Numbers 12 Cross References - LEB

¹ And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he took (because he took a Cushite wife); ² and they said, "Has Yahweh spoken only through Moses? Has not Yahweh also spoken through us?" And Yahweh heard it. ³ Now the man, Moses, was more humble than any other person on the face of the earth, ⁴ and Yahweh said suddenly to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, "Go out, you three, to the tent of assembly." So the three of them when out. ⁵ And Yahweh went down in a column of cloud and stood at the doorway of the tent, and he called Aaron and Miriam, and the two of them went, ⁶ and he said,
"Please hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak to him in a dream.* ⁷ Not so with my servant Moses; in all my house he is faithful. ⁸ I will speak to him mouth to mouth, in clearness, not in riddles; and he will look at the form of Yahweh.
Why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?" ⁹ _⌊And Yahweh became very angry_⌋* with them, and he went away. ¹⁰ And the cloud departed from on the tent, and behold, Miriam was infected with _⌊a skin disease_⌋* white like snow; when Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was afflicted with a skin disease. ¹¹ So Aaron said to Moses, "Please, my lord, please do not put on us this sin in which we were foolish and in which we have sinned. ¹² Please do not let her be like the dead, whose flesh is half consumed when coming out from the womb of its mother." ¹³ And Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "God, _⌊please heal her_⌋!"* ¹⁴ But Yahweh said to Moses, "If her father had surely spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be confined for seven days to an outside place of the camp, and afterward she may be gathered." ¹⁵ So Miriam was confined to the outside place of the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was gathered. ¹⁶ And afterward the people set out from Hazeroth, and they encamped in the desert of Paran.

³ that I may make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I am dwelling,

³⁷ And my master made me swear, saying, 'Do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I am living.

³⁴ And when Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵ And _⌊they made life bitter_⌋* for Isaac and Rebekah.

⁴⁶ Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.* If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite women* like these, from the _⌊native women_⌋,* _⌊what am I living for_⌋?"*

⁶ Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-Aram, to take for himself a wife from there, and* he blessed him and instructed him, saying, "You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan," ⁷ and that Jacob listened to his father and to his mother and went to Paddan-Aram. ⁸ Then Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of Isaac his father, ⁹ then Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, son of Abraham, sister of Nebaioth, as a wife, in addition to the wives he had.

¹⁴ And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a disgrace for us. ¹⁵ Only on this condition will we give consent to you; if you will become like us—every male among you to be circumcised.

⁴⁵ And Pharaoh called the name of Joseph Zaphenath-paneah and gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.*

²¹ And Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.

¹⁶ and you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves after their gods, and they cause your sons to prostitute themselves after their gods.

¹⁴ A widow or* a divorced woman or* a defiled woman, a prostitute—these he must not take; he shall take only* a virgin from his people as wife.

³⁶ And the enemies of a man will be the members of his household.*

⁴⁸ But he answered and* said to the one who told him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?"

⁵ (For not even his brothers believed in him.)

²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you: 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

¹⁶ So then, have I become your enemy by* being truthful to you?

³³ And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "It is because Yahweh has heard that I am unloved that he gave me this son also." And she called his name Simeon.

³⁰ And Aaron spoke all the words that Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and he did the signs before the eyes of the people.

¹ And afterward, Moses and Aaron went, and they said to Pharaoh, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Release my people so that they may hold a festival for me in the desert.'"

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded. And Aaron threw his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a snake.

²⁰ And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took her* tambourine in her hand, and all of the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. ²¹ And Miriam answered,* "Sing to Yahweh because he is highly exalted; the horse and its rider he hurled into the sea."

¹ And it happened, the people were like those who _⌊complain of hardship_⌋* _⌊in the hearing_⌋* of Yahweh, and Yahweh _⌊became angry_⌋,* and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and it consumed the edge of the camp.

²⁹ But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that he* give all Yahweh's people prophets, that Yahweh put his spirit on them!"

³ They were assembled in front of Moses and Aaron, and they said to them, "_⌊You take too much upon yourselves_⌋!* All of the community is holy, every one of them, and Yahweh is in their midst, so why do you raise yourselves over the assembly of Yahweh?"

²⁷ When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his household, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of Yahweh.

