Holy Bible Audio: NUMBERS 1 to 36 - With Text (Contemporary English)

[Music] numbers numbers one the people of israel had left egypt and were living in the sinai desert then on the first day of the second month of the second year moses was in the sacred tent when the lord said i want you and aaron to find out how many people are in each of israel's clans and families and make a list of all the men twenty years and older who are able to fight in battle the following twelve family leaders one from each tribe will help you eliezer son of shadier from reuben shel emil son

of zurich shaddai from simeon narshan son of aminadab from judah nethernell son of zua from issachar eliab son of helon from zebulun elisharma of gideon i from benjamin a hayazah son of ami shaddai from dan pedril son of akran from asha moses and aaron together with these 12 tribal leaders called together the people that same day they were counted according to their clans and families then moses and the others listed the names of the men 20 years and older just as the lord had commanded the number of men from each tribe who were at least

20 years old and strong enough to fight in israel's army was as follows 46 500 from reuben the oldest son of jacob 59 300 from simeon 45 650 from gad 74 600 from judah 54 400 from issachar 57 400 from zebulun 40 500 from ephraim two thousand two hundred from manasseh thirty five thousand four hundred from benjamin 62 700 from dan forty one thousand five hundred from asher fifty three thousand four hundred from naphtali the total number of men registered by moses aaron and the twelve leaders was six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty but

those from the levi tribe were not included because the lord had said to moses when you count the israelites do not include those from the levi tribe instead give them the job of caring for the sacred tent its furnishings and the objects used for worship they will camp around the tent and whenever you move they will take it down carry it to the new camp and set it up again anyone else who tries to go near it must be put to death the rest of the israelites will camp in their own groups and under their

own banners but the levites will camp around the sacred tent to make sure that no one goes near it and makes me furious with the israelites the people of israel did everything the lord had commanded numbers 2 the lord told moses and aaron how the israelites should arrange their camp each tribe must set up camp under its own banner and under the flags of its ancestral families these camps will be arranged around the sacred tent but not close to it judah and the tribes that march with it must set up camp on the east side

of the sacred tent under their own banner the 74 600 troops of the tribe of judah will be arranged by divisions and led by nation son of aminadab on one side of judah will be the tribe of issachar with nethernell son of zua as the leader of its 54 000 troops on the other side will be the tribe of zebulun with eliab son of helon as the leader of its 57 400 troops these 186 400 troops will march into battle first reuben and the tribes that march with it must set up camp on the south

side of the sacred tent under their own banner the forty six thousand five hundred troops of the tribe of reuben will be arranged by divisions and led by eliza son of shadio on one side of ruben will be the tribe of simeon with shallow as the leader of its 59 300 troops on the other side will be the tribe of gad with eliasa son of duel as the leader of its 45 650 troops these 151 450 troops will march into battle second marching behind ruben will be the levites arranged in groups just as they are

camped they will carry the sacred tent and their own banners ephraim and the tribes that march with it must set up camp on the west side of the sacred tent under their own banner the 40 500 troops of the tribe of ephraim will be arranged by divisions and led by ellis sharma son of amihood on one side of ephraim will be the tribe of manasseh with gamaliel son of pedosur as the leader of its 32 hundred troops on the other side will be the tribe of benjamin with abidan son of gideon i as the leader

of its thirty five thousand four hundred troops these one hundred and eight thousand one hundred troops will march into battle third down and the tribes that march with it must set up camp on the north side of the sacred tent under their own banner the 62 700 troops of the tribe of dan will be arranged by divisions and led by a hayazah son of ami shaddai on one side of dan will be the tribe of asha with page evil son of akram as the leader of its 41 500 troops on the other side will be

the tribe of naphtali with a hira son of inan as the leader of its 53 400 troops these 157 600 troops will march into battle last so all the israelites in the camp were counted according to their ancestral families the troops were arranged by divisions and totaled six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty the only israelites not included were the levites just as the lord had commanded moses israel did everything the lord had told moses they arranged their camp according to clans and families with each tribe under its own banner and that was the order

by which they marched into battle numbers three when the lord talked with moses on mount sinai aaron's four sons nadab baihu eliezer and ithamar were the ones to be ordained as priests but the lord killed nadav and abihu in the sinai desert when they used fire that was unacceptable in their offering to the lord and because nadab and abihu had no sons only eliezer and ithamar served as priests with their father aaron the lord said to moses assign the levi tribe to aaron the priest they will be his assistance and will work at the sacred

tent for him and for all the israelites the levites will serve the community by being responsible for the furnishings of the tent they are assigned to help aaron and his sons who have been appointed to be priests anyone else who tries to perform the duties of a priest must be put to death moses i have chosen these levites from all israel and they will belong to me in a special way when i killed the firstborn sons of the egyptians i decided that the firstborn sons in every israelite family and the firstborn males of their flocks

and herds would be mine but now i accept these levites in place of the first-born sons of the israelites in the sinai desert the lord said to moses now i want you to count the men and boys in the levi tribe by families and by clans include everyone at least a month old so moses obeyed and counted them levi's three sons gershon kohath and mirarai had become the heads of their own clans gershon sons were libnai and shemiya kohath's sons were amram izhar hebron and azil and mirari's sons were malai and mushai these were the

sons and grandsons of levi and they had become the leaders of the levite clans the two gershon clans were the lib knights in the shimeyites and they had 7500 men and boys at least one month old the gershonites were to camp on the west side of the sacred tent under the leadership of eliassaf son of leil their duties at the tent included taking care of the tent itself along with its outer covering the curtain for the entrance the curtains hanging inside the courtyard around the tent as well as the curtain and ropes for the entrance

to the courtyard and its altar the gershonites were responsible for setting these things up and taking them down the four kohath clans were the amramites the israelites hebronites and the azealites and they had 8600 men and boys at least one month old the kohathites were to camp on the south side of the sacred tent under the leadership of elizabethan son of azeal their duties at the tent included taking care of the sacred chest the table for the sacred bread the lamp stand the altars the objects used for worship and the curtain in front of the

most holy place the kohathites were responsible for setting these things up and taking them down eliezer's son of aaron was the head of the levite leaders and he made sure that the work at the sacred tent was done the two mirari clans were the malights and the mushites and they had six thousand two hundred men and boys at least one month old the mararites were to camp on the north side of the sacred tent under the leadership of zuriel son of abigail their duties included taking care of the tent frames and the pieces that held

the tent up the bars the posts the stands and its other equipment they were also in charge of the posts that supported the courtyard as well as their stands tent pegs and ropes the mirari clans were responsible for setting these things up and taking them down moses aaron and his sons were to camp in front of the sacred tent on the east side and to make sure that the israelites worshiped in the proper way anyone else who tried to do the work of moses and aaron was to be put to death so moses and aaron

obeyed the lord and counted the levites by their clans the total number of levites at least one month old was 22 000. the lord said to moses make a list and count the firstborn sons at least one month old in each of the israelite families they belong to me but i will accept the levites as substitutes for them and i will accept the levites livestock as substitutes for the israelites first born livestock moses obeyed the lord and counted the firstborn sons there were 22 273 of them then the lord said the levites will belong to

me and will take the place of the firstborn sons their livestock will take the place of the israelites first-born livestock but since there are more first-born sons and levites the extra 273 men and boys must be bought back from me for each one you are to collect five pieces of silver weighed according to the official standards this money must then be given to aaron and his sons moses collected the silver from the extra 273 first-born men and boys and it amounted to 1365 pieces of silver weighed according to the official standards then he gave it

to aaron and his sons just as the lord had commanded numbers 4 the lord told moses and aaron find out how many men between the ages of 30 and 50 are in the four levite clans of coeuth count only those who are able to work at the sacred tent the coethites will be responsible for carrying the sacred objects used in worship of the sacred tent when the israelites are ready to move their camp aaron and his sons will enter the tent and take down the curtain that separates the sacred chest from the rest of the

tent they will cover the chest with this curtain and then with a piece of fine leather and cover it all with a solid blue cloth after this they will put the carrying poles in place next aaron and his sons will use another blue cloth to cover the table for the sacred bread on the cloth they will place the dishes the bowls for incense the cups the jugs for wine as well as the bread itself they are to cover all this with a bright red cloth and then with a piece of fine leather before putting the

carrying poles in place with another blue cloth they will cover the lamp stand along with the lamps the lamp snuffers the fire pans and the jars of oil for the lamps all of this will then be covered with a piece of fine leather and placed on a carrying frame the gold incense altar is to be covered with a blue cloth and then with a piece of fine leather before its carrying poles are put in place next aaron and his sons will take blue cloth and wrap all the objects used in worship at the sacred tent

these will need to be covered with a piece of fine leather then placed on a carrying frame they are to remove the ashes from the bronze altar and cover it with a purple cloth on that cloth will be placed the utensils used at the altar including the fire pans the meat forks the shovels and the sprinkling bowls all of this will then be covered with a piece of fine leather before the carrying poles are put in place when the camp is ready to be moved the kerathites will be responsible for carrying the sacred objects and

the furnishings of the sacred tent but aaron and his sons must have already covered those things so the kerathites won't touch them and die eliezer son of air and the priest will be in charge of the oil for the lamps the sweet-smelling incense the grain for the sacrifices and the olive oil used for dedications and ordinations eliezer is responsible for seeing that the sacred tent its furnishings and the sacred objects are taken care of the koathights must not go near or even look at the sacred objects until aaron and his sons have covered those objects

if they do their entire clan will be wiped out so make sure that aaron and his sons go into the tent with them and tell them what to carry the lord said to moses find out how many men between the ages of 30 and 50 are in the two levite clans of gershon count only those who are able to work at the sacred tent the gershonites will be responsible for carrying the curtains of the sacred tent its two outer coverings the curtain for the entrance to the tent the curtains hanging around the courtyard of the

tent and the curtain and ropes for the entrance to the courtyard the gershonites are to do whatever needs to be done to take care of these things and they will carry them wherever aaron and his sons tell them to these are the duties of the gershonites at the sacred tent and ithamar son of aaron will make sure they do their work the lord said moses find out how many men between 30 and 50 are in the two levite clans of mirarai but count only those who are able to work at the sacred tent the mirror

rights will be responsible for carrying the frames of the tent and its other pieces including the bars the posts the stands as well as the posts that support the courtyard together with their stands tent pegs and ropes the mirror rights are to be told exactly what objects they are to carry and ithamar son of aaron will make sure they do their work moses aaron and the other israelite leaders obeyed the lord and counted the levi tribe by families and clans to find out how many men there were between the ages of 30 and 50 who

