Numbers Cross References - BBE

¹ And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, ² Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name; ³ All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron. ⁴ And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house. ⁵ These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur; ⁶ From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai; ⁷ From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab; ⁸ From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar; ⁹ From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon; ¹⁰ Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, ¹¹ From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni; ¹² From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai; ¹³ From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran; ¹⁴ From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel; ¹⁵ From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan. ¹⁶ These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name; ¹⁸ And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over. ¹⁹ As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so they were numbered by him in the waste place of Sinai. ²⁰ The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war; ²¹ Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered. ²² The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war; ²³ Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon were numbered. ²⁴ The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ²⁵ Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered. ²⁶ The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ²⁷ Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered. ²⁸ The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ²⁹ Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Issachar were numbered. ³⁰ The generations of the sons of Zebulun were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³¹ Fifty-seven thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Zebulun were numbered. ³² The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³³ Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered. ³⁴ The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³⁵ Thirty-two thousand, two hundred of the tribe of Manasseh were numbered. ³⁶ The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³⁷ Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered. ³⁸ The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war; ³⁹ Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan were numbered. ⁴⁰ The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ⁴¹ Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher were numbered. ⁴² The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ⁴³ Fifty-three thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Naphtali were numbered. ⁴⁴ These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and by the twelve chiefs of Israel, one from every tribe. ⁴⁵ So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war, ⁴⁶ Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty. ⁴⁷ But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them. ⁴⁸ For the Lord said to Moses, ⁴⁹ Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel, ⁵⁰ But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it. ⁵¹ And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death. ⁵² The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag. ⁵³ But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites. ⁵⁴ So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

¹ In the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of Sinai.

²² And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.

² On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting.

¹⁷ So on the first day of the first month in the second year the House was put up.

¹ And the voice of the Lord came to Moses out of the Tent of meeting, saying,

³⁴ These are the orders which the Lord gave to Moses for the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, in the waste land of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt,

¹¹ Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness. ¹² And the children of Israel went on their journey out of the waste land of Sinai; and the cloud came to rest in the waste land of Paran.

¹ In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

¹ And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times. ² Come near, O sons of Jacob, and give ear to the words of Israel your father. ³ Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:

¹ Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob. ² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; ³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; ⁴ Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ⁵ All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.

¹⁴ These are the heads of their fathers' families: the sons of Reuben the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are the families of Reuben. ¹⁵ And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan: these are the families of Simeon. ¹⁶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven. ¹⁷ The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of their families. ¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three. ¹⁹ And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations.

¹² When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered.

²⁶ A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.

¹⁸ And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over.

²² The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;

²⁶ The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ²⁷ Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered. ²⁸ The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ²⁹ Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Issachar were numbered. ³⁰ The generations of the sons of Zebulun were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³¹ Fifty-seven thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Zebulun were numbered. ³² The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³³ Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered. ³⁴ The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³⁵ Thirty-two thousand, two hundred of the tribe of Manasseh were numbered. ³⁶ The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³⁷ Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered. ³⁸ The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war; ³⁹ Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan were numbered. ⁴⁰ The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ⁴¹ Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher were numbered. ⁴² The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ⁴³ Fifty-three thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Naphtali were numbered. ⁴⁴ These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and by the twelve chiefs of Israel, one from every tribe. ⁴⁵ So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war, ⁴⁶ Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty. ⁴⁷ But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them. ⁴⁸ For the Lord said to Moses, ⁴⁹ Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel, ⁵⁰ But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it. ⁵¹ And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death. ⁵² The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag. ⁵³ But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites. ⁵⁴ So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

² Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel. ³ So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying, ⁴ Let all the people of twenty years old and over be numbered, as the Lord has given orders to Moses and the children of Israel who have come out of Egypt.

⁶³ All these were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. ⁶⁴ But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.

¹ Again the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and moving David against them, he said, Go, take the number of Israel and Judah. ² And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people. ³ And Joab said to the king, Whatever the number of the people, may the Lord make it a hundred times as much, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king take pleasure in doing this thing?

¹ Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel. ² And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.

²³ But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number. ²⁴ The numbering was started by Joab, the son of Zeruiah, but he did not go on to the end; and because of it, wrath came on Israel and the number was not recorded in the history of King David.

¹⁷ So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever.

¹⁴ Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.

²⁹ Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

² Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel.

¹¹ Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;

¹ These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt in their armies, under the direction of Moses and Aaron.

¹⁸ At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.

⁵ A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.

⁹ And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

¹³ He had much property in the towns of Judah; he had forces of armed men, great and strong, in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war; ¹⁵ Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand; ¹⁶ After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war; ¹⁷ And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers; ¹⁸ And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.

¹¹ In addition, Uzziah had an army of fighting-men who went out to war in bands, as they had been listed by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the authority of Hananiah, one of the king's captains. ¹² The heads of families, the strong men of war, were two thousand, six hundred. ¹³ And under their orders was a trained army of three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, of great strength in war, helping the king against any who came against him.

²¹ But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;

²⁵ And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.

¹⁶ These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel.

³ Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief. ⁴ The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred. ⁵ And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief. ⁶ The number of his army was fifty-four thousand, four hundred. ⁷ After him, the tribe of Zebulun, with Eliab, the son of Helon, as their chief. ⁸ The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four hundred. ⁹ The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first. ¹⁰ On the south side is the flag of the children of Reuben, in the order of their armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as their chief. ¹¹ The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five hundred. ¹² And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, as their chief. ¹³ The number of his army was fifty-nine thousand, three hundred. ¹⁴ Then the tribe of Gad, with Eliasaph, son of Reuel, as their chief. ¹⁵ The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty. ¹⁶ The number of all the armies of Reuben together came to a hundred and fifty-one thousand, four hundred and fifty. They go forward second. ¹⁷ Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag. ¹⁸ On the west side will be the flag of the children of Ephraim, with Elishama, the son of Ammihud, as their chief. ¹⁹ The number of his army was forty thousand, five hundred. ²⁰ And by him the tribe of Manasseh with Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, as their chief. ²¹ The number of his army was thirty-two thousand, two hundred. ²² Then the tribe of Benjamin, with Abidan, the son of Gideoni, as their chief. ²³ The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four hundred. ²⁴ The number of all the armies of Ephraim was a hundred and eight thousand, one hundred. They go forward third. ²⁵ On the north side will be the flag of the children of Dan, with Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, as their chief. ²⁶ The number of his army was sixty-two thousand, seven hundred. ²⁷ Nearest to him will be the tribe of Asher, with Pagiel, the son of Ochran, as their chief. ²⁸ The number of his army was forty-one thousand, five hundred; ²⁹ Then the tribe of Naphtali, with Ahira, the son of Enan, as their chief. ³⁰ The number of his army was fifty-three thousand, four hundred. ³¹ The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go forward last, by their flags.

