³¹Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Am'orites. ³²And Moses sent to spy out Ja'zer; and they took its villages, and dispossessed the Am'orites that were there. ³³Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Ed're-i. ³⁴But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him; for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Si'hon king of the Am'orites, who dwelt at Heshbon.” ³⁵So they slew him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was not one survivor left to him; and they possessed his land.

⁷So the elders of Moab and the elders of Mid'ian departed with the fees for divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and gave him Balak’s message. ⁸And he said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring back word to you, as the LORD speaks to me”; so the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. ⁹And God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?” ¹⁰And Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying, ¹¹‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth; now come, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.’” ¹²God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.” ¹³So Balaam rose in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your own land; for the LORD has refused to let me go with you.” ¹⁴So the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”

¹⁵Once again Balak sent princes, more in number and more honorable than they. ¹⁶And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: ‘Let nothing hinder you from coming to me; ¹⁷for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do; come, curse this people for me.’” ¹⁸But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God, to do less or more. ¹⁹Please, now, tarry here this night also, that I may know what more the LORD will say to me.” ²⁰And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only what I bid you, that shall you do.”

²¹*So Balaam rose in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab. ²²But God’s anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the LORD took his stand in the way as his adversary. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him. ²³And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the road, and went into the field; and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the road. ²⁴Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side. ²⁵And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pushed against the wall, and pressed Balaam’s foot against the wall; so he struck her again. ²⁶Then the angel of the LORD went ahead, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left. ²⁷When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff. ²⁸Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” ²⁹And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made sport of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you.” ³⁰And the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, upon which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so to you?” And he said, “No.”

³¹Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. ³²And the angel of the LORD said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me; ³³and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have slain you and let her live.” ³⁴Then Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in your sight, I will go back again.” ³⁵And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word which I bid you, that shall you speak.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

³⁶When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the boundary formed by the Arnon, at the extremity of the boundary. ³⁷And Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?” ³⁸Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.” ³⁹Then Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kir'iath-hu'zoth. ⁴⁰And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam and to the princes who were with him.

⁴¹And the next day Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Ba'moth-ba'al; and from there he saw the nearest of the people.

¹¹And Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them.” ¹²And he answered, “Must I not take heed to speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?”

¹³And Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place, from which you may see them; you shall see only the nearest of them, and shall not see them all; then curse them for me from there.” ¹⁴And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. ¹⁵Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.” ¹⁶And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.” ¹⁷And he came to him, and, behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?” ¹⁸And Balaam took up his discourse, and said,

²⁵And Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.” ²⁶But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the LORD says, that I must do’?” ²⁷And Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.” ²⁸So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks the desert.^{t 29}And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and provide for me here seven bulls and seven rams.” ³⁰And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

¹⁰And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them these three times. ¹¹Therefore now flee to your place; I said, ‘I will certainly honor you,’ but the LORD has held you back from honor.” ¹²And Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me, ¹³‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own will; what the LORD speaks, that will I speak’? ¹⁴And now, behold, I am going to my people; come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days.” ¹⁵And he took up his discourse, and said,

²⁰Then he looked on Am'alek, and took up his discourse, and said,

²¹And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse, and said,

²³And he took up his discourse, and said,

²⁵Then Balaam rose, and went back to his place; and Balak also went his way.

⁶And behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought a Mid'ianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. ⁷When Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation, and took a spear in his hand ⁸and went after the man of Israel into the inner room, and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through her body. Thus the plague was stayed from the sons of Israel. ⁹Nevertheless those that died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

¹⁰And the LORD said to Moses, ¹¹“Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the sons of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy. ¹²Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace; ¹³and it shall be to him, and to his descendants after him, the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the sons of Israel.’”

¹⁴The name of the slain man of Israel, who was slain with the Mid'ianite woman, was Zimri the son of Sa'lu, head of a fathers’ house belonging to the Simeonites. ¹⁵And the name of the Mid'ianite woman who was slain was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the head of the people of a fathers’ house in Mid'ian.

¹⁶And the LORD said to Moses, ¹⁷“Harass the Mid'ianites, and strike them; ¹⁸for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Mid'ian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague on account of Peor.”