could work at the sacred tent there hundred were 2750 two thousand six hundred thirty gershonites and three thousand two hundred maraurites making a total of eight thousand five hundred eighty then they were all assigned their duties numbers 5 the lord told moses to say to the people of israel put out of the camp everyone who has leprosy or a bodily discharge or who has touched a dead body now that i live among my people their camp must be kept clean the israelites obeyed the lord's instructions the lord told moses to say to the community of

israel if any of you commit a crime against someone you have sinned against me you must confess your guilt and pay the victim in full for whatever damage has been done plus a fine of 20 percent if the victim has no relative who can accept this money it belongs to me and will be paid to the priest in addition to that payment you must take a ram for the priest to sacrifice so your sin will be forgiven when you make a donation to the sacred tent that money belongs only to the priest and each priest

will keep what is given to him the lord told moses to say to the people of israel suppose a man becomes jealous and suspects that his wife has been unfaithful but he has no proof he must take his wife to the priest together with two pounds of ground barley as an offering to find out if she is guilty no olive oil or incense is to be put on that offering the priest is to have the woman stand at my altar where he will pour sacred water into a clay jar and stir in some dust from

the floor of the sacred tent next he will remove her veil then hand her the barley offering and say if you have been faithful to your husband this water won't harm you but if you have been unfaithful it will bring down the lord's curse you will never be able to give birth to a child and everyone will curse your name then the woman will answer if i am guilty let it happen just as you say the priest will write these curses on special paper and wash them off into the bitter water so that when the

woman drinks this water the curses will enter her body he will take the barley offering from her and lift it up in dedication to me the lord then he will place it on my altar and burn part of it as a sacrifice after that the woman must drink the bitter water if the woman has been unfaithful the water will immediately make her unable to have children and she will be a curse among her people but if she is innocent her body will not be harmed and she will still be able to have children this is

the ceremony that must take place at my altar when a husband suspects that his wife has been unfaithful the priest must have the woman stand in my presence and carefully follow these instructions if the husband is wrong he will not be punished but if his wife is guilty she will be punished numbers 6. the lord told moses to say to the people of israel if any of you want to dedicate yourself to me by vowing to become a nazarite you must no longer drink any wine or beer or use any kind of vinegar don't drink

grape juice or eat grapes or raisins not even the seeds or skins even the hair of a nazarite is sacred to me and as long as you are a nazirite you must never cut your hair during the time that you are a nazirite you must never go close to a dead body not even that of your father mother brother or sister that would make you unclean your hair is the sign that you are dedicated to me so remain holy if someone suddenly dies near you your hair is no longer sacred and you must shave it

seven days later during the ceremony to make you clean then on the next day bring two doves or two pigeons to the priest at the sacred tent he will offer one of the birds as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please me you will then be forgiven for being too near a dead body and your hair will again become sacred but the dead body made you unacceptable so you must make another vow to become a nazarite and be dedicated once more finally a year-old ram must be offered as the sacrifice

to make things right when you have completed your promised time of being a nazirite go to the sacred tent and offer three animals that have nothing wrong with them a year old ram as a sacrifice to please me a year old female lamb as a sacrifice for sin and a full grown ram as a sacrifice to ask my blessing wine offerings and grain sacrifices must also be brought with these animals finally you are to bring a basket of bread made with your finest flour and olive oil but without yeast also bring some thin wafers brushed

with oil the priest will take these gifts to my altar and offer them so that i will be pleased and will forgive you then he will sacrifice the ram and offer the wine grain and bread after that you will stand at the entrance to the sacred tent shave your head and put the hair in the fire where the priest has offered the sacrifice to ask my blessing once the meat from the ram's shoulder has been boiled the priest will take it along with one loaf of bread and one wafer brushed with oil and give them

to you you will hand them back to the priest who would lift them up in dedication to me then he can eat the meat from the ram's shoulder its choice ribs and his hind leg because this is his share of the sacrifice after this you will no longer be a nazirite and will be free to drink wine these are the requirements for nazarites however if you can afford to offer more you must do so the lord told moses when aaron and his sons bless the people of israel they must say i pray that the lord

will bless and protect you and that he will show you mercy and kindness may the lord be good to you and give you peace then the lord said if aaron and his sons ask me to bless the israelites i will give them my blessing numbers seven when moses had finished setting up the sacred tent he dedicated it to the lord together with its furnishings the altar and its equipment then the twelve tribal leaders of israel the same men who had been in charge of counting the people came to the tent with gifts for the lord

they brought six strong carts and twelve oxen one ox from each leader and a cart from every two the lord said to moses accept these gifts so the levites can use them here at the sacred tent for carrying the sacred things then moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the levites who were under the leadership of ithamar son of aaron moses gave two carts and four oxen to the gershoinites for their work and four carts and eight oxen to the maraurites for their work but moses did not give any to the kohathites

because they were in charge of the sacred objects that had to be carried on their shoulders on the day the altar was dedicated the twelve leaders brought offerings for its dedication the lord said to moses each day one leader is to give his offering for the dedication so each leader brought the following gifts a silver bowl that weighed over three pounds and a silver sprinkling bowl weighing almost two pounds both of them filled with flour and olive oil as grain sacrifices and weighed according to the official standards a small gold dish filled with incense a

young bull a full-grown ram and a year-old ram as sacrifices to please the lord a goat as a sacrifice for sin and two bulls five full-grown rams five goats and five rams a year old as sacrifices to ask the lord's blessing the tribal leaders brought their gifts and offerings in the following order on the first day nashan from judah on the second day nathanal from issachar on the third day eliab from zebulun on the fourth day eliza from reuben on the fifth day shalomial from simeon on the sixth day elias from gad on the seventh

day elishima from ephraim on the eighth day gamaliel from manasseh on the ninth day abadan from benjamin on the tenth day a heiser from dan on the eleventh day pagil from asher on the twelfth day a hira from naphtali and so when the altar was dedicated to the lord these 12 leaders brought the following gifts 12 silver bowls and 12 silver sprinkling bowls weighing a total of about 60 pounds according to the official standards 12 gold dishes filled with incense and weighing about 3 pounds 12 bulls 12 full full-grown rams and twelve rams a year

old are sacrifices to please the lord along with the proper grain sacrifices twelve goats are sacrifices for sin and 24 bulls 60 full grown rams 60 goats and 60 rams a year old as sacrifices to ask the lord's blessing whenever moses needed to talk with the lord he went into the sacred tent where he heard the lord's voice coming from between the two winged creatures above the lid of the sacred chest numbers 8 the lord said to moses tell aaron to put the seven lamps on the lamp stand so they shine towards the front aaron

obeyed and placed the lamps as he was told the lamp stand was made of hammered gold from its base to the decorative flowers on top exactly like the pattern the lord had described to moses the lord said to moses the levites must be acceptable to me before they begin working at the sacred tent so separate them from the rest of the israelites and sprinkle them with the water that washes away their sins then have them shave their entire bodies and wash their clothes they are to bring a bull and its proper grain sacrifice of flour

mixed with olive oil and they must bring a second bull as a sacrifice for sin then you moses will call together all the people of israel and have the levites go to my sacred tent where the people will place their hands on them aaron will present the levites to me as a gift from the people so that the levites will do my work after this the levites are to place their hands on the heads of the bulls then one of the bulls will be sacrificed for the forgiveness of sin and the other to make sure

that i am pleased the levites will stand at my altar in front of aaron and his sons who will then dedicate the levites to me this ceremony will show that the levites are different from the other israelites and belong to me in a special way after they have been made acceptable and have been dedicated they will be allowed to work at my sacred tent they are mine and will take the place of the firstborn israelite sons when i killed the oldest sons of the egyptians i decided that the firstborn sons in each israelite family would

be mine as well as every firstborn male from their flocks and herds but now i have chosen these levites as substitutes for the firstborn sons and i have given them as gifts to aaron and his sons to serve at the sacred tent i will hold them responsible for what happens to anyone who gets too close to the sacred tent moses aaron and the other israelites made sure that the levites did everything the lord had commanded the levites sprinkled themselves with the water of forgiveness and wash their clothes then aaron brought them to the altar and

offered sacrifices to forgive their sins and make them acceptable to the lord after this the levites worked at the sacred tent as assistance to aaron and his sons just as the lord had commanded the lord also told moses levites who are between the ages of 25 and 50 can work at my sacred tent but once they turn 50 they must retire they may help the other levites in their duties but they must no longer be responsible for any work themselves remember this when you assign their duties numbers nine during the first month of israel's second

year in the sinai desert the lord had told moses to say to the people celebrate passover in the evening of the 14th day of this month and do it by following all the regulations moses told the people what the lord had said and they celebrated passover there in the desert in the evening of the 14th day of the first month some people in israel's camp had touched a dead body and had become unfit to worship the lord and they could not celebrate passover but they asked moses and aaron even though we have touched a dead

body why can't we celebrate passover and offer sacrifices to the lord at the same time as everyone else moses said wait here while i go into the sacred tent and find out what the lord says about this the lord then told moses to say to the community of israel if any of you or your descendants touch a dead body and become unfit to worship me or if you are away on a long journey you may still celebrate passover but it must be done in the second month in the evening of the 14th day eat the

passover lamb with thin bread and bitter herbs and don't leave any of it until morning or break any of the animals bones be sure to follow these regulations but if any of you refuse to celebrate passover when you are not away on a journey you will no longer belong to my people you will be punished because you did not offer sacrifices to me at the proper time anyone including foreigners who live among you can celebrate passover if they follow all the regulations as soon as the sacred tent was set up a thick cloud appeared and

covered it the cloud was there each day and during the night a fire could be seen in it the lord used this cloud to tell the israelites when to move their camp and where to set it up again as long as the cloud covered the tent the israelites did not break camp but when the cloud moved they followed it and wherever it stopped they camped and stayed there whether it was only one night a few days a month or even a year as long as the cloud remained over the tent the israelites stayed where they

were but when the cloud moved so did the israelites they obeyed the lord's commands and went wherever he directed moses numbers 10 the lord told moses have someone make two trumpets out of hammered silver these will be used to call the people together and to give the signal for moving your camp if both trumpets are blown everyone is to meet with you at the entrance to the sacred tent but if just one is blown only the 12 tribal leaders need to come together give a signal on a trumpet when it is time to break camp