¹⁰ And the chiefs gave an offering for the altar on the day when the holy oil was put on it; they made their offering before the altar. ¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Let every chief on his day give his offering to make the altar holy. ¹² And he who made his offering on the first day was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: ¹³ And his offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ¹⁴ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice for burning; ¹⁵ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ¹⁶ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ¹⁷ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab. ¹⁸ On the second day Nethanel, the son of Zuar, chief of Issachar, made his offering: ¹⁹ He gave one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ²⁰ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ²¹ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ²² One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ²³ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethanel, the son of Zuar. ²⁴ On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the children of Zebulun: ²⁵ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ²⁶ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ²⁷ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ²⁸ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ²⁹ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab, the son of Helon. ³⁰ On the fourth day Elizur, the son of Shedeur, chief of the children of Reuben: ³¹ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ³² One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ³³ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ³⁴ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ³⁵ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur, the son of Shedeur. ³⁶ On the fifth day Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, chief of the children of Simeon: ³⁷ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ³⁸ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ³⁹ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁴⁰ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁴¹ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai. ⁴² On the sixth day Eliasaph, the son of Reuel, chief of the children of Gad: ⁴³ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁴⁴ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁴⁵ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁴⁶ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁴⁷ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph, the son of Reuel ⁴⁸ On the seventh day Elishama, the son of Ammihud, chief of the children of Ephraim: ⁴⁹ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁵⁰ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁵¹ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁵² One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁵³ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama, the son of Ammihud. ⁵⁴ On the eighth day Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, chief of the children of Manasseh: ⁵⁵ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁵⁶ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁵⁷ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁵⁸ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁵⁹ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur. ⁶⁰ On the ninth day Abidan, the son of Gideoni, chief of the children of Benjamin: ⁶¹ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁶² One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁶³ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year for a burned offering; ⁶⁴ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁶⁵ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan, the son of Gideoni. ⁶⁶ On the tenth day Ahiezer; the son of Ammishaddai, chief of the children of Dan: ⁶⁷ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁶⁸ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁶⁹ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁷⁰ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁷¹ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai. ⁷² On the eleventh day Pagiel, the son of Ochran, chief of the children of Asher: ⁷³ His offering was one silver plate; a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁷⁴ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁷⁵ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁷⁶ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁷⁷ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel, the son of Ochran. ⁷⁸ On the twelfth day Ahira, the son of Enan, chief of the children of Naphtali: ⁷⁹ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁸⁰ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁸¹ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁸² One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁸³ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira, the son of Enan.

¹⁴ First the flag of the children of Judah went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab. ¹⁵ And at the head of the army of the children of Issachar was Nethanel, the son of Zuar. ¹⁶ And at the head of the army of the children of Zebulun was Eliab, the son of Helon. ¹⁷ Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were responsible for moving the House, went forward. ¹⁸ Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elizur, the son of Shedeur. ¹⁹ And at the head of the army of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai. ²⁰ At the head of the army of the children of Gad was Eliasaph, the son of Reuel. ²¹ Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming. ²² Then the flag of the children of Ephraim went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elishama, the son of Ammihud. ²³ At the head of the army of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur. ²⁴ At the head of the army of the children of Benjamin was Abidan, the son of Gideoni. ²⁵ And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai. ²⁶ At the head of the army of the children of Asher was Pagiel, the son of Ochran. ²⁷ And at the head of the army of the children of Naphtali was Ahira, the son of Enan.

² Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them. ³ And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. ⁴ And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua, the son of Zaccur. ⁵ Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori. ⁶ Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. ⁷ Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal, the son of Joseph. ⁸ Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun. ⁹ Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti, the son of Raphu. ¹⁰ Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, the son of Sodi. ¹¹ Of the tribe of Joseph, that is of the family of Manasseh, Gaddi, the son of Susi. ¹² Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gemalli. ¹³ Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael ¹⁴ Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi. ¹⁵ Of the tribe of Gad, Gevel, the son of Machi.

³ And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for there is to be one rod for the head of every family.

⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.

¹⁴ Now the man of Israel who was put to death with the woman of Midian was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of one of the families of the Simeonites.

¹⁸ And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land. ¹⁹ And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. ²⁰ And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel, the son of Ammihud. ²¹ Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, the son of Chislon. ²² And of the tribe of the children of Dan, a chief, Bukki, the son of Jogli. ²³ Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh, a chief, Hanniel, the son of Ephod: ²⁴ And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, a chief, Kemuel, the son of Shiphtan. ²⁵ And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, a chief, Elizaphan, the son of Parnach. ²⁶ And of the tribe of the children of Issachar, a chief, Paltiel, the son of Azzan. ²⁷ And of the tribe of the children of Asher, a chief, Ahihud, the son of Shelomi. ²⁸ And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a chief, Pedahel, the son of Ammihud.

¹⁵ So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.

¹⁴ And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel.

¹ Now the number of the children of Israel, that is, the heads of families, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the men in authority who were servants of the king in anything to do with the divisions which came in and went out month by month through all the months of the year, in every division were twenty-four thousand. ² Over the first division for the first month was Ishbaal, the son of Zabdiel; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ³ He was of the sons of Perez, and the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month. ⁴ And over the division for the second month was Eleazar, the son of Dodai the Ahohite, the ruler; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ⁵ The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ⁶ This is the same Benaiah who was the great man of the thirty, chief of the thirty; and in his division was Ammizabad his son. ⁷ The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel, the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ⁸ The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ⁹ The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ¹⁰ The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ¹¹ The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ¹² The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ¹³ The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ¹⁴ The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the sons of Ephraim; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ¹⁵ The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his division were twenty-four thousand. ¹⁶ And over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer, the son of Zichri; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah, the son of Maacah; ¹⁷ Of Levi, Hashabiah, the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok; ¹⁸ Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri, the son of Michael; ¹⁹ Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah, the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jerimoth, the son of Azriel; ²⁰ Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel, the son of Pedaiah; ²¹ Of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo, the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel, the son of Abner; ²² Of Dan, Azarel, the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.

³² And Leah was with child, and gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Reuben: for she said, The Lord has seen my sorrow; now my husband will have love for me. ³³ Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon. ³⁴ And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi. ³⁵ And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.

⁵ And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son. ⁶ Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan. ⁷ And again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and gave birth to a second son. ⁸ And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali. ⁹ When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife. ¹⁰ And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son. ¹¹ And Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him the name Gad. ¹² And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a second son. ¹³ And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher. ¹⁴ Now at the time of the grain-cutting, Reuben saw some love-fruits in the field, and took them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to her, Let me have some of your son's love-fruits. ¹⁵ But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits. ¹⁶ In the evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to him and said, Tonight you are to come to me, for I have given my son's love-fruits as a price for you. And he went in to her that night. ¹⁷ And God gave ear to her and she became with child, and gave Jacob a fifth son. ¹⁸ Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar. ¹⁹ And again Leah became with child, and she gave Jacob a sixth son. ²⁰ And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun.