⁵Reuben, the first-born of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Ha'noch, the family of the Ha'nochites; of Pallu, the family of the Pal'luites; ⁶of Hezron, the family of the Hez'ronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. ⁷These are the families of the Reubenites; and their number was forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty. ⁸And the sons of Pallu: Eli'ab. ⁹The sons of Eli'ab: Nem'u-el, Da'than, and Abi'ram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, chosen from the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Ko'rah, when they contended against the LORD, ¹⁰and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Ko'rah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; and they became a warning. ¹¹Notwithstanding, the sons of Ko'rah did not die.

¹²The sons of Simeon according to their families: of Nem'u-el, the family of the Nem'u-elites; of Ja'min, the family of the Ja'minites; of Ja'chin, the family of the Ja'chinites; ¹³of Ze'rah, the family of the Ze'rahites; of Sha'ul, the family of the Sha'ulites. ¹⁴These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

¹⁵The sons of Gad according to their families: of Ze'phon, the family of the Ze'phonites; of Hag'gi, the family of the Haggites; of Shu'ni, the family of the Shu'nites; ¹⁶of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of E'ri, the family of the E'rites; ¹⁷of Ar'od, the family of the Ar'odites; of Are'li, the family of the Are'lites. ¹⁸These are the families of the sons of Gad according to their number, forty thousand five hundred.

¹⁹The sons of Judah were Er and O'nan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. ²⁰And the sons of Judah according to their families were: of She'lah, the family of the She'lanites; of Per'ez, the family of the Per'ezites; of Ze'rah, the family of the Ze'rahites. ²¹And the sons of Per'ez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hez'ronites; of Ha'mul, the family of the Ha'mulites. ²²These are the families of Judah according to their number, seventy-six thousand five hundred.

²³The sons of Is'sachar according to their families: of To'la, the family of the To'laites; of Pu'vah, the family of the Pu'nites; ²⁴of Jash'ub, the family of the Jash'ubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shim'ronites. ²⁵These are the families of Is'sachar according to their number, sixty-four thousand three hundred.

²⁶The sons of Zeb'ulun, according to their families: of Se'red, the family of the Se'redites; of E'lon, the family of the E'lonites; of Jah'leel, the family of the Jah'leelites. ²⁷These are the families of the Zeb'ulunites according to their number, sixty thousand five hundred.

²⁸The sons of Joseph according to their families: Manas'seh and E'phraim. ²⁹The sons of Manas'seh: of Ma'chir, the family of the Ma'chirites; and Machir was the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites. ³⁰These are the sons of Gilead: of Iez'er, the family of the Iez'erites; of He'lek, the family of the He'lekites; ³¹and of As'riel, the family of the As'rielites; and of She'chem, the family of the She'chemites; ³²and of Shemi'da, the family of the Shemi'daites; and of He'pher, the family of the He'pherites. ³³Now Zeloph'ehad the son of He'pher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ³⁴These are the families of Manas'seh; and their number was fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

³⁵These are the sons of E'phraim according to their families: of Shu'thelah, the family of the Shu''thela'hites; of Be'cher, the family of the Be'cherites; of Ta'han, the family of the Ta'hanites. ³⁶And these are the sons of Shu'thelah: of E'ran, the family of the E'ranites. ³⁷These are the families of the sons of E'phraim according to their number, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

³⁸The sons of Benjamin according to their families: of Be'la, the family of the Be'laites; of Ash'bel, the family of the Ash'belites; of Ahi'ram, the family of the Ahi'ramites; ³⁹of Shephu'pham, the family of the Shephu'phamites; of Hu'pham, the family of the Hu'phamites. ⁴⁰And the sons of Be'la were Ard and Na'aman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Na'amites. ⁴¹These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and their number was forty-five thousand six hundred.

