Numbers 32 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle; and they saw the land of Ya’zer, and the land of Gil’ad, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle. ² And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came, and said unto Moses, and unto Elazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, as followeth, ³ ‘Ataroth, and Dibon, and Ya’zer, and Nimrah, and Cheshbon, and El’aleh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Be’on, ⁴ The country which the Lord hath smitten before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and thy servants have cattle. ⁵ And they said, If we have found grace in thy eyes, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession: do not compel us to go over the Jordan. ⁶ And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and unto the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to the war, and will ye sit here? ⁷ And wherefore will you turn aside the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them? ⁸ Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea’ to see the land. ⁹ For they went up as far as the valley of Eshcol, and they saw the land, and then they turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, so that they would not go into the land which the Lord had given them. ¹⁰ And the anger of the Lord was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying, ¹¹ Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: ¹² Save Caleb the son of Yephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; for they have wholly followed the Lord. ¹³ And the anger of the Lord was thus kindled against Israel, and he made them wander about in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation was spent, that had done the evil in the eyes of the Lord. ¹⁴ And now, behold, ye are risen up in your father’s stead, a new race of sinful men, to augment yet more the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel. ¹⁵ For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet longer leave them in the wilderness; and ye will thus be destruction to all this people. ¹⁶ And they came near unto him, and said, Sheepfolds will we build for our cattle here, and cities for our little ones; ¹⁷ But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until that we have brought them unto their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities, because of the inhabitants of the land. ¹⁸ We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have acquired for themselves every man his inheritance. ¹⁹ For we will not take possession with them on the other side of the Jordan, and farther on: when our inheritance hath come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward. ²⁰ And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will arm yourselves before the Lord for the war; ²¹ And every armed man of you will go over the Jordan before the Lord, until he have driven out his enemies from before him; ²² And when, only after the land hath been subdued before the Lord, ye will return, and ye be thus guiltless before the Lord, and before Israel: then shall this land be yours for a possession before the Lord. ²³ But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord; and ye shall experience the punishment of your sin which will overtake you. ²⁴ Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and folds for your flocks; and that which hath proceeded out of your mouth shall ye do. ²⁵ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said unto Moses, as followeth, Thy servants will do as my Lord commandeth. ²⁶ Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall remain there in the cities of Gil’ad; ²⁷ But thy servants will pass over, every one that is armed for the army, before the Lord, to the war, as my Lord speaketh. ²⁸ And Moses commanded concerning them Elazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chiefs of the families of the tribes of the children of Israel; ²⁹ And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben do pass with you over the Jordan, every one that is armed for the war, before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you: then shall ye give to them the land of Gil’ad for a possession; ³⁰ But if they should not pass over armed with you, they shall take possessions among you in the land of Canaan. ³¹ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, That which the Lord hath spoken concerning thy servants, even so will we do. ³² We will indeed pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, while ours remaineth the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan. ³³ And Moses gave unto them, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Menasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sichon, the king of the Emorites, and the kingdom of ‘Og, the king of Bashan, the land, with its cities within the boundaries, the cities of the country round about. ³⁴ And the children of Gad built Dibon, and ‘Ataroth, and ‘Aro’er, ³⁵ And ‘Atroth-shophan, and Ya’zer, and Yogbehah. ³⁶ And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for flocks, ³⁷ And the children of Reuben built Cheshbon, and El’aleh, and Kiryathayim, ³⁸ And Nebo, and Ba’al-me’on their names being changed, and Shibmah; and they gave the former names unto the cities which they built. ³⁹ And the children of Machir the son of Menasseh went to Gil’ad, and conquered it, and dispossessed the Emorites who were in it. ⁴⁰ And Moses gave Gil’ad unto Machir the son of Menasseh; and he dwelt therein. ⁴¹ And Yair the son of Menasseh went and conquered the small towns thereof, and called them Chavoth-yair. ⁴² And Nobach went and conquered Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobach, after his own name.

² And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

⁵ And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere; before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, till thou comest unto Zoar. ¹¹ Then Lot chose himself all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves the one from the other.

³² And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, Surely, the Lord hath looked upon my affliction, because now my husband will love me.

¹⁰ And Zilpah Leah’s maid bore Jacob a son. ¹¹ And Leah said, Good luck hath come: and she called his name Gad.

⁴ They said moreover unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; because there is no pasture for the flocks of thy servants, for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan; and now let thy servants dwell, we pray thee, in the land of Goshen.

³⁸ And a mixed multitude also went up with them; and flocks, and herds, a very large amount of cattle.

¹⁰ The standard of the camp of Reuben shall be on the south side, according to their armies: and the prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. ¹¹ And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. ¹² And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of ‘Zurishaddai. ¹³ And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. ¹⁴ Then the tribe of Gad: and the prince of the sons of Gad shall be Elyassaph the son of Reuel. ¹⁵ And his host, and those who were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

³² And Moses sent to spy out Ya’zer, and they captured the villages thereof, and drove out the Emorites that were there.

⁵ Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben, of Chanoch, the family of the Chanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; ⁶ Of Chezron, the family of the Chezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. ⁷ These are the families of the Reubenites; and those that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

¹⁵ The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Chaggi, the family of the Chaggites; 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 children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

³ ‘Ataroth, and Dibon, and Ya’zer, and Nimrah, and Cheshbon, and El’aleh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Be’on,

²⁶ Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall remain there in the cities of Gil’ad;

³⁵ And ‘Atroth-shophan, and Ya’zer, and Yogbehah.

²⁵ And their territory was Ya’zer, and all the cities of Gil’ad, and half the land of the children of ‘Ammon, up to ‘Aro’er that is before Rabbah;

⁵ And they passed over the Jordan, and encamped in ‘Aro’er, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the valley of Gad, and toward Ya’zer:

⁸ For the fields of Cheshbon are withered, the vine of Sibmah—the lords of nations have beaten down its branches, they did reach as far as Ya’zer, into the wilderness did they wander; its tendrils were stretched forth, they passed over the sea. ⁹ Therefore will I weep, when weeping for Ya’zer, for the vine of Sibmah: I will moisten thee richly with my tears, O Cheshbon, and El’aleh; for over the gathering of thy summer fruits and over thy harvest the battle-cry is fallen.