¹⁷ And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son. ¹⁸ And in the hour when her life went from her for death came to her, she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin. ¹⁹ So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath which is Beth-lehem. ²⁰ And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day. ²¹ And Israel went journeying on and put up his tents on the other side of the tower of the flock. ²² Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it. ²³ Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun; ²⁴ The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; ²⁵ The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali; ²⁶ The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.

⁸ And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son; ⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi; ¹⁰ And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan; ¹¹ And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; ¹² And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ¹³ And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah and Job and Shimron; ¹⁴ And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel; ¹⁵ All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number. ¹⁶ And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli; ¹⁷ And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. ¹⁸ These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her. ¹⁹ The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On. ²¹ And the sons of Benjamin were Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard. ²² All these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had by her, fourteen persons. ²³ And the son of Dan was Hushim. ²⁴ And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.

¹ And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times. ² Come near, O sons of Jacob, and give ear to the words of Israel your father. ³ Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power: ⁴ But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean. ⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs. ⁶ Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded. ⁷ A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel. ⁸ To you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand will be on the neck of your haters; your father's sons will go down to the earth before you. ⁹ Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken? ¹⁰ The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule. ¹¹ Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes: ¹² His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk. ¹³ The resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he will be a harbour for ships; the edge of his land will be by Zidon. ¹⁴ Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks: ¹⁵ And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant. ¹⁶ Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall. ¹⁸ I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord. ¹⁹ Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight. ²⁰ Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings. ²¹ Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones. ²² Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain; ²³ He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him: ²⁴ But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel: ²⁵ Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body: ²⁶ Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers. ²⁷ Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken. ²⁸ These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing. ²⁹ And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰ In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place. ³¹ There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest. ³² In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth. ³³ And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.

¹⁰ On the south side is the flag of the children of Reuben, in the order of their armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as their chief.

³⁰ On the fourth day Elizur, the son of Shedeur, chief of the children of Reuben:

¹⁸ Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elizur, the son of Shedeur.

¹ Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death. ² He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples. ³ All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings. ⁴ Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob. ⁵ And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together. ⁶ Let life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of his men be small. ⁷ And this is the blessing of Judah: he said, Give ear, O Lord, to the voice of Judah and make him one with his people: let your hands take up his cause, and be his help against his attackers. ⁸ And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at the waters of Meribah; ⁹ Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement. ¹⁰ They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar. ¹¹ Let your blessing, O Lord, be on his substance, may the work of his hands be pleasing to you: may those who take up arms against him and all who have hate for him, be wounded through the heart, never to be lifted up again. ¹² And of Benjamin he said, Benjamin is the loved one of the Lord, he will be kept safe at all times; he will be covered by the Most High, resting between his arms. ¹³ And of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be on his land; for the good things of heaven on high, and the deep waters flowing under the earth, ¹⁴ And the good things of the fruits of the sun, and the good things of the growth of the moons, ¹⁵ And the chief things of the oldest mountains, and the good things of the eternal hills, ¹⁶ The good things of the earth and all its wealth, the good pleasure of him who was seen in the burning tree: may they come on the head of Joseph, on the head of him who was prince among his brothers. ¹⁷ He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh. ¹⁸ And of Zebulun he said, Be glad, Zebulun, in your going out; and, Issachar, in your tents. ¹⁹ They will send out the word for the people to come to the mountain, taking there the offerings of righteousness: for the store of the seas will be theirs, and the secret wealth of the sand. ²⁰ Of Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide the limits of Gad: he takes his rest like a she-lion, taking for himself the arm and the crown of the head. ²¹ He kept for himself the first part, for his was the ruler's right: he put in force the righteousness of the Lord, and his decisions for Israel. ²² And of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion, springing out from Bashan. ²³ And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, made glad with grace and full of the blessing of the Lord: the sea and its fishes will be his. ²⁴ And of Asher he said, Let Asher have the blessing of children; may he be pleasing to his brothers, and let his foot be wet with oil. ²⁵ Your shoes will be iron and brass; and as your days, so may your work be. ²⁶ No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies. ²⁷ The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them. ²⁸ And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens. ²⁹ Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.

⁴ And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel. ⁵ Of the tribe of Judah were marked twelve thousand: of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand: of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand: ⁶ Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand: of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand: of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand: ⁷ Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand: of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand: of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand: ⁸ Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand: of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand: of the tribe of Benjamin were marked twelve thousand.

¹² And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, as their chief.

³⁶ On the fifth day Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, chief of the children of Simeon:

³ Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.

¹² And he who made his offering on the first day was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:

¹⁴ First the flag of the children of Judah went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.

¹⁸ Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron;

²⁰ And Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon;

¹⁰ And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah; ¹¹ And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz,

² The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers; ³ And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram; ⁴ And the son of Ram was Amminadab; and the son of Amminadab was Nahshon; and the son of Nahshon was Salmon; ⁵ And the son of Salmon by Rahab was Boaz; and the son of Boaz by Ruth was Obed; and the son of Obed was Jesse;

³² The son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

⁵ And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief.

¹⁸ On the second day Nethanel, the son of Zuar, chief of Issachar, made his offering:

¹⁵ And at the head of the army of the children of Issachar was Nethanel, the son of Zuar.

⁷ After him, the tribe of Zebulun, with Eliab, the son of Helon, as their chief.

²⁴ On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the children of Zebulun:

¹⁶ And at the head of the army of the children of Zebulun was Eliab, the son of Helon.

¹⁸ On the west side will be the flag of the children of Ephraim, with Elishama, the son of Ammihud, as their chief.

²⁰ And by him the tribe of Manasseh with Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, as their chief.

⁴⁸ On the seventh day Elishama, the son of Ammihud, chief of the children of Ephraim:

⁵⁴ On the eighth day Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, chief of the children of Manasseh:

²² Then the flag of the children of Ephraim went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elishama, the son of Ammihud. ²³ At the head of the army of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.

²⁶ Ladan was his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, ²⁷ Nun his son, Joshua his son.

²² Then the tribe of Benjamin, with Abidan, the son of Gideoni, as their chief.

⁶⁰ On the ninth day Abidan, the son of Gideoni, chief of the children of Benjamin:

²⁴ At the head of the army of the children of Benjamin was Abidan, the son of Gideoni.

²⁵ On the north side will be the flag of the children of Dan, with Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, as their chief.

⁶⁶ On the tenth day Ahiezer; the son of Ammishaddai, chief of the children of Dan:

²⁵ And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.

²⁷ Nearest to him will be the tribe of Asher, with Pagiel, the son of Ochran, as their chief.

⁷² On the eleventh day Pagiel, the son of Ochran, chief of the children of Asher:

²⁶ At the head of the army of the children of Asher was Pagiel, the son of Ochran.

¹⁴ Then the tribe of Gad, with Eliasaph, son of Reuel, as their chief.

⁴² On the sixth day Eliasaph, the son of Reuel, chief of the children of Gad:

²⁰ At the head of the army of the children of Gad was Eliasaph, the son of Reuel.