⁴²These are the sons of Dan according to their families: of Shu'ham, the family of the Shu'hamites. These are the families of Dan according to their families. ⁴³All the families of the Shu'hamites, according to their number, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

⁴⁴The sons of Asher according to their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beri'ah, the family of the Beri'ites. ⁴⁵Of the sons of Beri'ah: of He'ber, the family of the He'berites; of Mal'chi-el, the family of the Mal'chi-elites. ⁴⁶And the name of the daughter of Asher was Se'rah. ⁴⁷These are the families of the sons of Asher according to their number, fifty-three thousand four hundred.

⁴⁸The sons of Naph'tali according to their families: of Jah'zeel, the family of the Jah'zeelites; of Gu'ni, the family of the Gu'nites; ⁴⁹of Je'zer, the family of the Je'zerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shil'lemites. ⁵⁰These are the families of Naph'tali according to their families; and their number was forty-five thousand four hundred.

⁵¹This was the number of the sons of Israel, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

⁵²The LORD said to Moses: ⁵³“To these the land shall be divided for inheritance according to the number of names. ⁵⁴To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance according to its numbers. ⁵⁵But the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. ⁵⁶Their inheritance shall be divided according to lot between the larger and the smaller.”

⁵⁷These are the Levites as numbered according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Ger'shonites; of Ko'hath, the family of the Ko'hathites; of Merar'i, the family of the Merar'ites. ⁵⁸These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the He'bronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mu'shites, the family of the Ko'rahites. And Ko'hath was the father of Amram. ⁵⁹The name of Amram’s wife was Joch'ebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister. ⁶⁰And to Aaron were born Na'dab, Abi'hu, Elea'zar and Ith'amar. ⁶¹But Na'dab and Abi'hu died when they offered unholy fire before the LORD. ⁶²And those numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the sons of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the sons of Israel.

⁶³These were those numbered by Moses and Elea'zar the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. ⁶⁴But among these there was not a man of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. ⁶⁵For the LORD had said of them, “They shall die in the wilderness.” There was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephun'neh and Joshua the son of Nun.

⁵Moses brought their case before the LORD. ⁶And the LORD said to Moses, ⁷“The daughters of Zeloph'ehad are right; you shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren and cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them. ⁸And you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. ⁹And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. ¹⁰And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers. ¹¹And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be to the sons of Israel a statute and ordinance, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”

¹²The LORD said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Ab'arim, and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel. ¹³And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was gathered, ¹⁴because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin during the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Mer'ibah of Ka'desh in the wilderness of Zin.) ¹⁵Moses said to the LORD, ¹⁶“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, ¹⁷who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.” ¹⁸And the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand upon him; ¹⁹cause him to stand before Elea'zar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight. ²⁰You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the sons of Israel may obey. ²¹And he shall stand before Elea'zar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the U'rim before the LORD; at his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the sons of Israel with him, the whole congregation.” ²²And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; he took Joshua and caused him to stand before Elea'zar the priest and the whole congregation, ²³and he laid his hands upon him, and commissioned him as the LORD directed through Moses.

⁹“On the sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering: ¹⁰this is the burnt offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

¹¹“At the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; ¹²also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenths of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; ¹³and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering of pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD. ¹⁴Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year. ¹⁵Also one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

¹⁶“On the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover. ¹⁷And on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. ¹⁸On the first day there shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no laborious work, ¹⁹but offer an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish; ²⁰also their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram; ²¹a tenth shall you offer for each of the seven lambs; ²²also one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. ²³You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. ²⁴In the same way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering. ²⁵And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.

²⁶“On the day of the first fruits, when you offer a cereal offering of new grain to the LORD at your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, ²⁷but offer a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; ²⁸also their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram, ²⁹a tenth for each of the seven lambs; ³⁰with one male goat, to make atonement for you. ³¹Besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering. See that they are without blemish.

⁷“On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and afflict yourselves; you shall do no work, ⁸but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing odor: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish; ⁹and their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the one ram, ¹⁰a tenth for each of the seven lambs: ¹¹also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, and their drink offerings.

¹²“On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days; ¹³and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD, thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish; ¹⁴and their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each of the two rams, ¹⁵and a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs; ¹⁶also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering and its drink offering.

