The Levites confecration. Chap. I. When thou lightest the lamps, the feven lamps thall give light over against the candiefick. 3 And Aaron did fo: he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick; as the Lox connianded Motes. 4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold; unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had thewed Moles, lo he made the candlestick. And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, fay Take the Levites from among the children of Ifrael, and cleanse them. 7 And thus thait thou do unto them, to cleanfe them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them have all their reth, and let them wash their clothes, and fo make themselves clean. 8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat-ottering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bul. lock halt thou take for a fin-offering. 9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole affembly of the children of Ifrael together. he London that bring the Levites before the LORD, and the children of Ifrael thall put their hands upon the Levites: 11 And Aaron hall offer the Levites before the LORD, for an offering of the children of lirael, that they may execute the fervice of the LORD. 12 And the Levites fhall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou halt offer the one for a fin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites. 13 And thou shalt fet the Levites before Aaron, and before his fons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD. 14 Thus fhalt thou feparate the Levites from among the children of Ifrael: and the Levites fhall be mine. 15 And after that thall the Levites go in to do the fervice of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering. 15 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Ifrael; instead of fuch as open every womb, even instead of the firit born of all the children of Ifrael, have I taken them unto me. For all the first-born of the children of Ifrael are mine, both man and beaft: on the day that I fmote every firft-born in the land of Egypt I fanctified them for myfelf. 18 And I have taken the Levites for all the first-born of the children of Ifrael. 19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron, and to his fons, from among the children of Ifrael, to do the fervice of the children of Ifrael in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Ifrael; that there be no plague among the children of Ifracl, when the children of Ifrael come nigh unto the fanctuary. to And Mofes, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of lirael, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Mofes concerning the Levites, so did the children of Ifrael unto them. The pasover enjoined 21 And the Levites were purified, and they wathed their clothes: and Aaron of fered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them. 22 And after that went the Levites in to do their fervice in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his fons: as the LORD had commanded Mofes concerning the Levites, so did they unto them. 23 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 24 This is it that belongeth unto the Le vites; from twenty and five years old and up. ward they thall go in to wait upon the fer. vice of the tabernacle of the congregation: 25 And from the age of fifty years they thall ceafe waiting upon the service thereof and thall ferve no more; 26 But fhall minifter with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and thall do no fervice. Thus that thou do unto the Levites touch. ing their charge. CHAP. IX. 1 The paover enjoined. 15 A cloud guiderb the Ifraelites. AND the LORD spake unto Mofes in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the fecond year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, faying, 2 Let the children of Ifrael alfo keep the paffover at his appointed feafon. 3 In the fourteenth day of this month at even ye thall keep it in his appointed feason according to all the rites of it, and accord ing to all the ceremonies thereof, fhall ye keep it. 4 And Mofes fpake unto the children of Ifrael, that they fhould keep the paffover. 5 And they kept the paffover on the four teenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Mofes, fo did the children of Ifrael. 6And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the patlover on that day; and they came before Mofes and before Aaron on that day. 7 And thofe men faid unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man; where fore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in bis appointed fea. fon among the children of Ifrael: 8 And Mofes faid unto them, Stand Atill, and I will hear what the LORD will com mand concerning you. 9 And the LORD ipake unto Mofes, faying, To Speak unto the children of Ifrael, fay ing, If any man of you, or of your potterity, fhall be unclean by reafon of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he thall keep the paffover unto the LORD. 11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone ofit; accord. ing to all the ordinances of the paffover they thali keep it. 13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the pallover, even the fame foul thail be cut off from ES The cloud and fire. NUMBER S. among his people; because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed feafon, that man fhall bear his fin. 14 And if a stranger thall fojourn among you, and will keep the paffover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the paffover, and according to the manner thereof, fo thall he do; ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land." Is And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the teftimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire until the morning. 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. 17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Ifrael journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Ifrael pitched their tents. 