& 26. 10. : of the altar for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are ch. 17. 10 holy and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. 39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar: 40 to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD spake unto him by the hand of Moses. 1 ch. 3. 10. 2 Chr. 26. 18. # See ch. 14.2. ver. 19. See Lev. 9. 2 3 ver. 22. 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 assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting: Ex. 40. 34. and, behold, "the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. 43 And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting. 44 And the LORD spake x ver. 21, 24. unto Moses, saying, 45* Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. "And they fell upon their faces. 46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take thy censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. 47 And Aaron took as Moses spake, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. 49 Now they that died P by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides ch. . 19 Lev. 10. 6. 1 Chr. 7. 24 @ ver. 30. ch. 23. 8. 2 Suin. 24. (Ch. 17. 16 in Heb.] Cp. Ezek. 7.16. a them that died about the matter of Korah. 50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting and "the plague was stayed. : 1 And the LORD spake unto 17 Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and e See Ex. 25.29. e ch. 16. 5. take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod. And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses. 4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. 5 And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the ch. 16. 11. children of Israel, which they murmur against you. 6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. 7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tent of the testimony. 8 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bare ripe 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, Put back the rod of Aaron ↳ Heb. 9. 4. before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of ich. 16. 38. rebellion; that thou mayest make jver. 5. an end of their murmurings against me, that they die not. 11 Thus did Moses: as the LORD commanded him, so did he. ch. 18. 2. Chr. 24.6. Acts 7.44. Ex. 38. 21. 12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. 13*Every one that cometh * See ch. near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of the LORD, 1dieth: shall we perish all of us? I And the LORD said unto 18 Aaron, Thou and thy sons 1. 51. See Ex. 28. 38. m ver. 23. and thy fathers' house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the ver. 23. sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be "joined 24. 1 Or, shall die » Cp. Gen. 6-10. pch. 3. 25, 9 ch. 16.40. 31, 36. rch. 4. 15. 13. t ch. 3. 38. Ex. 27. 21 & 30. 7. NUMBERS. o Sec ch. 3. unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall be before the tent of the testimony. 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they shall not come nigh unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the altar, "that they die not, neither they, nor ye. 4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: s See ch. 17. and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the Lev. 24.3. charge of the altar: "that there be wrath no 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 a gift, given unto the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting. 7 And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood for every thing of the altar, and for that within the veil; and ye shall z See ch. 1. priesthood as a service of gift: and I give you the the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. u See Lev. 10. 6. v ch. 3. 12, 45. w ch. 3. 9 & 8. 19. a ch. 3. 10. y Heb. 9. 3, 6. 51. a ch. 5. 9. Lev. 7. 32. b Ex. 29.29 40.15.15. Lev. 7. 35 (for mg.). e Lev. 2.2.3 & 10. 12, 13, al. 27 Lev. 4. 22, 6. 25, 26. e Lev. 7. 7 & 14. 13. serve: e 8 And the LORD spake Aaron, And I, behold, "I have given unto thee the charge of mine heave offerings, even all the hallowed things of the children of Israel, unto thee have I given them 16 by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, as a due for ever. 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every d sin offering of theirs, and every guilt offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. 10 As the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof every male shall eat thereof; it shall be holy unto thee. 11 And this is thine; Ex. 29.27, the heave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given Lev. 10. 14. them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, as a due for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat thereof. iDeut. 18.4. 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the corn, the firstfruits of them which they give unto the LORD, to thee have I given them. 13 The firstripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat thereof. shall be thine. 14 Every thing devoted in Israel that openeth the womb, of all flesh 13.2. 15 Every thing m See Ex. which they offer unto the LORD, both of man and beast, shall be thine: nevertheless "the firstborn of Ex. 13. 13 man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. 163 And those that month old shalt thou redeem, ac- och. 3. 47. are to be redeemed of them from a cording to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same See Ex. is twenty gerahs). 17 But the firstling of an ox, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: "thou shalt sprinkle their blood Lev. 3. upon the altar, and shalt burn their for a sweet savour unto the LORD. fat for an offering made by fire, 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine. holy things, which the children of 19All the heave offerings of the Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, as a due for ever: "it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee. have no inheritance in their land, LORD said unto Aaron, Thou shalt 20 And the neither shalt thou have any portion among them: "I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. 