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A second passover.

NUMBERS. A cloud guides the Israelites.

shall cease waiting upon the service there- shall have one ordinance both for the stranof, and shall serve no more: ger, and for him that was born in the land." 26 But shall minister with their breth- 15 And on the day that the taberna-, ren in the tabernacle of the congrega- cle was reared up, the cloud covered the tion, to keep the charge, and shall do no tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testiservice. Thus shalt thou do unto the Le-mony and at even there was upon the vites touching their charge. tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

CHAP. IX.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses in the 16 So it was always: the cloud cover

wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

ed 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 Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitch4 And Moses spake unto the children of ed: as long as the cloud abode upon the Israel, that they should keep the passover. tabernacle they rested in their tents.

5 And they kept the passover on the 19 And when the cloud tarried long fourteenth day of the first month at even upon the tabernacle many days, then the in the wilderness of Sinai: according to children of Israel kept the charge of the all that the LORD commanded Moses, so LORD, and journeyed not. did the children of Israel.

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20 And so it was, when the cloud was 6 And there were certain men, who a few days upon the tabernacle; accordwere defiled by the dead body of a man, ing to the commandment of the LORD they that they could not keep the passover on abode in their tents, and according to the that day and they came before Moses commandment of the LORD they journeyed. and before Aaron on that day: 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.

7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.

9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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 Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your poster- 23 At the commandment of the LORD ity shall be unclean by reason of a dead they rested in their tents, and at the combody, or be in a journey afar off, yet he mandment of the LORD they journeyed: shall keep the passover unto the LORD. they kept the charge of the LORD, at the 11 The fourteenth day of the second commandment of the LORD by the hand month at even they shall keep it, and eat of Moses. it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

12. They shall leave none of it unto the

morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

CHAP. X.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say

ing,

2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them; 13 But the man that is clean, and is that thou mayest use them for the calling not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep of the assembly, and for the journeying of the passover, even the same soul shall be the camps.

cut off from among his people: because 3 And when they shall blow with them, he brought not the offering of the LORD in all the assembly shall assemble themselves his appointed season, that man shall bear to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the his sin. congregation.

14 And if a stranger shall sojourn 4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, among you, and will keep the passover then the princes, which are heads of the unto the LORD; according to the ordi- thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves nance of the passover, and according to unto thee.

the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye 5 When ye blow an alarm, then the

The Israelites go to Paran.

CHAP. XI.

The blessing of Moses. •

camps that lie on the east parts shall go cording to their armies: and over his host forward. was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the

6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall son of Pedahzur. blow an alarm for their journeys.

24 And over the host of the tribe of the

7 But when the congregation is to be children of Benjamin was Abidan the son gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye of Gideoni. shall not sound an alarm.

25 ¶ And the standard of the camp of 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, the children of Dan set forward, which was shall blow with the trumpets; and they the rere-ward of all the camps throughout shall be to you for an ordinance for ever their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer throughout your generations. the son of Ammishaddai.

9 And if ye go to war in your land 26 And over the host of the tribe of the against the enemy that oppresseth you, children of Asher was Pagiel the son of then ye shall blow an alarm with the trum- Ocran. pets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.

10 Also in the day of your gladness, 28 Thus were the journeyings of the and in your solemn days, and in the be- children of Israel according to their arginnings of your months, ye shall blow with mies, when they set forward. the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, 29 ¶ And Moses said unto Hobab, the and over the sacrifices of your peace-of- son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' faferings; that they may be to you for a ther-in-law, We are journeying unto the memorial before your God: I am the LORD place of which the LORD said, I will give your God. it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.

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30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.

11 ¶ And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. 12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and 31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran. thee: forasmuch as thou knowest how we 13 And they first took their journey ac-are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou cording to the commandment of the LORD mayest be to us instead of eyes. 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, 14 In the first place went the standard yea, it shall be, that what goodness the of the camp of the children of Judah ac- LORD shall do unto us, the same will we cording to their armies and over his host do unto thee. was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

by the hand of Moses.