18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Ifrael journeyed and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. 19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Ifrael kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not. 20 And fo it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the command. ment of the LORD they journeyed. 21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up they journeyed. 22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Ifrael abode in their tents, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up they journeyed. 23 At the commandment of the LORD they retted in the tents, and at the command. ment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandtent of the LORD by the hand of Moses. CHAP. X. The use of the filver trumpets. 33 Mofes's bleffing. A Make thee two trumpets of filver; of a ND the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, whole piece shalt thou make them, that thou mayef use them for the calling of the affembly, and for the journeying of the camps. And when they hall blow with them, all the affenibly shall affemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thioufands of Ifrael, thall gather themselves unto thee. When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the eaft parts fhall go forward. 6 When ye blow an alarm the fecond time, then the camps that lie on the fouth fide thall take their journey: they thall blow an alarm for their journeys. Journey to Paran, St. 7 But when the congregation is to be ga thered together ye shall blow, but ye thall not found an alarm. 8 And the fons of Aaron the priests fall blow with the trumpets: and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. 9 And if ye go to war in your land againft the enemy that oppreffeth you, then ye thail blow an alarm with the trumpets: and ye fhall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be faved from your enemies. 10 Alfo in the day of your gladness, and in your folemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trum pets over your burnt-offerings, and over the facrifices of your peace-offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God. 11 And it came to pafs, on the twentieth day of the fecond month, in the fecond year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the teftimony. 12 And the children of Ifrael took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud retted in the wilderness of Paran. 13 And they first took their journey, ac cording to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Mofes. 14 In the first place went the ftandard of the camp of the children of Judah, ac cording to their armies: and over his ho was Nahfhon the fon of Amminadab. 15 And over the hoft of the tribe of the children of Iffachar was Nethaneel the fon of Zuзr. 16 And over the host of the tribe of the chil dren of Zebulun was Eliab the fon of Helon. 17 And the tabernacle was taken down : and the fons of Gershon and the fons of Me rari fet forward, bearing the tabernacle. 18 And the ftandard of the camp of Reu ben fet forward, according to their armies and over his hoft was Elizur the fon of Shedeur. 19 And over the host of the tribe of the chil dren of Simeon was Shelumiel the fon of Zurifhaddai. 20 Andover the host of the tribe of the chil dren of Gad sas Eliafaph the fon of Deuel. 21 And the Kohathites fet forward, bearing the fanctuary; and the other did fet up the tabernacle against they came. 22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim fet forward, according to their armies: and over his hoft was El fhama the fon of Ammihud. 23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manaffeh suas Gamaliel the fon of Pedabzur. 24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the fo of Gideoni. 25 And the ftandard of the camp of the children of Dan fet forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hofts: and over his hoft was Ahiezer the fon of Ammishaddai. 26 And over the hoft of the tribe of the chil dren of Afher, was Pagiel the fon of Octan 27 And over the hott of the tribe of the chil dren of Naphtali was Ahira the fon of Enan 28 Thus were the journeyings of the chil dren of Ifrael, according to their armies when they fet forward. Elders appointed 12 Have I conceived all this people! have I begotten them, that thou thouldert fay unto me, Carry them in thy bofom (as a nur fing-father beareth the fuckling child)untothe land which thou (wareft unto their fathers! Chap. 21. 31 And he laid, Leave us not, I pray thee; 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yes, it fhall be, that what goodness the LORD hall do unto us, the fame will we do unto thee. 33¶ And they departed from the mount of the LORD three day's journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days journey, to fearch out a refting-place for them. 34 And the cloud of the LORDwas upon them by day when they went out of the camp. 35 And it came to pafs, when the ark fet forward, that Mofes fail, Rife up, LORD, and let thine enemies be fcattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee. 36 And when it reited he faid, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Ifrael. CHAP. XI. 1 Manna lothed, 16 Seventy elders appoint- 2 And the people cried unto Mofes; and when Mofes prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. 4And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lufting: and the children of lfrael alfo wept again, and faid, Who shall give us fleth to eat? 3 We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick. 6 But now our foul is dried away: there is nothing at all, befides this manna, before our eyes. And the manna was as coriander-feed, and the colour thereo's the colour of bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the tafle of fresh oil. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. 