21" And unto the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, ing. 22 And henceforth the chileven the service of the tent of meetdren of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of iniquity: it shall be a statute for meeting, and a they shall bear their ever throughout your generations, and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 1 Or, for a portion 2 Heb. fat. 3 Or. And as to their redemption money, from a month old shall thou redeem them d Neh. 10. 38. € ver. 30. e 25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 26 Moreover thou shalt speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, da tithe of the tithe. 27 And your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress. 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and thereof ye shall give the LORD's heave offering to Aaron the priest. 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall 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 heave the 1 best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the winepress. 31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is Cp. Matt. your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting. 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of Tim. 5. it, when ye have heaved from it the 1 best thereof and ye shall not 'proA Les fane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not. jver. 27. 1. 10 17, la 22. 16. i Lev. 22. 2, 15. J Dent 1 And the LORD spake unto n Ex. 29. 14. Lev. 4. 11, 12. See Lev. 14. 4, 6, 49. 11. 25. blood toward the front of the tent & 6. 11 & 10. 14. s ver. 13, 20, 21. See ch.5.2 & 9, 6, 10 &51.19. u ch. 31. 19. shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. 11'Het ver. 16. that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days: 12 the same "shall purify himself therewith 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 off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him. 14 This is the law 19 Moses and unto Aaron, say when a man dieth in a tent: every ing, 2 This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke: 3 and ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall L46, slay her before his face: 4 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and 'sprinkle of her 1 Sam. 6. 7. Le 412 Cp. Heb. 11.11. 17 & 15. 14, 19. Heb. 2.13 one that cometh into the tent, and 1 Heb. fat. 2 Or, neither shall ye die 3 Or, perfect 7 а 4 Or, impurity 5 Or, and on the seventh 6 Or, and 7 Hcb. living. c ver. 12. d Cp. Lev. 14.9. e See Lev. 11. 25. e с 17. 5. 8 Take the rod, and assemble the p Cp. Ex. congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring See Ex. forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink. 9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, ch. 17. 10. as he commanded him. : 10 And thereto in a vessel: 18 and a clean b See Ex. 12. person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave: 19 and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day and don the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. 20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, 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 and he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even. 22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until w See Ex. 30. 33. fCp. ver. 11 13. Hag. 2. y See ch. 13. 21. h ch. 12. 1 & 26. 59. Ex. 15. 20. i Cp. Ex. 17. 1. ch. 16. 19, 42. 17.2. 7 ch. 11.1,33 & 14.37 & 16. 32, 35, 49. 33, even. I And the children of Israel, 20 even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2' And there was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the peoch. 14. 2. ple strove with Moses, and spake, Cp. Ex. saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! 4 And why have ye brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our cattle? 5 And where fore 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 tent of meeting, and fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them. LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17.6. 33. Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, Ps. 106. 52, ye rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock? 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle. 12 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, Because 'ye believed not in me, "to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them. 13" These are the waters of 1 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 travail that hath befallen us: 15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, "and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians evil entreated us, and our fathers: 16 and when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and 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 land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's high way, we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border. 18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee. 19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go up by the high way: and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then will I give 28. 7 And the the price thereof: let me only, without doing any thing else, pass 11.17 11. through on my feet. 20 And he CP 2.29. 21.4 * Cp. ch. I ch. 33. 37. ch. 21. 4 # ch. 27. 13. Deut. 32. Cp.ch.31.2 A Gen. ⚫ ver. 12. 22 And they journeyed from 'Ka- Deut. 32 (See eh. 13. a ch. 13. 21. Cp. Gen. 2.20 Judg. 11. I And the Canaanite, the way. 5 And the people aspake a P's. 78. 19. 1 Or, of the spies 2 Heb. devote. 3 Heb. devoted. 17 Then sang Israel this song: it: The well, which the princes 4 6 Or, in From the same root as herem, a devoted 18, 29. "Judg. 9. 21 (?). 20. 14. o Cp. ch. 20.8 |
