# bible

book: Lev
content:
<verse num="31">"Thus<note>Or "And"</note> you shall keep my commands, and you shall do them; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Lev
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<verse num="32">"And you shall not profane my holy name, so that I may be consecrated in the midst of the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, who consecrates you,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="33">the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be as God for you; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh." </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="2">"Speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say to them, 'The festivals of Yahweh that you shall proclaim <transChange type="added">are</transChange> holy assemblies; these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my appointed times. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="3">" '<transChange type="added">For</transChange> six days work is to be done, and on the seventh day <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> {a Sabbath of complete rest},<note>Literally "a Sabbath of 'Sabbathation.'" "Sabbathation" is not a real word, but it is devised as an attempt to convey the sounds of the related nouns in the Hebrew phrase</note> a holy assembly; you shall not do any work; it <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> a Sabbath for Yahweh in all your dwellings. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="4">" 'These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Yahweh's appointed times, holy assemblies, which you shall proclaim at<note>Or "on"</note> their appointed time.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="5">In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month at the evening <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh's Passover.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="6">And on the fifteenth day of this month <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh's Feast of Unleavened Bread; <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="7">On the first day <transChange type="added">there</transChange> shall be a holy assembly for you; you shall not do {any regular work}.<note>Literally "all work of labor"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="8">And you shall present an offering for Yahweh made by fire <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven days; on the seventh day <transChange type="added">there shall be</transChange> a holy assembly; you shall not do {any regular work}.'"<note>Literally "all work of labor"</note> </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="10">"Speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say to them, 'When you come to the land that I <transChange type="added">am about</transChange> to give to you and you reap its harvest, then<note>Or "and"</note> you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruit of your harvest to the priest.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="11">And he shall wave the sheaf {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> Yahweh for your acceptance; the priest shall wave it {on the day after}<note>Literally "from the next day of"</note> the Sabbath.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="12">And on the day of your waving the sheaf you shall {offer}<note>Or "sacrifice"; literally "do" or "make"</note> a {yearling}<note>Literally "a son of its year"</note> male lamb without defect as a burnt offering to Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="13">And its grain offering <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> two-tenths <transChange type="added">of an ephah</transChange><note>Supplied by context</note> of finely milled flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, an appeasing fragrance; and its libation <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> a fourth of a hin<note>Hebrew "the hin"</note> of wine.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="14">And you shall not eat bread or<note>Or "and"</note> roasted grain or<note>Or "and"</note> ripe grain until {this very same day},<note>Literally "the exactly of this day"</note> until you present your God's offering. <transChange type="added">This must be</transChange> {a lasting statute}<note>Literally "a statute of eternity" or "a statute of long duration"</note> for your generations in all your dwellings. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="15">" 'And you shall count for yourselves {from the day after}<note>Literally "from the next day of"</note> the Sabbath, from the day of your bringing the wave offering's sheaf--<transChange type="added">there</transChange> shall be seven full weeks.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="16">Until {the day after}<note>Literally "from the next day of"</note> the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; then<note>Or "and"</note> you shall present a new grain offering for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="17">You shall bring from your dwellings for a wave offering two <transChange type="added">loaves of</transChange> bread {made with}<note>Literally "they shall be"</note> two-tenths <transChange type="added">of an ephah</transChange><note>Supplied by context</note> of finely milled flour; they must be baked with leaven--<transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstfruits {belonging to}<note>Literally "to"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="18">And, in addition to the bread, you shall present seven {yearling}<note>Literally "a son of its year"</note> male lambs without defects and one {young bull}<note>Literally "a bull a son of cattle"</note> and two rams--they shall be a burnt offering for Yahweh with<note>Or "and"</note> their grain offering and their libations, an offering made by fire, an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="19">And you shall {offer}<note>Or "sacrifice"; literally "do" or "make"</note> one he-goat as a sin offering and two {yearling}<note>Literally "a son of its year"</note> male lambs as a sacrifice of fellowship offerings.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="20">And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a wave offering {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> Yahweh; in addition to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> two male lambs, they shall be holy for Yahweh for the priest.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="21">And {you shall make a proclamation}<note>Literally "you shall proclaim"</note> on {this very same day};<note>Literally "the exactly of this day"</note> it shall be a holy assembly for you; you shall not do {any regular work};<note>Literally "all work of labor"</note> <transChange type="added">this is</transChange> a {lasting statute}<note>Literally "a statute of eternity" or "a statute of long duration"</note> in all your dwellings throughout<note>Or "for"</note> your generations.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="22">And when you<note>Plural</note> reap the harvest of your<note>Plural</note> land, you<note>Singular</note> must not finish the edge of your<note>Singular</note> field at your reaping, and you<note>Singular</note> must not glean the remnants of your<note>Singular</note> harvest--you<note>Singular</note> shall leave them behind for the needy and for the alien; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your<note>Plural</note> God.'" </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="24">"Speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> saying, 'In the seventh month, on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> first <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month, {you must have}<note>Literally "it must be for yourselves"</note> a rest period, a remembrance of <transChange type="added">the trumpet</transChange> blast, a holy assembly.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="25">You must not do {any regular work},<note>Literally "all work of labor"</note> and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh.'" </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="27">"Surely the Day of Atonement <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the tenth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the seventh month; it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall deny yourselves, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="28">And you must not do {any regular work}<note>Literally "all work of labor"</note> on {this very same day},<note>Literally "the exactly of this day"</note> because it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the Day of Atonement to make atonement for you {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> Yahweh your God.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="29">If <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> any person who does not deny <transChange type="added">himself</transChange> on {this very same day},<note>Literally "the exactly of this day"</note> then<note>Or "and"</note> he shall be cut off from his people.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="30">As for<note>Or "And"</note> any person who does any work on {this very same day},<note>Literally "the exactly of this day"</note> I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="31">You must not do any work; <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> a {lasting statute}<note>Literally "a statute of eternity" or "a statute of long duration"</note> throughout your generations in all your dwellings.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="32">It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {a Sabbath of complete rest}<note>Literally "a Sabbath of 'Sabbathation.'" "Sabbathation" is not a real word, but it is devised as an attempt to convey the sounds of the related nouns in the Hebrew phrase</note> for you, and you shall deny yourselves on the ninth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month in the evening--from evening to evening you must observe your <transChange type="added">extraordinary</transChange><note>Supplied from the immediate context within this verse</note> Sabbath." </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="34">"Speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> saying, 'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, this <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> the Feast of Booths <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven days for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="35">On the first day <transChange type="added">there shall be</transChange> a holy assembly; you must not do any {regular work}.<note>Literally "work of labor"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="36"><transChange type="added">For</transChange> seven days you must present an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh; it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a celebration; you must not do {any regular work}.<note>Literally "all work of labor"</note> </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="37">" 'These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Yahweh's festivals, which you must proclaim, holy assemblies to present an offering made by fire to Yahweh--burnt offering and grain offering, sacrifice and libations, {each on its proper day}<note>Literally "a thing of a day on its day"</note>--</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="38">{besides}<note>Literally "from to alone"</note> Yahweh's Sabbaths and {besides}<note>Literally "from to alone"</note> your gifts and {besides}<note>Literally "from to alone"</note> your vows and {besides}<note>Literally "from to alone"</note> all your freewill offerings that you give to Yahweh. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="39">" 'Surely on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, at your gathering the land's produce, you shall hold Yahweh's festival for seven days; on the first day <transChange type="added">there shall be</transChange> a rest period and on the eighth day a rest period.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="40">And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the first fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees and branches<note>Collective singular</note> of a leafy tree and of a brook's poplar trees, and you shall rejoice {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven days.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="41">And you must hold it <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a festival for Yahweh <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven days in the year; <transChange type="added">it shall be</transChange> a {lasting statute}<note>Literally "a statute of eternity" or "a statute of long duration"</note> throughout your generations; in the seventh month you must hold it.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="42">You must live in the booths <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven days; all the natives in Israel must live in the booths,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="43">so that your generations shall know that I made the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> live in booths when I brought them from the land of Egypt; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God.'" </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="44">Thus<note>Or "And"</note> Moses announced to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> Yahweh's appointed times. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="2">"Command the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> that<note>Or "and"</note> they should bring pure olive oil <transChange type="added">from</transChange> beaten <transChange type="added">olives</transChange> for the light to {present}<note>Literally "to cause raising up"; or "set up" (HALOT 830 s.v. 4.d)</note> a lamp continually.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="3">Aaron shall arrange for it {outside}<note>Literally "from the outside of to"</note> the curtain of the testimony in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tent of assembly from evening until morning {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> Yahweh continually; <transChange type="added">it shall be</transChange> a {lasting statute}<note>Literally "a statute of eternity" or "a statute of long duration"</note> throughout your generations.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="4">On the pure <transChange type="added">golden</transChange><note>Supplied by context and the description of the lampstand in Exod 25:31</note> lampstand he shall arrange for the lamps {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> Yahweh continually. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="5">"And you shall take finely milled flour, and you shall bake <transChange type="added">with</transChange> it twelve ring-shaped bread cakes: each one <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> two-tenths <transChange type="added">of an ephah</transChange>.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="6">And you shall place them <transChange type="added">in</transChange> two rows, six <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> row, on the pure <transChange type="added">gold</transChange><note>Supplied by context and the description of the table in Exod 25:24</note> table {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="7">And you shall put pure frankincense on each<note>Hebrew "the"</note> row so that<note>Or "and"</note> it shall be for the bread as a memorial offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="8">{On every Sabbath}<note>Literally "On the day of the Sabbath on the day of the Sabbath"</note> he shall arrange it in rows {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> Yahweh continually; <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> from the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> <transChange type="added">as</transChange> an everlasting<note>Or "eternal" or "enduring" or "perpetual"</note> covenant.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="9">And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {a most holy thing}<note>Literally "a holy thing of holy things"</note> for him from Yahweh's offerings made by fire--a {lasting rule}."<note>Literally "rule of eternity" or "rule of long duration"</note> </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="10">And an Israelite woman's son, and he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> an Egyptian man's son, went out in the midst of the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and the Israelite woman's son and an<note>Hebrew "the"</note> Israelite man fought in the camp.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="11">Then<note>Or "And"</note> the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the name, and he cursed, so<note>Or "and"</note> they brought him to Moses--and the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="12">Then<note>Or "And"</note> they put him in custody {so that}<note>Literally "to"</note> <transChange type="added">the matter</transChange> might be made clear to them in accordance with the mouth of Yahweh. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="14">"Bring the curser {outside the camp},<note>Literally "to from an outside place of the camp"</note> and all the hearers shall place their hands on his head, and the whole community shall stone him.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="15">And you shall speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> saying, '{Any man}<note>Literally "A man a man"</note> when he curses his God shall bear<note>Or "and he shall bear"</note> his sin.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="16">And he who blasphemes Yahweh's name certainly shall be put to death; the whole community certainly shall stone him. As the alien, so the native shall be put to death at blaspheming his name. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="17">" 'And when a man kills any human being, he certainly shall be put to death.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="18">And {he who kills}<note>Literally "he who kills the soul of" or "he who kills the life of"</note> a domestic animal must repay <transChange type="added">for</transChange> it life in place of life.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="19">And when a man {causes}<note>Literally "gives"</note> a physical defect in his fellow citizen {according to}<note>Literally "as that"</note> what he has done, so it shall be done to him:</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="20">fracture in place of fracture, eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth--{according to}<note>Literally "as that"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> physical defect he {causes}<note>Literally "gives"</note> to the person, likewise it shall be {caused}<note>Literally "given"</note> to him.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="21">And a killer of a domestic animal must repay <transChange type="added">for</transChange> it, and a killer of a human shall be put to death.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="22">{You must have}<note>Literally "it shall be for you"</note> one norm; as <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the alien, so<note>Hebrew "as"</note> it must be <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the native, because I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God.'" </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="23">Thus<note>Or "And"</note> Moses spoke to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and they brought the curser {outside the camp},<note>Literally "to from an outside place of the camp"</note> and they stoned him <transChange type="added">with</transChange> stones, and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as Yahweh had commanded Moses. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="1">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Yahweh spoke to Moses on {Mount Sinai},<note>Literally "the mountain of Sinai"</note> saying,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="2">"Speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say to them, 'When you<note>Plural</note> come into the land that I <transChange type="added">am about to</transChange> give to you,<note>Plural</note> then<note>Or "and"</note> the land shall observe a Sabbath for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="3">Six years you<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and you shall gather its yield.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="4">But<note>Or "And"</note> in the seventh year it shall be {a Sabbath of complete rest}<note>Literally "a Sabbath of 'Sabbathation.'" "Sabbathation" is not a real word, but it is devised as an attempt to convey the sounds of the related nouns in the Hebrew phrase</note> for the land--a Sabbath for Yahweh; you<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> must not sow your field, and you must not prune your vineyard.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="5">You<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> must not reap your harvest's aftergrowth, and you must not harvest the grapes of your unpruned vines--it shall be {a year of complete rest}<note>Literally "a year of a rest period"</note> for the land.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="6">And a Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you:<note>Plural</note> for you<note>Singular here and through the rest of this verse</note> and for your slave and for your slave woman and for your hired worker and for your temporary residents<note>Collective singular; Hebrew "temporary resident"</note> who are dwelling as aliens with you;</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="7">and all its yield shall be for your<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> domestic animal and for the wild animal, which <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in your land to eat. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="8">" 'And you<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> shall count for yourself seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years, and they shall be for you {time periods of}<note>Literally "days of"</note> years: {forty-nine}<note>Literally "nine and forty"</note> years.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="9">And you<note>Singular</note> shall cause {a loud horn blast}<note>Literally "a ram's horn of a blast"</note> to be heard on the seventh month on the tenth of the month; on the Day of Atonement you<note>Plural</note> shall cause a ram's horn to be heard in all your<note>Plural</note> land.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="10">And you<note>Plural throughout this verse</note> shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a Jubilee; it shall be for you, and you shall return. You must return--everyone to his property and everyone to his clan.<note>Or "each of you must return to his property and to his clan"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="11">{You<note>Plural throughout this verse</note> shall have the fiftieth year as a Jubilee};<note>Literally "a Jubilee it the year of the fiftieth year it shall be for you"</note> you must not reap its aftergrowth, and you must not harvest its unpruned vines.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="12">Because it is a Jubilee, it shall be holy to you. You must eat its<note>That is, the field's</note> produce from the field. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="13">" 'In this Year of Jubilee {each of you<note>Plural</note> shall return}<note>Literally "you shall return a man" or "you shall return everyone"</note> to his property.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="14">And when you<note>Plural</note> sell something to your<note>Singular</note> fellow citizen or <transChange type="added">you</transChange> buy from your<note>Singular</note> neighbor's hand, you<note>Plural</note> must not oppress {one another}.<note>Literally "a man his brother"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="15">You<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> must buy from your fellow citizen according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of years after the Jubilee; he must sell to you according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of years of yield.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="16">You<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> must increase its price {according to a greater number of years},<note>Literally "to the mouth of many of the years"</note> but<note>Or "and"</note> you must decrease its price {according to a lesser number of years},<note>Literally "to the mouth of few of the years"</note> because he is selling <transChange type="added">its</transChange> yields to you.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="17">And you<note>Plural</note> must not oppress {one another},<note>Literally "a man his citizen"</note> but<note>Or "and"</note> you<note>Singular</note> shall revere your God, because I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, your<note>Plural</note> God. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="18">" 'And you<note>Plural throughout this verse</note> shall do my statutes, and you must keep my regulations, and you shall do them, so that<note>Or "and"</note> you shall live {securely}<note>Literally "with confidence"</note> on the land.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="19">And the land shall give its fruit, and you<note>Plural throughout this verse</note> shall eat {your fill},<note>Literally "to contentment"</note> and you shall live {securely}<note>Literally "with confidence"</note> on it.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="20">And if you<note>Plural</note> should say, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, {if}<note>Literally "look"</note> we do not sow and we do not gather its yield?"</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="21">then<note>Or "and"</note> I will command my blessing for you<note>Plural</note> in the sixth year, so that<note>Or "and"</note> it will make<note>Or "produce"</note> the yield for three years.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="22">And you<note>Plural throughout this verse</note> will sow <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the eighth year, and you shall eat from the old yield;<note>The verse divides here</note> until the ninth year, until the coming of its yield, you shall eat <transChange type="added">the</transChange> old <transChange type="added">yield</transChange>. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="23">" 'But<note>Or "And"</note> the land must not be sold in<note>Or "for"</note> perpetuity, because the land <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mine, because you<note>Plural</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> aliens and temporary residents with me.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="24">And in all your<note>Plural</note> property's land you<note>Plural</note> must provide redemption for the land. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="25">" 'When your<note>Singular</note> brother becomes poor and he sells part of his property, then<note>Or "and"</note> {his nearest redeemer}<note>Literally "his redeemer the nearest to him"</note> shall come, and he shall redeem the thing sold by his brother.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="26">But<note>Or "And"</note> if<note>Or "when"</note> a man {does not have}<note>Literally "it is not for him"</note> a redeemer, then<note>Or "and"</note> {he prospers}<note>Literally "his hand produces"</note> and he finds enough for his redemption,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="27">then<note>Or "and"</note> he shall calculate the years of its selling, and he shall refund the balance to the man to whom he sold <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and he shall return to his property.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="28">But<note>Or "And"</note> if his hand does not find enough to refund to him, then<note>Or "and"</note> {what he has sold}<note>Literally "his thing sold"</note> shall be in the buyer's hand until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall go out <transChange type="added">of the buyer's hand</transChange><note>Meaning derived from context; an alternative translation could be "shall not be released" (cf. NKJV, NRSV, ESV, NJPS) or "shall not revert" (NASB, NET)</note> in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his property. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="29">" 'And if a man sells {a residential house in a walled city},<note>Literally "a house of a dwelling of a city wall"</note> then<note>Or "and"</note> it shall be his redemption until completing {a year after his selling};<note>Literally "a year of his selling"</note> its redemption {shall last}<note>Literally "shall be"</note> {a year}.<note>Literally "days"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="30">But<note>Or "And"</note> if it is not redeemed {before a full year has passed},<note>Literally "until the fulfilling of for him/it an entire year"</note> then<note>Or "and"</note> the house that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {in the walled city}<note>Literally "in the city that for it a wall"</note> shall belong to the buyer in<note>Hebrew "for"</note> perpetuity throughout his generations; it shall not go out <transChange type="added">of the buyer's hand</transChange><note>Meaning derived from context; an alternative translation could be "shall not be released" (cf. NKJV, NRSV, ESV, NJPS) or "shall not revert" (NASB, NET)</note> in the Jubilee.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="31">However,<note>Or "And" or "But"</note> village houses that have no surrounding wall shall be considered {open country};<note>Literally "the field of the land"</note> <transChange type="added">there</transChange> is redemption for it, and in the Jubilee it shall go out <transChange type="added">of the buyer's hand</transChange>.<note>Meaning derived from context; an alternative translation could be "shall not be released" (cf. NKJV, NRSV, ESV, NJPS) or "shall not revert" (NASB, NET)</note> </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="32">" 'As for<note>Or "And"</note> the cities of the Levites, <transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, the houses in<note>Hebrew "of"</note> their property's cities, it shall be {a lasting redemption}<note>Or "a permanent redemption"; literally "redemption of eternity" or "redemption of long duration"</note> for the Levites.