Numbers 32-36

Numbers 32

¹And much cattle hath been to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad, very many; and they see the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, and lo, the place is a place for cattle;

²and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Reuben, come in and speak unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the company, saying:

³‘Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon --

⁴the land which Jehovah hath smitten before the company of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.'

⁵And they say, ‘If we have found grace in thine eyes, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession; cause us not to pass over the Jordan.'

⁶And Moses saith to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, ‘Do your brethren go in to the battle, and ye -- do ye sit here?

⁷and why discourage ye the heart of the sons of Israel from passing over unto the land which Jehovah hath given to them?

⁸‘Thus did your fathers in my sending them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land;

⁹and they go up unto the valley of Eshcol, and see the land, and discourage the heart of the sons of Israel so as not to go in unto the land which Jehovah hath given to them;

¹⁰and the anger of Jehovah burneth in that day, and He sweareth, saying,

¹¹They do not see -- the men who are coming up out of Egypt from a son of twenty years and upward -- the ground which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, for they have not been fully after Me;

¹²save Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they have been fully after Jehovah;

¹³and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He causeth them to wander in the wilderness forty years, until the consumption of all the generation which is doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah.

¹⁴‘And lo, ye have risen in the stead of your fathers, an increase of men -- sinners, to add yet to the fury of the anger of Jehovah toward Israel;

¹⁵when ye turn back from after Him, then He hath added yet to leave him in the wilderness, and ye have done corruptly to all this people.'

¹⁶And they come nigh unto him, and say, ‘Folds for the flock we build for our cattle here, and cities for our infants;

¹⁷and we -- we are armed hasting before the sons of Israel till that we have brought them in unto their place; and our infants have dwelt in the cities of defence because of the inhabitants of the land;

¹⁸we do not turn back unto our houses till the sons of Israel have inherited each his inheritance,

¹⁹for we do not inherit with them beyond the Jordan and yonder, for our inheritance hath come unto us beyond the Jordan at the sun-rising.'

²⁰And Moses saith unto them, ‘If ye do this thing: if ye are armed before Jehovah for battle,

²¹and every armed one of you hath passed over the Jordan before Jehovah, till his dispossessing His enemies from before Him,

²²and the land hath been subdued before Jehovah -- then afterwards ye do turn back, and have been acquitted by Jehovah, and by Israel; and this land hath been to you for a possession before Jehovah.

²³‘And if ye do not so, lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and know ye your sin, that it doth find you;

²⁴build for yourselves cities for your infants, and folds for your flock, and that which is going out from your mouth do ye.'

²⁵And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben speak unto Moses, saying, ‘Thy servants do as my lord is commanding;

²⁶our infants, our wives, our cattle, and all our beasts, are there in cities of Gilead,

²⁷and thy servants pass over, every armed one of the host, before Jehovah, to battle, as my lord is saying.'

²⁸And Moses commandeth concerning them Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel;

²⁹and Moses saith unto them, ‘If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben pass over with you the Jordan, every one armed for battle, before Jehovah, and the land hath been subdued before you, then ye have given to them the land of Gilead for a possession;

³⁰and if they do not pass over armed with you, then they have possessions in your midst in the land of Canaan.'

³¹And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answer, saying, ‘That which Jehovah hath spoken unto thy servants -- so we do;

³²we -- we pass over armed before Jehovah to the land of Canaan, and with us is the possession of our inheritance beyond the Jordan.'

³³And Moses giveth to them, to the sons of Gad, and to the sons of Reuben, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land by its cities, in the borders, the cities of the land round about.

³⁴And the sons of Gad build Dihon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

³⁵and Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,

³⁶and Beth-Nimrah, and Beth-Haran, cities of defence, and sheepfolds.

³⁷And the sons of Reuben have build Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

³⁸and Nebo, and Baal-Meon (changed in name), and Shibmah, and they call by these names the names of the cities which they have built.

³⁹And sons of Machir son of Manasseh go to Gilead, and capture it, and dispossess the Amorite, who is in it;

⁴⁰and Moses giveth Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he dwelleth in it.

⁴¹And Jair son of Manasseh hath gone and captureth their towns, and calleth them ‘Towns of Jair;'

⁴²and Nobah hath gone and captureth Kenath, and its villages, and calleth it Nobah, by his own name.