10 Then Mofes heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Mofes alfo was dif. pleafed. 11 And Mofes faid unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy fervant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy fight, that thou laycut the burden of all this people upon met 13 Whence thould I have desh to give un to all this people! For they weep unto me, faying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy fight; and let me not see my wretchednefs. 16 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Gather unto me feventy men of the elders of Ifrael, whom thou knoweft to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will conie down, and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they thall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thy felf alone. 18 And fay thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves againft to-morrow, and ye shall eat fein: (for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, faying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt :) therefore the LORD will give you fleth, and ye thall eat. 19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; io But even a whole month, until it come out at your noftrils, and it be loathfome unto you: becaufe that ye have defpifed the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, faying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? 21 And Mofes faid, The people among whom I am are fix hundred thousand footmen; and thou haft faid, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month, 22 Shall the flocks and the herds be flain for them, to futfice them or fhall all the fish of the fea be gathered together for them, to fuffice them? 23 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Is the LORD's hand waxed thort? Thou shalt fee now whether my word hall come to pass unto thee or not. 24 And Mofes went out, and told the peo. ple the words of the LORD, and gathered the feventy men of the elders of the people, and fet them round about the tabernacle. 25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and fpake unto him, and took of the fpirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the feventy elders: and it came to pafs that, when the fpirit refted upon them, they pro phefied, and did not cease. 26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the fpirit retted upon them, (and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle,) and they prophefiedin the camp. 27 And there ran a young man, and told Mofes, and faid, Eldad and Medad do pro. phefy in the camp. 28 And Joshua the fon of Nun, the fervant of Mofes, one of his young men, anfwered, and faid, My lord Mofes, forbid them. 29 And Mofes faid unto him, Envieit chou 1 for my fake? Would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his Spirit upon them. 30 And Mofes gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Ifrael. 31 And there went torth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the fea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this fide, and as it were a day's journey on the other fide, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. 32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered leaft gathered ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. 33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people; and the LORD fmote the people with a very great plague. 34 And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lufted. 35 And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth. CHA P. XII. Spies fearch Canaan. 13 And Mofes cried unto the LORD, fay. ing, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee. 14 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, If her father had but fpit in her face, thould the not be ashamed feven days? Let her be that out from the camp feven days, and after that let her be received in again. 15 And Miriam was thut out from the camp feven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again. 16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Parar.. CHAP. XIII. 1 The names of the men who were sent to jearch the land: 17 their infiructions: 21 their alis: 26 and their relation. AND the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 2 Send thou nien, that they may fearch the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Ifrael: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. 3 And Mofes,by the commandment of the LORD, fent them from the wilderness of Pa. ran all thofe men were heads of the chil dren of Ifrael. 4 And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben; Shammua, the son of Zaccar. 5 of the tribe of Simeon; Shaphat, the 1 Miriam's and darow's fedition. 10 Mi- fon of Hori. riam's leprofy healed. AND Miriam and Aaron (pake against Mo. fes, because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2 And they faid, Hath the LORD indeed fpoken only by Mofes? hath he not spoken alfo by us? And the LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Mofes was very meek above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) 4 And the LORD fрake fuddenly unto Mofes, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out. 5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and ttood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam : and they both came forth. 6 And he faid, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, the LORD will make myfelt known unto him in a vison, and will speak unto him in a dream. 7 My fervant Mofes is not fo, who is faithful in all mine houfe. 8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the fimilitude of the LORD thall he be hold: Wherefore then were ye not afraid to fpeak against my fervant Mofes ? 9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them, and he departed. 10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as fnow and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, be was leprous." 