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="33">And whatever <transChange type="added">anyone</transChange> redeems from the Levites then<note>Or "and"</note> must go out <transChange type="added">of the buyer's hand</transChange><note>Meaning derived from context; an alternative translation could be "shall not be released" (cf. NKJV, NRSV, ESV, NJPS) or "shall not revert" (NASB, NET)</note> in the Jubilee, <transChange type="added">including</transChange> a house's selling {in his city's property},<note>Literally "the city of his property"</note> because the houses in<note>Hebrew "of"</note> the cities of the Levites <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their property in the midst of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="34">But<note>Or "And"</note> a<note>Hebrew "the"</note> field of their cities' pastureland must not be sold, because {it is their property for all time}.<note>Literally "a property of eternity it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for them" or "a property of long duration it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for them"</note> </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="35">" 'And if your<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> countryman<note>Or "brother"</note> becomes poor and {if he becomes dependent on you},<note>Literally "and his hand is shaky with you"</note> then<note>Or "and"</note> you shall support him <transChange type="added">like</transChange> an alien and <transChange type="added">like</transChange> a temporary resident, and he shall live with you.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="36">You<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> must not take interest or<note>Or "and"</note> usury from him, but<note>Or "and"</note> you shall revere your God, and your countryman<note>Or "brother"</note> shall live with you.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="37">You<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> must not give your money to him with interest or<note>Or "and"</note> give your food for<note>Or "in" or "with"</note> profit.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="38">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your<note>Plural throughout this verse</note> God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give {you}<note>Literally "to you"</note> the land of Canaan, to be as God for you. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="39">" 'And if your<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> countryman<note>Or "brother"</note> <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> with you becomes poor, and he is sold to you, {you shall not treat him as a slave}.<note>Literally "you shall not let him work <transChange type="added">the</transChange> work of a slave" or "you shall not enslave him <transChange type="added">the</transChange> work of a slave"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="40">He shall be with you like a hired worker, like a temporary resident; he shall work with you until the Year of Jubilee.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="41">And he and his sons with him shall go out from you, and he shall return to his clan, and to the property of his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> he shall return.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="42">Because they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they shall not be sold {as a slave}.<note>Literally "a selling of a slave"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="43">You<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> shall not rule over him with ruthlessness, but<note>Or "and"</note> you shall revere your God. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="44">" 'As for<note>Or "And"</note> your<note>Singular</note> slave and your<note>Singular</note> slave woman who are<note>Or "may be" (permission; cf. NASU, ESV, NRSV) or "can be" (ability)</note> yours,<note>Singular</note> from the nations that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> all around you,<note>Plural</note> from them you<note>Plural</note> may buy a slave or<note>Or "and"</note> a slave woman.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="45">And you<note>Plural throughout this verse</note> may buy also from the children<note>Or "sons"</note> of the temporary residents who are dwelling with you as aliens and from their clan who are with you, who have children in your land; indeed,<note>Or "and"</note> they may be as property for you.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="46">And you<note>Plural</note> may pass them on as an inheritance to your<note>Plural</note> sons<note>Or "children"</note> after you<note>Plural</note> to take possession of as property {for all time}<note>Literally "to eternity" or "forever" or "for a long duration"</note>--you<note>Plural</note> may let them work. But<note>Or "And"</note> <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> your<note>Plural</note> countrymen,<note>Or "brothers"</note> the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> you<note>Singular</note> shall not rule with ruthlessness over {one another}.<note>Literally "a man over his brother"</note> </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="47">" 'And if <transChange type="added">the</transChange> alien or<note>Or "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> temporary resident <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> with you<note>Singular throughout this verse</note> {prosper},<note>Literally "the hand produces"</note> but<note>Or "and"</note> your countryman<note>Or "brother"</note> <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> with him becomes poor and he is sold to an alien, a temporary resident <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> with you, or to a descendant of an alien's clan,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="48">after he is sold redemption shall be for him; one of his brothers may redeem him,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="49">or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or {one of}<note>Literally "from"</note> {his close relatives}<note>Literally "the direct relative of his flesh"</note> from his clan may redeem him; or <transChange type="added">if</transChange> {he prospers},<note>Literally "his hand produces"</note> he may redeem himself.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="50">And he shall calculate with his buyer from the year of {his selling himself}<note>Literally "his being sold for him"</note> until the Jubilee; and the value of his selling shall be according to the number of years--it shall be with him like<note>Or "as"</note> a hired worker's days.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="51">If <transChange type="added">there are</transChange> still many years, {in keeping with them}<note>Literally "to the mouth of them"</note> he shall restore his redemption {in proportion to his purchase price}.<note>Literally "from the price of his acquisition"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="52">And if <transChange type="added">there are</transChange> a few years left until the Year of Jubilee, then<note>Or "and"</note> he shall calculate for himself; he shall restore his redemption {according to the number of his years}.<note>Literally "according to the mouth of his years"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="53">He shall be with him {as a yearly hired worker};<note>Literally "as a hired worker of a year in a year"</note> he shall not rule over him with ruthlessness {in your<note>Singular</note> sight}.<note>Literally "to your eyes" or "for your eyes"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="54">And if he is not redeemed by<note>Or "in"</note> <transChange type="added">any of</transChange> these <transChange type="added">ways</transChange>,<note>Bracketed words provided from the sense of the context</note> then<note>Or "and"</note> he and his sons with him shall go out in the Year of Jubilee.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="55">Indeed,<note>Emphatic use of כִּי, since there is no indication of direct causation to only what precedes in vv. 47-54; or "Because"</note> the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> servants for me; they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your<note>Plural</note> God.'" </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="1">" 'You<note>Plural throughout the entire chapter</note> shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to<note>Or "to"</note> worship before it, because I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="2">" 'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="4">then<note>Or "and"</note> I will give you rains in their time, and the land shall give its produce, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="5">And for you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> threshing season shall overtake <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall overtake <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sowing, and you shall eat your food {to your fill}<note>Literally "to contentment"</note> and you shall live {securely}<note>Literally "with confidence"</note> in your land.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="6">And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and there shall not be {anybody who makes you afraid},<note>Literally "who makes afraid" or "making afraid"</note> and I will remove harmful animals from the land, and {no sword shall pass through your land}.<note>Literally "a sword shall not pass through in your land"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="7">And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword {before you}.<note>Literally "to your faces"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="8">And five of<note>Hebrew "from"</note> you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of<note>Hebrew "from"</note> you shall pursue a myriad;<note>Or "ten thousand"</note> and your enemies shall fall by the sword {before you}.<note>Literally "to your faces"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="9">And I will turn to you, and I will make you fruitful, and I will make you numerous; and I will keep my covenant with you.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="10">And you shall eat {old grain},<note>Literally "old what is stale"</note> and {you shall clear away the old before the new}.<note>Literally "old from the faces of new you shall bring out"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="11">And I will put my dwelling place in your midst, and my inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> shall not abhor you.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="12">And I will walk about in your midst, and I shall be your God,<note>Or "as a God for you"</note> and you shall be my people.<note>Or "as a people for me"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="13">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves; and I broke the bars of your yoke, and I caused you to walk erectly. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="14">" 'But<note>Or "And"</note> if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out<note>Or "you do not do" or "you do not observe" or "you do not perform"</note> all these commands,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="15">and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> abhors my regulations, to not carry out<note>Or "do" or "observe" or "perform"</note> all my commands <transChange type="added">by</transChange> your breaking my covenant,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="16">I {in turn}<note>Literally "also" or "indeed"</note> will do this to you: then<note>Or "and"</note> I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed {in vain},<note>Literally "for the emptiness"</note> and your enemies shall eat it.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="17">And I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> your enemies; and your haters shall rule over you, and you shall flee away, but<note>Or "and"</note> there shall not be {anybody who is pursuing}<note>Literally "who pursues" or "pursuing"</note> you. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="18">" 'And if in spite of these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> you do not listen to me, then<note>Or "and"</note> I will continue to discipline you seven times for your sins.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="19">And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron<note>Or "iron ore"</note> and your land like copper.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="20">And your strength shall be consumed {in vain};<note>Literally "to the emptiness"</note> and your land shall not give its produce, and the land's trees shall not give their fruit. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="21">" 'And if you go against me <transChange type="added">in</transChange> hostility and you are not willing to listen to me, then<note>Or "and"</note> I will add a plague onto you seven times according to your sins.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="22">And I will send {wild animals}<note>Literally "the animals of the field"</note> out among you, and they shall make you childless, and they shall cut down your domestic animals, and they shall make you fewer; and your roads shall be desolate. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="23">" 'And if you do not accept correction from<note>Hebrew "for" or "to"</note> me through these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, but<note>Or "and"</note> you go against me <transChange type="added">in</transChange> hostility,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="24">then<note>Or "and"</note> I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> will also go against you in hostility, and I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> also will strike you seven times for your sins.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="25">And I will bring upon you a sword that seeks vengeance <transChange type="added">for the</transChange> covenant, and you shall be gathered to your cities; and I will send a plague in your midst, and you shall be given into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of an enemy.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="26">At my breaking <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {supply}<note>Literally "staff"</note> of bread<note>Or "food"</note> for you, then<note>Or "and"</note> ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return your bread by weight; and you shall eat <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and you shall not be satisfied. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="27">" 'And if through this you do not listen to me and you go against me in hostility,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="28">then<note>Or "and"</note> I will go against you in hostile anger, and also<note>Or "surely"</note> I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> will discipline you seven times for your sins.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="29">And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="30">And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols' corpses; and my inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> shall abhor you.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="31">And I will lay your cities <transChange type="added">in</transChange> ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your <transChange type="added">sacrifices'</transChange><note>Implied by the use of the same phraseology in regard to the sacrifices in the early chapters of the book</note> appeasing fragrance.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="32">And I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="33">And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="34">Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its lying desolate, and you <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="35">All the days of its lying desolate it shall rest <transChange type="added">for the time</transChange><note>Implied by context</note> that it had not rested during your Sabbaths while you were living on it.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="36">As for<note>Or "And"</note> the ones who remain among you, I will bring<note>Or "and I will bring"</note> fearfulness in their hearts in the land of their enemies; and a sound of a windblown leaf shall pursue them, and they shall flee <transChange type="added">like</transChange> flight {before}<note>Literally "of"</note> a sword, and they shall fall, but<note>Or "and"</note> there shall not be a pursuer.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="37">And they shall stumble over {one another}<note>Literally "a man on his brother"</note> as {from before}<note>Literally "from the faces of"</note> a sword, but<note>Or "and"</note> there shall not be a pursuer; and {you shall have no resistance}<note>Literally "it shall not be for you resistance"</note> {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> your enemies.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="38">And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="39">And because of their guilt, the ones among you who remain shall decay in the land of their enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> they shall decay with them. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="40">" 'But<note>Or "And"</note> when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility--</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="41">I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> also<note>Or "surely"</note> went against them in hostility, and I brought them into the land of their enemies--or <transChange type="added">if</transChange> then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and then they pay for their guilt,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="42">I will remember<note>Or "and I will remember"</note> my covenant <transChange type="added">with</transChange> Jacob; and I will remember also my covenant <transChange type="added">with</transChange> Isaac and also my covenant <transChange type="added">with</transChange> Abraham, and I will remember the land.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="43">And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> must pay for their guilt, {simply because}<note>Literally "because and in because"</note> they rejected my regulations, and their inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> abhorred my statutes.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="44">And {in spite of}<note>Literally "also even" or "moreover also" or "moreover even"</note> this, {when they are}<note>Literally "in their being"</note> in the land of their enemies I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to destroy them, to break my covenant with them, because I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh their God.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="45">And I will remember <transChange type="added">the</transChange> first covenant for them<note>Or "on behalf of them" or "on their behalf"</note>--whom I brought out from the land of Egypt {in the sight of}<note>Literally "to the eyes of" or "for the eyes of"</note> the nations {to be their God}.<note>Literally "to be for them for God" or "to be for them as a God"</note> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh.'" </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="46">These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that Yahweh gave between himself and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> on {Mount Sinai}<note>Literally "the mountain of Sinai"</note> {through}<note>Literally "in/by the hand of"</note> Moses. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="2">"Speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say<note>Or "and you shall say"</note> to them, 'When a man makes a vow according to your<note>Singular when modifying "proper value" throughout the entire chapter</note> proper value <transChange type="added">of</transChange> persons to Yahweh,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="3">if<note>Or "and"</note> your proper value is <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a male<note>Hebrew "the male"</note> from {twenty years of age}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> up to<note>Or "and up to"</note> {sixty years of age},<note>Literally "a son of sixty years"</note> then<note>Or "and"</note> your proper value shall be fifty shekels <transChange type="added">of</transChange> money according to the sanctuary's shekel.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="4">But<note>Or "And"</note> if it <transChange type="added">is for</transChange> a female, then<note>Or "and"</note> your proper value shall be thirty shekels.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="5">And if from {five years of age}<note>Literally "a son of five years"</note> up to<note>Or "and up to"</note> {twenty years of age},<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> then<note>Or "and"</note> your proper value shall be twenty shekels <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the male and ten shekels for the female.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="6">And if from {a month of age}<note>Literally "a son of a month"</note> up to<note>Or "and up to"</note> {five years of age},<note>Literally "a son of five years"</note> then<note>Or "and"</note> your proper value shall be five shekels <transChange type="added">of</transChange> money <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the male, and your proper value for the female <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> three shekels <transChange type="added">of</transChange> money.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="7">And if from {sixty years of age}<note>Literally "a son of sixty years"</note> and above: if a male, then<note>Or "and"</note> your proper value shall be fifteen shekels; and for the female, ten shekels.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="8">But<note>Or "And"</note> if he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> poorer than your proper value, then<note>Or "and"</note> he shall present himself {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> the priest, and the priest shall set a value <transChange type="added">on</transChange> him; the priest shall value him {according to}<note>Literally "on a mouth of"</note> what the person who made a vow {can afford}.<note>Literally "his hand produces"</note> </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="9">" 'And if <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> a domestic animal from which they present an offering for Yahweh, all that he gives from it for Yahweh shall be a holy object.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="10">He shall not replace it, nor shall he exchange it, <transChange type="added">either</transChange> good with bad or bad with good; and if he indeed exchanges a domestic animal with a domestic animal, then<note>Or "and"</note> {it and its substitution shall be a holy object}.<note>Literally "it shall be and its substitution shall be holy"</note></verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="11">But<note>Or "And"</note> if <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> any unclean animal from which they may not present an offering for Yahweh, then<note>Or "and"</note> he shall present the animal {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> the priest.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="12">And the priest shall set a value on it, {either good or bad};<note>Literally "between good and between bad"</note> as the priest <transChange type="added">sets</transChange> your proper value, so it shall be.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="13">And if he indeed wants to redeem it, then<note>Or "and"</note> he shall add a fifth of it onto your proper value. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="14">" 'And if a man consecrates his house <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a holy object for Yahweh, then<note>Or "and"</note> the priest shall set a value on it, {either good or bad};<note>Literally "between good and between bad"</note> <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as the priest sets a value on it, so it shall remain.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="15">But<note>Or "And"</note> if the one who consecrates <transChange type="added">it</transChange> wants to redeem his house, then<note>Or "and"</note> he shall add a fifth of your proper value's money onto it, and it shall be his. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="16">" 'And if a man consecrates {some of}<note>Literally "from"</note> his property's fields<note>Collective singular; Hebrew "field"</note> for Yahweh, then<note>Or "and"</note> your proper value shall be {in accordance with its seed requirements}:<note>Literally "to the number of its seed"</note> a homer of barley seed for fifty shekels of money.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="17">If he consecrates his field from the Year of Jubilee, it shall stand as your proper value.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="18">But<note>Or "And"</note> if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, then<note>Or "and"</note> the priest shall calculate the money for him {according to the number of years}<note>Literally "on the mouth of the years"</note> that are left over until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your proper value.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="19">And if he indeed redeems the field that is consecrated, then<note>Or "and"</note> he shall add a fifth of your proper value's money onto it, and it shall stand for<note>Or "remain for" or "belong to"</note> him.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="20">And if he does not redeem the field and if he sells the field to another man, it may not be redeemed again,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="21">and the field shall be a holy object for Yahweh when it goes out<note>Or "is released" or "reverts"</note> in the Jubilee, like a devoted<note>Or "permanently set apart"; a different Hebrew word than previously translated "consecrated" in this chapter</note> field; {it shall be the priest's property}.<note>Literally "to/for the priest it shall be his property"</note> </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="22">" 'And if he consecrates for Yahweh his acquired<note>Or "purchased"</note> field that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not the field of his <transChange type="added">inherited</transChange> possession,</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="23">then<note>Or "and"</note> the priest shall calculate for him the {amount}<note>Literally "number"</note> of your proper value until the year of the Jubilee, and he shall give your proper value on that day <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a holy object for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="24">In the Year of the Jubilee the field shall return to the one who bought it from him, to the one whose property the land <transChange type="added">is</transChange>.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="25">And every proper value of yours shall be in the sanctuary's shekel--the shekel shall be twenty gerahs. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="26">" 'However, a man shall not consecrate a firstborn among livestock, which belongs as firstborn to Yahweh; whether an ox {or}<note>Literally "whether" or "if"</note> small livestock, it is for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="27">And if <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> among the unclean animals, then<note>Or "and"</note> he shall ransom <transChange type="added">it</transChange> according to your proper value, and he shall add a fifth of its <transChange type="added">value</transChange> onto it; and if it is not redeemed, then<note>Or "and"</note> it shall be sold according to your proper value.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="28">However, anything devoted<note>Or "permanently set apart"; a different Hebrew word than previously translated "consecrated" in this chapter</note> that a man has devoted to Yahweh {from all that he has},<note>Literally "from all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for him"</note> from human or<note>Or "and"</note> animal, or<note>Or "and"</note> from the field of his property, may not be sold, and it may not be redeemed; anything devoted <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {a most holy thing}<note>Literally "a holy thing of holy things"</note> for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="29">Anyone devoted who is devoted from {human beings}<note>Literally "the human"</note> cannot be ransomed--he shall surely be put to death. </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="30">" 'And any tithe of the land from the land's seed <transChange type="added">or</transChange> from the fruit of the trees <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for Yahweh; it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a holy object for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="31">And if a man indeed redeems from his tithe, he shall add a fifth of its <transChange type="added">value</transChange> onto it.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="32">As for<note>Or "And"</note> every tithe of cattle or<note>Or "and"</note> of the flock,<note>The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)</note> all which crosses under the rod, the tenth shall be a holy object for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="33">He shall not inspect between <transChange type="added">the</transChange> good and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bad, and he shall not exchange it; but<note>Or "and"</note> if he indeed exchanges it, then<note>Or "and"</note> {it and its substitution shall be}<note>Literally "it shall be and its substitution shall be"</note> a holy object--it shall not be redeemed.'" </verse>