the first blast will be the signal for the tribes camped on the east side and the second blast will be the signal for those on the south but when you want everyone to come together sound a different signal on the trumpet the priests of aaron's family will be the ones to blow the trumpets and this law will never change [Music] whenever you go into battle against an enemy attacking your land give a warning signal on the trumpets then i the lord will hear it and rescue you during the celebration of the new moon festival and

other religious festivals sound the trumpets while you offer sacrifices this will be a reminder that i am the lord your god on the twelfth day of the second month of that same year the cloud over the sacred tent moved on so the israelites broke camp and left the sinai desert and some time later the cloud stopped in the parent desert this was the first time the lord had told moses to command the people of israel to move on judah and the tribes that camped alongside it marched out first carrying their banner nashan son of a

minidab was the leader of the judah tribe nathanael son of zuar was the leader of the issachar tribe and eliab son of hilon was the leader of the zebulun tribe the sacred tent had been taken down and the gershonites and the mirarites carried it marching behind the judah camp reuben and the tribes that camped alongside it marched out second carrying their banner eliza son of shettyr was the leader of the reuben tribe chalumiel son of zura shaddai was the leader of the simeon tribe and eliasaph son of duel was the leader of the gad tribe

next were the kohathites carrying the objects for the sacred tent which was to be set up before they arrived at the new camp ephraim and the tribes that camped alongside it marched next carrying their banner alishama son of a maihad was the leader of the ephraim tribe gamaliel son of bedazzer was the leader of the manasseh tribe and abiden son of gideon i was the leader of the benjamin tribe dan and the tribes that camped alongside it were to protect the israelites against an attack from behind and so they marched last carrying their banner a

heieser son of amashati was the leader of the tribe of dan pegyol son of akron was the leader of the asher tribe and a haira son of enon was the leader of the naftali tribe this was the order in which the israelites marched each time they moved their camp hob the midianite the father-in-law of moses was there and moses said to him we're leaving for the place the lord has promised us he said that all will go well for us so come along and we will make sure that all goes well for you no i

won't go hobab answered i'm returning home to be with my own people please go with us moses said you can be our guide because you know the places to camp in the desert beside that if you go we will give you a share of the good things the lord gives us the people of israel began their journey from mount sinai they traveled three days and the levites who carried the sacred chest led the way so the lord could show them where to camp and the cloud always stayed with them each day as the israelites began

their journey moses would pray our lord defeat your enemies and make them run and when they stopped to set up camp he would pray our lord stay close to israel's thousands and thousands of people [Music] numbers 11. one day the israelites started complaining about their troubles the lord heard them and became so angry that he destroyed the outer edges of their camp with fire when the people begged moses to help he prayed and the fire went out they named the place burning because in his anger the lord had set their camp on fire one day

some worthless foreigners among the israelites became greedy for food and even the israelites themselves began moaning we don't have any meat in egypt we could eat all the fish we wanted and there were cucumbers melons onions and garlic but we're starving out here and the only food we have is this manna the manor was like small whitish seeds and tasted like something baked with sweet olive oil it appeared at night with the dew in the morning the people would collect the mana grind or crush it into flour then boil it and make it into thin

wafers the israelites stood around their tents complaining moses heard them and was upset that they had made the lord angry he prayed i am your servant lord so why are you doing this to me what have i done to deserve this you may be responsible for all these people but they're not my children you've told me to nurse them along and to carry them to the land you promise their ancestors they keep whining for meat but where can i get meat for them this job is too much for me how can i take care of

all these people by myself if this is the way you're going to treat me just kill me now and end my miserable life the lord said to moses choose seventy of israel's respected leaders and go with them to the sacred tent while i'm talking with you there i will give them some of your authority so they can share responsibility for my people you will no longer have to care for them by yourself as for the israelites i have heard them complaining about not having meat and about being better off in egypt so tell them to

make themselves acceptable to me because tomorrow they will have meat in fact they will have meat day after day for a whole month not just a few days or even ten or twenty they turned against me and wanted to return to egypt now they will eat meat until they get sick of it moses replied at least six hundred thousand grown men are here with me how can you say there will be enough meat to feed them and their families for a whole month even if we butchered all of our sheep and cattle or caught every

fish in the sea we wouldn't have enough to feed them the lord answered i can do anything watch and you'll see my words come true moses told the people what the lord had said then he chose 70 respected leaders and went with them to the sacred tent while the leaders stood in a circle around the tent moses went inside and the lord spoke with him then the lord took some authority from moses and gave it to the 70 leaders and when the lord's spirit took control of them they started shouting like prophets but they did

it only this one time eldad and me dad were two leaders who had not gone to the tent but when the spirit took control of them they began shouting like prophets right there in camp a boy ran to moses and told him about eldad and me dad joshua was there helping moses as he had done since he was young and he said to moses sir you must stop them but moses replied are you concerned what this might do to me i wish the lord would give his spirit to all his people so everyone could be

a prophet then moses and the 70 leaders went back to camp sometime later the lord sent a strong wind that blew quails in from the sea until israel's camp was completely surrounded with birds piled up about three feet high for miles in every direction the people picked up quails for two days each person filled at least 50 bushels then they spread them out to dry but before the meat could be eaten the lord became angry and sent a disease through the camp after they had buried the people who had been so greedy for meat they

called the place graves for the greedy israel then broke camp and traveled to hazeroth numbers 12. although moses was the most humble person in all the world miriam and aaron started complaining moses had no right to marry that woman from ethiopia who does he think he is the lord has spoken to us not just to him the lord heard their complaint and told moses aaron and miriam to come to the entrance of the sacred tent there the lord appeared in a cloud and told aaron and miriam to come closer then after commanding them to listen

carefully he said i the lord speak to prophets in visions and dreams but my servant moses is the leader of my people he sees me face to face and everything i say to him is perfectly clear you have no right to criticize my servant moses the lord became angry at aaron and miriam and after the lord left and the cloud disappeared from over the sacred tent miriam's skin turned white with leprosy when aaron saw what had happened to her he said to moses sir please don't punish us for doing such a foolish thing don't let

miriam's flesh rot away like a child born dead moses prayed lord god please heal her but the lord replied miriam would be disgraced for seven days if her father had punished her by spitting in her face so make her stay outside the camp for seven days before coming back the people of israel did not move their camp until miriam returned seven days later then they left azeroth and set up camp in the paran desert numbers 13 the lord said to moses choose a leader from each tribe and send them into canaan to explore the land

i am giving you so moses sent 12 tribal leaders from israel's camp in the parent desert with orders to explore the land of canaan and here are their names son of zacker from reuben shafat son of khorai from simeon caleb son of jafana from judah igel son of joseph from issachar joshua son of none from ephraim paltai son of raphu from benjamin gario son of sodai from zebulun gaday son of susai from manasseh amiel son of gamalai from dan seither son of michael from asher nabai son of vaphsai from naphtali and giul son of makai

from gad before moses sent them into canaan he said after you go through the southern desert of canaan continue north into the hill country and find out what those regions are like be sure to remember how many people live there how strong they are and if they live in open towns or wall cities see if the land is good for grain crops and find out what kinds of trees grow there it's time for grapes to ripen so try to bring back some of the fruit that grows there the 12 men left to explore canaan from

the zinn desert in the south all the way to the town of rihab near levohamath in the north as they went through the southern desert they came to the town of hebron which was seven years older than the egyptian town of zoen in hebron they saw the three anakim clans of a hymen shishai and talmai when they got to bunch valley they cut off a branch with such a huge bunch of grapes that it took two men to carry it on a pole that's why the place is called bunch valley along with the grapes they

also took back pomegranates and figs after exploring the land of canaan forty days the twelve men returned to kadish in the paran desert and told moses aaron and the people what they had seen they showed them the fruit and said look at this fruit the land we explored is rich with milk and honey but the people who live there are strong and their cities are large and walled we even saw the three anakim clans besides that the amalekites live in the southern desert the hittites jebusites and amorites are in the hill country and the canaanites

live along the mediterranean sea and the jordan river caleb calmed down the crowd and said let's go and take the land i know we can do it but the other men replied those people are much too strong for us then they started spreading rumors and saying we won't be able to grow anything in that soil and the people are like giants in fact we saw the nephilim who were the ancestors of the anakim they were so big that we felt as small as grasshoppers numbers 14 after the israelites heard the report from the twelve men

who had explored canaan the people cried all night and complained to moses and aaron we wish we had died in egypt or somewhere out here in the desert is the lord leading us into canaan just to have us killed that our women and children captured we'd be better off in egypt then they said to one another let's choose our own leader and go back moses and aaron bowed down to pray in front of the crowd joshua and caleb tore their clothes in sorrow and said we saw the land ourselves and it's very good if we

obey the lord he will surely give us that land rich with milk and honey so don't rebel we have no reason to be afraid of the people who live there the lord is on our side and they won't stand a chance against us the crowd threatened to stone moses and aaron to death but just then the lord appeared in a cloud of the sacred tent the lord said to moses i have done great things for these people and they still reject me by refusing to believe in my power so they will no longer be my

people i will destroy them but i will make you the ancestor of a nation even stronger than theirs moses replied with your mighty power you rescued your people from egypt so please don't destroy us here in the desert if you do the egyptians will hear about it and tell the people of canaan those canaanites already know that we are your people and that we see you face to face and they have heard how you lead us with a thick cloud during the day in flaming fire at night but if you kill us they will claim

it just because you weren't powerful enough to lead us into canaan as you promised show us your great power lord you promise that you love to show mercy and kindness and you said that you are very patient but that you will punish everyone guilty of doing wrong not only them but their children and grandchildren as well you are merciful and you treat people better than they deserve so please forgive these people just as you have forgiven them ever since they left egypt then the lord said to moses in answer to your prayer i do forgive

them but as surely as i live and my power has no limit i swear that not one of these israelites will enter the land i promise to give their ancestors these people have seen my power in egypt and in the desert but they will never see canaan they have disobeyed and tested me too many times but my servant caleb isn't like the others so because he has faith in me i will allow him to cross into canaan and his descendants will settle there now listen moses the amalekites and the canaanites live in the valleys of