11 And Aaron faid unto Mofes, Alas! my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the fin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have finned. 12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half confumed, when he cometh out of his mother's womb. 6. Of the tribe of Judah; Caleb, the fan of Jephunneh 7 Of the tribe of Iffachar; Igal, the fon of Jofeph. 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim; Othea, the fon of Nun. 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin; Palti, the fon of Raphu. 10 of the tribe of Zebulun; Gaddiel, the fon of Sodi. 11 Of the tribe of Jofeph, namely, of the tribe of Manaffeh; Gaddi, the fon of Sufi. 12 Of the tribe of Dan; Ammiel, the fon of Gemalli. 13 Of the tribe of Afner; Sethur, the fon of Michael. 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali; Nahbi, the fon of Vophi. 15 Of the tribe of Gad; Geuel, the fon of Machi. 16 These are the names of the men which Mofes fent to fpy out the land. And Moles called Ofhea the fon of Nun, Jehoshua. 17 And Mofes fent them to fpy out the land of Canaan, and faid unto them, Get yo up this way fouthward, and go up into the mountain; 18 And fee the land what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be frong or weak, few or many; 19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what d ties they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in ftrong holds; 20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein or not: and be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. (Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.). 21 So they went up, and fearched the land from the wildernefs of Zin unto Rehob as men come to Hamath. 22 And they afcended by the fouth, and came unto Hebron, where Ahiman, She t COTA Hafes intercedetb Chap. xiv. 23 And they came unto the brook of Efb- 24 The place was called the brook Efhcol, 27 And they told him, and faid, We came this is the fruit of it. 28 Nevertheless, the people be firong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and, moreover, we faw the children of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the fouth; and the Hittites,and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the fea, and by the coaft of Jordan. 30 And Caleb filled the people before Mofes, and faid, Let us go up at once and pof. fels it; for we are well able to overcome it. 31 But the men that went up with him faid, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had fearched unto the children of Ifrael, faying, The land, through which we have gone to fearch it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof: and all the people that we faw in it are men of a great stature. 33 And there we faw the giants, the fons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own fight as grafshoppers, and fo we were in their fight. CHAP. XIV. The people, murmuring at the report of the And all the children of Ifrael murmured 6 And Joshua the fon of Nun, and Caleb the fon of Jephunneh, which were of them that fearched the land, rent their clothes. 7 And they fpake unto all the company of the children of Ifrael, faying, The land, which we paffed through to fearch it, is an exceeding good land, with God. 8 If the LORD delight in us, then he wil bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. 9 Only rebel not ye againit the LORD, neither lear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their delence is de parted from them, and the LORD is with us; fear them not. 10 But all the congregation bade ftone them with ftones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation, betore all the children of lirael. II And the LORD faid unto Mofes, How long will this people provoke me and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the figns which I have thewed among them? 12 I will fmite them with the peftilence, and difinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation, and mightier than they. 13 And Mofes faid unto the Lox, Then the Egyptians thall hear it,(for thou brought eft up this people in thy might from among them,) 14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou, LORD, art among this people; that thou, LORD, art feen face to face; and that thy cloud ftandeth over them; and that thou goeft before them, by day-time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. 15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations, which have heard the fame of thee, will speak, faying, 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he fware unto them, therefore he hath flain them in the wilderness. 17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great, according as thou haft spoken, faying, 18 The LORD is long-fuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and tranfgreifton, and by no means clearing the quilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation: 19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou haft forgiven this people from Egypt even until now. 20 And the LORD faid, I have pardoned, according to thy word: 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. 22 Because all thofe men which have feen my glory, and my miracles which I did in Egypt, and in the wildernefs, and have tempted me now thefe te times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they thall not fee the land which I fware unto their fathers, neither hall any of them that provoked me fee it: 24 But my fervant Caleb, because he had another fpirit with him, and hath tollowed me fully, him will I bring into the land where. into he went; and his feed thall poffefs it. 25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and get ye into the wilderness, by the way of the Red fea. 26 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes and unto Aaron, saying, 27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur againit me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Ifrael, which they murmur against me, |