book: Lev
content:
<verse num="34">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the commands that Yahweh commanded Moses for the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> on {Mount Sinai}.<note>Literally "the mountain of Sinai"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the tent of assembly, on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> first of the month, in the second year {after they came out}<note>Literally "of their coming out"</note> of the land of Egypt, saying,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"{Take a census of}<note>Literally "Lift up the head of"</note> the entire community of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> according to their clans and {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, every male individually</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">from {twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone in Israel who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war. You and Aaron must muster them<note>Or "count them," or "summon them," or "enroll them"</note> for their wars.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">A man from each tribe will be with you, each man the head of {his family}.<note>Literally "the house of his father"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">And these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the men who will {assist you}:<note>Literally "stand with you"</note> from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">From the descendants of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">and</transChange> from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the ones summoned from the community, the leaders of their ancestors'<note>Or "fathers'"</note> tribes; they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the heads of Israel's clans. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">and they summoned the entire community on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> first day of the second month. And they registered themselves among their clans according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above individually,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">just as Yahweh commanded Moses. And he counted them in the desert of Sinai. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, every male individually from {twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">those who were counted from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">From the descendants of Simeon, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> those who were counted according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of their names, every individual male from {twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">those who were counted from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">From the descendants of Gad, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">those who were counted from the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">From the descendants of Judah, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">those who were counted from the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">From the descendants of Issachar, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">those who were counted from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">From the descendants of Zebulun, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">those who were counted from the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">From the descendants of Joseph: from the descendants of Ephraim, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="33">those who were counted from the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="34">From the descendants of Manasseh, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="35">those who were counted from the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="36">From the descendants of Benjamin, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="37">those who were counted from the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="38">From the descendants of Dan, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="39">those who were counted from the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="40">From the descendants of Asher, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="41">those who were counted from the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="42">From the descendants of Naphtali, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "their fathers"</note> according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of names, from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="43">those who were counted from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="44">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the ones counted whom Moses and Aaron mustered,<note>Or "counted," or "summoned," or "enrolled"</note> with the twelve leaders of Israel, each one from {his family}.<note>Literally "the house of his fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="45">So all those who were counted from the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, everyone in Israel who <transChange type="added">is able</transChange> to go to war.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="46">All of the ones counted were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="47">The Levites from their ancestors'<note>Or "fathers'"</note> tribe were not mustered<note>Or "counted," or "summoned," or "enrolled"</note> in their midst. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="49">"You will not muster<note>Or "count," or "summon," or "enroll"</note> the tribe of Levi, and you will not {take a census of}<note>Literally "Lift up the head of"</note> them in the midst of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="50">You will {appoint}<note>Or "count," or "summon," or "enroll"</note> them over the tabernacle of the testimony,<note>Other modern translations read "tabernacle of the covenant"</note> over all its vessels, and over all that belongs to it. They will carry the tabernacle and all its vessels, and they will care for it; and they will camp around the tabernacle.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="51">And when the tabernacle is set out, the Levites will {take it down},<note>Literally "lower it"</note> and when encamping the tabernacle the Levites will set it up; the stranger<note>Or "outsider"</note> that approaches <transChange type="added">it</transChange> will be put to death.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="52">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> will encamp, each in their own camp, and each by their<note>Hebrew "his" or "its"</note> own banner according to their divisions.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="53">But the Levites will encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony,<note>Other modern translations read "tabernacle of the covenant"</note> and there will not be wrath on the community of the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and the Levites will keep the requirements of the tabernacle of the testimony."<note>Other modern translations read "tabernacle of the covenant"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="54">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did thus; they did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> will encamp each with his standard, with a banner according to {their families};<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> they will encamp around the tent of assembly.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">The ones who encamp on the eastern side, toward the sunrise, <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> of the standard of the camp of Judah according to their divisions; and the leader of the descendants of Judah <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Nahshon son of Amminadab,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">and his division and {the ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seventy-four thousand six hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">And the ones who encamp next to him <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> the tribe of Issachar. And the leader of the descendants of Issachar <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Nethanel son of Zuar,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">and his division <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fifty-four thousand four hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">For the tribe of Zebulun: the leader of the descendants of Zebulun <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Eliab son of Helon,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">and his division and the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of him," or "the ones mustered of him"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fifty-seven thousand four hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">All those counted from the camp of Judah <transChange type="added">are</transChange> one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. They will set out first according to their divisions. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">"The standard of the camp of Reuben <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> to the south according to their divisions. The leader of the descendants <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Elizur son of Shedeur.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">And his division and the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of him," or "the ones mustered of him"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> forty-six thousand five hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">Those encamped next to him <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> the tribe of Simeon. The leader of the descendants of Simeon <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">And his division and the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fifty-nine thousand three hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">For the tribe of Gad: the leader of the descendants of Gad <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Eliasaph son of Reuel.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">And his division and the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">All {those counted}<note>Or "those mustered"</note> from the camp of Reuben <transChange type="added">are</transChange> one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty. They will set out second according to their divisions. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">"The tent of assembly the camp of the Levites will set out in the midst of the camps; they will set out just as they encamped, {each according to their standards}.<note>Literally "each man on his hand according to their standards"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">"The standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> to the west. The leader of the descendants of Ephraim <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Elishama son of Ammihud.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">And his division and the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> forty thousand five hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">The tribe of Manasseh <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> next to him. The leader of the descendants of the tribe of Manasseh <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Camaliel son of Pedahzur.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">And his division and the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> thirty-two thousand two hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">For the tribe of Benjamin: the leader of the descendants of Benjamin <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Abidan son of Gideoni.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">And his division and the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> thirty-five thousand four hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">All {those counted}<note>Or "those mustered"</note> from the camp of Ephraim <transChange type="added">are</transChange> one hundred and eighty thousand one hundred. They will set out third according to their divisions. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">"The standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> to the west. The leader of the descendants of Dan <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">And his division and the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> sixty-two thousand seven hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">Those encamped next to him <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> the tribe of Asher. The leader of the descendants of Asher <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Pagiel son of Ocran.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">And his division and the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> forty-one thousand five hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">For the tribe of Naphtali: the leader of the descendants of Naphtali <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> Ahira son of Enan.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">And his division and the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fifty-three thousand four hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">All the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> from the camp of Dan <transChange type="added">are</transChange> one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They will set out {last}<note>Literally "from behind"</note> according to their divisions." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the ones counted of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> according to {their families};<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> all those counted from the camps according to their divisions <transChange type="added">were</transChange> six hundred and three thousand five hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="33">The Levites were not counted in the midst of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> just as Yahweh commanded Moses. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="34">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses. They encamped according to their standards, and they<note>Hebrew "each one," or "each man"</note> set out each one according to their clans<note>Hebrew "his clans"</note> among {their families}.<note>Literally "the house of his fathers"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the genealogies of Aaron and Moses {at the time}<note>Literally "on a day"</note> when Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the descendants of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, the anointed ones whom {he consecrated as priests}.<note>Literally "he filled their hands to serve as a priest"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">Nadab and Abihu died {before Yahweh}<note>Literally "before the face of Yahweh"</note> when they presented a strange fire {before Yahweh}<note>Literally "before the face of Yahweh"</note> in the desert of Sinai, and {they had no children}.<note>Literally "sons were not for them"</note> Eleazar and Ithamar served as priest during the presence of Aaron their father. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">"Bring near the tribe of Levi, and {set the tribe}<note>Literally "cause it to stand"</note> {before Aaron}<note>Literally "in the presence of Aaron"</note> the priest, and they will minister to him.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="7">They shall observe his duties and the duties of the entire community before the tent of assembly, to do the work of the tabernacle.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And they will keep all the vessels of the tent of assembly and the responsibilities of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> to do the work<note>Or "service"</note> of the tabernacle.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="9">You will give the Levites to Aaron and to his descendants; they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> surely assigned to him from among the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="10">But you will count Aaron and his descendants; they will keep their priesthood, and the stranger<note>Or "outsider"</note> who approaches will be put to death." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">"I <transChange type="added">myself</transChange> receive the Levites from the midst of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> in the place of all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> offspring of the womb from the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> The Levites will be mine</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">because all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn <transChange type="added">are</transChange> mine; on the day of my killing all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for myself all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn in Israel, {both humankind and animal};<note>Literally "from humankind to animal"</note> they will be mine. I am Yahweh." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">"Muster<note>Or "count," or "summon," or "enroll"</note> the descendants of Levi according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> according to their clans. You will count every male from {one month}<note>Literally "the son of a month"</note> and above."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">So Moses mustered<note>Or "counted," or "summoned," or "enrolled"</note> them according to the {command of Yahweh},<note>Literally "mouth of Yahweh"</note> just as he commanded.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="17">These were the sons of Levi according to their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">And these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the sons of Gershon according to their clans: Libni and Shimei.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And the sons of Kohath according to their clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">The sons of Merari according to their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the clans of the Levites according to {their families}.<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="21">{To Gershon belonged}<note>Literally "To Gershon was"</note> the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the clans of the Gershonites.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="22">The {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> according to the number of every male from {one month}<note>Literally "the son of a month and above"</note> and above <transChange type="added">were</transChange> seven thousand five hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">and the leader of {the family}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> house of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> father"</note> of the Gershonites is Eliasaph son of Lael.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">And the responsibility of the descendants of Gershon in the tent of assembly <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the tabernacle, and the tent covering it and the curtain of the doorway of the tent of the assembly,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="26">and the hangings of the courtyard and the curtain of the doorway of the courtyard that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> around the tabernacle and the altar, and its ten cords, all of its use. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="27">{To Kohath belonged}<note>Literally "For Kohath <transChange type="added">was</transChange>"</note> the clan of Amramites,<note>Hebrew "Amramite"</note> the clan of the Izharites,<note>Hebrew "Izharite"</note> the clan of the Hebronites,<note>Hebrew "Hebronite"</note> and the clan <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the Uzzielites;<note>Hebrew "Uzzielite"</note> these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of the Kohathites.<note>Hebrew "Kohathite"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="28">According to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of every male from {one month}<note>Literally "the son of a month"</note> and above <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> eight thousand six hundred keeping the responsibility of the sanctuary.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="29">The clan of the descendants of Kohath will encamp on the side of the tabernacle to the south.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="30">The leader of {his family}<note>Literally "the house of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> father"</note> according to the clans of the Kohathites<note>Hebrew "Kohathite"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="31">Their responsibility <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altar, and the vessels of the sanctuary, with which they ministered, and the curtain, and all of its use.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="32">The {chief of the leaders}<note>Literally "the leader of leaders"</note> of the Levites<note>Hebrew "Levite"</note> was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest <transChange type="added">who had</transChange> oversight of those keeping the responsibility of the sanctuary. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="33">{To Merari belonged}<note>Literally "for Merari <transChange type="added">was</transChange>"</note> the clan of Mahlites<note>Hebrew "Mahlite"</note> and the clan of the Mushites:<note>Hebrew "Mushite"</note> these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the clans of Merari.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="34">The {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> according to the number of every male from {one month}<note>Literally "the son of a month"</note> and above <transChange type="added">were</transChange> six thousand two hundred.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="35"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> leader of {the family}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> house of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> father"</note> according to the clans of Merari <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Zuriel son of Abihail; they will encamp of the side of the tabernacle to the north.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="36">The responsibility of the sons of Merari <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the supervision of the frames of the tabernacle, its bars, pillars, bases, and all its vessels and all its service,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="38">Those encamped before the tabernacle to the east--before the tent of assembly to the east--<transChange type="added">were</transChange> Moses and Aaron and his sons; they will keep the responsibility of the sanctuary {for the Israelites};<note>Literally "for the responsibility of the children of Israel"</note> and the stranger<note>Or "outsider"</note> who approaches will be put to death.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="39">All those counted from the Levites whom Moses and Aaron mustered<note>Or "counted," or "summoned," or "enrolled"</note> according to {the word of Yahweh},<note>Literally "the mouth of Yahweh"</note> according to their clans, every male from {one month}<note>Literally "the son of a month"</note> and above <transChange type="added">were</transChange> twenty-two thousand. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="40">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Muster every firstborn male from the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from {one month}<note>Literally "the son of a month"</note> and above and {count}<note>Literally "and lift up the number of"</note> their names.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="41">And you will receive the Levites for me--I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh--in the place of all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn among the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and the animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> of the Levites in the place of all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn among the animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> among the {Israelites}."<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="42">So Moses mustered<note>Or "counted" or "summoned" or "enrolled"</note> all the firstborn among the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> just as Yahweh commanded him.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="43">And all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn males<note>Hebrew "male"</note> among the number of names from {one month}<note>Literally "the son of a month"</note> and above, the {ones counted},<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="45">"Receive the Levites in the place of all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn among the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and the animals of the Levites in the place of their animals; the Levites will be mine. I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="46">And the ransom of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> who are excessive over the Levites,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="47">you will receive five shekels a person, in the sanctuary shekel; you will collect twenty gerahs<note>Hebrew "gerah"</note> <transChange type="added">per</transChange> shekel.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="48">You will give the money to Aaron, and to his sons the ransom of the ones who are excessive among them."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="49">And Moses received the money of the redemption from the ones who were excessive from those redeemed of the Levites.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="50">From the firstborn of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> he took the money, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, in the sanctuary shekel.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="51">And Moses gave the money of the ransom to Aaron and to his sons according to the {word}<note>Literally "mouth"</note> of Yahweh just as Yahweh commanded Moses. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"{Take a census}<note>Literally "and lift up the number of"</note> of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Kohath from the midst of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Levi, according to their clans and {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="3">from {thirty years old}<note>Literally "a son of thirty years"</note> and above, up to {fifty years old},<note>Literally "a son of fifty years"</note> everyone who comes to the service to do the work in the tent of assembly.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the work of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Kohath in the tent of assembly, concerning the holiness of the sanctuary:</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="5">When setting out the camp, Aaron and his sons will go and lower the curtain of the covering and cover with it the ark of the testimony.<note>Or "the ark of the covenant"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="6">They will put on it a covering of {fine leather},<note>Literally "the hide of a sea cow"</note> and they will spread a cloth of perfect blue over it, and they will place its poles.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="7">And over the table of the presence they will spread <transChange type="added">out</transChange> a blue cloth and put on it the plates, dishes, and libation bowls, and the pitchers of the libation; and the bread of continuity will be on it.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="8">They will spread over it a scarlet cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of {fine leather},<note>Literally "the hide of a sea cow"</note> and they will place its poles.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="9">They will take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand for the light source, its lamps, a pair of its tongs, its small pans, and all the vessels of its oil with which they attend to it.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="10">They will put it and all its vessels inside a covering of {fine leather}<note>Literally "the hide of a sea cow"</note> and put it on the carrying frame.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="11">Over the altar of gold they will spread a blue cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of {fine leather}<note>Literally "the hide of a sea cow"</note> and place its poles.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="12">They will take all the vessels of the cultic service with which they serve in the sanctuary and put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> on a blue cloth, and they will cover them with a covering of {fine leather};<note>Literally "the hide of a sea cow"</note> and they will put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> on the carrying frame.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="13">They will remove the fat-soaked ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it;</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="14">they will put on it all the vessels with which they serve, the fire pans, forks, shovels, and bowls--all the vessels of the altar. They will spread on it a covering of {fine leather};<note>Literally "the hide of a sea cow"</note> and they will place its poles.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="15">And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the vessels of the sanctuary when the camp sets out, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Kohath will come after to carry <transChange type="added">these</transChange>, but they must not touch the sanctuary, or they will die. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the load of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Kohath in the tent of assembly. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="16">"Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is to supervise the oil of the light source, the incense, {the regular grain offering},<note>Literally "the grain offering of continuity"</note> the oil of anointment, the supervision of all the tabernacle and all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in it, in the sanctuary and in its vessels." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">"You must not cut off the tribe of the clan of the Kohathites<note>Hebrew "Kohathite"</note> from the midst of the Levites.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="19">Do this to them and they will live and not die when they come near the most holy things. Aaron and his sons will go and appoint them, each one to his task and burden.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="20">But they must not go and look {for a moment}<note>Literally "as devouring"</note> at the holy objects." </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="22">"{Take a census}<note>Literally "And lift up the number of"</note> of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gershon also, according to {their families}<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> and clans,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="23">from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above until {fifty years old};<note>Literally "a son of fifty years"</note> you will muster<note>Or "count," or "summon," or "enroll"</note> them, all who come to help to do the work of the tent of assembly.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="24">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the work of the clans of the Gershonites:<note>Hebrew "Gershonite"</note> to serve and to carry.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">They will carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of assembly <transChange type="added">and</transChange> its covering and the covering of {fine leather},<note>Literally "the hide of a sea cow"</note> which {is on top of it},<note>Literally "is above upon it"</note> and the curtain of the doorway of the tent of assembly,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="26">and the curtains of the courtyard, and the covering for the doorway of the gate of the courtyard, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> all around on the tabernacle and altar, and their cords and all the vessels of their work; and all that is done to them they will do.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="27">And all the work of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of the Gershonites<note>Hebrew "Gershonite"</note> will be at {the command}<note>Literally "the mouth"</note> of Aaron and his sons, for all they <transChange type="added">are to</transChange> carry and for all their work, and you will appoint to them responsibility for all they <transChange type="added">are to</transChange> carry.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the work of the clan of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of the Gershonites<note>Hebrew "Gershonite"</note> in the tent of assembly, and their responsibility <transChange type="added">lies</transChange> {under the direction}<note>Literally "in the hand"</note> of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">"<transChange type="added">For</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Merari according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> you will muster<note>Or "count," or "summon," or "enroll"</note> them;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">from {those thirty years old}<note>Literally "a son of thirty years"</note> and above until {fifty years old};<note>Literally "a son of fifty years"</note> you will muster<note>Or "count," or "summon," or "enroll"</note> them, all who come to do the work of the tent of assembly.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">And this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the responsibility of {those who are to carry},<note>Literally "them carrying"</note> all their work in the tent of assembly: the frames of the tabernacle and its bars, pillars, and bases,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">and the pillars of the courtyard all around, and their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their vessels and for all their work. You will appoint by name the vessels that they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> responsible to carry.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="33">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the work of the clan of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Merari, for all their work in the tent of assembly {under the direction}<note>Literally "in the hand"</note> of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="34">And Moses and Aaron mustered the leaders of the community according to the house of {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="35">from {those thirty years old}<note>Literally "a son of thirty years"</note> and above until {fifty years old};<note>Literally "a son of fifty years"</note> everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="36">the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="37">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> those counted of the clans of the Kohathites,<note>Hebrew "Kohathite"</note> everyone who served in the tent of assembly whom Moses and Aaron mustered<note>Or "counted," or "summoned," or "enrolled"</note> according to {the command}<note>Literally "the mouth"</note> of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.<note>Or "through Moses"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="38">And the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gershon counted according to their clans and according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="39">from {those thirty years old}<note>Literally "a son of thirty years"</note> and above until {fifty years old},<note>Literally "a son of fifty years"</note> everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="40">the {ones counted},<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> were two thousand six hundred and thirty.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="41">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> those counted of the clans of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gershon, everyone who serves in the tent of assembly whom Moses and Aaron mustered<note>Or "counted," or "summoned," or "enrolled"</note> according to {the command}<note>Literally "the mouth"</note> of Yahweh. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="42">Those counted of the clans of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Merari according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="43">from {those thirty years old}<note>Literally "thirty years and above"</note> and above until {fifty years old},<note>Literally "a son of fifty years"</note> everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="44">the {ones counted},<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> according to their clans, were three thousand two hundred.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="45">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> those counted of the clans of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron mustered<note>Or "counted," or "summoned," or "enrolled"</note> according to {the command}<note>Literally "the mouth"</note> of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.<note>Or "through Moses"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="46">All those counted of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron and all the leaders of Israel mustered<note>Or "counted," or "summoned," or "enrolled"</note> according to their clans, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="47">from {those thirty years old}<note>Literally "a son of thirty years"</note> and above until {fifty years old},<note>Literally "a son of fifty years"</note> everyone who comes to the service to do <transChange type="added">the</transChange> work of the service carrying in the tent of assembly,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="48">the {ones counted}<note>Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"</note> were eighty thousand five hundred and eighty.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="49">According to {the command}<note>Literally "the mouth"</note> of Yahweh by the hand of Moses<note>Or "through Moses"</note> {they were mustered},<note>Hebrew "he mustered"</note> each man according to his service and according to their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> service and according to their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> burden; and so they were counted by him just as Yahweh commanded Moses. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Command the {Israelites}:<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> they must send everyone from the camp who is afflicted with a rash,<note>The precise meaning is uncertain; many modern translations suggest "leprosy"</note> everyone with a fluid discharge, and everyone unclean through <transChange type="added">contact with</transChange> a corpse.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">You will send away {both male and female};<note>Literally "from male until female"</note> you will send them {outside the camp}.<note>Literally "to an outside place of the camp"</note> They must not make unclean their camps where I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> dwelling in their midst."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">So the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did so. They sent them away {outside the camp};<note>Literally "to an outside place of the camp"</note> just as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">"Speak to the {Israelites}:<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> 'When a man or woman {commits}<note>Literally "does"</note> any of the sins of humankind by acting unfaithfully, <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> a sin against Yahweh, and that person will be guilty;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">they will confess their sin that they did and will make restitution <transChange type="added">for</transChange> their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> guilt by adding a fifth {to it}<note>Literally "on top of it"</note> and giving <transChange type="added">it</transChange> {to whomever was wronged}.<note>Literally "to whomever he was guilty"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">But if the man does not have a redeemer to make restitution to him for the reparation, the reparation is to be given to Yahweh for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">And every contribution of all the holy objects of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> that they bring to the priest for him will be his.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">The holy objects of a man will be for him;<note>That is, the priest</note> whatever he gives to the priest will be for him.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">"Speak to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say to them, 'If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully to him,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">and a man sleeps with her and ejaculates and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is concealed, although she is defiled, and there is no witness against her and she was not caught,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="14">if a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his wife and she is defiled; or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his wife but she is not defiled,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">he will bring his wife to the priest. And he will bring her offering for her, one-tenth of an ephah of flour. He will not pour oil on it, and he will not put frankincense on it because <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembering,<note>Or "memorial"</note> a reminding of guilt. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">" 'Then the priest will bring her near and present her {before}<note>Literally "before the face of"</note> Yahweh;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">the priest will take holy waters in a clay vessel, and from the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and the priest will put <transChange type="added">it</transChange> into the waters.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">And the priest will present the woman {before}<note>Literally "before the face of"</note> Yahweh, and he will uncover the head of the woman; he will then put in her hands the grain offering of the remembering--<transChange type="added">which is</transChange> the grain offering of jealousy--and in the hand of the priest will be the waters of bitterness that brings a curse.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">Then the priest will make her swear an oath, and he will say to the woman, "If a man has not slept with you, and if you have not had an impurity affair under your husband, go unpunished from the waters of bitterness that brings this curse.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">But if you have had an affair under your husband, and if you are defiled and a man other than your husband had intercourse with you,"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">the priest will make the woman swear an oath of the sworn oath of the curse, the priest will say to the woman, "May Yahweh give you a curse and a sworn oath in the midst of your people with Yahweh making<note>Hebrew "giving"</note> your hip fall away<note>Or "waste away"</note> and your stomach swollen;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">and these waters that bring a curse will go into your intestines to cause <transChange type="added">your</transChange> womb to swell and to make <transChange type="added">your</transChange> hip fall away."<note>Or "waste away"</note> And the women will say, "Amen. Amen." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">" 'And the priests will write these curses on the scroll, and he will wipe <transChange type="added">them</transChange> off into the waters of the bitterness.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">He will make the woman drink the waters of the bitterness that brings<note>Hebrew "bring"</note> a curse, and the waters of bitterness that bring a curse will go into her.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">The priest will take the grain offering of jealousy from the hand of the woman, and he will wave the grain offering {before Yahweh},<note>Literally "before the face of Yahweh"</note> and he will present it to the altar;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">the priest will grasp her memorial offering from the grain offering, and he will turn <transChange type="added">it</transChange> into smoke <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the altar, and afterward he will make the woman drink the waters.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">When he has made her drink the waters, it will come about, if she has defiled herself and acted unfaithfully to her husband and the waters of bitterness that bring a curse go into her and her stomach swells and her hip falls away,<note>Or "wastes away"</note> the woman will be as a curse in the midst of her people.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">And if the woman is not defiled, and she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> pure, she will go unpunished and be able to conceive children. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">" 'This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the regulation of jealousy, when a woman has an affair under her husband and she is defiled,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his wife, he will present the woman {before Yahweh},<note>Literally "before the face of"</note>and the priest will do to her all of this law.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">The man will go unpunished from guilt, and the woman, she will bear her guilt.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Speak to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say to them, 'When a man or a woman takes a special vow, a vow of a {Nazirite},<note>Literally "one separated"</note> to keep separate for Yahweh,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">he will abstain from wine and fermented drink; he will not drink wine vinegar or vinegar of fermented drink; he will not drink the fruit juice of grapes or eat fresh or dry grapes.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">All the days of his separation<note>That is, "the Nazirite"</note> you will not eat from anything that is made from the grapevine, from sour grapes to the skin <transChange type="added">of grapes</transChange>. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">" 'All the days of the vow of his separation a razor will not pass over his head. Until fulfilling the days that he separated himself to Yahweh he will be holy and grow long the locks of the hair of his head. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">" 'All the days of keeping himself separated for Yahweh he will not go to a person who is dead;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">for even his father, mother, brother, or sister he will not make himself unclean {by their death},<note>Literally "with their dying"</note> because the separation to his God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on his head.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">He will be holy for Yahweh all the days of his separation.<note>That is, "the Nazirite"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">" 'If someone dies suddenly and makes the head of his separation<note>That is, "the Nazirite"</note> unclean, he will shave off <transChange type="added">the hair of</transChange> his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he will shave it off.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">On the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves or two {young pigeons}<note>Literally "the sons of doves"</note> to the priest by the doorway of the tent of assembly,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">and the priest will offer one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering, and he will make atonement for him because he sinned concerning the corpse. He will consecrate his head on that day.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">He will rededicate to Yahweh the days of his separation<note>That is, "the Nazirite"</note> and bring a ram-lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "a son of his year"</note> as a guilt offering. The former days <transChange type="added">of his vow</transChange> will fall away because his separation was defiled. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">" 'This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the regulation of the Nazirite for the day of the fulfilling of the days of his separation: one will bring him to the doorway of the tent of the assembly.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">He will present his offering to Yahweh, one ram-lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "a son of his year"</note> without defect as a burnt offering, and one ewe-lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "a daughter of his year"</note> without defect as a sin offering, and one ram without defect as a fellowship offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">and a basket of unleavened bread, finely milled flour of ring-shaped bread cakes mixed with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their libations.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">The priest will present {before Yahweh}<note>Or "before the face of Yahweh"</note> and offer his sin offering, his burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">he will offer a ram as a sacrifice of a fellowship offering to Yahweh, in addition to the basket of the unleavened bread; the priest will offer his grain offering and his libation.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">The Nazirite will shave off <transChange type="added">the hair of</transChange> {his consecrated head}<note>Literally "the head of his separation"</note> <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the doorway of the tent of assembly, and he will take the hair of {his consecrated head},<note>Literally "the head of his separation"</note> and he will put <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on the fire that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> beneath the sacrifice of the fellowship offering.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">The priest will take the shoulder from the ram that is boiled, and one ring-shaped bread cake of unleavened bread from the basket, and one wafer of unleavened bread, and he will put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved {his consecrated head}.<note>Literally "his separation"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">The priest will wave them <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a wave offering {before the presence of}<note>Literally "before the face of"</note> Yahweh; they<note>Hebrew "it"</note> are a holy object to the priest, in addition to the breast section of the wave offering, and in addition to the upper thigh of the contribution; and afterward the Nazirite may drink wine. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">" 'This is the regulation of the Nazirite who has made a vow of his offering to Yahweh according to his separation, {in addition to what he can afford}.<note>Literally "except from that which overtakes his hand"</note> In accordance to the word of his vow that he vowed, he will do, concerning the instruction of his separation.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">"Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, 'You will bless the {Israelites}:<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> You will say to them: </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">And they will put my name on the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and I will bless them." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle and appointed and consecrated it and all its vessels, and the altar and its vessels, and he appointed them and consecrated them,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">the leaders of Israel, the heads of {the families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> presented an offering; they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the leaders of the tribes and <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the ones in charge of the counting.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">They brought their offering before the presence of<note>Or "before the face of"</note> Yahweh, six covered utility carts and twelve cattle, a utility cart for two of the leaders, and a bull for each; and they presented them {before}<note>Literally "before the face of"</note> the tabernacle.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">"{Take them},<note>Literally "Take from them"</note> and they will be <transChange type="added">used</transChange> to do the work of the tent of the assembly; and you will give them to the Levites, each {according to his required service}."