The murmurer's punishment. Before CHAPTER XV. 32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall CHRIST in this wilderness. 1490 33 And your children shall wander in the wilderDeness forty years, and bear your "whoredoms, until Jer. 3, 9. your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. X 34 After the number of the days in which ye Ezek. 4,6. searched the land, even forty days, each day for a Dan. 9, 24. year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years; y Deut. 31, and ye shall know my breach of promise: 16. Zech. 11,10. 35 I the LORD have said, 'I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together 11 Cor. 10, against me; in this wilderness they shall be conHeb. 5, 13 sumed, and there they shall die. 11. 36 1 And the men which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to à ch. 13, 30. murmur against him, by bringing up a * slander upon the land, Deut. 1,41. (ver Acts 14,15 Mat. 4 4, 5. 37 Even those men, that did bring up the evil report upon the land, díed by the plague before the LORD. The law of sundry offerings. offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or Before peace-offerings unto the LORD: 9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat-offering of three tenth-deals of flour mingled with half a hin of oil. 19 And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid. 12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one, according to their number. 13 All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do. CHRIST 1490. 15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the con- 49. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the songregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth 39 ¶ And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel; and the people mourned greatly. 40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised; for we have sinned. 41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do you trans-{ gress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall g Deut. 1, not prosper. 42 ius 9、 12. 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. k Exod. 12 Lev. 19, 34. 19 Then it shall be, that when fe eat of the " bread 28. of the land, ye shall offer " up a heave-offering unto nch. 18, 18. the LORD. 20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for a heave-offering: as ye do the heaveoffering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it. 21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD a heave-offering in your generations. 22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all 44. But they presumed to go up unto the hill-top:these commandments which the LORD hath spoken * Deut. 1, nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, unto Moses, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore b ch. 9, 15. the LORD will not be with you. ch. 18, 26. 24 Then it shall be, if aught be committed by ig- t Lev. 4, 2. norance, † without the knowledge of the congrega- Heb. from tion, that "all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savour unto u Lev. 4,14 the LORD, with his meat-offering, and his drink-of- x Lev. 4, 21. fering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering. 25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all y Heb. 9,11 the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin-offering before the LORD, for their ignorance: The sabbath-breaker stoned. Before 1490. NUMBERS. 29 You shall have one law for him that sinneth CHRIST through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. ↑ Heb. with a high hand. The rebellion of Korah, &c. 8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi: Before CHRIST cir. 1471. p ch. 3, 41. 26. 9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congre- 1 Sam. 18, 30 But the soul that doeth aught † presumptuous-gation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do 23. ly, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to Lev. 20, same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shail bestand before the congregation,to 'minister unto them? Acts 13, 2. e Acts 3,23. cut off from among his people. 10 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all Gal. 1, 15. thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye rch. 8, 11. the priesthood also? b 2 Kings 19, 22. d Prov. 13, 13. b d 31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul Mark 7, 9. shall utterly be cut off: his' iniquity shall be upon him. 32 1 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath-day. (Lev. 22, 9. Lev. 24, b Ex. 31, 4. & 35, 2. 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation: 34 And they put him in ward, because it was not h declared what should be done to him. 35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall 14 Moreover, thou hast not brought us into a land a Ex. 3, 8. be surely put to death all the congregation shall that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheri: i Ex. 21, 12 i stone him with stones without the camp. tance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou † put out the dig out. 36 And all the congregation brought him without eyes of these men? we will not come up. 1 Kings 21, the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; Heb. 4,1,2, as the LORD commanded Moses. k Acts 7, 5, 8. 13. 3. & 13, 11. 1 Deut. 6, 8. & 11, 18. 37 I And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them 'fringes in the borders of their garments, throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a riband of blue: 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye? m Mat. 19, may look upon it, and " remember all the commandRon. 13, 14. ments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye " seek not after your own heart, and your own eyes, after ch. 14,36. which ye use to go a whoring: 16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow: 17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer. 18 And they took every man his censer, 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 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 this congre- 23 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, m 45. Job 21,18. Dan. 4, 30, 31. i Zech. 12, J. Job. 12, 10. I Isaiah 40, 5. 