16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

33 T And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting-place for them.

34 And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out 17 And the tabernacle was taken down; of the camp. and the sons of Gershon and the sons of 35 And it came to pass, when the ark Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle. set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, 18 And the standard of the camp of LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; Reuben set forward according to their ar- and let them that hate thee flee before the mies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

36 And when it rested, he said, R turn, O LORD, unto the many thousands o Israel.

CHAP. XI.

20 And over the host of the tribe of the AND when the people complained, it

displeased the LORD: and the LORD children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of heard it and his anger was kindled; Deuel. and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came. 2 And the people cried unto Moses; 22 And the standard of the camp of and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the children of Ephraim set forward ac- the fire was quenched.

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Seventy elders appointed.

NUMBERS. Quails are given in wrath.

3 And he called the name of the place ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give Taberah: because the fire of the LORD us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in burnt among them. Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you 4 T And the mixed multitude that was flesh, and ye shall eat. among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

5 We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

6 But now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all, besides this manna, before our eyes.

19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

21 And Moses said, The people among 7 And the manna was as coriander-seed, whom I am, are six hundred thousand footand the colour thereof as the colour of men; and thou hast said, I will give them bdellium. flesh, that they may eat a whole month. 22 Shall the flocks and the herds be

8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and the fish of the sea be gathered together for made cakes of it: and the taste of it was them, to suffice them? as the taste of fresh oil.

9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee, or not.

10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man 24 And Moses went out, and told the in the door of his tent and the anger of people the words of the LORD, and gatherthe LORD was kindled greatly; Moses ed the seventy men of the elders of the also was displeased. people, and set them round about the

11 And Moses said unto the LORD, tabernacle. Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? 25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and wherefore have I not found favour in and spake unto him, and took of the spirit thy sight, that thou layest the burden of that was upon him, and gave it unto the all this people upon me? seventy elders: and it came to pass, that 12 Have I conceived all this people? when the spirit rested upon them, they have I begotten them, that thou shouldest prophesied, and did not cease. say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as 26 But there remained two of the men a nursing-father beareth the sucking child, in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, unto the land which thou swarest unto their and the name of the other Medad: and fathers? the Spirit rested upon them; and they were 13 Whence should I have flesh to give of them that were written, but went not unto all this people? for they weep unto out unto the tabernacle: and they propheme, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. sied in the camp.

14 I am not able to bear all this people 27 And there ran a young man, and alone, because it is too heavy for me. told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill do prophesy in the camp.

me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the serfound favour in thy sight; and let me not vant of Moses, one of his young men, ansce my wretchedness. swered and said, My lord Moses, forbid

16 T And the LORD said unto Moses, them. Gather unto me seventy men of the elders 29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the thou for my sake? would God that all the elders of the people, and officers over LORD's people were prophets, and that the them; and bring them unto the tabernacle LORD would put his Spirit upon them. of the congregation, that they may stand 30 And Moses gat him into the camp, there with thee. he and the elders of Israel.

17 And I will come down and talk with 31 And there went forth a wind from thee there: and I will take of the spirit the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, which is upon thee, and will put it upon and let them fall by the camp, as it were a them; and they shall bear the burden of day's journey on this side, and as it were the people with thee, that thou bear it not a day's journey on the other side, round thyself alone. about the camp, and as it were two cubits

18 And say thou unto the people, Sanc-high upon the face of the earth. tify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye 32 And the people stood up all that day, shall eat flesh for ye have wept in the and all that night, and all the next day,

Miriam's and Aaron's sedition. CHAP. XII. XIII.

Spies are sent out. and they gathered the quails: he that be shut out from the camp seven days, and gathered least gathered ten homers: and after that let her be received in again. they spread them all abroad for themselves 15 And Miriam was shut out from the round about the camp. camp seven days: and the people journey

33 And while the flesh was yet between ed not till Miriam was brought in again. their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath 16 And afterward the people removed of the LORD was kindled against the peo- from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderple, and the LORD smote the people withness of Paran.

a very great plague.

CHAP. XIII.

34 And he called the name of that place AND the LORD spake unto Moses, sayKibroth-hattaavah: because there they ing, buried the people that lusted.