²⁹ Then the tribe of Naphtali, with Ahira, the son of Enan, as their chief.

⁷⁸ On the twelfth day Ahira, the son of Enan, chief of the children of Naphtali:

²⁷ And at the head of the army of the children of Naphtali was Ahira, the son of Enan.

⁴ And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house.

² Then the chiefs of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, made offerings; these were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were numbered.

¹⁷ And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.

² And came before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty chiefs of the people, men of good name who had a place in the meeting of the people.

⁹ And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against Moses and Aaron and against the Lord:

¹⁵ And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

⁷ Then Saul said to his servants who were there about him, Give ear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give to every one of you fields and vine-gardens, will he make you all captains of hundreds and captains of thousands;

²³ So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.

² And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

⁵ These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur; ⁶ From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai; ⁷ From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab; ⁸ From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar; ⁹ From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon; ¹⁰ Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, ¹¹ From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni; ¹² From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai; ¹³ From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran; ¹⁴ From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel; ¹⁵ From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan.

³ The porter lets him in; and the sheep give ear to his voice; he says over the names of the sheep, and takes them out.

⁴ And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel. ⁵ Of the tribe of Judah were marked twelve thousand: of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand: of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand: ⁶ Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand: of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand: of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand: ⁷ Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand: of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand: of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand: ⁸ Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand: of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand: of the tribe of Benjamin were marked twelve thousand. ⁹ After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands, ¹⁰ Saying with a loud voice, Salvation to our God who is seated on the high seat, and to the Lamb. ¹¹ And all the angels were round about the high seat, and about the rulers and the four beasts; and they went down on their faces before the high seat, and gave worship to God, saying, ¹² So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it. ¹³ And one of the rulers made answer, saying to me, These who have on white robes, who are they, and where did they come from? ¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them. ¹⁶ They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun: ¹⁷ For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt,

⁵⁹ And these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer. But having no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain that they were Israelites;

⁶¹ All these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but because they had no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain if they were Israelites:

³ Being without father or mother, or family, having no birth or end to his life, being made like the Son of God, is a priest for ever.

⁶ But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking.

² Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;

¹ Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, ² Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel.

¹ Again the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and moving David against them, he said, Go, take the number of Israel and Judah. ² And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people. ³ And Joab said to the king, Whatever the number of the people, may the Lord make it a hundred times as much, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king take pleasure in doing this thing? ⁴ But the king's order was stronger than Joab and the captains of the army. And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the king, to take the number of the children of Israel. ⁵ And they went over Jordan, and starting from Aroer, from the town which is in the middle of the valley, they went in the direction of the Gadites, and on to Jazer; ⁶ Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of the Hittites under Hermon; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they came round to Zidon, ⁷ And to the walled town of Tyre, and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba. ⁸ So after going through all the land in every direction, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. ⁹ And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand. ¹⁰ And after the people had been numbered, David's heart was troubled. And David said to the Lord, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, O Lord, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly

³² And Leah was with child, and gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Reuben: for she said, The Lord has seen my sorrow; now my husband will have love for me.

⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi;

³ Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power: ⁴ But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.

¹⁰ On the south side is the flag of the children of Reuben, in the order of their armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as their chief. ¹¹ The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five hundred.

⁵ Reuben, the first son of Israel: the sons of Reuben by their families: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: ⁶ Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. ⁷ These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

¹ And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, {\I for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest.

⁷ These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

³³ Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon.

²⁵ But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death. ²⁶ And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away. ²⁷ And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister; ²⁸ They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields, ²⁹ And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste. ³⁰ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

²⁴ And turning away from them, he was overcome with weeping; then he went on talking to them again and took Simeon and put chains on him before their eyes.

¹⁰ And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan;

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs. ⁶ Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.

¹² And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, as their chief. ¹³ The number of his army was fifty-nine thousand, three hundred.

¹² The sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites: ¹³ Of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. ¹⁴ These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand, two hundred.

¹³ The number of his army was fifty-nine thousand, three hundred.

⁸ And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel. ⁹ But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

¹⁴ These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand, two hundred.

¹⁰ And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son. ¹¹ And Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him the name Gad.

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

¹⁹ Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight.

¹⁴ Then the tribe of Gad, with Eliasaph, son of Reuel, as their chief. ¹⁵ The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty.

¹⁵ The sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites: ¹⁶ Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites: ¹⁷ Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites. ¹⁸ These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred.

¹⁵ The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty.

¹⁸ These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred.

³⁵ And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.

¹² And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

⁸ To you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand will be on the neck of your haters; your father's sons will go down to the earth before you. ⁹ Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken? ¹⁰ The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule. ¹¹ Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes: ¹² His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

³ Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief. ⁴ The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred.

¹⁹ The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites. ²¹ And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. ²² These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred.

² Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright was Joseph's:}

¹⁴ This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war; ¹⁵ Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand; ¹⁶ After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war;

² The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;

²² These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred.

¹⁸ Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar.

¹³ And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah and Job and Shimron;

¹⁴ Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks: ¹⁵ And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.

⁵ And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief. ⁶ The number of his army was fifty-four thousand, four hundred.

²³ No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done! ²⁴ See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death. ²⁵ Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on them, at all events do not give them a blessing.

²³ The sons of Issachar by their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Puvah, the family of the Punites: ²⁴ Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. ²⁵ These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered, sixty-four thousand, three hundred.

⁶ The number of his army was fifty-four thousand, four hundred.

²⁵ These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered, sixty-four thousand, three hundred.

²⁰ And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun.

¹⁴ And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel;

¹³ The resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he will be a harbour for ships; the edge of his land will be by Zidon.

⁷ After him, the tribe of Zebulun, with Eliab, the son of Helon, as their chief. ⁸ The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four hundred.

²⁶ The sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. ²⁷ These are the families of the Zebulunites as they were numbered, sixty thousand, five hundred.

⁸ The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four hundred.

²⁷ These are the families of the Zebulunites as they were numbered, sixty thousand, five hundred.

²⁴ And she gave him the name Joseph, saying, May the Lord give me another son.

¹ Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan. ² These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them. ³ Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him. ⁴ And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him. ⁵ Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever. ⁶ And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream. ⁷ We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine. ⁸ And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever. ⁹ Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me. ¹⁰ And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you? ¹¹ And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind. ¹² Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem. ¹³ And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I. ¹⁴ And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. ¹⁵ And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for? ¹⁶ And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock. ¹⁷ And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan. ¹⁸ But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death; ¹⁹ Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer. ²⁰ Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams. ²¹ But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not take his life. ²² Do not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed in one of the holes; this he said to keep him safe from their hands, with the purpose of taking him back to his father again. ²³ So when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his long coat which he had on; ²⁴ And they took him and put him in the hole: now the hole had no water in it. ²⁵ Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their camels. ²⁶ And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there in putting our brother to death and covering up his blood? ²⁷ Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him. ²⁸ And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt. ²⁹ Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of grief, ³⁰ He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do? ³¹ Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death, ³² And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not? ³³ And he saw that it was, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has put him to death; without doubt Joseph has come to a cruel end. ³⁴ Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day. ³⁵ And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him. ³⁶ And in Egypt the men of Midian gave him for a price to Potiphar, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house.

