. + +31:25. And the Lord said to Moses: + +31:26. Take the sum of the things that were taken both of man and beast, +thou and Eleazar the priest and the princes of the multitude: + +31:27. And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that fought +and went out to the war, and between the rest of the multitude. + +31:28. And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that +fought and were in the battle, one soul of five hundred as well of +persons as of oxen and asses and sheep. + +31:29. And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are +the firstfruits of the Lord. + +31:30. Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel thou shalt take +the fiftieth head of persons, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of +all beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites that watch in the +charge of the tabernacle of the Lord. + +31:31. And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded. + +31:32. And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred seventy- +five thousand sheep, + +31:33. Seventy-two thousand oxen, + +31:34. Sixty-one thousand asses: + +31:35. And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not +known men. + +31:36. And one half was given to them that had been in the battle, to +wit, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep: + +31:37. Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six +hundred seventy five sheep. + +31:38. And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two oxen: + +31:39. Out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses, sixty-one asses: + +31:40. Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to the portion of +the Lord, thirty-two souls. + +31:41. And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to +Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him, + +31:42. Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had separated +for them that had been in the battle. + +31:43. But out of the half that fell to the rest of the multitude, that +is to say, out of the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred +sheep, + +31:44. And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, + +31:45. And out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses, + +31:46. And out of the sixteen thousand persons, + +31:47. Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites that +watched in the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded. + +31:48. And when the commanders of the army, and the tribunes and +centurions were come to Moses, they said: + +31:49. We thy servants have reckoned up the number of the fighting men, +whom we had under our hand, and not so much as one was wanting. + +31:50. Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us +could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, +and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us. + +31:51. And Moses and Eleazar the priest received all the gold in divers +kinds, + +31:52. In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from +the tribunes and from the centurions. + +31:53. For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own. + +31:54. And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of +the testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord. + +Numbers Chapter 32 + +The tribes of Ruben and Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasses, receive +their inheritance on the east side of Jordan, upon conditions approved +of by Moses. + +32:1. And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their +substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer +and Galaad fit for feeding cattle, + +32:2. They came to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and the princes of the +multitude, and said: + +32:3. Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale, and +Saban, and Nebo, and Beon, + +32:4. The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the +children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: +and we thy servants have very much cattle: + +32:5. And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou +give it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the +Jordan. + +32:6. And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, +and will you sit here? + +32:7. Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they +may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them? + +32:8. Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to +view the land? + +32:9. And when they were come as far as the valley of the cluster, +having viewed all the country, they overturned the hearts of the +children of Israel, that they should not enter into the coasts, which +the Lord gave them. + +32:10. And he swore in his anger, saying: + +32:11. If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old +and upward, shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to +Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not follow me, + +32:12. Except Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, and Josue the son +of Nun: these have fulfilled my will. + +32:13. And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through +the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil +in his sight, was consumed. + +32:14. And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, +the increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the +Lord against Israel. + +32:15. For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the +wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all. + +32:16. But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls +for our cattle, and strong cities for our children: + +32:17. And we ourselves will go armed and ready for battle before the +children of Israel, until we bring them in unto their places. Our +little ones, and all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear of the +ambushes of the inhabitants. + +32:18. We will not return into our houses until the children of Israel +possess their inheritance: + +32:19. Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan, because we have +already our possession on the east side thereof, + +32:20. And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise, go on well +appointed for war before the Lord: + +32:21. And let every fighting man pass over the Jordan, until the Lord +overthrow his enemies: + +32:22. And all the land be brought under him, then shall you be +blameless before the Lord and before Israel, and you shall obtain the +countries that you desire, before the Lord. + +32:23. But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin +against God: and know ye, that your sin shall overtake you. + +32:24. Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls +for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised. + +32:25. And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We are thy +servants, we will do what my lord commandeth. + +32:26. We will leave our children, and our wives and sheep and cattle, +in the cities of Galaad: + +32:27. And we thy servants all well appointed will march on to the war, +as thou, my lord, speakest. + +32:28. Moses therefore commanded Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son +of Nun, and the princes of the families of all the tribes of Israel, and +said to them: + +32:29. If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben pass with you +over the Jordan, all armed for war before the Lord, and the land be made +subject to you: give them Galaad in possession. + +32:30. But if they will not pass armed with you into the land of +Chanaan, let them receive places to dwell in among you. + +32:31. And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As +the Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do: + +32:32. We will go armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and we +confess that we have already received our possession beyond the Jordan. + +32:33. Moses therefore gave to the children of Gad and of Ruben, and to +the half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king +of the Amorrhites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, and their land +and the cities thereof round about. + +32:34. And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, + +32:35. And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer, and Jegbaa, + +32:36. And Bethnemra, and Betharan, fenced cities, and folds for their +cattle. + +32:37. But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale, and +Cariathaim, + +32:38. And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and Sabama: +giving names to the cities which they had built. + +32:39. Moreover the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, went into +Galaad, and wasted it, cutting off the Amorrhites, the inhabitants +thereof. + +32:40. And Moses gave the land of Galaad to Machir the son of Manasses, +and he dwelt in it. + +32:41. And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the villages thereof, +and he called them Havoth Jair, that is to say, the villages of Jair. + +32:42. Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and he +called it by his own name, Nobe. + +Numbers Chapter 33 + +The mansions or journeys of the children of Israel towards the land of +promise. + +33:1. These are the mansions of the children of Israel, who went out of +Egypt by their troops under the conduct of Moses and Aaron, + +The mansions... These mansions, or journeys of the children of Israel +from Egypt to the land of promise, were figures, according to the +fathers, of the steps and degrees by which Christians leaving sin are to +advance from virtue to virtue, till they come to the heavenly mansions, +after this life, to see and enjoy God. + +33:2. Which Moses wrote down according to the places of their encamping, +which they changed by the commandment of the Lord. + +33:3. Now the children of Israel departed from Ramesses the first month, +on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the phase, with a +mighty hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians, + +33:4. Who were burying their firstborn, whom the Lord had slain (upon +their gods also he had executed vengeance,) + +33:5. And they camped in Soccoth. + +33:6. And from Soccoth they came into Etham, which is in the uttermost +borders of the wilderness. + +33:7. Departing from thence they came over against Phihahiroth, which +looketh towards Beelsephon, and they camped before Magdalum. + +33:8. And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed through the midst of +the sea into the wilderness: and having marched three days through the +desert of Etham, they camped in Mara. + +33:9. And departing from Mara, they came into Elim, where there were +twelve fountains of waters, and seventy palm trees: and there they +camped. + +33:10. But departing from thence also, they pitched their tents by the +Red Sea. And departing from the Red Sea, + +33:11. They camped in the desert of Sin. + +33:12. And they removed from thence, and came to Daphca. + +33:13. And departing from Daphca, they camped in Alus. + +33:14. And departing from Alus, they pitched their tents in Raphidim, +where the people wanted water to drink. + +33:15. And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai. + +33:16. But departing also from the desert of Sinai, they came to the +graves of lust. + +33:17. And departing from the graves of lust, they camped in Haseroth. + +33:18. And from Haseroth they came to Rethma. + +33:19. And departing from Rethma, they camped in Remmomphares. + +33:20. And they departed from thence and came to Lebna. + +33:21. Removing from Lebna they camped in Ressa. + +33:22. And departing from Ressa, they came to Ceelatha. + +33:23. And they removed from thence and camped in the mountain Sepher. + +33:24. Departing from the mountain Sepher, they came to Arada, + +33:25. From thence they went and camped in Maceloth. + +33:26. And departing from Maceloth, they came to Thahath. + +33:27. Removing from Thahath they camped in Thare. + +33:28. And they departed from thence, and pitched their tents in Methca. + +33:29. And removing from Methca, they camped in Hesmona. + +33:30. And departing from Hesmona, they came to Moseroth. + +33:31. And removing from Moseroth, they camped in Benejaacan. + +33:32. And departing from Benejaacan, they came to mount Gadgad. + +33:33. From thence they went and camped in Jetebatha. + +33:34. And from Jetebatha they came to Hebrona. + +33:35. And departing from Hebrona, they camped in Asiongaber. + +33:36. They removed from thence and came into the desert of Sin, which +is Cades. + +33:37. And departing from Cades, they camped in mount Hor, in the +uttermost borders of the land of