⁴ Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all of the words of the chief commander whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to insult the living God, and he will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remainder who are left.'"

⁷ while* they say, "Yah* does not see," and "The God of Jacob does not pay attention." ⁸ You pay attention, O brutes among the people. And you fools, when you will show insight? ⁹ Will the one who planted the ear not hear? Will the one who formed the eye not see?

¹⁰ Only by insolence is strife set up, and wisdom is with those who take advice.

⁴ Maybe Yahweh your God heard the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to taunt the living God, and he will rebuke the words that Yahweh your God hears. And you must lift up a prayer for the benefit of the remnant that is found.'"

¹² And you will know that I, Yahweh, I have heard all of your contemptible words that you said* against the mountains of Israel, _⌊saying_⌋,* 'They will be desolate; they are given to us as food.' ¹³ And you magnified yourself against me with your _⌊insolent speech_⌋,* and you spoke voluminously against me with your words—I heard!

⁴ For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of slavery I redeemed you. And I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.

³ For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think _⌊sensibly_⌋*, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one.

¹⁰ being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another more highly in honor,

³ Do nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves,

¹⁴ Do all things without grumbling and disputing,

⁵ In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

¹⁰ Moses heard the people weeping according to their* clans, each at the doorway of their tents. Then _⌊Yahweh became very angry_⌋,* and in the eyes of Moses it was bad. ¹¹ And Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you brought trouble to your servant? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that the burdens of all these people have been placed on me? ¹² Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them,* that you could say to me, 'Carry them* in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?'* ¹³ From where do I have meat to give all these people? They weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat and let us eat!' ¹⁴ I am not able to carry all these people along alone; they are too heavy for me. ¹⁵ If this is how you are going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."

¹⁰ and Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly to the presence of the rock, and he said to them, "Please listen, you rebels; can we bring out water for you from this rock?" ¹¹ Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice. And abundant water went out, and the community and their livestock drank. ¹² But Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you have not trusted in me, to regard me as holy _⌊in the sight of_⌋* the _⌊Israelites_⌋,* you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given to them."

³² They also angered God at the waters of Meribah, and it went badly for Moses on account of them, ³³ because they rebelled against his Spirit,* and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

⁶ Yahweh helps the afflicted up; he brings the wicked down to the ground.

⁴ For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people; he glorifies the afflicted with salvation.

⁵ Blessed are the meek, because they will inherit the earth.

²⁹ Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

⁵ "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your king is coming to you, humble and mounted on a donkey, and* on a colt, the foal of a pack animal.'"*

¹ Now I, Paul, appeal to you myself by the humility and gentleness of Christ, who _⌊when I am present in person_⌋* am humble among you, but when I* am absent am bold toward you—

⁵ For I consider myself in no way to be inferior to the preeminent apostles.*

¹¹ I have become a fool! You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the preeminent apostles,* even if I am nothing.

⁷ _⌊Although we could have insisted on our own importance_⌋** as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

² For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual,* able to hold in check his whole body also. ³ And if we put bits in the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we also guide their whole bodies.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his* good behavior his works, with the humility of wisdom.

⁴ but the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is highly valuable in the sight of God.

¹⁶ And Moses said to Korah, "You and your entire company will be _⌊before_⌋* Yahweh tomorrow, you and they and Aaron. ¹⁷ Each one take his censer, and put incense on it* and you will present it _⌊before_⌋* Yahweh, and each of you bring his censer, two hundred and fifty censers, you and Aaron, each his censer." ¹⁸ So each of them took his censer, and they put fire on them, and they placed incense on them; they stood at the doorway of the tent of the assembly of Moses and Aaron. ¹⁹ And Korah summoned them, the entire community, by the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the community. ²⁰ And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²¹ "Separate yourselves from the midst of this community, that I can destroy them in a moment."

⁹ when God rose for justice, to save all the afflicted of the land. Selah

⁵ And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and he stood with him there, and he proclaimed the name of Yahweh.

³⁸ For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night before the eyes of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.

²⁵ Then Yahweh went down in the cloud and spoke to him, and he took away the spirit that was on him, and he _⌊put it_⌋* on the seventy elders. And as soon as the spirit was resting on them they prophesied, but they did not do it again.

⁷ He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies and the statute he gave to them.