¹ Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. ² And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian. ³ And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well. ⁴ And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had. ⁵ And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field. ⁶ And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face. ⁷ And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover. ⁸ But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control; ⁹ So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God? ¹⁰ And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her. ¹¹ Now one day he went into the house to do his work; and not one of the men of the house was inside. ¹² And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away. ¹³ And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat, ¹⁴ She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry; ¹⁵ And hearing it he went running out without his coat. ¹⁶ And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back. ¹⁷ Then she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you have taken into our house came in to make sport of me; ¹⁸ And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat. ¹⁹ And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry. ²⁰ And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house. ²¹ But the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and made the keeper of the prison his friend. ²² And the keeper of the prison put all the prisoners under Joseph's control, and he was responsible for whatever was done there. ²³ And the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything which was under his care, because the Lord was with him; and the Lord made everything he did go well.

²⁰ And Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On.

¹ Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim. ² And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed. ³ And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing, ⁴ And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever. ⁵ And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are. ⁶ And any other offspring which you have after them, will be yours, and will be named after their brothers in their heritage. ⁷ And as for me, when I came from Paddan, death overtook Rachel on the way, when we were still some distance from Ephrath; and I put her to rest there on the road to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. ⁸ Then Israel, looking at Joseph's sons, said, Who are these? ⁹ And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this land. And he said, Let them come near me, and I will give them a blessing. ¹⁰ Now because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear, and he was not able to see. So he made them come near to him, and he gave them a kiss, folding them in his arms. ¹¹ And Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your face again, but God in his mercy has let me see you and your children. ¹² Then Joseph took them from between his knees, and went down on his face to the earth. ¹³ Then taking Ephraim with his right hand, Joseph put him at Israel's left side, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Israel's right side, placing them near him. ¹⁴ And Israel, stretching out his right hand, put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands on purpose, for Manasseh was the older. ¹⁵ And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day, ¹⁶ The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth. ¹⁷ Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh. ¹⁸ And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head. ¹⁹ But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations. ²⁰ So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before Manasseh. ²¹ Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers. ²² And I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem as your heritage, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.

²² Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain; ²³ He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him: ²⁴ But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel: ²⁵ Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body: ²⁶ Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers.

¹⁸ On the west side will be the flag of the children of Ephraim, with Elishama, the son of Ammihud, as their chief. ¹⁹ The number of his army was forty thousand, five hundred.

³⁵ These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites: of Becher, the family of the Becherites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. ³⁶ And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites: ³⁷ These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.

¹⁷ He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.

⁵ And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.

¹⁹ The number of his army was forty thousand, five hundred.

³⁷ These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.

²⁸ The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. ²⁹ The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir was the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites. ³⁰ These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites: ³¹ And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites: ³² And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. ³³ And Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, had no sons, but only daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ³⁴ These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred.

¹⁹ But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations. ²⁰ So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

²¹ The number of his army was thirty-two thousand, two hundred.

³⁴ These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred.

¹⁶ So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time. ¹⁷ And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son. ¹⁸ And in the hour when her life went from her for death came to her, she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.

²⁰ And we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young child, whom he had when he was old; his brother is dead and he is the only son of his mother, and is very dear to his father.

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

²⁷ Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken.

³⁸ The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites: ³⁹ Of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites: and of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. ⁴⁰ And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. ⁴¹ These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six hundred.

¹⁷ And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;

⁸ Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand: of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand: of the tribe of Benjamin were marked twelve thousand.

²³ The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four hundred.

⁴¹ These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six hundred.

⁴⁴ Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin came to their death, all strong men of war. ⁴⁵ And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five thousand of them were cut off by the men of Israel, who, pushing on hard after them to Geba, put to death two thousand more. ⁴⁶ So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of war.

⁵ And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son. ⁶ Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan.

²³ And the son of Dan was Hushim.

¹⁶ Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall.

⁴² These are the sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan by their families. ⁴³ All the families of the Shuhamites, as they were numbered, were sixty-four thousand, four hundred.

²⁶ The number of his army was sixty-two thousand, seven hundred.

⁴³ All the families of the Shuhamites, as they were numbered, were sixty-four thousand, four hundred.

¹² And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a second son. ¹³ And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.

²⁷ And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.

²⁰ Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings.

⁴⁴ The sons of Asher by their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites: of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. ⁴⁵ Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites: ⁴⁶ And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. ⁴⁷ These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred.

²⁸ The number of his army was forty-one thousand, five hundred;

⁴⁷ These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred.

⁷ And again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and gave birth to a second son. ⁸ And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali.

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

²¹ Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones.

⁴⁸ The sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites: ⁴⁹ Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. ⁵⁰ These are the families of Naphtali by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, four hundred.

³⁰ The number of his army was fifty-three thousand, four hundred.

⁵⁰ These are the families of Naphtali by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, four hundred.

² Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name; ³ All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron. ⁴ And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house. ⁵ These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur; ⁶ From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai; ⁷ From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab; ⁸ From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar; ⁹ From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon; ¹⁰ Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, ¹¹ From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni; ¹² From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai; ¹³ From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran; ¹⁴ From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel; ¹⁵ From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan. ¹⁶ These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel.

⁶⁴ But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.

² And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

¹⁶ And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

⁵ And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

⁶ I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

¹⁷ That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

³ Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

¹⁴ Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

³ And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there: ⁴ I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.

³⁷ And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.

³² These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

¹⁰ Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!

⁵¹ Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

²² Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.

²⁰ Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.

⁵ And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

³ And Abijah went out to the fight with an army of men of war, four hundred thousand of his best men; and Jeroboam put his forces in line against him, eight hundred thousand of his best men of war.

¹⁴ This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war; ¹⁵ Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand; ¹⁶ After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war; ¹⁷ And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers; ¹⁸ And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war. ¹⁹ These were the men who were waiting on the king, in addition to those placed by the king in the walled towns through all Judah.

¹¹ And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word; ¹² So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.

⁴ And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel. ⁵ Of the tribe of Judah were marked twelve thousand: of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand: of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand: ⁶ Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand: of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand: of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand: ⁷ Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand: of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand: of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand: ⁸ Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand: of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand: of the tribe of Benjamin were marked twelve thousand. ⁹ After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,

³ All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron.

⁵⁰ But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it.

