bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year, without blemish : 37 Their meat-offering, and their drink-offerings, for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner; 38 And one goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt-offering, and his meat-offering, and his drinkoffering. 39 These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your free-will-offerings, for your burnt-offerings, and for your meat-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peaceofferings. 40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses. CHAP. XXX. LAND Moses spake unto the held his peace at her in the day that he heard it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. d 8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect; and the LORD shall forgive her. L9 T But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her. 10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath; 11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond where with she bound her soul shall stand. heads of the tribes concern-d 12 But if her husband hath utterly ing the children of Israel, saying, made them void on the day he heard This is the thing which the LORD them; then whatsoever proceeded hath commanded. out of her lips, concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her. 2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proccedeth cut of his mouth. L3If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth; 4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. d 5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth, not any of her vows, or of her bonds, wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand; and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her. L6 ¶ And if she had at all a husband when she vowed or uttered aught out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; 7 And her husband heard it, and 13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. 14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them. 15 But if he shall any wise make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity. 16 These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house. CHAP. XXXI. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, f 2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterwards shalt | officers of the host, with the capthou be gathered unto thy people. tains over thousands, and captains 3 And Moses spake unto the peo-over hundreds, which came from the ple, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian. 4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ve send to the war. 5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. battle. 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women-children, f 6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy in-that have not known a man by lying struments, and the trumpets to blow with him, keep alive for yourselves. in his hand. L19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath males. 7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD command-killed any person, and whosoever ed Moses; and they slew all the hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the 8 And they slew the kings of Mi-third day and on the seventh day. dian, besides the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword. 9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. 10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. 11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts. 20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood. L 21 ¶ And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses; 22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire, ye shall make go through the water. g 12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and 24 And ye shall wash your clothes unto the congregation of the chil-on the seventh day, and ye shall be dren of Israel, unto the camp at clean, and afterward ye shall come the plains of Moab, which are by into the camp. Jordan near Jericho. 25 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, f 13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of theƒ 26 Take the sum of the prey that congregation, went forth to meet was taken, both of man and of beast, them without the camp. thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation; 14 And Moses was wroth with the 27 And divide the prey into two parts, between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation; 28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep: 29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for a heave-offering of the LORD. d 30 And of the children of Israel's half thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD. f 31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. f 41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's heave-offering, unto Eleazar the priest; as the LORD commanded Moses. 42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred, 43 (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand, and thirty thousand, and seven thousand and five hundred sheep, 44 And thirty and six thousand beeves, 45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred, 46 And sixteen thousand persons,) 47 Even of the children of Is rael's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. 32 And the booty, being the rest 48 T And the officers which were of the prey which the men of war over thousands of the host, the caphad caught, was six hundred thou-tains of thousands, and captains of sand, and seventy thousand, and five hundreds, came near unto Moses : thousand sheep, 33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, 34 And threescore and one thousand asses, 49 And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us. d 50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, ear-rings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the 35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him. 36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand, and seven and thirty thou-LORD. sand and five hundred sheep: f51 And Moses and Eleazar the 37 And the LORD's tribute of the priest took the gold of them, even all sheep was six hundred and three-wrought jewels. score and fifteen. 52 And all the gold of the offering 38 And the beeves were thirty and that they offered up to the LORD, six thousand, of which the LORD's of the captains of thousands, and of tribute was threescore and twelve. the captains of hundreds, was sixteen 39 And the asses were thirty thou-thousand seven hundred and fifty sand and five hundred, of which the LORD's tribute was threescore and one. 40 And the persons were sixteen thousand, of which the LORD's tribute was thirty and two persons. shekels. 53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.) 54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD. g CHAP. XXXII. &N and the children of Gad, had OW the children of Reuben, a very great multitude of cattle and when they saw the land of Jaazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle; f2 The children of Gad, and the children of Reuben, came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, g 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jaazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 Even the country which the LORD Smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle. 5 Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan. f6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? 47 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them? cause they have not wholly followed me; 12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the Lord. 13 And 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. 14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. w 15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people. 16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones; 17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities, because of the inhabitants of the land. 18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance: 19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan east 8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to ward. see the land. 9 For when they went up into the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. 10 And the LORD's anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying, f 20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war, 21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him, 22 And the land be subdued be fore the LORD; then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before 11 Surely none of the men that the LORD, and before Israel; and came up out of Egypt, from twenty this land shall be your possession be. years old and upward, shall see the fore the LORD. Jand which I sware unto Abraham, w 23 But if ye will not do so, beunto Isaac, and unto Jacob, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out. 35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah, 24 Build you cities for your little g 36 And Beth-nimrah, and Bethones, and folds for your sheep; and haran, fenced cities; and folds for do that which hath proceeded out of sheep. your mouth. 25 And the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben, spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. g 26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; g 37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim. 38 And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah and gave other names unto the cities which they builded. g39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it. 27 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith. f 28 So concerning them Moses g 40 And Moses gave Gilead unto commanded Eleazar the priest, and Machir the son of Manasseh; and Joshua the son of Nun, and the he dwelt therein. chief fathers of the tribes of the chil-g 41 And Jair the son of Manasseh dren of Israel: went and took the small towns there 29 And Moses said unto them, If of, and called them Havoth-jair. the children of Gad, and the chil-g 42 And Nobah went and took dren of Reuben, will pass with you Kenath, and the villages thereof, over Jordan, every man armed to and called it Nobah, after his own battle, before the LORD, and the name. land shall be subdued before you; CHAP. XXXIII. then ye shall give them the land ofƒHESE are the journeys of the Gilead for a possession: 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. 31 And the children of Gad, and the children of Reuben, answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. ours. children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt, with their armies, under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys, by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out. 32 We will pass over armed be-g 3 And they departed from Ramefore the LORD into the land of Ca-ses in the first month, on the fifnaan, that the possession of our in-teenth day of the first month: on the heritance on this side Jordan may be morrow after the passover the chil dren of Israel went out with a high f 33 And Moses gave unto them, hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. even to the children of Gad, and tod 4 (For the Egyptians buried all the children of Reuben, and unto their first-born, which the LORD had half the tribe of Manasseh the son of smitten among them upon their Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king gods also the LORD executed judgof the Amorites, and the kingdom ments.) of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about. 34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, : 5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth. 6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. |