Numbers Cross References - YLT

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going out of the land of Egypt, saying: ² `Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names—every male by their polls; <sup>3</sup> from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ye do number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron; <sup>4</sup> and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers. <sup>5</sup> `And these are the names of the men who stand with you: `For Reuben—Elizur son of Shedeur. <sup>6</sup> `For Simeon—Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. ⁷ `For Judah—Nahshon son of Amminadab. <sup>8</sup> `For Issachar—Nathaneel son of Zuar. ⁹ `For Zebulun—Eliab son of Helon. <sup>10</sup> `For the sons of Joseph—for Ephraim: Elishama son of Ammihud: for Manasseh—Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. ¹¹ `For Benjamin—Abidan son of Gideoni. <sup>12</sup> `For Dan—Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. ¹³ `For Asher—Pagiel son of Ocran. <sup>14</sup> `For Gad—Eliasaph son of Deuel. ¹⁵ `For Naphtali—Ahira son of Enan.' <sup>16</sup> These are those called of the company, princes of the tribes of their fathers; they are heads of the thousands of Israel.
<sup>17</sup> And Moses taketh—Aaron also—these men, who were defined by name, <sup>18</sup> and all the company they assembled on the first of the second month, and they declare their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names from a son of twenty years and upward, by their polls, <sup>19</sup> as Jehovah hath commanded Moses; and he numbereth them in the wilderness of Sinai. <sup>20</sup> And the sons of Reuben, Israel's first-born—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>21</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred. <sup>22</sup> Of the sons of Simeon—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, its numbered ones in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>23</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Simeon, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred. <sup>24</sup> Of the sons of Gad—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>25</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Gad, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty. <sup>26</sup> Of the sons of Judah—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>27</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Judah, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred. <sup>28</sup> Of the sons of Issachar—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>29</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Issachar, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred. <sup>30</sup> Of the sons of Zebulun—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>31</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Zebulun, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred. <sup>32</sup> Of the sons of Joseph—of the sons of Ephraim—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>33</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Ephraim, are forty thousand and five hundred. <sup>34</sup> Of the sons of Manasseh—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>35</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Manasseh, are two and thirty thousand and two hundred. <sup>36</sup> Of the sons of Benjamin—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>37</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Benjamin, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred. <sup>38</sup> Of the sons of Dan—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>39</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Dan, are two and sixty thousand and seven hundred. <sup>40</sup> Of the sons of Asher—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>41</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Asher, are one and forty thousand and five hundred. <sup>42</sup> Of the sons of Naphtali—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— <sup>43</sup> their numbered ones, for the tribe of Naphtali, are three and fifty thousand and four hundred.
<sup>44</sup> These are those numbered, whom Moses numbered—Aaron also, and the princes of Israel, twelve men—each for the house of his fathers, they have been. <sup>45</sup> And they are, all those numbered of the sons of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, <sup>46</sup> yea, all those numbered are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.
<sup>47</sup> And the Levites, for the tribe of their fathers, have not numbered themselves in their midst, <sup>48</sup> seeing Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, <sup>49</sup> `Only, the tribe of Levi thou dost not number, and their sum thou dost not take up in the midst of the sons of Israel; ⁵⁰ and thou, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that it hath; they bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels, and they serve it; and round about the tabernacle they encamp. ⁵¹ `And in the journeying of the tabernacle, the Levites take it down, and in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites raise it up; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.' ⁵² And the sons of Israel have encamped, each by his camp, and each by his standard, by their hosts; ⁵³ and the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony; and there is no wrath on the company of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have kept the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony. ⁵⁴ And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have done.

¹ In the third month of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in this day they have come into the wilderness of Sinai,

²² and I have met with thee there, and have spoken with thee from off the mercy-seat (from between the two cherubs, which are on the ark of the testimony) all that which I command thee concerning the sons of Israel.

² `On the first day of the month, in the first month, thou dost raise up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,

¹⁷ And it cometh to pass, in the first month, in the second year, in the first of the month, the tabernacle hath been raised up;

¹ And Jehovah calleth unto Moses, and speaketh unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying,

³⁴ These are the commands which Jehovah hath commanded Moses for the sons of Israel, in mount Sinai.

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in the wilderness of Sinai, in the second year of their going out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying,

¹¹ And it cometh to pass—in the second year, in the second month, in the twentieth of the month—the cloud hath gone up from off the tabernacle of the testimony, ¹² and the sons of Israel journey in their journeyings from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud doth tabernacle in the wilderness of Paran;

¹ And it cometh to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year—in the month of Zif, it is the second month—of the reigning of Solomon over Israel, that he buildeth the house for Jehovah.

¹ And Jacob calleth unto his sons and saith, `Be gathered together, and I declare to you that which doth happen with you in the latter end of the days. <sup>2</sup> `Be assembled, and hear, sons of Jacob, And hearken unto Israel your father. ³ Reuben! my first-born thou, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength;

¹ And these are the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt with Jacob; a man and his household have they come; ² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, ³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, ⁴ Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. ⁵ And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as to Joseph, he was in Egypt.

¹⁴ These are heads of the house of their fathers: Sons of Reuben first-born of Israel are Hanoch, and Phallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these are families of Reuben. ¹⁵ And sons of Simeon are Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, son of the Canaanitess: these are families of Simeon. ¹⁶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi, as to their births: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi are a hundred and thirty and seven years. ¹⁷ The sons of Gershon are Libni, and Shimi, as to their families. ¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath are Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath are a hundred and thirty and three years. ¹⁹ And the sons of Merari are Mahli and Mushi: these are families of Levi, as to their births.

¹² `When thou takest up the sum of the sons of Israel for their numbers, then they have given each an atonement for his soul to Jehovah in their being numbered, and there is no plague among them in their being numbered.

²⁶ a bekah for a poll (half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary,) for every one who is passing over unto those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, for six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

¹⁸ and all the company they assembled on the first of the second month, and they declare their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names from a son of twenty years and upward, by their polls,

²² Of the sons of Simeon—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, its numbered ones in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host—

²⁶ Of the sons of Judah—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— ²⁷ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Judah, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred. ²⁸ Of the sons of Issachar—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— ²⁹ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Issachar, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred. ³⁰ Of the sons of Zebulun—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— ³¹ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Zebulun, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred. ³² Of the sons of Joseph—of the sons of Ephraim—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— ³³ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Ephraim, are forty thousand and five hundred. ³⁴ Of the sons of Manasseh—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— ³⁵ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Manasseh, are two and thirty thousand and two hundred. ³⁶ Of the sons of Benjamin—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— ³⁷ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Benjamin, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred. ³⁸ Of the sons of Dan—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— ³⁹ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Dan, are two and sixty thousand and seven hundred. ⁴⁰ Of the sons of Asher—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— ⁴¹ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Asher, are one and forty thousand and five hundred. ⁴² Of the sons of Naphtali—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host— ⁴³ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Naphtali, are three and fifty thousand and four hundred.
⁴⁴ These are those numbered, whom Moses numbered—Aaron also, and the princes of Israel, twelve men—each for the house of his fathers, they have been. ⁴⁵ And they are, all those numbered of the sons of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ⁴⁶ yea, all those numbered are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.
⁴⁷ And the Levites, for the tribe of their fathers, have not numbered themselves in their midst, ⁴⁸ seeing Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁹ `Only, the tribe of Levi thou dost not number, and their sum thou dost not take up in the midst of the sons of Israel; <sup>50</sup> and thou, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that it hath; they bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels, and they serve it; and round about the tabernacle they encamp. <sup>51</sup> `And in the journeying of the tabernacle, the Levites take it down, and in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites raise it up; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.' ⁵² And the sons of Israel have encamped, each by his camp, and each by his standard, by their hosts; ⁵³ and the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony; and there is no wrath on the company of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have kept the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony. ⁵⁴ And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have done.

² `Take up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel, from a son of twenty years and upward, by the house of their fathers, every one going out to the host in Israel.' <sup>3</sup> And Moses speaketh—Eleazar the priest also—with them, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying, <sup>4</sup> `From a son of twenty years and upward,' as Jehovah hath commanded Moses and the sons of Israel who are coming out from the land of Egypt.

⁶³ These are those numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who have numbered the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho; ⁶⁴ and among these there hath not been a man of those numbered by Moses, and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai,

¹ And the anger of Jehovah addeth to burn against Israel, and an adversary moveth David about them, saying, `Go, number Israel and Judah.' <sup>2</sup> And the king saith unto Joab, head of the host that is with him, `Go to and fro, I pray thee, through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, and inspect ye the people—and I have known the number of the people.' ³ And Joab saith unto the king, `Yea, Jehovah thy God doth add unto the people, as they are, a hundred times, and the eyes of my lord the king are seeing; and my lord the king, why is he desirous of this thing?'

¹ And there standeth up an adversary against Israel, and persuadeth David to number Israel, ² And David saith unto Joab, and unto the heads of the people, `Go, number Israel from Beer-Sheba even unto Dan, and bring unto me, and I know their number.'

²³ And David hath not taken up their number from a son of twenty years and under, for Jehovah said to multiply Israel as the stars of the heavens. ²⁴ Joab son of Zeruiah hath begun to number—and hath not finished—and there is for this wrath against Israel, and the number hath not gone up in the account of the Chronicles of king David.

¹⁷ and ye have observed the unleavened things, for in this self-same day I have brought out your hosts from the land of Egypt, and ye have observed this day to your generations—a statute age-during.

¹⁴ every one passing over unto those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, doth give the heave-offering of Jehovah;

²⁹ in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

² `Take up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel, from a son of twenty years and upward, by the house of their fathers, every one going out to the host in Israel.'

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

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

¹⁸ `And I command you, at that time, saying, Jehovah your God hath given to you this land to possess it; armed ye pass over before your brethren the sons of Israel, all the sons of might.

⁵ `When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and one doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

⁹ and Joab giveth the account of the inspection of the people unto the king, and Israel is eight hundred thousand men of valour, drawing sword, and the men of Judah five hundred thousand men.

¹³ and he hath much work in cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty of valour, are in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And these are their numbers, for the house of their fathers: Of Judah, heads of thousands, Adnah the head, and with him mighty ones of valour, three hundred chiefs. ¹⁵ And at his hand is Jehohanan the head, and with him two hundred and eighty chiefs. ¹⁶ And at his hand is Amasiah son of Zichri, who is willingly offering himself to Jehovah, and with him two hundred chiefs, mighty of valour. ¹⁷ And of Benjamin: mighty of valour, Eliada, and with him, armed with bow and shield, two hundred chiefs. ¹⁸ And at his hand is Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty chiefs, armed ones of the host.

¹¹ And Uzziah hath a force, making war, going forth to the host, by troops, in the number of their reckoning by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Masseiah the officer, by the hand of Hananiah one of the heads of the king. ¹² The whole number of heads of the fathers of the mighty ones of valour is two thousand and six hundred; ¹³ and by their hand is the force of the host, three hundred thousand, and seven thousand, and five hundred warriors, with mighty power to give help to the king against the enemy.

²¹ `And thou—thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed these over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,

²⁵ and Moses chooseth men of ability out of all Israel, and maketh them chiefs over the people, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,

¹⁶ These are those called of the company, princes of the tribes of their fathers; they are heads of the thousands of Israel.

³ And those encamping eastward towards the sun-rising, are of the standard of the camp of Judah, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Judah is Nahshon, son of Amminadab; ⁴ and his host, and their numbered ones, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred. ⁵ And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Issachar; and the prince of the sons of Issachar is Nethaneel son of Zuar; ⁶ and his host, and its numbered ones, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred. ⁷ The tribe of Zebulun; and the prince of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon; ⁸ and his host, and its numbered ones, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred; ⁹ all those numbered of the camp of Judah are a hundred thousand, and eighty thousand, and six thousand, and four hundred, by their hosts; they journey first. ¹⁰ The standard of the camp of Reuben is southward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur; ¹¹ and his host, and its numbered ones, are six and forty thousand and five hundred. ¹² And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Simeon; and the prince of the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; ¹³ and his host, and their numbered ones, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred. ¹⁴ And the tribe of Gad; and the prince of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Reuel; ¹⁵ and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty. ¹⁶ All those numbered of the camp of Reuben are a hundred thousand, and one and fifty thousand, and four hundred and fifty, by their hosts; and they journey second. ¹⁷ And the tent of meeting—the camp of the Levites—hath journeyed in the midst of the camps; as they encamp so they journey, each at his station by their standards. ¹⁸ The standard of the camp of Ephraim, by their hosts, is westward; and the prince of the sons of Ephraim is Elishama son of Ammihud; ¹⁹ and his host, and their numbered ones, are forty thousand and five hundred. ²⁰ And by him is the tribe of Manasseh; and the prince of the sons of Manasseh is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur; ²¹ and his host, and their numbered ones, are two and thirty thousand, and two hundred. ²² And the tribe of Benjamin; and the prince of the sons of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni; ²³ and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred. ²⁴ All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim are a hundred thousand, and eight thousand, and a hundred, by their hosts; and they journey third. ²⁵ The standard of the camp of Dan is northward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; ²⁶ and his host, and their numbered ones, are two and sixty thousand and seven hundred. ²⁷ And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Asher; and the prince of the sons of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran; ²⁸ and his host, and their numbered ones, are one and forty thousand and five hundred. ²⁹ And the tribe of Naphtali; and the prince of the sons of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan; ³⁰ and his host, and their numbered ones, are three and fifty thousand and four hundred. ³¹ All those numbered of the camp of Dan are a hundred thousand, and seven and fifty thousand, and six hundred; at the rear they journey, by their standards.