³³ But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

¹ Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai. ² These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ³ These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests. ⁴ And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father. ⁵ And the Lord said to Moses, ⁶ Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers, ⁷ In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House; ⁸ And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House. ⁹ Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be his without question from among the children of Israel. ¹⁰ And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death. ¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹² See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; ¹³ For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put to death all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I took for myself every first male birth of man and beast. They are mine; I am the Lord. ¹⁴ And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, ¹⁵ Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered. ¹⁶ So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered. ¹⁷ These were the sons of Levi by name: 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: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel. ²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses. ²¹ From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites. ²² Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were seven thousand, five hundred. ²³ The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west. ²⁴ The chief of the Gershonites is Eliasaph, the son of Lael. ²⁵ In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting, ²⁶ And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use. ²⁷ From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites. ²⁸ Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place. ²⁹ The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House. ³⁰ Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel. ³¹ In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for. ³² Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of the holy place. ³³ From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari. ³⁴ Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred. ³⁵ The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihail: their tents are to be placed on the north side of the House. ³⁶ And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for, ³⁷ And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords. ³⁸ And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death. ³⁹ All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand. ⁴⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male children be numbered, and take the number of their names. ⁴¹ And give to me the Levites I am the Lord in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of the first births among the cattle of the children of Israel. ⁴² So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him. ⁴³ Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three. ⁴⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, ⁴⁵ Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord. ⁴⁶ And the price you have to give for the two hundred and seventy-three first sons of the children of Israel which are in addition to the number of the Levites, ⁴⁷ Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place the shekel is twenty gerahs; ⁴⁸ And this money, the price of those over the number of the Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his sons. ⁴⁹ So Moses took the money, the price of those whose place had not been taken by the Levites;

¹ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ² Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ⁴ And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things. ⁵ When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with his sons, and take down the veil of the curtain, covering the ark of witness with it; ⁶ And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place. ⁷ And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them; ⁸ And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places. ⁹ And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it: ¹⁰ All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame. ¹¹ On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places. ¹² All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame. ¹³ And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it; ¹⁴ Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets, the meat-hooks, the spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; they are to put a leather cover over all these, and put its rods in their places. ¹⁵ And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death. ¹⁶ And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care. ¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ¹⁸ Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites; ¹⁹ But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up; ²⁰ But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place, even for a minute, for fear of death. ²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ²² Let the sons of Gershon be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ²³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ²⁴ This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up. ²⁵ They are to take up the curtains of the House, and the Tent of meeting with its cover and the leather cover over it, and the hangings for the door of the Tent of meeting; ²⁶ And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do. ²⁷ From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders. ²⁸ This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. ²⁹ The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ³⁰ Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ³¹ And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases; ³² And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name. ³³ This is the work which the sons of Merari are to do in connection with the Tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. ³⁴ So Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people took in hand the numbering of the sons of the Kohathites, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ³⁵ Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting; ³⁶ And the number of all these was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty. ³⁷ This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ³⁸ And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by families, ³⁹ All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting, ⁴⁰ Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty. ⁴¹ This is the number of the sons of Gershon who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ⁴² And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses, ⁴³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who did the work in the Tent of meeting, ⁴⁴ Who were numbered by families, were three thousand, two hundred. ⁴⁵ This is the number of the sons of Merari, numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ⁴⁶ And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses, ⁴⁷ Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport, ⁴⁸ Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty. ⁴⁹ At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses, every one in relation to his work and to his part in the transport; so they were numbered by Moses at the order of the Lord.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support. ³ And Aaron did so; he put the lights in their places so that they gave light in front of the support, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. ⁴ The support for the lights was of hammered gold work, from its base to its flowers it was of hammered work; from the design which the Lord had given to Moses, he made the support for the lights. ⁵ And the Lord said to Moses, ⁶ Take the Levites out from among the children of Israel and make them clean. ⁷ And this is how you are to make them clean: let the holy water which takes away sin be put on them, and let the hair all over their bodies be cut off with a sharp blade, and let their clothing be washed and their bodies made clean. ⁸ Then let them take a young ox and its meal offering, crushed grain mixed with oil, and take another ox for a sin-offering. ⁹ And make the Levites come forward in front of the Tent of meeting, and let all the children of Israel come together: ¹⁰ And you are to take the Levites before the Lord: and the children of Israel are to put their hands on them: ¹¹ And Aaron is to give the Levites to the Lord as a wave offering from the children of Israel, so that they may do the Lord's work. ¹² And the Levites are to put their hands on the heads of the oxen, and one of the oxen is to be offered for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering to the Lord to take away the sin of the Levites. ¹³ Then the Levites are to be put before Aaron and his sons, to be offered as a wave offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine. ¹⁵ After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering. ¹⁶ For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself. ¹⁷ For every mother's first son among the children of Israel is mine, the first male birth of man or beast: on the day when I sent death on all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I made them mine. ¹⁸ And in place of the first sons among the children of Israel, I have taken the Levites. ¹⁹ And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from among the children of Israel, to undertake for them all the work of the Tent of meeting, and to take away sin from the children of Israel so that no evil may come on them when they come near the holy place. ²⁰ All these things Moses and Aaron and the children of Israel did to the Levites; as the Lord gave orders to Moses about the Levites, so the children of Israel did. ²¹ And the Levites were made clean from sin, and their clothing was washed, and Aaron gave them for a wave offering before the Lord; and Aaron took away their sin and made them clean. ²² And then the Levites went in to do their work in the Tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons: all the orders which the Lord had given Moses about the Levites were put into effect. ²³ And the Lord said to Moses, ²⁴ This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting; ²⁵ But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up their work and do no more; ²⁶ But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in connection with the Levites and their work.

⁵⁷ These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. ⁵⁸ These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram. ⁵⁹ Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam. ⁶⁰ Aaron's sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ⁶¹ Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord. ⁶² Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.