¹⁹ And I will bring Israel back again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan: and upon the mountain of Ephraim and Gil’ad shall his soul be satisfied.

¹⁴ Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell in solitude in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gil’ad, as in the days of old.

²⁵ And Israel took all these cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Emorites, in Cheshbon, and in all the villages thereof. ²⁶ For Cheshbon was the city of Sichon the king of the Emorites; and he had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, up to the Arnon.

²⁸ For a fire is gone out of Cheshbon, a flame from the city of Sichon: it hath consumed ‘Ar-Moab, the men of the high places of the Arnon.

¹ Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle; and they saw the land of Ya’zer, and the land of Gil’ad, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle.

³⁴ And the children of Gad built Dibon, and ‘Ataroth, and ‘Aro’er, ³⁵ And ‘Atroth-shophan, and Ya’zer, and Yogbehah. ³⁶ And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for flocks, ³⁷ And the children of Reuben built Cheshbon, and El’aleh, and Kiryathayim, ³⁸ And Nebo, and Ba’al-me’on their names being changed, and Shibmah; and they gave the former names unto the cities which they built.

¹⁷ Cheshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-ba’al, and Beth-ba’al-me’on,

¹⁹ And Kiryathayim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-hashachar on the mount of the valley,

²⁶ And while Israel hath dwelt in Cheshbon and in its towns, and in ‘Ar’or and in its towns, and in all the cities that are along the margins of the Arnon, three hundred years: why did ye not recover them within that time?

²² Thou gavest them also kingdoms and nations, which thou didst divide into various corners: and they took possession of the land of Sichon, even the land of the king of Cheshbon, and the land of ‘Og the king of Bashan.

² It goeth up to the idol-house, and Dibon goeth up to the high-places to weep, on Nebo and on Medeba shall Moab wail: on all its heads there is baldness, and every beard is hewn off. ³ In its streets they are girded with sack-cloth, on its roofs, and in its public places every one shall wail, groan with weeping. ⁴ And loud crieth Cheshbon with El’aleh; as far as Yahaz is heard their voice: therefore the armed men of Moab shall howl; its soul is grieved for itself.

⁶ For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for dry is the grass, gone are the herbs, and green things are no more.

² There is no more praise of Moab: in Cheshbon have they devised evil against it, “Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation.” Also thou Madmen shalt be ruined; after thee shall pursue the sword.

²² And over Dibon, and over Nebo, and over Beth-diblathayim, ²³ And over Kiryathayim, and over Beth-gamul, and over Beth-me’on,

³² With the weeping of Ya’zer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah; thy tendrils once passed over the sea, they reached as far as to the sea of Ya’zer: over thy summer-fruits and over thy vintage the waster is fallen.

³⁴ From the loud cry of Cheshbon as far as El’aleh, even unto Yahaz, have they sent forth their voice, from Zo’ar even unto Choronayim, to the third ‘Eglath; for the waters also of Nimrim shall become desolate.

⁴⁵ Under the shadow of Cheshbon stand still, deprived of strength, those that flee; but a fire cometh forth out of Cheshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sichon, and it devoureth the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the children of vaunting.

²⁴ And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from Arnon unto Yabbok, even unto the children of ‘Ammon; for the border of the children of ‘Ammon was strong.

³⁴ And the Lord said unto Moses, Fear him not; for into thy hand have I delivered him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do unto him as thou hast done unto Sichon, the king of the Emorites, who dwelt at Cheshbon.

²⁴ Rise ye up, set forward, and pass over the brook Arnon; behold I have given into thy hand Sichon the king of Cheshbon, the Emorite, and his land: begin to drive him out, and contend with him in battle. ²⁵ This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven; whoever will hear the report of thee, shall tremble, and shall quake because of thee. ²⁶ And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sichon, the king of Cheshbon, with words of peace, saying, ²⁷ Let me pass through thy land: always by the highway will I go along; I will not turn unto the right hand or unto the left. ²⁸ Food shalt thou sell me for money, that I may eat; and water for money shalt thou give me, that I may drink: only let me pass through on foot; ²⁹ (As the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in ‘Ar, have done unto me:) until that I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us. ³⁰ But Sichon, the king of Cheshbon, would not suffer our passing by him; for the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and had made obstinate his heart, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as hath happened this day. ³¹ And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give up Sichon and his land before thee: begin to drive him out, that thou mayest inherit his land. ³² And Sichon came out against us, he and all his people, to the battle at Yahaz. ³³ And the Lord our God gave him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. ³⁴ And we conquered all his cities at that time, and devoted every inhabited city, and the women, and the little ones; we left none that escaped. ³⁵ Only the cattle we took as booty unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we had captured.

¹⁹ Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy eyes, and thou hast magnified thy kindness, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the evil overtake me, and I die.

³⁷ also with me was the Lord angry for your sakes, saying, also thou shalt not go in thither.

²⁵ Let me go over, I pray thee, that I may see the good land which is on the other side of the Jordan, this goodly mountain, and the Lebanon. ²⁶ But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and he would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; do not continue to speak unto me any more of this matter.

⁷ And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord Eternal, wherefore hast thou caused this people to pass over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Emorites, to destroy us? and oh! that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!

¹⁰ Thereupon she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thy eyes, that thou shouldst take cognizance of me, seeing I am but a stranger?

³ But David swore again, and said, Thy father well knoweth that I have found grace in thy eyes; wherefore he said, Jonathan must not know this, lest he be grieved: nevertheless, as truly as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there was but one step between me and death.

²² And Joab fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself, and blessed the king: and Joab said, Today is thy servant convinced that I have found grace in thy eyes, my Lord, O king; since the king hath acted in accordance with the word of thy servant.

² And it happened, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained grace in his eyes; and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand; and Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.

^{2 (31:1)} Thus hath said the Lord, The people of those that are escaped of the sword found grace in the wilderness,—even Israel, when it went to find rest.

¹¹ Then said Uriyah unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah abide in booths; and my Lord Joab and the servants of my Lord are encamped in the open field: and should I alone go unto my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

²⁷ And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou didst send us, and truly doth it flow with milk and honey; and this is its fruit.

⁴ And they set forward from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people became impatient because of the way.

⁹ For they went up as far as the valley of Eshcol, and they saw the land, and then they turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, so that they would not go into the land which the Lord had given them.