¹⁰ And the princes bring near the dedication of the altar in the day of its being anointed; yea, the princes bring near their offering before the altar. ¹¹ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `One prince a day—one prince a day—do they bring near their offering for the dedication of the altar.' ¹² And he who is bringing near on the first day his offering is Nahshon son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah. ¹³ And his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ¹⁴ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ¹⁵ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ¹⁶ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ¹⁷ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab. ¹⁸ On the second day hath Nethaneel son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, brought near. ¹⁹ He hath brought near his offering, one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ²⁰ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ²¹ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ²² one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ²³ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Nethaneel son of Zuar. ²⁴ On the third day, the prince of the sons of Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon; — ²⁵ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ²⁶ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ²⁷ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ²⁸ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ²⁹ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Eliab son of Helon. ³⁰ On the fourth day, Elizur, son of Shedeur, prince of the sons of Reuben; — ³¹ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ³² one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ³³ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ³⁴ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ³⁵ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur. ³⁶ On the fifth day, the prince of the sons of Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; — ³⁷ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ³⁸ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ³⁹ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁴⁰ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁴¹ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. ⁴² On the sixth day, the prince of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel; — ⁴³ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁴⁴ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁴⁵ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁴⁶ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁴⁷ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel. ⁴⁸ On the seventh day, the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; — ⁴⁹ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁵⁰ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁵¹ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁵² one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁵³ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud. ⁵⁴ On the eighth day, the prince of the sons of Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur; — ⁵⁵ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁵⁶ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁵⁷ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁵⁸ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁵⁹ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. ⁶⁰ On the ninth day, the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni; — ⁶¹ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁶² one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁶³ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁶⁴ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering: ⁶⁵ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni. ⁶⁶ On the tenth day, the prince of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; — ⁶⁷ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁶⁸ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁶⁹ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁷⁰ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁷¹ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. ⁷² On the eleventh day, the prince of the sons of Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran; — ⁷³ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁷⁴ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁷⁵ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁷⁶ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁷⁷ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran. ⁷⁸ On the twelfth day, the prince of the sons of Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan; — ⁷⁹ his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present; ⁸⁰ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of perfume; ⁸¹ one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering; ⁸² one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁸³ and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Ahira son of Enan.

¹⁴ And the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah journeyeth in the first place, by their hosts, and over its host is Nahshon son of Amminadab. ¹⁵ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Issachar is Nathaneel son of Zuar. ¹⁶ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon; ¹⁷ And the tabernacle hath been taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle. ¹⁸ And the standard of the camp of Reuben hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elizur son of Shedeur. ¹⁹ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. ²⁰ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Deuel; ²¹ And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the others have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in. ²² And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elishama son of Ammihud. ²³ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh is Gamalial son of Pedahzur. ²⁴ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni. ²⁵ And the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan hath journeyed (rearward to all the camps), by their hosts, and over its host is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. ²⁶ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran. ²⁷ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan.

² `Send for thee men, and they spy the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel; one man, one man for the tribe of his fathers ye do send, every one a prince among them.' ³ And Moses sendeth them from the wilderness of Paran by the command of Jehovah; all of them are men, heads of the sons of Israel they are, ⁴ and these their names: For the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur. ⁵ For the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori. ⁶ For the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh. ⁷ For the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph. ⁸ For the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea, son of Nun. ⁹ For the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu. ¹⁰ For the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi. ¹¹ For the tribe of Joseph, (for the tribe of Manasseh,) Gaddi son of Susi. ¹² For the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli. ¹³ For the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael. ¹⁴ For the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vopshi. ¹⁵ For the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.

³ and Aaron's name thou dost write on the tribe of Levi; for one rod is for the head of their fathers' house:

⁴ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them before Jehovah—over-against the sun; and the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah doth turn back from Israel.'

¹⁴ And the name of the man of Israel who is smitten, who hath been smitten with the Midianitess, is Zimri son of Salu, prince of the house of a father of the Simeonite;

¹⁸ and one prince—one prince—for a tribe ye do take to give the land by inheritance. ¹⁹ `And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; ²⁰ and of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel son of Aminihud; ²¹ of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon; ²² and of the tribe of the sons of Dan, the prince Bukki son of Jogli; ²³ of the sons of Joseph, of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, the prince Hanniel son of Ephod; ²⁴ and of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, the prince Kemuel son of Shiphtan; ²⁵ and of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, the prince Elizaphan son of Parnach; ²⁶ and of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince Paltiel son of Azzan; ²⁷ and of the tribe of the sons of Asher, the prince Ahihud son of Shelomi; ²⁸ and of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, the prince Pedahel son of Ammihud.'

¹⁵ `And I take the heads of your tribes, men, wise and known, and I appoint them heads over you, princes of thousands, and princes of hundreds, and princes of fifties, and princes of tens, and authorities, for your tribes.

¹⁴ and ten princes with him, one prince, one prince, for a house of a father, for all the tribes of Israel, and each of them a head of a house of their fathers, for the thousands of Israel.

¹ And the sons of Israel, after their number, heads of the fathers, and princes of the thousands and of the hundreds, and their officers, those serving the king in any matter of the courses, that are coming in and going out month by month, throughout all months of the year—are in each course twenty and four thousand. ² Over the first course, for the first month, is Jashobeam son of Zabdiel, and on his course are twenty and four thousand; ³ of the sons of Perez is the head of all princes of the hosts for the first month. ⁴ And over the course of the second month is Dodai the Ahohite, and his course, and Mikloth is the president, and on his course are twenty and four thousand. ⁵ Head of the third host, for the third month, is Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the head priest, and on his course are twenty and four thousand. ⁶ This Benaiah is a mighty one of the thirty, and over the thirty, and in his course is Ammizabad his son. ⁷ The fourth, for the fourth month, is Asahel brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him, and on his course are twenty and four thousand. ⁸ The fifth, for the fifth month, is the prince Shamhuth the Izrahite, and on his course are twenty and four thousand. ⁹ The sixth, for the sixth month, is Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, and on his course are twenty and four thousand. ¹⁰ The seventh, for the seventh month, is Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim, and on his course are twenty and four thousand. ¹¹ The eighth, for the eighth month, is Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhite, and on his course are twenty and four thousand. ¹² The ninth, for the ninth month, is Abiezer the Antothite, of the Benjamite, and on his course are twenty and four thousand. ¹³ The tenth, for the tenth month, is Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhite, and on his course are twenty and four thousand. ¹⁴ Eleventh, for the eleventh month, is Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the sons of Ephraim, and on his course are twenty and four thousand. ¹⁵ The twelfth, for the twelfth month, is Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel, and on his course are twenty and four thousand.
¹⁶ And over the tribes of Israel: Of the Reubenite, a leader is Eliezer son of Zichri; of the Simeonite, Shephatiah son of Maachah; ¹⁷ of the Levite, Hashabiah son of Kemuel; of the Aaronite, Zadok; ¹⁸ of Judah, Elihu, of the brethren of David; of Issachar, Omri son of Michael; ¹⁹ of Zebulun, Ishmaiah son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jerimoth son of Azriel; ²⁰ of the sons of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Azaziah; of the half of the tribe of Manasseh, Joel son of Pedaiah; ²¹ of the half of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel son of Abner; of Dan, Azareel son of Jeroham: ²² these are heads of the tribes of Israel.

³² and Leah conceiveth, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Reuben, for she said, `Because Jehovah hath looked on mine affliction; because now doth my husband love me.' <sup>33</sup> And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, `Because Jehovah hath heard that I am the hated one, He also giveth to me even this one;' and she calleth his name Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, `Now is the time, my husband is joined unto me, because I have born to him three sons,' therefore hath one called his name Levi. <sup>35</sup> And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith this time, `I praise Jehovah;' therefore hath she called his name Judah; and she ceaseth from bearing.

⁵ and Bilhah conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son, ⁶ and Rachel saith, `God hath decided for me, and also hath hearkened to my voice, and giveth to me a son;' therefore hath she called his name Dan. <sup>7</sup> And Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant, conceiveth again, and beareth a second son to Jacob, <sup>8</sup> and Rachel saith, `With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, yea, I have prevailed;' and she calleth his name Napthali. ⁹ And Leah seeth that she hath ceased from bearing, and she taketh Zilpah her maid-servant, and giveth her to Jacob for a wife; ¹⁰ and Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth to Jacob a son, ¹¹ and Leah saith, `A troop is coming;' and she calleth his name Gad. <sup>12</sup> And Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth a second son to Jacob, <sup>13</sup> and Leah saith, `Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me happy;' and she calleth his name Asher.
¹⁴ And Reuben goeth in the days of wheat-harvest, and findeth love-apples in the field, and bringeth them in unto Leah, his mother, and Rachel saith unto Leah, `Give to me, I pray thee, of the love-apples of thy son.' <sup>15</sup> And she saith to her, `Is thy taking my husband a little thing, that thou hast taken also the love-apples of my son?' and Rachel saith, `Therefore doth he lie with thee to-night, for thy son's love-apples.' <sup>16</sup> And Jacob cometh in from the field at evening; and Leah goeth to meet him, and saith, `Unto me dost thou come in, for hiring I have hired thee with my son's love-apples;' and he lieth with her during that night. ¹⁷ And God hearkeneth unto Leah, and she conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son, a fifth, ¹⁸ and Leah saith, `God hath given my hire, because I have given my maid-servant to my husband;' and she calleth his name Issachar. <sup>19</sup> And conceive again doth Leah, and she beareth a sixth son to Jacob, <sup>20</sup> and Leah saith, `God hath endowed me—a good dowry; this time doth my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons;' and she calleth his name Zebulun;

¹⁷ and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also is a son for thee.' ¹⁸ And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin; ¹⁹ and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which is Bethlehem, ²⁰ and Jacob setteth up a standing pillar over her grave; which is the standing pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
²¹ And Israel journeyeth, and stretcheth out his tent beyond the tower of Edar; ²² and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth. ²³ And the sons of Jacob are twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob's first-born Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. ²⁴ Sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁵ And sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant: Dan and Naphtali. ²⁶ And sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant: Gad and Asher. These are sons of Jacob, who have been born to him in Padan-Aram.

⁸ And these are the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt: Jacob and his sons, Jacob's first-born, Reuben. ⁹ And sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. ¹⁰ And sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul son of the Canaanitess. ¹¹ And sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ¹² And sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah, (and Er and Onan die in the land of Canaan.) And sons of Pharez are Hezron and Hamul. ¹³ And sons of Issachar: Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. ¹⁴ And sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. ¹⁵ These are sons of Leah whom she bare to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the persons of his sons and his daughters are thirty and three. ¹⁶ And sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. ¹⁷ And sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. ¹⁸ These are sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she beareth these to Jacob—sixteen persons. ¹⁹ Sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And born to Joseph in the land of Egypt (whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him) are Manasseh and Ephraim. ²¹ And sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. ²² These are sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the persons are fourteen. ²³ And sons of Dan: Hushim. ²⁴ And sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

¹ And Jacob calleth unto his sons and saith, `Be gathered together, and I declare to you that which doth happen with you in the latter end of the days. <sup>2</sup> `Be assembled, and hear, sons of Jacob, And hearken unto Israel your father. ³ Reuben! my first-born thou, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength; ⁴ Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!
⁵ Simeon and Levi are brethren! Instruments of violence—their espousals! ⁶ Into their secret, come not, O my soul! Unto their assembly be not united, O mine honour; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will eradicated a prince. ⁷ Cursed is their anger, for it is fierce, And their wrath, for it is sharp; I divide them in Jacob, And I scatter them in Israel.
⁸ Judah! thou—thy brethren praise thee! Thy hand is on the neck of thine enemies, Sons of thy father bow themselves to thee. ⁹ A lion's whelp is Judah, For prey, my son, thou hast gone up; He hath bent, he hath crouched as a lion, And as a lioness; who causeth him to arise? ¹⁰ The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his is the obedience of peoples. ¹¹ Binding to the vine his ass, And to the choice vine the colt of his ass, He hath washed in wine his clothing, And in the blood of grapes his covering; ¹² Red are eyes with wine, And white are teeth with milk!
¹³ Zebulun at a haven of the seas doth dwell, And he is for a haven of ships; And his side is unto Zidon. ¹⁴ Issacher is a strong ass, Crouching between the two folds; ¹⁵ And he seeth rest that it is good, And the land that it is pleasant, And he inclineth his shoulder to bear, And is to tribute a servant. ¹⁶ Dan doth judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel; ¹⁷ Dan is a serpent by the way, An adder by the path, Which is biting the horse's heels, And its rider falleth backward. ¹⁸ For Thy salvation I have waited, Jehovah! ¹⁹ Gad! a troop assaulteth him, But he assaulteth last. ²⁰ Out of Asher his bread is fat; And he giveth dainties of a king. ²¹ Naphtali is a hind sent away, Who is giving beauteous young ones.
²² Joseph is a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall; ²³ And embitter him—yea, they have striven, Yea, hate him do archers; ²⁴ And his bow abideth in strength, And strengthened are the arms of his hands By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, Whence is a shepherd, a son of Israel. ²⁵ By the God of thy father who helpeth thee, And the Mighty One who blesseth thee, Blessings of the heavens from above, Blessings of the deep lying under, Blessings of breasts and womb; — ²⁶ Thy father's blessings have been mighty Above the blessings of my progenitors, Unto the limit of the heights age-during They are for the head of Joseph, And for the crown of the one Separate from his brethren. ²⁷ Benjamin! a wolf teareth; In the morning he eateth prey, And at evening he apportioneth spoil.'
²⁸ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is that which their father hath spoken unto them, and he blesseth them; each according to his blessing he hath blessed them. ²⁹ And he commandeth them, and saith unto them, `I am being gathered unto my people; bury me by my fathers, at the cave which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite; ³⁰ in the cave which is in the field of Machpelah, which is on the front of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place; ³¹ (there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah); ³² the purchase of the field and of the cave which is in it, is from Sons of Heth.' ³³ And Jacob finisheth commanding his sons, and gathereth up his feet unto the bed, and expireth, and is gathered unto his people.