¹ The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ² And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ³ And the sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ⁴ Eleazar was the father of Phinehas; Phinehas was the father of Abishua; ⁵ And Abishua was the father of Bukki, and Bukki was the father of Uzzi, ⁶ And Uzzi was the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah was the father of Meraioth; ⁷ Meraioth was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub, ⁸ And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz, ⁹ And Ahimaaz was the father of Azariah, and Azariah was the father of Johanan, ¹⁰ And Johanan was the father of Azariah, he was priest in the house which Solomon put up in Jerusalem: ¹¹ And Azariah was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub, ¹² And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Shallum, ¹³ And Shallum was the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah was the father of Azariah, ¹⁴ And Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak; ¹⁵ And Jehozadak went as a prisoner when the Lord took away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. ¹⁶ The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁷ And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ¹⁹ The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers. ²⁰ Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, ²¹ Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. ²² The 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 the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth. ²⁶ Elkanah his son: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son, ²⁷ Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son, Samuel his son. ²⁸ And the sons of Samuel: the oldest Joel, and the second Abiah. ²⁹ The 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 those whom David made responsible for the music in the house of the Lord, after the ark had rest. ³² They gave worship with songs before the House of the Tent of meeting, till Solomon put up the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they took their places for their work in their regular order. ³³ And these are those who did this work, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman, who made melody, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, ³⁴ The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, ³⁵ The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, ³⁶ The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, ³⁷ The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, ³⁸ The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. ³⁹ And his brother Asaph, whose place was at his right hand, Asaph, the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea, ⁴⁰ The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, ⁴¹ The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, ⁴² The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, ⁴³ The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. ⁴⁴ And on the left their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan, the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, ⁴⁵ The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, ⁴⁶ The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, ⁴⁷ The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. ⁴⁸ And their brothers the Levites were responsible for all the work of the Tent of the house of God. ⁴⁹ But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burned offering, and on the altar of perfume, for all the work of the most holy place, and to take away the sin of Israel, doing everything ordered by Moses, the servant of God. ⁵⁰ And these are the 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 Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection, ⁵⁵ To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah; ⁵⁶ But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. ⁵⁷ And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts, ⁵⁸ And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts, ⁵⁹ And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts; ⁶⁰ And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns. ⁶¹ And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh. ⁶² And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen towns. ⁶³ And to the sons of Merari, by their families, twelve towns were given by the Lord's decision, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. ⁶⁴ And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts. ⁶⁵ And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given. ⁶⁶ And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim. ⁶⁷ And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts, ⁶⁸ And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts, ⁶⁹ And Aijalon with its outskirts, and Gath-rimmon with its outskirts; ⁷⁰ And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its outskirts, and Bileam with its outskirts, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath. ⁷¹ To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and Ashtaroth with its outskirts; ⁷² And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its outskirts, and Daberath with its outskirts, ⁷³ And Ramoth with its outskirts, and Anem with its outskirts; ⁷⁴ And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its outskirts, and Abdon with its outskirts, ⁷⁵ And Hukok with its outskirts, and Rehob with its outskirts; ⁷⁶ And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts. ⁷⁷ To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its outskirts, Tabor with its outskirts; ⁷⁸ And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts, ⁷⁹ And Kedemoth with its outskirts, and Mephaath with its outskirts; ⁸⁰ And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its outskirts, and Mahanaim with its outskirts, ⁸¹ And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.

⁶ But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.

⁶² Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.

¹⁸ And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

²⁶ Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him. ²⁷ And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour. ²⁸ And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day. ²⁹ And Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to the Lord this day; for every one of you has made the offering of his son and his brother; the blessing of the Lord is on you this day.

²¹ This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

⁵³ But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.

¹⁷ Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag.

¹ Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai. ² These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ³ These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests. ⁴ And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father. ⁵ And the Lord said to Moses, ⁶ Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers, ⁷ In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House; ⁸ And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House. ⁹ Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be his without question from among the children of Israel. ¹⁰ And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.

²³ The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west. ²⁴ The chief of the Gershonites is Eliasaph, the son of Lael. ²⁵ In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting, ²⁶ And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use. ²⁷ From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites. ²⁸ Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place. ²⁹ The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House. ³⁰ Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel. ³¹ In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for. ³² Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of the holy place. ³³ From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari. ³⁴ Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred. ³⁵ The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihail: their tents are to be placed on the north side of the House. ³⁶ And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for, ³⁷ And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords. ³⁸ And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death.

¹⁵ And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.

²⁵ They are to take up the curtains of the House, and the Tent of meeting with its cover and the leather cover over it, and the hangings for the door of the Tent of meeting; ²⁶ And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do. ²⁷ From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders. ²⁸ This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. ²⁹ The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ³⁰ Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ³¹ And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases; ³² And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name. ³³ This is the work which the sons of Merari are to do in connection with the Tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

²¹ Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.

¹¹ And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows with his rod: and water came streaming out, and the people and their cattle had drink enough.

¹ Now David was old and full of days; and he made his son Solomon king over Israel. ² And he got together all the chiefs of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. ³ And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. ⁴ Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were judges and men of authority; ⁵ Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise. ⁶ And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ⁷ Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei. ⁸ The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham and Joel, three. ⁹ The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran, three; these were the heads of the families of Ladan. ¹⁰ And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zizah and Jeush and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei. ¹¹ Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah had only a small number of sons, so they were grouped together as one family. ¹² The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. ¹³ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was made separate and holy, he and his sons for ever, for the care of the most holy things and the burning of offerings before the Lord, to do his work and give blessings in his name for ever. ¹⁴ And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were put into the list of the tribe of Levi. ¹⁵ The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. ¹⁶ The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the first. ¹⁷ And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the first; and Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had a great number. ¹⁸ The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the first. ¹⁹ The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. ²⁰ The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first, and Isshiah the second. ²¹ The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. ²² And at his death Eleazar had no sons, but only daughters, and their relations, the sons of Kish, took them as wives. ²³ The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, three. ²⁴ These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord. ²⁵ For David said, The Lord, the God of Israel, has given his people rest, and he has made his resting-place in Jerusalem for ever; ²⁶ And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites. ²⁷ So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over. ²⁸ Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord, ²⁹ The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures; ³⁰ They had to take their places every morning to give praise and make melody to the Lord, and in the same way at evening; ³¹ At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts, in the number ordered by the law, at all times before the Lord; ³² And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.

¹ Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the holy place made selection of certain of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun for the work of prophets, to make melody with corded instruments and brass; and the number of the men for the work they had to do was: ² Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur and Joseph and Nethaniah and Asharelah, sons of Asaph; under the direction of Asaph, acting as a prophet under the orders of the king; ³ Of Jeduthun: the six sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah and Mattithiah; under the direction of their father Jeduthun who, acting as a prophet, with corded instruments gave praise and glory to the Lord. ⁴ Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth; ⁵ All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. ⁶ All these, under the direction of their father, made music in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments, for the worship of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the orders of the king. ⁷ And the number of them, with their brothers who were trained and expert in making melody to the Lord, was two hundred and eighty-eight. ⁸ And selection was made of them for their special work, all having equal chances, small as well as great, the teacher as the learner. ⁹ Now of the group of Asaph, the first name to come out was Joseph; the second Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve? ¹⁰ The third Zaccur, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ¹¹ The fourth Izri, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ¹² The fifth Nethaniah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ¹³ The sixth Bukkiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ¹⁴ The seventh Jesharelah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ¹⁵ The eighth Jeshaiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ¹⁶ The ninth Mattaniah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ¹⁷ The tenth Shimei, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ¹⁸ The eleventh Azarel, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ¹⁹ The twelfth Hashabiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²⁰ The thirteenth Shubael, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²¹ The fourteenth Mattithiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²² The fifteenth Jeremoth, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²³ The sixteenth Hananiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²⁴ The seventeenth Joshbekashah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²⁵ The eighteenth Hanani, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²⁶ The nineteenth Mallothi, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

²⁵ And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given: ²⁶ Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold, ²⁷ And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold. ²⁸ And I said to them, You are holy to the Lord and the vessels are holy: and the silver and the gold are an offering freely given to the Lord, the God of your fathers. ²⁹ Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord. ³⁰ So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.