²⁸ Whither shall we go up? our brethren have made faint our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover the sons of the ‘Anakim have we seen there.

² Send thou out some men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: one man each of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send, every one who is a prince among them. ³ And Moses sent them out from the wilderness of Paran by the order of the Lord: they all were men, who were heads of the children of Israel. ⁴ And these are their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. ⁵ Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Chori. ⁶ Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Yephunneh. ⁷ Of the tribe of Issachar, Yigal 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, of the tribe of Menasseh, Gaddi the son of Sussi. 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, Nachbi the son of Vophsi. ¹⁵ Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. ¹⁶ These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua [Yehoshua’]. ¹⁷ And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and he said unto them, Go you up this way at the south side, and go up into the mountain; ¹⁸ And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they be strong or weak, whether they be few or many; ¹⁹ And what the land is on which they dwell, whether it be good or bad; and what the cities are in which they dwell, whether in open places, or in strongholds; ²⁰ And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be trees therein, or not; and take ye courage, and take away some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the season of the first ripening of grapes. ²¹ And they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rechob, on the road to Chamath. ²² And they ascended on the south side, and came unto Hebron; and there were Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of ‘Anak; now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. ²³ And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it upon a barrow between two; and they took some of the pomegranates and of the figs. ²⁴ That place was called the valley of Eshcol, on account of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there. ²⁵ And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. ²⁶ And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and they brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

² And all the people murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them, Oh who would grant that we had died in the land of Egypt! or that we might but die in this wilderness!

¹⁹ And we departed from Horeb, and we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye have seen, by the way of the mountain of the Emorites, as the Lord our God had commanded us; and we came as far as Kadesh-barnea’. ²⁰ And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Emorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. ²¹ Behold, the Lord thy God hath given up the land before thee: go up and take possession of it, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath spoken unto thee; do not fear, and be not discouraged. ²² And ye all came near unto me and said, Let us send out men before us, that they may search out for us the land, and bring us word again concerning the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come. ²³ And the thing was pleasing in my eyes; and I took of you twelve men, one man for every tribe: ²⁴ And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. ²⁵ And they took in their hand some of the fruit of the land, and brought it down unto us; and they brought us word again, and said, The land which the Lord our God doth give us is good.

⁶ And the children of Judah came near unto Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb the son of Yephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him, Thou well knowest the word which the Lord spoke unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thyself in Kadesh-barnea’. ⁷ Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea’ to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

²³ And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it upon a barrow between two; and they took some of the pomegranates and of the figs.

²⁴ And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. ²⁵ And they took in their hand some of the fruit of the land, and brought it down unto us; and they brought us word again, and said, The land which the Lord our God doth give us is good. ²⁶ But you would not go up, and ye rebelled against the order of the Lord your God; ²⁷ And ye murmured in your tents, and said, On account of the hatred of the Lord toward us, hath he brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Emorites, to destroy us. ²⁸ Whither shall we go up? our brethren have made faint our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover the sons of the ‘Anakim have we seen there.

¹¹ And the Lord said unto Moses, How long yet shall this people provoke me? and how long yet will they not believe in me, with all the signs which I have shown in the midst of them?

²¹ But as truly as I live, and as all the earth is filled with the glory of the Lord:—

²³ Shall surely not see the land which I have sworn unto their fathers, yea all those that have provoked me shall not see it.

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

³⁴ And the Lord heard the voice of your words; and he was wroth, and swore, saying, ³⁵ Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I have sworn to give unto your fathers; ³⁶ Save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, he shall see it, and to him will I give the land upon which he hath trodden, and to his children; because he hath wholly followed the Lord. ³⁷ also with me was the Lord angry for your sakes, saying, also thou shalt not go in thither. ³⁸ Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: him encourage; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. ³⁹ And your little ones, of whom ye said, They will become a prey, and your children who know not this day either good or evil, these shall go in thither; and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. ⁴⁰ But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

¹¹ So that I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

¹⁵ Yet did I also lift up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is an ornament among all the countries.

²⁴ But my servant Caleb, as a reward that he had another spirit with him, and followed me fully,—therefore will I bring him into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

²⁸ Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: ²⁹ In this wilderness shall your carcasses fall, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward; ye who have murmured against me; ³⁰ Truly ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to let you dwell therein; save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

² Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by the descent from their fathers, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.

⁶⁴ And among these there was not one man of those whom Moses and Aaron the priest had numbered, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. ⁶⁵ For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness: and there was not left of them one man, save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

³⁵ Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I have sworn to give unto your fathers;

¹⁴ And the time which we came from Kadesh-barnea’, until we had passed over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were spent from out the midst of the camp, as the Lord had sworn unto them. ¹⁵ And also the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp; until they were spent.

⁸ But my brethren who had gone up with me caused the heart of the people to be faint; but I wholly followed the Lord my God. ⁹ And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy foot hath trodden shall belong to thee for an inheritance, and to thy children for ever; because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.

³⁰ Truly ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to let you dwell therein; save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

⁶⁵ For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness: and there was not left of them one man, save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

³⁶ Save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, he shall see it, and to him will I give the land upon which he hath trodden, and to his children; because he hath wholly followed the Lord.

³³ And your children shall wander about in the wilderness forty years, and bear your backslidings, until your carcasses be spent in the wilderness. ³⁴ After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, forty days, yea, each one day for a year, shall ye bear for your iniquities, forty years; and ye shall experience my withdrawal of protection. ³⁵ I the Lord have spoken it, surely, this will I do unto all this evil congregation that have assembled against me: in this wilderness shall they be spent, and therein shall they die.

³³ Therefore he caused their days to come to an end in nought, and their years in dread.

³ And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his likeness, after his image; and called his name Sheth.

²¹ And the Lord smelled the sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man; although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

³⁴ And the Lord heard the voice of your words; and he was wroth, and swore, saying, ³⁵ Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I have sworn to give unto your fathers;

¹³ And after all that is come over us for our evil deeds, and for our great guiltiness, seeing that thou our God hast spared us punishing us less than our iniquities deserved, and hast given us such deliverance as this: ¹⁴ Should we again make void thy commandments, and make marriage with these people of abominations? wouldst thou not be angry with us even to make an end of us, so that there would not be any remnant or escape?