¹⁷“On the second day twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, ¹⁸with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance; ¹⁹also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, and their drink offerings.

²⁰“On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, ²¹with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance; ²²also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering and its drink offering.

²³“On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, ²⁴with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance; ²⁵also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering and its drink offering.

²⁶“On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, ²⁷with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance; ²⁸also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering and its drink offering.

²⁹“On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, ³⁰with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance; ³¹also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.

³²“On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, ³³with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance; ³⁴also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and its drink offering.

³⁵“On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no laborious work, ³⁶but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish, ³⁷and the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance; ³⁸also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering and its drink offering.

³⁹“These you shall offer to the LORD at your appointed feasts, in addition to your votive offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your cereal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.”

¹⁶These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, as between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, while in her youth, within her father’s house.

¹³Moses, and Elea'zar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp. ¹⁴And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war. ¹⁶Moses said to them, “Have you let all the women live? ¹⁶Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, by the counsel of Balaam, to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the LORD. ¹⁷Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. ¹⁸But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. ¹⁹Encamp outside the camp seven days; whoever of you has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day. ²⁰You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.”

²¹And Elea'zar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle: “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses: ²²only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, ²³everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water of impurity; and whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water. ²⁴You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.”

²⁵The LORD said to Moses, ²⁶“Take the count of the booty that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Elea'zar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation; ²⁷and divide the booty into two parts, between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation. ²⁸And levy for the LORD a tribute from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the persons and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks; ²⁹take it from their half, and give it to Elea'zar the priest as an offering to the LORD. ³⁰And from the sons of Israel’s half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who have charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.” ³¹And Moses and Elea'zar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

³²Now the booty remaining of the spoil that the men of war took was: six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, ³³seventy-two thousand cattle, ³⁴sixty-one thousand donkeys, ³⁵and thirty-two thousand persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him. ³⁶And the half, the portion of those who had gone out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, ³⁷and the LORD’s tribute of sheep was six hundred and seventy-five. ³⁸The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD’s tribute was seventy-two. ³⁹The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD’s tribute was sixty-one. ⁴⁰The persons were sixteen thousand, of which the LORD’s tribute was thirty-two persons. ⁴¹And Moses gave the tribute, which was the offering for the LORD, to Elea'zar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

⁴²From the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had gone to war—⁴³now the congregation’s half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, ⁴⁴thirty-six thousand cattle, ⁴⁵and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, ⁴⁶and sixteen thousand persons—⁴⁷from the sons of Israel’s half Moses took one of every fifty, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

⁴⁸Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses, ⁴⁹and said to Moses, “Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us. ⁵⁰And we have brought the LORD’s offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.” ⁵¹And Moses and Elea'zar the priest received from them the gold, all wrought articles. ⁵²And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. ⁵³(The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.) ⁵⁴And Moses and Elea'zar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD.

⁶But Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, “Shall your brethren go to the war while you sit here? ⁷Why will you discourage the heart of the sons of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? ⁸Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Ka'desh-bar'nea to see the land. ⁹For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the sons of Israel from going into the land which the LORD had given them. ¹⁰And the LORD’s anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying, ¹¹‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me; ¹²none except Caleb the son of Jephun'neh the Ken'izzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.’ ¹³And the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was consumed. ¹⁴And behold, you have risen in your fathers’ stead, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel! ¹⁵For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.”

¹⁶Then they came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and cities for our little ones, ¹⁷but we will take up arms, ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. ¹⁸We will not return to our homes until the sons of Israel have inherited each his inheritance. ¹⁹For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond; because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.” ²⁰So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the LORD for the war, ²¹and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him ²²and the land is subdued before the LORD; then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. ²³But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out. ²⁴Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do what you have promised.” ²⁵And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands. ²⁶Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall remain there in the cities of Gilead; ²⁷but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord orders.”