¹ After these things the word of Yahweh came* to Abram in a vision, saying: "Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield, and your reward shall be very great."

⁷ So now, return the wife of the man, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you and you will live. And _⌊if you do not return her_⌋,* know that you will certainly die, and all that are yours."

¹⁰ Now it happened that at the time of the mating of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams mounting the flock were streaked, speckled, and dappled. ¹¹ Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'

² And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am."

¹ And Yahweh said to Moses, "See, I have made you as a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

⁵ Yahweh appeared to Solomon at Gibeon in a dream at night, and God said, "Ask what I should give to you."

¹³ Amid troubling thoughts from night visions, at the falling of deep sleep on men,

¹⁵ "In a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on their bed,

¹⁹ Formerly you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, "I have bestowed help on a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

¹⁵ "Do not touch my anointed ones, nor harm my prophets."

²⁸ The prophet who has with him a dream, let him tell the dream. But the prophet* who has my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. _⌊What is straw compared to wheat_⌋?"* _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh.

¹ And it was in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, and I was in the midst of* the exiles* by the _⌊Kebar River_⌋.* The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

¹ In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions* of his head as he lay on his bed; then he wrote down the dream and the _⌊summary_⌋* of the words _⌊as follows_⌋:*

² And I saw in the vision, _⌊and when I saw_⌋,* I was in Susa, the citadel that was in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and _⌊I myself_⌋* was at the stream of Ulai.*

⁸ And I myself, Daniel, alone saw this great vision, and as a result _⌊no strength was left in me_⌋* and _⌊my complexion grew deathly pale_⌋,* and I did not retain any strength.

¹⁶ Then look, there was _⌊one in the form of a human_⌋;* he touched my lips and I opened my mouth and I spoke and I said to the one standing _⌊before me_⌋,* "My lord, because of the vision my anxieties fell upon me and I have not retained my strength. ¹⁷ So _⌊how am I, a servant of my lord_⌋* to speak with _⌊you, my lord_⌋,* and I _⌊just now_⌋* _⌊have no strength in me_⌋?"*

²⁰ But as* he was considering these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

¹² And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by another route. ¹³ Now after they had gone away, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph, saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him."

¹⁹ Now after* Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

³¹ Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets!

³⁴ For this reason, behold, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will pursue from town to town,

³⁷ "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together _⌊the way_⌋* a hen gathers her young together under her* wings, and you were not willing!

¹¹ And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.

²² And when he* came out he was not able to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them, and remained unable to speak.

⁶ But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet."

¹¹ And he saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down to the earth by its four corners,

¹⁷ Now while Peter was greatly perplexed within himself as to what the vision that he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having found the house of Simon by asking around, stood at the gate.

¹⁷ "And it happened that when* I returned to Jerusalem and I was praying in the temple courts,* I was in a trance, ¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and depart _⌊quickly_⌋* from Jerusalem, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'

¹¹ And he himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as pastors and teachers

³ And I will grant authority* to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, dressed in sackcloth."

¹⁰ And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them, and will celebrate and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth.

¹⁸ I will raise up a prophet for them _⌊from among their countrymen_⌋* like you, and I will place* my words into his mouth, and he shall speak to them _⌊everything that I command him_⌋.*

¹ After the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh said to Joshua son of Nun, the assistant* of Moses, saying,

²⁶ He sent his servant Moses, together with Aaron whom he had chosen.

⁹ But why did you go out? To see a prophet?* Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet!

¹¹ Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen one greater than John the Baptist. But the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

²² Moses said, 'The Lord God* will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You will listen to him in everything that he says to you.* ²³ And it will be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet will be destroyed utterly from the people.'*

³¹ And when* Moses saw it,* he was astonished at the sight, and when* he approached to look at it,* the voice of the Lord came:

² In this case, moreover, it is sought in stewards that one be found faithful.

¹⁵ But if I am delayed, I am writing* in order that you may know how one must conduct oneself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and mainstay* of the truth.

² who was faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses also was in his household.* ³ For this one is considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who builds it has greater honor than the house. ⁴ For every house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God. ⁵ And Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony to the things that would be spoken, ⁶ but Christ was faithful* as a son over his house, whose house we are, if* we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of.