¹⁰ And ‘Ezra the priest rose up, and said unto them, Ye have acted unfaithfully, and have brought home strange wives, to increase yet more the guiltiness of Israel.

²⁴ And the children entered in and took possession of the land; and thou didst humble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Cana’anites, and gavest them up into their hands, with their kings, and the nations of the land, that they might do with them according to their pleasure. ²⁵ And they captured fortified cities, and a fat soil; and they took possession of houses full of all good things, hewn-out wells, vineyards, and olive-yards, and fruit trees in abundance; and they ate, and were satisfied, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. ²⁶ Then became they disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and they slew thy prophets who had warned them to bring them back unto thee, and they practised great provocations.

¹⁸ Did not your fathers act thus, wherefore our God brought over us all this evil, and over this city? and ye bring yet more wrath over Israel by profaning the sabbath.

⁴ Who can make a clean thing out of an unclean? not one thing.

⁵⁷ But swerved aside, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers; they turned about like a deceitful bow.

⁴ Woe! sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupt: they have forsaken the Lord, they have incensed the Holy One of Israel, they are departed backward.

⁴ Over whom will you make yourselves merry? concerning whom will you open wide your mouth, stretch out your tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

⁶ Behold, it is written before me; I will not keep silence, till I have recompensed, yea, recompensed into their bosom.— ⁷ Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have burnt incense upon the mountains, and upon the hills have blasphemed me: and I will measure out their work at first into their bosom.

²¹ Nevertheless the children rebelled against me; in my statutes did they not walk, and my ordinances they kept not to do them, which a man is to do, that he may live through them; my sabbaths they profaned: and I then thought to pour out my fury over them, to let out all my anger against them in the wilderness.

¹⁴ But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; ¹⁵ And if my statutes ye despise, and if my ordinances your soul loath, so as not to do all my commandments, in that ye break my covenant: ¹⁶ Then will I also do this unto you, and I will inflict on you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart; and ye shall sow in vain your seed, for your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷ And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be struck down before your enemies: and they that hate you shall bear rule over you; and ye shall flee while there is no one pursuing you. ¹⁸ And if with these things even ye will not yet hearken unto me: then will I chastise you yet more, sevenfold for your sins.

³⁰ Truly ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to let you dwell therein; save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. ³¹ But your little ones of which ye said, They would become a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. ³² But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.

¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day: that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of the flocks. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be at thy coming in, and cursed shalt thou be at thy going out. ²⁰ The Lord will send out against thee misfortune, confusion, and failure, in all the occupation of thy hand which thou mayest engage in; until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, that thou hast forsaken me. ²¹ The Lord will cause the pestilence to cleave unto thee, until it have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. ²² The Lord will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou be lost. ²³ And thy heavens that are over thy head shall be copper, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. ²⁴ The Lord will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ²⁵ The Lord will cause thee to be smitten before thy enemies: on one way shalt thou go out against them, and on seven ways shalt thou flee before them; and thou shalt become a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And thy carcass shall become food unto all the fowls of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth, but with no one to scare them away. ²⁷ The Lord will smite thee with the inflammatory disease of Egypt, and with the hemorrhoids, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou shalt not be able to be healed. ²⁸ The Lord will sinite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with confusion of heart; ²⁹ And thou shalt grope about at noonday, as the blind gropeth about in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed all the days, but with no one to help. ³⁰ A wife wilt thou betroth, and another man shall lie with her; a house wilt thou build, and thou shalt not dwell therein; a vineyard wilt thou plant, and thou shalt not redeem it. ³¹ Thy ox shall be slain before thy eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thy ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be brought back to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thy enemies, without any one to help thee. ³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thy eyes shall look on, and fail with longing for them all the day long; but without any power in thy hand. ³³ The fruit of thy soil, and all thy exertion, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt only be oppressed and crushed all the days. ³⁴ And thou shalt become mad from the sight of thy eyes which thou wilt see. ³⁵ The Lord will smite thee with a sore inflammation upon the knees, and upon the legs, of which thou shalt not be able to be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. ³⁶ The Lord will drive thee, and thy king whom thou wilt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and thou wilt serve there strange gods, of wood and stone. ³⁷ And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all the nations whither the Lord will lead thee. ³⁸ Much seed wilt thou carry out into the field, yet but little shalt thou gather in; for the locust shall consume it. ³⁹ Vineyards wilt thou plant and dress; but wine shalt thou not drink nor lay up; for the worms shall eat them. ⁴⁰ Olive-trees wilt thou have throughout all thy borders; but with the oil shalt thou not anoint thyself; for thy olive shall cast the fruit. ⁴¹ Sons and daughters wilt thou beget; but they shall not remain thine: for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the cricket strip bare. ⁴³ The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall get up above thee higher and higher; but thou shalt come down lower and lower; ⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall become the head, and thou shalt become the tail. ⁴⁵ And there shall come upon thee all these curses, and they shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he hath commanded thee; ⁴⁶ And they shall remain on thee for a sign and for a token, and on thy seed, for ever. ⁴⁷ For the reason that thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, while there was an abundance of all things; ⁴⁸ Therefore shalt thou serve thy enemies whom the Lord will send out against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of every thing; and they will put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until they have destroyed thee. ⁴⁹ The Lord will bring up against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle rusheth down; a nation whose tongue thou wilt not understand; ⁵⁰ A nation of a fierce countenance, that will not have respect for the old, nor show favor to the young; ⁵¹ And it will eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy soil, until thou be destroyed; so that it will not leave unto thee corn, wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flocks, until it have ruined thee. ⁵² And it will besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls come down, wherein thou trustest, throughout all thy land; and it will besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee. ⁵³ And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thy enemy will distress thee. ⁵⁴ The man that is the most tender among thee, and who is very delicate,—his eye shall look enviously toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he may spare; ⁵⁵ So as not to give to any of them of the flesh of his children which he may eat; because there is nothing left unto him, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thy enemy will distress thee in all thy gates. ⁵⁶ The woman, the most tender among thee, and the most delicate, who hath never adventured to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,—her eye shall look enviously toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, ⁵⁷ And toward her young one that is come from between her feet, and toward her children which she hath born; for she shall eat them for want of every thing secretly, in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thy enemy will distress thee in thy gates. ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book; to fear this glorious and fearful name, the Lord thy God: ⁵⁹ Then will the Lord render peculiar thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, plagues great, and of long continuance, and sicknesses sore, and of long continuance. ⁶⁰ And he will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, of which thou wast afraid; and they shall cleave unto thee. ⁶¹ Also every sickness, and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ⁶² And ye shall be left but few in number, instead of that ye once were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. ⁶³ And it shall come to pass, that, as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so will the Lord rejoice over you to bring you to nought, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord will scatter thee among all the nations, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there wilt thou serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall not be any rest for the sole of thy foot: and the Lord will give thee there a trembling heart, and a failing of eyes, and a faintness of soul. ⁶⁶ And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt be in dread day and night, and thou shalt have no confidence of thy life; ⁶⁷ In the morning thou wilt say, Who would but grant that it were only evening! and at evening thou wilt say, Who would but grant that it were only morning! from the dread of thy heart which thou wilt experience, and from the sight of thy eyes which thou wilt see. ⁶⁸ And the Lord will bring thee back to Egypt in ships, by the way whereof I have spoken unto thee, Thou shalt no more see it again: and there will ye offer yourselves for sale unto your enemies for bond-men and bond-women, without any one to buy you.