canaan and tomorrow morning you'll need to turn around and head back into the desert toward the red sea [Music] the lord told moses and aaron to give this message to the people of israel you sinful people have complained against me too many times now i swear by my own life that i will give you exactly what you wanted you will die right here in the desert and your dead bodies will cover the ground you have insulted me and none of you men who are over 20 years old will enter the land that i solemnly promise

to give you as your own only caleb and joshua will go in you were worried that your own children would be captured but i the lord will let them enter the land you have rejected you will die here in the desert your children will wander around in this desert 40 years suffering because of your sins until all of you are dead i will cruelly punish you every day for the next forty years one year for each day that the land was explored you sinful people who ganged up against me will die here in the desert

ten of the men sent to explore the land had brought back bad news and had made the people complain against the lord so he sent a deadly disease that killed those men but he let joshua and caleb live the people of israel were very sad after moses gave them the lord's message so they got up early the next morning and got ready to head toward the hill country of canaan they said we were wrong to complain about the lord let's go into the land that he promised us but moses replied you're disobeying the lord your

plan won't work so don't even try it the lord refuses to help you because you turned your backs on him the amalekites and the canaanites are your enemies and they will attack and defeat you but the israelites ignored moses and marched toward the hill country even though the sacred chest and moses did not go with them the amalekites and the canaanites came down from the hill country defeated the israelites and chased them as far as the town of horma numbers 15 the lord told moses to give the israelites the following laws about offering sacrifices bulls

or rams or goats are the animals that you may burn on the altar as sacrifices to please me you may also offer sacrifices voluntarily or because you made a promise or because they are part of your regular religious ceremonies the smell of the smoke from these sacrifices is pleasing to me if you sacrifice a young ram or goat you must also offer two pounds of your finest flour mixed with a quart of olive oil as a grain sacrifice a quart of wine must also be poured on the altar and if the animal is a full-grown

ram you must offer four pounds of flour mixed with one and a half quarts of olive oil one and a half quarts of wine must also be poured on the altar the smell of this smoke is pleasing to me if a bull is offered as a sacrifice to please me or to ask my blessing you must offer six pounds of flour mixed with two quarts of olive oil two quarts of wine must also be poured on the altar the smell of this smoke is pleasing to me [Music] if you are a native israelite you must

obey these rules each time you offer a bull a ram or a goat as a sacrifice and the foreigners who live among you must also follow these rules this law will never change i am the lord and i consider all people the same whether they are israelites or foreigners living among you when you eat food in the land that i'm giving you remember to set aside some of it as an offering to me from the first batch of bread dough that you make after each new grain harvest make a loaf of bread and offer it

to me just as you offer grain all your descendants must follow this law and offer part of the first batch of bread dough the lord also told moses to tell the people what must be done if they ever disobey his laws if all of you disobey one of my laws without meaning to you must offer a bull as a sacrifice to please me together with a grain sacrifice a wine offering and a goat as a sacrifice for sin then the priest will pray and ask me to forgive you and since you did not mean to

do wrong and you offered sacrifices the sin of everyone both israelites and foreigners among you will be forgiven if one of you does wrong without meaning to you must sacrifice a year old female goat as a sacrifice for sin the priest will then ask me to forgive you and your sin will be forgiven the law will be the same for anyone who does wrong without meaning to whether an israelite or a foreigner living among you but if one of you does wrong on purpose whether israelite or foreigner you have sinned against me by disobeying my

laws you will be sent away and will no longer live among the people of israel once while the israelites were traveling through the desert a man was caught gathering firewood on the sabbath he was taken to moses aaron and the rest of the community but no one knew what to do with him so he was not allowed to leave then the lord said to moses tell the people to take that man outside the camp and stone him to death so he was killed just as the lord had commanded moses the lord told moses to say

to the people of israel sow tassels onto the bottom edge of your clothes and tie a purple string to each tassel these will remind you that you must obey my laws and teachings and when you do you will be dedicated to me and won't follow your own sinful desires i am the lord your god who led you out of egypt numbers 16. korah son of ishar was a levite from the kohathite clan one day he called together daythan abyram and ahn from the reuben tribe and the four of them decided to rebel against moses so

they asked 250 respected israelite leaders for their support and together they went to moses and aaron and said why do you think you're so much better than anyone else we're part of the lord's holy people and he's with all of us what makes you think you're the only ones in charge when moses heard this he knelt down to pray then he said to cora and his followers tomorrow morning the lord will show us the person he has chosen to be his priest and that man will faithfully serve him korra now here is what you and

your followers must do get some fire pans fill them with coals and incense and place them near the sacred tent and the man the lord chooses will be his priest quora this time you levites have gone too far you know that the god of israel has chosen you levites from all israel to serve him by being in charge of the sacred tent and by helping the community to worship in the proper way what more do you want the lord has given you a special responsibility and now korra you think you should also be his priest

you and your followers have rebelled against the lord not against aaron then moses sent for dathan and abyram but they sent back this message we won't come it's bad enough that you took us from our rich farmland in egypt to let us die here in the desert now you also want to boss us around you keep promising us rich farmland with fertile fields and vineyards but where are they stop trying to trick these people no we won't come to see you moses was very angry and said to the lord don't listen to these men i

haven't done anything wrong to them i haven't taken as much as a donkey then he said to cora tomorrow you and your followers must go with aaron to the lord's sacred tent each of you take along your fire pan with incense in it and offer the incense to the lord the next day the men placed incense and coals in their fire pans and stood with moses and aaron at the entrance to the sacred tent meanwhile korah had convinced the rest of the israelites to rebel against their two leaders when that happened the lord appeared in

all his glory and said to moses and aaron get away from the rest of the israelites so i can kill them right now but the two men bowed down and prayed our god you gave these people life why would you punish everyone here when only one man has sinned the lord answered moses tell the people to stay away from the tents of korra daythan and abyram moses walked over to dathan and the byram and the other leaders of israel followed then moses warned the people get away from the tents of these sinful men don't touch

anything that belongs to them or you'll be wiped out so everyone moved away from those tents except korra dathan abayram and their families moses said to the crowd the lord has chosen me and told me to do these things it wasn't my idea and here's how you will know if these men die a natural death it means the lord hasn't chosen me but suppose the law does something that has never been done before for example what if a huge crack appears in the ground and these men and their families fall into it and are buried

alive together with everything they own then you will know they have turned their backs on the lord as soon as moses said this the ground under the men opened up and swallowed them alive together with their families and everything they owned then the ground closed back up and they were gone the rest of the israelites heard their screams so they ran off shouting we don't want that to happen to us suddenly the lord sent a fire that burned up the 250 men who had offered incense too then the lord said to moses tell aaron's son

eleazar to take the fire pans from the smoldering fire and scatter the coals the pans are now sacred because they were used for offering incense to me have them hammered into a thin layer of bronze as a covering for the altar those men died because of their sin and now their fire pans will become a warning for the rest of the community eliezer collected the pans and had them hammered into a thin layer of bronze as a covering for the altar just as the lord had told moses the pans were a warning to the israelites

that only aaron's descendants would be allowed to offer incense to the lord anyone else who tried would be punished like korah and his followers the next day the people of israel again complained against moses and aaron the two of you killed some of the lord's people as the people crowded around them moses and aaron turned toward the sacred tent and the lord appeared in his glory in the cloud covering the tent so moses and aaron walked to the front of the tent where the lord said to them stand back i am going to wipe out

these israelites once and for all they immediately bowed down and prayed then moses told aaron grab your fire pan and fill it with hot coals from the altar put incense in it then quickly take it to where the people are and offer it to the lord so they can be forgiven the lord is very angry and the people have already started dying aaron did exactly what he had been told he ran over to the crowd of people and stood between the dead bodies and the people who were still alive he placed the incense on the

pan then offered it to the lord and asked him to forgive the people's sin the disease immediately stopped spreading and no one else died from it but 14 700 israelites were dead not counting those who had died with korah and his followers aaron walked back and stood with moses at the sacred tent numbers 17 the lord told moses call together the twelve tribes of israel and tell the leader of each tribe to write his name on the walking stick he carries as a symbol of his authority make sure aaron's name is written on the one

from the levi tribe then collect all the sticks place these sticks in the tent right in front of the sacred chest where i appear to you i will then choose a man to be my priest and his stick will sprout after that happens i won't have to listen to any more complaints about you moses told the people what the lord had commanded and they gave him the walking sticks from the 12 tribal leaders including aarons from the levi tribe moses took them and placed them in the lord's sacred tent the next day when moses went

into the tent flowers and almonds were already growing on aaron's stick moses brought the 12 sticks out of the tent and showed them to the people each of the leaders found his own and took it but the lord told moses put aaron's stick back let it stay near the sacred chest as a warning to anyone who might think about rebelling if these people don't stop their grumbling about me i will wipe them out moses did what he was told the israelites cried out to moses we're done for and doomed if we even get near the

sacred tent numbers 18 the lord said to aaron you your sons and the other levites of the coeth clan are responsible for what happens at the sacred tent and you and your sons will be responsible for what the priests do the levites are your relatives and are here to help you in your service at the tent you must see that they perform their duties but if they go near any of the sacred objects or the altar all of you will die no one else is allowed to take care of the sacred tent or to do

anything connected with it follow these instructions so i won't become angry and punish the israelites ever again i alone chose the levites from all the other tribes to belong to me and i have given them to you as your helpers but only you and your sons can serve as priests at the altar and in the most holy place your work as priests is a gift from me and anyone else who tries to do that work must be put to death the lord said to aaron i have put you in charge of the sacred gifts and

sacrifices that the israelites bring to me and from now on you your sons and your descendants will receive part of the sacrifices for sin as well as part of the grain sacrifices and the sacrifices to make things right your share of these sacrifices will be the parts not burned on the altar since these things are sacred they must be eaten near the sacred tent but only men are allowed to eat them you will also receive part of the special gifts and offerings that the israelites bring to me any member of your family who is clean

and acceptable for worship can eat these things for example when the israelites bring me the first batches of oil wine and grain you can have the best parts of those gifts and the first part of the crops from their fields and vineyards also belongs to you the people will offer this to me then anyone in your family who is clean may have some of it everything in israel that has been completely dedicated to me will now belong to you the firstborn son in every israelite family as well as the firstborn males of their flocks and

herds belong to me but the firstborn son and every firstborn donkey must be bought back from me the price for a firstborn son who is at least one month old will be five pieces of silver weighed according to the official standards however all first-born cattle sheep and goats belong to me and cannot be brought back splatter their blood on the altar and send their fat up in smoke so i can smell it and be pleased you are allowed to eat the meat of those animals just as you can eat the choice ribs and the right

