231 of the people. And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven 2 bullocks and seven rams. °And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. 3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand

by thy burnt offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went 4) to a bare height. And God met Balaam and he said unto him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a 5 ram 'on' every altar. And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus 6 thou shalt speak. And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt offering', he, and all the princes (7) of Moab. And he took up his parable, and said,

From Aram hath Balak brought me,
The king of Moab 'from the moun-

tains of the East:

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he 'took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and 15 a ram on every altar. And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yon16 der. And the LORD met Balaam,

and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus 17 shalt thou speak!. And he came to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, 18 What hath the LORD spoken? And

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Who can count the dust of Jacob,

Hath he said, and shall he not do it?

Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Behold, I have received commandment to bless :

And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob,

Neither hath he seen perverseness

in Israel:

The LORD his God is with him,

And the shout of a king is among them.

God bringeth' them forth out of Egypt;

He hath as it were the strength of Ithe "wild-ox'.

21 Or number the fourth part of Israel?

Let me die the death of the righteous,

And let my last end be like his ! 11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. 12 And he answered and said, Must I

not take heed to speak that which the 13 LORD 'putteth in my mouth? And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them; thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all and 14 curse me them from thence.

1 Heb. be wroth against.

Heb. Or, by number, the &c. Heb. my soul.

°And

4 Or, Thorns!

23)

Surely there is no enchantment 6l with Jacob,

Neither is there any divination
Glwith Israel:

"Now shall it be said of Jacob
and of Israel,

What hath God wrought!

(24) Behold, the people 'riseth' up as a Ilioness',

And as a lion 'doth he' lift him

self up:

He shall not lie down until he eat

unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I 27 must do? And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest 28 curse me them from thence. And

Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the 29 desert'. "And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks 30 and seven rams. "And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. 241 And when Balaam saw that it

pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at the other times, to Imeet with enchantments, but he set 2 his face toward the wilderness. And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the spirit of God 3 came upon him. And he took up his parable, and said,

Blessed be every one! that blesseth thee,

And cursed be every one that curseth thee.

10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three 11 times. Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour. 12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake

I not also to thy messengers which (13 thou sentest unto me, saying, 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the Iword of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; what the LORD speaketh', that will I speak? (14 °And now, behold, I go unto my people come, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy 15 people in the latter days. And he took up his parable, and said,

open:

16

Or, of Sheth

XXIV. 1 seek for;

25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.

251 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab: 2 for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their 3 gods.

And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the 'chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD 5 may turn away from Israel. And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that 'have joined themselves unto Baal-peor. 6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping 'at' the door of the tent of 'meeting'. 1 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a 'spear *8 in his hand; and he went after the

1 Or, the Kenites\

2 Or, How long? Asshur &c.

man of Israel into the "pavilion', and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed °Ánd 9 from the children of Israel. those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

10

And the LORD spake unto Moses, 11 saying, Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, 'in that he was 'jealous with my jealousy among them, Iso that I consumed not the children 12 of Israel in my jealousy. "Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my (13) covenant of peace: and it shall be unto him', and 'to' his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous' for his God, and made atonement for the 14 children of Israel. Now the name of the Iman of Israel' that was slain, Iwho was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a 'fathers' house among 15 the Simeonites. And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a 'fathers" house in Midian.

16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, 17 saying, Vex the Midianites, and smite 18 them: for they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of 'the' prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain 'on' the day of the plague 'in the matter of Peor'.

261 And it came to pass after the plague,

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that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the 2 priest, saying, "Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' 'houses', all that are able to go forth to war in 3 Israel. And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, 4 saying, Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which came forth out of the land of Egypt. (5) Reuben, the firstborn of Israel:

3 Or, lestablisheth him 4 Or, yoked

Or, the Baal of Peor See ch. xxiii. 28.

• Or, lalcovel

the 'sons' of Reuben; of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, 6 the family of the Palluites: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 1°These are the families of the Reubenites and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. 8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. 9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, which were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD: 10 and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a 11 sign. Notwithstanding the 'sons' of

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Korah died not.

The sons of Simeon after their families of 1Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the 13 family of the Jachinites: of Zerah,

the family of the 'Zerahites: of Shaul, 14 the family of the Shaulites. These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

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lies of the 'sons' of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land 20 of Canaan. And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of 'Perez', the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the 'Zerahites'. 21 And the sons of Perez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. 22 These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered

1 In Gen. xlvi. 10, Ex. vi. 15, Jemuel. In 1 Chr. iv. 24, Farib.

3 In Gen. xlvi. 10, Zohar.

* In Gen. xlvi. 16, Ziphion.

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of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.

The sons of Issachar after their families of Tola, the family of the Tolaites of Puvah', the family of 24 the Punites: of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the 25 family of the Shimronites. °These

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are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.

The sons of Zebulun after their families of Sered, the family of the 'Seredites of Elon, the family of the Elonites of Jahleel, the family of 27 the Jahleelites. These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred. (28 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. (29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead, the 30 family of the Gileadites. These are the sons of Gilead: of lezer, the family of the 'lezerites: of Helek, the 31 family of the Helekites: and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shech32 emites and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, 33 the family of the Hepherites.

And

Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, 34 and Tirzah. These are the families of Manasseh: and they! that were numbered of them were fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.

8 In Josh. xvii. 2, Abiezer. See Judg. vi. 11, 24, 34.

9 In 1 Chr. vii. 20, Bered.

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The sons of Asher after their families of Imnah', the family of the Imnites of Ishvi', the family of the Ishvites of Beriah, the family of 45 the Beriites. Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites of Malchiel, the family of the 46 Malchielites. And the name of the daughter of Asher was 'Serah'. (47 °These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them, fifty and three thousand and four hundred. (48 The sons of Naphtali after their families of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites of Guni, the family of 49 the Gunites of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites of Shillem, the family 50 of the Shillemites. °These are the families of Naphtali according to their families and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.

51

These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.

52 And the LORD spake unto Moses, 53 saying, Unto these the land shall be

divided for an inheritance according 54) to the number of names. °To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one according to those that were numbered of him shall his inheritance be

55 given. "Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers

1 In Gen. xlvi. 21, Ehi in 1 Chr. viii. 1, Aharah.

56 they shall inherit. According to the lot shall their inheritance' be divided between the more' and 'the fewer'.

57

And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the 58 family of the Merarites. These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath begat 59 Amram. And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, 'who was born' to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and 60 Moses, and Miriam their sister. And unto Aaron were born Nadab and 61 Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. And

Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD. 62 And they that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, levery male from a month old and upward for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

63

These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest; who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by 'the' Jordan 'at' 64) Jericho. But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest; whol numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 65 °For the LORD had said of them,

They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

271 Then 'drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Mil2 cah, and Tirzah. And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, 'at' the door of the 3 tent' of meeting, saying, °Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of them that