<note>Literally "according to the mouth of his work"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">So Moses took the utility carts and the cattle, and he gave them to the Levites.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">Two utility carts and four cattle he gave to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gershon {according to their required service};<note>Literally "according to the mouth of their work"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">and four utility carts and eight cattle he gave to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Merari {according to their required service},<note>Literally "according to the mouth of their work"</note> {under the authority of}<note>Literally "in the hand of"</note> Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">But to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Kohath he did not give <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> because the work of the sanctuary they carried upon them on their shoulders.<note>Hebrew "the shoulder"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">The leaders presented offerings for the dedication of the altar on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of its anointing, and the leaders presented their offerings {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> the altar.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">Yahweh said to Moses, "{One leader for each day}<note>Literally "One leader for the day one leader for the day"</note> will present their offering for the dedication of the altar." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">And it happened, the one who presented his offering on the first day <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">His offering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one plate of silver--its weight was one hundred and thirty shekels--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">{one young bull},<note>Literally "one bull, a son of a cattle"</note> one ram, one male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">and as a sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {a year old}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented an offering.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">He presented <transChange type="added">as</transChange> his offering one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl for drinking wine <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels<note>Hebrew "shekel"</note> according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">One dish weighing ten shekels filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">one {young }<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> five male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">On the third day Eliab son of Helon, leader of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Zebulun:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">his offering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl for drinking wine <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels<note>Hebrew "shekel"</note> according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">{one golden dish weighing ten shekels}<note>Literally "one dish of ten gold"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">one {young}<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> five male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Eliab son of Helon. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, leader of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">his offering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl for drinking <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels<note>Hebrew "shekel"</note> according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">{one golden dish weighing ten shekels}<note>Literally "one dish of ten gold"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="33">one {young}<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="35">and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> five male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="36">On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, leader of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Simeon:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="37">his offering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl for drinking <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels<note>Hebrew "shekel"</note> according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="38">{one golden dish weighing ten shekels}<note>Literally "one dish of ten gold"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="39">one {young}<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="41">and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> five male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="42">On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, leader of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="43">his offering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl for drinking <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels<note>Hebrew "shekel"</note> according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="44">{one golden dish weighing ten shekels}<note>Literally "one dish of ten gold"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="45">one {young}<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="47">and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> five male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="48">On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, leader of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ephraim:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="49">his offering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl for drinking <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels<note>Hebrew "shekel"</note> according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="50">{one golden dish weighing ten shekels}<note>Literally "one dish of ten gold"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="51">one {young}<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="53">and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> five male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="54">On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, leader of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Manasseh:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="55">his offering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl for drinking <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="56">{one golden dish weighing ten shekels}<note>Literally "one dish of ten gold"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="57">one {young}<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="59">and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> five male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="60">On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, leader of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Benjamin:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="61">his offering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl for drinking <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels<note>Hebrew "shekel"</note> according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="62">{one golden dish weighing ten shekels}<note>Literally "one dish of ten gold"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="63">one {young}<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="65">and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> five male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="66">On the tenth day Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, leader of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Dan:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="67">his offering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl for drinking <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels<note>Hebrew "shekel"</note> according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="68">{one golden dish weighing ten shekels}<note>Literally "one dish of ten gold"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="69">one {young}<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="71">and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> five male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="72">On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, leader of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asher:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="73">his offering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl for drinking <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels<note>Hebrew "shekel"</note> according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="74">{one golden dish weighing ten shekels}<note>Literally "one dish of ten gold"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="75">one {young}<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="77">and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> five male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="78">On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, leader of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Naphtali:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="79">his offering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>--<transChange type="added">and</transChange> one silver bowl for drinking <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> seventy shekels<note>Hebrew "shekel"</note> according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="80">{one golden dish weighing ten shekels}<note>Literally "one dish of ten gold"</note> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="81">one {young}<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}<note>Literally "the son of its year"</note> as a burnt offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="83">and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> five male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the offering of Ahira son of Enan. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="84">This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the dedication of the altar on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of anointing it, from the leaders of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver bowls for drinking wine, twelve golden dishes;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="85">each plate of silver <transChange type="added">weighed</transChange> one hundred and thirty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>, and each bowl for drinking seventy, all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>, according to the sanctuary shekel;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="86">the twelve golden dishes filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> incense, each dish <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> ten shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, all the gold of the dishes one hundred and twenty;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="87">all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs {in their first year},<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> and their grain offering; and twelve he-goats as a sin offering;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="88">and all the cattle of the sacrifice of the fellowship offering twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty he-goats, sixty male lambs {in their first year}.<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the dedication of the altar after its anointing. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="89">And when Moses came to the tent of assembly to speak with him,<note>That is, Yahweh</note> he would hear the voice speaking to him from the atonement cover,<note>Some modern translations have "mercy seat" (see, for example, the NRSV, NASB)</note> which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, and he would speak to him. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Speak to Aaron, and say to him: 'When you are setting up the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the face of the lampstand.'"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">And Aaron did so; he set up the lampstand in front of the face of its lamps, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">And this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {how the lampstand was made},<note>Literally "the work of the lampstand"</note> a hammered-work of gold; from its base up to its blossom,<note>Or "flower"</note> it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> hammered-work according to the pattern that Yahweh showed Moses; so he made the lampstand. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">"Take the Levites from the midst of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and purify them.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">So you will do to them, to purify them: sprinkle on them waters of purification, and {they will shave their whole body}<note>Literally "they will send a razor on all their body"</note> and wash their garments.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">And they will take a {young bull}<note>Literally "a bull, a son of cattle"</note> and its grain offering of finely milled flour mixed with oil, and you will take a second {young bull}<note>Literally "a bull, a son of cattle"</note> as a sin offering.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">You will bring the Levites {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> the tent of assembly, and you will summon the entire community of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">And you will bring the Levites {before Yahweh},<note>Literally "in the presence of Yahweh"</note> and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> will lay their hands on the Levites,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">and {Aaron will offer}<note>Literally "Aaron will wave"</note> the Levites <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a wave offering {before Yahweh}<note>Literally "in the presence of Yahweh"</note> from the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and they will do the work of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">And the Levites will lay their hands on the head of the one bull and offer <transChange type="added">it</transChange> as a sin offering and the other one as a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">And you will present the Levites {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Aaron and {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> his sons, and he {will offer}<note>Literally "Aaron will wave"</note> them <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a wave offering to Yahweh. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">"And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and the Levites will be for me.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">And after this the Levites will come to serve <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you {will offer}<note>Literally "Aaron will wave"</note> them <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a wave offering.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">For they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> given to me exclusively from the midst of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> I have taken them for myself in place of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn of every womb, every firstborn from the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">For every firstborn among the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mine, both humankind and animal. On the day I destroyed every firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to me,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">and I have taken the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">And I have given the Levites; they are given to Aaron and his sons from the midst of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> to do the work of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> in the tent of the assembly and to make atonement for the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> so a plague will not be among the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> when the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> come near the sanctuary." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">And Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did to the Levites; everything that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did to them.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their garments, and {Aaron offered them}<note>Literally "Aaron waved them"</note> <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a wave offering {before Yahweh};<note>Literally "in the presence of Yahweh"</note> and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">After this the Levites came to do their work in the tent of assembly before Aaron and his sons. Just as Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levities, so they did to them. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">"This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> what is for the Levites: {those twenty-five years old}<note>Literally "from a son of twenty-five years"</note> and above will<note>Hebrew "and he will"</note> come to help <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> service in the work of the tent of assembly;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">and {those fifty years old}<note>Literally "from a son of fifty years"</note> will<note>Hebrew "he will"</note> return from the service of the work and will serve no longer.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">They<note>Hebrew "he"</note> can attend<note>Or "assist"</note> their brothers in the tent of assembly to keep <transChange type="added">their</transChange> responsibilities, but they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> will not do work. This is what you will do concerning the Levities and their responsibilities." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the second year after they came out from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Let the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> observe the Passover at its appointed time.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">On the fourteenth day of this month {at twilight}<note>Literally "between the two evenings"</note> you will perform it at its appointed time according to all its decrees; and according to all its stipulations you will observe it."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">So Moses spoke to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> to observe the Passover.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month {at twilight}<note>Literally "between the two evenings"</note> in the desert of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, thus the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">And it happened, men who were unclean {by a dead person}<note>Literally "by a life of a person"</note> were not able to perform the Passover on that day. And they came {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Moses and Aaron on that day.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">And those men said to him, "<transChange type="added">Although</transChange> we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> unclean {by a dead person},<note>Literally "by a life of a person"</note> why are we hindered from presenting the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time in the midst of the {Israelites}?"<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">"Speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> saying, 'Each man that is unclean {by a dead person}<note>Literally "by a life of a person"</note> or <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on a far journey, you or your {descendants},<note>Literally "generations"</note> he will observe the Passover of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">On the second month on the fourteenth day {at twilight}<note>Literally "between the two evenings"</note> they will observe it; they will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter plants.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">They will leave none of it until morning, and they will not break a bone in it; they will observe it according to every decree of the Passover.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">But the man who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> clean and not on a journey, and he fails to observe the Passover, that person will be cut off from the people because he did not present the offering of Yahweh on its appointed time. That man will bear his guilt.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">If an alien dwells with you he will observe the Passover of Yahweh according <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the decree of the Passover and according <transChange type="added">to</transChange> its stipulation; thus you will have one decree for you, for the alien and for the native of the land.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">And on a day setting up the tabernacle, the cloud covered the tent of the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; in the evening it was on the tabernacle as an appearance of fire until morning.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">So it was<note>Hebrew "it will be"</note> continually; the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">Whenever</transChange> the cloud lifted up from on the tent, after that the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> would set out, and in the place where the cloud dwelled, there the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> camped.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">On the {command of Yahweh}<note>Literally "mouth of Yahweh"</note> the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> would set out, and on the {command of Yahweh}<note>Literally "mouth of Yahweh"</note> they encamped; all the days that the cloud dwelled on the tabernacle they encamped.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">And when the cloud prolonged on the tabernacle many days the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> kept the kept requirement of Yahweh and did not set out.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">When the cloud {remained}<note>Literally "it was there"</note> a number of days on the tabernacle, on the {command of Yahweh}<note>Literally "mouth of Yahweh"</note> they encamped; and on the {command of Yahweh}<note>Literally "mouth of Yahweh"</note> they set out.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">When the cloud {remained}<note>Literally "it was there"</note> from evening until morning, and the cloud lifted up in the morning, they would set out, or <transChange type="added">if it remained</transChange> in the daytime and <transChange type="added">at</transChange> night, <transChange type="added">when</transChange> the cloud lifted up they set out.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">When <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> two days, a month, {or a year}<note>Literally "or days"</note> that the cloud prolonged to dwell on the tabernacle, the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> encamped, and they did not set out; when it lifted up they set out.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">On the {command of Yahweh}<note>Literally "mouth of Yahweh"</note> they encamped, and on the {command of Yahweh}<note>Literally "mouth of Yahweh"</note> they set out. They kept the requirement of Yahweh, on the {command of Yahweh}<note>Literally "mouth of Yahweh"</note> in the hand of Moses.<note>Or "through Moses"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Make yourself two silver trumpets; make them <transChange type="added">of</transChange> hammered-work. {You will use them}<note>Literally "They will be for you"</note> for calling the community and for breaking the camp.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">You will blow them, and all the community will assemble to the doorway of the tent of assembly.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">But if they blow only one, the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, will assemble to you.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">When</transChange> you will blow a blast, the camps that are camping on the east will set out;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">when</transChange> you blow a second blast, the camps that are camping on the south will set out; they will blow a blast for their journeys.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">But when summoning the assembly, you will blow, but you will not signal with a loud noise.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow on the trumpets; this will be an eternal decree for your generations.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">If you go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> war in your land against the enemy who attacks you, you will signal with a loud noise on the trumpets. You will be remembered {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh your God, and you will be rescued from your enemies. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">"And on the day of your joy and in your appointed times, at the beginning of your months, you will blow on the trumpets in addition to your burnt offerings and in addition to the sacrifices of your fellowship offerings. And they will be as a memorial for you {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> your God; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">And it happened, in the second year, in the second month, on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twentieth of the month the cloud was lifted from upon the tabernacle of the testimony.<note>Some modern translations (e.g., the NRSV) have "tabernacle of the covenant"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> set out for their journey<note>Hebrew "journeys"</note> from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud dwelled in the desert of Paran.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">They set out {for the first time}<note>Literally "in the beginning"</note> on the command of Yahweh in the hand of Moses.<note>Or "through Moses"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">The standard of the camp of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah set out for the first time according to their divisions, with Nahshon son of Amminadab over its division.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">And Nathanel son of Zuar <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the division of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Issachar;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">Eliab son of Helon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the division of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Zebulun. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">The tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, the bearers of the tabernacle, set out.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">And the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions; Elizur son of Shedeur <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over their division.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the division of the sons of the tribe of Simeon.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">Eliasaph son of Deuel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the division of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">The Kohathites, the bearers of the sanctuary, set out, and they set up the tabernacle before they arrived.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">And the stand of the camp of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ephraim set out according to their divisions; Elishama son of Ammihud <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over its division.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">Gamaliel son of Pedahzur <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the division of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Manasseh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">Abidan son of Gideoni <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the division of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Benjamin. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">Then the standard of the camp of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Dan, who formed a rear guard for all the camps, set out according to their divisions; Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over its division.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">Pagiel son of Ocran <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the division of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asher.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">Ahira son of Enan <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the division of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Naphtali.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the departures of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> according to their divisions; and so they set out. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Moses, "We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> setting out to the place that Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you'; go with us, and we will {treat you well}<note>Literally "do good to you"</note> because {Yahweh promised}<note>Literally "Yahweh spoke"</note> good concerning Israel."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">But he said to him, "I will not go. I will only go to my land and to my family."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">He<note>That is, Moses</note> said, "Please, do not abandon us because you know our encampment in the desert, and {you should be our guide}.<note>Literally "you should be our eyes"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">Moreover, if you go with us, the good that Yahweh will do to us we will do to you." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="33">And so they set out from the mountain of Yahweh a journey of three days, with the ark of the covenant of Yahweh setting out ahead of them<note>Or "before them"</note> three days' journey to search out a resting place for them;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="34">and the cloud of Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over them by day when they set out from the camp. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="36">And when it rested he would say, "Return, Yahweh, to the countless thousands of Israel."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">And it happened, the people were like those who {complain of hardship}<note>Literally "complain of bad"</note> {in the hearing}<note>Literally "in the ears"</note> of Yahweh, and Yahweh {became angry},<note>Literally "his nose became hot"</note> and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and it consumed the edge of the camp.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire died down.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">And he called the name of that place Taberah<note>This word is difficult, but some modern translations suggest the word in Hebrew means "burning" (see NRSV, NASB)</note> because the fire of Yahweh burned among them. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">The riff-raff that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in their midst {had a strong desire};<note>Literally "desired a desire"</note> and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> turned back and also wept, and they said, "Who will feed us meat?</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumber, melon, leek, the onions, and the garlic.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">But now {our strength is dried up};<note>Literally "our life <transChange type="added">is</transChange> dry"</note> there is nothing whatsoever except {for the manna before us}."<note>Literally "for the manna of our eyes"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">Now the manna <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like coriander seed, and its outward appearance was like that of bdellium-gum.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">The people went about and gathered <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and they ground <transChange type="added">it</transChange> with mills or crushed <transChange type="added">it</transChange> with mortar. Then they boiled <transChange type="added">it</transChange> in a pot and made it <transChange type="added">into</transChange> bread-cakes; and it tasted like olive oil cakes.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">When the dew came down on the camp <transChange type="added">at</transChange> night, the manna came down <transChange type="added">with</transChange> it. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">Moses heard the people weeping according to their<note>Hebrew "its"</note> clans, each at the doorway of their tents. Then {Yahweh became very angry},<note>Literally "the nose of Yahweh became very hot"</note> and in the eyes of Moses it was bad.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">And Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you brought trouble to your servant? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that the burdens of all these people have been placed on me?</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them,<note>Hebrew "him/it"</note> that you could say to me, 'Carry them<note>Hebrew "him/it"</note> in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?'<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">From where do I have meat to give all these people? They weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat and let us eat!'</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">I am not able to carry all these people along alone; they are too heavy for me.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">If this is how you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy men from the elders of Israel whom you know <transChange type="added">are</transChange> elders of the people and their<note>Hebrew "his/its"</note> officials; take them to the tent of assembly, and they will stand there with you.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="17">I will come down and speak with you there; I will take away from the spirit that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on you, and I will place <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on them; and they will bear the burdens of the people with you; you will not bear it alone.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="18">And you will say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves tomorrow, for you will eat meat because you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will feed us good meat? <transChange type="added">It was</transChange> good for us in Egypt." Yahweh will give to you meat, and you will eat.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">You will eat, not one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">{but for a whole month},<note>Literally "until a period of one month"</note> until it comes out from your nose and becomes as nausea to you; because you have rejected Yahweh, who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your midst, and you wept before {his presence},<note>Literally "before his face"</note> saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?" '"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">But Moses said, "<transChange type="added">There are</transChange> six hundred thousand on foot, among whom I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> in the midst, and you yourself said, 'I will give meat to them, and they will eat for a whole month.'</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">Should flocks and cattle be slaughtered for them? Should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be enough for them?"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">And Yahweh said to Moses, "{Is Yahweh's power limited}?<note>Literally "Is Yahweh's hand short?"</note> Now you will see if my word will happen or not." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">So Moses went out, and he spoke the words of Yahweh to the people, and he gathered <transChange type="added">together</transChange> seventy men from the elders of the people, and he {made them stand}<note>Literally "caused them to stand"</note> all around the tent.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="25">Then Yahweh went down in the cloud and spoke to him, and he took away the spirit that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on him, and he {put it}<note>Or "gave it"</note> on the seventy elders. And as soon as the spirit was resting on them they prophesied, but they did not do it again. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="26">But two men were left in the camp; the name of one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Eldad, and the name of the second <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those who were written <transChange type="added">down</transChange>, but they did not go out to the tent, so they prophesied in the camp.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="27">So a boy<note>Hebrew "the boy"</note> ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad <transChange type="added">are</transChange> prophesying in the camp."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from time of his youth, answered, "Moses, my lord, stop them."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that he<note>That is, Yahweh</note> give all Yahweh's people prophets, that Yahweh put his spirit on them!"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">Then a wind set out from Yahweh, and it drove quails from the west, and he spread <transChange type="added">them</transChange> out on the camp about a day's journey on one side and about a day's journey on the other, all around the camp, about two cubits on the surface of the land.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">And so the people {worked}<note>Literally "arose"</note> all day and all night and all the next day, and they gathered the quail (the least of the ones collecting gathered ten homers).<note>HALOT 330, "a dry measure"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="33">While the meat <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still between their teeth, before it was consumed, Yahweh was angry with the people, and Yahweh struck a very great plague among the people.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="34">And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah<note>Hebrew "the graves of greediness"</note> because they buried the people that {were greedy}.<note>Literally "craved"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="35">From Kibroth Hattaavah<note>Hebrew "the graves of greediness"</note> the people set out <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Hazeroth; and they stayed<note>Hebrew "they were"</note> in Hazeroth. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="1">And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he took (because he took a Cushite wife);</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="2">and they said, "Has Yahweh spoken only through Moses? Has not Yahweh also spoken through us?" And Yahweh heard it.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="3">Now the man, Moses, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> more humble than any other person on the face of the earth,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="4">and Yahweh said suddenly to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, "Go out, you three, to the tent of assembly." So the three of them when out.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">And Yahweh went down in a column of cloud and stood <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the doorway of the tent, and he called Aaron and Miriam, and the two of them went,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="7">Not so with my servant Moses; in all my house he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> faithful.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="8">I will speak to him mouth to mouth, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> clearness, not in riddles; and he will look at the form of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="9">{And Yahweh became very angry}<note>Literally "And the nose of Yahweh became hot"</note> with them, and he went <transChange type="added">away</transChange>.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="10">And the cloud departed from on the tent, and behold, Miriam <transChange type="added">was</transChange> infected with {a skin disease}<note>The precise meaning is uncertain; many modern translations suggest "leprosy"</note> white like snow; when Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, <transChange type="added">she was</transChange> afflicted with a skin disease.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">So Aaron said to Moses, "Please, my lord, please do not put on us <transChange type="added">this</transChange> sin <transChange type="added">in</transChange> which we were foolish and <transChange type="added">in</transChange> which we have sinned.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="12">Please do not let her be like the dead, whose flesh is half consumed when coming out from the womb of its mother."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">And Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "God, {please heal her}!"<note>Literally "Please heal please her"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="14">But Yahweh said to Moses, "<transChange type="added">If</transChange> her father had surely spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be confined for seven days to an outside place of the camp, and afterward she may be gathered."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="15">So Miriam was confined to the outside place of the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was gathered.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="16">And afterward the people set out from Hazeroth, and they encamped in the desert of Paran. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Send for yourself men, and let them explore the land of Canaan, which I <transChange type="added">am about</transChange> to give to the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> {from each tribe of his father send one man},<note>Literally "one man one man from the tribe of his father"</note> everyone a leader among them."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="3">So Moses sent them from the desert of Paran on the command of Yahweh; all of the men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {leaders}<note>Literally "heads"</note> of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="4">And these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="16">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun Joshua. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="17">Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan, and he said to them, "Go up <transChange type="added">like</transChange> this to the Negev,<note>An arid region south of the Judean hills</note> and go up into the hill country,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="18">and you will see what the land is <transChange type="added">like</transChange> and if the people who inhabit it <transChange type="added">are</transChange> strong or weak, or whether they are few or many,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="19">and whether the land that they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> inhabiting <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good or bad, and whether the cities they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> inhabiting are camps or fortifications,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="20">and whether the land <transChange type="added">is</transChange> fertile or lean, and whether there are trees on it or not. You will show yourself courageous, and you will take some of the fruit of the land." It <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the time of first ripe grapes. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="21">So they went up and explored the land from the desert of Zin until Rehob, at Lebo Hamath.<note>Or "near Hamath"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="22">They went up through the Negev<note>An arid region south of the Judean hills</note> and came to Hebron, where<note>Hebrew "and there"</note> Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai the descendants of the Anakites <transChange type="added">were</transChange>. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Egypt.)</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="23">And they came up to the valley<note>Or "wadi"</note> of Eshcol, and they cut off a vine branch and one cluster of grapes from there; they carried it on <transChange type="added">a</transChange> pole between two <transChange type="added">men</transChange>, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> pomegranates and figs.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="24">That place he called the valley<note>Or "wadi"</note> of Eshcol on account of the cluster of grapes that the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> cut off from there. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">They returned from exploring the land at the end of forty days.<note>Hebrew "day"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">And they came<note>Hebrew "they went and came"</note> to Moses and Aaron and to the entire community of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> in the desert of Paran at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> all the community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">And they told him,<note>Hebrew "they told him and said"</note> "We came to the land that you sent us, and it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> flowing of milk and honey; this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> its fruit.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">Yet the people who are inhabiting <transChange type="added">it are</transChange> strong and the cities <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of the Anakites there.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> Amalekites <transChange type="added">are</transChange> living in the land of the Negev;<note>An arid region south of the Judean hills</note> the Hittites, Jebusites, and the Amorites <transChange type="added">are</transChange> living in the hill country; and the Canaanites <transChange type="added">are</transChange> living at the sea and on the banks of the Jordan." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">And Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "Surely, let us go up and let us take possession of it because surely we will be able to prevail over it."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">And the men who went up with him said, "We are not able to go up to the people because they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> stronger than us."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="32">And they presented the report of the land that they explored to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> saying, "The land that we went through to explore <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a land that eats its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in its midst <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {men of great size}.<note>Literally "men of measurements"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="33">There we saw the Nephilim (the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Anak <transChange type="added">came</transChange> from the Nephilim), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their eyes." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">Then all the community {lifted up their voices},<note>Hebrew "they lifted up and gave their voice"</note> and the people wept during that night.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">And all the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and all the community said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt or in this desert!</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">Why did Yahweh bring us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little children will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt?"</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="4">{They said to each other},<note>Literally "A man said to his brother"</note> "Let us appoint a leader, and we will return <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> the assembly of the community of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, from the explorers <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the land, tore their garments.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">And they said to all the community of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> "The land that we went through to explore <transChange type="added">is</transChange> an {exceptionally good land}.<note>Literally "the land is very very good"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="8">If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and he will give it to us, a land that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> flowing <transChange type="added">with</transChange> milk and honey.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">Only do not rebel against Yahweh, and you will not fear the people of the land, because they will be our food. {Their protection}<note>Literally "Their shadow"</note> has been turned from them; Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with us. You should not fear them."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">And all the community said to stone them with stones, but the glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of assembly among the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">And Yahweh said to Moses, "How long until this people will despise me, and how long until they will not believe in me, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> in all the signs that I have done in their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> midst?</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">I will strike them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> with disease, and I will dispossess them;<note>Hebrew "him"</note> I will make you into a greater and stronger nation than them."<note>Hebrew "him"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">And Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear that you brought up this people from their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> midst in your power,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">and they will {tell it}<note>Literally "say"</note> to the inhabitants of this land. They heard that you, Yahweh, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the midst of this people, that you are seen eye to eye, and your cloud <transChange type="added">is</transChange> standing over them, and in a column of cloud you go before them by day and in a column of fire <transChange type="added">at</transChange> night.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">But if you destroy this people {all at once},<note>Literally "as one man"</note> the nations that will have heard your message will say,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">'Yahweh was unable to bring this people in the land that he swore by an oath, and he slaughtered them in the desert.'</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">'Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {slow to anger}<note>Literally "slow of noses"</note> and great of loyal love, {forgiving}<note>Literally "lifting up"</note> sin and rebellion; but surely he leaves nothing unpunished, visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generations.'</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">Please forgive the sin of this people according to the greatness of your loyal love, just as you {forgave}<note>Literally "lifted up"</note> this people, from Egypt until now." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">Yahweh said, "I have forgiven <transChange type="added">them</transChange> according to your word;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">but as I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> alive, the glory of Yahweh will fill all the earth.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">they will not see the land that I swore by oath to their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and all those who despised me will not see it.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">But my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, he remained true after me, and I will bring him into the land that {he entered},<note>Or "he went to"</note> and his offspring will take possession of it.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">And the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; tomorrow turn and set out <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the desert <transChange type="added">by</transChange> way of the {Red Sea}."<note>Literally "sea of reed"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">"How long <transChange type="added">will I bear</transChange> this evil community who are grumbling against me? I have heard the grumbling of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> which {they are making}<note>Literally "they are grumbling"</note> against me.