hind leg of the special sacrifices from now on the sacred offerings that the israelites give to me will belong to you your sons and your daughters this is my promise to you and your descendants and it will never change you will not receive any land in israel as your own i am the lord and i will give you whatever you need ten percent of the israelites crops and one out of every ten of their newborn animals belong to me but i am giving all this to the levites as their pay for the work they do

at the sacred tent they are the only ones allowed to work at the tent and they must not let anyone else come near it those who do must be put to death and the levites will also be punished this law will never change since the levites won't be given any land in israel as their own they will be given the crops and newborn animals that the israelites offer to me the lord told moses to say to the levites when you receive from the people of israel ten percent of their crops and newborn animals you must

offer a tenth of that to me just as the israelites give me part of their grain and wine you must set aside part of what you receive as an offering to me that amount must then be given to aaron so the best of what you receive will be mine after you have dedicated the best parts to me you can eat the rest just as the israelites eat part of their grain and wine after offering them to me your share may be eaten anywhere by anyone in your family because it is your pay for working at

the sacred tent you won't be punished for eating it as long as you have already offered the best parts to me the gifts and sacrifices brought by the people must remain sacred and if you eat any part of them before they are offered to me you will be put to death numbers 19 the lord gave moses and aaron the following law the people of israel must bring moses a reddish brown cow that has nothing wrong with it and that has never been used for plowing moses will give it to eliezer the priest then it will

be led outside the camp and killed while eleazar watches he will dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it seven times in the direction of the sacred tent then the whole cow including its skin meat blood and insides must be burned a priest is to throw a stick of cedar wood a hyssop branch and a piece of red yarn into the fire after the ceremony the priest is to take a bath and wash his clothes only then can he go back into the camp but he remains unclean and unfit for worship until evening the

man who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and take a bath but he is also unclean until evening a man who isn't unclean must collect the ashes of the burnt cow and store them outside the camp in a clean place the people of israel can mix these ashes with the water used in the ceremony to wash away sin the man who collects the ashes must wash his clothes but will remain unclean until evening this law must always be obeyed by the people of israel and the foreigners living among them if you touch a

dead body you will be unclean for seven days but if you wash with the water mixed with the cows ashes on the third day and again on the seventh day you will be clean unacceptable for worship you must wash yourself on those days if you don't you will remain unclean suppose you touch a dead body but refuse to be made clean by washing with the water mixed with ashes you will be guilty of making my sacred tent unclean and will no longer belong to the people of israel if someone dies in a tent while you

are there you will be unclean for seven days and anyone who later enters the tent will also be unclean any open jar in the tent is unclean if you touch the body of someone who was killed or who died of old age or if you touch a human bone or a grave you will be unclean for seven days before you can be made clean someone who is clean must take some of the ashes from the burnt cow and stir them into a pot of spring water that same person must dip a hyssop branch in the

water and ashes then sprinkle it on the tent and everything in it including everyone who was inside if you have touched a human bone a grave or a dead body you must be sprinkled with that water if this is done on the third day and on the seventh day you will be clean then after you take a bath and wash your clothes you can worship that evening if you are unclean and refuse to be made clean by washing with the water mixed with ashes you will be guilty of making my sacred tent unclean and you

will no longer belong to the people of israel these laws will never change the man who sprinkled the water and the ashes on you when you were unclean must also wash his clothes and whoever touches this water is unclean until evening when you are unclean everything you touch becomes unclean and anyone who touches you will be unclean until evening numbers 20 the people of israel arrived at the zinn desert during the first month and set up camp near the town of kadesh it was there that miriam died and was buried the israelites had no water

so they went to moses and aaron and complained moses we'd be better off if we had died along with the others in front of the lord's sacred tent you brought us into this desert and now we and our livestock are going to die egypt was better than this horrible place at least there we had grain and figs and grape vines and pomegranates but now we don't even have any water moses and aaron went to the entrance to the sacred tent where they bowed down the lord appeared to them in all his glory and said moses

get your walking stick then you and aaron call the people together and command that rock to give you water that's how you will provide water for the people of israel and their livestock moses obeyed and took his stick from the sacred tent after he and aaron had gathered the people around the rock he said look you rebellious people and you will see water flow from this rock he raised his stick in the air and struck the rock two times at once water gushed from the rock and the people in their livestock had water to drink

but the lord said to moses and aaron because you refused to believe in my power these people did not respect me and so you will not be the ones to lead them into the land i have promised the israelites had complained against the lord and he had shown them his holy power by giving them water to drink so they named the place miraba which means complaining moses sent messengers from israel's camp near kadish with this message for the king of edom we are israelites your own relatives and we are sure you have heard the terrible

things that have happened to us our ancestors settled in egypt and lived there a long time but later the egyptians were cruel to us and when we begged our lord for help he answered our prayer and brought us out of that land now we are camped to the border of your territory near the town of kadesh please let us go through your country we won't go near your fields and vineyards and we won't drink any water from your wells we will stay on the main road until we leave your territory but the edomite king answered

no i won't let you go through our country and if you try we will attack you moses sent back this message we promise to stay on the main road and if any of us or our livestock drink your water we will pay for it we just want to pass through but the edomite king insisted you can't go through our land then edom sent out its strongest troops to keep israel from passing through its territory so the israelites had to go in another direction after the israelites had left katish and had gone as far as mount

hor on the edomite border the lord said aaron this is where you will die you and moses disobeyed me at meribah and so you will not enter the land i promise the israelites moses go with aaron and his son eleazar to the top of the mountain then take aaron's priestly robe from him and place it on eliasa aaron will die there moses obeyed and everyone watched as he and aaron and eleazar walked to the top of mount hore moses then took the priestly robe from aaron and placed it on eleazar aaron died there when moses

and eliaser came down the people knew that aaron had died and they mourned his death for 30 days numbers 21 the canaanite king of arad lived in the southern desert of canaan and when he heard that the israelites were on their way to the village of atherim he attacked and took some of them hostage the israelites prayed our lord if you will help us defeat these canaanites we'll completely destroy their towns and everything in them to show that they belong to you the lord answered their prayer and helped them wipe out the canaanite army and

completely destroy their towns that's why one of the towns is named horma which means destroyed place the israelites had to go around the territory of edom so when they left mount hor they headed south toward the red sea but along the way the people became so impatient that they complained against god and said to moses did you bring us out of egypt just to let us die in the desert there's no water out here and we can't stand this awful food then the lord sent poisonous snakes that bit and killed many of them some of

the people went to moses and admitted it was wrong of us to insult you and the lord now please ask him to make these snakes go away moses prayed and the lord answered make a snake out of bronze and place it on top of a pole anyone who gets bitten can look at the snake and won't die moses obeyed the lord and all of those who looked at the bronze snake lived even though they had been bitten by the poisonous snakes as the israelites continued their journey to canaan they camped at obath then at aya

abaram in the desert east of moab and then in the zired gorge after that they crossed the arnon river gorge and camped in the moabite desert bordering amorite territory the arnon was the border between the moabites and the amorites a song in the book of the lord's battles mentions the town of weheb with its creeks in the territory of sufa it also mentions the arnon river with its valleys that lie alongside the moabite border and extend to the town of r from the arnon the israelites went to the well near the town of beer where

the lord had said to moses call the people together and i will give them water to drink that's also the same well the israelites sang about in this song let's celebrate the well has given us water with their royal scepters our leaders pointed out where to dig the well the israelites left the desert and camped near the town of matana then at nahalil and then at beimoth finally they reached the moabite territory where they camped near mount pisca in a valley overlooking the desert north of the dead sea the israelites sent this message to king

saihon of the amorites please let us pass through your territory we promise to stay away from your fields and vineyards and we won't drink any water from your wells as long as we're in your land we won't get off the main road but sihan refused to let israel travel through his land instead he called together his entire army and marched into the desert to attack israel near the town of jehas israel defeated them and took over the amorite territory from the arnon river gorge in the south to the jabock river gorge in the north beyond

the javak was the territory of the ammonites who were much stronger than israel the israelites settled in the amorite towns including the capital city of heshban with its surrounding villages king saihon had ruled from hechman after defeating the moabites and taking over their land north of the arnon river gorge that's why the amorites had written this poem about heshbon come and rebuild heshbon king saihan's capital city his armies marched out like fiery flames burning down the town of r and destroying the hills along the arnon river you moabites are done for your god kimash deserted

your people they were captured taken away by king saihan the amorite we completely defeated moab the towns of heshban and daibon of nofa and mediba are ruined and gone after the israelites had settled in the amorite territory moses sent some men to explore the town of jazer later the israelites captured the villages surrounding it and forced out the amorites who lived there [Music] the israelites headed toward the region of basian where king og ruled and he led his entire army to edriye to meet israel in battle the lord said to moses don't be afraid of

ogg i will help you defeat him and his army just as you did king saihon who ruled heshbon oggs territory will be yours so the israelites wiped out ogg his family and his entire army there were no survivors then israel took over the land of basian [Music] numbers 22 israel moved from there to the hills of moab where they camped across the jordan river from the town of jericho when king balak of moab and his people heard how many israelites there were and what they had done to the amorites he and the moabites were terrified

and panicked they said to the midianite leaders that bunch of israelites will wipe out everything in sight like a bull eating grass in a field so king balak sent a message to balaam son of beor who lived among his relatives in the town of pethor near the euphrates river it said i need your help a huge group of people has come here from egypt and settled near my territory they are too powerful for us to defeat so would you come and place a curse on them maybe then we can run them off i know that

anyone you bless will be successful but anyone you curse will fail the leaders of moab and midian left and took a long money to pay balaam for his work when they got to his house they gave him balak's message spend the night here balaam replied and tomorrow i will tell you the lord's answer so the officials stayed at his house during the night god asked balaam who are these people at your house they are messengers from king balak of moab balaam answered he sent them to ask me to go to moab and place a curse

on the people who have come there from egypt they have settled everywhere around him and he wants to run them off but god replied don't go with balak's messengers i have blessed those people who have come from egypt so don't curse them the next morning balaam said to balak's officials go on back home the lord says i cannot go with you the officials left and told balak that balaam refused to come then balak sent a larger group of officials who were even more important than the first ones they went to balaam and told him that