¹⁷ But if thy heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hearken, and thou sufferest thyself to be drawn away, and thou bowest down to other gods, and servest them: ¹⁸ I announce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not remain many days upon the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go thither to possess it. ¹⁹ I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose thou life, in order that thou mayest live, both thou and thy seed;

¹⁶ Thus have said the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that ye have built yourselves an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord? ¹⁷ Have we had too little in the iniquity of Peor,—from which we are not yet cleansed until this day,—when there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord? ¹⁸ And will ye turn away this day from following the Lord? and it will be, that when ye will rebel this day against the Lord, tomorrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.

¹⁹ But if ye will indeed turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and will go and serve other gods, and bow down to them: ²⁰ Then will I pluck them up out of my land which I have given unto them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast away from my sight, and I will render it to be for a proverb and for a by-word among all the people. ²¹ And this house, which hath been so exalted, shall become an astonishment to every one that passeth by it: so that he will say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house? ²² And men shall then say, For the cause that they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and they took hold of other gods, and bowed down to them, and served them: therefore hath he brought upon them all this evil.

² And he went out to meet Assa, and said unto him, Hear me, O Assa, and all Judah and Benjamin, The Lord is with you, while ye remain with him; and if ye seek him, he will let himself be found by you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

²³ And all thy wives and thy children shall they bring out to the Chaldeans; and thou thyself shalt not escape out of their hand; for by the hand of the king of Babylon shalt thou be caught; and this city wilt thou cause to be burnt with fire.

¹⁷ And Jacob journeyed to Succoth and built himself a house, and for his cattle he made booths; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.

²² And of the tribe of the children of Dan the prince, Bukki the son of Yogli;

²⁹ And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben do pass with you over the Jordan, every one that is armed for the war, before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you: then shall ye give to them the land of Gil’ad for a possession; ³⁰ But if they should not pass over armed with you, they shall take possessions among you in the land of Canaan. ³¹ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, That which the Lord hath spoken concerning thy servants, even so will we do. ³² We will indeed pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, while ours remaineth the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.

¹⁸ And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it: armed shall ye pass over before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are fit to bear arms. ¹⁹ But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you; ²⁰ Until that the Lord have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the Lord your God giveth them beyond the Jordan: then shall ye return every man unto his possession which I have given you.

¹² And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Menasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had spoken unto them: ¹³ About forty thousand ready armed for war, did they pass over before the Lord unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.

¹ Then did Joshua call the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Menasseh, ² And he said unto them, Ye have indeed kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and ye have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: ³ Ye have not forsaken your brethren these many days, until this day; but ye have kept the obligation of the commandment of the Lord your God. ⁴ And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them; therefore now turn yourselves, and get you unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave unto you on the other side of the Jordan. ⁵ Only take diligent heed to practise the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord hath commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere; before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, till thou comest unto Zoar. ¹¹ Then Lot chose himself all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves the one from the other. ¹² Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tents, till close to Sodom.

¹² And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

³² We will indeed pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, while ours remaineth the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan. ³³ And Moses gave unto them, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Menasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sichon, the king of the Emorites, and the kingdom of ‘Og, the king of Bashan, the land, with its cities within the boundaries, the cities of the country round about.

¹⁵ The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan opposite Jericho eastward, toward the rising of the sun.

¹⁴ Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan; but ye shall pass over armed before your brethren, all the mighty men of valor, and help them; ¹⁵ Until the Lord shall have granted your brethren rest, as he hath done to you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the Lord your God giveth them: then shall ye return unto the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.

¹ And these are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel smote, and whose land they took possession of on the other side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Chermon, and all the plain on the east: ² Sichon the king of the Emorites, who dwelt in Cheshbon, and ruled from ‘Aro’er, which is upon the bank of the brook Arnon, and over the land in the middle of the brook, and from half Gil’ad, even unto the brook Yabbok, the boundary of the children of ‘Ammon; ³ And over the plain up to the sea of Kinneroth on the east, and up to the sea of the plain, the salt sea on the east, on the way to Beth-hayeshimoth; and at the south, under the declivities of Pisgah; ⁴ And the territory of ‘Og the king of Bashan, who was of the remnant of the Rephaim, that dwelt at ‘Ashtaroth and at Edre’i, ⁵ And reigned over mount Chermon, and over Salchah, and over all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Ma’achathites, and half Gil’ad, to the boundary of Sichon the king of Cheshbon. ⁶ These did Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel smite; and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Menasseh.

⁸ With him the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave unto them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord hath given them;

³² In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short; and Chazael smote them in all the boundary of Israel; ³³ From the Jordan to the rising of the sun, all the land of Gil’ad, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Menassites, from ‘Aro’er which is by the river Arnon, both Gil’ad and Bashan.

²⁹ In the days of Pekach the king of Israel came Tiglath-pilesser the king of Assyria, and took ‘Iyon, and Abel-beth, ma’achah, and Yanoach, and Kedesh, and Chazor, and Gil’ad, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and led them away as exiles to Assyria.