⁴ to whom you are drawing near, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in the sight of God. ⁵ And you yourselves, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁴ "You shall not make for yourself a divine image with any form that is in the heavens above or that is in the earth below or that is in the water below the earth.

¹⁰ And they saw the God of Israel, and what was under his feet was like sapphire tile work and like the very heavens for clearness. ¹¹ And toward the leaders of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* he did not stretch out his hand, and they beheld God, and they ate, and they drank.

¹¹ And Yahweh would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his neighbor. And he would return to the camp, and his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the middle of the tent.

¹⁹ And he said, "I myself will cause all my goodness to pass over before you, and I will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion to whom I will show compassion."

²³ And I will remove my hand, and you will see my back, but my face will not be visible."

⁵ And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and he stood with him there, and he proclaimed the name of Yahweh. ⁶ And Yahweh passed over before him, and he proclaimed, "Yahweh, Yahweh, God, who is compassionate and gracious, _⌊slow to anger_⌋,* and abounding with* loyal love and faithfulness, ⁷ keeping loyal love to the thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and he does not leave utterly unpunished, punishing the guilt of fathers on sons and on sons of sons on third and fourth generations."

³⁰ And Aaron and all the _⌊Israelites_⌋* saw Moses, and, _⌊to their amazement_⌋,* the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid of coming near to him.

¹⁴ and they will _⌊tell it_⌋* to the inhabitants of this land. They heard that you, Yahweh, are in the midst of this people, that you are seen eye to eye, and your cloud is standing over them, and in a column of cloud you go before them by day and in a column of fire at night.

¹⁵ "So _⌊you must be very careful for yourselves_⌋,* because you did not see* any form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,

¹⁰ And not again* has a prophet arisen in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew* face to face,

¹⁵ By contrast, I in righteousness shall see your face. Upon awakening I will be satisfied seeing your form.

⁴ I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will _⌊propound_⌋* my riddle on a lyre.

¹⁸ And to whom will you liken God? And to what likeness will you compare him?

⁵ To whom will you liken me, and count as equal, and compare with me, as though* we were alike?

² "Son of man,* tell a riddle and quote a proverb to the house of Israel,

⁴⁹ Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, they are saying about me, 'Is he not posing a parable?'"

³⁵ in order that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, who said,
"I will open my mouth in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden since the creation."**

¹⁶ The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me. But the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

¹⁸ No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father—that one has made him* known.

⁷ If you had known me, you would have known* my Father also. From now on* you know him and have seen him." ⁸ Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." ⁹ Jesus said to him, "Am I with you so long a time and you have not known me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father?' ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak from myself, but the Father residing in me does his works.

¹⁵ No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you.

²⁴ If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

¹² For now we see through a mirror _⌊indirectly_⌋*, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know completely, just as I have also been completely known.

¹⁸ And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting* the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory into glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

⁴ among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they would not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. ⁵ For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus* as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for the sake of Jesus. ⁶ For God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness,"* is the one who has shined in our hearts for the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.*

¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all* creation,

⁸ Therefore the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.

¹⁶ the one who alone possesses immortality, who lives in unapproachable light, whom no human being has seen nor is able to see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

³ who is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, sustaining all things by the word of power.* When he* had made purification for sins through him, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

¹⁰ and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust* and who despise authority.
Bold and arrogant, they do not tremble in awe as they* blaspheme majestic beings,

⁸ Despite that, in the same way also these men, because of their* dreams, defile the flesh and reject authority and blaspheme majestic beings.

²² When* he finished speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

¹⁵ _⌊I will return again_⌋* to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search* me.

⁶ And Yahweh said to him again, "Put your hand into the fold of your garment." And he put his hand into the fold of his garment, and he took it out, and, _⌊to his surprise_⌋,* his hand was afflicted with a skin disease, like snow.

⁷ And Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp far from the camp, and he called it the tent of assembly, _⌊and_⌋* all seeking Yahweh would go out to the tent of assembly, which was outside the camp. ⁸ _⌊And_⌋* at the going out of Moses to the tent, all the people would rise and stand, each at the opening of his tent, and gaze after Moses until his entering the tent. ⁹ _⌊And_⌋* at the entering of Moses into the tent the column of cloud would descend and stand at the opening of the tent, and he would speak with Moses. ¹⁰ And all the people would see the column of cloud standing at the opening of the tent, and all the people would rise and bow in worship, each at the opening of his tent.