balak had said balaam if you come to moab i'll pay you very well and do whatever you ask just come and place a curse on these people balaam answered even if balak offered me a palace full of silver or gold i wouldn't do anything to disobey the lord my god you are welcome to spend the night here just as the others did i will find out if the lord has something else to say about this that night god said balaam i'll let you go to moab with balak's messengers but do only what i say so

balaam got up the next morning and saddled his donkey then left with the moabite officials balaam was riding his donkey to moab and two of his servants were with him but god was angry that balaam had gone so one of the lord's angels stood in the road to stop him when balaam's donkey saw the angel standing there with a sword it walked off the road and into an open field balaam had to beat the donkey to get it back on the road then the angel stood between two vineyards in a narrow path with a stone

wall on each side when the donkey saw the angel it walked so close to one of the walls that balaam's foot scraped against the wall balaam beat the donkey again the angel moved once more and stood in a spot so narrow that there was no room for the donkey to go around so it just lay down balaam lost his temper then picked up a stick and smacked the donkey when that happened the lord told the donkey to speak and it asked balaam what have i done to you that made you beat me three times [Music]

you made me look stupid balaam answered if i had a sword i'd kill you here and now but you're my owner replied the donkey and you've ridden me many times have i ever done anything like this before no balaam admitted just then the lord let balaam see the angel standing in the road holding a sword and balaam bowed down the angel said you had no right to treat your donkey like that i was the one who blocked your way because i don't think you should go to moab if your donkey had not seen me and

stopped those three times i would have killed you and let the donkey live balaam replied i was wrong i didn't know you were trying to stop me if you don't think i should go i'll return home right now it's all right for you to go the lord's angel answered but you must say only what i tell you so balaam went on with balak's officials when balak heard that balaam was coming he went to meet him at the town of ur which is on the northern border of moab balak asked why didn't you come when i

invited you the first time did you think i wasn't going to pay you i'm here now balaam answered but i will say only what god tells me to say they left and went to the town of kiriath husoff where balak sacrificed cattle and sheep and gave some of the meat to balaam and the officials who were with him the next morning balak took balaam to the town of bamath baal from there balaam could see some of the israelites numbers 23. said to balak build seven altars here then bring seven bulls and seven rams after balak

had done this they sacrificed a bull and a ram on each altar then balaam said wait here beside your offerings and i'll go somewhere to be alone maybe the lord will appear to me if he does i will tell you everything he says and he left when god appeared to him balaam said i have built seven altars and have sacrificed a bull and a ram on each one the lord gave balaam a message then sent him back to tell balak when balaam returned he found balak in his officials standing beside the offerings balaam said king

balak of moab brought me from the hills of syria to curse israel and announce its doom but i can't go against god he did not curse or condemn israel from the mountain peaks i look down and see israel the obedient people of god they are living alone in peace and though they are many they don't bother the other nations i hope to obey god for as long as i live and to die in such peace balak said what are you doing i ask you to come and place a curse on my enemies but you have

blessed them instead balaam answered i can say only what the lord tells me balak said to balaam let's go somewhere else maybe if you see a smaller part of the israelites you will be able to curse them for me so he took balaam to a field on top of mount pisgah where lookouts were stationed then he built seven altars there and sacrificed a bull and a ram on each one wait here beside your offerings balaam said the lord will appear to me over there the lord appeared to balaam and gave him another message then he

told him to go and tell balak balaam went back and saw him and his officials standing beside the offerings balak asked what did the lord say balaam answered pay close attention to my words god is no mere human he doesn't tell lies or change his mind god always keeps his promises my command from god was to bless these people and there's nothing i can do to change what he has done israel's king is the lord god he lives there with them and intends them no harm with the strength of a wild ox god led israel

out of egypt no magic charms can work against them just look what god has done for his people they are like angry lions ready to attack and they won't rest until their victim is gobbled down balak shouted if you're not going to curse israel then at least don't bless them i've already told you balaam answered i will say only what the lord tells me balak said to balaam come on let's try another place maybe god will let you curse israel from there so he took balaam to mount peor overlooking the desert north of the dead

sea balaam said build seven altars here then bring me seven bulls and seven rams after balak had done what balaam asked he sacrificed a bull and a ram on each altar numbers 24. balaam was sure that the lord would tell him to bless israel again so he did not use any magic to find out what the lord wanted him to do as he had the first two times instead he looked out toward the desert and saw the tribes of israel camped below just then god's spirit took control of him and balaam said i am the

son of beor and my words are true so listen to my message it comes from the lord the god all powerful i bowed down to him and saw a vision of israel people of israel your camp is lovely it's like a grove of palm trees or a garden beside a river you are like tall aloe trees that the lord has planted or like cedars growing near water you and your descendants will prosper like an orchard beside a stream your king will rule with power and be a greater king than a gag the amalekite with the

strength of a wild ox god led you out of egypt you will defeat your enemies shooting them with arrows and crushing their bones like a lion you lie down resting after an attack who would dare disturb you anyone who blesses you will be blessed anyone who curses you will be cursed when balak heard this he was so furious that he pounded his fist against his hand and said i called you here to place a curse on my enemies and you've blessed them three times leave now and go home i told you i will pay you

well but since the lord didn't let you do what i asked you won't be paid balaam answered i told your messengers that even if you offered me a palace full of silver or gold i would still obey the lord and i explained that i would say only what he told me so i'm going back home but i'm leaving you with a warning about what the israelites will someday do to your nation balaam said i am the son of beor and my words are true so listen to my message my knowledge comes from god most high

the lord all-powerful i bowed down to him and saw a vision of israel what i saw in my vision hasn't happened yet but someday a king of israel will appear like a star he will wipe out you moabites and destroy those tribes who live in the desert israel will conquer edom and capture the land of that enemy nation the king of israel will rule and destroy the survivors of every town there and i saw this vision about the amalekites their nation is now great but it will someday disappear forever and this is what i saw

about the kenites they think they're safe living among the rocks but they will be wiped out when assyria conquers them no one can survive if god plans destruction ships will come from cyprus bringing people who will invade the lands of assyria and eber but finally cyprus itself will be ruined after balaam finished he started home and balak also left numbers 25 while the israelites were camped at acacia some of the men had sex with moabite women these women then invited the men to ceremonies where sacrifices were offered to their gods the men ate the meat

from the sacrifices and worshiped the moabite gods the lord was angry with israel because they had worshipped the god vale pior so he said to moses take the israelite leaders who are responsible for this and have them killed in front of my sacred tent where everyone can see maybe then i will stop being angry with the israelites moses told israel's officials each of you must put to death any of your men who worship baal later moses and the people were at the sacred tent crying when one of the israelite men brought a midianite woman to

meet his family finneyhouse the grandson of aaron the priest saw the couple and left the crowd he found a spear and followed the man into his tent where he ran the spear through the man and into the woman's stomach the lord immediately stopped punishing israel with a deadly disease but 24 000 israelites had already died the lord said to moses in my anger i would have wiped out the israelites if phineas had not been faithful to me but instead of punishing them i forgave them so because of the loyalty that phineas showed i solemnly promise

that he and his descendants will always be my priests the israelite man that was killed was zimrai son of selu who was one of the leaders of the simeon tribe and the midianite woman killed with him was caused by the daughter of a midianite clan leader named zir the lord told moses the midianites are now enemies of israel so attack and defeat them they tricked the people of israel into worshiping their god at peor and they are responsible for the death of cosby the daughter of one of their own leaders [Music] numbers 26 after the

lord had stopped the deadly disease from killing the israelites he said to moses and eliezer son of aaron i want you to find out how many israelites are in each family and list every man 20 years and older who is able to serve in israel's army israel was now camped in the hills of moab across the jordan river from the town of jericho moses and eleazar told them what the lord had said about counting the men 20 years and older just as moses and their ancestors had done when they left egypt there were forty three

thousand seven hundred thirty men from the tribe of reuben the oldest son of jacob these men were from the clans of hanok palu hezrun and karmai paodu was the father of aliyab and the grandfather of namuel daythan and abyram these are the same daythan and abyram who had been chosen by the people but who followed korra and rebelled against moses aaron and the lord that's when the lord made the earth open up and swallowed dathan abyram and korra at the same time fire destroyed 250 men as a warning to the other israelites but the korah

height clan wasn't destroyed there were 22 200 men from the tribe of simeon they were from the clans of namuel jaimen jaken zira and shaw there were forty thousand five hundred men from the tribe of gad they were from the clans of zephan hagie shunai aznai irai arid and erelai there were 76 500 men from the tribe of judah they were from the clans of sheila pires zira hezrun and hamel judah's sons er and onan had died in canaan there were 64 hundred men from the tribe of issachar they were from the clans of tola

puva jasob and shimran there were sixty thousand five hundred men from the tribe of zebulun they were from the clans of cyrod elon and jalil there were 52 700 men from the tribe of manasseh son of joseph they were from the clan of maker the clan of gilead his son and the clans of his six grandsons aisor helik asriel shechem shamida and hefer zelophehad son of hefer had no sons but he had five daughters mala noah hagla milka and tirza there were 32 500 men from the tribe of ephraim son of joseph they were from

the clans of shuthala beaker tahan and iran the son of shuthala there were forty five thousand six hundred men from the tribe of benjamin they were from the clans of bila ashbal aharam shafifam hufam as well as from aard and naaman the two sons of bila there were sixty four thousand four hundred men from the tribe of dan they were all from the clan of shuhim there were fifty three thousand four hundred men from the tribe of asher they were from the clans of imna ishvai and biraya and from the two clans of heber and

malkiel the sons of bariah asher's daughter was sira there were forty five thousand four hundred men from the tribe of naphtali they were from the clans of jazil giunai jesur and shalom the total number of israelite men listed was 601 thousand seven hundred thirty the lord said to moses divide the land of canaan among these tribes according to the number of people in each one so the larger tribes have more land than the smaller ones i will show you what land to give each tribe and they will receive as much land as they need according

to the number of people in it the tribe of levi included the clans of the gershonites kohathites mirarites as well as the clans of libnai hebron malai mushai and korra kohath the levite was the father of amram the husband of levi's daughter jacobet who was born in egypt amram and jochebed's three children were aaron moses and miriam aaron was the father of nadab abihu eleazar and ithamar but nadab and abihu had died when they offered fire that was unacceptable to the lord in the tribe of levi there were 23 000 men and boys at least