3. ver. 1, 4, 9. 25 And Moses rose up, and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. m 1 Pe*. $, 26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Heb. 15, 7. Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and "touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be con- 1 sumed in all their sins. n 2 Cor. 6. o Rev. 12, 4 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 p Prov. 16, tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little Jobss, s children. 7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them be- 28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that efore the LORD to-morrow: and it shall be, that the the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I man whom the LORD doth " choose, he shall be ho-have not done them of mine own mind. ly: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi. 29 If these men die the common death of all men. • 1 Kings 18, 17. The punishment of Korah, &c. Aaron's rod flourish CHAPTER XVII....XVIII. Before or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; 50 And Aaron returned unto Moses, unto the b CHRIST then the LORD hath not sent me · " door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and cir. 1471. the plague was stayed. cir. 1471. Job 31, 3. 30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the Isa. 457. earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick PL.65, 1 into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. 15. Ps. 106, 17. 1 ch. 26, 11. CHAPTER XVII. CHR u 2 Sam. 24, 25. 1 Chron. 21 26. Aaron's rod among all the rods of the tribes only flourisheth. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take 31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of of every one of them a rod, according to the house a Ps. 111, 2 speaking all these words, that the ground clave asun-of their fathers, of all their princes according to the der that was under them: house of their fathers, twelve rods: write thou every X b 3,4 b ch. 20, 9. 3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the Heb. 4. house of their fathers. 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swal-man's name upon his rod. Prov. 11, lowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 They, and all that appertained to them, went 71109, down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. 34 And all Israel that were round about them fled er.49,21. at the cry of them: for they said, "Lest the earth Prov. 21, Swallow us up also. 4. And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation, "before the testimony, where I will meet with you. e Ex. 6, 16. 18, 1, 7. ch. 3,2,3. & d Ex. 25, 16. e Ex. 25,22. 5 And it shall come to pass that the man's rod, & 50, 36. whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will f Deut. 38, make to cease from me the murmurings of the chil- 11. dren of Israel, whereby they murmur against you. verse 8. Isa. 3, 7. Ps. 132, 8. 6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel; and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron wus prince. among their rods. 36 1 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 Rev. 8, 5. Scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed. 38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a cover-the Pro.20,2 ing of the altar; for they offered them before the Kings 2 LORD, therefore they are hallowed; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. 39 And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they 2 Pet. 26 were made broad plates for a covering of the altar; 40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, Deut. 11,6. that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, h2 Sam. 6, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he 2 Chr. 25, be not " as Korab, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses. 7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in 8 And it came to pass, that, on the morrow, Moses for one rod d fo prince. Gen. 10, k g Ezek. 17,24 h Eccl. 12, Jer. 1, 11. i 1 Kings 8, 9. 9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before 5." 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 12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, CHAPTER XVIII. 43 And Moses and Aaron came before the taber-1 The charge of the priests and Levites....8 The priests' pornacle of the congregation. 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 45. Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And 01 Chr. 21, they fell upon their faces. tion....21 The Levites' portion. of rebellion. AND the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou, and thy feb. 2, 15. e Gen. 24 34. 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: Isa. 56, 3, 6 but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before d ch. 16, 9. the tabernacle of witness. e2Chr. 30, 16. 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh fch. 3,7,8 the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they nor you also die. 4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the Ps. 131, 1. charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all g ch. 3, 10, the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall h Heb. 9,2, not come nigh unto you. 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, The priests' and the Levites' portions. NUMBERS. Before and the charge of the altar; that there be no 'wrath cir. 1471. any more upon the children of Israel. CHRIST Lev. 6 And I, behold I, have taken your brethren the Let 16,1,2 Levites from among the children of Israel; to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. k ch. 3, 12. Ex. 27, 20. Isa. 9, 6. Rom. 3, 24. & 3, 32. m 7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep 1 Heb. 9, 3, your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve I have given your priest's office unto you as at service of gift: and Heb. gift, the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have "given thee the charge of mine heave-offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel n1 Cor. 9, unto thee have I given them, P by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: Every oblation of theirs, every meat-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of r Lev. 6, 20. theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. 