² "When a _⌊person_⌋* has on his body's skin a swelling or an epidermal eruption or a spot and it becomes* an infectious skin disease on his body's skin, then* he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests. ³ And the priest shall examine the infection on his body's skin, and if the hair in the infection turns white and the appearance of the infection is deeper than his body's skin, it is an infectious skin disease, and the priest shall examine it, and he shall declare him unclean. ⁴ But* if a spot is white on his body's skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin and its hair does not turn white, then* the priest shall confine the afflicted person for seven days. ⁵ And the priest shall examine it on the seventh day, and _⌊if_⌋,* in his eyes, the infection has stayed unchanged, the infection has not spread on the skin, then* the priest shall confine him for seven days a second time. ⁶ And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day for a second time, and _⌊if_⌋* the infection has faded and the infection has not spread on the skin, then* the priest shall declare him clean—it is an epidermal eruption; and he shall wash his garments, and so he shall be clean. ⁷ But* if the epidermal eruption spreads further on the skin after showing himself to the priest for his cleansing, then* he shall appear a second time to the priest. ⁸ And the priest shall examine it,* and _⌊if_⌋* the epidermal eruption has spread on the skin, then* the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infectious skin disease. ⁹ "When an infectious skin disease is on a person and he is brought to the priest, ¹⁰ the priest shall examine it,* and _⌊if_⌋* a white swelling is on the skin and it turns the hair white and _⌊raw flesh_⌋* is in the swelling, ¹¹ it is a chronic infectious skin disease on his body's skin, and the priest shall declare him unclean; he shall not confine him, because he is unclean. ¹² And if the infectious skin disease breaks out all over on the skin and the infectious skin disease covers all of the afflicted person's skin from his head to his feed, _⌊so far as the priest can see_⌋,* ¹³ then* the priest shall examine it,* and _⌊if_⌋* the infectious skin disease covers his whole body, then* he shall pronounce the afflicted person clean—all of it has turned white; he is clean. ¹⁴ But* _⌊whenever_⌋* _⌊raw flesh_⌋* appears on him, he shall become unclean. ¹⁵ And the priest shall examine the _⌊raw flesh_⌋,* and he shall pronounce him unclean—the _⌊raw flesh_⌋* is unclean; it is an infectious skin disease. ¹⁶ Or, when the _⌊raw flesh_⌋* returns and it has changed to white, then* he shall come to the priest, ¹⁷ and the priest shall examine him, and _⌊if_⌋* the infection has changed to white, then* the priest shall pronounce the afflicted person clean—he is clean. ¹⁸ "And when someone's body _⌊has_⌋* a skin sore on his skin and it is healed ¹⁹ and a white swelling or a _⌊pinkish_⌋* spot appears in the skin sore's place, then* he shall show himself to the priest. ²⁰ And the priest shall examine it,* and _⌊if_⌋* its appearance is deeper than the skin and its hair has changed to white, then* the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infectious skin disease; it has broken out in the skin sore. ²¹ And if the priest examines it and _⌊if_⌋* there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin and it is faded, then* the priest shall confine him for seven days. ²² But* if it has spread further on the skin, then* the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infection. ²³ But* if the spot has stayed unchanged, it has not spread, it is the skin sore's scar, so* the priest shall declare him clean. ²⁴ "Or when a body _⌊has_⌋* a burn-spot _⌊from_⌋* fire on its skin and the _⌊raw flesh_⌋* of the burn-spot is _⌊pinkish_⌋* or white, ²⁵ then* the priest shall examine it, and _⌊if_⌋* the hair turns white in the spot and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is an infectious skin disease—it has broken out in the burn-spot; so* the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infectious skin disease. ²⁶ But* if the priest examines it and _⌊if_⌋* there is not white hair in the spot and it is not deeper than the skin and it is faded, then* the priest shall confine him for seven days. ²⁷ And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; if it has spread further on the skin, then* the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infectious skin disease. ²⁸ But* if it the spot has stayed unchanged in its place, it has not spread on the skin and it is faded, then it is the burn-spot's swelling, so* the priest shall declare him clean, because it is the burn-spot's scar. ²⁹ "And when a man or a woman _⌊has_⌋* an infection on the head or in the beard, ³⁰ then* the priest shall examine the infection, and _⌊if_⌋* its appearance is deeper than the skin and in it is thin bright red hair, then* the priest shall declare it unclean—it is a diseased area of skin; it is an infectious skin disease of the head or the beard. ³¹ But* if the priest examines the diseased area of the skin's infection and _⌊if_⌋* its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then* the priest shall confine the afflicted person with the diseased area of skin for seven days. ³² And the priest shall examine the infection on the seventh day, and _⌊if_⌋* the diseased area of skin has not spread and it does not have bright red hair in it and the diseased area of the skin's appearance is not deeper than the skin, ³³ then* he shall shave himself, but* he shall not shave the diseased area of skin, and the priest shall confine the person with* the diseased area of skin a second time for seven days. ³⁴ And the priest shall examine the diseased area of skin on the seventh day, and _⌊if_⌋* the diseased area has not spread on the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then* the priest shall pronounce him clean, and he shall wash his garments, and he shall be clean. ³⁵ But* if the diseased area of skin has not spread further on the skin after his cleansing, ³⁶ then* the priest shall examine him, and _⌊if_⌋* the diseased area of skin has spread on the skin, the priest shall not inspect for bright* red hair—he is unclean. ³⁷ But* if, in his eyes, the diseased area of skin has stayed unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the diseased area of skin is healed—he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. ³⁸ "And when a man or a woman _⌊has_⌋* spots on their body's skin, white spots, ³⁹ then* the priest shall examine them,* and _⌊if_⌋* the spots on their body's skin are a faded white, it is a skin rash; it has broken out on the skin—it is clean. ⁴⁰ "And if a man becomes bald, his head is bald, he is clean. ⁴¹ And if he becomes bald _⌊from his forehead_⌋,* his head is bald, he is clean. ⁴² But* if a _⌊pinkish_⌋* infection occurs* on the bald spot or on the bald forehead, it is an infectious skin disease that sprouts on his bald spot or on his bald forehead. ⁴³ So* the priest shall examine him, and _⌊if_⌋* the infection's swelling is _⌊pinkish_⌋* on his bald spot or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of an infectious skin disease on* the body, ⁴⁴ he is a man afflicted with a skin disease—he is unclean; the priest certainly shall declare him unclean—his infection is on his head. ⁴⁵ "As for* the person who is afflicted with a skin disease, his garments must be torn and his _⌊hair_⌋* must be allowed to hang loosely, and he must cover his upper lip, and he must call out, 'Unclean! Unclean!' ⁴⁶ For all the days during which the infection is on him, he shall be unclean; he must live alone; his dwelling must be _⌊outside the camp_⌋."*

