The people murmur at the news, NUMBERS.

and are threatened. the children of Israel, saying, The land of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. through which we have gone to search it, is 15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people a land that eateth up the inhabitants there- as one man, then the nations which have of; and all the people that we saw in it are heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, men of a great stature.

33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

CHAP. XIV.

AND all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept

that night.

16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

18 The LORD is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and trans2 And all the children of Israel murmur-gression, and by no means clearing the ed against Moses and against Aaron and guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers the whole congregation said unto them, upon the children unto the third and fourth Would God that we had died in the land of generation. Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. 22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

6 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land: for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. 11 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them ;)

14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day-time in a pillar

have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoke me see it:

24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

25 (Now the Amalekites, and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel,which they murmur against me.

I

28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

29 Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

32 But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.

33 And your children shall wander in

The Amalekites discomfit them.

CHAP. XV. The law of sundry offerings.

the wilderness forty years, and bear your 5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.

34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days (each day for a year) shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

for a drink-offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.

6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat-offering two tenth-deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.

7 And for a drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace-offerings unto the LORD:

36 And the men which Moses sent to 9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a search the land, who returned, and made meat-offering of three tenth-deals of flour all the congregation to murmur against mingled with half an hin of oil.

him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, 10 And thou shalt bring for a drink-offer37 Even those men that did bring up the ing half an hin of wine, for an offering evil report upon the land, died by the made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the plague before the LORD. LORD:

38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land,livedstill. 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.

41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.

12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.

13 All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

14 ¶ And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.

42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among 15 One ordinance shall be both for you you; that ye be not smitten before your of the congregation, and also for the stran

enemies.

43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill-top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

ger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

17 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,

45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and 19 Then it shall be, that when ye eat of smote them, and discomfited them, even the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an unto Hormah. heave-offering unto the LORD.

Aing

CHAP. XV.

20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first

ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say-of your dough for an heave-offering: as ye do the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto

21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave-offering in your generations.

22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,

23 Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;

24 Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation

The sabbath-breakers stoned.

NUMBERS.

The rebellion of Korah. shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-heart and your own eyes, after which ye use offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, to go a whoring:

with his meat-offering, and his drink-offer- 40 That ye may remember, and do all ing, according to the manner, and one kid my commandments, and be holy unto your of the goats for a sin-offering. God.

25 And the priest shall make an atone- 41 I am the LORD your God, which ment for all the congregation of the chil- brought you out of the land of Egypt, to dren of Israel, and it shall be forgiven be your God: I am the LORD your God. them; for it is ignorance: and they shall CHAP. XVI.

bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire NOW Korah, the son of Izhar, the son unto the LORD, and their sin-offering before the LORD, for their ignorance: than and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and 26 And it shall be forgiven all the con-On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took gregation of the children of Israel, and the men;

stranger that sojourneth among them; see- 2 And they rose up before Moses, with ing all the people were in ignorance. certain of the children of Israel, two hun

27 ¶ And if any soul sin through igno- dred and fifty princes of the assembly, rance, then he shall bring a she-goat of the famous in the congregation, men of refirst year for a sin-offering.

nown:

28 And the priest shall make an atone- 3 And they gathered themselves togement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, ther against Moses and against Aaron, and when he sinneth by ignorance before the said unto them, Ye take too much upon LORD, to make an atonement for him; and you, seeing all the congregation are holy, it shall be forgiven him. every one of them, and the LORD is among

29 Ye shall have one law for him that them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves sinneth through ignorance, both for him above the congregation of the LORD? that is born among the children of Israel, 4 And when Moses heard it, he fell and for the stranger that sojourneth among upon his face:

them.

5 And he spake unto Korah and unto

30 ¶ But the soul that doeth ought pre- all his company, saying, Even to-morrow sumptuously, whether he be born in the land, the LORD will shew who are his, and who or a stranger, the same reproacheth the is holy; and will cause him to come near LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from unto him: even him whom he hath chosen among his people. will he cause to come near unto him.

31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbathday.

33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to

him.

6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;

7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to-morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi :

9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?

35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the 10 And he hath brought thee near to congregation shall stone him with stones him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi without the camp. with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also? 36 And all the congregation brought him 11 For which cause both thou and all without the camp, and stoned him with thy company are gathered together against stones, and he died; as the LORD com-the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye manded Moses. murmur against him?

