Before 18 And they took every man his censer, CHEIST and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.

19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 6: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.

20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

21 Separate yourselves from among See Gen.19. this congregation, that I may y consume them in a moment.

17.22.

Jer. 31. 6. Acts 2.40. Rev. 18. 4. y ver. 18. E 33, 10. 5.

1 ver. 45.

Fr. 3.12. Dest. 18.21. Zeca. 2. 2,

&4.9 John S. 35, 4 ch. 21. 13. Jer. 21. 16. Ezek. 13.17. Jot. 3. 39. & 6.38.

↑ Heb. as

•Ex. 20. S. 12.34. Juh 35. 15. is. 10.3.

Jer. 5.9. ↑ Heb. create & Creature. 11. 65.7. Job 31.3. La. 28. 21. 12 PET $3.

P. 55. 15.

ich. 28. 19
£47.3.

22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation ?

23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tenta of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, their little children.

and

28 And Moses said, C Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.

29 If these mer die †the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.

30 But if the LORD † make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into 10 the pit 10; then ye shall understand that these men have 11 provoked the LORD.

31And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:

32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that apper. tained unto Korah, and all their goods.

33 They, and all that appertained to Best 11. them, went down alive into 10 the pit 10, Pk. 106, 17 and the earth closed upon them and iSeever. 17. they perished from among the congre11gation.

1 Carca. 6.

12, 37.

& Lev. 10. 2.

ch. 11. L Ps. 106, 18.

I ver. 17.

• Prov 28.2. Hab. 2. 10.

34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed 'the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. 36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they 12 are hallowed 12.

38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them

VAR REND. Vs. 18, 19, 42, 43, 50. entrance of the tent of meeting.V. 26. swept away. V. 30. Lit. create. 10 vs. 80, 11 V. 30. contemned.

. 27. entrance.
Sheol or the Underworld.-
V. 37. are become holy.

Aaron stayeth the plague.

2 Chr.26.18.

40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, P that no stranger, which is p ch. 3. 10. not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.

42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the 6 tabernacle of the congregation 6: and, behold, r the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. 43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation 6. 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

45 Get you up from among this congregation, that may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and 14 go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.

47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

49 Now they that died in the plagne were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; and the plague was stayed.

ch. 14. 2. Ps. 106. 25.

+ Ex. 40. 34. I ver. 19. ch. 20. 6.

t ver. 21, 24.

u ver. 22, ch. 20. 6.

z Lev. 10. G. ch. 1. 55. 8. 19.

& 11.33. & 18. 5. J Chr.27.24. Ps. 106. 29.

@ Ex. 25. 22. & 29, 42, 43. 30. 36.

5 And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall ch. 16, 5. blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of

Charge of the priests and Levites.

Before CHRIST

cir. 1471.

e ch. 16. 11.

Before

for one prince, a red for one prince.

d Ex. 38, 21. ch. 18. 2. Acts 7. 44.

e Hebr. 9. 4. fch. 16. 38. ↑ Heb.

7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the 5 tabernacle of witness 5. 8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the 5 tabernacle of witness 5: and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token a gainst the 7t rebels: and thou shalt 7 children of quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

rebellion.

g ver. 5.

A ch. 1. 51, 53.

& 18. 4, 7.

a ch. 17. 13.

b Ex. 28. 38.

eSee Gen. 29. 34.

d ch. 3. 6. 7. e ch. 3. 10.

1 ch. 3. 25, 31, 36.

9 ch. 16. 40. 4 ch. 4. 6.

í ch. 3. 10.

* Ex. 27. 21. & 30, 7. Lev. 24. 3. ch. S. 2.

I ch. 16. 46. m ch. 3. 12, 45.

a ch. 3. 9. 8. 19.

o ver. 5. ch. 3. 10.

3 And they shall keep thy charge, and fthe charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. 4 And they shall be 3 joined and keep the charge of the of the congregation 7, for all of the tabernacle : and shall not come nigh unto you. 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.

6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: "to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the 7 tabernacle of the congregation 7.

7 Therefore thou and thy sons with P Hebr. 9.3, thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and P within the

6.

VAR. REND. V. 6. chief. 5 Vs. 7, 8. tent of the testimony (ch. 9. 15). 6 V. 8. ripened. 7 V. 10. rebellious, that thou mayest. 8 V. 13. dwelling place of the LORD dieth. ever have finished, Schl. Driver. Chap. 18. 1V. 1. i.e. be responsible for every neglect or offence relating to : comp. Ex. 28. 38.2 V. 2. cause thou to come near. -3 Va. 2, 4. There is a play here upon I the word 'Levi,' which means joining: comp. Gen. 29. 34. V. 2. whilst thou and, &c., are, Kn.

5 tent of the testimony. 6 Vs. 3. 4. tent. 7 Vs. 4, 6, 21-23, 31. tent of meeting.-8 V. 7. But.

11 And 12 this is thine; y the heave offering of their gift, with 12 all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, 10 by a statute for ever 10: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.

13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it. 14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.

15 Every thing that 13 openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon 14 the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a 15 sweet savour 15 unto the LORD.

18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the "wave breast and as the right 16shoulder are thine.

19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel 17 offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, 10 by a statute for ever10: Pit is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. 21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the 7tabernacle of the congregation 7.

22 Neither must the children of Israel

& 6. 25, 26. u Lev. S. L $7.7.

& 10. 12. & 14 12 * Lev. 6. 16 18, 28, 29. *7.6.

y Ex. 29. 57.

28.

Lev. 7. 30, 34

1 Lev. 30 14 Deut 18. 3.

a Lev. 22. 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 6 Ex. 23 19 Deut. 15. 4. Neb. 10. 33, 36.