²⁵ But they trespassed against the God of their fathers, and went astray after the gods of the people of the land, whom God had destroyed from before them. ²⁶ And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul the king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilnesser the king of Assyria, and he carried them into exile, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Menasseh, and brought them unto Chalach, and Chabor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, even until this day.

²¹ An inheritance hastily gotten at the beginning will at its end not be blessed,

¹³ Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God hath granted you rest, and hath given you this land;

² And he said unto them, Ye have indeed kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and ye have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: ³ Ye have not forsaken your brethren these many days, until this day; but ye have kept the obligation of the commandment of the Lord your God. ⁴ And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them; therefore now turn yourselves, and get you unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave unto you on the other side of the Jordan.

¹² And of this land, of which we took possession at that time, from ‘Aro’er, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gil’ad, and the cities thereof, I gave unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. ¹³ And the rest of Gil’ad, and all Bashan, the kingdom of ‘Og, I gave unto the half tribe of Menasseh: all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, this is called the land of Rephaim. ¹⁴ Yair the son of Menasseh took all the region of Argob up to the border of the Geshurites and the Ma-’achathites; and he called them the land of Bashan, after his own name, the villages of Yair, unto this day. ¹⁵ And unto Machir I gave Gil’ad. ¹⁶ And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gil’ad even unto the brook Arnon, the land within the river and that adjoining, even unto the brook Yabbok, the border of the children of ‘Ammon; ¹⁷ The plain also, and the Jordan, and the adjoining land, from Kinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, under the declivities of Pisgah, eastward. ¹⁸ And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it: armed shall ye pass over before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are fit to bear arms.

²⁰ Until that the Lord have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the Lord your God giveth them beyond the Jordan: then shall ye return every man unto his possession which I have given you.

¹⁵ Until the Lord shall have granted your brethren rest, as he hath done to you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the Lord your God giveth them: then shall ye return unto the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.

¹⁹ And it shall be, that whosoever will go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless; and whosoever will remain with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if a hand be laid upon him.

³⁰ And the Lord delivered it also into the hand of Israel, with its king; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he left none in it that escaped; and he did unto its king as he had done unto the king of Jericho.

⁴² And all these kings and their land did Joshua capture at one time; because the Lord, the God of Israel fought for Israel.

²³ And Joshua’ took the whole land, all just as the Lord had spoken unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel, according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

²⁹ And Moses gave unto the half tribe of Menasseh; and it belonged to the half tribe of the children of Menasseh after their families; ³⁰ And their territory was from Machanayim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of ‘Og the king of Bashan, and all the villages of Ya’ir, which are in Bashan, sixty cities; ³¹ And half Gil’ad and ‘Ashtaroth, and Edre’i, the cities of the kingdom of ‘Og in Bashan, belonged unto the children of Machir the son of Menasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir after their families. ³² These are they to whom Moses did distribute an inheritance in the plans of Moab, on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.

¹ And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up there the tabernacle of the congregation. And the land was subdued before them.

⁴ And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them; therefore now turn yourselves, and get you unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave unto you on the other side of the Jordan.

⁹ And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Menasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel from Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gil’ad, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the order of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

²⁸ And when David heard it afterward, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord for ever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

¹ To the chief musician, for the sons of Korach, a Maskil. ^(44:2) O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, deeds which thou hadst done in their days, in times of old. ^{2 (44:3)} Thou, with thy hand, didst indeed drive out nations, and plant them; thou didst ill-treat people, and cause them to spread out. ^{3 (44:4)} For not by their sword did they obtain possession of the land, and their own arm brought them no victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst given them thy favor. ^{4 (44:5)} Thou art my King, O God: ordain salvation for Jacob.

⁵⁵ And he drove out from before them nations, and divided them by the measuring-line as an inheritance, and he caused to dwell in their tents the tribes of Israel.

⁷ If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou canst rule over it.

¹⁶ And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we justify ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold we are servants unto my lord, both we, as also he in whose hand the cup was found.

¹⁴ But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; ¹⁵ And if my statutes ye despise, and if my ordinances your soul loath, so as not to do all my commandments, in that ye break my covenant: ¹⁶ Then will I also do this unto you, and I will inflict on you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart; and ye shall sow in vain your seed, for your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷ And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be struck down before your enemies: and they that hate you shall bear rule over you; and ye shall flee while there is no one pursuing you. ¹⁸ And if with these things even ye will not yet hearken unto me: then will I chastise you yet more, sevenfold for your sins. ¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as copper: ²⁰ And in vain shall your strength be spent; for your land shall not yield her products, and the tree of the land shall not yield its fruit. ²¹ And if ye walk yet contrary unto me, and if you refuse to hearken unto me: then will I bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold according to your sins. ²² And I will send out against you the beasts of the field, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and diminish yourselves; so that your roads shall be desolate. ²³ And if notwithstanding these things ye will not be reformed by me, and walk contrary unto me: ²⁴ Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and I also will punish you, sevenfold for your sins. ²⁵ And I will bring over you the sword, avenging the quarrel of my covenant, so that ye shall be gathered together within your cities; and then will I send the pestilence among you, that ye shall deliver yourselves into the hand of the enemy; ²⁶ When I break unto you the staff of bread; and ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. ²⁷ And if notwithstanding this ye will not hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me: ²⁸ Then will I also walk contrary unto you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you, sevenfold for your sins. ²⁹ And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. ³⁰ And I will destroy your high-places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; and my soul shall loath you. ³¹ And I will render your cities a waste, and I will make desolate your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors. ³² And I will surely make desolate the land: and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it. ³³ And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out after you the sword; and your land shall be a desolate wild, and your cities shall be a waste. ³⁴ Then shall the land satisfy its sabbaths, all the days of its desolation, when ye are in the land of your enemies: then shall the land rest, and satisfy its sabbaths. ³⁵ All the days of its desolation shall it rest, the time which it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. ³⁶ And regarding those that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a leaf shaken shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from the sword; and they shall fall with none pursuing. ³⁷ And they shall stumble one over the other, as before the sword, without one pursuing: and ye shall have no power to stand up before your enemies. ³⁸ And ye shall be lost among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall consume you. ³⁹ And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in the land of your enemies; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. ⁴⁰ And they shall then confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, that through their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that because they had walked contrary unto me: ⁴¹ I also had to walk contrary unto them, and to bring them into the land of their enemies; and then shall their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and then shall they satisfy their iniquity. ⁴² And I will then remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and the land will I remember. ⁴³ For the land shall be forsaken by them, and shall satisfy its sabbaths, while it lieth desolate without them, and they shall satisfy their iniquity; because, even because my ordinances they despised, and my statutes their soul loathed. ⁴⁴ And yet for all that, though they be in the land of their enemies, will I not cast them away, neither will I loath them, to destroy them utterly, to break my covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. ⁴⁵ But I will remember for their sakes the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be unto them a God: I am the Lord. ⁴⁶ These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel on mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance.