a month old they were not listed with the other tribes because they would not receive any land in canaan moses and eleazar counted the israelites while they were camped in the hills of moab across the jordan river from jericho none of the people that moses and aaron had counted in the sinai desert were still alive except caleb son of jafana and joshua son of nun the lord had said that everyone else would die there in the desert numbers 27 zelophehad was from the manasseh tribe and he had five daughters whose names were mala noah hogla

milka and tirsa one day his daughters went to the sacred tent where they met with moses eleazar and some other leaders of israel as well as a large crowd of israelites the young women said you know that our father died in the desert but it was for something he did wrong not for joining with korra and rebelling against the lord our father left no sons to carry on his family name but why should his name die out for that reason give us some land like the rest of his relatives in our clan so our father's

name can live on moses asked the lord what should be done and the lord answered zelophehad's daughters are right they should each be given part of the land their father would have received tell the israelites that when a man dies without a son his daughter will inherit his land if he has no daughter his brothers will inherit the land but if he has no brothers his father's brothers will inherit the land and if his father has no brothers the land must be given to his nearest relative in the clan this is my law and the

israelites must obey it the lord said to moses one day you will go up into the abarim mountains and from there you will see the land i am giving the israelites after you have seen it you will die just like your brother aaron because both of you disobeyed me at meribah near the town of kadesh in the zinn desert when the israelites insulted me there you didn't believe in my holy power moses replied you are the lord god and you know what is in everyone's heart so i ask you to appoint a leader for israel

your people need someone to lead them into battle or else they will be like sheep wandering around without a shepherd the lord answered joshua son of nun can do the job place your hands on him to show that he is the one to take your place then go with him and have him stand in front of eleazar the priest and the israelites appoint joshua as their new leader and tell them they must now obey him just as they obey you but joshua must depend on eliezer to find out from me what i want him to

do as he leads israel into battle moses followed the lord's instructions and took joshua to eleazar and the people then he placed his hands on joshua and appointed him israel's leader numbers 28 the lord told moses to say to the people of israel offer sacrifices to me at the appointed times of worship so that i will smell the smoke and be pleased each day offer two rams a year old as sacrifices to please me the animals must have nothing wrong with them one will be sacrificed in the morning and the other in the evening along

with each of them two pounds of your finest flour mixed with a quart of olive oil must be offered as a grain sacrifice this sacrifice to please me was first offered on mount sinai finally along with each of these two sacrifices a quart of wine must be poured on the altar as a drink offering the second ram will be sacrificed that evening along with the other offerings just like the one sacrificed that morning the smell of the smoke from these sacrifices will please me on the sabbath in addition to the regular daily sacrifices you must

sacrifice two rams a year old to please me these rams must have nothing wrong with them and they will be sacrificed with a drink offering and four pounds of your finest flour mixed with olive oil on the first day of each month bring to the altar two bulls one full grown ram and seven rams a year old that have nothing wrong with them then offer these as sacrifices to please me six pounds of your finest flour mixed with olive oil must be offered with each bull as a grain sacrifice four pounds of flour mixed with

oil must be offered with the ram and two pounds of flour mixed with oil must be offered with each of the young rams the smell of the smoke from these sacrifices will please me offer two quarts of wine as a drink offering with each bull one and a half quarts with the ram and one quart with each of the young rams finally you must offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin these sacrifices are to be offered on the first day of each month in addition to the regular daily sacrifices celebrate passover in honor of

me on the 14th day of the first month of each year the following day will begin the festival of thin bread which will last for a week during this time you must honor me by eating bread made without yeast on the first day of this festival you must rest from your work and come together for worship bring to the altar two bulls one full grown ram and seven rams a year old that have nothing wrong with them and then offer these as sacrifices to please me six pounds of your finest flour mixed with olive oil

must be offered with each bowl as a grain sacrifice four pounds of flour mixed with oil must be offered with the ram and two pounds of flour mixed with oil must be offered with each of the young rams also offer a goat as a sacrifice for the sins of the people all of these are to be offered in addition to the regular daily sacrifices and the smoke from them will please me then on the last day of the festival you must once again rest from work and come together for worship on the first day of

the harvest festival you must rest from your work come together for worship and bring a sacrifice of new grain offer two young bulls one full grown ram and seven rams a year old as sacrifices to please me six pounds of your finest flour mixed with olive oil must be offered with each bull as a grain sacrifice four pounds of flour mixed with oil must be offered with the ram and two pounds of flour mixed with oil must be offered with each of the young rams also offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin the animals

must have nothing wrong with them and are to be sacrificed along with the regular daily sacrifices numbers 29 on the first day of the seventh month you must rest from your work and come together to celebrate at the sound of the trumpets bring to the altar one bull one full grown ram and seven rams a year old that have nothing wrong with them and then offer these as sacrifices to please me six pounds of your finest flour mixed with olive oil must be offered with the bull as a grain sacrifice four pounds of flour mixed

with oil must be offered with the ram and two pounds of flour mixed with oil must be offered with each of the young rams you must also offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin these sacrifices will be made in addition to the regular daily sacrifices and the sacrifices for the first day of the month the smoke from these sacrifices will please me the tenth day of the seventh month is the great day of forgiveness on that day you must rest from all work and come together for worship show sorrow for your sins by going

without food and bring to the altar one young bull one full grown ram and seven rams a year old that have nothing wrong with them then offer these as sacrifices to please me six pounds of your finest flour mixed with olive oil must be offered with the bull as a grain sacrifice four pounds of flour mixed with oil must be offered with the ram and two pounds of flour mixed with oil must be offered with each of the young rams a goat must also be sacrificed for the sins of the people you will offer these

sacrifices in addition to the sacrifice to ask forgiveness and the regular daily sacrifices beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and continuing for seven days everyone must celebrate the festival of shelters in honor of me on the first day you must rest from your work and come together for worship bring to the altar 13 bowls two full grown rams and 14 rams a year old that have nothing wrong with them then offer these as sacrifices to please me six pounds of your finest flour mixed with olive oil must be offered with each bowl

as a grain sacrifice four pounds of flour mixed with oil must be offered with each of the rams and two pounds of flour mixed with oil must be offered with each of the young rams you must also offer a goat as a sacrifice for sin these are to be offered in addition to the regular daily sacrifices for the next six days of the festival you will sacrifice one less bull than the day before so that on the seventh day seven balls will be sacrificed the other sacrifices and offerings must remain the same for each of

these days on the eighth day you must once again rest from your work and come together for worship bring to the altar one bull one full grown ram and seven rams a year old that have nothing wrong with them then offer these as sacrifices to please me you must also offer the proper grain sacrifices and drink offerings of wine with each animal and offer a goat as a sacrifice to ask forgiveness for the people these sacrifices are made in addition to the regular daily sacrifices you must offer all these sacrifices to me at the appointed

times of worship together with any offerings that are voluntarily given or given because of a promise moses told the people of israel everything the lord had told him about the sacrifices [Music] numbers 30 the lord told moses to say to israel's tribal leaders when one of you men makes a promise to the lord you must keep your word suppose a young woman who is still living with her parents makes a promise to the lord if her father hears about it and says nothing she must keep her promise but if he hears about it and objects

then she no longer has to keep her promise the lord will forgive her because her father did not agree with the promise suppose a woman makes a promise to the lord and then gets married if her husband later hears about the promise but says nothing she must do what she said whether she meant it or not but if her husband hears about the promise and objects she no longer has to keep it and the lord will forgive her widows and divorced women must keep every promise they make to the lord suppose a married woman makes

a promise to the lord if her husband hears about the promise and says nothing she must do what she said but if he hears about the promise and does object she no longer has to keep it the lord will forgive her because her husband would not allow her to keep the promise her husband has the final say about any promises she makes to the lord if her husband hears about a promise and says nothing about it for a whole day she must do what she said since he did not object the promise must be kept

but if he waits until the next day to stop her from keeping her promise he is the one who must be punished these are the laws that the lord gave moses about husbands and wives and about young daughters who still live at home numbers 31 the lord said to moses before you die make sure that the midianites are punished for what they did to israel then moses told the people the lord wants to punish the midianites so have our men prepare for battle each tribe will send a thousand men to fight twelve thousand men were

picked from the tribes of israel and after they were prepared for battle moses sent them off to war finney has son of eleazar went with them and took along some things from the sacred tent and the trumpets were sounding the battle signal the israelites fought against the midianites just as the lord had commanded moses they killed all the men including balaam son of beor and the five midianite kings eva ricum zur her and ripa the israelites captured every woman and child then led away the midianites cattle and sheep and took everything else that belonged to

them they also burned down the midianite towns and villages israel's soldiers gathered together everything they had taken from the midianites including the captives and the animals then they returned to their own camp in the hills of moab across the jordan river from jericho where moses eleazar and the other israelite leaders met the troops outside camp moses became angry with the army commanders and said i can't believe you let the women live [Music] they are the ones who followed balaam's advice and invited our people to worship the god baal pio that's why the lord punished us

by killing so many of our people you must put to death every boy and all the women who have ever had sex but do not kill the young women who have never had sex you may keep them for yourselves then moses said to the soldiers if you killed anyone or touched a dead body you are unclean and have to stay outside the camp for seven days on the third and seventh days you must go through a ceremony to make yourselves and your captives clean then wash your clothes and anything made from animal skin goats hair

or wood eliezer then explained if you need to purify something that won't burn such as gold silver bronze iron tin or lead you must first place it in a hot fire after you take it out sprinkle it with the water that purifies everything else should only be sprinkled with the water do all of this just as the lord commanded moses wash your clothes on the seventh day and after that you will be clean and may return to the camp the lord told moses make a list of everything taken from the midianites including the captives and

the animals then divide them between the soldiers and the rest of the people elias are the priests and the family leaders will help you from the heart that belongs to the soldiers set aside for the lord one out of every 500 people or animals and give these to eliezer from the heart that belongs to the people set aside one out of every 50 and give these to the levites in charge of the sacred tent moses and eleazar followed the lord's instructions and listed everything that had been taken from the midianites the list included 675 000

sheep and goats 72 000 cattle 61 000 donkeys and 32 000 young women who had never had sex each half included 337 500 sheep and goats 36 000 cattle 30 500 donkeys and 16 000 young women from the half that belonged to the soldiers moses counted out 675 sheep and goats 72 cattle 61 donkeys and 32 women and gave them to eliezer to be dedicated to the lord then from the half that belonged to the people moses set aside one out of every 50 animals and women as the lord had said and gave them to

the levites the army commanders went to moses and said sir we have counted our troops and not one soldier is missing so we want to give the lord all the gold jewelry we took from the midianites it's our gift to him for watching over us and our troops moses and eleazar accepted the jewelry from the commanders and its total weight was over 400 pounds this did not include the things that the soldiers had kept for themselves so moses and eleazar placed the gold in the lord's sacred tent to remind israel of what had happened numbers