⁹ So remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam on the journey _⌊when you went out from Egypt_⌋.*

²⁷ The skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your offspring forever." Then he went out from before him having a skin disease like the snow.

⁵ Yahweh struck the king, and he was infected with a skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, while Jotham the son of the king was over the house, governing the people of the land.

¹⁹ Then Uzziah, his censer in hand to burn incense, became angry. And when he became angry with the priests, then leprosy appeared on his forehead in front of the priests in the house of Yahweh at the altar of incense. ²⁰ When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him, behold, he was leprous in the forehead. So they rushed him away from there, and he also hastened to go out, for Yahweh had smitten him. ²¹ So King Uzziah was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house as a leper, for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh. And Jotham his son was over the house of the king, judging the people of the land.

⁴ And the glory of Yahweh rose up from on the cherub toward* the threshold of the house,* and the house* was filled with the cloud, and the courtyard was filled with the brightness of the glory of Yahweh. ⁵ And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard _⌊as far as_⌋* the outer courtyard; it was like the voice of God Shaddai* _⌊when he speaks_⌋.*

¹⁸ And the glory of Yahweh went out from* the threshold of the temple, and it stood above the cherubim. ¹⁹ And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and they rose from the earth before my eyes. At their going out, the wheels were* beside them. And he stood at the doorway of the eastern gate of the temple* of Yahweh, and the glory of the God of Israel _⌊was over them_⌋.*

¹² Even though they bring up their children, I will bereave them before maturity.* Woe to them indeed, when I depart from them!