35 And the people journeyed from Kibroth-battaavah unto Hazeroth: and abode at Hazeroth. CHAP. XII.

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ND Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us! And the LORD heard it.

2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.

3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

4 And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zac

cur.

3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, 5 of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)

son of Hori.

6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son 4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto of Jephunneh. Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam,

7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son

Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of of Joseph.

the congregation. And they three came out. 8 of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the 5 And the LORD came down in the pil-son of Nun.

lar of the cloud, and stood in the door of 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Mi-son of Raphu. riam: and they both came forth.

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10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the

6 And he said, Hear now my words: If son of Sodi. there be a prophet among you, I the LORD 11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the will make myself known unto him in a tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. 12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.

7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.

8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.

13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.

14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.

15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jeho

10 And the cloud departed from off the shua. tabernacle; and behold, Miriam became 17 ¶ And Moses sent them to spy out leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked the land of Canaan, and said unto them, upon Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. Get you up this way southward, and go up 11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, into the mountain:

my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin 18 And see the land, what it is; and upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, the people that dwelleth therein, whether and wherein we have sinned. they be strong or weak, few or many;

12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom 19 And what the land is that they dwell the flesh is half consumed when he cometh in, whether it be good or bad; and what out of his mother's womb. cities they be that they dwell in, whether 13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, in tents, or in strong holds; saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech 20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If or not. And be ye of good courage, and her father had but spit in her face, should bring of the fruit of the land. Now the she not be ashamed seven days? let her time was the time of the first ripe grapes.

thee.

Acts and reports of the spies:

NUMBERS. At which the people murmur,

21 ¶ So they went up, and searched the land of Egypt! or would God we had died land from the wilderness of Zin unto Re-in this wilderness! hob, as men come to Hamath.

3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought

22 And they ascended by the south, and us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, She- our wives and our children should be a shai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, prey? were it not better for us to return were. (Now Hebron was built seven years into Egypt?

before Zoan in Egypt.)

4 And they said one to another, Let us

23 And they came unto the brook of make a captain, and let us return into Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch Egypt.

with one cluster of grapes, and they bare 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their it between two upon a staff; and they faces before all the assembly of the conbrought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. gregation of the children of Israel.

24 The place was called the brook 6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of which the children of Israel cut down them that searched the land, rent their from thence. clothes:

25 And they returned from searching of 7 And they spake unto all the company, the land after forty days. of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. 9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land: for 27 And they told him, and said, We they are bread for us: their defence is decame unto the land whither thou sentest parted from them, and the LORD is with us, and surely it floweth with milk and us: fear them not. honey; and this is the fruit of it.

10 But all the congregation bade stone 28 Nevertheless, the people be strong them with stones. And the glory of the LORD that dwell in the land, and the cities are appeared in the tabernacle of the congrewalled, and very great: and moreover, gation before all the children of Israel. we saw the children of Anak there.

29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and a possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee greater nation and mightier than they.

13 T And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou 31 But the men that went up with him broughtest up this people in thy might said, We be not able to go up against the from among them;)

people; for they are stronger than we. 14 And they will tell it to the inhabit32 And they brought up an evil report ants of this land: for they have heard that of the land which they had searched unto thou LORD art among this people, that thou the children of Israel, saying, The land LORD art seen face to face, and that thy through which we have gone to search it, cloud standeth over them, and that thou is a land that eateth up the inhabitants goest before them, by day-time in a pillar thereof; and all the people that we saw in of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by it are men of a great stature.

night.

33 And there we saw the giants, the 15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and as one man, then the nations which have we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, and so we were in their sight. 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he

CHAP. XIV.

AND all the congregation lifted up sware unto them, therefore he hath slain

ple wept that night.

their voice, and cried; and the peo-them in the wilderness. 17 And now, I beseech thee, let the 2 And all the children of Israel mur-power of my LORD be great, according as mured against Moses and against Aaron: thou hast spoken, saying,

and the whole congregation said unto 18 The LORD is long-suffering, and of them, Would God that we had died in the great mercy, forgiving iniquity and trans

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