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">Say to them, 'Surely as I live,' {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'just as you spoke {in my hearing},<note>Literally "in my ears"</note> so I will do to you;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">in this desert your corpses will fall, and all your counted ones, according to all your number, from {twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above who grumbled against me.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">You <transChange type="added">yourselves</transChange> will not come into the land that {I swore by oath}<note>Literally "I lifted up my hand"</note> to make you to dwell in it, but Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="33">And your children will be shepherds in the desert forty years,<note>Hebrew "year"</note> and you will bear your unfaithfulness until {all your corpses have fallen}<note>Literally "until to complete your corpses"</note> in the desert.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="34">According to the number of the days<note>Hebrew "day"</note> that you explored the land, forty days,<note>Hebrew "day"</note> {a day for each year},<note>Literally "a day for a year a day for a year"</note> you will bear your sins forty years,<note>Hebrew "year"</note> and you will know my opposition.'</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="35">I, Yahweh, have spoken; I will surely do this to all this evil community who has banded together against me. In this desert they will come to an end, and there they will die." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="36">As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made the community grumble against him by spreading a report over the land,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="37">the men who spread the evil report of the land died by the plague {before Yahweh}.<note>Literally "in the presence of Yahweh"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="38">But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh lived from <transChange type="added">among</transChange> the men who went to explore the land. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="39">And Moses spoke words to all the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and the people mourned greatly.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="40">They rose early in the morning and went to the top of the mount, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that Yahweh said, because we have sinned."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="41">But Moses said, "Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you going against the command of Yahweh? It will not succeed.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="42">You should not go up because Yahweh is not in your midst; do not let yourselves be defeated in the presence of your enemies,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="43">because the Amalekites<note>Hebrew "Amalekite"</note> and the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> there {before you},<note>Literally "in your presence"</note> and you will fall by the sword; because you have turned <transChange type="added">back</transChange> from Yahweh, and Yahweh will not be with you."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="44">But they dared to go to the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and Moses did not depart from the midst of the camp.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="45">So the Amalekites<note>Hebrew "Amalekite"</note> and the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> who were living on the mountain descended, and they beat them down, up to Hormah. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Speak to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say to them, 'When you come into the land of your dwellings that I <transChange type="added">am about</transChange> to give to you,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">you will make an offering by fire for Yahweh from the cattle or from the flock, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a freewill offering or at your feasts, to make a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">And the one who presents an offering<note>Hebrew "his offering"</note> for Yahweh, he will present a grain offering <transChange type="added">of</transChange> finely milled flour; a tenth will be mixed with a fourth of the liquid measure <transChange type="added">of</transChange> oil;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">and you will add a fourth of wine for the libation upon the burnt offering, or to the sacrifice for each ram-lamb.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">Or for the ram you will make a grain offering <transChange type="added">of</transChange> two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed into a third of a liquid measure of oil.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">You will present a third of the liquid measure of wine for the libation, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">When you prepare {a bull}<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> as a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or <transChange type="added">a</transChange> fellowship offering for Yahweh,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">you will present with {the bull}<note>Literally "the son of the cattle"</note> a grain offering of three-tenths <transChange type="added">of</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with half a liquid measure of oil,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">and you will present half a liquid measure of wine as a libation, as an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">" 'This is how it should be done for each bull, or for the each ram, or for the small four-footed mammal, or ram-lambs, or goats.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">According to the number that you prepare, so should you do to each according to their number.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">Every native must do these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to present an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">If an alien dwells among you, or whoever <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your midst throughout your generations,<note>Hebrew "for your generations"</note> and prepares an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, he should do as you do.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">For</transChange> the assembly, there will be one decree for you and for the alien who dwells <transChange type="added">among you</transChange>; <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> an eternal decree for <transChange type="added">all</transChange> your generations. {You as well as the alien}<note>Literally "like you like the alien"</note> will be {before Yahweh}.<note>Literally "in the presence of Yahweh"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">There will be one law and one stipulation for you and for the alien dwelling among you.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">"Speak to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say to them, 'When you come into the land to which I <transChange type="added">am about</transChange> to bring you,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="19">whenever you eat from the food of the land, you will lift up a contribution to Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">You must lift up a contribution of the first <transChange type="added">batch</transChange> of your ring-shaped dough bread; you must lift it up as a contribution of the threshing floor.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">You will give to Yahweh a contribution from the first of your dough throughout your generations.<note>Hebrew "for your generations"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">" 'But if you go astray and you do not follow<note>Or "do"</note> all these commandments that Yahweh commanded to Moses,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">all that Yahweh commanded you by the hand of Moses<note>Or "through Moses"</note> from the day that Yahweh commanded and beyond, throughout your generations,<note>Hebrew "for your generations"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="24">and if it was done unintentionally {without the knowledge}<note>Literally "from the eyes"</note> of the community, then the entire community must prepare one {young bull}<note>Literally "a bull a son of cattle"</note> as a burnt offering, as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, and its grain offering and its libation, according to the stipulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">The priest will make atonement for all of the community of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and {they will be forgiven}<note>Literally "it will be forgiven to them"</note> because it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> unintentional; they will bring their offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, their sin offering {before Yahweh}<note>Literally "in the presence of Yahweh"</note> for their unintentional sin.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">All of the community of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> will be forgiven, as well as the alien that dwells in their midst, because the whole community <transChange type="added">was involved</transChange> in the unintentional wrong. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">" 'If one person sins unintentionally, that person will present a female goat {in its first year}<note>Literally "a daughter of a year"</note> as a sin offering.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">And the priest will make atonement for the person who {sinned unintentionally}<note>Literally "sinned unintentionally when sinning an unintentional wrong"</note> {before Yahweh},<note>Literally "in the presence of Yahweh"</note> to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29"><transChange type="added">For</transChange> the native among the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and the alien that dwells in their midst, there will be one law for anyone who commits an unintentional wrong.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="30">But the one {who acts presumptuously}<note>Literally "who acts with a high hand"</note> from among the native or alien blasphemes against Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from the midst of the people.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">Because he despised the word of Yahweh and broke his command, that person will be surely cut off and bear the guilt.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">When the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> were in the desert, they found a man who was gathering wood on the day of the Sabbath.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="33">The ones who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and to all the community.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="34">And they put him under watch because it was not made clear what should be done to him.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="35">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Surely the man must be put to death by stoning him; all the community <transChange type="added">must stone him</transChange> with stones from outside the camp."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="36">So the entire community brought him out to a place outside the camp, and {they stoned him to death}<note>Literally "they stoned him with stones and he died"</note> just as Yahweh commanded Moses. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="38">"Speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and tell them to make for themselves tassels<note>Hebrew "tassel"</note> on the hems of their garments throughout their generations<note>Hebrew "for their generations"</note> and to put a blue cord on the tassel of the hem.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="39">You will have a tassel {for you to look at}<note>Literally "and you will look at it"</note> and remember all the commands of Yahweh and do them, and not follow {after the unfaithfulness of your own heart and eyes},<note>Literally "after your heart and after your eyes, which you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> unfaithful after them"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="40">so that you will remember and do all my commandments, and you will be holy for your God.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="41">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God." </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="1">Now Korah son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="2">took two hundred and fifty men from the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> leaders of the community summoned from the assembly, {renowned men},<note>Literally "men of name"</note> and {they confronted}<note>Literally "they rose up before"</note> Moses.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="3">They were assembled in front of Moses and Aaron, and they said to them, "{You take too much upon yourselves}!<note>Literally "It is much for you"</note> All of the community is holy, every one of them, and Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in their midst, so why do you raise yourselves over the assembly of Yahweh?" </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="4">When Moses heard <transChange type="added">this</transChange>, he fell on his face.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="5">And he said to Korah and to his entire company, saying, "<transChange type="added">Tomorrow</transChange> morning Yahweh will make known who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his and <transChange type="added">who</transChange> is holy, and he will bring him near to him, whomever he chooses he will bring near to him.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="6">Do this: take for yourselves censers, Korah and all of your company;<note>Hebrew "his company"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="7">tomorrow put fire in them and place incense on them {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh; the man whom Yahweh chooses <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> the holy <transChange type="added">one</transChange>. You take too much upon yourselves, sons of Levi!" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> too little for you that the God of Israel set you apart from the community of Israel {to allow you to approach him}<note>Literally "to bring you near to him"</note> to do the work of the tabernacle of Yahweh, to stand {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> the community to serve them?</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="10">{He has allowed you to approach him},<note>Literally "He has brought you near"</note> you with all your brothers, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Levi, but yet you also seek the priesthood.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="11">Therefore you and your company that has banded together against Yahweh. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?" </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="12">Moses sent to call <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Dathan and Abiram son of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come!<note>Hebrew "We will not come up!"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="13">Is it too little that you have brought us from a land that flows with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, and that you also appoint yourself as a ruler over us?</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="14">Surely, you have not brought us to a land that flows with milk and honey, and you have not given us the inheritance of fields and a vineyard. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come!"<note>Hebrew "We will not come up!"</note> </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="15">Then Moses became angry, and he said to Yahweh, "Do not notice their grain offering. I have not offered one donkey from them, and I have not mistreated one of them."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">And Moses said to Korah, "You and your entire company will be {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh tomorrow, you and they and Aaron.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">Each one take his censer, and put incense on it<note>Hebrew "on them"</note> and you will present it {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh, and each of you bring his censer, two hundred and fifty censers, you and Aaron, each his censer."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="18">So each of them took his censer, and they put fire on them, and they placed incense on them; they stood <transChange type="added">at the</transChange> doorway of the tent of the assembly of Moses and Aaron.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="19">And Korah summoned them, the entire community, by the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the community. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="21">"Separate yourselves from the midst of this community, that I can destroy them in a moment."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="22">And they fell on their faces, and they said, "God, God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and you become angry toward the entire community?" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">"Speak to the community, saying, 'Move away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">So Moses stood up and went to Dathan and Abiram; the elders of Israel followed after him.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="26">He said to the community, saying, "Please turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything {that belongs to them},<note>Literally "that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to them"</note> or you will be destroyed with all their sins."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">And so they moved away from around the dwellings<note>Hebrew "dwelling"</note> of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out standing <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the doorway of their tents, with their wives, sons, and little children.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">And Moses said, "In this you will know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> not from my heart.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">{If they die a natural death}<note>Literally "If they die like the death of every human"</note> or {if a natural fate is visited upon them},<note>Literally "If the fate of every human is visited upon them"</note> Yahweh has not sent me.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">But if Yahweh creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up and {all that belongs to them},<note>Literally "All that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for them"</note> and they go down alive <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Sheol, and you will know that these men have despised Yahweh." </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="31">And it happened, as soon as he finished {speaking}<note>Literally "to speak"</note> all these words, the ground that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> under them split open.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">The land opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their houses and every person {that belonged to Korah}<note>Literally "that was to Korah"</note> and all the property.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="33">They went down alive <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Sheol, they and all that belonged to them, and the land covered over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="34">All Israel who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> around them fled at their cry, because they said, "Lest the land swallow us up!"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="35">And fire went out from Yahweh, and it consumed the two hundred and fifty men presenting the incense. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="36"><note>Numbers 16:36-17:13 in the English Bible is 17:1-28 in the Hebrew Bible</note> And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="37">"Say to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, '{Take out}<note>Literally "raise up"</note> the censers from among the place of burning because they are sacred, and scatter the fire outside.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="38">The censers of these {who have sinned}<note>Literally "sinners"</note> at the cost of their lives, let them be made into gilded leafing plating for the altar; because they presented them {before Yahweh},<note>Literally "in the presence of Yahweh"</note> they are holy; and they will be a sign for the {Israelites}.'"<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="39">Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that the ones who were burned presented, and they hammered them out thinly <transChange type="added">as</transChange> plating for the altar;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="40"><transChange type="added">it was</transChange> a memorial for the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> so that {no strange man}<note>NASB translates "no layman"</note> who is not from {the offspring}<note>Literally "the seed"</note> of Aaron should approach the presence <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Yahweh to burn a smoke offering;<note>That is, an incense offering</note> he will not be like Korah and his company, just as Yahweh had spoken to him by the hand of Moses.<note>Or "through Moses"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="41">The next day all the community of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of Yahweh!"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="42">Then, when the community had gathered against Moses and Aaron, they turned to the tent of assembly, and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="45">"Get away from the midst of this community, and I will finish them in an instant,"<note>Or "in a moment"</note> but they fell on their faces.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="46">And Moses and Aaron said, "Take the censer, and put fire on it from the altar. Place incense <transChange type="added">on it</transChange>, and bring it quickly to the community, and make atonement for them, because wrath went out from the presence of Yahweh, and a plague has begun."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="47">And so Aaron took <transChange type="added">it</transChange> just as Moses had spoken, and he ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people; so he gave the incense and made atonement for the people.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="48">He stood between the dead and between the living, and the plague was stopped.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="49">Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on account of Korah.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="50">Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the plague was stopped. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and take from among them twelve staffs, {a staff from each family}<note>Literally "a staff from a house of a father"</note> from among all their leaders according to their families' households. Write the name of each man on his staff,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">and the name of Aaron on the staff of Levi, because one staff <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for the head of <transChange type="added">each of</transChange> {their families}.<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">You must then put them in the tent of assembly {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> the testimony<note>Or "the statute"</note> where I meet with you.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">And it will happen, the man whom I will choose, his staff will blossom, and so I will rid from upon myself the grumblings of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> grumbling against you."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">Moses spoke to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and all their leaders gave him a staff for each leader, one from {each of their families},<note>Literally "each from the house of their fathers"</note> twelve staffs, and the staff of Aaron <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the midst of their tribes.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">Then the next day, Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed and put forth a flower and produced blossoms, and it produced almonds.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">Then Moses brought out to all the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> all the staffs before the presence of Yahweh, and they saw, and each man took his staff.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Bring back the staff of Aaron before the testimony<note>Or "the statute"</note> as a guard and sign for the children of rebellion, and let them finish their grumblings before me and not die."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> said to Moses, saying, "Look! We will die! We will be destroyed! All of us will perish!</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">Anyone who approaches the tabernacle of Yahweh will die. {Will we all die}?"<note>Literally "Will we all die to perish?"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">Yahweh said to Aaron, "You, your sons, and your family with you will bear the guilt of the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you will bear the guilt of your priesthood.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">Moreover, bring your brothers with you, the tribe of Levi the tribe of your father, that they may be joined to you and minister <transChange type="added">to</transChange> you, you and your sons with you before the tent of testimony.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">They will keep your responsibility and the responsibility of all the tent, only they may not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, so both you and they will not die.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">They will be joined to you, and they will keep the responsibility of the tent of assembly for the entire service of the tent; a stranger may not come near you.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">You will keep the responsibility of the sanctuary and the responsibility of the altar, and there will no longer be wrath on the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">Look, I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from the midst of the children. They are a gift to you given from Yahweh to perform the work of the tent of assembly.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">But you with your sons will keep your priesthood to perform your priestly duties for everything at the altar<note>Or "for all the things of the altar"</note> and for {the area behind the curtain}.<note>Literally "the house of the curtain"</note> I give you the priesthood as a gift, but the stranger who approaches will be put to death." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">Yahweh spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I myself have given to you the responsibility of my contributions for all the holy objects of the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> I have given them as a portion to you and your sons as an eternal decree.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">This will be for you from the sanctuary of the holy things from the fire; all of their offerings, from every grain offering, from every sin offering, and from every guilt offering which they will bring to me <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {a most holy thing}<note>Literally "a holy object of holiness"</note> for you and your sons.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">You will eat it in the most holy place;<note>Alternatively "as a holy object of holiness"</note> every male will eat it. It will be a holy object to you.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">This <transChange type="added">is also</transChange> for you: the contribution of their gift of the wave offerings of the children Israel. I have given them to you and your sons and your daughters with you as an eternal decree; whoever <transChange type="added">is</transChange> clean in your house may eat it.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">All <transChange type="added">the</transChange> finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and their best grain that they have given to Yahweh, I have given them to you.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> firstfruits of all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in their land that they present to Yahweh will be for you; whoever <transChange type="added">is</transChange> clean in your house may eat it.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">All consecrated possessions<note>Hebrew "possession"</note> in Israel will be for you.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">All <transChange type="added">the</transChange> first offspring of a womb of any creature that they offer to Yahweh, whether human or animal, will be yours; you will surely redeem the firstborn of the human and the unclean firstborn of the animal.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">As to their price of redemption, from {a one-month-old}<note>Literally "a son of a month"</note> you will redeem them according to your proper value, five shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> twenty gerah.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">Only the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat you will not redeem; they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> holy. Their blood you will sprinkle over the altar, and their fat you will turn into smoke <transChange type="added">as</transChange> an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">But their flesh will be for you like the breast section of the wave offering, and it will be for you like the right upper thigh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">All the contributions of holiness that the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> offer to Yahweh I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you as an eternal decree; it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> an eternal covenant of salt {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh to you and your offspring with you."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">Then Yahweh said to Aaron, "You will not receive an inheritance in their land, and there will not be a plot of ground for you in the midst of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">"Behold, I have given to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Levi every tithe in Israel as an inheritance in return for their service, which they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> doing, the work of the tent of assembly.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> will not come near again to the tent of assembly, or {they will bear sin}<note>The NRSV translates "they will incur guilt"</note> and die.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">The Levites<note>Hebrew "Levite"</note> will perform the service of the tent of assembly, and they will bear their guilt, an eternal decree for all your generations. But they will not receive an inheritance in the midst of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">because the tithes<note>Hebrew "tithe"</note> of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> that are {offered}<note>Hebrew "raised up"</note> to Yahweh as a contribution, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I said to them, 'They will not receive an inheritance in the midst of the {Israelites}.'"<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">"You will speak to the Levites and say to them, 'When you receive the tithe from the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> that I have given to you from them for your inheritance, {you will present}<note>Literally "you will raise up"</note> a contribution from it to Yahweh, a tithe from a tithe.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">Your contribution will be credited to you like the grain from the threshing floor and like the produce from the press.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">So {you will present}<note>Literally "you will raise up"</note> your own contribution to Yahweh from all your tithes that you receive from the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from it you will give the contribution of Yahweh to Aaron the priest.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">From all your gifts {you will present}<note>Literally "you will raise up"</note> every contribution of Yahweh, from all its fat, the part <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> sacred.'</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">You will say to them, 'When {you are presenting}<note>Literally "you are raising up"</note> its fat, the rest will be credited to the Levites like a yield of the threshing floor and like a yield from the press.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">You may eat it anywhere, you and your household, because it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a wage in return for your service in the tent of assembly.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">You will not bear any sin because {you have presented}<note>Literally "you have raised up"</note> its fat; you will not defile the holy objects of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> or you will die.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the decree of the law that Yahweh has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and let them take to you a red heifer without a physical defect, on which a yoke {has not been placed}.<note>Literally "has not gone up"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be brought<note>Or "he will bring it out"</note> out to a place outside the camp, and it will be slaughtered<note>Or "he will slaughter it"</note> in his presence.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="4">Then Eleazar the priest will take <transChange type="added">some of</transChange> its blood on his finger and spatter it toward the mouth of the tent of assembly seven times.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">The heifer will be burned<note>Hebrew "The heifer will burn"</note> in his sight; its skin, its meat, and its blood, in addition to its offal, will burn.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="6">The priest will take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson thread, and he will throw them in the midst of {the burning heifer}.<note>Literally "the burning of the heifer"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="7">The priest will wash his garments and his body in the water, and afterward he will come to the camp; the priest will be unclean until the evening.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">The one who burns it will wash his garments and his body in water; he will be unclean until the evening.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">A clean man will gather the ashes of the heifer, and he will put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> in a clean {place outside the camp};<note>Literally "an outside place of the camp"</note> it will be for the community of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> as a requirement for waters of impurity; it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a purification <transChange type="added">offering</transChange>.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="10">The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his garments; he will be unclean until evening. It will be an eternal decree for the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and for one who dwells as an alien in their midst. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="11">" 'The one who touches a corpse of {any person}<note>Literally "any human person"</note> will be unclean for seven days.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="12">He will purify himself on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be clean. If he does not purify himself on the third day, he will not be clean on the seventh day.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">Anyone who touches a corpse, the person of a human being who died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh, and that person will be cut off from Israel because the waters of impurity were not sprinkled on him. He will still be unclean, and uncleanness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on him. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="14">" 'This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the law of a person who dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and all who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the tent will be unclean seven days.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="15">Every container that is opened that does not have a lid cord<note>That is, "that does not have a lid tied shut"</note> on it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> unclean.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="16">Anyone {in the open field}<note>Literally "upon the face of a field"</note> who touches {one who has been slain},<note>Literally "the dead of sword"</note> or a corpse, or a bone of a person, or a burial site, he will be unclean for seven days.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="17">For the unclean <transChange type="added">person</transChange> they will take<note>Hebrew "he will take"</note> from the powder of the {burnt purification offering},<note>Or "burning of the sin offering"</note> and they will put<note>Hebrew "he will put"</note> running water into a container.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="18">A clean person will take hyssop and dip <transChange type="added">it</transChange> into the water and sprinkle <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on the tent and on all the objects and persons who were there, and on one who touched the bone, or the one slain, or the dead, or the burial site.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="19">The clean <transChange type="added">person</transChange> will spatter the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he will purify him, and he will wash his garments; he will bathe in the waters, and in the evening he will be clean.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="20">But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from the midst of the assembly because he defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh; the water of impurity was not sprinkled on him; he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> unclean. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="21">" 'It will be an eternal decree for them. The one who spatters the waters of impurity will wash his garments, and the one who touches the waters of impurity will be unclean until the evening.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="22">Anything that the unclean <transChange type="added">person</transChange> touches will be unclean, and the person who touches <transChange type="added">it</transChange> will be unclean until the evening.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">Then the entire community of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the desert of Zin on the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; Miriam died and was buried there. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="2">There was no water for the community, and they were gathered before Moses and Aaron.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="3">And the people quarreled with Moses and spoke, saying, "If only we died when our brothers were dying {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh!</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="4">Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh, us and our livestock, into this desert to die here?</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="5">Why have you brought us from Egypt to bring us to this bad place? It is not a place of seed or figs<note>Hebrew "fig"</note> or vines<note>Hebrew "vine"</note> or pomegranate trees,<note>Hebrew "tree"</note> and there is not water to drink."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="6">And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of assembly. They fell on their faces, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="8">"Take the staff and summon the community, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will give water. Bring out for them water from the rock, and let the community and their livestock drink." </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="9">So Moses took the staff from {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh just as he command him,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="10">and Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly to the presence of the rock, and he said to them, "Please listen, you rebels; can we bring out water for you from this rock?"</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="11">Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice. And abundant water went out, and the community and their livestock drank.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="12">But Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you have not trusted in me, to regard me as holy {in the sight of}<note>Or "before the eyes of"</note> the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given to them."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="13">Those <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the waters of Meribah, where the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> quarreled with Yahweh, and he showed himself holy among them. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="14">From Kadesh Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom: "Thus your brother Israel has said, 'You know all the hardship that has found us;</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="15">our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt {a long time},<note>Literally "many days"</note> and the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="16">Then we cried to Yahweh, and he heard our voice; he sent an angel and brought us out from Egypt. And look, we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="17">Please let us go through your land. We will not go through a field or vineyard, and we will not drink water from a well. We will go along the road of the king; we will not turn aside right or left until we have gone through your territory.'" </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="18">Then Edom said to him, "You will not pass through us<note>Hebrew "me"</note> lest {we will go out}<note>Hebrew "I will go out"</note> to meet you with the sword."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="19">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> said to him, "We will go up on the main road, and if we<note>Hebrew "I"</note> and our livestock<note>Hebrew "my livestock"</note> drink your water, we will pay <transChange type="added">for it</transChange>.<note>Hebrew "I will give their worth"</note> It is only a small matter; let us pass through on our feet."<note>Hebrew "I will go through on my feet"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="20">But he said, "You will not go through." And Edom went out to meet {them}<note>Hebrew "him"</note> with a large army and a strong hand.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="21">So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, and Israel turned aside from him. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="22">And they set out from Kadesh. The {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> the whole community, came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Mount Hor.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="23">Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron on Mount Hor, on the boundary of the land of Edom, saying,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="24">"Let Aaron be gathered to his people; he will not come into the land that I have given to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> because you rebelled against {my word}<note>Literally "my mouth"</note> at the waters of Meribah.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">Strip off Aaron's garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; Aaron will be gathered <transChange type="added">to his people</transChange>, and he will die there."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="27">So Moses did just as Yahweh commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor before the eyes of all the community.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="28">And Moses stripped off Aaron's garments and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain; and Moses and Eleazar went down from the mountain.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="29">All the community saw that Aaron died; so all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.<note>Hebrew "day"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">The Canaanite king of Arad, who was dwelling <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the Negev,<note>An arid region south of the Judean hills</note> heard that Israel came <transChange type="added">along</transChange> the way of Atharim; he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">Israel made a vow to Yahweh, and they said, "If you will surely give this people into our<note>Hebrew "my"</note> hand, then we<note>Hebrew "I"</note> {will destroy}<note>Literally "devote to God"</note> their cities."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">Yahweh heard the voice of Israel; he gave <transChange type="added">to them</transChange> the Canaanites, and {they destroyed them}<note>Literally "they devoted to God"</note> and their cities. They called the name of the place Hormah. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="4">They set out from Mount Hor <transChange type="added">by</transChange> the way of the {Red Sea}<note>Literally "sea of reed"</note> to go around the land of Edom; but {the people became impatient}<note>Literally "the life of the people became short"</note> along the way.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">The people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us from Egypt to die in the desert? There is no food and no water, and our hearts detest <transChange type="added">this</transChange> miserable food." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">And Yahweh sent among the people poisonous snakes; they bit the people, and many people from Israel died.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and let him remove the snakes<note>Hebrew "snake"</note> from among us." So Moses prayed for the people.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Make for yourself a snake and place it on a pole. When<note>Hebrew "And it will happen"</note> anyone is bitten and looks at it, that person will live."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="9">So Moses made a snake of bronze, and he placed it on the pole; whenever<note>Hebrew "And it will happen"</note> a snake bit someone, and that person looked at the snake of bronze, he lived. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> set out and encamped at Oboth.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">They set out from Oboth and encamped at Iye Abarim in the desert, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in front of Moab {toward the sunrise}.<note>Literally "from the east of the sun"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="13">From there they set out and encamped beyond Arnon, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the desert that goes out from the boundary of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> because Arnon <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="15">and the slope of the wadis that spreads out to the dwelling of Ar and lies at the boundary of Moab."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">From there <transChange type="added">they went</transChange> to Beer, which is the water well where Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Gather the people, that I may give them water."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">Well water that the princes dug, that the leaders of the people dug, with a staff <transChange type="added">and</transChange> with their rods." And from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert <transChange type="added">they continued to</transChange> Mattanah,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">and from Mattanah <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Bamoth;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">and from Bamoth to the valley that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the territory of Moab, <transChange type="added">by</transChange> the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the surface of the wasteland. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> saying,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="22">"Let us go through your land; we will not turn aside into a field or vineyard; we will not drink well water along the way of the king until we have gone through your territory."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">But Sihon did not allow Israel to go through his territory. Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel; he came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the desert, to Jahaz, and he fought against Israel.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="24">But Israel struck him with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> edge of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, and they took possession of his land from Arnon to Jabbok, until the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> because the boundary of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> strong.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">Israel took all these cities, and Israel inhabited all the cities of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> in Heshbon, and in all its environs.<note>Hebrew "her daughters;" other modern versions translate "its villages"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="26">Because Heshbon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the city of Sihon king of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land from his hand until Arnon.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="28">Because fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the<note>Or "the dominant"</note> high places of Arnon.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh. He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to the king of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> Sihon.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">We destroyed them; Heshbon has perished up to Dibon; we laid waste up to Nophah, which {reaches}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> up to"</note> Medeba."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">Moses sent to explore Jaazer; they captured {its environs}<note>Hebrew "her daughters;" other modern versions translate "its villages"</note> and dispossessed the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> there. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="33">Then they turned and went up <transChange type="added">by</transChange> the way of the Bashan, and Og king of the Bashan and all his people went out to meet them for battle <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Edrei.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="34">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Do not fear him because I will give him and all his people and all his land into your hand. You will do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who was living in Heshbon."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="35">And so they destroyed him and his sons, and all his people until they had not spared a survivor; and they took possession of his land. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> set out, and they encamped on the desert-plateau of Moab, across from Jericho beyond <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Jordan.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel did to the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">and Moab was very terrified in the presence of the people because {they}<note>Hebrew "he" or "it"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> numerous; and Moab dreaded the presence of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="4">And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now the crowd will lick up all around us, like a bull devours the grass of the field." And Balak son of Zippor <transChange type="added">was</transChange> king of Moab at that time.