⁴¹ Then he will also say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you accursed ones, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

³² Take both your sheep and goats as well as your cattle, and go, and bless also me."

³⁰ Therefore,' _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh the God of Israel, 'though I solemnly said that your house and the house of your ancestor* would walk before me forever, but now,' _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh, 'far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me, I will treat with contempt!

¹⁹ Then all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God so that we will not die, because we have added to all our sins by requesting a king for ourselves."

²⁴ Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned because I have transgressed _⌊the commandment of Yahweh_⌋* and your words, for I feared the troops and I listened to their voice. ²⁵ So then, please pardon my sin and return with me _⌊so that I can worship_⌋* Yahweh."

¹⁹ and he said to the king, "May not my lord hold me guilty, and may you not remember how your servant did wrong on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, by taking it to heart!

¹⁰ The heart of David struck him after he had counted the people, and David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done! So then, O Yahweh, please forgive the guilt of your servant because I have acted very foolishly."

⁶ Then the king responded and said to the man of God, "Please entreat the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me that my hand may return to me." So the man of God entreated the face of Yahweh, and the hand of the king returned to him, as it was in the beginning.

⁹ For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose heart is fully devoted to him. You have been foolish in this, for from now on you will have wars."

¹ A psalm of David. To bring to remembrance.*
O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath. ² For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness.

³² If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, put your hand to your mouth.

² and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "May our plea please fall _⌊before you_⌋,* and pray for us to Yahweh your God, for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes are seeing us.

²⁴ But Simon answered and* said, "You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said will come upon me."

⁹ Behold, I am causing those of the synagogue of Satan, the ones who call themselves Jews and are not, but are lying—behold, I will make them _⌊come_⌋* and kneel down before your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

¹⁶ Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants who did not see the light?

⁸ Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes; like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun.

⁴ I am reckoned with those descending to the pit. I am like a man* without strength,* ⁵ set free* among the dead, like the slain lying in the grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand.

⁸ and last of all, as it were to one born at the wrong time, he appeared also to me.

¹ And you, _⌊although you were dead_⌋** in your trespasses and sins, ² in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience, ³ among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will* of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath* by nature, as also the rest of them were. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, ⁵ and we being dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

¹³ And _⌊although you were dead_⌋** in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

⁶ But the one who lives for sensual pleasure is dead even though she* lives.

¹⁰ And now leave me alone so that _⌊my anger may blaze_⌋* against them, and let me destroy them, and I will make you into a great nation." ¹¹ And Moses _⌊implored Yahweh_⌋* his God, and he said, "Why, Yahweh, should _⌊your anger blaze_⌋* against your people whom you brought up from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? ¹² Why should the Egyptians _⌊say_⌋*, 'With evil intent he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'?* Turn from _⌊your fierce anger_⌋* and relent concerning the disaster for your people. ¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by yourself, and you told them, 'I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit it forever.'" ¹⁴ And Yahweh relented concerning the disaster that he had _⌊threatened_⌋* to do to his people.

² And all the _⌊Israelites_⌋* grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and all the community said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt or in this desert!

¹³ And Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear that you brought up this people from their* midst in your power, ¹⁴ and they will _⌊tell it_⌋* to the inhabitants of this land. They heard that you, Yahweh, are in the midst of this people, that you are seen eye to eye, and your cloud is standing over them, and in a column of cloud you go before them by day and in a column of fire at night. ¹⁵ But if you destroy this people _⌊all at once_⌋,* the nations that will have heard your message will say, ¹⁶ 'Yahweh was unable to bring this people in the land that he swore by an oath, and he slaughtered them in the desert.' ¹⁷ But now, please, let the power of my Lord be great, just has you spoke, ¹⁸ 'Yahweh is _⌊slow to anger_⌋* and great of loyal love, _⌊forgiving_⌋* sin and rebellion; but surely he leaves nothing unpunished, visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generations.' ¹⁹ Please forgive the sin of this people according to the greatness of your loyal love, just as you _⌊forgave_⌋* this people, from Egypt until now." ²⁰ Yahweh said, "I have forgiven them according to your word;

⁴¹ The next day all the community of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of Yahweh!"