Edom. + +33:38. And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of +the Lord: and there he died in the fortieth year of the coming forth of +the children of Israel out of Egypt, the fifth month, the first day of +the month, + +33:39. When he was a hundred and twenty-three years old. + +33:40. And king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, heard +that the children of Israel were come to the land of Chanaan. + +33:41. And they departed from mount Hor, and camped in Salmona. + +33:42. From whence they removed and came to Phunon. + +33:43. And departing from Phunon, they camped in Oboth. + +33:44. And from Oboth they came to Ijeabarim, which is in the borders of +the Moabites. + +33:45. And departing from Ijeabarim they pitched their tents in +Dibongab. + +33:46. From thence they went and camped in Helmondeblathaim. + +33:47. And departing from Helmondeblathaim, they came to the mountains +of Abarim over against Nabo. + +33:48. And departing from the mountains of Abarim, they passed to the +plains of Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho. + +33:49. And there they camped from Bethsimoth even to Ablesatim in the +plains of the Moabites, + +33:50. Where the Lord said to Moses: + +33:51. Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you shall +have passed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan, + +33:52. Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their +pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high +places, + +33:53. Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you +for a possession. + +33:54. And you shall divide it among you by lot. To the more you shall +give a larger part, and to the fewer a lesser. To every one as the lot +shall fall, so shall the inheritance be given. The possession shall be +divided by the tribes and the families. + +33:55. But if you will not kill the inhabitants of the land: they that +remain, shall be unto you as nails in your eyes, and spears in your +sides, and they shall be your adversaries in the land of your +habitation. + +33:56. And whatsoever I had thought to do to them, I will do to you. + +Numbers Chapter 34 + +The limits of Chanaan; with the names of the men that make the division +of it. + +34:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: + +34:2. Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When +you are entered into the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into +your possession by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits: + +34:3. The south side shall begin from the wilderness of Sin, which is by +Edom: and shall have the most salt sea for its furthest limits eastward: + +The most salt sea... The lake of Sodom, otherwise called the Dead Sea. + +34:4. Which limits shall go round on the south side by the ascent of the +Scorpion and so into Senna, and reach toward the south as far as +Cadesbarne, from whence the frontiers shall go out to the town called +Adar, and shall reach as far as Asemona. + +The Scorpion... A mountain so called from having a great number of +scorpions. + +34:5. And the limits shall fetch a compass from Asemona to the torrent +of Egypt, and shall end in the shore of the great sea. + +The great sea... The Mediterranean. + +34:6. And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same +shall be the end thereof. + +34:7. But toward the north side the borders shall begin from the great +sea, reaching to the most high mountain, + +The most high mountain... Libanus. + +34:8. From which they shall come to Emath, as far as the borders of +Sedada: + +34:9. And the limits shall go as far as Zephrona, and the village of +Enan. These shall be the borders on the north side. + +34:10. From thence they shall mark out the grounds towards the east side +from the village of Enan unto Sephama. + +34:11. And from Sephama the bounds shall go down to Rebla over against +the fountain of Daphnis: from thence they shall come eastward to the sea +of Cenereth, + +Sea of Cenereth... This is the sea of Galilee, illustrated by the +miracles of our Lord. + +34:12. And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the last shall be +closed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its borders +round about. + +34:13. And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall be +the land which you shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath +commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe. + +34:14. For the tribe of the children of Ruben by their families, and the +tribe of the children of Gad according to the number of their kindreds, +and half of the tribe of Manasses, + +34:15. That is, two tribes and a half, have received their portion +beyond the Jordan over against Jericho at the east side. + +34:16. And the Lord said to Moses: + +34:17. These are the names of the men, that shall divide the land unto +you: Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, + +34:18. And one prince of every tribe, + +34:19. Whose names are these: Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of +Jephone. + +34:20. Of the tribe of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammiud. + +34:21. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chaselon. + +34:22. Of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bocci the son of Jogli. + +34:23. Of the children of Joseph of the tribe of Manasses, Hanniel the +son of Ephod. + +34:24. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Camuel the son of Sephtan. + +34:25. Of the tribe of Zabulon, Elisaphan the son of Pharnach. + +34:26. Of the tribe of Issachar, Phaltiel the prince, the son of Ozan. + +34:27. Of the tribe of Aser, Ahiud the son of Salomi. + +34:28. Of the tribe of Nephtali: Phedael the son of Ammiud. + +34:29. These are they Whom the Lord hath commanded to divide the land of +Chanaan to the children of Israel. + +Numbers Chapter 35 + +Cities are appointed for the Levites. Of which six are to be the cities +of refuge. + +35:1. And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of +Moab by the Jordan, over against Jericho: + +35:2. Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out +of their possessions, + +35:3. Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may +abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts: + +35:4. Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a +thousand paces on every side: + +35:5. Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south +in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also, which +looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side shall +be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst, +and the suburbs without. + +35:6. And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six +shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood +may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two +cities, + +35:7. That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs. + +35:8. And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of +the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken: +and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the +Levites according to the extent of their inheritance. + +35:9. The Lord said to Moses: + +35:10. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When +you shall have passed over the Jordan into the land of Chanaan, + +35:11. Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who +have shed blood against their will. + +35:12. And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that +is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the +multitude, and his cause be judged. + +35:13. And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of +fugitives, + +35:14. Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of +Chanaan, + +35:15. As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and +sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his +will. + +35:16. If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall +be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die. + +35:17. If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be +punished in the same manner. + +35:18. If he that is struck with wood die: he shall be revenged by the +blood of him that struck him. + +35:19. The kinsman of him that was slain, shall kill the murderer: as +soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him. + +35:20. If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing at him +with ill design: + +35:21. Or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the +striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as +soon as he findeth him, shall kill him. + +35:22. But if by chance medley, and without hatred, + +35:23. And enmity, he do any of these things, + +35:24. And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be +debated between him that struck, and the next of kin: + +35:25. The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, +and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had +fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that +is anointed with the holy oil. + +Until the death, etc... This mystically signified that our deliverance +was to be effected by the death of Christ, the high priest and the +anointed of God. + +35:26. If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that +are appointed for the banished, + +35:27. And be struck by him that is the avenger of blood: he shall not +be guilty that killed him. + +35:28. For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death +of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the manslayer +return to his own country. + +35:29. These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all your +dwellings. + +35:30. The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be +condemned upon the evidence of one man. + +35:31. You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he +shall die forthwith. + +35:32. The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest +may by no means return into their own cities. + +35:33. Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the +blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his +blood that hath shed the blood of another. + +35:34. And thus shall your possession be cleansed, myself abiding with +you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel. + +Numbers Chapter 36 + +That the inheritances may not be alienated from one tribe to another, +all are to marry within their own tribes. + +36:1. And the princes of the families of Galaad, the son of Machir, the +son of Manasses, of the stock of the children of Joseph, came and spoke +to Moses before the princes of Israel, and said: + +36:2. The Lord hath commanded thee, my lord, that thou shouldst divide +the land by lot to the children of Israel, and that thou shouldst give +to the daughters of Salphaad our brother the possession due to their +father: + +36:3. Now if men of another tribe take them to wives, their possession +will follow them, and being transferred to another tribe, will be a +diminishing of our inheritance. + +36:4. And so it shall cone to pass, that when the jubilee, the is, the +fiftieth year of remission, is come, the distribution made by the lots +shall be confounded, and the possession of the one shall pass to the +others. + +36:5. Moses answered the children of Israel, and said by the command of +the Lord: The tribe of the children of Joseph hath spoken rightly. + +36:6. And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the daughters +of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that it be to men +of their own tribe. + +36:7. Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from +tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and +kindred: + +36:8. And all women shall take husbands of the same tribe: that the +inheritance may remain in the families. + +36:9. And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain so + +36:10. As they were separated by the Lord. And the daughters of Salphaad +did as was commanded: + +36:11. And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Noa were +married to the sons of their uncle by their father + +36:12. Of the family of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and the +possession that had been allotted to them, remained in the tribe and +family of their father. + +36:13. These are the commandments and judgment, which the Lord commanded +by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab +upon the Jordan over against Jericho. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 4 *** + +********** This file should be named 8304.txt or 8304.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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