³³ And on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were measured out by weight in the house of our God into the hands of Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the priest; and with him was Eleazar, the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad, the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah, the son of Binnui, the Levites; ³⁴ All was handed over by number and by weight: and the weight was put on record at that time.

⁸ And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the music-makers, he and his brothers.

²² The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were listed as heads of families; and the priests, when Darius the Persian was king.

⁴⁷ And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day: and they made the offerings holy for the Levites; and the Levites did the same for the sons of Aaron.

⁵ Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.

¹⁰ And I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support; so that the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field. ¹¹ Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places. ¹² Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses. ¹³ And I made controllers over the store-houses, Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and with them was Hanan, the son of Zaccur the son of Mattaniah: they were taken to be true men and their business was the distribution of these things to their brothers.

²² And I gave the Levites orders to make themselves clean and come and keep the doors and make the Sabbath holy. Keep this in mind to my credit, O my God, and have mercy on me, for great is your mercy.

⁴ To which the tribes went up, even the tribes of the Lord, for a witness to Israel, to give praise to the name of the Lord.

¹⁰ No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment. ¹¹ But any person for whom the priest has given money, to make him his, may take of it with him; and those who come to birth in his house may take of his bread. ¹² And if the daughter of a priest is married to an outside person she may not take of the holy things which are lifted up as offerings. ¹³ But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or parted from her husband, and has no child, and has come back to her father's house as when she was a girl, she may take of her father's bread; but no outside person may do so.

¹⁰ And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.

³⁸ And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ² Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ⁴ And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things. ⁵ When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with his sons, and take down the veil of the curtain, covering the ark of witness with it; ⁶ And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place. ⁷ And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them; ⁸ And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places. ⁹ And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it: ¹⁰ All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame. ¹¹ On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places. ¹² All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame. ¹³ And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it; ¹⁴ Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets, the meat-hooks, the spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; they are to put a leather cover over all these, and put its rods in their places. ¹⁵ And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death. ¹⁶ And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care. ¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ¹⁸ Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites; ¹⁹ But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up; ²⁰ But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place, even for a minute, for fear of death. ²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ²² Let the sons of Gershon be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ²³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ²⁴ This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up.

¹¹ Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness.

¹⁷ Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were responsible for moving the House, went forward. ¹⁸ Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elizur, the son of Shedeur. ¹⁹ And at the head of the army of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai. ²⁰ At the head of the army of the children of Gad was Eliasaph, the son of Reuel. ²¹ Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.

⁴⁰ To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children of Israel, that no man who is not of the seed of Aaron has the right of burning spices before the Lord, so that he may not be like Korah and his band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth of Moses.

²² In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.

¹⁹ But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.

⁷ And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.

² The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses, facing the Tent of meeting on every side.

³⁴ So the children of Israel did as the Lord said to Moses, so they put up their tents by their flags, and they went forward in the same order, by their families, and by their fathers' houses.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents. ³ When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting. ⁴ If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you. ⁵ When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward. ⁶ At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward. ⁷ But when all the people are to come together, the horn is to be sounded but not loudly. ⁸ The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation. ⁹ And if you go to war in your land against any who do you wrong, then let the loud note of the horn be sounded; and the Lord your God will keep you in mind and give you salvation from those who are against you. ¹⁰ And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God. ¹¹ Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness. ¹² And the children of Israel went on their journey out of the waste land of Sinai; and the cloud came to rest in the waste land of Paran. ¹³ They went forward for the first time on their journey as the Lord had given orders by the hand of Moses. ¹⁴ First the flag of the children of Judah went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab. ¹⁵ And at the head of the army of the children of Issachar was Nethanel, the son of Zuar. ¹⁶ And at the head of the army of the children of Zebulun was Eliab, the son of Helon. ¹⁷ Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were responsible for moving the House, went forward. ¹⁸ Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elizur, the son of Shedeur. ¹⁹ And at the head of the army of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai. ²⁰ At the head of the army of the children of Gad was Eliasaph, the son of Reuel. ²¹ Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming. ²² Then the flag of the children of Ephraim went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elishama, the son of Ammihud. ²³ At the head of the army of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur. ²⁴ At the head of the army of the children of Benjamin was Abidan, the son of Gideoni. ²⁵ And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai. ²⁶ At the head of the army of the children of Asher was Pagiel, the son of Ochran. ²⁷ And at the head of the army of the children of Naphtali was Ahira, the son of Enan. ²⁸ This was the order in which the children of Israel were journeying by armies; so they went forward. ²⁹ Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel. ³⁰ But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the land of my birth and to my relations. ³¹ And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents. ³² And if you come with us, we will give you a part in whatever good the Lord does for us. ³³ So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for them; ³⁴ And by day the cloud of the Lord went over them, when they went forward from the place where they had put up their tents. ³⁵ And when the ark went forward Moses said, Come up, O Lord, and let the armies of those who are against you be broken, and let your haters go in flight before you. ³⁶ And when it came to rest, he said, Take rest, O Lord, and give a blessing to the families of Israel.

² And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel there, with their tents in the order of their tribes: and the spirit of God came on him.

⁶ And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, Do not let your hair be loose, and give no signs of grief; so that death may not overtake you, and his wrath come on all the people; but let there be weeping among your brothers and all the house of Israel for this burning of the Lord's fire.

⁷ In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House; ⁸ And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.

¹⁹ And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from among the children of Israel, to undertake for them all the work of the Tent of meeting, and to take away sin from the children of Israel so that no evil may come on them when they come near the holy place.

⁴⁶ And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting.

² Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness. ³ They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you. ⁴ They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of any other family may come near you. ⁵ You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.

³⁰ And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.

⁴⁷ Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

³² And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.

¹⁰ But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not been turned away from him; we have priests who do the work of the Lord, even the sons of Aaron and the Levites in their places;

³¹ The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

¹⁵ So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.

²⁸ Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood. ²⁹ I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock; ³⁰ And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them. ³¹ So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.

¹³ Till I come, give attention to the reading of the holy Writings, to comforting the saints, and to teaching. ¹⁴ Make use of that grace in you, which was given to you by the word of the prophets, when the rulers of the church put their hands on you. ¹⁵ Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward. ¹⁶ Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.

² Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;

²¹ Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him. ²² But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.

³² So all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting was done; as the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did it.

⁴³ Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his blessing.

¹⁶ And Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he did.

³² Whenever they went into the Tent of meeting, and when they came near the altar, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

³² You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.

²² And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.

²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.