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">He sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Pethor, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> by the river,<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> in the land of the children of his people, to summon him, saying, "Look! A people went out from Egypt. Look! They cover {the surface of the land};<note>Literally "the eye of the land"</note> they <transChange type="added">are about</transChange> to dwell opposite me.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">Now, please go, curse this people for me because they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> stronger than me; perhaps I will be able to strike them<note>Hebrew "he"</note> and drive them<note>Hebrew "he"</note> out from the land because I know whoever you bless <transChange type="added">is</transChange> blessed, and whoever you cursed is cursed." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian went <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a fee for divination in their hand; they came to Balaam and spoke the words of Balak to him.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">He said to them, "Spend the night here, and I will return, and I will return word to you, just as Yahweh speaks to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">And God came to Balaam and said, "Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these men with you?"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">And Balaam said to God, "Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to me,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">'Look! A people went out from Egypt. Look! They cover {the surface of the land}.<note>Literally "the eye of the land"</note> Now, go, curse them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> for me. Perhaps I will be able to attack them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> and drive them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> out."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">God said to Balaam, "You will not go with them; you will not curse the people, because they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> blessed."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">Balaam got up in the morning, and he said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land, because Yahweh refused to allow me to go with you."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">The princes of Moab got up and went to Balak, and they said, "Balaam refused to come with us." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">Balak again sent many princes, <transChange type="added">who were more</transChange> honored {than the former}.<note>Literally "than these"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">They came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak son of Zippor, 'Please, let nothing keep you from coming to me</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">because I will surely honor you greatly, and all that you say to me I will do. Please, come; curse this people for me.'"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Even though Balak gives to me his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond {the command of Yahweh}<note>Literally "the mouth of Yahweh"</note> my God to do a little or a lot.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">And now please, {you also stay here}<note>Literally "please stay in this"</note> the night, and {let me find out}<note>Literally "let me know"</note> again what Yahweh will say with me."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">And God came to Balaam <transChange type="added">at</transChange> night, and he said to him, "If the men have come to call you, get up <transChange type="added">and</transChange> go with them; but only the word that I will speak to you, you will do."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">So Balaam got up in the morning and saddled his donkey, and he went with the princes of Moab. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">But {God became angry}<note>Literally "God's nose became hot"</note> because he was going, and the angel of Yahweh stood in the road as an adversary to him; he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> riding on his donkey, and two servants were with him.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, and the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the road.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">The angel of Yahweh stood in the narrow path of the vineyards, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> {a wall on either side}.<note>Literally "a wall from this and a wall from this"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she pressed herself into the wall, and she pressed the foot of Balaam into the wall, so he struck her again.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">Then the angel of Yahweh went further ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was not a way to turn aside <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> right or left.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she lay down under Balaam, so {Balaam became angry},<note>Literally "Balaam's nose became hot"</note> and he struck the donkey with <transChange type="added">his</transChange> staff.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What did I do to you that you struck me these three times?"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you made a mockery of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life until this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?" He said, "No." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">Then Yahweh exposed the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, and he bowed down and worshiped to his face.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why have you struck this donkey three times? Look, I have come out as an adversary because your conduct is perverse before me.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="33">The donkey saw me and turned aside from me these three times. If she had not turned aside from my face, then I would have killed you and kept her alive."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="34">Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned because I did not know that you <transChange type="added">were</transChange> standing to meet me in the road. Now, {if it is displeasing to you},<note>Literally "if it is evil in your eyes"</note> I will turn back."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="35">The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but speak only the word that I will speak to you." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="36">When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him by the city of Moab, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on the boundary of Aaron at the end of the territory.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="37">And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not urgently send to meet with you? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to honor you?"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="38">Balaam said to Balak, "Look, I came to you now. Am I really able to speak anything at all? I speak the word that God puts in my mouth."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="39">Balaam went with Balak, and they came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Kiriath-Huzoth.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="40">And Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and he sent <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to Balaam and to the princes who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="41">And it happened, in the morning Balak took Balaam and took him up to Bamoth-Baal, and he saw from there the end of the nation. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me this: seven altars. And prepare for me this: seven bulls and seven rams."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">And Balak did just as Balaam spoke, and Balak offered Balaam a bull and a ram on the altar.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">And Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself at your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell to you." So he went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> a barren height. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">And God met with Balaam, and he said to him, "I have arranged seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on the altar."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">Yahweh put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, "Return to Balak, and you must speak thus."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">How can I curse <transChange type="added">whom</transChange> God has not cursed, and how can I denounce <transChange type="added">whom</transChange> Yahweh has not denounced?</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">Because from the top of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rocks I see him, from hilltops I watch him. Behold, a people <transChange type="added">who</transChange> dwell alone, they do not consider themselves among the nations.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">Who can count the dust of Jacob, or <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a number the fourth part of Israel? Let my life die the death of an upright person, and let my end be like his!"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have surely blessed them!"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">He answered and said, "{Should I not speak}<note>Literally "Should I not observe to speak"</note> what Yahweh puts in my mouth?" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">Then Balak said, "Please walk with me to another place where you will see them, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> you will only see part of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on <transChange type="added">each</transChange> altar.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">Balaam<note>Hebrew "He"</note> said to Balak, "Station yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with <transChange type="added">Yahweh</transChange> there."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">Then Yahweh met with Balaam, and he put a word in his mouth, and he said, "Return to Balak, and you must speak thus."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">He came to him, and behold, he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> standing at his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">Then {he uttered}<note>Literally "he lifted up"</note> his oracle, and said, </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of humankind, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do <transChange type="added">it</transChange>? And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">Behold, I have received <transChange type="added">a command</transChange> to bless; when he has blessed, I cannot cause it to return.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">He has no regard <transChange type="added">for</transChange> evil in Jacob, and he does not see trouble in Israel; Yahweh his God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with him, and a shout<note>Or "a blast"</note> of a king <transChange type="added">is</transChange> among them.<note>Hebrew "him"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">God, who brings them out from Egypt, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the strength<note>Or "like the horns"</note> of a wild ox for them.<note>Hebrew "him"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">Because <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no sorcery against Jacob, and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no divination against Israel. Now<note>Or "At the right time"</note> it will be said to Jacob and Israel, what God has done!</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">Look! <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people will rise like the lion; he raises himself and will not lie down until he eats <transChange type="added">the</transChange> prey and drinks the blood of the slain."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">Then Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> at all, nor bless them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> at all!"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">But Balaam answered and said to Balak, "Did I not speak to you, saying, 'Whatever Yahweh speaks I will do'?" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please, come, I will take you to another place; perhaps {it will be acceptable to}<note>Literally "it will be right in the eyes of"</note> God, and you will curse for me from there."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">So Balak took Balaam <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the top of Peor, which looks down on the face of the Jeshimon.<note>Or "the wasteland"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me these seven altars, and prepare for me these seven bulls and seven rams."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">Balak did just as Balaam said, and he offered a bull and a ram on <transChange type="added">each</transChange> altar. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">And Balaam saw that {it pleased}<note>Literally "it was good in the eyes of Yahweh"</note> Yahweh to bless Israel, and he did not go {as other times}<note>Literally "as time on time"</note> {to seek out}<note>Literally "to meet"</note> sorcery; instead, he set his face toward the desert.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">Balaam lift up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to its tribes, and the spirit of God was upon it.<note>That is, Israel</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">the declaration of the hearer of God's words,<note>Or "God's sayings"</note> who sees the revelation of Shaddai,<note>Often translated "the Almighty"</note> falling down but <transChange type="added">whose</transChange> eyes are uncovered.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">They are spread out like valleys, like gardens on a river, like aloes planted by Yahweh, like cedars at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> waters.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">He will pour water from his buckets, and his offspring <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> like many waters; his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">God, who brings him out from Egypt, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the strength<note>Or "the horns"</note> of a wild ox for him. He will devour <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> his enemies; he will break their bones; he will pierce <transChange type="added">them with</transChange> his arrows.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness, who will rouse him? <transChange type="added">They who</transChange> bless you will be blessed, and <transChange type="added">they who</transChange> curse you will be cursed."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">Then {Balak became angry with}<note>Literally "the nose of Balak became hot against"</note> Balaam, and he clapped his hands and said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, but look, you have surely blessed <transChange type="added">them</transChange> these three times.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">{Flee}<note>Literally "Flee for yourself"</note> to your place now. I said I would richly honor you, but look, Yahweh has withheld honor from you."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">'If Balak gave to me the fullness of his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond {the command of Yahweh}<note>Literally "the mouth of Yahweh"</note> to do good or evil, from my heart; what Yahweh speaks, I will speak'?<note>Hebrew "I will speak it"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">And now, look, I <transChange type="added">am about</transChange> to go to my people; I will advise you what this people will do to your people {in the following days}."<note>Literally "in the last of the days"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">the declaration of the hearer of God's words,<note>Or "God's sayings"</note> and the knower of the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of Shaddai,<note>Often translated "the Almighty"</note> who is falling, and <transChange type="added">his</transChange> eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> revealed.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near; a star will go out from Jacob, and a scepter will rise from Israel; it will crush the foreheads of Moab and destroy all the children of Seth.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">Edom will be a captive; Seir, its enemies, will be a captive, and Israel <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> acting {courageously}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">with</transChange> physical strength"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">Someone<note>Hebrew "He"</note> from Jacob will rule and will destroy a remnant<note>Or "survivor"</note> from the city."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">And he looked <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Amalek, {uttered}<note>Literally "lifted up"</note> his oracle, and said, "Amalek <transChange type="added">is</transChange> first<note>Or "among"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations, but his future <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> forever ruin."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">And he looked <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the Kenites,<note>Hebrew "Kenite"</note> {uttered}<note>Literally "lifted up"</note> his oracle, and said, </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">Nevertheless, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Kenite will be burned; how long will Asshur keep<note>Hebrew "take"</note> you captive?"</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">The ships <transChange type="added">will come</transChange> from the hand of the Kittim, and they will afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber; also he <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> forever ruin."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">Then Balaam got up and went and returned to his place, and Balak also went on his way. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">When Israel dwelled in Shittim, the people began to prostitute<note>Or "have sexual relations"</note> <transChange type="added">themselves</transChange> with the daughters of Moab.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and worshiped their gods.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">So Israel was joined together to Baal Peor, and {Yahweh became angry}<note>Literally "the nose of Yahweh became hot"</note> with Israel.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">Yahweh said to Moses, "Take all {the leaders}<note>Literally "the heads"</note> of the people and kill them before the sun, so the fierce anger of Yahweh will turn from Israel."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each <transChange type="added">of you</transChange> kill his men who are joined together with Baal Peor." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">And behold, a man from the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> came and brought to his brothers <transChange type="added">a</transChange> Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of all of the community of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> weeping <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the doorway of the tent of assembly.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">When Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest saw, he got up from the midst of the community and took a spear in his hand.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">He went after the man of Israel into the woman's section of the tent, and he drove the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, into her belly. And the plague among the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> stopped.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">"Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, turned away my anger from among the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> when he was jealous with my jealousy in their midst, and I did not destroy the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> with my jealousy.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">Therefore say, 'Behold, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> giving to him my covenant of peace,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">and it will be for him and his {offspring}<note>Literally "seed"</note> after him a covenant of an eternal priesthood because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the {Israelites}.'"<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">The name of the man of Israel who was struck with the Midianite woman <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Zimri son of Salu, a leader of {the family}<note>Or "the father's house" or "the ancestor's house"</note> of the Simeonites.<note>Hebrew "Simeonite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">The name of the Midianite woman who was struck <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Cozbi daughter of Zur, {a leader}<note>Literally "a head"</note> of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> tribe of {the family}<note>Or "the father's house" or "the ancestor's house"</note> in Midian. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">because they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> attacking you with their deception, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which they have deceived you on the matter of Peor and on the matter of Cozbi the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was struck on the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1"><note>Numbers 26:1a in the English Bible is 25:19b in the Hebrew Bible</note> And it happened after the plague, <note>In the Hebrew Bible, Numbers 26:1 begins here</note>Yahweh said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"{Take a census}<note>Literally "Lift up the head<transChange type="added">s</transChange>"</note> of the community of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, according to {their families},<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> all who are able to go out to war in Israel."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them on the desert-plateau of Moab by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Jordan <transChange type="added">across from</transChange> Jericho, saying,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">"<transChange type="added">Take a census of the community</transChange> from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, just as Yahweh commanded Moses." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben: <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;<note>Hebrew "Palluite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites;<note>Hebrew "Hezronite"</note> of Carmi, the clan of the Carmites.<note>Hebrew "Carmite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the clans of the Reubenites,<note>Hebrew "Reubenite"</note> and the ones counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">The children of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These <transChange type="added">are the same</transChange> Dathan and Abiram who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> appointed of the community, who rebelled against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they rebelled against Yahweh,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">and the land opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when that company died, when the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they were a sign.<note>That is, a warning sign</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Simeon, according to their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites;<note>Hebrew "Nemuelite"</note> of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites;<note>Hebrew "Jaminite"</note> of Jakin, the clan of the Jakinites;<note>Hebrew "Jakinite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites;<note>Hebrew "Zerahite"</note> of Shaul, the clan of the Shaulites.<note>Hebrew "Shaulite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of the Simeonites,<note>Hebrew "Simeonite"</note> twenty-two thousand two hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad according to their clans: of Zephon, the clan of the Zephonites;<note>Hebrew "Zephonite"</note> of Haggi, the clan of the Haggites;<note>Hebrew "Haggite"</note> of Shuni, the clan of the Shunites;<note>Hebrew "Shunite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">of Ozni, the clan of the Oznites;<note>Hebrew "Oznite"</note> of Eri, the clan of the Erites;<note>Hebrew "Erite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">of Arod, the clan of the Arodites;<note>Hebrew "Arodite"</note> of Areli, the clan of the Arelites;<note>Hebrew "Arelite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad according to the ones counted of them, forty thousand five hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah according to their clans <transChange type="added">were</transChange>: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites;<note>Hebrew "Shelanite"</note> of Perez, the clan of the Perezites;<note>Hebrew "Perezite"</note> of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites.<note>Hebrew "Zerahite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">The children of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites;<note>Hebrew "Hezronite"</note> of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites.<note>Hebrew "Hamulite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of Judah according to the ones counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Issachar according to their clans: <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Tola, the clan of the Tolaites;<note>Hebrew "Tolaite"</note> of Puvah, the clan of the Punites;<note>Hebrew "Punite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">of Jashub, the clans of the Jashubites;<note>Hebrew "Jashubite"</note> of Shimron, the clan of the Shimronites.<note>Hebrew "Shimronite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of Issachar according to the ones counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Zebulun according to their clans: of Sered, the clan of the Seredites;<note>Hebrew "Seredite"</note> of Elon, the clan of the Elonites;<note>Hebrew "Elonite"</note> of Jahleel, the clan of the Jahleelites.<note>Hebrew "Jahleelite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of the Zebulunites<note>Hebrew "Zebulunite"</note> according to the ones counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Manasseh: of Makir, the clan of the Makirites.<note>Hebrew "Makirite"</note> And Makir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites.<note>Hebrew "Gileadite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gilead: <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Iezer, the clan of the Iezerites;<note>Hebrew "Iezerite"</note> of Helek, the clan of the Helekites;<note>Hebrew "Helekite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">and <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites;<note>Hebrew "Asrielite"</note> and <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites;<note>Hebrew "Shechemite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">and <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites;<note>Hebrew "Shemidaite"</note> and <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites.<note>Hebrew "Hepherite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="33">Zelophehad son of Hepher did not have sons, but only daughters; and the names<note>Hebrew "name"</note> of the daughters of Zelophehad <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="34">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of Manasseh, and the ones counted of them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> fifty-two thousand seven hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="35">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites;<note>Hebrew "Shuthelahite"</note> of Beker, the clan of the Bekerites;<note>Hebrew "Bekerite"</note> of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites.<note>Hebrew "Tahanite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="36">And these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.<note>Hebrew "Eranite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="37">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ephraim according to the ones counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph according to their clans. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="38">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Benjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites;<note>Hebrew "Belaite"</note> of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites;<note>Hebrew "Ashbelite"</note> of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites;<note>Hebrew "Ahiramite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="39">of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites;<note>Hebrew "Shuphamite"</note> of Hupham, the clan of the Huphamites.<note>Hebrew "Huphamite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="40">The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: <transChange type="added">of Ard</transChange>, the clan of the Ardites;<note>Hebrew "Ardite"</note> of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites.<note>Hebrew "Naamite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="41">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Benjamin according to their clans. And the ones counted of them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> forty-five thousand six hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="42">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Dan according to their clans: of Shuham, the clan of the Shuhamites.<note>Hebrew "Shuhamite"</note> These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of Dan according to their clans.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="43">All the clans of the Shuhamites,<note>Hebrew "Shumhamite"</note> according to the ones counted of them, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sixty-four thousand four hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="44">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asher according to their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Imnahites;<note>Hebrew "Imnahite"</note> of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites;<note>Hebrew "Ishvite"</note> of Beriah, the clan of the Beriahites.<note>Hebrew "Beriahite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="45">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites;<note>Hebrew "Heberite"</note> of Malkiel, the clan of the Malkielites.<note>Hebrew "Malkielite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="46">The name of the daughter of Asher <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Serah.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="47">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asher according to the ones counted of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="48">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Naphtali according to their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan of the Jahzeelites;<note>Hebrew "Jahzeelite"</note> of Guni, the clan of the Gunites;<note>Hebrew "Gunite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="49">of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites;<note>Hebrew "Jezerite"</note> of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites.<note>Hebrew "Shillemite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="50">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, the ones counted of them, forty-five thousand four hundred. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="51">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the ones counted of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="53">"For these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of names.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="54">For the larger group you must increase their inheritance, and for the smaller group you must make smaller their inheritance; each must be given {their}<note>Hebrew "his"</note> inheritance according to the number of the ones counted of them.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="55">Surely the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="56">{Their}<note>Hebrew "His"</note> inheritance must be divided according to the lot between the larger and smaller <transChange type="added">groups</transChange>." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="57">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the ones counted of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites;<note>Hebrew "Gershonite"</note> of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites;<note>Hebrew "Kohathite"</note> of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.<note>Hebrew "Merarite"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="58">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites,<note>Hebrew "Libnite"</note> the clan of the Hebronites,<note>Hebrew "Hebronite"</note> the clan of the Mahlites,<note>Hebrew "Mahlite"</note> the clan of the Mushites,<note>Hebrew "Mushite"</note> the clan of the Korahites.<note>Hebrew "Korahite"</note> Kohath fathered Amram.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="59">The name of the wife of Amram <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whose <transChange type="added">mother</transChange> bore her for Levi in Egypt; she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="61">But Nadab and Abihu died when they presented strange fire {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="62">The ones counted were twenty-three thousand, every male from {a month old}<note>Literally "a son of one month"</note> and above, because they were not counted in the midst of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> since no inheritance was given to them in the midst of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="63">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> on the desert-plateau of Moab on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Jordan <transChange type="added">across</transChange> Jericho.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="64">And among these there was not a man of those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> in the desert of Sinai.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="65">For Yahweh said to them, "They will surely die in the desert." And not a man was left over from them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clan of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near; and these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, and Tirzah.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">They stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the leaders of the entire community <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the doorway of the tent of assembly,<note>Or "meeting"</note> saying,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">"Our father died in the desert; he was not in the midst of the company of those who banded together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">Why should the name of our father disappear from the midst of his clan because he does not have a son? Give us property in the midst of the brothers of our father."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">"{The statements of the daughters of Zelophehad are right}.<note>Literally "Such as the daughters of Zelophehad <transChange type="added">are</transChange> speaking"</note> You must surely give them <transChange type="added">the</transChange> property of an inheritance in the midst of their father's brothers, and you must transfer the inheritance of their father to them.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">And you must speak to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> saying, 'If a man dies and has no son, you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">If he has no brothers, then you must give his inheritance to his father's brothers.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">If his father has no brothers, then you must give his inheritance to his nearest relative from his own clan, and he will take possession of it. It will be as a decree of stipulation for the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> just as Yahweh commanded Moses.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">Yahweh said to Moses, "Go up to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land that I have given to the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">When you see it, you will be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother was gathered,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">because you rebelled against my word in the desert of Zin when the community quarreled regarding my holiness at the waters." (These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the waters of Meribah-Kadesh <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the desert of Zin.) </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">"Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">who will go out before them and will come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so the community of Yahweh will not be like a flock that does not have a shepherd."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spirit, and place your hand on him.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and before the entire community, and {commission him}<note>Literally "command him"</note> {in their sight}.<note>Literally "before their eyes"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">You will give to him from your authority so that the entire community of Israel will {obey him}.<note>Literally "hear <transChange type="added">him</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">He will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will ask for him by the decision<note>Or "judgment"</note> of the Urim before Yahweh. On {his command}<note>Literally "his word"</note> they will go out, and at {his command}<note>Literally "his word"</note> they will come in, <transChange type="added">both</transChange> he and all of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> with him, the entire community."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">Moses did just as Yahweh commanded him, and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before the entire community.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">And he placed his hands on him and {commissioned him}<note>Literally "commanded him"</note> just as Yahweh spoke by the hand of Moses.<note>Or "through Moses"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Command the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say to them, '{You will be careful to present}<note>Literally "you will observe to present"</note> my offering, my food of my offerings made by fire, of a fragrance of appeasement to me, at its appointed time.'</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">You will say to them, 'This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the offering made by fire that you will offer to Yahweh: two male lambs without defect {in their first year}<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> as a continual burnt offering each day.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">You will offer one male lamb in the morning, and the second male lamb you will offer {at twilight},<note>Literally "between the two evenings"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">and a tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour as a grain offering, mixed with a fourth of a measure of beaten oil.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">It is a continual burnt offering that was {ordained}<note>Literally "done"</note> on Mount Sinai as a fragrance of appeasement, an offering made by fire for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">The libation with it <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> a fourth of a liquid measure for each male lamb; in the sanctuary you will pour out the libation of fermented drink for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">And the second male lamb you will offer {at twilight};<note>Literally "between the two evenings"</note> as the grain offering of the morning and as its libation you will offer it, an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">" 'On the day of the Sabbath, two male lambs without defect {in their first year},<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> and two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a grain offering and its libation.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">This is</transChange> the burnt offering every Sabbath <transChange type="added">in addition to</transChange> the continual burnt offering and its libation. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">" 'And at the beginning of each of your months, you will present a burnt offering for Yahweh: two bulls and one ram, seven male lambs without defect {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">and three-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a grain offering, for each bull; and two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a grain offering for the one ram;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">and a tenth of finely milled flour mixed with oil <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a grain offering for each male lamb, for a burnt offering of a fragrance of appeasement, an offering of fire for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">Their libations will be half a liquid measure of wine for the bull and a third of a liquid measure of wine for the ram and a fourth of a liquid measure of wine for the male lamb; this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the burnt offering for every month for the months of the year.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">And one male goat as a sin offering for Yahweh; it will be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">" 'On the fourteenth day of the first month <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the Passover for Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">On the fifteenth day of this month <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a religious feast, unleavened bread must be eaten for seven days.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">On the first day <transChange type="added">there will be</transChange> a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.<note>Literally "you will not do work of labor"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">You will present an offering by fire, a burnt offering for Yahweh: two bulls and one ram and seven male lambs {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> they will be for you without defect.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">For their grain offering, you will offer finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull and two-tenths for the ram.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">You will offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for the continual burnt offering.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">Like this you will offer daily, for seven days, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> food of the offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh; it will be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">On the seventh day you will have a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.<note>Literally "you will not do work of labor"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">" 'And on the day of firstfruits, when you are presenting a new offering for Yahweh during your Festival of Weeks, you will have a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.<note>Literally "you will not do work of labor"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">You will present a burnt offering for a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: two bulls, one ram, seven male lambs {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">and their grain offering will be finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for each bull, two-tenths for one ram,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">In addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, you will offer <transChange type="added">them</transChange> without defect with their libation. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">" 'On the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you will have a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.<note>Literally "you will not do work of labor"</note> It will be a day for you of blowing trumpets.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">You will offer a burnt offering as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: one bull, one ram, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> seven male lambs {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> they will be without defect.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">Their grain offering will be finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the ram;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations, according to their stipulations, as a fragrance of appeasement by fire for Yahweh. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">" 'And on the tenth of this seventh month you will have a holy convocation, and {you will afflict yourselves};<note>Literally "you will afflict your lives" or "you will afflict your souls"</note> you will not do any work.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">You will present a burnt offering for Yahweh, a fragrance of appeasement: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> they will be without defect.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">And their grain offering <transChange type="added">will be of</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">" 'Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will have a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work},<note>Literally "you will not do work of labor"</note> and you will hold a religious feast for Yahweh for seven days.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">You will present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: thirteen bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> they will be without defect.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">And their grain offering <transChange type="added">will be of</transChange> finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">" 'On the second day: twelve bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> they will be without defect;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs, by their number according to the stipulation;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="20">" 'On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="21">and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs, by their number according to the stipulation;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">" 'On the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">" 'On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">" 'On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note> and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="31">and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">" 'On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="33">and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="34">and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="35">" 'On the eighth day you will have an assembly; {you will not do any regular work}.<note>Literally "you will not do work of labor"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="36">You will present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs without defect {in their first year};<note>Literally "sons of a year"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="37">and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="38">and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="39">" 'You will present these to Yahweh at your appointed time, in addition to your vows and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings and for you grain offerings and for your libations and for your fellowship offerings.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="40"><note>Numbers 29:40-30:16 in the English Bible is 30:1-17 in the English Bible</note> So Moses said to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> in accordance with all that Yahweh commanded Moses. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">Then Moses spoke to {the leaders}<note>Literally "the heads"</note> of the tribes concerning the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> saying, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the word that Yahweh commanded:</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">if a man makes a vow for Yahweh or swears an oath with a binding pledge on himself, he must not render his word invalid; he must do all that went out from his mouth. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">"If a woman makes a vow to Yahweh, and she binds a pledge <transChange type="added">on herself</transChange> in her father's house in your childhood,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">but if her father hears her vow or her pledge that she bound on herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge that she binds on her life will stand.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">If her father forbids her on the day he hears <transChange type="added">of it</transChange>, all her vows or her pledges that she bound on herself will not stand, and Yahweh will forgive her because her father has forgiven her. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">"If {she has a husband}<note>Literally "she is to a man"</note> while bound by her vows or a rash promise of her lips,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">and her husband hears <transChange type="added">of it</transChange> and is silent on the day he hears <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, her vows will stand, and her pledge that she bound upon herself will stand.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">But if on the day her husband hears <transChange type="added">of it</transChange>, he forbids her, then he will nullify her vow that she is under, and the rash promise of her lips that she bound on herself; and Yahweh will forgive her. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">"But the vow of a widow or a woman who is divorced, all that she binds on herself will stand on her.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">But if she made a vow <transChange type="added">in</transChange> her husband's house, or bound herself on a pledge with a sworn oath,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">and her husband heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange> but was silent to her, and he did not forbid her, all her vows will stand and every pledge that she bound on herself will stand.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">But if her husband nullified them on the day he hears <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, all her vows going out of her lips concerning her vows or the pledge on herself will not stand; her husband has nullified them, and Yahweh will forgive her. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">"Any vow and any sworn oath of a pledge to inflict on herself, her husband can confirm it or her husband can nullify it.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">But if her husband is completely silent from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all her pledges that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on her; he confirms them because he was silent to her on the day he heard <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">But if he indeed nullifies them after he hears them, then he will bear her guilt." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the decrees that Yahweh commanded Moses, as between a husband and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, <transChange type="added">while</transChange> her childhood <transChange type="added">is in</transChange> her father's house. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Seek vengeance for the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm yourself from among your men for the battle, so that they will {go}<note>Literally "be"</note> against Midian to mete out the vengeance of Yahweh on Midian.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">A thousand from each tribe of every tribe of Israel you will send to battle."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">So theywere assigned from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand equipped for battle.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the battle, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the battle with them, and the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets of the blast <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in his hand.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And they fought against Midian just as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they killed every male.</verse>