¹¹ If I said, Surely darkness shall enshroud me, and into night be turned the light about me:

^{11 (140:12)} Let not the man of an evil tongue be established on the earth: may evil hunt down the violent man to his downfall.

²¹ Evil pursueth the sinners; but the righteous will God repay with happiness.

¹¹ Woe unto the wicked who doeth evil; for the recompense of his hands shall be bestowed on him.

¹ Behold, the Lord’s hand is not too short to save; neither his ear too heavy for hearing; ² But your iniquities have ever made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have caused him to hide his face from you, so that he would not hear.

¹² For our transgressions are numerous in thy presence, and our sins testify against us; for of our transgressions are we aware; and our iniquities—we know them;

^{2 (30:3)} If a man make a vow unto the Lord, or he swear an oath to bind his soul with an obligation: he shall not profane his word; according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth shall he do.

¹⁶ And they came near unto him, and said, Sheepfolds will we build for our cattle here, and cities for our little ones;

³⁴ And the children of Gad built Dibon, and ‘Ataroth, and ‘Aro’er, ³⁵ And ‘Atroth-shophan, and Ya’zer, and Yogbehah. ³⁶ And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for flocks, ³⁷ And the children of Reuben built Cheshbon, and El’aleh, and Kiryathayim, ³⁸ And Nebo, and Ba’al-me’on their names being changed, and Shibmah; and they gave the former names unto the cities which they built. ³⁹ And the children of Machir the son of Menasseh went to Gil’ad, and conquered it, and dispossessed the Emorites who were in it. ⁴⁰ And Moses gave Gil’ad unto Machir the son of Menasseh; and he dwelt therein. ⁴¹ And Yair the son of Menasseh went and conquered the small towns thereof, and called them Chavoth-yair. ⁴² And Nobach went and conquered Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobach, after his own name.

¹³ Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God hath granted you rest, and hath given you this land; ¹⁴ Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan; but ye shall pass over armed before your brethren, all the mighty men of valor, and help them;

¹⁴ Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan; but ye shall pass over armed before your brethren, all the mighty men of valor, and help them;

²⁸ And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses from his youth, answered and said, My Lord Moses, forbid them.

¹¹ Then said Aaron unto Moses, Alas, my Lord, do not, I beseech thee, account to us as sin that wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.

¹⁷ But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until that we have brought them unto their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities, because of the inhabitants of the land.

² And they said, the Lord hath commanded my Lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and my Lord hath been commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

¹² And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Menasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had spoken unto them:

¹³ Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God hath granted you rest, and hath given you this land;

¹⁹ But, notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the Lord, wherein dwelleth the tabernacle of the Lord, and take possession in the midst of us; but rebel not against the Lord and against us do not rebel, in building yourselves an altar beside the altar of the Lord our God.

²³ But Sichon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; and Sichon assembled all his people together; and went out against Israel into the wilderness; and he came to Yahaz, and fought against Israel. ²⁴ And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from Arnon unto Yabbok, even unto the children of ‘Ammon; for the border of the children of ‘Ammon was strong. ²⁵ And Israel took all these cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Emorites, in Cheshbon, and in all the villages thereof. ²⁶ For Cheshbon was the city of Sichon the king of the Emorites; and he had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, up to the Arnon. ²⁷ Therefore said the poets, Come into Cheshbon, let the city of Sichon be built and established. ²⁸ For a fire is gone out of Cheshbon, a flame from the city of Sichon: it hath consumed ‘Ar-Moab, the men of the high places of the Arnon. ²⁹ Woe to thee, Moab! thou art lost, O people of Kemosh: he hath suffered his sons to become fugitives, and his daughters to go into captivity, unto the king of the Emorites, Sichon. ³⁰ We have thrown them down; lost is Cheshbon even unto Dibon, and we have laid waste all up to Nophach, which reacheth unto Medeba. ³¹ Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Emorites. ³² And Moses sent to spy out Ya’zer, and they captured the villages thereof, and drove out the Emorites that were there. ³³ And they turned and went up by the way to Bashan; and ‘Og, the king of Bashan, went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. ³⁴ And the Lord said unto Moses, Fear him not; for into thy hand have I delivered him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do unto him as thou hast done unto Sichon, the king of the Emorites, who dwelt at Cheshbon. ³⁵ And they smote him and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left unto him that escaped; and they took possession of his land.

¹⁴ For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their family divisions, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their family divisions, have received,—and the half of the tribe of Menasseh have received their inheritance;

³⁰ But Sichon, the king of Cheshbon, would not suffer our passing by him; for the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and had made obstinate his heart, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as hath happened this day. ³¹ And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give up Sichon and his land before thee: begin to drive him out, that thou mayest inherit his land. ³² And Sichon came out against us, he and all his people, to the battle at Yahaz. ³³ And the Lord our God gave him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.

¹ And we turned, and went up the way to Bashan; and ‘Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to the battle at Edre’i. ² And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not; for into thy hand have I given him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do unto him as thou hast done unto Sichon, the king of the Emorites, who dwelt at Cheshbon. ³ And the Lord our God gave into our hands also ‘Og the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to him who escaped. ⁴ And we conquered all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of ‘Og in Bashan. ⁵ all these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns, which were a great many. ⁶ And we devoted them, as we had done unto Sichon the king of Cheshbon, devoting every inhabited city, the women, and the little ones. ⁷ But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took as booty to ourselves. ⁸ And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Emorites the land which is on this side of the Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Chermon;

¹² And of this land, of which we took possession at that time, from ‘Aro’er, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gil’ad, and the cities thereof, I gave unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. ¹³ And the rest of Gil’ad, and all Bashan, the kingdom of ‘Og, I gave unto the half tribe of Menasseh: all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, this is called the land of Rephaim. ¹⁴ Yair the son of Menasseh took all the region of Argob up to the border of the Geshurites and the Ma-’achathites; and he called them the land of Bashan, after his own name, the villages of Yair, unto this day. ¹⁵ And unto Machir I gave Gil’ad. ¹⁶ And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gil’ad even unto the brook Arnon, the land within the river and that adjoining, even unto the brook Yabbok, the border of the children of ‘Ammon; ¹⁷ The plain also, and the Jordan, and the adjoining land, from Kinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, under the declivities of Pisgah, eastward.