† Heb. fat.
ver. 29.
Eu 22.29.
d Ex. 22. 3
&3 19.

* 34.26.
Lev. 2. 16
ch. 15 13.
Deut. 26. 2

. ver. 11

Lev. 27.2.
Ex. 13. 2

* 22, 19.
Lev. 27 26.
ch. 3. 11.
& Ex. 13. 12
& 34.20.

i Lev. 2
6.

ch. 3. 47.

VAR. REND.-9 V. 8. as a share. 10 s. 8, 11, 19. for a perpetual due. 11. 10. i.e. in the court: comp. Lev. 6. 16. 12 V. 11. this is thine, as the heave-offering which they are to give, to wit. 13 V. 15. first openeth. 14 V. 17. throw their blood 15 savour of satisfaction. 16. 18. Rather, thigh (Lev. 7. 82). 17 Vs. 19, 24, 26, 25, 29. heave or lift off (see Ex. 25. 2).

against.

The water of separation.

Refore

henceforth come nigh the 7 tabernacle of CHRIST the congregation 7, lest they bear sin, † and die.

24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they 17 offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Art & Israel they shall have no inheritance. 25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

L

d Matt. 10. A Luke M. T. 1 Car 5 13.

26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inberitance, then ye shall 17 offer up 17 an heave offering 18 of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.

27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, 19 as though it were 19 the corn 18 of the threshingfloor, and 19 as the fulness 18 of the winepress.

Tous ye also shall 17 offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD's heave offering to Aaron the priest. 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall 17 offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.

30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the 7 tabernacle of the congregation 7.

32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason er 13 of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye 22 pollute 21 Lea, the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

La

1

4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the 1tabernacle of the congregation 1 seven

times :

5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her 11, blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

6 And the priest shall take ⚫ cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

17 Then the priest shall wash his

VAR. RESD.-18 Va. 26, 27. from. 19 V. 27. like. 9. the entire. V. 82. if ye heave, &c. and do not pollute, Ke. 22 Or, neither will

Law for the use of it.

Before

cir. 1471.

clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into CHRIST the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them 9 Hebr. 9.13. up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congrega tion of the children of Israel for a water 2 of separation 2: it is a 3 purification for sin 3.

12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh Heb. su day he shall not be clean.

13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not 6 sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

18 And a clean person shall take hys. sop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkler Pa. 51. 7. it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: 'and on the seventh day he shall 7 purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

Lev. 14. 9.

20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled thet ver. 13. sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been 6 sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water 2 of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until

The people murmur for water.

Before CHRIST

1453.

a ch. 33. 36.

b Ex. 15. 20. ch. 26. 59. e Ex. 17. 1.

d eh. 16. 19, 42.

e Ex. 17. 2. ch. 14. 2. ch. 11. 1, 33.

& 14. 37.

& 16. 34, 35, 49.

g Ex. 17. 3.

A ch. 14. 5.
& 16. 4, 22,
45.

í ch. 14. 10.
& Ex. 17. 5.

I Neb. 9. 15. Ps. 78. 15, 16.

& 105, 41.
& 114.8.
1. 43. 20.
& 48. 21.

meh. 17. 10.
n Ps. 106. 33.
o Ex. 17. 6.
Deut. 8. 15.
1 Cor. 10. 4.
p ch. 27. 14.
Deut. 1. 37.
& 3.26.
& 32. 51.

9 Lev. 10, 3.
Ezek 20.41.
& 36. 23.

& 38. 16.

1 Pet. 3. 15.
Deut. 33. 8.
Ps. 95. 8.

& 106. 32,
&c.

That is,
Strife.

See Ex 17.7.
Judg. 11.
16, 17.

t Deut. 2. 4, &c.

& 23. 7. Obad,10,12.

+ Heb. found us. Ex. 18. 8. u Gen. 46. 6. Acta 7. 15.

se Ex. 12. 40. z Ex. 1. 11, &c. Deut. 26. 6. Acts 7. 19.

y Ex. 2. 23. & 3.7.

z Ex. 3. 2. & 14. 19. & 23.20, & 33. 2,

CHAPTER 20.

HEN came the children of Israel,

18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out

shalt with werd.

3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died f when our brethren died before the LORD!

4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.

6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the 2 tabernacle of the congregation 2, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.

7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the 3 rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their

beasts drink.

9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, "Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this 3 rock?

11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because believed

not, to sanctify us in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in

them.

14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travel that hath + befallen us: 15

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: a See ch. 21. and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in 6 the uttermost of thy 6 border:

22. Deut. 2. 27.

17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through

VAR. REND.-Chap. 20. 1 V. 6. entrance. 2 tent of meeting. 3 V. 8, 10, 11. crag (a different word from the rock' of Ex. 17. 6).- 4V. 13. sanctified himself, i.e. shewed himself holy. Comp. Lev. 10. 3. 5 V. 14. i.e. travail. - 6V. 16. thy uttermost.

Before CH BIST 1453.

b Deut. 2. 6 28.

e Judg. 11. 17.

21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel See Deut. passage through his border wherefore Israel turned away from him.

22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor. 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, 7 by the coast 7 of the land of Edom, saying,

24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my † word at the water of Meribah.

25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son,
and bring them up unto mount Hor:
26 And strip Aaron of his garments,
and put them upon Eleazar his son :
and Aaron shall be gathered unto his
people, and shall die there.

27 And Moses did as the LORD com-
manded: and they went
into
up
mount Hor in the sight of all the
congregation.

Awhich delting thatth, and tell a ch ND when a Arad Canaanite, that Israel came by the way of 3 the spies 3; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.

2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities and 6 he called the name of the place 7 Hormah.

4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to f compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people 8 was much † discouraged 8 because of the way.