Numbers 33

¹These are journeys of the sons of Israel who have come out of the land of Egypt, by their hosts, by the hand of Moses and Aaron;

²and Moses writeth their outgoings, by their journeys, by the command of Jehovah; and these are their journeys, by their outgoings:

³And they journey from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the morrow of the passover have the sons of Israel gone out with a high hand, before the eyes of all the Egyptians --

⁴and the Egyptians are burying those whom Jehovah hath smitten among them, every first-born, and on their gods hath Jehovah done judgments --

⁵and the sons of Israel journey from Rameses, and encamp in Succoth.

⁶And they journey from Succoth, and encamp in Etham, which is in the extremity of the wilderness;

⁷and they journey from Etham, and turn back on Pi-Hahiroth, which is on the front of Baal-Zephon, and they encamp before Migdol.

⁸And they journey from Pi-Hahiroth, and pass over through the midst of the sea, into the wilderness, and go a journey of three days in the wilderness of Etham, and encamp in Marah.

⁹And they journey from Marah, and come in to Elim, and in Elim are twelve fountains of waters, and seventy palm trees, and they encamp there;

¹⁰and they journey from Elim, and encamp by the Red Sea.

¹¹And they journey from the Red Sea, and encamp in the wilderness of Sin;

¹²and they journey from the wilderness of Sin, and encamp in Dophkah.

¹³And they journey from Dophkah, and encamp in Alush;

¹⁴and they journey from Alush, and encamp in Rephidim; and there was there no water for the people to drink.

¹⁵And they journey from Rephidim, and encamp in the wilderness of Sinai;

¹⁶and they journey from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamp in Kibroth-Hattaavah.

¹⁷And they journey from Kibroth-Hattaavah, and encamp in Hazeroth;

¹⁸and they journey from Hazeroth, and encamp in Rithmah.

¹⁹And they journey from Rithmah, and encamp in Rimmon-Parez;

²⁰and they journey from Rimmon-Parez, and encamp in Libnah.

²¹And they journey from Libnah, and encamp in Rissah;

²²and they journey from Rissah, and encamp in Kehelathah.

²³And they journey from Kehelathah, and encamp in mount Shapher;

²⁴and they journey from mount Shapher, and encamp in Haradah.

²⁵And they journey from Haradah, and encamp in Makheloth;

²⁶and they journey from Makheloth, and encamp in Tahath.

²⁷And they journey from Tahath, and encamp in Tarah;

²⁸and they journey from Tarah, and encamp in Mithcah.

²⁹And they journey from Mithcah, and encamp in Hashmonah;

³⁰and they journey from Hashmonah, and encamp in Moseroth.

³¹And they journey from Moseroth, and encamp in Bene-Jaakan;

³²and they journey from Bene-Jaakan, and encamp at Hor-Hagidgad.

³³And they journey from Hor-Hagidgad, and encamp in Jotbathah;

³⁴and they journey from Jotbathah, and encamp in Ebronah.

³⁵And they journey from Ebronah, and encamp in Ezion-Gaber;

³⁶and they journey from Ezion-Gaber, and encamp in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

³⁷And they journey from Kadesh, and encamp in mount Hor, in the extremity of the land of Edom.

³⁸And Aaron the priest goeth up unto mount Hor, by the command of Jehovah, and dieth there, in the fortieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first of the month;

³⁹and Aaron is a son of a hundred and twenty and three years in his dying in mount Hor.

⁴⁰And the Canaanite -- king Arad -- who is dwelling in the south, in the land of Canaan, heareth of the coming of the sons of Israel.

⁴¹And they journey from mount Hor, and encamp in Zalmonah;

⁴²and they journey from Zalmonah, and encamp in Punon.

⁴³And they journey from Punon, and encamp in Oboth;

⁴⁴and they journey from Oboth, and encamp in Ije-Abarim, in the border of Moab.

⁴⁵And they journey from Iim, and encamp in Dibon-Gad;

⁴⁶and they journey from Dibon-Gad, and encamp in Almon-Diblathaim.

⁴⁷And they journey from Almon-Diblathaim, and encamp in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo;

⁴⁸and they journey from the mountains of Abarim, and encamp in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho.