^{8 (29:7)} And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Menassites.

⁶ These did Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel smite; and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Menasseh.

⁸ With him the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave unto them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord hath given them; ⁹ From ‘Aro’er, that is upon the bank of the brook Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the brook, and all the plain of Medeba up to Dibon; ¹⁰ And all the cities of Sichon the king of the Emorites, who reigned over Cheshbon, up to the border of the children of ‘Ammon; ¹¹ And Gil’ad, and the territory of the Geshurites and Ma’achathites, and all mount Chermon, and all Bashan up to Salchah; ¹² All the kingdom of ‘Og in Bashan, who reigned in ‘Ashtaroth and in Edre’i; who had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; and Moses smote them, and cast them out. ¹³ Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites and the Ma’achathites; but the Geshurites and the Ma’achathites continued to dwell in the midst of the Israelites until this day. ¹⁴ Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance: the fire-offerings of the Lord, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as he hath spoken unto them.

¹⁸ The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Menasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear shield and sword, and to draw the bow, and practised in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and sixty, that went out to the army.

³¹ And of the half tribe of Menasseh eighteen thousand, who had been expressed by name, to come to make David king.

³² And his brethren, valiant men, were two thousand and seven hundred chiefs of families: and king David appointed them over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Menasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and the affairs of the king.

¹⁰ Who smote many nations, and slew mighty kings; ¹¹ Sichon the king of the Emorites, and ‘Og the king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan;

¹⁸ And slew mighty kings; for to eternity endureth his kindness. ¹⁹ Even Sichon the king of the Emorites; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ²⁰ And ‘Og the king of Bashan; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ²¹ And gave their land as an inheritance; for to eternity endureth his kindness;

²⁰ And from Bamoth to the valley, which is in the fields of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward the desert.

⁴⁵ And they removed from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon-gad. ⁴⁶ And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in ‘Almon-diblathaymah.

³⁶ From ‘Aro’er, which is by the bank of the brook of Arnon, and the city that is in the brook, even unto Gil’ad, there was not one city which was too strong for us; the whole did the Lord our God give up before us.

² Forsaken are the cities of ‘Aro’er: they shall be given up to flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

²⁷ Therefore said the poets, Come into Cheshbon, let the city of Sichon be built and established.

⁴ And loud crieth Cheshbon with El’aleh; as far as Yahaz is heard their voice: therefore the armed men of Moab shall howl; its soul is grieved for itself.

¹⁸ And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

¹³ And in all things that I have said unto you be on your guard; and of the name of other gods ye shall make no mention, it shall not be heard out of thy mouth.

⁴¹ And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took Bil’am, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, and he saw thence a portion of the people.

⁷ So as not to come among these nations, those that are left remaining near you; and of the name of their gods shall ye not make mention, nor cause any to swear thereby, neither shall ye serve them, nor bow yourselves down unto them;

⁴ Multiplied shall be the sorrows of those who give presents to another god: I will not pour out their drink-offerings of blood, nor bear their names upon my lips.

¹ Bel is bowed down, Nebo sinketh, their idols are delivered unto the beasts, and unto the cattle; those which were once carried by you are now laden up a burden to the weary beasts.

²³ And Joseph saw of Ephraim children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Menasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

²⁹ The sons of Menasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begat Gil’ad; of Gil’ad, the family of the Gil’adites.

¹ And then came the lot for the tribe of Menasseh; for he was the first-born of Joseph: to wit, for Machir the first-born of Menasseh, the father of Gil’ad; because he was a man of war, therefore he obtained Gil’ad and Bashan.

¹³ And the rest of Gil’ad, and all Bashan, the kingdom of ‘Og, I gave unto the half tribe of Menasseh: all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, this is called the land of Rephaim. ¹⁴ Yair the son of Menasseh took all the region of Argob up to the border of the Geshurites and the Ma-’achathites; and he called them the land of Bashan, after his own name, the villages of Yair, unto this day. ¹⁵ And unto Machir I gave Gil’ad.

²⁹ And Moses gave unto the half tribe of Menasseh; and it belonged to the half tribe of the children of Menasseh after their families; ³⁰ And their territory was from Machanayim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of ‘Og the king of Bashan, and all the villages of Ya’ir, which are in Bashan, sixty cities; ³¹ And half Gil’ad and ‘Ashtaroth, and Edre’i, the cities of the kingdom of ‘Og in Bashan, belonged unto the children of Machir the son of Menasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir after their families.

¹⁴ Yair the son of Menasseh took all the region of Argob up to the border of the Geshurites and the Ma-’achathites; and he called them the land of Bashan, after his own name, the villages of Yair, unto this day.

³⁰ And their territory was from Machanayim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of ‘Og the king of Bashan, and all the villages of Ya’ir, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;

⁴ And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass-colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Chavvoth-yair unto this day, which are in the land of Gil’ad.

¹³ Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gil’ad; to him pertained the villages of Ya’ir the son of Menasseh, which are in Gil’ad; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars;

²¹ And afterward came Chezron to the daughter of Machir the father of Gil’ad, and he took her for wife when he was sixty years old: and she bore unto him Segub. ²² And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gil’ad. ²³ But Geshur and Aram took the small towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even sixty cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gil’ad.

¹⁸ Now Abshalom had taken and reared up for himself in his lifetime, the pillar, which is in the king’s dale; for he said, I have no son, so as to keep my name in remembrance; and he called the pillar after his own name: and it was called Abshalom’s monument, even until this day.

^{11 (49:12)} Their inward thought is, that their houses are to be for ever, their dwelling-places, from generation to generation; they call them by their own names in various countries.