37 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a riband of blue:

12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab : which said, We will not come up:

13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altoge

39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, ther a prince over us? that ye may look upon it, and remember all 14 Moreover, thou hast not brought us the commandments of the LORD, and do into a land that floweth with milk and and that ye seek not after your own honey, or given us inheritance of fields and

them;

CHAP. XVI. eyes of

The punishment of Korah, &c. vineyards: wilt thou put out the these men? we will not come up. 15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow:

Aaron stays the plague. that the ground clave asunder that was under them:

32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

33 They, and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before 34 And all Israel that were round about the LORD every man his censer, two hun- them, fled at the cry of them: for they said, dred and fifty censers: thou also and Aaron Lest the earth swallow us up also. each of you his censer.

35 And there came out a fire from the

18 And they took every man his censer, LORD, and consumed the two hundred and and put fire in them, and laid incense fifty men that offered incense.

thereon, and stood in the door of the taber- 36 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, nacle of the congregation with Moses and saying,

Aaron.

37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron 19 And Korah gathered all the congre- the priest, that he take up the censers out gation against them unto the door of the of the burning, and scatter thou the fire tabernacle of the congregation: and the yonder; for they are hallowed. glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.

20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in

a moment.

38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

39 And Eleazar the priest took the bra22 And they fell upon their faces, and zen censers, wherewith they that were said, O God, the God of the spirits of all burnt had offered; and they were made flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be broad plates for a covering of the altar: wroth with all the congregation?

23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

25 And Moses rose up, and went unto 41 ¶ But on the morrow all the congreDathan and Abiram; and the elders of Is-gation of the children of Israel murmured rael followed him. against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.

26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents 42 And it came to pass when the conof these wicked men, and touch nothing of gregation was gathered against Moses and theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. against Aaron, that they looked toward 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle the tabernacle of the congregation: and beof Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every hold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, the LORD appeared.

and stood in the door of their tents, and 43 And Moses and Aaron came before their wives, and their sons, and their little the tabernacle of the congregation. 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

children.

28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.

sent me.

45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. 29 If these men die the common death 46 ¶ And Moses said unto Aaron, Take of all men, or if they be visited after the visi-a censer, and put fire therein from off the tation of all men; then the LORD hath not altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atone30 But if the LORD make a new thing, ment for them: for there is wrath gone out and the earth open her mouth, and swallow from the LORD; the plague is begun. them up, with all that appertain unto them, 47 And Aaron took as Moses commandand they go down quick into the pit; then ed, and ran into the midst of the congregaye shall understand that these men have tion; and behold, the plague was begun provoked the LORD. among the people: and he put on incense, 31 And it came to pass, as he had and made an atonement for the people. made an end of speaking all these words, 48 And he stood between the dead

Aaron's rod budding.

NUMBERS. The portion of the priests.

and the living; and the plague was Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou stayed. with thee, that they may be joined unto

49 Now they that died in the plague thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, thy sons with thee shall minister before the beside them that died about the matter of tabernacle of witness. Korah.

50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed. CHAP. XVII.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say

ing,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according

3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come to the house of their fathers, of all their nigh unto you. princes according to the house of their fa- 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the thers, twelve rods: write thou every man's sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: name upon his rod. that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.

3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.

4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.

6 And I, behold, I have taken your bre thren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

5 And it shall come to pass, that the 7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blos- shall keep your priest's office for every som: and I will make to cease from me the thing of the altar, and within the vail; and murmurings of the children of Israel, where- ye shall serve: I have given your priest's by they murmur against you. office unto you as a service of gift: and the 6 And Moses spake unto the children stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to of Israel, and every one of their princes death.

gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, 8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, according to their fathers' houses, even Behold, I also have given thee the charge twelve rods and the rod of Aaron was of mine heave-offerings of all the hallowed among their rods.

things of the children of Israel; unto thee

7 And Moses laid up the rods before the have I given them by reason of the anointLORD in the tabernacle of witness. ing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.

8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of wit- 9 This shall be thine of the most holy ness; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the things reserved from the fire: every oblation house of Levi was budded, and brought of theirs, every meat-offering of theirs, and forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yield- every sin-offering of theirs, and every tresed almonds. pass-offering of theirs, which they shall 9 And Moses brought out all the rods render unto me, shall be most holy for thee from before the LORD unto all the children and for thy sons. of Israel and they looked, and took every man his rod.

10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.

10 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again, before the testi- 11 And this is thine; the heave-offering mony, to be kept for a token against the of their gift, with all the wave-offerings of rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their the children of Israel: I have given them murmurings from me, that they die not.

11 And Moses did so as the LORD commanded him, so did he.

12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.

unto thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first13 Whosoever cometh any thing near fruits of them which they shall offer unto unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: the LORD, them have I given thee. shall we be consumed with dying? CHAP. XVIII.

13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in shall be

one

14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be

with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary and thou and thy sons with thee thine. shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 15 Every thing that openeth the matrix 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of in all flesh, which they bring unto the