¹⁰ The standard of the camp of Reuben is southward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur;

³⁰ On the fourth day, Elizur, son of Shedeur, prince of the sons of Reuben; —

¹⁸ And the standard of the camp of Reuben hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elizur son of Shedeur.

¹ And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death, ² and he saith: —`Jehovah from Sinai hath come, And hath risen from Seir for them; He hath shone from mount Paran, And hath come with myriads of holy ones; At His right hand are springs for them. <sup>3</sup> Also He is loving the peoples; All His holy ones are in thy hand, And they—they sat down at thy foot, Each He lifteth up at thy words. <sup>4</sup> A law hath Moses commanded us, A possession of the assembly of Jacob. <sup>5</sup> And he is in Jeshurun king, In the heads of the people gathering together, The tribes of Israel!
<sup>6</sup> Let Reuben live, and not die, And let his men be a number. <sup>7</sup> And this is for Judah; and he saith: —Hear, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And unto his people do Thou bring him in; His hand hath striven for him, And an help from his adversaries art Thou.
<sup>8</sup> And of Levi he said: —Thy Thummim and thy Urim are for thy pious one, Whom Thou hast tried in Massah, Thou dost strive with Him at the waters of Meribah; <sup>9</sup> Who is saying of his father and his mother, I have not seen him; And his brethren he hath not discerned, And his sons he hath not known; For they have observed Thy saying, And Thy covenant they keep. <sup>10</sup> They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar. <sup>11</sup> Bless, O Jehovah, his strength, And the work of his hands Thou acceptest, Smite the loins of his withstanders, And of those hating him—that they rise not!
<sup>12</sup> Of Benjamin he said: —The beloved of Jehovah doth tabernacle confidently by him, Covering him over all the day; Yea, between his shoulders He doth tabernacle. <sup>13</sup> And of Joseph he said: —Blessed of Jehovah is his land, By precious things of the heavens, By dew, and by the deep crouching beneath, <sup>14</sup> And by precious things—fruits of the sun, And by precious things—cast forth by the moons, <sup>15</sup> And by chief things—of the ancient mountains, And by precious things—of the age-during heights, <sup>16</sup> And by precious things—of earth and its fulness, And the good pleasure Of Him who is dwelling in the bush, —Let it come for the head of Joseph, And for the crown of him Who is separate from his brethren. <sup>17</sup> His honour is a firstling of his ox, And his horns are horns of a reem; By them peoples he doth push together To the ends of earth; And they are the myriads of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
<sup>18</sup> And of Zebulun he said: —Rejoice, O Zebulun, in thy going out, And, O Issachar, in thy tents; <sup>19</sup> Peoples to the mountain they call, There they sacrifice righteous sacrifices; For the abundance of the seas they suck, And hidden things hidden in the sand. <sup>20</sup> And of Gad he said: —Blessed of the Enlarger is Gad, As a lioness he doth tabernacle, And hath torn the arm—also the crown! <sup>21</sup> And he provideth the first part for himself, For there the portion of the lawgiver is covered, And he cometh with the heads of the people; The righteousness of Jehovah he hath done, And His judgments with Israel.
<sup>22</sup> And of Dan he said: —Dan is a lion's whelp; he doth leap from Bashan. <sup>23</sup> And of Naphtali he said: —O Naphtali, satisfied with pleasure, And full of the blessing of Jehovah, West and south possess thou. <sup>24</sup> And of Asher he said: —Blessed with sons is Asher, Let him be accepted by his brethren, And dipping in oil his foot. <sup>25</sup> Iron and brass are thy shoes, And as thy days—thy strength.
<sup>26</sup> There is none like the God of Jeshurun, Riding the heavens in thy help, And in His excellency the skies. <sup>27</sup> A habitation is the eternal God, And beneath are arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, `Destroy!' ²⁸ And Israel doth tabernacle in confidence alone; The eye of Jacob is unto a land of corn and wine; Also His heavens drop down dew. ²⁹ O thy happiness, O Israel! who is like thee? A people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And He who is the sword of thine excellency: And thine enemies are subdued for thee, And thou on their high places dost tread.'

⁴ And I heard the number of those sealed, (one hundred and forty four thousands were sealed out of all the tribes of the sons of Israel): ⁵ of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed; ⁶ of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand were sealed; ⁷ of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand were sealed; ⁸ of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.

¹² And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Simeon; and the prince of the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;

³⁶ On the fifth day, the prince of the sons of Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; —

³ And those encamping eastward towards the sun-rising, are of the standard of the camp of Judah, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Judah is Nahshon, son of Amminadab;

¹² And he who is bringing near on the first day his offering is Nahshon son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.

¹⁴ And the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah journeyeth in the first place, by their hosts, and over its host is Nahshon son of Amminadab.

¹⁸ And these are genealogies of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

²⁰ and Amminidab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,

¹⁰ And Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah; ¹¹ and Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,

² Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah and his brethren, ³ and Judah begat Pharez and Zarah of Tamar, and Pharez begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram, ⁴ and Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, ⁵ and Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab, and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse,

³² the son of David, the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Booz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

⁵ And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Issachar; and the prince of the sons of Issachar is Nethaneel son of Zuar;

¹⁸ On the second day hath Nethaneel son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, brought near.

¹⁵ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Issachar is Nathaneel son of Zuar.

⁷ The tribe of Zebulun; and the prince of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon;

²⁴ On the third day, the prince of the sons of Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon; —

¹⁶ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon;

¹⁸ The standard of the camp of Ephraim, by their hosts, is westward; and the prince of the sons of Ephraim is Elishama son of Ammihud;

²⁰ And by him is the tribe of Manasseh; and the prince of the sons of Manasseh is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;

⁴⁸ On the seventh day, the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; —

⁵⁴ On the eighth day, the prince of the sons of Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur; —

²² And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elishama son of Ammihud. ²³ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh is Gamalial son of Pedahzur.

²⁶ Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, ²⁷ Non his son, Jehoshua his son.

²² And the tribe of Benjamin; and the prince of the sons of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni;

⁶⁰ On the ninth day, the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni; —

²⁴ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni.

²⁵ The standard of the camp of Dan is northward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

⁶⁶ On the tenth day, the prince of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; —

²⁵ And the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan hath journeyed (rearward to all the camps), by their hosts, and over its host is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

²⁷ And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Asher; and the prince of the sons of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran;

⁷² On the eleventh day, the prince of the sons of Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran; —

²⁶ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran.

¹⁴ And the tribe of Gad; and the prince of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Reuel;

⁴² On the sixth day, the prince of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel; —

²⁰ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Deuel;

²⁹ And the tribe of Naphtali; and the prince of the sons of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan;

⁷⁸ On the twelfth day, the prince of the sons of Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan; —

²⁷ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan.

⁴ and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers.

² and the princes of Israel (heads of the house of their fathers, they are princes of the tribes, they who are standing over those numbered) bring near,

¹⁷ and I have come down and spoken with thee there, and have kept back of the Spirit which is upon thee, and have put on them, and they have borne with thee some of the burden of the people, and thou dost not bear it thyself alone.

² and they rise up before Moses, with men of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty, princes of the company, called of the convention, men of name,

⁹ and the sons of Eliab are Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram; this is that Dathan and Abiram, called ones of the company, who have striven against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, in their striving against Jehovah,

¹⁵ And he saith unto him, `O, my lord, wherewith do I save Israel? lo, my chief is weak in Manasseh, and I the least in the house of my father.'

⁷ And Saul saith to his servants who are standing by him, `Hear, I pray you, ye Benjamites; also to all of you doth the son of Jesse give fields and vineyards! all of you he doth appoint heads of thousands and heads of hundreds!

²³ And see and know of all the hiding-places where he hideth himself, and ye have turned back unto me prepared, and I have gone with you, and it hath been, if he is in the land, that I have searched him out through all the thousands of Judah.'

² And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth—to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth are of old, From the days of antiquity.

⁵ `And these are the names of the men who stand with you: `For Reuben—Elizur son of Shedeur. ⁶ `For Simeon—Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. <sup>7</sup> `For Judah—Nahshon son of Amminadab. ⁸ `For Issachar—Nathaneel son of Zuar. <sup>9</sup> `For Zebulun—Eliab son of Helon. ¹⁰ `For the sons of Joseph—for Ephraim: Elishama son of Ammihud: for Manasseh—Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. <sup>11</sup> `For Benjamin—Abidan son of Gideoni. ¹² `For Dan—Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. <sup>13</sup> `For Asher—Pagiel son of Ocran. ¹⁴ `For Gad—Eliasaph son of Deuel. <sup>15</sup> `For Naphtali—Ahira son of Enan.'

³ to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;

⁴ And I heard the number of those sealed, (one hundred and forty four thousands were sealed out of all the tribes of the sons of Israel): ⁵ of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed; ⁶ of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand were sealed; ⁷ of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand were sealed; ⁸ of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed. ⁹ After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands, ¹⁰ and crying with a great voice, saying, `The salvation is to Him who is sitting upon the throne—to our God, and to the Lamb!' <sup>11</sup> And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God, <sup>12</sup> saying, `Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the strength, are to our God—to the ages of the ages! Amen!'
¹³ And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who have been arrayed with the white robes—who are they, and whence came they?' <sup>14</sup> and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb; ¹⁵ because of this are they before the throne of God, and they do service to Him day and night in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne shall tabernacle over them; ¹⁶ they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any heat, ¹⁷ because the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going out of the land of Egypt, saying:

⁵⁹ And these are those going up from Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsa, Cherub, Addan, Immer, and they have not been able to declare the house of their fathers, and their seed, whether they are of Israel:

⁶¹ And these are those coming up from Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer—and they have not been able to declare the house of their fathers, and their seed, whether they are of Israel—

³ without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.

⁶ and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and him having the promises he hath blessed,

² `Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names—every male by their polls;

¹ And it cometh to pass, after the plague, that Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying, ² `Take up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel, from a son of twenty years and upward, by the house of their fathers, every one going out to the host in Israel.'

¹ And the anger of Jehovah addeth to burn against Israel, and an adversary moveth David about them, saying, `Go, number Israel and Judah.' <sup>2</sup> And the king saith unto Joab, head of the host that is with him, `Go to and fro, I pray thee, through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, and inspect ye the people—and I have known the number of the people.' ³ And Joab saith unto the king, `Yea, Jehovah thy God doth add unto the people, as they are, a hundred times, and the eyes of my lord the king are seeing; and my lord the king, why is he desirous of this thing?' <sup>4</sup> And the word of the king is severe towards Joab, and against the heads of the force, and Joab goeth out, and the heads of the force, from before the king to inspect the people, even Israel; <sup>5</sup> and they pass over the Jordan, and encamp in Aroer, on the right of the city that is in the midst of the brook of Gad, and unto Jazer, <sup>6</sup> and they come in to Gilead, and unto the land of Tahtim-Hodshi, and they come in to Dan-Jaan, and round about unto Zidon, <sup>7</sup> and they come in to the fortress of Tyre, and all the cities of the Hivite, and of the Canaanite, and go out unto the south of Judah, to Beer-Sheba. <sup>8</sup> And they go to and fro through all the land, and come in at the end of nine months and twenty days to Jerusalem, <sup>9</sup> and Joab giveth the account of the inspection of the people unto the king, and Israel is eight hundred thousand men of valour, drawing sword, and the men of Judah five hundred thousand men.
<sup>10</sup> And the heart of David smiteth him, after that he hath numbered the people, and David saith unto Jehovah, `I have sinned greatly in that which I have done, and now, O Jehovah, cause to pass away, I pray Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.'