²⁸So Moses gave command concerning them to Elea'zar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the sons of Israel. ²⁹And Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession; ³⁰but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.” ³¹And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, “As the LORD has said to your servants, so we will do. ³²We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”

³³And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manas'seh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Si'hon king of the Am'orites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country. ³⁴And the sons of Gad built Di'bon, At'aroth, Aro'er, ³⁵At'roth-sho'phan, Ja'zer, Jog'behah, ³⁶Beth-nim'rah and Beth-har'an, fortified cities, and folds for sheep. ³⁷And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, E''lea'leh, Kir''iatha'im, ³⁸Nebo, and Ba'al-me'on (their names to be changed), and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built. ³⁹And the sons of Ma'chir the son of Manas'seh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Am'orites who were in it. ⁴⁰And Moses gave Gilead to Ma'chir the son of Manas'seh, and he settled in it. ⁴¹And Ja'ir the son of Manas'seh went and took their villages, and called them Hav'voth-ja'ir.^{z 42}And No'bah went and took Ke'nath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

⁵So the sons of Israel set out from Ram'eses, and encamped at Succoth. ⁶And they set out from Succoth, and encamped at E'tham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. ⁷And they set out from E'tham, and turned back to Pi-hahi'roth, which is east of Ba'al-ze'phon; and they encamped before Migdol. ⁸And they set out from before Hahi'roth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days’ journey in the wilderness of E'tham, and encamped at Marah. ⁹And they set out from Marah, and came to E'lim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there. ¹⁰And they set out from E'lim, and encamped by the Red Sea. ¹¹And they set out from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. ¹²And they set out from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped at Dophkah. ¹³And they set out from Dophkah, and encamped at A'lush. ¹⁴And they set out from A'lush, and encamped at Reph'idim, where there was no water for the people to drink. ¹⁵And they set out from Reph'idim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. ¹⁶And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at Kib'roth-hatta'avah. ¹⁷And they set out from Kib'roth-hatta'avah, and encamped at Haze'roth. ¹⁸And they set out from Haze'roth, and encamped at Rithmah. ¹⁹And they set out from Rithmah, and encamped at Rim'mon-per'ez. ²⁰And they set out from Rim'mon-per'ez, and encamped at Libnah. ²¹And they set out from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah. ²²And they set out from Rissah, and encamped at Kehela'thah. ²³And they set out from Kehela'thah, and encamped at Mount She'pher. ²⁴And they set out from Mount She'pher, and encamped at Hara'dah. ²⁵And they set out from Hara'dah, and encamped at Makhe'loth. ²⁶And they set out from Makhe'loth, and encamped at Ta'hath. ²⁷And they set out from Ta'hath, and encamped at Te'rah. ²⁸And they set out from Te'rah, and encamped at Mithkah. ²⁹And they set out from Mithkah, and encamped at Hashmo'nah. ³⁰And they set out from Hashmo'nah, and encamped at Mose'roth. ³¹And they set out from Mose'roth, and encamped at Be'ne-ja'akan. ³²And they set out from Be'ne-ja'akan, and encamped at Hor-haggid'gad. ³³And they set out from Hor-haggid'gad, and encamped at Jot'bathah. ³⁴And they set out from Jot'bathah, and encamped at Abro'nah. ³⁵And they set out from Abro'nah, and encamped at E'zion-ge'ber. ³⁶And they set out from E'zion-ge'ber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (that is, Ka'desh). ³⁷And they set out from Ka'desh, and encamped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of E'dom.

³⁸And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. ³⁹And Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.

⁴⁰And the Canaanite, the king of Ar'ad, who dwelt in the Neg'eb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel.

⁴¹And they set out from Mount Hor, and encamped at Zalmo'nah. ⁴²And they set out from Zalmo'nah, and encamped at Pu'non. ⁴³And they set out from Pu'non, and encamped at O'both. ⁴⁴And they set out from O'both, and encamped at I'ye-ab'arim, in the territory of Moab. ⁴⁵And they set out from I'yim, and encamped at Di'bon-gad. ⁴⁶And they set out from Di'bon-gad, and encamped at Al'mon-diblatha'im. ⁴⁷And they set out from Al'mon-diblatha'im, and encamped in the mountains of Ab'arim, before Nebo. ⁴⁸And they set out from the mountains of Ab'arim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho; ⁴⁹they encamped by the Jordan from Beth-jesh'imoth as far as A'bel-shit'tim in the plains of Moab.