⁴⁹And they encamp by the Jordan from Beth-Jeshimoth, unto Abel-Shittim, in the plains of Moab.

⁵⁰And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying,

⁵¹‘Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are passing over the Jordan unto the land of Canaan,

⁵²then ye have dispossessed all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and have destroyed all their imagery, yea, all their molten images ye destroy, and all their high places ye lay waste,

⁵³and ye have possessed the land, and dwelt in it, for to you I have given the land -- to possess it.

⁵⁴‘And ye have inherited the land by lot, by your families; to the many ye increase their inheritance, and to the few ye diminish their inheritance; whither the lot goeth out to him, it is his; by the tribes of your fathers ye inherit.

⁵⁵‘And if ye do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it hath been, those whom ye let remain of them, are for pricks in your eyes, and for thorns in your sides, and they have distressed you on the land in which ye are dwelling,

⁵⁶and it hath come to pass, as I thought to do to them -- I do to you.'

Numbers 34

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

²‘Command the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are coming in unto the land of Canaan -- this is the land which falleth to you by inheritance, the land of Canaan, by its borders --

³then hath the south quarter been to you from the wilderness of Zin, by the sides of Edom, yea, the south border hath been to you from the extremity of the Salt Sea, eastward;

⁴and the border hath turned round to you from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and hath passed on to Zin, and its outgoings have been from the south to Kadesh-Barnea, and it hath gone out at Hazar-Addar, and hath passed on to Azmon;

⁵and the border hath turned round from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its outgoings have been at the sea.

⁶‘As to the west border, even the great sea hath been to you a border; this is to you the west border.

⁷‘And this is to you the north border: from the great sea ye mark out for yourselves mount Hor;

⁸from mount Hor ye mark out to go in to Hamath, and the outgoings of the border have been to Zedad;

⁹and the border hath gone out to Ziphron, and its outgoings have been at Hazar-Enan; this is to you the north border.

¹⁰‘And ye have marked out for yourselves for the border eastward, from Hazar-Enan to Shepham;

¹¹and the border hath gone down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east of Ain, and the border hath gone down, and hath smitten against the shoulder of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

¹²and the border hath gone down to the Jordan, and its outgoings have been at the Salt Sea; this is for you the land by its borders round about.'

¹³And Moses commandeth the sons of Israel, saying, ‘This is the land which ye inherit by lot, which Jehovah hath commanded to give to the nine tribes and the half of the tribe;

¹⁴for the tribe of the sons of Reuben have received, by the house of their fathers; and the tribe of the children of Gad, by the house of their fathers; and the half of the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance;

¹⁵the two tribes and the half of the tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan, near Jericho, eastward, at the sun-rising.'

¹⁶And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

¹⁷‘These are the names of the men who give to you the inheritance of the land: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun,

¹⁸and one prince -- one prince -- for a tribe ye do take to give the land by inheritance.

¹⁹‘And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

²⁰and of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel son of Aminihud;

²¹of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon;

²²and of the tribe of the sons of Dan, the prince Bukki son of Jogli;

²³of the sons of Joseph, of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, the prince Hanniel son of Ephod;

²⁴and of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, the prince Kemuel son of Shiphtan;

²⁵and of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, the prince Elizaphan son of Parnach;

²⁶and of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince Paltiel son of Azzan;

²⁷and of the tribe of the sons of Asher, the prince Ahihud son of Shelomi;

²⁸and of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, the prince Pedahel son of Ammihud.'

²⁹These are those whom Jehovah hath commanded to give the sons of Israel inheritance in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 35

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying,

²‘Command the sons of Israel, and they have given to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to inhabit; also a suburb for the cities round about them ye do give to the Levites.

³And the cities have been to them to inhabit, and their suburbs are for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

⁴‘And the suburbs of the cities which ye give to the Levites are, from the wall of the city and without, a thousand cubits round about.

⁵And ye have measured from the outside of the city, the east quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the south quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the west quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the north quarter, two thousand by the cubit; and the city is in the midst; this is to them the suburbs of the cities.

⁶‘And the cities which ye give to the Levites are the six cities of refuge, which ye give for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, and besides them ye give forty and two cities;

⁷all the cities which ye give to the Levites are forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs.