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<verse num="8">They killed the kings of Midian in addition to the ones they had slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam son of Beor by the sword.</verse>


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<verse num="9">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> took captive the women of Midian and their children, and they plundered all their domestic animals and all their livestock and all their wealth.</verse>


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<verse num="10">They burned all their cities where they dwelled and all their camps with fire.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="11">They took all the plunder and all the war-booty with the humans<note>Hebrew "human"</note> and domestic animals.<note>Hebrew "animal"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">They brought the captives, the war-booty, and the plunder to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the community of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> to the camp to the desert-plateau of Moab, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Jordan <transChange type="added">across</transChange> Jericho. </verse>


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<verse num="13">And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="14">But Moses was angry toward the leaders of the troops, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, who came from the battle of the war.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="16">Behold, these women {caused}<note>Literally "were to"</note> the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> by the word of Balaam, to be in apostasy against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so that the plague was among the community of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Now kill every male among the little children, and kill every woman who has {had sexual intercourse with a man}.<note>Literally "who has known the bed of a male"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">But all the females who have not {had sexual intercourse with a man},<note>Literally "who has known the bed of a male"</note> keep alive for yourselves.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="19">And you, camp outside the camp seven days; all who killed a person and all who touched the slain purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.</verse>


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<verse num="20">You will purify yourselves and every garment and every object of hide and all the work of goats' hair, and every object of wood." </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="21">Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of the battle who came from the war, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the decree of the law that Yahweh commanded Moses.</verse>


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<verse num="23">everything that will go through the fire--you will pass through the fire, and it will be clean, and only in waters of impurity will it be purified. Whatever does not go into the fire you will pass through the waters.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And you will wash your garments on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you will come into the camp." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">"You and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of the community, {take count}<note>Literally "lift up the head"</note> of the war-booty that was captured, both humans<note>Hebrew "human"</note> and the domestic animals;<note>Hebrew "animal"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">divide the war-booty between those who engaged in the war, who went out to the battle, and all the community.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="28">Exact a tribute for Yahweh from the men of the war, those who went out to the battle, one from five hundred persons, and from the cattle and from the male donkeys and from the flock;</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="29">take from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a contribution to Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="30">From half of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> take one <transChange type="added">share</transChange> drawn by lot from the fifty from the humans,<note>Hebrew "human"</note> from the cattle, from the male donkeys, from the flock, from all the domestic animals,<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> and give them to the Levities who keep the responsibilities of the tabernacle of Yahweh."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="32">Thus the war-booty that remained of the plunder that the people of the battle plundered was six hundred and seventy-five thousand flocks <transChange type="added">of sheep</transChange>,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="35">and the life of humankind, from the women who did not {have sexual intercourse with a man},<note>Literally "who has known the bed of a male"</note> all the persons<note>Hebrew "person"</note> were thirty-two thousand. </verse>


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<verse num="36">The half of the share that was going out to the battle: the number of the flock <transChange type="added">of sheep</transChange> was thee hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred;</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="38">and the cattle were thirty-six thousand; and the tribute to Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> seventy-two.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="39">Of the male donkeys there were thirty thousand five hundred, and the tribute to Yahweh was sixty-one;</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="40">the humans<note>Hebrew "human"</note> were sixteen thousand, and the tribute to Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> thirty-two persons.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="41">And Moses gave away the tribute of the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="42">From the half of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> which Moses divided from the men who were fighting,</verse>


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<verse num="43">the half that belonged to the community was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred from the flock,</verse>


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<verse num="47">From the half that belonged to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> Moses took one share drawn by lot out of every fifty humans<note>Hebrew "human"</note> and domestic animals, and he gave them to the Levites, who keep the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. </verse>


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<verse num="48">Then the leaders of the thousands of the army, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, approached Moses,</verse>


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<verse num="49">and they said to Moses, "Your servants have {taken count}<note>Literally "lifted up the head"</note> of the men of war who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {in our charge},<note>Literally "in our hand"</note> and no man is missing from us.</verse>


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<verse num="50">So we brought the offering of Yahweh, what each man found, objects of gold, bangles,<note>Hebrew "bangle"</note> bracelets,<note>Hebrew "bracelet"</note> rings,<note>Hebrew "ring"</note> earrings,<note>Hebrew "earring"</note> and female ornaments,<note>Hebrew "ornament"</note> to make atonement for ourselves {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="52">All the gold of the contribution that they raised up to Yahweh, from the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="54">So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of the thousands and hundreds, and they brought it to the tent of the assembly as a memorial for the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> before Yahweh. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="1">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad had a very large number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a place for livestock.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="2">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben came, and they said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, saying,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="4">the land that Yahweh struck before the community of Israel, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a land of livestock, and your servants have livestock."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="5">They said, "If we have found favor in {your sight},<note>Literally "your eyes"</note> let this land be given to your servants as property; do not lead us <transChange type="added">across</transChange> the Jordan." </verse>


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<verse num="6">But Moses said to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad and to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben, "Will your brothers go to war while you yourselves live here?</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">Why are you discouraging the hearts of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from crossing into the land that Yahweh gave to them?</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="8">This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="9">When they went up to the valley<note>Or "the wadi"</note> of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> so that they did not come to the land that Yahweh gave to them.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="10">So {Yahweh's anger burned}<note>Literally "Yahweh's nose became hot"</note> on that day, and he swore an oath, saying,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="11">'The men who went up from Egypt, from {those twenty years old}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years"</note> and above, will not see the land that I swore with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because they have not wholly followed me,</verse>


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<verse num="12">except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, because they followed Yahweh wholly.'</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="13">And {Yahweh became angry},<note>Literally "Yahweh's nose became hot"</note> and he made them wander in the desert forty years until the entire generation who did evil in the {sight of Yahweh}<note>Literally "eyes of Yahweh"</note> {had died}.<note>Literally "had completed"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">Behold, you stand in the place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more {Yahweh's fierce anger}<note>Literally "the fierce anger of Yahweh's nose"</note> against Israel.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="15">If you turn from following him, he will again abandon them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> in the wilderness, and you would have destroyed all these people." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">They came near to him and said, "We will build sheep pens here for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flock of our livestock and cities for our little children;</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="17">but we ourselves will become armed <transChange type="added">and</transChange> ready before the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> until we have brought them to their place, and our little children will live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="18">We will not return to our houses until the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> each obtain their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> inheritance for themselves.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="19">For we will not take possession with them from across the Jordan and beyond because our inheritance has come to us from across the Jordan to the east." </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="20">So Moses said to them, "If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh for the war,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="21">and everyone of you armed cross the Jordan {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="22">and the land is subdued {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh, then afterward you will return and be free of obligation from Yahweh and from Israel, and this land will be your property {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="23">But if you do not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh, and know that your sin will find you.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="24">Build for yourselves cities for your little children and sheep pens for your flocks; what has gone out from your mouth you will do." </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="25">So the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben said to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do just as my lord commands.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="26">Our little children, our wives, our livestock, and all of our animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> {will remain}<note>Literally "will be there"</note> in the cities of Gilead,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="27">but your servants, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross over {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh to the war, just as my lord says." </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="28">So Moses commanded them, Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of the tribes of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="29">Moses said to them, "If the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben, everyone who is armed for the war, cross over the Jordan {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, you will give them the land of Gilead as property.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="30">But if they will not cross over with you armed, they will acquire land in your midst in Canaan."</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="31">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad and the descendants of Reuben answered and said, "What Yahweh has commanded your servants, we will do.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="32">We ourselves will cross over armed {before}<note>Literally "in the presence of"</note> Yahweh to the land of Canaan, and the property of our inheritance <transChange type="added">will remain</transChange> with us beyond the Jordan." </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="33">So Moses gave to them, to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben, and to half of the tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon the king of Amorites and the kingdom of Og the king of the Bashan, the land with its cities <transChange type="added">and their</transChange> territories, the cities of the surrounding land.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="34">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gad rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, and Aroer,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="36">and Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, the cities of Mibzar, and the sheep pens for flocks.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="37">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="38">and Nebo, Baal Meon (their names<note>Hebrew "name"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> changed), and Sibmah, and {they renamed}<note>Literally "they called to names the names"</note> the cities that they rebuilt.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="39">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and they captured it and drove out the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in it.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="41">And Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their unwalled villages, and he called them Havvoth Jair.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="42">Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and he called it Nobah after his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> name. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the journeys of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> who went out from the land of Egypt according to their divisions, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">Moses wrote down their movements according to their journeys on the command of Yahweh, and these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their journeys according to their movements.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="3">They set out from Rameses on the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> went out {boldly}<note>Literally "with a hand that was raised"</note> {in the sight}<note>Literally "for the eyes"</note> of all the Egyptians</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="4">while the Egyptians <transChange type="added">were</transChange> burying all the firstborn among them whom Yahweh struck. Yahweh <transChange type="added">also</transChange> executed punishments among their gods. </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="5">Then the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> set out from Rameses, and they camped in Succoth.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">They journeyed from Succoth and camped in Etham, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the edge of the desert.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="7">Then they set out from Etham and returned to Pi-Hahiroth, which faces Baal Zephon, and they camped before Migdol.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">They set out from Pi-Hahiroth and went through the midst of the sea into the desert; and they went a journey of three days into the desert of Etham and camped at Marah.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">They set out from Marah and came to Elim, and in Elim <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">They set out from Elim, and they camped at the {Red Sea}.<note>Literally "sea of reed"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">They set out from the {Red Sea}<note>Literally "sea of reed"</note> and camped at the desert of Sin.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">They set out from Alush and encamped at Rephidim; and it was there <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the people had no water to drink.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="36">They set out from Ezion Geber and camped in the desert of Zin, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Kadesh.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="37">They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="38">Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the {command}<note>Literally "mouth"</note> of Yahweh, and he died there in the fortieth year after the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> had gone out from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month on the first <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="39">Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="40">Now the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> living in the Negev<note>An arid region south of the Judean hills</note> in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="47">They set out from Almon-Diblatayim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="48">They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan <transChange type="added">across</transChange> Jericho.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="49">They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-Jeshimoth up to Abel Shittim, on the desert-plateau of Moab. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="50">Then Yahweh spoke to Moses on the desert-plateau of Moab by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Jordan <transChange type="added">across</transChange> Jericho, saying,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="51">"Speak to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say to them, 'When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="52">you will drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, and you will destroy all their idols and all the images of their molten idols, and you will demolish all their high places;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="53">you will dispossess the land and live in it because I have given the land to you to possess it.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="54">You will distribute the land by lot according to your clans; to the larger group you will give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller group you will give less inheritance. However the lot falls for him, there the lot will be. You will distribute it according to the tribes of your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="55">But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, then it will happen that whomever you let remain of them will be like irritants in your eyes and like thorns in your sides; they will be your enemies in the land in which you live.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="56">And just as I planned to do <transChange type="added">to</transChange> them, I will do to you.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Command the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say to them, 'When you come into the land of Canaan, this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the land that was allotted to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to its boundaries.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">Your southern edge will be from the desert of Zin toward the side of Edom, and your southern border will be from the end of the Salt Sea<note>That is, the Dead Sea</note> to the east;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">your boundary will turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim<note>Or "Scorpions"</note> and will pass over to Zin, and its limits will be from the south of Kadesh Barnea; it will continue to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">The boundary will turn from Azmon to the valley of Egypt, and its limits will be to the sea. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">" 'Your western boundary will be the Great Sea;<note>That is, the Mediterranean</note> this will be your western boundary.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">Your northern border will be from the Great Sea;<note>That is, the Mediterranean</note> you will make a boundary from the Great Sea<note>That is, the Mediterranean</note> to Mount Hor.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">From Mount Hor you will make a boundary to reach Hamath; the limits of the territory will be at Zedad.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">The boundary will go out to Ziphron, and its limits will be at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary to the north. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">the boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah from the east side of Ain, and the boundary will go down and border on the eastern side of the Sea of Kinnereth.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">The boundary will go down to the Jordan, and its limits will be at the Salt Sea.<note>That is, the Dead Sea</note> This will be your land according to its boundaries all around.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">So Moses commanded the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> saying, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the land that you will obtain as an inheritance for yourself by lot, which Yahweh commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">For the tribe of the children of the Reubenites,<note>Hebrew "Reubenite"</note> the children of the Gadites,<note>Hebrew "Gadite"</note> and the half-tribe of Manasseh took their inheritance according to the house of their families.<note>Or "their fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">The two and a half tribes have taken their inheritance from beyond the Jordan <transChange type="added">across</transChange> Jericho, east toward the sunrise." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">"These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the men who divide up the land for your inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="18">You will take one leader from every tribe to divide up the land for inheritance.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="19">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Dan, the leader Bukki son of Jogli;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph, the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Manasseh, the leader Hanniel son of Ephod.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">Of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ephraim, the leader Kemuel son of Shiphtan;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Zebulum, the leader Elizaphan son of Parnach;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Issachar, the leader Paltiel son of Azzan;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="27">of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asher, the leader Ahihud son of Shelomi;</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">of the tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Naphtali, the leader Pedahel son of Ammihud."</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">These are those whom Yahweh commanded to allot to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> the land of Canaan. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">Yahweh spoke to Moses on the desert plains of Moab beyond the Jordan <transChange type="added">across</transChange> Jericho, saying,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="2">"Command the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their property cities to live in; and you will give to the Levites pastureland all around the cities.<note>Hebrew "them"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="3">The cities will be theirs to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their domestic animals, for their possessions, and their animals.<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">"The pasturelands of the cities that you will give to the Levites <transChange type="added">will extend</transChange> from the wall of the city to <transChange type="added">a distance of</transChange> a thousand cubits all around.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="5">You will measure outside the city the eastern edge two thousand cubits, for the southern edge two thousand cubits, for the western edge two thousand cubits, and for the northern edge two thousand cubits, with the city in the middle; this will be for them the pasturelands of the cities. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">"All the cities that you will give the Levites will be six cities of refuge, to which the killer can flee; in addition to them you will give forty-two cities.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">All the cities that you will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, them with their pasturelands.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">And the cities that you will give from the property of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> you will take more from the larger group and less from the smaller group; each of them will give according to the portion of their inheritance according to the portion that he inherits." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="10">"Speak to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and say to them, 'When you cross the Jordan <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the land of Canaan,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">The cities will be to you a refuge from a redeemer, so that the killer will not die until he stands before the community for judgment.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="14">You will give three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan; they will be cities of refuge.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="15">To the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> to the alien, and to the temporary resident in their midst there will be these six cities as a refuge to which anyone who unintentionally kills a person may flee. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="16">" 'But if he hit him with an object of iron, so that he dies, the killer must surely be put to death.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="17">And if he hit him with a stone in the hand, by which he will die, and he does die, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a killer; the killer must surely be put to death.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="18">Or if he hit him with a wooden object, by which he will die, and he does die, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a killer; the killer must surely be put to death.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="19">The blood avenger himself will put the killer to death; he must put him to death when meeting him.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="20">If he shoves him in hatred, or he throws something at him with intention, and he dies,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="21">or if he hits him in hostility with his hand, and he dies, the one that struck him will put to death the killer when meeting him. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="22">" 'Or if in an instant he shoved him, not in hostility, or threw something at him without intention,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="23">or with any stone, without seeing it dropped on him so that he dies, while <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> not seeking his injury,</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="24">then the community will judge between the striker and between the blood avenger according to these ordinances.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="25">The community will deliver the killer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the community will restore him to the city of his refuge to which he fled; and he will live there in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with holy oil.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="26">But if the killer surely goes out of the territory of the city of his refuge to which he fled,</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="27">and the blood avenger finds him outside the territory of the city of his refuge, and the blood avenger kills the killer, {he will not be guilty of blood}<note>Literally "there will not be blood for him"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="28">because he must live in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the killer will return to the land of his property.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="29">These things will be as a decree of justice for you for your generations in all your dwellings. </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="30">" 'If anyone kills a person, the killer will be put to death {according to the testimony}<note>Literally "according to the mouth"</note> of witnesses, but someone cannot die on testimony of one person.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="31">Also, you will not take a ransom payment for the life of a killer who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> guilty of death; indeed, he must surely be put to death.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="32">You will not take a ransom payment for the one that flees to the city of his refuge, so that he may return to live in the land before the death of the priest.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="33">So you will not pollute the land in which you are; because blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is poured out on it except with the blood of the one who poured it out.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="34">You will not defile the land on which you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> living because I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> living in the midst of it; I am Yahweh; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> living in the midst of the {Israelites}.'"<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="1">{The leaders}<note>Literally "The heads"</note> of the families<note>Or "fathers"</note> of the clans of descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gilead the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clans of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph came near and spoke {before}<note>Literally "before the face of"</note> Moses and {before}<note>Literally "before the face of"</note> {the leaders}<note>Literally "the heads"</note> of the families<note>Hebrew "of the fathers"</note> of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="2">And they said, "Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.</verse>


book: Num
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<verse num="3">But if they become wives to one of the sons from <transChange type="added">another</transChange> tribe of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> their inheritance will disappear from the inheritance of our ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; the lot of our inheritance would disappear.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="4">When the Jubilee of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> {comes},<note>Literally "will be"</note> it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and their inheritance will disappear from the tribe of our father." </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="5">Then Moses commanded the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> by the command of Yahweh, saying, "The tribe of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph <transChange type="added">is</transChange> right <transChange type="added">regarding what they are</transChange> speaking.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="6">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the word that Yahweh commanded the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, '{Let them marry}<note>Literally "Let them be as wives"</note> {whomever they like};<note>Literally "they will be as the good in their eyes"</note> only {they must marry}<note>Literally "they must be as wives"</note> from within the clan of the tribe of their father.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="7">Thus an inheritance of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> will not go around from tribe to tribe. Rather, the inheritance of each tribe of his father will remain with the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="8">Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from the tribes of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> will {marry}<note>Literally "be a wife to"</note> one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> will possess the inheritance of his ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="9">Therefore an inheritance will not go around from <transChange type="added">one</transChange> tribe to another tribe because the tribes of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> will each hold to their <transChange type="added">own</transChange> inheritance.'" </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="11">Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, {married}<note>Literally "were as wives to"</note> the sons of their uncles.</verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="12">{They married}<note>Literally "They were as wives to"</note> those from the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance {remained}<note>Literally "was"</note> among the tribe of the clan of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


book: Num
content:
<verse num="13">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the commands and the stipulations that Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses<note>Or "through Moses"</note> to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> on the desert-plateaus of Moab by the Jordan <transChange type="added">across</transChange> Jericho. </verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="1">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the words that Moses spoke to all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Israel {on the other side of}<note>Literally "in the beyond <transChange type="added">of</transChange>"</note> the Jordan in the desert,<note>Or "the wilderness"</note> in the desert plateau<note>Or "desert plain"; others render this as a named location, "Arabah"</note> opposite Suph, between Paran and between Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="2">It is <transChange type="added">a journey of</transChange> {eleven days}<note>Literally "one and ten days"</note> from Herob {by the way of Mount Seir}<note>Literally "by the mountain of Seir"</note> up to Kadesh Barnea. </verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="3">{And it was}<note>Literally "and it happened" or "and then"</note> in the fortieth year, on the eleventh month, on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> first <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month, Moses spoke to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> according to all that Yahweh had instructed him <transChange type="added">to speak</transChange> to them.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">This happened</transChange> {after defeating}<note>Literally "after he had struck down"</note> Sihon king of the Amorites, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> reigning<note>Or "dwelling," and in this context "reigning"</note> in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> reigning<note>Or "dwelling," and in this context "reigning"</note> in Ashtaroth in Edrei.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="5">On the other side of <note>Literally "in the beyond <transChange type="added">of</transChange>"</note> the Jordan in the land of Moab Moses began to explain this law,<note>Hebrew torah</note> {saying}:<note>Literally "to say"</note> </verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="6">"Yahweh our God spoke to us at Horeb, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'You have stayed {long enough}<note>Literally "much <transChange type="added">time</transChange>"</note> at this mountain.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="7">Turn <transChange type="added">now</transChange> and {move on},<note>Literally "journey on with respect to yourselves" or "move yourselves out"</note> and go <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the hill of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> and to all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the neighboring regions<note>Or "peoples"</note> in the Jordan {Valley}<note>Literally "Arabah," arid stretches of land.</note> in the hill country and in the Negev and in the coastal area along the sea, <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the land of the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> and <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the Lebanon, as far as the great river Euphrates.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="8">Look, I have set the land {before you};<note>Literally "before your face"</note> go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to them and to their offspring after them.' </verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="9">"And I spoke to them at that time, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'I am not able to bear you alone.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="10">Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> today as the stars of the heaven {in number}.<note>Literally "with respect to multitude/abundance"</note></verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="11">Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> may he add to you as you are <transChange type="added">now</transChange> a thousand times, and may he bless you just as he {promised you}.<note>Literally "spoke to you"</note></verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="12">How can I bear you {by myself},<note>Literally "to me alone"</note> your burden and your load and your strife?</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="13">Choose for yourselves {wise and discerning and knowledgeable men}<note>Literally "men wise and discerning and knowledgeable"</note> for <transChange type="added">each of</transChange> your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.' </verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="14">"And you answered me, and you said, 'The thing you have said to do is good.'</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="15">And so I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> I appointed them as leaders over you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> commanders of <transChange type="added">groups of</transChange> thousands and commanders of <transChange type="added">groups of</transChange> hundreds and commanders of <transChange type="added">groups of</transChange> fifties and commanders of <transChange type="added">groups of</transChange> tens <transChange type="added">as</transChange> officials for your tribes.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="16">And at that time I instructed your judges, saying, '{hear out your fellow men},<note>Literally "hear between your brothers," with the idea of listening carefully in this context</note> and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> judge fairly<note>Or "righteously"</note> between a man and between his brother and between {his opponent who is a resident alien}.<note>Literally "between his resident alien/non-Israelite who dwells temporarily among Israel"</note></verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="17">You must not {be partial}<note>Literally "recognize faces"</note> {in your judgment}; <note>Literally "in the process of rendering a judgment"</note> hear <transChange type="added">out</transChange> the small <transChange type="added">person</transChange> as <transChange type="added">also</transChange> the great <transChange type="added">person</transChange>; {do not be intimidated by any person},<note>Literally "do not fear before the faces of <transChange type="added">any</transChange> man"</note> because the judgment <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God's; and the case that is too difficult<note>Or "hard"</note> for you, bring <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to me, and I will hear it <transChange type="added">out</transChange>.'</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="18">And so I instructed you at that time <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the things that you should do. </verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="19">"Then we set out from Horeb, and we went <transChange type="added">through</transChange> the whole <transChange type="added">of</transChange> that great and terrible desert that you saw <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the way <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the hill country of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> as Yahweh our God had commanded us, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> we came up to Kadesh Barnea.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="20">I said to you, '{You have reached}<note>Literally "You have come up to"</note> the hill country of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> that Yahweh our God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to us.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="21">See, Yahweh your God has set before you the land; go up and possess <transChange type="added">it</transChange> as Yahweh the God of your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> said to you; do not fear and do not be dismayed.' </verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="22">"Then all of you approached me, and <transChange type="added">you</transChange> said, 'Let us send men {before us},<note>Literally "before our faces" or "ahead of us"</note> and let them explore the land for us, and let them bring back {a report}<note>Literally "a word"</note> to us <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> the way that {we should take}<note>Literally "we should go up by it"</note> <transChange type="added">and concerning</transChange> the cities that we shall come to.'</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="23">The plan was good {in my opinion},<note>Literally "in my eyes"</note> and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> I took from <transChange type="added">among</transChange> you twelve men, {one from each tribe}.<note>Literally "man one from the tribe"</note></verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="24">And they {set out}<note>Literally "turned"</note> and {went up into the hill country},<note>Literally "went up toward the hill <transChange type="added">country</transChange> mountain"</note> and they went up to the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Eschol, and they spied out <transChange type="added">the land</transChange>.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="25">They took in their hands<note>Hebrew "hand"</note> {some of the fruit}<note>Literally "from the fruit"</note> of the land, and they brought <transChange type="added">it</transChange> down to us, and they brought to us back {a report},<note>Literally "a word"</note> and they said, 'The land that Yahweh our God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to us <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good.'</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="26">But you were not willing to go up, and you rebelled against the {command}<note>Literally "mouth"</note> of Yahweh your God.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="27">And you grumbled in your tents, and you said, 'Because of the hatred of Yahweh <transChange type="added">toward</transChange> us he has brought us out from the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> to destroy us.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="28">Where <transChange type="added">can</transChange> we go up? Our brothers have {made our hearts melt},<note>Literally "caused to melt our hearts"</note> {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "The people are greater<note>Or "bigger"</note> and taller than we are,<note>Hebrew "than us"</note> <transChange type="added">and there are</transChange> great fortified cities <transChange type="added">reaching</transChange> up to heaven, and we saw the sons of the Anakites <transChange type="added">living</transChange> there." ' </verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="30">Yahweh your God, who is going {before you},<note>Literally "to your faces"</note> will himself<note>The Hebrew pronoun indicates emphasis</note> fight for you, {just as}<note>Literally "like all that"</note> he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="31">and <transChange type="added">just as he did</transChange> in the wilderness<note>Or "desert"</note> when<note>Or "where"</note> you saw that<note>Or "how"</note> Yahweh your God carried you, just as someone<note>Or "a man"</note> carries his son, all <transChange type="added">along</transChange> the way <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you traveled until {you reached}<note>Literally "you came"</note> this place.'</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="33">{who goes}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> the one going"</note> {before you}<note>Literally "before your faces"</note> on your<note>Hebrew "the"</note> way, seeking a place for your encampment, in fire at night and in a cloud by day, to show you the way that {you should go}.<note>Literally "you should go in it"</note> </verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="34">"Then Yahweh heard the sound of your words, and he was angry, and he swore, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="35">'No one of these men<note>The beginning of an oath in Hebrew; the text emphatically denies anyone of that evil generation the privilege of seeing the promised land</note> of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="36">except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh; he himself<note>Emphatic use of the pronoun</note> shall see it, and to him I will give the land upon which he has trodden and to his sons<note>Or "descendants"</note> because {he followed Yahweh unreservedly}.'<note>Literally "he filled <transChange type="added">his hands</transChange> after Yahweh"</note></verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="37">Even with me Yahweh was angry because of you, saying, 'Not even you shall enter there.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="38">Joshua, the son of Nun, {your assistant},<note>Literally "the one standing before you"</note> will go there; encourage him because he will cause Israel to inherit it.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="39">And your little children, who you thought shall become plunder, and your sons, who do not today know good or bad, shall themselves<note>The Hebrew pronoun is used for emphasis</note> go there, and I will give it to them, and they shall take possession of it.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="40">But you turn and set out <transChange type="added">in the direction of</transChange> the wilderness by way of the {Red Sea}.'<note>Literally "sea of reeds"</note> </verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="41">"You replied and said to me, 'We have sinned against Yahweh, <transChange type="added">and now</transChange> we will go up and fight according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us'; and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> each man fastened on {his battle gear},<note>Literally "his vessels of battle"</note> and you regarded <transChange type="added">it</transChange> as easy to go up <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the hill country.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="42">So Yahweh said to me, 'Say to them, "You shall not go up, and you shall not fight because I am not in your midst; you will be defeated {before}<note>Literally "in the faces of your enemies"</note> your enemies." '</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="43">So I spoke to you, but you did not listen; you rebelled against the {command of Yahweh};<note>Literally "mouth of Yahweh"</note> you behaved presumptuously, and you went up into the hill country.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="44">The Amorites living in the hill country went out {to oppose you}<note>Literally "to meet you"</note> and chased you as <transChange type="added">a swarm of</transChange> wild honey bees do; and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> they {beat}<note>Literally "cut"</note> you down in Seir as far as Hormah.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="45">So you returned and wept {before Yahweh};<note>Literally "before the faces of Yahweh"</note> but Yahweh did not listen to your voice and did not pay <transChange type="added">any</transChange> attention to you.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="46">You stayed in Kadesh many days; such were the days that you stayed <transChange type="added">there</transChange>. </verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="1">"<transChange type="added">Then</transChange> we turned and set out <transChange type="added">toward</transChange> the wilderness<note>Or "desert"</note> in the direction of the {Red Sea},<note>Literally "sea of reeds"</note> as Yahweh told me, and we went around Mount Seir <transChange type="added">for</transChange> many days.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="3">'<transChange type="added">Long</transChange> enough you have been skirting this mountain; turn yourselves north,</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="4">and instruct<note>Or "command"</note> the people, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to cross <transChange type="added">through</transChange> the territory of your brothers, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Esau, who are living in Seir; they will be afraid of you, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> be very careful.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="5">Do not get involved in battle<note>Or "provoke"</note> with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even {a foot's breadth}<note>Literally "a sole's foot of space"</note> <transChange type="added">of it</transChange>; since I have given Mount Seir <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a possession for Esau.</verse>


book: Deut
content:
<verse num="6">You shall buy food from them so that you may eat; and also you shall purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.</verse>


book: Deut
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<verse num="7">The fact of the matter is, Yahweh your God has blessed you in {all the work you have done};<note>Literally "the work of your hand"</note> he knows {your travels}<note>Literally "your journeying"</note> <transChange type="added">with respect to</transChange> this great wilderness; forty years Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">has been</transChange> with you; you have not lacked a thing." '</verse>


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<verse num="8">And so we passed by our brothers, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Esau, who live in Seir, past the road of the Arabah,<note>Or "Jordan Valley" since the Arabah is an extension of it</note> from Elath and Ezion Geber, and we turned and traveled along the route of the desert<note>Or "wilderness"</note> of Moab. </verse>


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<verse num="9">And Yahweh said to me, 'You shall not attack Moab, and you shall not engage in war<note>Or "battle"</note> with them, for I will not give you any of his land <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a possession; I have given Ar to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Lot <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a possession.'</verse>


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<verse num="10">(The Emim previously lived in it, a people large,<note>Or "great" in the sense of influential</note> numerous, and tall, like the Anakites.</verse>


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<verse num="11">They were reckoned also <transChange type="added">as</transChange> Rephaim as the Anakites <transChange type="added">were</transChange>; but the Moabites called them Emim.</verse>


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<verse num="12">The Horites previously lived in Seir, but the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them {from among themselves},<note>Literally "from their presence"</note> as Israel did with respect to the land of their<note>Literally "its/his"</note> possession that Yahweh gave to them.)</verse>


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<verse num="13">So <transChange type="added">now</transChange> arise and cross over the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Zered yourselves; and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> we crossed the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Zered.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Now the {length of time}<note>Literally "days"</note> that we had traveled from Kadesh Barnea until <transChange type="added">the time when</transChange> we crossed the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Zered <transChange type="added">was</transChange> thirty-eight years, until the perishing of all of that generation; <transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, the men of war from the midst of the camp as Yahweh had sworn to them.</verse>


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<verse num="15">The hand of Yahweh was against them to root them out from the midst of the camp until they perished completely. </verse>


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<verse num="16">"{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> when all the men of war<note>Or "battle"</note> {had died}<note>Literally "had finished/completed to die"</note> from among the people,</verse>


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<verse num="18">'You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to cross over the boundary of Moab {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> at Ar.</verse>


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<verse num="19">When you approach {the border of}<note>Literally "opposite"</note> the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "the sons/children of Ammon"</note> you shall not harass them, and you shall not get involved in battle with them, for I have not given the land of {the Ammonites}<note>Literally "the sons/children of Ammon"</note> to you as a possession; because I have given it to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Lot <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a possession.</verse>


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<verse num="20">(It is also considered the land of Rephaim; Rephaim lived in it {previously},<note>Literally "before"</note> and the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,</verse>


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<verse num="21">a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakites; Yahweh destroyed them from before them,<note>That is, the Ammonites</note> and they dispossessed them and settled in place of them,</verse>


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<verse num="22">just as he did for the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from {before them}<note>Literally "from the face/presence of them"</note> and dispossessed them, and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> they settled in their<note>Hebrew "them"</note> place up to this day.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And <transChange type="added">also</transChange> the Avvites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, <transChange type="added">and the</transChange> Caphtorim, who came out from Caphtor, destroyed them and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> settled in their place.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Arise,<note>Or "Get up"</note> set out and cross <transChange type="added">over</transChange> the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, the king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession of <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and engage with him in battle.</verse>


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<verse num="25">This day I will begin to place {the dread of you}<note>Literally "your dread"</note> and the fear of you {before}<note>Literally "upon the faces of"</note> the peoples under all the heavens. <transChange type="added">They</transChange> will hear {the report about you},<note>Literally "your report"</note> and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> they will shake and tremble {because of you}.' <note>Literally "from before you"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="26">"So I sent messengers from the wilderness<note>Or "desert"</note> of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon; <transChange type="added">I sent</transChange> terms of peace, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">'Let me cross through your land <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {only along the road}<note>Literally "in the road, in the road"</note> I will go; I will not turn aside to the right or <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> left.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Food for money you shall sell me, so that I may eat, and water for money you will give to me, so that I may drink; just let me cross on foot.</verse>


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<verse num="29"><transChange type="added">Just as</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "the children/sons of"</note> of Esau did for me, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, until I cross the Jordan into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.'</verse>


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<verse num="30">But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us cross through his <transChange type="added">territory</transChange> because Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and {made him obstinate}<note>Literally "made firm his heart"</note> {in order to give him}<note>Literally "to give him," indicating purpose</note> into your hand, {just as he has now done}.<note>Literally "as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> this day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="31">Yahweh said to me, 'Look! I have begun to give {over to you}<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> Sihon and his land; begin {to take possession of his land}.'<note>Literally, "take possession in order to possess his land"</note></verse>


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<verse num="33">And so Yahweh our God gave him over {to us},<note>Literally "before us"</note> and we struck him down, and his sons<note>Or "descendants"</note> and all of his people.</verse>


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<verse num="34">So we captured all of his cities at that time, and we destroyed each town <transChange type="added">of</transChange> males and the women and the children; we did not leave behind a survivor.</verse>


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<verse num="35">We took only the livestock as spoil for ourselves,<note>Hebrew "us"</note> and <transChange type="added">also</transChange> the booty of the cities that we had captured.</verse>


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<verse num="36">From Aroer, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the edge of the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Arnon and the city that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> on up to Gilead, <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was not a city that was inaccessible to us; Yahweh our God gave {everything}<note>Literally "the whole"</note> {to us}.<note>Literally "before us"</note></verse>


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<verse num="37">Only the land of {the Ammonites}<note>Literally "children/sons of Ammon"</note> you did not approach, <transChange type="added">all along</transChange> the whole upper region of the Jabbok {River}<note>Literally "wadi," which here refers to a flowing river</note> and the towns of the hill country, <transChange type="added">according to all</transChange> that Yahweh our God had instructed. </verse>


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<verse num="1">"Then we turned, and we went up the road to Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us, he and all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his army for the battle <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Edrei.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Yahweh said to me, 'You should not fear him, for I have given him and all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his army<note>Or "people"</note> and his land into your hand. And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you will do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> reigning in Heshbon.'</verse>


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<verse num="3">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> Yahweh our God also gave Og the king of Bashan, and all of his army<note>Or "people"</note> into our hand, and we struck him down until not a survivor remained to<note>Or "for"</note> him.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And we captured all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his towns<note>Or "villages/cities <transChange type="added">small</transChange>"</note> at that time; <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was not a city that we did not take from them.</verse>


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<verse num="5">All of these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> fortified towns with high walls, gates, and bars,<note>Hebrew "bar"</note> {apart from}<note>Literally "alone from"</note> very many <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the villages of the open country.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> we destroyed them just as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon; <transChange type="added">we destroyed</transChange> utterly each town of males, the women, and the little children.</verse>


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<verse num="7">But all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the livestock and the booty of the towns we kept as spoil for ourselves.<note>Hebrew "us"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="8">"And so we took at that time the land from {the control of}<note>Literally "the hand of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> two kings of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {on the other side of the Jordan},<note>Literally "in the beyond of the Jordan"</note> from the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Arnon up to {Mount Hermon}.<note>Literally "the mountain of Hermon"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">All of the towns of the plateau and the whole of Gilead and all of Bashan up to Salecah and Edrei, the towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.</verse>


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<verse num="11">(For only Og, king of Bashan, was left from the remnant of the Rephaim. Indeed, his bedstead--it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a bedstead of iron. It is in Rabbah of the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> Nine cubits <transChange type="added">is</transChange> its length, and four cubits <transChange type="added">is</transChange> its width according to the cubit of a man.) </verse>


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<verse num="12">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> we took possession of this land at that time, from Aroer, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the <transChange type="added">edge of the</transChange> wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Arnon, and <transChange type="added">also</transChange> half of the hill country of Gilead and its towns I gave to the Reubenites<note>Hebrew "Reubenite"</note> and to the Gadites.<note>Hebrew "Gadite"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">And the remainder of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the whole region of Argo. All of that <transChange type="added">area of</transChange> Bashan was called <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of the Rephaim.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Jair the descendant<note>Or "son"</note> of Manasseh acquired the whole region of Argob, up to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and he called it,<note>Hebrew "them"</note> <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> Bashan, after his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> name, Havvoth Jair, {as it still is today}.<note>Literally "up to this day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">And to the Reubenites<note>Hebrew "Reubenite"</note> and to the Gadites<note>Hebrew "Gadite"</note> I gave, from Gilead up to the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Arnon, the middle of the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> <transChange type="added">as a</transChange> boundary and up to the Jabbok {River},<note>Literally "wadi," which here refers to a flowing river</note> the boundary of the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">And the {Jordan Valley}<note>Literally "Arabah"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the Jordan <transChange type="added">River as its</transChange> boundary, from Kinnereth<note>Or "Chinnereth," the Sea of Galilee</note> up to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea,<note>Or the Dead Sea</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the slopes of Pisgah toward the east. </verse>


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<verse num="18">"And I charged you <transChange type="added">all</transChange> at that time <transChange type="added">when I</transChange> said, "Yahweh has given you--to <transChange type="added">all of</transChange> you--this land to possess. All the {warriors}<note>Literally "men of valor"</note> shall cross over, ready to fight, before your brothers, the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">Only your wives and your little children and your livestock (I know that {you have much livestock})<note>Literally "livestock much <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> to you"</note> must stay in your towns that I have given you,</verse>


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<verse num="20">until Yahweh shall give rest to your brothers as <transChange type="added">he did</transChange> to you, and also they take possession <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to them beyond the Jordan; then they may return, each <transChange type="added">one</transChange> to his possession that I have given to them.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, 'Your eyes see all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings; so Yahweh will do to all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the kingdoms where you are about to cross over to.</verse>


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<verse num="22">You shall not fear them, for Yahweh your God is the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> fighting for you. </verse>


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<verse num="24">'Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand, for what<note>Hebrew "who"</note> god <transChange type="added">is there</transChange> in the heaven or on the earth who can do according to your works and according to your mighty deeds?</verse>


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<verse num="25">Let me cross over, please, and let me see the good land {that is beyond the Jordan},<note>Literally "in the beyond of the Jordan"</note> this good hill country and Lebanon.'</verse>


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<verse num="26">But Yahweh was very angry with me because of you, and he would not listen to me, and Yahweh said, '{Enough of that from you}!<note>Literally "Much to you"</note> You shall not speak to me <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer about this matter!</verse>


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<verse num="27">Go up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the top of Pisgah and {look around you}<note>Literally "lift up your eyes"</note> toward the west, toward the north, and toward the east, and {view}<note>Literally "look"</note> <transChange type="added">the land</transChange> with your eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Now instruct Joshua and support him and encourage him because he himself<note>Emphatic use of the pronoun</note> will cross <transChange type="added">over</transChange> before this people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.'</verse>


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<verse num="1">"Now, Israel, listen to the rules and to the regulations that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> teaching you to do, in order that you may live and you may go <transChange type="added">in</transChange> and you may take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you.</verse>


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<verse num="2">You must not add to the word that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you, and you shall not take away from it <transChange type="added">in order</transChange> to keep<note>Or "observe"</note> the commands of Yahweh your God that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> commanding you <transChange type="added">to observe</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Your eyes have seen<note>Literally "your eyes the seeing what"</note> what Yahweh did with<note>Or "in"</note> <transChange type="added">the case of</transChange> Baal Peor, for {each}<note>Literally "every one <transChange type="added">of</transChange>"</note> man that followed after Baal Peor Yahweh your God destroyed from your midst.</verse>


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<verse num="4">But you, the <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> holding fast to Yahweh your God, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> all alive {today}.<note>Literally "the day"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="5">See, I now teach<note>Or "I have taught" (compare NASB, NEB)</note> you rules and regulations <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as Yahweh my God has commanded me, to observe <transChange type="added">them</transChange> <transChange type="added">just</transChange> so in the midst of the land where you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going, to take possession of it.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And {you must observe them diligently},<note>Literally "you must observe and you must do"</note> for that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your wisdom and your insight before the eyes of the people, who will hear all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> these rules, and they will say, 'Surely this great nation <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a wise and discerning people.'</verse>


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<verse num="7">For what great nation <transChange type="added">has</transChange> for it a god near to it as Yahweh our God, whenever<note>Literally "in every matter/every time we call "</note> we call <transChange type="added">upon</transChange> him?</verse>


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<verse num="8">And what <transChange type="added">other</transChange> great nation has for it<note>Literally "which/that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for him <transChange type="added">it</transChange>"</note> just rules and regulations just like<note>Literally "as"</note> {this whole}<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange>"</note> law that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> setting {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> you {today}?<note>Literally "the day"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="9">"However, {take care}<note>Literally "watch"</note> for yourself and watch your inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> closely, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not slip from your mind all the days of your life; and you shall make them known to your children and to {your grandchildren}.<note>Literally "the children of your children"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">Remember</transChange> the day that you stood {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh your God at Horeb {when Yahweh said to me},<note>Literally "when to say Yahweh"</note> 'Summon for me the people so that I can tell them my words, that they may learn to fear me all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the days they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> alive on the earth and so <transChange type="added">that</transChange> they may teach their children.'</verse>


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<verse num="11">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you came near, and you stood under the mountain, and the mountain <transChange type="added">was</transChange> burning with fire up to the heart of the heaven, {dark with a very thick cloud}.<note>Literally "darkness, cloud, and very thick darkness"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">And Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; {you heard}<note>Literally "you <transChange type="added">were</transChange> hearing"</note> a sound of words, but {you did not see}<note>Literally "you were not seeing"</note> a form--only a voice.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And he declared to you his covenant, {the Ten Commandments},<note>Literally "the ten words"</note> which he charged you {to observe},<note>Literally "to do"</note> and he wrote them on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> two tablets of stone.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And Yahweh charged me at that time to teach you rules and regulations {for your observation of them}<note>Literally "for your doing them"</note> in the land that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {about to cross into}<note>Literally "about to cross into there"</note> to take possession of it. </verse>


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<verse num="15">"So {you must be very careful for yourselves},<note>Literally "watch yourselves diligently with respect to your souls"</note> because you did not see<note>Or "have not seen"</note> any form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,</verse>


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<verse num="16">so that you <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not {ruin yourselves}<note>Literally "corrupt yourselves"</note> and make for yourselves a divine image <transChange type="added">in</transChange> a form of any image, a replica of male or female,</verse>


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<verse num="17">a replica of any animal that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> upon the earth, a replica of any winged bird that flies in the air,</verse>


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<verse num="18">a replica of any creeping thing on the ground, a replica of any fish that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the water {below}<note>Literally "under"</note> the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="19">{And do this so that you do not lift}<note>Literally "And lest you lift up"</note> your eyes <transChange type="added">toward</transChange> heaven and {observe}<note>Literally "see"</note> the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of the heaven, and be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that Yahweh your God has allotted to all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the peoples under all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the heaven.</verse>


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<verse num="20">But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out from the furnace of iron, from Egypt, to be a people of inheritance to<note>Or "for"; a people of inheritance = a people who is his very own possession</note> him, {as it is this day}.<note>Literally "as the day the this" = as you are now</note> </verse>


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<verse num="21">"And Yahweh was angry with me {because of you},<note>Literally "because of your matter"</note> and he swore {that I would not cross the Jordan}<note>Literally "not I to cross the Jordan"</note> and {that I would not go to the good land}<note>Literally "not <transChange type="added">I</transChange> going to the land"</note> that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance.</verse>


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<verse num="22">For I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to die in this land; I am not going to cross the Jordan, but you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going to cross, and you are going to take possession of this good land.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Watch <transChange type="added">out</transChange> for yourselves so that you do not forget the covenant of Yahweh your God that he had {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with you and make for yourselves a divine image <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the form of anything that Yahweh your God {has forbidden},<note>Literally "has commanded you <transChange type="added">about</transChange>"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">for Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a devouring fire, a jealous<note>Or "zealous" or "impassioned"</note> God. </verse>


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<verse num="25">"When you have had children and {grandchildren}<note>Literally "children of children"</note> and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, <transChange type="added">thus</transChange> provoking him to anger,</verse>


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<verse num="26">I call<note>Or "I shall call to witness"</note> to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; {you will not live long on it},<note>Literally "you will not extend days"</note> but you will be completely destroyed.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left {few in number}<note>Literally "people of number," as opposed to people without number</note> among the nations {to where Yahweh will lead you}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">he</transChange> will lead Yahweh you there"</note></verse>


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<verse num="28">And you will there serve gods {made by human hands},<note>Literally "the work of the hands of human"</note> <transChange type="added">of</transChange> wood and stone, <transChange type="added">gods</transChange> that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell.</verse>


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<verse num="29">But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.<note>Or "inner self"</note></verse>


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<verse num="30">{In your distress}<note>Literally "In <transChange type="added">the</transChange> distress for you"</note> when<note>Hebrew "and"</note> all these things have found you in the {latter days},<note>Literally "in the last of the days"</note> then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice.</verse>


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<verse num="31">For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he {will not abandon you},<note>Literally "will not leave you alone"</note> and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> that he swore to them. </verse>


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<verse num="32">"Yes, ask, please, about former days that {preceded you}<note>Literally "that <transChange type="added">they</transChange> were to the face of you"</note> from the day that God created humankind on the earth; <transChange type="added">ask even</transChange> from <transChange type="added">one</transChange> end of the heaven up to the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> end of heaven {whether anything ever happened}<note>Literally "was it <transChange type="added">ever</transChange>"</note> like this great thing or {whether anything like it was ever heard}.<note>Literally "was it <transChange type="added">ever</transChange> heard as it"</note></verse>


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<verse num="33">Has a people <transChange type="added">ever</transChange> heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as you heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and lived?</verse>


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<verse num="34">Or has a god <transChange type="added">ever</transChange> attempted to go to take for himself<note>Hebrew "for him"</note> a nation from the midst of a nation, <transChange type="added">using</transChange> trials and signs and wonders and war, with an outstretched arm and with great and awesome deeds, like all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?</verse>


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<verse num="35">You <transChange type="added">yourselves</transChange><note>Emphatic use of pronoun; plural meaning implied</note> were shown <transChange type="added">this wonder</transChange> in order <transChange type="added">for you</transChange> to acknowledge that Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the God;<note>The definite article indicates that Israel's God is alone the true God and the one who revealed himself to them</note> there is no other <transChange type="added">God</transChange> {besides him}.<note>Literally "except him" or "to him alone"</note></verse>


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<verse num="36">From heaven he made you hear his voice to teach you, and on the earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from the midst of the fire.</verse>


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<verse num="37">And because he loved your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> he chose their {descendants}<note>Literally "seed"</note> after them. And he brought you forth from Egypt {with his own presence},<note>Literally "with his faces"</note> by his great strength,</verse>


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<verse num="38">to drive out nations greater and more numerous than you {from before you},<note>Literally "from your face"</note> to bring you <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to give to you their land <transChange type="added">as</transChange> an inheritance, as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> this day.</verse>


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<verse num="39">So you shall acknowledge {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> and {you must call to mind}<note>Literally "you shall bring back to your heart"</note> that Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no other <transChange type="added">God</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="40">And you shall keep his rules and his commandments that I am commanding you {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> <transChange type="added">so</transChange> that {it may go well}<note>Literally "he/it is good"</note> for you and for your children<note>Or "descendants"</note> after you, and so that {you may remain a long time}<note>Literally "you may make long/prolong days"</note> on the land that Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> giving to you <transChange type="added">during</transChange> all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> those days." </verse>


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<verse num="41">Then Moses set apart three cities {on the other side of the Jordan},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">in the</transChange> beyond <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the Jordan"</note> {toward the east},<note>Literally "toward rising of the sun"</note></verse>


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<verse num="42"><transChange type="added">in order for</transChange> {a manslayer}<note>Literally "a killer of a man"</note> to flee there <transChange type="added">who</transChange> has killed his neighbor {without intent}<note>Literally "without <transChange type="added">previous</transChange> knowledge"</note> and was not hating him {previously},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> day before yesterday"</note> and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> he could flee to one of these cities {and be safe}.<note>Literally "and live"</note></verse>


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<verse num="43"><transChange type="added">He set apart</transChange> Bezer in the wilderness<note>Or "desert"</note> in the land of the plateau of the Reubenites;<note>Hebrew "Reubenite"</note> Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites,<note>Hebrew "Gadite"</note> and Golan in Bashan of the Manassites.<note>Hebrew "Manassite"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="44">Now this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the law<note>Hebrew "the torah" = teaching, instruction, law</note> that Moses set {before}<note>Literally "before the faces of"</note> the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="45">these are the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Moses spoke to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> {when they left Egypt},<note>Literally "at their going out from Egypt"</note></verse>


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<verse num="46">beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth Peor in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> reigning in Heshbon <transChange type="added">and</transChange> whom Moses and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> defeated {when they came out of Egypt}.<note>Literally "at their going out from Egypt"</note></verse>


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<verse num="47">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> beyond the Jordan, {eastward},<note>Literally "toward the rising of the sun"</note></verse>


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<verse num="48">from Aroer, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the bank of the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Arnon and as far as Mount Sirion; that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Hermon,</verse>


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<verse num="49">and all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the Arabah<note>Or "valley" in this instance</note> beyond the Jordan, eastward, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah<note>Commonly known today as the Dead Sea</note> under the slopes of Pisgah. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And <transChange type="added">then</transChange> Moses summoned all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Israel and said to them, "Hear, Israel, the rules and the regulations that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> speaking in your ears {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> and you shall learn them, and {you must observe them diligently}.<note>Literally "you shall observe them carefully to do them"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">It was</transChange> not with our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Yahweh made this covenant, <transChange type="added">but with</transChange> these <transChange type="added">of</transChange> us <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> here alive today.</verse>


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<verse num="4">{Face to face}<note>Literally "Faces to faces"</note> Yahweh spoke with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire.</verse>


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<verse num="5">I was standing {between Yahweh and you}<note>Literally "between Yahweh and between you"</note> at that time to report<note>Or "declare"</note> to you the word of Yahweh, for you were afraid because of {the presence of}<note>Literally "the faces of"</note> the fire, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you <transChange type="added">did</transChange> not go up the mountain. {He said},<note>Literally "To say"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="6">'I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.</verse>