32 the tribes of reuben and gad owned a lot of cattle and sheep and they saw that the regions of jaser and gilead had good pastureland so they went to moses eliezer and the other leaders of israel and said the lord has helped us capture the land around the towns of ataroth daibon jaisa nimra heshbon eliela sibam nebo and bion that's good pasture land and since we own cattle and sheep would you let us stay here east of the jordan river and have this land as our own moses answered you mean you'd stay here while

the rest of the israelites go into battle if you did that it would discourage the others from crossing over into the land the lord promised them this is exactly what happened when i sent your ancestors from kadish barnea to explore the land they went as far as eshkol valley then returned and told the people that we should not enter it the law became very angry and he said that no one who was 20 years or older when they left egypt would enter the land he had promised to abraham isaac and jacob not one of those

people believed in the lord's power except caleb and joshua they remained faithful to the lord but he was so angry with the others that he forced them to wander around in the desert forty years by that time everyone who had sinned against him had died now you people of reuben and god are doing the same thing and making the lord even angrier if you reject the lord he will once again abandon his people and leave them here in the desert and you will be to blame the men from reuben and gad replied let us build

places to keep our sheep and goats and towns for our wives and children where they can stay and be safe then we'll prepare to fight and lead the other tribes into battle we will stay with them until they have settled in their own tribal lands the land on this side of the jordan river will be ours so we won't expect to receive any on the other side moses said you promised that you would be ready to fight for the lord you also agreed to cross the jordan and stay with the rest of the israelites until

the lord forces our enemies out of the land if you do these things then after the lord helps israel capture the land you can return to your own land you will no longer have to stay with the others but if you don't keep your promise you will sin against the lord and be punished go ahead and build towns for your wives and children and places for your sheep and goats just be sure to do what you have promised the men from reuben and gad answered sir we will do just what you have said our wives

and children and sheep and cattle will stay here in the towns in gilead but those of us who are prepared for battle will cross the jordan and fight for the lord then moses said to eliezer joshua and the family leaders make sure that the tribes of gad and reuben prepare for battle and cross the jordan river with you if they do then after the land is in your control give them the region of gilead as their tribal land but if they break their promise they will receive land on the other side of the jordan like

the rest of the tribes the tribes of gad and ruben replied we are your servants and we'll do whatever the lord has commanded we will cross the jordan river ready to fight for the lord in canaan but the land we will inherit as our own will be on this side of the river so moses gave the tribes of gad rubin and half of manasseh the territorian towns that king saihon the amorite had ruled as well as the territory and towns that king og of basian had ruled the tribe of gad rebuilt the towns of daivan

aderath auror atrath chophan jaiser jagbaha beth nimra and beth haran they built walls around them and also built places to keep their sheep and goats the tribe of reuben rebuilt heshban eliela kiriathiam sigma as well as the towns that used to be known as nebo and bailmean they renamed all those places the clan of maker from the tribe of east manasseh went to the region of gilead captured its towns and forced out the amorites so moses gave the makerites the region of gilead and they settled there jayer from the manasseh tribe captured villages and renamed

them villages of jair noba captured the town of kinath with its villages and renamed it noba [Music] numbers 33. as israel traveled from egypt under the command of moses and aaron moses kept a list of the places they camped just as the lord had instructed here is the record of their journey israel left the egyptian city of rameses on the 15th day of the first month this was the day after the lord had punished egypt's gods by killing the firstborn sons in every egyptian family so while the egyptians were burying the bodies they watched the

israelites proudly leave their country after the israelites left ramesses they camped at succuth and from there they moved their camp to etham on the edge of the desert then they turned back toward paiha hirath east of bale zifan and camp near migdel they left paiha hirath cross the red sea then walked three days into the etham desert and camped at mara next they camped at elam where there were 12 springs of water and 70 palm trees they left elam and camped near the red sea then turned east and camped along the western edge of the

sinai desert from there they went to dafka elish and rephadim where they had no water they left rephadim and finally reached the sinai desert as israel traveled from the sinai desert to kadish in the zinn desert they camped at kibrath hateva [Music] mithka hashmona maziroth benny jayakin horhagitgad jhatbatha abrona ezian gaber and finally kadesh when they left kadish they came to mount hor on the border of edom that's where the lord commanded aaron the priest to go to the top of the mountain aaron died there on the first day of the fifth month forty years

after the israelites left egypt he was 123 years old at the time it was then that the canaanite king of arad who lived in the southern desert of canaan heard that israel was headed that way the israelites left mount hor and headed toward moab along the way they camped at zalmona punen obaf aya abharam in the territory of moab daivan gad alman diblithem at a place near mount nebo in the abarim mountains and finally in the lowlands of moab across the jordan river from jericho their camp stretched from beth geshemoth to acacia while israel was

camped in the lowlands of moab across the jordan river from jericho the lord told moses to give the people of israel this message when you cross the jordan river and enter canaan you must force out the people living there destroy their idols and tear down their altars then settle in the land i have given it to you as your own i will show you how to divide the land among the tribes according to the number of clans in each one so that the larger tribes will have more land than the smaller ones [Music] if you

don't force out all the people there they will be like pointed sticks in your eyes and thorns in your back they will always be trouble for you and i will treat you as cruelly as i planned on treating them numbers 34. the lord told moses to tell the people of israel that their land in canaan would have the following borders the southern border will be the zinn desert and the northwest part of edom this border will begin at the south end of the dead sea it will go west from there but will turn southward to

include scorpion pass the village of zin and the town of kedish bania from there the border will continue to haze and on to asman it will run along the egyptian gorge and end the mediterranean sea the western border will be the mediterranean sea the northern border will begin at the mediterranean then continue eastward to mount hall after that it will run to libo haymath and across to zidad which is the northern edge of your land from zidad the border will continue east to zifron and end at hazar enon the eastern border will begin at hazar

inan in the north then run south to shephem and on down to ribla on the east side of ain from there it will go south to the eastern hills of lake galilee then follow the jordan river down to the north end of the dead sea the land within these four borders will belong to you then moses told the people you will receive the land inside these borders it will be yours but the lord has commanded you to divide it among the nine and a half tribes the tribes of reuben gad and east manasseh have already

been given their land across from jericho east of the jordan river the lord said to moses eleazar the priest and joshua son of none will divide the land for the israelites one leader from each tribe will help them and here is the list of their names caleb son of jafanna from judah samuel son of amayhad from simeon a lai dad son of chisland from benjamin buckeye son of jaglai from dan hanail son of ephod from manasseh kemuel son of shiftan from ephraim son of parnak from zebulun paltiel son of azan from issachar a haywood son

of shalom i from asher and pedogel son of a maihood from naphthali these are the men the lord commanded to help eliezer and joshua divide the land for the israelites [Music] numbers 35 while the people of israel were still camped in the lowlands of moab across the jordan river from jericho the lord told moses to say to them when you receive your tribal lands you must give towns and pastures to the levi tribe that way the levites will have towns to live in and pastures for their animals the pasture around each of these towns must

be in the shape of a square with the town itself in the center the pasture is to measure three thousand feet on each side with fifteen hundred feet of land outside each of the town walls this will be the levites pasture land six of the towns you give them will be safe towns where the person who has accidentally killed someone can run for protection but you will also give the levites 42 other towns so they will have a total of 48 towns with their surrounding pastures since the towns for the levites must come from israel's

own tribal lands the larger tribes will give more towns than the smaller ones the lord then told moses to tell the people of israel after you have crossed the jordan river and are settled in canaan choose safe towns where a person who has accidentally killed someone can run for protection if the victim's relatives think it was murder they might try to take revenge anyone accused of murder can run to one of these safe towns for protection and not be killed before a trial is held there are to be six of these safe towns three on

each side of the jordan river they will be places of protection for anyone who lives in israel and accidentally kill someone suppose you hit someone with a piece of iron or a large stone or a dangerous wooden tool if that person dies then you are a murderer and must be put to death by one of the victim's relatives he will take revenge for his relatives death as soon as he finds you or suppose you get angry and kill someone by pushing or hitting or by throwing something you are a murderer and must be put to

death by one of the victim's relatives but if you are not angry and accidentally kill someone in any of these ways the townspeople must hold a trial and decide if you are guilty if they decide that you are innocent you will be protected from the victim's relative and sent to stay in one of the safe towns until the high priest dies but if you ever leave the safe town and are killed by the victim's relative he cannot be punished for killing you you must stay inside the town until the high priest dies only then can

you go back home the community of israel must always obey these laws death is the penalty for murder but no one accused of murder can be put to death unless there are at least two witnesses to the crime you cannot give someone money to escape the death penalty you must pay with your own life and if you have been proven innocent of murder and are living in a safe town you cannot pay to go back home you must stay there until the high priest dies i the lord live among you people of israel so your

land must be kept pure but when a murder takes place blood pollutes the land and it becomes unclean if that happens the murderer must be put to death so the land will be clean again keep murder out of israel numbers 36 one day the family leaders from the gilead clan of the manasseh tribe went to moses and the other family leaders of israel and said sir the lord has said that he will show what land each tribe will receive as their own and the lord has commanded you to give the daughters of our relatives alofa

had the land that he would have received but if they marry men from other tribes of israel the land they receive will become part of that tribe's inheritance and will no longer belong to us even when land is returned to its original owner in the year of celebrations we will not get back zlatan's land it'll belong to the tribe into which his daughter's married so moses told the people that the lord had said these men from the manasseh tribe are right i will allow zelophehad's daughters to marry anyone as long as those men belong to

one of the clans of the manasseh tribe tribal land must not be given to another tribe it will remain the property of the tribe that received it in the future any daughter who inherits land must marry someone from her own tribe israel's tribal land is never to be passed from one tribe to another mala tirzah hagla milka and noah the daughters of zelophehad obeyed the lord and married their uncle's sons and remained part of the manasseh tribe so their land stayed in their father's clan these are the laws that the lord gave to moses and

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