13. o Lev. 5, 15. p Lev. 21, 10 q Lev. 2, 3. & Ex. 29, 37. 1 Cor. 9, 13. Seb. 9, 3, 7. 10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every Neh. 13,5, t male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. 11 And this is thine: the "heave-offering of their Pet. 25. gift, with all the wave-offerings of the children of t ver. 11, 13, Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. CHRIST cir. 1471. 24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering unto the LORD, I have Heb. 7, 4. given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 25 I And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 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 inheritance, then ye shall offer up a heave-offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. 27 And this your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the wine-press. 28 Thus ye also shall offer a heave-offering unto the LORD of all your tithes which ye receive of the Joel 2,24 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 offer every heaveoffering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof, out of it. Ex. 22, 24 u Neh. 10, 30. Heb. 7, 5. ch. 35, 4 t Heb. fut, verses-12, 21,52 22, 23. z 1 Tim. 5 17. Gen. 31, 12. 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be y Deut. 14, counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the wine-press. 31 And ye shall eat it ' in every place, ye and your households: for it is your 2 reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. a CHAPTER XIX. The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifer. a Deut. 12, 19 Mat. 10, 10. Isa. 56, 11. Luke 10, 7. 1 Cor. 9, 10. Gal.6, 6. 2 Tim. 4, 7, 16 And those that are to be redeemed, from 'a AND the LORD spake unto Moses, and unto 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 Deut. 15, sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder are thine. 19 All the heave-offerings of the holy things, 2 Chr. 31, 4. which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee and thy sons, and thy daughters 2 Chron. with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee, and to thy Ich 20, 28. seed with thee. 20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, 'Thou shalt n Josh. 15, have no " inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part, and o Deut. 18, thine inheritance, among the children of Israel. 21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi Lam. S, 24. all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their Deut. 14, service which they serve, even the service of the tabNeh. 10, 37. ernacle of the congregation. Josh. 13, 14. Lev. 27, 30. 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth 10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: Zecb. 13, and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. 11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man Lev. 7, 19. shall be unclean seven days. s Acts 15,9. 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 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 Lev. 5, 3, off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him. u Lev. 11, 32 * ch. 31, 19. 15. 2 Rom. 6.23. John 5, 26. 1 Tim. 5, 6. 14 This is the law when a man dieth in a tent; All that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 15 And every" open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean. Ꭹ 16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a y Ezek. 39, sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the Col. 2, 13. ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and 2 Tim. 2, 17. † running water shall be put thereto in a vessel; 18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and Gen. 26, 18. on all the vessels, and upon the persons that were a ch. 31, 23. there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: 1 Cor. 5, 6. Moses smiteth the rock, &c. CHRIST 4 And why have ye brought up the congregation Before 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 m 1 14. 1453. n ch. 16, 6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence Rev. 12, of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces; m ch. 15, 1. and the glory of the LORD" appeared unto them. 71 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly o Ex. 17, 3 together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye pver. 10, 11. unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give a Ps. 76, 15 forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them Neh. 9, 15, 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. 13 This is the water of || Meribah; because the up-children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was d Deu. 3, sanctified in them. 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the e1 Cor. 15, unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. dEx. 12.15. Heb. 4, 9. e Lev. 15, 5. 20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from fcb. 5, 2 among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean. 21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall Heb. 9, wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even. 13. 14 I And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath † befallen us; 23. That is, Strife. e Ps. 68, 35. f Gen. 25, 30. 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and Heb. we have dwelt in Egypt a " long time; and the Egyptians vexed us and our fathers: k found us. g Gen. 1, i Ex. 3, 2. 16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard Ex. 12,40 our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt; and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: 17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy coun- k Deut. 1. P. try: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high-way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders. 18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass d ch. 39, 38. in the first month: and the people abode in Ka-Edom came out against him with much people, and h Ex. 17, 2 3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, |