⁴⁶ And Moses and Aaron said, "Take the censer, and put fire on it from the altar. Place incense on it, and bring it quickly to the community, and make atonement for them, because wrath went out from the presence of Yahweh, and a plague has begun." ⁴⁷ And so Aaron took it just as Moses had spoken, and he ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people; so he gave the incense and made atonement for the people. ⁴⁸ He stood between the dead and between the living, and the plague was stopped. ⁴⁹ Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on account of Korah. ⁵⁰ Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the plague was stopped.

²³ Also, as for me, far be it from me _⌊that I should sin_⌋* against Yahweh by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the good and righteous way.

¹¹ "I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not kept my word." _⌊Samuel became angry_⌋,* and he cried out to Yahweh all night.

²⁶ And the light of the full moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, on the day when Yahweh binds up the breakage of his people, and he heals the wound of his blow.

¹⁴ Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed, save me, and I will be saved, for you are my praise.

⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, ⁴⁵ in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, because he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust.

²⁸ bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

³⁴ But Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."* And they cast lots to divide his clothes.

⁶⁰ And falling to his* knees, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them!" And after he* said this, he fell asleep.*

²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

¹⁵ And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins _⌊he will be forgiven_⌋*.

⁸ Then* the one who presents himself for cleansing shall wash his garments, and he shall shave off all his hair, and he shall wash himself in the water; thus* he shall be clean, and afterward he shall enter the camp, but* he shall stay _⌊outside his tent_⌋* for seven days.

² "Command the _⌊Israelites_⌋:* they must send everyone from the camp who is afflicted with a rash,* everyone with a fluid discharge, and everyone unclean through contact with a corpse. ³ You will send away _⌊both male and female_⌋;* you will send them _⌊outside the camp_⌋.* They must not make unclean their camps where I am dwelling in their midst."

⁹ then his sister-in-law shall go near him before the eyes of the elders, and she shall pull off his sandal from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall _⌊declare_⌋* and she shall say, 'This is how it is done to the man who does not build the house of his brother.'

⁶ "And he has made me a proverb for* the peoples, _⌊and I am one before whom people spit_⌋.*

¹⁰ They abhor me; they keep aloof from me, and they do not withhold spit from my face

⁶ I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out my _⌊beard_⌋;* I did not hide my face from insults and spittle.

⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists, and they slapped him,*

⁹ Furthermore, we have had _⌊our earthly fathers_⌋* who disciplined us, and we respected them. Will we not much rather subject ourselves to the Father of spirits and live?

²¹ And he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he exposed himself in the midst of his tent. ²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside. ²³ Then* Shem and Japheth took a garment, and the two of them put it on their shoulders and, walking backward, they covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned backward, so that* they did not see the nakedness of their father.

¹² "Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.

⁸ Be watchful* _⌊with respect to_⌋* an outbreak of any infectious skin disease, by being very careful and by acting* according to all that the priests and the Levites have instructed you, just as I have commanded them, _⌊so you shall diligently observe_⌋.* ⁹ So remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam on the journey _⌊when you went out from Egypt_⌋.*

³² For even though he causes grief he has compassion according to the greatness of his royal love.

⁸ You should not rejoice over me, O my enemy! When I fall I will stand up; when I sit in darkness Yahweh will be a light for me. ⁹ I will bear the rage of Yahweh, for I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes my justice. He will bring me out to the light; I will see his righteousness.

² O Yahweh, I have heard the report of you; O Yahweh, I stand in awe of your works. In the midst of the years, revive it! In the midst of the years, make it known! In wrath, may you remember to show compassion.

²¹ And he lived in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

¹² And the _⌊Israelites_⌋* set out for their journey* from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud dwelled in the desert of Paran.

³⁵ From Kibroth Hattaavah* the people set out to Hazeroth; and they stayed* in Hazeroth.

³ So Moses sent them from the desert of Paran on the command of Yahweh; all of the men were _⌊leaders_⌋* of the _⌊Israelites_⌋.*

²⁶ And they came* to Moses and Aaron and to the entire community of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* in the desert of Paran at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.

¹⁸ They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.

¹ Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

³ God came from Teman; the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covers the heavens, and his praise fills the earth.