³² and Leah conceiveth, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Reuben, for she said, `Because Jehovah hath looked on mine affliction; because now doth my husband love me.'

⁹ And sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

³ Reuben! my first-born thou, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength; ⁴ Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!

¹⁰ The standard of the camp of Reuben is southward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur; ¹¹ and his host, and its numbered ones, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

⁵ Reuben, first-born of Israel—sons of Reuben: of Hanoch is the family of the Hanochite; of Pallu the family of the Palluite; ⁶ of Hezron the family of the Hezronite; of Carmi the family of the Carmite. ⁷ These are families of the Reubenite, and their numbered ones are three and forty thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

¹ As to sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel—for he is the first-born, and on account of his profaning the couch of his father hath his birthright been given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, and he is not to be reckoned by genealogy for the birthright,

⁷ These are families of the Reubenite, and their numbered ones are three and forty thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

³³ And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, `Because Jehovah hath heard that I am the hated one, He also giveth to me even this one;' and she calleth his name Simeon.

²⁵ And it cometh to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, take each his sword, and come in against the city confidently, and slay every male; ²⁶ and Hamor, and Shechem his son, they have slain by the mouth of the sword, and they take Dinah out of Shechem's house, and go out. ²⁷ Jacob's sons have come in upon the wounded, and they spoil the city, because they had defiled their sister; ²⁸ their flock and their herd, and their asses, and that which is in the city, and that which is in the field, have they taken; ²⁹ and all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil also all that is in the house. ³⁰ And Jacob saith unto Simeon and unto Levi, `Ye have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I am few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have smitten me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.'

²⁴ and he turneth round from them, and weepeth, and turneth back unto them, and speaketh unto them, and taketh from them Simeon, and bindeth him before their eyes.

¹⁰ And sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul son of the Canaanitess.

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brethren! Instruments of violence—their espousals! ⁶ Into their secret, come not, O my soul! Unto their assembly be not united, O mine honour; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will eradicated a prince.

¹² And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Simeon; and the prince of the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; ¹³ and his host, and their numbered ones, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

¹² Sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel is the family of the Nemuelite; of Jamin the family of the Jaminite; of Jachin the family of the Jachinite; ¹³ of Zerah the family of the Zarhite; of Shaul the family of the Shaulite. ¹⁴ These are families of the Simeonite, two and twenty thousand and two hundred.

¹³ and his host, and their numbered ones, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

⁸ and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman—unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel; ⁹ and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

¹⁴ These are families of the Simeonite, two and twenty thousand and two hundred.

¹⁰ and Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth to Jacob a son, ¹¹ and Leah saith, `A troop is coming;' and she calleth his name Gad.

¹⁶ And sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

¹⁹ Gad! a troop assaulteth him, But he assaulteth last.

¹⁴ And the tribe of Gad; and the prince of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Reuel; ¹⁵ and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.

¹⁵ Sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon is the family of the Zephonite; of Haggi the family of the Haggite; of Shuni the family of the Shunite; ¹⁶ of Ozni the family of the Oznite; of Eri the family of the Erite: ¹⁷ of Arod the family of the Arodite; of Areli the family of the Arelite. ¹⁸ These are families of the sons of Gad, by their numbered ones, forty thousand and five hundred.

¹⁵ and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.

¹⁸ These are families of the sons of Gad, by their numbered ones, forty thousand and five hundred.

³⁵ And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith this time, `I praise Jehovah;' therefore hath she called his name Judah; and she ceaseth from bearing.

¹² And sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah, (and Er and Onan die in the land of Canaan.) And sons of Pharez are Hezron and Hamul.

⁸ Judah! thou—thy brethren praise thee! Thy hand is on the neck of thine enemies, Sons of thy father bow themselves to thee. ⁹ A lion's whelp is Judah, For prey, my son, thou hast gone up; He hath bent, he hath crouched as a lion, And as a lioness; who causeth him to arise? ¹⁰ The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his is the obedience of peoples. ¹¹ Binding to the vine his ass, And to the choice vine the colt of his ass, He hath washed in wine his clothing, And in the blood of grapes his covering; ¹² Red are eyes with wine, And white are teeth with milk!

³ And those encamping eastward towards the sun-rising, are of the standard of the camp of Judah, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Judah is Nahshon, son of Amminadab; ⁴ and his host, and their numbered ones, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

¹⁹ Sons of Judah are Er and Onan; and Er dieth—Onan also—in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ And sons of Judah, by their families, are: of Shelah the family of the Shelanite; of Pharez the family of the Pharzite; of Zerah the family of the Zarhite; ²¹ and sons of Pharez are: of Hezron the family of the Hezronite; of Hamul the family of the Hamulite. ²² These are families of Judah, by their numbered ones, six and seventy thousand and five hundred.

² for Judah hath been mighty over his brother, and for leader above him, and the birthright is to Joseph.

¹⁴ And these are their numbers, for the house of their fathers: Of Judah, heads of thousands, Adnah the head, and with him mighty ones of valour, three hundred chiefs. ¹⁵ And at his hand is Jehohanan the head, and with him two hundred and eighty chiefs. ¹⁶ And at his hand is Amasiah son of Zichri, who is willingly offering himself to Jehovah, and with him two hundred chiefs, mighty of valour.

² Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah and his brethren,

²² These are families of Judah, by their numbered ones, six and seventy thousand and five hundred.

¹⁸ and Leah saith, `God hath given my hire, because I have given my maid-servant to my husband;' and she calleth his name Issachar.

¹³ And sons of Issachar: Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

¹⁴ Issacher is a strong ass, Crouching between the two folds; ¹⁵ And he seeth rest that it is good, And the land that it is pleasant, And he inclineth his shoulder to bear, And is to tribute a servant.

⁵ And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Issachar; and the prince of the sons of Issachar is Nethaneel son of Zuar; ⁶ and his host, and its numbered ones, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

²³ For no enchantment is against Jacob, Nor divination against Israel, At the time it is said of Jacob and Israel, What hath God wrought! ²⁴ Lo, the people as a lioness riseth, And as a lion he lifteth himself up, He lieth not down till he eateth prey, And blood of pierced ones doth drink.' ²⁵ And Balak saith unto Balaam, `Neither pierce it at all, nor bless it at all;'

²³ Sons of Issachar by their families; of Tola is the family of the Tolaite; of Pua the family of the Punite; ²⁴ of Jashub the family of the Jashubite; of Shimron the family of the Shimronite. ²⁵ These are families of Issachar, by their numbered ones, four and sixty thousand and three hundred.

⁶ and his host, and its numbered ones, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

²⁵ These are families of Issachar, by their numbered ones, four and sixty thousand and three hundred.

²⁰ and Leah saith, `God hath endowed me—a good dowry; this time doth my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons;' and she calleth his name Zebulun;

¹⁴ And sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

¹³ Zebulun at a haven of the seas doth dwell, And he is for a haven of ships; And his side is unto Zidon.

⁷ The tribe of Zebulun; and the prince of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon; ⁸ and his host, and its numbered ones, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred;

²⁶ Sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered is the family of the Sardite; of Elon the family of the Elonite; of Jahleel the family of the Jahleelite. ²⁷ These are families of the Zebulunite by their numbered ones, sixty thousand and five hundred.

⁸ and his host, and its numbered ones, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred;

²⁷ These are families of the Zebulunite by their numbered ones, sixty thousand and five hundred.

²⁴ and she calleth his name Joseph, saying, `Jehovah is adding to me another son.'

¹ And Jacob dwelleth in the land of his father's sojournings—in the land of Canaan. ² These are births of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, hath been enjoying himself with his brethren among the flock, (and he is a youth,) with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and Joseph bringeth in an account of their evil unto their father. ³ And Israel hath loved Joseph more than any of his sons, for he is a son of his old age, and hath made for him a long coat; ⁴ and his brethren see that their father hath loved him more than any of his brethren, and they hate him, and have not been able to speak to him peaceably.
⁵ And Joseph dreameth a dream, and declareth to his brethren, and they add still more to hate him. ⁶ And he saith unto them, `Hear ye, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: <sup>7</sup> that, lo, we are binding bundles in the midst of the field, and lo, my bundle hath arisen, and hath also stood up, and lo, your bundles are round about, and bow themselves to my bundle.' <sup>8</sup> And his brethren say to him, `Dost thou certainly reign over us? dost thou certainly rule over us?' and they add still more to hate him, for his dreams, and for his words. ⁹ And he dreameth yet another dream, and recounteth it to his brethren, and saith, `Lo, I have dreamed a dream again, and lo, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars, are bowing themselves to me.' <sup>10</sup> And he recounteth unto his father, and unto his brethren; and his father pusheth against him, and saith to him, `What is this dream which thou hast dreamt? do we certainly come—I, and thy mother, and thy brethren—to bow ourselves to thee, to the earth?' ¹¹ and his brethren are zealous against him, and his father hath watched the matter.
¹² And his brethren go to feed the flock of their father in Shechem, ¹³ and Israel saith unto Joseph, `Are not thy brethren feeding in Shechem? come, and I send thee unto them;' and he saith to him, `Here am I;' ¹⁴ and he saith to him, `Go, I pray thee, see the peace of thy brethren, and the peace of the flock, and bring me back word;' and he sendeth him from the valley of Hebron, and he cometh to Shechem. <sup>15</sup> And a man findeth him, and lo, he is wandering in the field, and the man asketh him, saying, `What seekest thou?' ¹⁶ and he saith, `My brethren I am seeking, declare to me, I pray thee, where they are feeding?' <sup>17</sup> And the man saith, `They have journeyed from this, for I have heard some saying, Let us go to Dothan,' and Joseph goeth after his brethren, and findeth them in Dothan. ¹⁸ And they see him from afar, even before he draweth near unto them, and they conspire against him to put him to death. ¹⁹ And they say one unto another, `Lo, this man of the dreams cometh; <sup>20</sup> and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.' <sup>21</sup> And Reuben heareth, and delivereth him out of their hand, and saith, `Let us not smite the life;' ²² and Reuben saith unto them, `Shed no blood; cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and put not forth a hand upon him,' —in order to deliver him out of their hand, to bring him back unto his father.
<sup>23</sup> And it cometh to pass, when Joseph hath come unto his brethren, that they strip Joseph of his coat, the long coat which is upon him, <sup>24</sup> and take him and cast him into the pit, and the pit is empty, there is no water in it. <sup>25</sup> And they sit down to eat bread, and they lift up their eyes, and look, and lo, a company of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, and their camels bearing spices, and balm, and myrrh, going to take them down to Egypt. <sup>26</sup> And Judah saith unto his brethren, `What gain when we slay our brother, and have concealed his blood? ²⁷ Come, and we sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hands are not on him, for he is our brother—our flesh;' and his brethren hearken. ²⁸ And Midianite merchantmen pass by and they draw out and bring up Joseph out of the pit, and sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silverlings, and they bring Joseph into Egypt. ²⁹ And Reuben returneth unto the pit, and lo, Joseph is not in the pit, and he rendeth his garments, ³⁰ and he returneth unto his brethren, and saith, `The lad is not, and I—whither am I going?'
<sup>31</sup> And they take the coat of Joseph, and slaughter a kid of the goats, and dip the coat in the blood, <sup>32</sup> and send the long coat, and they bring it in unto their father, and say, `This have we found; discern, we pray thee, whether it is thy son's coat or not?' ³³ And he discerneth it, and saith, `My son's coat! an evil beast hath devoured him; torn—torn is Joseph!' <sup>34</sup> And Jacob rendeth his raiment, and putteth sackcloth on his loins, and becometh a mourner for his son many days, <sup>35</sup> and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, `For—I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him. ³⁶ And the Medanites have sold him unto Egypt, to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, head of the executioners.

¹ And Joseph hath been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, head of the executioners, an Egyptian man, buyeth him out of the hands of the Ishmaelites who have brought him thither. ² And Jehovah is with Joseph, and he is a prosperous man, and he is in the house of his lord the Egyptian, ³ and his lord seeth that Jehovah is with him, and all that he is doing Jehovah is causing to prosper in his hand, ⁴ and Joseph findeth grace in his eyes and serveth him, and he appointeth him over his house, and all that he hath he hath given into his hand. ⁵ And it cometh to pass from the time that he hath appointed him over his house, and over all that he hath, that Jehovah blesseth the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and the blessing of Jehovah is on all that he hath, in the house, and in the field; ⁶ and he leaveth all that he hath in the hand of Joseph, and he hath not known anything that he hath, except the bread which he is eating. And Joseph is of a fair form, and of a fair appearance.
⁷ And it cometh to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifteth up her eyes unto Joseph, and saith, `Lie with me;' <sup>8</sup> and he refuseth, and saith unto his lord's wife, `Lo, my lord hath not known what is with me in the house, and all that he hath he hath given into my hand; ⁹ none is greater in this house than I, and he hath not withheld from me anything, except thee, because thou art his wife; and how shall I do this great evil? —then have I sinned against God.' ¹⁰ And it cometh to pass at her speaking unto Joseph day by day, that he hath not hearkened unto her, to lie near her, to be with her; ¹¹ and it cometh to pass about this day, that he goeth into the house to do his work, and there is none of the men of the house there in the house, ¹² and she catcheth him by his garment, saying, `Lie with me;' and he leaveth his garment in her hand, and fleeth, and goeth without.
<sup>13</sup> And it cometh to pass when she seeth that he hath left his garment in her hand, and fleeth without, <sup>14</sup> that she calleth for the men of her house, and speaketh to them, saying, `See, he hath brought in to us a man, a Hebrew, to play with us; he hath come in unto me, to lie with me, and I call with a loud voice, ¹⁵ and it cometh to pass, when he heareth that I have lifted up my voice and call, that he leaveth his garment near me, and fleeth, and goeth without.' ¹⁶ And she placeth his garment near her, until the coming in of his lord unto his house. ¹⁷ And she speaketh unto him according to these words, saying, `The Hebrew servant whom thou hast brought unto us, hath come in unto me to play with me; <sup>18</sup> and it cometh to pass, when I lift my voice and call, that he leaveth his garment near me, and fleeth without.'
<sup>19</sup> And it cometh to pass when his lord heareth the words of his wife, which she hath spoken unto him, saying, `According to these things hath thy servant done to me,' that his anger burneth; ²⁰ and Joseph's lord taketh him, and putteth him unto the round-house, a place where the king's prisoners are bound; and he is there in the round-house. ²¹ And Jehovah is with Joseph, and stretcheth out kindness unto him, and putteth his grace in the eyes of the chief of the round-house; ²² and the chief of the round-house giveth into the hand of Joseph all the prisoners who are in the round-house, and of all that they are doing there, he hath been doer; ²³ the chief of the round-house seeth not anything under his hand, because Jehovah is with him, and that which he is doing Jehovah is causing to prosper.

²⁰ And born to Joseph in the land of Egypt (whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him) are Manasseh and Ephraim.

¹ And it cometh to pass, after these things, that one saith to Joseph, `Lo, thy father is sick;' and he taketh his two sons with him, Manasseh and Ephraim. <sup>2</sup> And one declareth to Jacob, and saith, `Lo, thy son Joseph is coming unto thee;' and Israel doth strengthen himself, and sit upon the bed. ³ And Jacob saith unto Joseph, `God Almighty hath appeared unto me, in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blesseth me, <sup>4</sup> and saith unto me, Lo, I am making thee fruitful, and have multiplied thee, and given thee for an assembly of peoples, and given this land to thy seed after thee, a possession age-during. <sup>5</sup> `And now, thy two sons, who are born to thee in the land of Egypt, before my coming unto thee to Egypt, mine they are; Ephraim and Manasseh, as Reuben and Simeon they are mine; ⁶ and thy family which thou hast begotten after them are thine; by the name of their brethren they are called in their inheritance. ⁷ `And I—in my coming in from Padan-Aram Rachel hath died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, while yet a kibrath of land to enter Ephrata, and I bury her there in the way of Ephrata, which is Bethlehem.'
<sup>8</sup> And Israel seeth the sons of Joseph, and saith, `Who are these?' ⁹ and Joseph saith unto his father, `They are my sons, whom God hath given to me in this place;' and he saith, `Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I bless them.' ¹⁰ And the eyes of Israel have been heavy from age, he is unable to see; and he bringeth them nigh unto him, and he kisseth them, and cleaveth to them; ¹¹ and Israel saith unto Joseph, `To see thy face I had not thought, and lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.' <sup>12</sup> And Joseph bringeth them out from between his knees, and boweth himself on his face to the earth; <sup>13</sup> and Joseph taketh them both, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel's left, and Manasseh in his left towards Israel's right, and bringeth them nigh to him. <sup>14</sup> And Israel putteth out his right hand, and placeth it upon the head of Ephraim, who is the younger, and his left hand upon the head of Manasseh; he hath guided his hands wisely, for Manasseh is the first-born. <sup>15</sup> And he blesseth Joseph, and saith, `God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked habitually: God who is feeding me from my being unto this day: ¹⁶ the Messenger who is redeeming me from all evil doth bless the youths, and my name is called upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and they increase into a multitude in the midst of the land.' ¹⁷ And Joseph seeth that his father setteth his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and it is wrong in his eyes, and he supporteth the hand of his father to turn it aside from off the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh; ¹⁸ and Joseph saith unto his father, `Not so, my father, for this is the first-born; set thy right hand on his head.' <sup>19</sup> And his father refuseth, and saith, `I have known, my son, I have known; he also becometh a people, and he also is great, and yet, his young brother is greater than he, and his seed is the fulness of the nations;' ²⁰ and he blesseth them in that day, saying, `By thee doth Israel bless, saying, God set thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh;' and he setteth Ephraim before Manasseh. <sup>21</sup> And Israel saith unto Joseph, `Lo, I am dying, and God hath been with you, and hath brought you back unto the land of your fathers; ²² and I—I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I have taken out of the hand of the Amorite by my sword and by my bow.'

²² Joseph is a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall; ²³ And embitter him—yea, they have striven, Yea, hate him do archers; ²⁴ And his bow abideth in strength, And strengthened are the arms of his hands By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, Whence is a shepherd, a son of Israel. ²⁵ By the God of thy father who helpeth thee, And the Mighty One who blesseth thee, Blessings of the heavens from above, Blessings of the deep lying under, Blessings of breasts and womb; — ²⁶ Thy father's blessings have been mighty Above the blessings of my progenitors, Unto the limit of the heights age-during They are for the head of Joseph, And for the crown of the one Separate from his brethren.

¹⁸ The standard of the camp of Ephraim, by their hosts, is westward; and the prince of the sons of Ephraim is Elishama son of Ammihud; ¹⁹ and his host, and their numbered ones, are forty thousand and five hundred.

³⁵ These are sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah is the family of the Shuthelhite; of Becher the family of the Bachrite; of Tahan the family of the Tahanite. ³⁶ And these are sons of Shuthelah: of Eran the family of the Eranite. ³⁷ These are families of the sons of Ephraim, by their numbered ones, two and thirty thousand and five hundred. These are sons of Joseph by their families.

¹⁷ His honour is a firstling of his ox, And his horns are horns of a reem; By them peoples he doth push together To the ends of earth; And they are the myriads of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.

⁵ `And now, thy two sons, who are born to thee in the land of Egypt, before my coming unto thee to Egypt, mine they are; Ephraim and Manasseh, as Reuben and Simeon they are mine;

¹⁹ and his host, and their numbered ones, are forty thousand and five hundred.

³⁷ These are families of the sons of Ephraim, by their numbered ones, two and thirty thousand and five hundred. These are sons of Joseph by their families.

²⁸ Sons of Joseph by their families are Manasseh and Ephraim. ²⁹ Sons of Manasseh: of Machir is the family of the Machirite; and Machir hath begotten Gilead; of Gilead is the family of the Gileadite. ³⁰ These are sons of Gilead: of Jeezer is the family of the Jeezerite; of Helek the family of the Helekite; ³¹ and of Asriel the family of the Asrielite; and of Shechem the family of the Shechemite; ³² and of Shemida the family of the Shemidaite; and of Hepher the family of the Hepherite. ³³ And Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad are Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ³⁴ These are families of Manasseh, and their numbered ones are two and fifty thousand and seven hundred.

¹⁹ And his father refuseth, and saith, `I have known, my son, I have known; he also becometh a people, and he also is great, and yet, his young brother is greater than he, and his seed is the fulness of the nations;' <sup>20</sup> and he blesseth them in that day, saying, `By thee doth Israel bless, saying, God set thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh;' and he setteth Ephraim before Manasseh.

²¹ and his host, and their numbered ones, are two and thirty thousand, and two hundred.

³⁴ These are families of Manasseh, and their numbered ones are two and fifty thousand and seven hundred.

¹⁶ And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing; ¹⁷ and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also is a son for thee.' ¹⁸ And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin;

²⁰ and we say unto my lord, We have a father, an aged one, and a child of old age, a little one; and his brother died, and he is left alone of his mother, and his father hath loved him.

²¹ And sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

²⁷ Benjamin! a wolf teareth; In the morning he eateth prey, And at evening he apportioneth spoil.'

³⁸ Sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela is the family of the Belaite; of Ashbel the family of the Ashbelite; of Ahiram the family of the Ahiramite; ³⁹ of Shupham the family of the Shuphamite; of Hupham the family of the Huphamite. ⁴⁰ And sons of Bela are Ard and Naaman: of Ard is the family of the Ardite: of Naaman the family of the Naamite. ⁴¹ These are sons of Benjamin by their families, and their numbered ones are five and forty thousand and six hundred.

¹⁷ And of Benjamin: mighty of valour, Eliada, and with him, armed with bow and shield, two hundred chiefs.

⁸ of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.

²³ and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred.

⁴¹ These are sons of Benjamin by their families, and their numbered ones are five and forty thousand and six hundred.

⁴⁴ And there fall of Benjamin eighteen thousand men—the whole of these are men of valour; ⁴⁵ and they turn and flee toward the wilderness, unto the rock of Rimmon; and they glean of them in the highways five thousand men, and follow after them unto Gidom, and smite of them two thousand men. ⁴⁶ And all those falling of Benjamin are twenty and five thousand men drawing sword, on that day—the whole of these are men of valour;

⁵ and Bilhah conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son, ⁶ and Rachel saith, `God hath decided for me, and also hath hearkened to my voice, and giveth to me a son;' therefore hath she called his name Dan.

²³ And sons of Dan: Hushim.

¹⁶ Dan doth judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel; ¹⁷ Dan is a serpent by the way, An adder by the path, Which is biting the horse's heels, And its rider falleth backward.

⁴² These are sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham is the family of the Shuhamite; these are families of Dan by their families; ⁴³ all the families of the Shuhamite, by their numbered ones, are four and sixty thousand and four hundred.

²⁶ and his host, and their numbered ones, are two and sixty thousand and seven hundred.

⁴³ all the families of the Shuhamite, by their numbered ones, are four and sixty thousand and four hundred.

¹² And Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth a second son to Jacob, ¹³ and Leah saith, `Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me happy;' and she calleth his name Asher.

²⁷ And the sons of Joseph who have been born to him in Egypt are two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who are coming into Egypt are seventy.

²⁰ Out of Asher his bread is fat; And he giveth dainties of a king.

⁴⁴ Sons of Asher by their families: of Jimna is the family of the Jimnite; of Jesui the family of the Jesuite; of Beriah the family of the Beriite. ⁴⁵ Of sons of Beriah: of Heber is the family of the Heberite; of Malchiel the family of the Malchielite. ⁴⁶ And the name of the daughter of Asher is Sarah. ⁴⁷ These are families of the sons of Asher, by their numbered ones, three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

²⁸ and his host, and their numbered ones, are one and forty thousand and five hundred.

⁴⁷ These are families of the sons of Asher, by their numbered ones, three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

⁷ And Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant, conceiveth again, and beareth a second son to Jacob, ⁸ and Rachel saith, `With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, yea, I have prevailed;' and she calleth his name Napthali.

²⁴ And sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

²¹ Naphtali is a hind sent away, Who is giving beauteous young ones.

⁴⁸ Sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel is the family of the Jahzeelite; of Guni the family of the Gunite; ⁴⁹ of Jezer the family of the Jezerite; of Shillem the family of the Shillemite. ⁵⁰ These are families of Naphtali by their families, and their numbered ones are five and forty thousand and four hundred.

³⁰ and his host, and their numbered ones, are three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

⁵⁰ These are families of Naphtali by their families, and their numbered ones are five and forty thousand and four hundred.

² `Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names—every male by their polls; <sup>3</sup> from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ye do number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron; <sup>4</sup> and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers. <sup>5</sup> `And these are the names of the men who stand with you: `For Reuben—Elizur son of Shedeur. <sup>6</sup> `For Simeon—Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. ⁷ `For Judah—Nahshon son of Amminadab. <sup>8</sup> `For Issachar—Nathaneel son of Zuar. ⁹ `For Zebulun—Eliab son of Helon. <sup>10</sup> `For the sons of Joseph—for Ephraim: Elishama son of Ammihud: for Manasseh—Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. ¹¹ `For Benjamin—Abidan son of Gideoni. <sup>12</sup> `For Dan—Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. ¹³ `For Asher—Pagiel son of Ocran. <sup>14</sup> `For Gad—Eliasaph son of Deuel. ¹⁵ `For Naphtali—Ahira son of Enan.' ¹⁶ These are those called of the company, princes of the tribes of their fathers; they are heads of the thousands of Israel.

⁶⁴ and among these there hath not been a man of those numbered by Moses, and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai,

² And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

¹⁶ And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered;

⁵ and He bringeth him out without, and saith, `Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, `Thus is thy seed.'

⁶ and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

¹⁷ that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which is on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

³ sojourn in this land, and I am with thee, and bless thee, for to thee and to thy seed I give all these lands, and I have established the oath which I have sworn to Abraham thy father;

¹⁴ and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.

³ And He saith, `I am God, God of thy father, be not afraid of going down to Egypt, for for a great nation I set thee there; ⁴ I—I go down with thee to Egypt, and I—I also certainly bring thee up, and Joseph doth put his hand on thine eyes.'

³⁷ And the sons of Israel journey from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from infants;

³² These are those numbered of the sons of Israel by the house of their fathers; all those numbered of the camps by their hosts are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

¹⁰ Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!'

⁵¹ These are numbered ones of the sons of Israel, six hundred thousand, and a thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

²² with seventy persons did thy fathers go down to Egypt, and now hath Jehovah thy God made thee as stars of the heavens for multitude.

²⁰ Judah and Israel are many, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

⁵ And Joab giveth the account of the numbering of the people unto David, and all Israel is a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand, each drawing sword, and Judah is four hundred and seventy thousand, each drawing sword.

³ And Abijah directeth the war with a force of mighty men of war, four hundred thousand chosen men, and Jeroboam hath set in array with him battle, with eight hundred thousand chosen men, mighty of valour.

¹⁴ And these are their numbers, for the house of their fathers: Of Judah, heads of thousands, Adnah the head, and with him mighty ones of valour, three hundred chiefs. ¹⁵ And at his hand is Jehohanan the head, and with him two hundred and eighty chiefs. ¹⁶ And at his hand is Amasiah son of Zichri, who is willingly offering himself to Jehovah, and with him two hundred chiefs, mighty of valour. ¹⁷ And of Benjamin: mighty of valour, Eliada, and with him, armed with bow and shield, two hundred chiefs. ¹⁸ And at his hand is Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty chiefs, armed ones of the host. ¹⁹ These are those serving the king, apart from those whom the king put in the cities of fortress, in all Judah.

¹¹ By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise; ¹² wherefore, also from one were begotten—and that of one who had become dead—as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore—the innumerable.

⁴ And I heard the number of those sealed, (one hundred and forty four thousands were sealed out of all the tribes of the sons of Israel): ⁵ of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed; ⁶ of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand were sealed; ⁷ of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand were sealed; ⁸ of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed. ⁹ After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

³ from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ye do number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron;

⁵⁰ and thou, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that it hath; they bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels, and they serve it; and round about the tabernacle they encamp.

³³ And the Levites have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

¹ And these are births of Aaron and Moses, in the day of Jehovah's speaking with Moses in mount Sinai. ² And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: the first-born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar; ³ these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he hath consecrated for acting as priest. ⁴ And Nadab dieth—Abihu also—before Jehovah, in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and sons they had not; and Eleazar—Ithamar also—acteth as priest in the presence of Aaron their father. ⁵ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ⁶ `Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him, <sup>7</sup> and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle; <sup>8</sup> and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle; <sup>9</sup> and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel. <sup>10</sup> `And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.' ¹¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ¹² `And I, lo, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every first-born opening a womb among the sons of Israel, and the Levites have been Mine; <sup>13</sup> for Mine is every first-born, in the day of My smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I have sanctified to Myself every first-born in Israel, from man unto beast; Mine they are; I am Jehovah.'
<sup>14</sup> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, <sup>15</sup> `Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.' ¹⁶ And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded. ¹⁷ And these are sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁸ And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁹ And the sons of Kohath, by their families, are Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. ²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their families are Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers. ²¹ Of Gershon is the family of the Libnite, and the family of the Shimite; these are the families of the Gershonite. ²² Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones are seven thousand and five hundred. ²³ The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward. ²⁴ And the prince of a father's house for the Gershonite is Eliasaph son of Lael. ²⁵ And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting is the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting, ²⁶ and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and its cords, to all its service. ²⁷ And of Kohath is the family of the Amramite, and the family of the Izharite, and the family of the Hebronite, and the family of the Uzzielite; these are families of the Kohathite. ²⁸ In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward, are eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. ²⁹ The families of the sons of Kohath encamp by the side of the tabernacle southward. ³⁰ And the prince of a father's house for the families of the Kohathite is Elizaphan son of Uzziel. ³¹ And their charge is the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they serve, and the vail, and all its service. ³² And to the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, is the oversight of the keepers of the charge of the sanctuary. ³³ Of Merari is the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these are the families of Merari. ³⁴ And their numbered ones, in number, all the males from a son of a month and upward, are six thousand and two hundred. ³⁵ And the prince of a father's house for the families of Merari is Zuriel son of Abihail; by the side of the tabernacle they encamp northward. ³⁶ And the oversight—the charge of the sons of Merari—is the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all its service, ³⁷ and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. ³⁸ And those encamping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting, at the east, are Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death. ³⁹ All those numbered of the Levites whom Moses numbered—Aaron also—by the command of Jehovah, by their families, every male from a son of a month and upward, are two and twenty thousand.
⁴⁰ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Number every first-born male of the sons of Israel from a son of a month and upward, and take up the number of their names; <sup>41</sup> and thou hast taken the Levites for Me (I am Jehovah), instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of every firstling among the cattle of the sons of Israel.' <sup>42</sup> And Moses numbereth, as Jehovah hath commanded him, all the first-born among the sons of Israel. <sup>43</sup> And all the first-born—male—by the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of their numbered ones, are two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy and three. <sup>44</sup> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, <sup>45</sup> `Take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites have been Mine; I am Jehovah. ⁴⁶ `And from those ransomed of the two hundred and seventy and three (who are more than the Levites) of the first-born of the sons of Israel, ⁴⁷ thou hast even taken five shekels a-piece by the poll—by the shekel of the sanctuary thou takest; twenty gerahs the shekel is; ⁴⁸ and thou hast given the money to Aaron, and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed.' ⁴⁹ And Moses taketh the ransom money from those over and above those ransomed by the Levites;

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying, ² `Take up the sum of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi, by their families, by the house of their fathers; <sup>3</sup> from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting. <sup>4</sup> `This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, the holy of holies: ⁵ that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony; ⁶ and have put on it a covering of badger skin, and have spread a garment completely of blue above, and have placed its staves. ⁷ `And on the table of the presence they spread a garment of blue, and have put on it the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the cups of the libation, and the bread of continuity is on it, <sup>8</sup> and they have spread over them a garment of scarlet, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves, <sup>9</sup> and have taken a garment of blue, and have covered the candlestick of the lamp, and its lights, and its snuffers, and its snuff-dishes, and all its oil vessels wherewith they minister to it; <sup>10</sup> and they have put it and all its vessels unto a covering of badger skin, and have put it on the bar. <sup>11</sup> `And on the golden altar they spread a garment of blue, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves; ¹² and have taken all the vessels of ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and have put them unto a garment of blue, and have covered them with a covering of badger skin, and have put them on the bar, ¹³ and have removed the ashes of the altar, and have spread over it a garment of purple; ¹⁴ and have put on it all its vessels wherewith they minister about it, the censers, the hooks, and the shovels, and the bowls, all the vessels of the altar, and have spread on it a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves: ¹⁵ `And Aaron hath finished—his sons also—covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, in the journeying of the camp, and afterwards do the sons of Kohath come in to bear it, and they do not come unto the holy thing, that they have died; these things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting. <sup>16</sup> `And the oversight of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, is the oil of the lamp, and the spice-perfume, and the present of continuity, and the anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, in the sanctuary, and in its vessels.' ¹⁷ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ¹⁸ `Ye do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from the midst of the Levites; <sup>19</sup> but this do to them, and they have lived, and do not die in their drawing nigh the holy of holies: —Aaron and his sons go in, and have set them, each man to his service, and unto his burden, <sup>20</sup> and they go not in to see when the holy thing is swallowed, that they have died.'
<sup>21</sup> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, <sup>22</sup> `Take up the sum of the sons of Gershon also by the house of their fathers, by their families; ²³ from a son of thirty years and upward, till a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to serve the host, to do the service in the tent of meeting. ²⁴ `This is the service of the families of the Gershonite, to serve—and for burden, <sup>25</sup> and they have borne the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of the badger skin which is on it above, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting, <sup>26</sup> and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the vessels of their service, and all that is made for them—and they have served. <sup>27</sup> `By the command of Aaron and his sons is all the service of the sons of the Gershonite in all their burden, and in all their service; and ye have laid a charge on them concerning the charge of all their burden. ²⁸ This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonite in the tent of meeting; and their charge is under the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. ²⁹ `The sons of Merari, by their families, by the house of their fathers, thou dost number them; <sup>30</sup> from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to the host, to do the service of the tent of meeting. <sup>31</sup> `And this is the charge of their burden, of all their service in the tent of meeting; the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, ³² and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, of all their vessels, and of all their service; and by name ye do number the vessels of the charge of their burden. ³³ `This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, for all their service, in the tent of meeting, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.'
³⁴ And Moses numbereth—Aaron also, and the princes of the company—the sons of the Kohathite, by their families, and by the house of their fathers, ³⁵ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting, ³⁶ and their numbered ones, by their families, are two thousand seven hundred and fifty. ³⁷ These are those numbered of the families of the Kohathite, every one who is serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, by the command of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses. ³⁸ And those numbered of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by the house of their fathers, ³⁹ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁰ even their numbered ones, by their families, by the house of their fathers, are two thousand and six hundred and thirty. ⁴¹ These are those numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, every one who is serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the command of Jehovah. ⁴² And those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by the house of their fathers, ⁴³ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁴ even their numbered ones, by their families, are three thousand and two hundred. ⁴⁵ These are those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, by the command of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses. ⁴⁶ All those numbered, whom Moses numbered—Aaron also, and the princes of Israel—of the Levites, by their families, and by the house of their fathers, ⁴⁷ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to do the work of the service, even the service of burden in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁸ even their numbered ones are eight thousand and five hundred and eighty; ⁴⁹ by the command of Jehovah hath one numbered them, by the hand of Moses, each man by his service, and by his burden, with his numbered ones, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ² `Speak unto Aaron, and thou hast said unto him, In thy causing the lights to go up, over-against the face of the candlestick do the seven lights give light.' <sup>3</sup> And Aaron doth so; over-against the face of the candlestick he hath caused its lights to go up, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. <sup>4</sup> And this is the work of the candlestick: beaten work of gold; unto its thigh, unto its flower it is beaten work; as the appearance which Jehovah shewed Moses, so he hath made the candlestick.
<sup>5</sup> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, <sup>6</sup> `Take the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and thou hast cleansed them. ⁷ `And thus thou dost to them to cleanse them: sprinkle upon them waters of atonement, and they have caused a razor to pass over all their flesh, and have washed their garments, and cleansed themselves, <sup>8</sup> and have taken a bullock, a son of the herd, and its present, flour mixed with oil, —and a second bullock a son of the herd thou dost take for a sin-offering, <sup>9</sup> and thou hast brought near the Levites before the tent of meeting, and thou hast assembled the whole company of the sons of Israel, <sup>10</sup> and thou hast brought near the Levites before Jehovah, and the sons of Israel have laid their hands on the Levites, <sup>11</sup> and Aaron hath waved the Levites—a wave-offering before Jehovah, from the sons of Israel, and they have been—for doing the service of Jehovah. <sup>12</sup> `And the Levites lay their hands on the head of the bullocks, and make thou the one a sin-offering, and the one a burnt-offering to Jehovah, to atone for the Levites, ¹³ and thou hast caused the Levites to stand before Aaron, and before his sons, and hast waved them—a wave-offering to Jehovah; ¹⁴ and thou hast separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine; ¹⁵ and afterwards do the Levites come in to serve the tent of meeting, and thou hast cleansed them, and hast waved them—a wave-offering. ¹⁶ `For they are certainly given to Me out of the midst of the sons of Israel, instead of him who openeth any womb—the first-born of all—from the sons of Israel I have taken them to Myself; <sup>17</sup> for Mine is every first-born among the sons of Israel, among man and among beast; in the day of my smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself; <sup>18</sup> and I take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel: <sup>19</sup> `And I give the Levites gifts to Aaron and to his sons, from the midst of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the sons of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the sons of Israel, and there is no plague among the sons of Israel in the sons of Israel's drawing nigh unto the sanctuary.' ²⁰ And Moses doth—Aaron also, and all the company of the sons of Israel—to the Levites according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses concerning the Levites; so have the sons of Israel done to them. ²¹ And the Levites cleanse themselves, and wash their garments, and Aaron waveth them a wave-offering before Jehovah, and Aaron maketh atonement for them to cleanse them, ²² and afterwards have the Levites gone in to do their service in the tent of meeting, before Aaron and before his sons; as Jehovah hath commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they have done to them. ²³ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²⁴ `This is that which is the Levites': from a son of five and twenty years and upward he doth go in to serve the host in the service of the tent of meeting, ²⁵ and from a son of fifty years he doth return from the host of the service, and doth not serve any more, ²⁶ and he hath ministered with his brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and doth not do service; thus thou dost to the Levites concerning their charge.'

⁵⁷ And these are numbered ones of the Levite by their families: of Gershon is the family of the Gershonite; of Kohath the family of the Kohathite; of Merari the family of the Merarite. ⁵⁸ These are families of the Levite: the family of the Libnite, the family of the Hebronite, the family of the Mahlite, the family of the Mushite, the family of the Korathite. And Kohath hath begotten Amram, ⁵⁹ and the name of Amram's wife is Jochebed, daughter of Levi, whom one hath born to Levi in Egypt; and she beareth to Amram Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam their sister. ⁶⁰ And born to Aaron Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar; ⁶¹ and Nadab dieth—Abihu also—in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah. ⁶² And their numbered ones are three and twenty thousand, every male from a son of a month and upwards, for they have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel; for an inheritance hath not been given to them in the midst of the sons of Israel.

¹ Sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ² And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. ³ And sons of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ⁴ Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, ⁵ and Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, ⁶ and Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth, ⁷ Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, ⁸ and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz, ⁹ and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan, ¹⁰ and Johanan begat Azariah, him who acted as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem. ¹¹ And Azariah begetteth Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, ¹² and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum, ¹³ and Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah, ¹⁴ and Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak; ¹⁵ and Jehozadak hath gone in Jehovah's removing Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. ¹⁶ Sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁷ And these are names of sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁸ And sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. ¹⁹ Sons of Merari; Mahli and Mushi. And these are families of the Levite according to their fathers; ²⁰ of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, ²¹ Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son. ²² Sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, ²³ Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, ²⁴ Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. ²⁵ And sons of Elkanah; Amasai and Ahimoth. ²⁶ Elkanah; sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son, ²⁷ Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. ²⁸ And sons of Samuel: the first-born Vashni, and the second Abijah. ²⁹ Sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, ³⁰ Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
³¹ And these are they whom David stationed over the parts of the song of the house of Jehovah, from the resting of the ark, ³² and they are ministering before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, in song, till the building by Solomon of the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they stand according to their ordinance over their service. ³³ And these are those standing, and their sons: of the sons of the Kohathite: Heman the singer, son of Joel, son of Shemuel, ³⁴ son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah, ³⁵ son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai, ³⁶ son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah, ³⁷ son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, ³⁸ son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel. ³⁹ And his brother Asaph, who is standing on his right—Asaph, son of Berachiah, son of Shimea, ⁴⁰ son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malchiah, ⁴¹ son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah, ⁴² son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei, ⁴³ son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi. ⁴⁴ And sons of Merari, their brethren, are on the left. Ethan son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch, ⁴⁵ son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah, ⁴⁶ son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shamer, ⁴⁷ son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi. ⁴⁸ And their brethren the Levites are put to all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God. ⁴⁹ And Aaron and his sons are making perfume on the altar of the burnt-offering, and on the altar of the perfume, for all the work of the holy of holies, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses servant of God commanded. ⁵⁰ And these are sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, ⁵¹ Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, ⁵² Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, ⁵³ Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
⁵⁴ And these are their dwellings, throughout their towers, in their borders, of the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathite, for theirs was the lot; ⁵⁵ and they give to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its suburbs round about it; ⁵⁶ and the field of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh. ⁵⁷ And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, and Libnah and its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs, ⁵⁸ and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs, ⁵⁹ and Ashan and its suburbs, and Beth-Shemesh and its suburbs. ⁶⁰ And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba and its suburbs, and Allemeth and its suburbs, and Anathoth and its suburbs. All their cities are thirteen cities, for their families. ⁶¹ And to the sons of Kohath, those left of the family of the tribe, from the half of the tribe, the half of Manasseh, by lot, are ten cities. ⁶² And to the sons of Gershom, for their families, from the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribe of Asher, and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. ⁶³ To the sons of Merari, for their families, from the tribe of Reuben, and from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun, by lot, twelve cities. ⁶⁴ And the sons of Israel give to the Levites the cities and their suburbs. ⁶⁵ And they give by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which they call by name; ⁶⁶ and some of the families of the sons of Kohath have cities of their border from the tribe of Ephraim; ⁶⁷ and they give to them the cities of refuge, Shechem and its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Gezer and its suburbs, ⁶⁸ and Jokmeam and its suburbs, and Beth-Horan and its suburbs, ⁶⁹ and Aijalon and its suburbs, and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs; ⁷⁰ and from the half tribe of Manasseh, Aner and its suburbs, and Bileam and its suburbs, for the family of the sons of Kohath who are left. ⁷¹ To the sons of Gershom from the family of the half of the tribe of Manasseh are Golan in Bashan and its suburbs, and Ashtaroth and its suburbs; ⁷² and from the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh and its suburbs, Daberath and its suburbs, ⁷³ and Ramoth and its suburbs, and Anem and its suburbs; ⁷⁴ and from the tribe of Asher; Mashal and its suburbs, and Abdon and its suburbs, ⁷⁵ and Hukok and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs; ⁷⁶ and from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its suburbs, and Hammon and its suburbs, and Kirjathaim and its suburbs. ⁷⁷ To the sons of Merari who are left, from the tribe of Zebulun, are Rimmon and its suburbs, Tabor and its suburbs; ⁷⁸ and from beyond the Jordan by Jericho, at the east of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs, ⁷⁹ and Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs; ⁸⁰ and from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs, and Mahanaim and its suburbs, ⁸¹ and Heshbon and its suburbs, and Jazer and its suburbs.

⁶ And Levi and Benjamin he hath not numbered in their midst, for the word of the king was abominable with Joab.

⁶² And their numbered ones are three and twenty thousand, every male from a son of a month and upwards, for they have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel; for an inheritance hath not been given to them in the midst of the sons of Israel.

¹⁸ And He giveth unto Moses, when He finisheth speaking with him in mount Sinai, two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written by the finger of God.

²⁶ and Moses standeth in the gate of the camp, and saith, `Who is for Jehovah? —unto me!' and all the sons of Levi are gathered unto him; <sup>27</sup> and he saith to them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Put each his sword by his thigh, pass over and turn back from gate to gate through the camp, and slay each his brother, and each his friend, and each his relation.' ²⁸ And the sons of Levi do according to the word of Moses, and there fall of the people on that day about three thousand men, ²⁹ and Moses saith, `Consecrate your hand to-day to Jehovah, for a man is against his son, and against his brother, so as to bring on you to-day a blessing.'

²¹ These are the numberings of the tabernacle (the tabernacle of testimony), which hath been numbered by the command of Moses, the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

⁵³ and the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony; and there is no wrath on the company of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have kept the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

¹⁷ And the tent of meeting—the camp of the Levites—hath journeyed in the midst of the camps; as they encamp so they journey, each at his station by their standards.

¹ And these are births of Aaron and Moses, in the day of Jehovah's speaking with Moses in mount Sinai. ² And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: the first-born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar; ³ these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he hath consecrated for acting as priest. ⁴ And Nadab dieth—Abihu also—before Jehovah, in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and sons they had not; and Eleazar—Ithamar also—acteth as priest in the presence of Aaron their father. ⁵ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ⁶ `Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him, <sup>7</sup> and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle; <sup>8</sup> and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle; <sup>9</sup> and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel. <sup>10</sup> `And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.'

²³ The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward. ²⁴ And the prince of a father's house for the Gershonite is Eliasaph son of Lael. ²⁵ And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting is the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting, ²⁶ and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and its cords, to all its service. ²⁷ And of Kohath is the family of the Amramite, and the family of the Izharite, and the family of the Hebronite, and the family of the Uzzielite; these are families of the Kohathite. ²⁸ In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward, are eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. ²⁹ The families of the sons of Kohath encamp by the side of the tabernacle southward. ³⁰ And the prince of a father's house for the families of the Kohathite is Elizaphan son of Uzziel. ³¹ And their charge is the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they serve, and the vail, and all its service. ³² And to the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, is the oversight of the keepers of the charge of the sanctuary. ³³ Of Merari is the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these are the families of Merari. ³⁴ And their numbered ones, in number, all the males from a son of a month and upward, are six thousand and two hundred. ³⁵ And the prince of a father's house for the families of Merari is Zuriel son of Abihail; by the side of the tabernacle they encamp northward. ³⁶ And the oversight—the charge of the sons of Merari—is the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all its service, ³⁷ and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. ³⁸ And those encamping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting, at the east, are Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.

¹⁵ `And Aaron hath finished—his sons also—covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, in the journeying of the camp, and afterwards do the sons of Kohath come in to bear it, and they do not come unto the holy thing, that they have died; these things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.

²⁵ and they have borne the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of the badger skin which is on it above, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting, ²⁶ and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the vessels of their service, and all that is made for them—and they have served. ²⁷ `By the command of Aaron and his sons is all the service of the sons of the Gershonite in all their burden, and in all their service; and ye have laid a charge on them concerning the charge of all their burden. <sup>28</sup> This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonite in the tent of meeting; and their charge is under the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. <sup>29</sup> `The sons of Merari, by their families, by the house of their fathers, thou dost number them; ³⁰ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to the host, to do the service of the tent of meeting. ³¹ `And this is the charge of their burden, of all their service in the tent of meeting; the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, <sup>32</sup> and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, of all their vessels, and of all their service; and by name ye do number the vessels of the charge of their burden. <sup>33</sup> `This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, for all their service, in the tent of meeting, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.'

²¹ And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the others have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in.

¹¹ and Moses lifteth up his hand, and smiteth the rock with his rod twice; and much water cometh out, and the company drink, also their beasts.

¹ And David is old, and satisfied with days, and causeth his son Solomon to reign over Israel, ² and gathereth all the heads of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites; ³ and the Levites are numbered from a son of thirty years and upward, and their number, by their polls, is of mighty men thirty and eight thousand. ⁴ Of these to preside over the work of the house of Jehovah are twenty and four thousand, and officers and judges six thousand, ⁵ and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, `with instruments that I made for praising,' saith David. <sup>6</sup> And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. <sup>7</sup> Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei. <sup>8</sup> Sons of Laadan: the head is Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three. <sup>9</sup> Sons of Shimei are Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three; these are heads of the fathers of Laadan. <sup>10</sup> And sons of Shimei are Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah; these are sons of Shimei, four. <sup>11</sup> And Jahath is the head, and Zizah the second, and Jeush and Beriah have not multiplied sons, and they become the house of a father by one numbering. <sup>12</sup> Sons of Kohath are Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. <sup>13</sup> Sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron is separated for his sanctifying the holy of holies, he and his sons—unto the age, to make perfume before Jehovah, to serve Him, and to bless in His name—unto the age. <sup>14</sup> As to Moses, the man of God, his sons are called after the tribe of Levi. <sup>15</sup> Sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. <sup>16</sup> Sons of Gershom: Shebuel the head. <sup>17</sup> And sons of Eliezer are Rehabiah the head, and Eliezer had no other sons, and the sons of Rehabiah have multiplied exceedingly. <sup>18</sup> Sons of Izhar: Shelomith the head. <sup>19</sup> Sons of Hebron: Jeriah the head, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. <sup>20</sup> Sons of Uzziel: Micah the head, and Ishshiah, the second. <sup>21</sup> Sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. <sup>22</sup> And Eleazar dieth, and he had no sons, but daughters, and sons of Kish their brethren take them. <sup>23</sup> Sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth, three.
<sup>24</sup> These are sons of Levi, by the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, by their appointments, in the number of names, by their polls, doing the work for the service of the house of Jehovah, from a son of twenty years and upward, <sup>25</sup> for David said, `Jehovah, God of Israel, hath given rest to His people, and He doth tabernacle in Jerusalem unto the age;' ²⁶ and also of the Levites, `None are to bear the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service;' ²⁷ for by the last words of David they took the number of the sons of Levi from a son of twenty years and upward, ²⁸ for their station is at the side of the sons of Aaron, for the service of the house of Jehovah, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the cleansing of every holy thing, and the work of the service of the house of God, ²⁹ and for the bread of the arrangement, and for fine flour for present, and for the thin unleavened cakes, and for the work of the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all liquid measure and solid measure; ³⁰ and to stand, morning by morning, to give thanks, and to give praise to Jehovah, and so at evening; ³¹ and for all the burnt-offerings—burnt-offerings to Jehovah for sabbaths, for new moons, and for appointed seasons, by number, according to the ordinance upon them continually, before Jehovah. ³² And they have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

¹ And David and the heads of the host separate for service, of the sons of Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun, who are prophesying with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals, and the number of the workmen is according to their service. ² Of sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, are by the side of Asaph, who is prophesying by the side of the king. ³ Of Jeduthun: sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, Shisshah, are by the side of their father Jeduthun; with a harp he is prophesying, for giving of thanks and of praise to Jehovah. ⁴ Of Heman: sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth; ⁵ all these are sons of Heman—seer of the king in the things of God—to lift up a horn; and God giveth to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. ⁶ All these are by the side of their father in the song of the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; by the side of the king are Asaph, and Jeduthun, and Heman. ⁷ And their number, with their brethren—taught in the song of Jehovah, all who are intelligent—is two hundred, eighty and eight.
⁸ And they cause to fall lots—charge over-against charge, as well the small as the great, the intelligent with the learner. ⁹ And the first lot goeth out for Asaph to Joseph; to Gedaliah the second; he, and his brethren and his sons, twelve; ¹⁰ the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹¹ the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹² the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹³ the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹⁴ the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹⁵ the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹⁶ the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹⁷ the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brethren, twelve: ¹⁸ eleventh to Azareel, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ¹⁹ the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²⁰ at the thirteenth to Shubael, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²¹ at the fourteenth to Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²² at the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²³ at the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²⁴ at the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²⁵ at the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brethren, twelve; ²⁶ at the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

²⁵ and I weigh to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, a heave-offering of the house of our God, that the king, and his counsellors, and his heads, and all Israel—those present—lifted up; ²⁶ and I weigh to their hand, of silver, talents six hundred and fifty, and of vessels of silver a hundred talents, of gold a hundred talents, ²⁷ and basins of gold twenty, of a thousand drams, and two vessels of good shining brass, desirable as gold. ²⁸ And I say unto them, `Ye are holy to Jehovah, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a willing-offering to Jehovah, God of your fathers; ²⁹ watch, and keep, till ye weigh before the heads of the priests, and of the Levites, and the heads of the fathers of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.' ³⁰ And the priests and the Levites took the weight of the silver, and of the gold, and of the vessels, to bring to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

³³ And on the fourth day hath been weighed the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, in the house of our God, unto the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah the priest, and with him Eleazar son of Phinehas, and with them Jozabad son of Jeshua, and Noadiah son of Binnui, the Levites: ³⁴ by number, by weight of every one, and all the weight is written at that time.

⁸ And the Levites are Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah, he is over the thanksgiving, and his brethren,

²² The Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, are written, heads of fathers, and of the priests, in the kingdom of Darius the Persian.

⁴⁷ And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, are giving the portions of the singers, and of the gatekeepers, the matter of a day in its day, and are sanctifying to the Levites, and the Levites are sanctifying to the sons of Aaron.

⁵ and he maketh for him a great chamber, and there they were formerly putting the present, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, the new wine, and the oil—the commanded thing of the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers—and the heave-offering of the priests.

¹⁰ And I know that the portions of the Levites have not been given, and they flee each to his field—the Levites and the singers, doing the work. ¹¹ And I strive with the prefects, and say, `Wherefore hath the house of God been forsaken?' and I gather them, and set them on their station; ¹² and all Judah have brought in the tithe of the corn, and of the new wine, and of the oil, to the treasuries. ¹³ And I appoint treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites; and by their hand is Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for stedfast they have been reckoned, and on them it is to give a portion to their brethren.

²² And I say to the Levites, that they be cleansed, and, coming in, keeping the gates, to sanctify the sabbath-day. Also, this, remember for me, O my God, and have pity on me, according to the abundance of Thy kindness.

⁴ For thither have tribes gone up, Tribes of Jah, companies of Israel, To give thanks to the name of Jehovah.

¹⁰ `And no stranger doth eat of the holy thing; a settler of a priest and an hireling doth not eat of the holy thing; <sup>11</sup> and when a priest buyeth a person, the purchase of his money, he doth eat of it, also one born in his house; they do eat of his bread. <sup>12</sup> `And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, —she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat; ¹³ and a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as in her youth, of her father's bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it.

¹⁰ `And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.'

³⁸ And those encamping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting, at the east, are Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying, ² `Take up the sum of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi, by their families, by the house of their fathers; <sup>3</sup> from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting. <sup>4</sup> `This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, the holy of holies: ⁵ that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony; ⁶ and have put on it a covering of badger skin, and have spread a garment completely of blue above, and have placed its staves. ⁷ `And on the table of the presence they spread a garment of blue, and have put on it the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the cups of the libation, and the bread of continuity is on it, <sup>8</sup> and they have spread over them a garment of scarlet, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves, <sup>9</sup> and have taken a garment of blue, and have covered the candlestick of the lamp, and its lights, and its snuffers, and its snuff-dishes, and all its oil vessels wherewith they minister to it; <sup>10</sup> and they have put it and all its vessels unto a covering of badger skin, and have put it on the bar. <sup>11</sup> `And on the golden altar they spread a garment of blue, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves; ¹² and have taken all the vessels of ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and have put them unto a garment of blue, and have covered them with a covering of badger skin, and have put them on the bar, ¹³ and have removed the ashes of the altar, and have spread over it a garment of purple; ¹⁴ and have put on it all its vessels wherewith they minister about it, the censers, the hooks, and the shovels, and the bowls, all the vessels of the altar, and have spread on it a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves: ¹⁵ `And Aaron hath finished—his sons also—covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, in the journeying of the camp, and afterwards do the sons of Kohath come in to bear it, and they do not come unto the holy thing, that they have died; these things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting. <sup>16</sup> `And the oversight of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, is the oil of the lamp, and the spice-perfume, and the present of continuity, and the anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, in the sanctuary, and in its vessels.' ¹⁷ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ¹⁸ `Ye do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from the midst of the Levites; <sup>19</sup> but this do to them, and they have lived, and do not die in their drawing nigh the holy of holies: —Aaron and his sons go in, and have set them, each man to his service, and unto his burden, <sup>20</sup> and they go not in to see when the holy thing is swallowed, that they have died.'
<sup>21</sup> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, <sup>22</sup> `Take up the sum of the sons of Gershon also by the house of their fathers, by their families; ²³ from a son of thirty years and upward, till a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to serve the host, to do the service in the tent of meeting. ²⁴ `This is the service of the families of the Gershonite, to serve—and for burden,

¹¹ And it cometh to pass—in the second year, in the second month, in the twentieth of the month—the cloud hath gone up from off the tabernacle of the testimony,

¹⁷ And the tabernacle hath been taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle. ¹⁸ And the standard of the camp of Reuben hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elizur son of Shedeur. ¹⁹ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. ²⁰ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Deuel; ²¹ And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the others have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in.

⁴⁰ a memorial to the sons of Israel, so that a stranger who is not of the seed of Aaron doth not draw near to make a perfume before Jehovah, and is not as Korah, and as his company, —as Jehovah hath spoken by the hand of Moses to him.

²² `And the sons of Israel come no more near unto the tent of meeting, to bear sin, to die,

¹⁹ And He smiteth among the men of Beth-Shemesh, for they looked into the ark of Jehovah, yea, He smiteth among the people seventy men—fifty chief men; and the people mourn, because Jehovah smote among the people—a great smiting.

⁷ and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Uzzah, and God smiteth him there for the error, and he dieth there by the ark of God.

² `Each by his standard, with ensigns of the house of their fathers, do the sons of Israel encamp; over-against round about the tent of meeting they encamp.'

³⁴ And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have encamped by their standards, and so they have journeyed; each by his families, by the house of his fathers.

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ² `Make to thee two trumpets of silver; beaten work thou dost make them, and they have been to thee for the convocation of the company, and for the journeying of the camps; <sup>3</sup> and they have blown with them, and all the company have met together unto thee, unto the opening of the tent of meeting. <sup>4</sup> And if with one they blow, then have the princes, heads of the thousands of Israel, met together unto thee; <sup>5</sup> `And ye have blown—a shout, and the camps which are encamping eastward have journeyed. ⁶ `And ye have blown—a second shout, and the camps which are encamping southward have journeyed; a shout they blow for their journeys. <sup>7</sup> `And in the assembling of the assembly ye blow, and do not shout; ⁸ and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been to you for a statute age-during to your generations. ⁹ `And when ye go into battle in your land against the adversary who is distressing you, then ye have shouted with the trumpets, and ye have been remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye have been saved from your enemies. <sup>10</sup> `And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in the beginnings of your months, ye have blown also with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and they have been to you for a memorial before your God; I, Jehovah, am your God.'
¹¹ And it cometh to pass—in the second year, in the second month, in the twentieth of the month—the cloud hath gone up from off the tabernacle of the testimony, ¹² and the sons of Israel journey in their journeyings from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud doth tabernacle in the wilderness of Paran; ¹³ and they journey at first, by the command of Jehovah, in the hand of Moses. ¹⁴ And the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah journeyeth in the first place, by their hosts, and over its host is Nahshon son of Amminadab. ¹⁵ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Issachar is Nathaneel son of Zuar. ¹⁶ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon; ¹⁷ And the tabernacle hath been taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle. ¹⁸ And the standard of the camp of Reuben hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elizur son of Shedeur. ¹⁹ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. ²⁰ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Deuel; ²¹ And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the others have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in. ²² And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elishama son of Ammihud. ²³ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh is Gamalial son of Pedahzur. ²⁴ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni. ²⁵ And the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan hath journeyed (rearward to all the camps), by their hosts, and over its host is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. ²⁶ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran. ²⁷ And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan. ²⁸ These are journeyings of the sons of Israel by their hosts—and they journey.
²⁹ And Moses saith to Hobab son of Raguel the Midianite, father-in-law of Moses, `We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah hath said, I give it to you; go with us, and we have done good to thee; for Jehovah hath spoken good concerning Israel.' <sup>30</sup> And he saith unto him, `I do not go; but unto my land and unto my kindred do I go.' ³¹ And he saith, `I pray thee, forsake us not, because thou hast known our encamping in the wilderness, and thou hast been to us for eyes; <sup>32</sup> and it hath come to pass when thou goest with us, yea, it hath come to pass—that good which Jehovah doth kindly with us—it we have done kindly to thee.' <sup>33</sup> And they journey from the mount of Jehovah a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is journeying before them the journey of three days, to spy out for them a resting-place; <sup>34</sup> and the cloud of Jehovah is on them by day, in their journeying from the camp. <sup>35</sup> And it cometh to pass in the journeying of the ark, that Moses saith, `Rise, O Jehovah, and Thine enemies are scattered, and those hating Thee flee from Thy presence.' ³⁶ And in its resting he saith, `Return, O Jehovah, to the myriads, the thousands of Israel.'

² and Balaam lifteth up his eyes, and seeth Israel tabernacling, by its tribes, and the Spirit of God is upon him,

⁶ And Moses saith unto Aaron, and to Eleazar, and to Ithamar his sons, `Your heads ye do not uncover, and your garments ye do not rend, that ye die not, and on all the company He be wroth; as to your brethren, the whole house of Israel, they bewail the burning which Jehovah hath kindled;

⁷ and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle; ⁸ and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle;

¹⁹ `And I give the Levites gifts to Aaron and to his sons, from the midst of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the sons of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the sons of Israel, and there is no plague among the sons of Israel in the sons of Israel's drawing nigh unto the sanctuary.'

⁴⁶ and Moses saith unto Aaron, `Take the censer, and put on it fire from off the altar, and place perfume, and go, hasten unto the company, and make atonement for them, for the wrath hath gone out from the presence of Jehovah—the plague hath begun.'

² and also thy brethren, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring near with thee, and they are joined unto thee, and serve thee, even thou and thy sons with thee, before the tent of the testimony. ³ `And they have kept thy charge, and the charge of all the tent; only, unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the altar they do not come near, and they die not, either they or you; ⁴ and they have been joined unto thee, and have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and a stranger doth not come near unto you; ⁵ and ye have kept the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar, and there is no more wrath against the sons of Israel.

³⁰ `And from the sons of Israel's half thou dost take one possession out of fifty, of man, of the herd, of the asses, and of the flock, of all the cattle, and thou hast given them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.'

⁴⁷ Moses taketh from the sons of Israel's half the one possession from the fifty, of man and of beast, and giveth them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

³² And they have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

¹⁰ `As for us, Jehovah is our God, and we have not forsaken Him, and priests are ministering to Jehovah, sons of Aaron and the Levites, in the work,

³¹ The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved it so, And what do they at its latter end?

¹⁵ Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, concerning the prophets: Lo, I am causing them to eat wormwood, And have caused them to drink water of gall, For, from prophets of Jerusalem Hath profanity gone forth to all the land.

²⁸ `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood, <sup>29</sup> for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock, <sup>30</sup> and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. <sup>31</sup> `Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;

¹³ till I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching; ¹⁴ be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership; ¹⁵ of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things; ¹⁶ take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee.

² preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

²¹ be watchful because of his presence, and hearken to his voice, rebel not against him, for he beareth not with your transgression, for My name is in his heart; ²² for, if thou diligently hearken to his voice, and hast done all that which I speak, then I have been at enmity with thine enemies, and have distressed those distressing thee.

³² And all the service of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting is completed; and the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have done.

⁴³ and Moses seeth all the work, and lo, they have done it as Jehovah hath commanded; so they have done. And Moses doth bless them.

¹⁶ And Moses doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him; so he hath done.

³² in their going in unto the tent of meeting, and in their drawing near unto the altar, they wash, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

³² The whole thing which I am commanding you—it ye observe to do; thou dost not add unto it, nor diminish from it.

²² And Samuel saith, `Hath Jehovah had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as in hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams;

²⁰ teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days—till the full end of the age.'