⁵⁰And the LORD said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, ⁵¹“Say to the sons of Israel, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ⁵²then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places; ⁵³and you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it. ⁵⁴You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit. ⁵⁵But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell. ⁵⁶And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”

⁶“For the western boundary, you shall have the Great Sea and its^a coast; this shall be your western boundary.

⁷“This shall be your northern boundary: from the Great Sea you shall mark out your line to Mount Hor; ⁸from Mount Hor you shall mark it out to the entrance of Ha'math, and the end of the boundary shall be at Ze'dad; ⁹then the boundary shall extend to Ziphron, and its end shall be at Ha'zar-e'nan; this shall be your northern boundary.

¹⁰“You shall mark out your eastern boundary from Ha'zar-e'nan to She'pham; ¹¹and the boundary shall go down from She'pham to Riblah on the east side of A'in; and the boundary shall go down, and reach to the shoulder of the sea of Chin'nereth on the east; ¹²and the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and its end shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its boundaries all round.”

¹³Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe; ¹⁴for the tribe of the sons of Reuben by fathers’ houses and the tribe of the sons of Gad by their fathers’ houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manas'seh; ¹⁵the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”

¹⁶The LORD said to Moses, ¹⁷“These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Elea'zar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun. ¹⁸You shall take one leader of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. ¹⁹These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephun'neh. ²⁰Of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemu'el the son of Ammi'hud. ²¹Of the tribe of Benjamin, Eli'dad the son of Chis'lon. ²²Of the tribe of the sons of Dan a leader, Bukki the son of Jogli. ²³Of the sons of Joseph: of the tribe of the sons of Manas'seh a leader, Han'niel the son of E'phod. ²⁴And of the tribe of the sons of E'phraim a leader, Ke'muel the son of Shiph'tan. ²⁵Of the tribe of the sons of Zeb'ulun a leader, Eliza'phan the son of Parnach. ²⁶Of the tribe of the sons of Is'sachar a leader, Pal'ti-el the son of Azzan. ²⁷And of the tribe of the sons of Asher a leader, Ahi'hud the son of Shelo'mi. ²⁸Of the tribe of the sons of Naph'tali a leader, Pedah'el the son of Ammi'hud. ²⁹These are the men whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance for the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan.”

⁹And the LORD said to Moses, ¹⁰“Say to the sons of Israel, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ¹¹then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there. ¹²The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment. ¹³And the cities which you give shall be your six cities of refuge. ¹⁴You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge. ¹⁵These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that any one who kills any person without intent may flee there.

¹⁶“But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death. ¹⁷And if he struck him down with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death. ¹⁸Or if he struck him down with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death. ¹⁹The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death. ²⁰And if he stabbed him from hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, ²¹or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death; he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

²²“But if he stabbed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him without lying in wait, ²³or used a stone, by which a man may die, and without seeing him cast it upon him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy, and did not seek his harm; ²⁴then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances; ²⁵and the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil. ²⁶But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the bounds of his city of refuge to which he fled, ²⁷and the avenger of blood finds him outside the bounds of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slays the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood. ²⁸For the man must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.

²⁹“And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ³⁰If any one kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses; but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. ³¹Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death; but he shall be put to death. ³²And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. ³³You shall not thus pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him who shed it. ³⁴You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel.”

⁵And Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph is right. ⁶This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zeloph'ehad, ‘Let them marry whom they think best; only, they shall marry within the family of the tribe of their father. ⁷The inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not be transferred from one tribe to another; for every one of the sons of Israel shall cling to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. ⁸And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the sons of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers. ⁹So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for each of the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cling to its own inheritance.’”

¹⁰The daughters of Zeloph'ehad did as the LORD commanded Moses; ¹¹for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zeloph'ehad, were married to sons of their father’s brothers. ¹²They were married into the families of the sons of Manas'seh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

¹³These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded by Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.