⁸And the cities which ye give are of the possession of the sons of Israel, from the many ye multiply, and from the few ye diminish; each, according to his inheritance which they inherit, doth give of his cities to the Levites.'

⁹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

¹⁰‘Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are passing over the Jordan to the land of Canaan,

¹¹and have prepared to yourselves cities -- cities of refuge they are to you -- then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares,

¹²and the cities have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer, and the man-slayer doth not die till his standing before the company for judgment.

¹³‘As to the cities which ye give -- six are cities of refuge to you;

¹⁴the three of the cities ye give beyond the Jordan, and the three of the cities ye give in the land of Canaan; cities of refuge they are.

¹⁵To sons of Israel, and to a sojourner, and to a settler in their midst, are these six cities for a refuge, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting a person unawares.

¹⁶‘And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

¹⁷‘And if with a stone in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

¹⁸‘Or with a wooden instrument in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

¹⁹‘The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death.

²⁰‘And if in hatred he thrust him through, or hath cast anything at him by lying in wait, and he dieth;

²¹or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he is a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him.

²²‘And if, in an instant, without enmity, he hath thrust him through, or hath cast at him any instrument, without lying in wait;

²³or with any stone wherewith he dieth, without seeing, and causeth it to fall upon him, and he dieth, and he is not his enemy, nor seeking his evil;

²⁴then have the company judged between the smiter and the redeemer of blood, by these judgments.

²⁵‘And the company have delivered the man-slayer out of the hand of the redeemer of blood, and the company have caused him to turn back unto the city of his refuge, whither he hath fled, and he hath dwelt in it till the death of the chief priest, who hath been anointed with the holy oil.

²⁶‘And if the man-slayer at all go out from the border of the city of his refuge whither he fleeth,

²⁷and the redeemer of blood hath found him at the outside of the border of the city of his refuge, and the redeemer of blood hath slain the man-slayer, blood is not for him;

²⁸for in the city of his refuge he doth dwell till the death of the chief priest; and after the death of the chief priest doth the man-slayer turn back unto the city of his possession.

²⁹‘And these things have been to you for a statute of judgment to your generations, in all your dwellings:

³⁰whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth one slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person -- to die.

³¹‘And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who is condemned -- to die, for he is certainly put to death;

³²and ye take no atonement for him to flee unto the city of his refuge, to turn back to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

³³‘And ye profane not the land which ye are in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;

³⁴and ye defile not the land in which ye are dwelling, in the midst of which I do tabernacle, for I Jehovah do tabernacle in the midst of the sons of Israel.'

Numbers 36

¹And the heads of the fathers of the families of the sons of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, come near, and speak before Moses, and before the princes, heads of the fathers of the sons of Israel,

²and say, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel, and my lord hath been commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

³‘And -- they have been to one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel for wives, and their inheritance hath been withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers, and hath been added to the inheritance of the tribe which is theirs, and from the lot of our inheritance it is withdrawn,

⁴and if it is the jubilee of the sons of Israel, then hath their inheritance been added to the inheritance of the tribe which is theirs, and from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers is their inheritance withdrawn.'

⁵And Moses commandeth the sons of Israel, by the command of Jehovah, saying, ‘Rightly are the tribe of the sons of Joseph speaking;

⁶this is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, To those good in their eyes let them be for wives; only, to a family of the tribe of their fathers let them be for wives;

⁷and the inheritance of the sons of Israel doth not turn round from tribe unto tribe; for each to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers, do the sons of Israel cleave.

⁸‘And every daughter possessing an inheritance, of the tribes of the sons of Israel, is to one of the family of the tribe of her father for a wife, so that the sons of Israel possess each the inheritance of his fathers,

⁹and the inheritance doth not turn round from one tribe to another tribe; for each to his inheritance do they cleave, the tribes of the sons of Israel.'

¹⁰As Jehovah hath commanded Moses, so have the daughters of Zelophehad done,

¹¹and Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, daughters of Zelophehad, are to the sons of their fathers' brethren for wives;

¹²to men of the families of the sons of Manasseh, son of Joseph, they have been for wives, and their inheritance is with the tribe of the family of their father.

¹³These are the commands and the judgments which Jehovah hath commanded, by the hand of Moses, concerning the sons of Israel, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho.