Numbers 32 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, had a great multitude of cattle, and having taken a view of the country of Jazer, and the region of Galaad, and seen that it was a place fit for stock, ² the Reubenites and the Gadites came to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the chiefs of the congregation and said, ³ Ataroth, and Daibon, and Jazer, and Namra, and Esebon, and Eleale, and Sebama, and Nabo, and Baian, ⁴ the land which the Lord delivered up before the children of Israel, is a land fit for raising stock, and thy servants have cattle; ⁵ if therefore, said they, we have found favour in thy sight, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession, and cause us not to cross the Jordan. ⁶ Whereupon Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, Must your brethren go to war, and you sit still here? ⁷ Besides, why do you divert the thoughts of the Israelites from crossing over into the land which the Lord giveth them? ⁸ Did not your fathers do so, when I sent them from Kades-Barne to view the land? ⁹ When they had passed through the valley of grapes, and viewed the land, they discouraged the heart of the Israelites from going to the land which the Lord gave them; ¹⁰ and the anger of the Lord was kindled that day, and he sware saying, ¹¹ These men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upwards, who know good and evil, shall not see the land, which I with an oath promised to Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob; [for they have not followed me] ¹² save Chaleb, son of Jephonne, who separated himself from them, and Joshua, son of Nave, because they followed the Lord. ¹³ So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he led them about in the wilderness forty years, until all that generation, who had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed. ¹⁴ Behold you are risen up in your fathers' stead, a set of sinful men, to augment the wrath of the Lord against Israel. ¹⁵ For by turning away from him, to cause him to leave you still in the wilderness, you will transgress against the whole congregation. ¹⁶ Upon this they came near to him, and said, We will build sheepcots here for our cattle, and cities for our families, ¹⁷ but we ourselves, completely armed, will march in the van before the children of Israel, until we bring them to their place. Our families indeed must dwell in walled cities, because of the inhabitants of the land, ¹⁸ that we may not be under a necessity of returning to our houses, until the children of Israel are parcelled out, every one in his possession. ¹⁹ Moreover we will not take a share with them of the land beyond the river Jordan, because we have got our share on the eastern side of the Jordan. ²⁰ Then Moses said to them, If you will act agreeably to what you say; if you will arm yourselves for battle before the Lord, ²¹ and every one, completely armed, will cross the Jordan before the Lord, until his enemy be crushed before him, ²² and the land subdued before the Lord, after this you shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and acquitted by Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the Lord. ²³ But if you do not act in this manner, you will sin against the Lord, and you shall be sensible of your sin, when evils overtake you. ²⁴ Build therefore cities for your families, and sheepcots for your cattle, and perform what hath proceeded out of your mouth. ²⁵ And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad spake to Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as our Lord commandeth; ²⁶ our families, and our wives, and our cattle, shall remain in the cities of Galaad; ²⁷ but we thy servants will cross over, all armed, and arrayed for battle before the Lord, as our lord saith. ²⁸ Then Moses convened with them Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, son of Nave, and the chiefs of the patriarchal houses of the tribes of Israel, ²⁹ and said to them, If the Reubenites and the Gadites cross the Jordan with you, every one armed for battle before the Lord, when you shall have subdued the land before you, you shall give them the land of Galaad for a possession. ³⁰ But if they decline to cross with you, armed for battle before the Lord; you shall drive before you their families, and their wives, and their cattle, into the land of Chanaan, and they shall have a portion with you in the land of Chanaan. ³¹ And the Reubenites and the Gadites answered, saying, All that our lord saith to his servants we will do. ³² We will cross over, completely armed before the Lord, into the land of Chanaan, and you shall give us our possession on this side of the Jordan. ³³ So Moses gave them, namely, to the Gadites and the Reubenites, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, one of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and the cities, with the boundaries thereof, even the cities of the land round about. ³⁴ And the Gadites rebuilt Daibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, ³⁵ and Sophar, and Jazer, and raised these, namely, ³⁶ Namram and Baithara, fenced cities, and folds for sheep. ³⁷ And the Reubenites rebuilt Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham, ³⁸ and Beelmeon, which they enclosed all around, and Sebama; and they named the cities which they rebuilt after their own names. ³⁹ Now a descendant of Machir, son of Manasses, had gone to Galaad, and taken it, and destroyed the Amorite who dwelt there. ⁴⁰ So Moses gave Galaad to the community of Machir, son of Manasses, and they dwelt there. ⁴¹ And Jair, of the tribe of Manasses, went and took their sheepcots, and called them the sheepcots of Jair. ⁴² And Nabau went and took Kaath, and its villages, and called them Naboth after his own name.

² Now Abram was very rich in cattle and in silver and gold,

⁵ Now Lot who accompanied Abram had flocks and herds and tents,

¹⁰ Then Lot raised his eyes and took a view of all the country bordering on the Jordan. For before God overthrew Sodom and Gormorra it was all watered till it reacheth Zogora, like the paradise of God, and like the land, of Egypt. ¹¹ So Lot chose for himself all the country bordering on the Jordan; and Lot removed to the eastern border. And the brothers separated one from the other. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan;

³² And Leia conceived and bore Jacob a son and called his name Reuben; saying, Because the Lord hath seen my affliction; therefore he hath given me a son. Now therefore my husband will love me.

¹⁰ And Zelpha, Leia's maid conceived and bore Jacob a son. ¹¹ Whereupon Leia said, Good luck. So she called his name Gad.

⁴ Moreover they said to Pharao, We are come to sojourn in this land, because there is no pasture for thy servants' cattle, for the famine hath been great in the land of Chanaan. Now therefore let us sojourn in the land of Gesem. And Pharao said to Joseph, Let them dwell in the land of Gesem; and if thou knowest any men of ability among them, make them overseers of my cattle.

³⁸ And there went up with them a mixed multitude with flocks and herds and cattle in great abundance.

¹⁰ And their army on the south, shall be the divisions of the camp of Reuben, and the chief of the Reubenites shall be Elisar, son of Sedur; ¹¹ his army, even they who have been reviewed, being forty six thousand five hundred; ¹² and they who encamp adjoining him, shall be the division of the tribe of Symeon, and the chief of the Symeonites shall be Salamiel, son of Surisadai; ¹³ his army, even they who were reviewed, being fifty nine thousand three hundred; ¹⁴ and they who encamp adjoining shall be the tribe of Gad; and the chief of the Gadites, shall be Elisaph, son of Raguel; ¹⁵ his army, even they who were reviewed, being forty five thousand six hundred and fifty.

³² Moses sent to view Jazer, and they took it, and all the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

⁵ Reuben, Israel's first born. and the sons of Reuben, Enoch, and the community of the Enochites; to Phallus belonged the community of the Phalluites; ⁶ to Asron, the community of the Asronites; to Charmi, the community of the Charmites; ⁷ These are the communities of Reuben, and the muster of them was forty three thousand seven hundred and thirty.

¹⁵ The children of Gad, by their communities, were; from Saphon, the community of the Saphonites; from Aggi, the community of the Aggites; from Suni, the community of the Sunites; ¹⁶ from Azeni, the community of the Azenites; from Addi, the community of the Addites; ¹⁷ from Aroadi, the community of the Aroadites; from Ariel, the community of the Arielites; ¹⁸ these communities of the children of Gad, from the review of them, were forty thousand five hundred.

³ Ataroth, and Daibon, and Jazer, and Namra, and Esebon, and Eleale, and Sebama, and Nabo, and Baian,

²⁶ our families, and our wives, and our cattle, shall remain in the cities of Galaad;

³⁵ and Sophar, and Jazer, and raised these, namely,

²⁵ and these were their borders, Jazer, all the cities of Galaad, and the half of the land of Ammon, even to Araba, which is in front of Arad,

⁵ And they crossed the Jordan, and encamped at Aroer on the right of the city, in the valley of Gad and Eliezer.

⁸ The plains of Esebon shall mourn; the vineyard Sebama. Ye who drink up the nations, trample down her vineyards to Jazer. You need not march in close array: roam through the wilderness. They who were dispatched were wholly given up, for they passed through quite to the sea. ⁹ [p] Let me therefore weep, as with the weeping of Jazer, for the vineyards of Sebama. He hath cut down thy trees, Esebon and Eleale. [J] Because in harvest and at thy vintage I will trample down and all shall be laid prostrate;

¹⁹ And I will bring back Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel, and on mount Ephraim, and on Galaad; and his soul shall be satisfied.

¹⁴ [p] Feed thou thy people with thy crook; the flock of thy heritage; them who are by themselves in a forest in the midst of yonder Carmel. [J] They shall feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pomp of this life are not of the Father, but are of the world.

²⁵ So Israel took all those cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Hesebon, and in all those under the same dominion with it; ²⁶ for Hesebon was the city of Seon the king of the Amorites. He indeed had made war on a former king of Moab, and had taken all his land from Aroer to Arnon;

²⁸ For a fire went forth from Hesebon; And a flame from the city of Seon; Which devoured even to Moab; Which devoured the pillars of Arnon.

¹ Now the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, had a great multitude of cattle, and having taken a view of the country of Jazer, and the region of Galaad, and seen that it was a place fit for stock,

³⁴ And the Gadites rebuilt Daibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, ³⁵ and Sophar, and Jazer, and raised these, namely, ³⁶ Namram and Baithara, fenced cities, and folds for sheep. ³⁷ And the Reubenites rebuilt Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham, ³⁸ and Beelmeon, which they enclosed all around, and Sebama; and they named the cities which they rebuilt after their own names.

¹⁷ Esebon, and, all the cities in Misor, namely Daibon, and Baimon-baal, and house of Meelboth,

¹⁹ and Kariathaim, and Sebama, and Serada, and Sion on mount Enab,

²⁶ all the while they lived in Esebon, and the borders thereof, and in the land of Aroer, and the borders thereof, and in all the cities along the Jordan, for three hundred years? Why didst thou not in all this time recover them.

²² Then thou gavest them kingdoms, and didst divide peoples among them; so they took possession of the land of Seon king of Esebon, and of the land of Og king of Basan.

² Be in bitterness for yourselves; for Debon also is destroyed. Where your altar is, thither you will go up to weep for Nabau of Moab, Raise the mournful cry. On every head be baldness; let all your arms be gashed with Wounds. ³ In the streets thereof, gird on sackcloth, and on its house tops make lamentation; and in the streets thereof and in its lanes, raise ye all the mournful cry with weeping; ⁴ because Esebon and Eleale have screamed: even to Jassa their voice hath been heard; therefore the lungs of Moab utter lowings; her soul will be afflicted.

⁶ The water of Nemereim will be dried up; and its grass will fail; there will be no green grass.

² There is no more a cure for Moab; a boasting in Esebon. He hath devised evils against her. We have cut her off from being a nation and she shall go to rest. Behind thee the sword shall stalk on.

²² and on Daibon, and on Nabo, and on the house of Daithlathaim, ²³ and on Kariathaim, and on the house of Gaimol, and on the house of Maon,

³² [p] With the wailing of Jazer I will wail for thee, vine of Aserema. Thy branches extended to the sea; they reached to the cities of Jazer. When thy fruit was ripe; destruction came upon thy grape gatherers.

³⁴ At the scream of Esebon which reached to Aitam, their cities from Zogar to Oroaim uttered their voice, and spread the news with an alarm. [J] Because the water of Nebrin also shall be dried up;

²⁴ Whereupon Israel smote him with the slaughter of the sword, and took possession of his land, from Anion to Jabok, even to the Ammanites; for Jazer is the boundary of the Ammanites.

³⁴ the Lord said to Moses, Be not afraid of him; for into thy hands I will deliver him, and all his people, and all his land; And thou shalt do to him, as thou hast done to Seon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Hesebon.

²⁴ Now therefore arise, strike your tents, and cross the vale of Arnon; behold I have delivered into thy hand Seon, king of Esebon, the Amorite, with his land. Begin to take possession. Join battle with him this day. ²⁵ Begin to impress the fear of thee, and the dread of thee, on the face of all the nations under heaven. They who hear of thy name shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. ²⁶ Now I had sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedamoth to Seon, king of Esebon, with words of peace, saying, ²⁷ Let me pass through thy land. I will march along the highway, and not turn aside to the right, nor to the left. ²⁸ Thou shalt sell me provisions for money, that I may eat; and thou shalt sell me water for money, that I may drink, just till I can march through on foot; ²⁹ as the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and the children of Moab, who dwell in Aroer have done to me, until I cross the Jordan, to the land which the Lord our God giveth us. ³⁰ But Seon, king of Esebon, would not consent that we should pass by him, for the Lord our God had emboldened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as at this day. ³¹ Then the Lord said to me, Behold I have begun to deliver up before thee Seon, king of Esebon, the Amorite, and his land. Begin therefore to take possession of his land. ³² So Seon, king of Esebon, came out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle at Jassa. ³³ And the Lord our God delivered him up before us. And we smote him and his sons, and all his people, ³⁴ and took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed every city one after another; with their wives and children. We left none to be taken alive. ³⁵ Besides making a prey of their cattle, we took the spoils of their cities.

¹⁹ since thy servant hath found favour in thy sight and thou hast magnified thy kindness in what thou dost for me to save my life. I cannot escape to the mountains. Peradventure the calamity may overtake me and I shall die.

³⁷ With me also the Lord was angry on your account, and said, Neither shalt thou go in there.

²⁵ Let me cross over, and see that land, that good land which is beyond the Jordan, and that goodly mountain Antilibanus. ²⁶ But the Lord overlooked me, because of you, and would not hearken to me. And the Lord said to me, Let this suffice thee. Speak no more on this subject.

⁷ Joshua said, Alas, Lord! Why hath thy servant caused this people to cross the Jordan, to deliver them up to the Amorite to destroy us? Should we have tarried, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan?

¹⁰ Upon which she fell on her face, and made an obeisance to the ground, and said to him, How have I found favour in thy sight, that thou shouldst take notice of me, seeing I am a stranger?

³ And David in reply to Jonathan, said, Thy father knoweth well, that I have found favour in thy sight, therefore he said, Jonathan must not know this. He will not consent. But as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, it is as I said. There is but a step between me and death.

²² Upon which Joab fell on his face to the ground, and made obeisance, and blessed the king. And Joab said, Now thy servant knoweth that I have found favour in thy sight, my lord the king, because my lord the king hath granted the suit of his servant.

² And when the king saw Esther standing in the court, she obtained favour in his sight, and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre which was in his hand, and Esther drew near and touched the top of the sceptre.

² Thus said the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness among them who had perished by the sword. Go: you shall not destroy Israel.

¹¹ And Ourias said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Juda, dwell in tents, and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord encamp on the ground, and shall I go down to my house to eat and drink, and lie with my wife? How can I do it? As thy soul liveth, I will do no such thing.

⁵ It doth not behave itself unbecomingly. It is not self interested. It is not easily provoked. It placeth not the evil to account.

⁴ look not every one to his own interests, but every one of you to the interests also of others.

²⁷ And they gave him a minute detail and said, We went to the country to which thou didst send us, a land flowing with milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it.

⁴ Now when they had removed from mount Hor, by the way to the Red sea, and were marching round the land of Edom, the people became dispirited in the march,

⁹ When they had passed through the valley of grapes, and viewed the land, they discouraged the heart of the Israelites from going to the land which the Lord gave them;

²⁸ wherever we go. When your brethren disheartened you, saying, It is a nation great and numerous, and stronger than we; and the cities are large, and walled up to the sky. Indeed we have seen there sons of giants.

¹³ But Paul answered, Why make ye this ado, weeping and breaking my heart? As for me, I am ready, not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

² Send men, and let them examine for thee the land of the Chananites, which I am about to give to the children of Israel for a possession. Thou shalt send a man for every tribe; according to the communities of their patriarchal families, thou shalt send them, every one a leader among them. ³ So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Pharan, by the command of the Lord. All the men were principal officers of the children of Israel, ⁴ and these were their names; Of the tribe of Reuben, Samuel, son of Zachur; ⁵ of the tribe of Symeon, Saphat, son of Suri; ⁶ Of the tribe of Judas, Chaleb, son of Jephonne; ⁷ of the tribe of Issachar, Ilaal, son of Joseph; ⁸ of the tribe of Ephraim, Ause, son of Nave; ⁹ of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti, son of Raphu; ¹⁰ of the tribe of Zabulon, Gudiel, son of Sudi; ¹¹ of the tribe of Joseph; of the Manassites, Gaddi, son of Susi; ¹² of the tribe of Dan, Amiel, son of Gamali; ¹³ of the tribe of Aser, Sathur, son of Michael; ¹⁴ of the tribe of Nephthaleim, Nabi, son of Sabi; ¹⁵ of the tribe of Gad, Gudiel, son of Makchi. ¹⁶ These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to examine the land: [now Moses had surnamed Ause, son of Nave, Joshua.] ¹⁷ And upon sending them to view the land of Chanaan, Moses said to them, Having gone up through this wilderness, you shall go up to the mountain, ¹⁸ and view the land, of what sort it is; and the people who are settled in it, whether they be strong or weak; whether few or many; ¹⁹ and what sort of a country it is in which they are settled, whether it is good or bad; and what sort of cities they inhabit, whether they dwell in cities with walls, or without walls; ²⁰ and what the quality of the soil is, whether rich or poor; and whether there are trees there, or not. And having made a strict examination, you will bring with you some of the fruits of the land: [for their days, it being then the spring season, would reach to the time of the first ripe grapes.] ²¹ So they went up, and viewed the country from the wilderness of Sin, as far as Roob on the way to Aimath. ²² Then they went up, on a course parallel with the front of the desart; then turned down to Chebron, where were the Achimans and the Sessians, and the Thelamins, descendants of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanis in Egypt. ²³ And having come to the valley of grapes, and viewed it, they cut there a branch with a cluster of grapes on it, and carried it on poles, with some pomegranates and figs: ²⁴ and they called the name of that place, Valley of Grapes; because of the bunch of grapes which the children of Israel cut there. ²⁵ And having viewed the land, they set out thence on their return, after forty days, ²⁶ and journeying on came to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the Israelites in the wilderness of Pharan Kades, and made report to them and to all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

² the people wept that whole night. And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, that we had died in the land of Egypt, or even in this wilderness!

¹⁹ we removed from Choreb, and marched through all that great and frightful wilderness which you saw, on the way to the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God commanded us. And when we came to Kades-barne, ²⁰ I said to you, You are come to the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God giveth you. Behold the Lord your God hath delivered up to you the land before you. Go up and take possession of it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, commanded you. Fear not, nor be faint hearted.

²² Whereupon you all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them traverse the land for us, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities we shall come. ²³ And the proposal was agreeable to me. So I took from among you twelve men; a man for every tribe. ²⁴ And they turned, and went up to the mountain, and came to the valley of the bunch of grapes. And when they had thoroughly viewed it, ²⁵ they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good, which the Lord our God giveth us.

⁶ Now the children of Juda had come to Joshua at Galgal, and Chaleb the son of Jephonne, the Kenezite said to him, Thou knowest the word which the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, respecting me and thee at Kades-barne; ⁷ for I was forty years old, when Moses the servant of God sent me from Kades-barne to spy the land, and I made him a report to his mind.

²³ And having come to the valley of grapes, and viewed it, they cut there a branch with a cluster of grapes on it, and carried it on poles, with some pomegranates and figs:

²⁴ And they turned, and went up to the mountain, and came to the valley of the bunch of grapes. And when they had thoroughly viewed it, ²⁵ they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good, which the Lord our God giveth us. ²⁶ Notwithstanding this, you would not go up; but disobeyed the command of the Lord our God, ²⁷ and murmured in your tents, saying, Because the Lord hateth us he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us utterly, ²⁸ wherever we go. When your brethren disheartened you, saying, It is a nation great and numerous, and stronger than we; and the cities are large, and walled up to the sky. Indeed we have seen there sons of giants.

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, How long shall this people provoke me? And how long will they disbelieve me, notwithstanding all the miracles which I have done among them?

²¹ But as I live, and my name liveth, and the glory of the Lord shall fill the whole earth;

²³ they indeed shall not see the land which I, with an oath, promised their fathers. But with regard to their children who are here with me; as many as have not known good or evil; every one who is too young to be taught by experience, to them I will give the land. As for all them who have provoked me, they shall not see it;

²⁹ In this wilderness your carcasses shall fall; the whole review of you; even all of you who have been reviewed, from twenty years old, and upwards, who have murmured against me.

³⁴ And the Lord heard the sound of your words, and being provoked to wrath, he sware saying, ³⁵ Not one of these men shall see that good land which I, with an oath, promised their fathers, ³⁶ save Chaleb son of Jephonne. He shall see it. And to him I will give the land to which he went up, and to his children, because he vindicateth the cause of the Lord. ³⁷ With me also the Lord was angry on your account, and said, Neither shalt thou go in there. ³⁸ Joshua son of Nave who is thy attendant; he shall go thither. Encourage him, for he shall distribute it, by lot, to Israel. ³⁹ And with respect to your children, who do not know good or evil, they shall go thither, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it. ⁴⁰ But as for you, turn, and march into the wilderness, by the way to the Red sea.

¹¹ I solemnly said, They shall not enter into my rest.

¹⁵ and I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness thus far; that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, [a land flowing with milk and honey: it is the honey comb of the whole earth]

⁸ Let not your hearts be refractory as at Bitterness as in the day of the temptation in the wilderness; ⁹ Where your fathers tried me; they proved me, though they saw my works. Forty years. ¹⁰ For which cause I was incensed with that generation; And said, They do always err with the heart, And have not known my ways: ¹¹ So in mine indignation I solemnly said, "They shall not enter into my rest." ¹² Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; ¹³ but while this today is proclaimed, that none of you may be rendered obstinate by the deceitfulness of sin ¹⁴ [for we are made associates of the Christ if we retain the beginning of this confidence firm to the end] ¹⁵ exhort one another daily by its being said, "Today since you have heard his voice let not your hearts be refractory as at Bitterness." ¹⁶ For some hearers provoked him; but did they not all come out of Egypt by Moses? ¹⁷ Now, against whom was he incensed forty years? Was it not against them who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did he solemnly say that they should not enter into his rest, but to them who were disobedient. ¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

²⁴ But with regard to my servant Chaleb, because there was a different spirit in him, and he followed me, him I will bring into the land to which he went, and his seed shall inherit it.

²⁸ Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord, As you have spoken in my hearing, so will I actually do to you. ²⁹ In this wilderness your carcasses shall fall; the whole review of you; even all of you who have been reviewed, from twenty years old, and upwards, who have murmured against me. ³⁰ None of you shall come into that land, respecting which I stretched forth my hand to cause you to dwell therein, save only Chaleb son of Jephonne, and Joshua son of Nave.

² Take the sum of the whole congregation of Israel, from twenty years old and upwards, according to the houses of their families, every one who goeth out to war in Israel.

⁶⁴ and among them there was not a man of those who had been reviewed by Moses and Aaron, when they reviewed the Israelites in the wilderness of Sina. ⁶⁵ Because the Lord said to them, they shall assuredly die in the wilderness; therefore there was not one of them left, save Chaleb son of Jephonne, and Joshua son of Nave.

³⁵ Not one of these men shall see that good land which I, with an oath, promised their fathers,

¹⁴ Now the time we spent from Kades-barne till we came to the valley of Zaret, was thirty eight years; until all the generation of the warriors had fallen, and died out of the camp. As the Lord had, with an oath denounced against them, ¹⁵ the hand of the Lord was upon them to destroy them from among the host until they had all fallen.

⁸ My brethren who went up with me disturbed the heart of the people; but I determined to follow the Lord my God; ⁹ so Moses solemnly promised that day, saying, The land to which thou hast gone up shall be thy lot, and thy children's forever, for a possession, because thou hast determined to follow the Lord our God.

³⁰ None of you shall come into that land, respecting which I stretched forth my hand to cause you to dwell therein, save only Chaleb son of Jephonne, and Joshua son of Nave.

⁶⁵ Because the Lord said to them, they shall assuredly die in the wilderness; therefore there was not one of them left, save Chaleb son of Jephonne, and Joshua son of Nave.

³⁶ save Chaleb son of Jephonne. He shall see it. And to him I will give the land to which he went up, and to his children, because he vindicateth the cause of the Lord.

³³ your children shall be fed forty years. They shall bear your whoredom until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. ³⁴ According to the number of days in which you explored the land, counting each of the forty days a year, you shall bear your sins forty years, and shall know the vengeance of my wrath. ³⁵ I the Lord have spoken. In this manner I will assuredly deal with this wicked congregation, which hath risen up against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die,

³³ therefore their days glided away in vanity, and their years were attended with impatience.

⁵ But with the greater part of them God was not well pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

³ And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own likeness and after his own image, and called his name Seth.

²¹ And the Lord God smelled a sweet savour, and the Lord God having come to a determination, said, "I will no more curse the ground on account of the works of men. Though the imagination of man is studiously bent upon evils from his youth, I will not on that account again smite all living flesh, as I have done.

³⁴ And the Lord heard the sound of your words, and being provoked to wrath, he sware saying, ³⁵ Not one of these men shall see that good land which I, with an oath, promised their fathers,

¹³ Now after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for this our great transgression; though there is no God like our God; though thou hast blotted out our iniquities and given us deliverance; ¹⁴ yet we have returned to break thy commandments, and to intermarry with the people of these regions. Be not provoked against us to our utter destruction, so that not a remnant may escape.

¹⁰ And Esdras the priest arose, and said to them, You have broken covenant and taken strange wives to add to the transgression of Israel;

²⁴ But when thou hadst subdued before them the inhabitants of the land of the Chananites, and delivered them into their hands; both the kings and the people of the land, to do with them as they thought fit; ²⁵ and they had taken lofty cities, and got possession of houses filled with all good things, of cisterns ready hewn out of stone, of vineyards and olive yards, and all sorts of fruit trees in abundance, and had eaten and were filled, and became fat, they rioted on thy great bounty, ²⁶ and turned and apostatised from thee, and cast thy law behind their backs: Nay, they slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee; and committed great provocations.

¹⁸ Did not your fathers do so, and did not our God bring upon them and upon us, and upon this city, all these evils? And are you bringing more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath?

⁴ For who can be free from stain? Surely none.

⁵⁷ but turned back and broke covenant like their fathers. They turned aside like a deceitful bow.

⁴ Ah! sinful nation; people full of sins! vile race! iniquitous children! you have utterly forsaken the Lord; and provoked to wrath the Holy One of Israel.

⁴ in what have you indulged yourselves? and at whom have you opened your mouth, and at whom lolled your tongue? are you not children of destruction; a lawless race?

⁶ Behold it is written before me: I will not keep silence, until I have retributed into their bosom ⁷ their sins; and the sins of their fathers, saith the Lord. They have burned incense on the mounts, and treated me with scorn on the hills, I will retribute their works into their bosom.

²¹ But even these their children rebelled against me. In my statutes they did not walk, nor did they keep my rules of rectitude to practise them, which if a man do he shall live by them; and they profaned my sabbaths; therefore I spoke of pouring out my wrath upon them in the wilderness; of accomplishing mine indignation upon them.

³¹ So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of them who killed the prophets. ³² As for you then, fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents! brood of vipers! how can you escape the punishment of hell?

⁴⁸ You therefore bear testimony, and approve the works of your fathers. Because they slew them, you, therefore, build their monuments;

⁵¹ O stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do ye. ⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? Indeed they have slain them who prophesied concerning the coming of that Righteous one, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers:

¹⁴ Now if you will not hearken to me, nor perform these my commandments, ¹⁵ but disobey them, and your souls abhor my judgments, so as not to perform all my commandments, so as to break my covenant, ¹⁶ I will deal with you in this manner; I will send against you distress, and the scab, and the gangrene to eat out your eyes; and wasting consumption; and you shall sow your seed in vain; for your enemies shall eat it: ¹⁷ and I will set my face against you; and you shall fall before your enemies; and they who hate you shall pursue you; and you shall flee when there is none pursuing you. ¹⁸ And if for all this you will not hearken to me, I will proceed to chastise you seven fold for your offences,

³⁰ None of you shall come into that land, respecting which I stretched forth my hand to cause you to dwell therein, save only Chaleb son of Jephonne, and Joshua son of Nave. ³¹ But as for your children, which you said would be for a prey, them I will bring into the land, and they shall inherit that land which you have rejected. ³² Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness, and in this wilderness

¹⁵ But in case thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to keep all his commandments which I this day give thee in charge, all these evils shall come upon thee and overtake thee: ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed thou in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy granaries, and thy stores. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the products of thy land, thy herds and thy flocks. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed thou when thou goest out. ²⁰ The Lord send upon thee want, and famine, and destruction on all the labour of thy hands, until he utterly root thee out, and until he destroy thee quickly, on the account of thy wicked devices. Seeing thou hast forsaken me, ²¹ may the Lord make the pestilence cleave to thee, until it utterly consume thee from the land to which thou art going, to take possession of it. ²² The Lord smite thee with anxiety, and fever, and chilness, and restlessness, and blasting, and mildew, that they may pursue thee until they utterly destroy thee. ²³ And when the heaven over thy head shall be brass, and the earth under thy feet iron, ²⁴ may the Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust, so that dust from heaven may descend until it waste thee, and until it destroy thee speedily. ²⁵ May the Lord deliver thee up to slaughter before thine enemies, so that thou mayst go out one way to meet them, and flee seven ways from before them; and be a dispersion among all the kingdoms of the earth; ²⁶ and your dead carcasses be food for the birds of the air, and the wild beasts of the earth, and there be none to fray them away. ²⁷ The Lord smite thee with the Egyptian boil in thy seat, and with wild fire, and with itching, so that thou canst not be cured. ²⁸ The Lord smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart, ²⁹ so that thou mayst grope about at noon day, as a blind man gropeth in darkness; and let him not prosper thy ways, so thou shalt then be injured, and spoiled continually, and there will be none to help thee. ³⁰ Thou wilt take a wife, and another man shall have her. Thou wilt build a house, but shall not dwell therein. Thou wilt plant a vineyard, but shalt not gather the grapes thereof. ³¹ Thy ox will be slaughtered before thy face, and thou shalt not eat thereof. Thy ass will be taken from thee, and shall not be restored; thy flocks will be given to thine enemies, and there shall be none to help thee; ³² thy sons, and thy daughters, will be given to another nation, and thine eyes will melt in looking at them; there will be no strength in thy hand. ³³ A nation, which thou knowest not will eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours; and thou shalt be injured, and oppressed continually ³⁴ , and driven to madness at the sight of thine eyes, which thou shalt see. ³⁵ The Lord smite thee with a grievous boil on thy knees, and on thy legs, so that thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy feet to the crown of thy head. ³⁶ The Lord carry away thee, and thy rulers, whom thou mayst set over thee, to a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers knew, that thou mayst there serve other gods; stocks and stones; ³⁷ and be there for a bye word, and a proverb, and a public example to all the nations to which the Lord shall bring thee. ³⁸ There thou shalt carry out much seed into the field, and shalt bring little home, for the locust shall devour it; ³⁹ thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it; but shalt not press out wine, nor regale thyself from it; for worms shall eat it up. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt have plantations of olive trees, in all thy borders, but shalt not be anointed with oil, for thine olive tree shall cast its fruit: ⁴¹ thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but shalt not have them with thee; for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² All thy trees and the products of thy land, shall be consumed with blasting. ⁴³ The stranger who is with thee shall rise higher and higher; but thou shalt fall lower and lower. ⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee; and thou shalt not lend to him: He shall be head; and thou shalt be tail. ⁴⁵ All these curses shall actually come upon thee, and pursue thee, and overtake thee, until he root thee out, and utterly destroy thee because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, and his rules of rectitude, which he commanded thee, ⁴⁶ And they shall be signs for thee, and wonders for thine offspring forever. ⁴⁷ Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with gladness, and with a good understanding, for the abundance of all things; ⁴⁸ therefore thou shalt serve thine enemies, whom the Lord will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things, and thou shalt wear a yoke of iron on thy neck, until it utterly destroy thee. ⁴⁹ The Lord will bring against thee a nation from afar; from the extremity of the earth, with the impetuosity of an eagle; A nation whose voice thou shalt not understand; ⁵⁰ a nation of an unblushing countenance, which will not respect the person of an elder, nor compassionate a youth. ⁵¹ And it shall devour the increase of thy cattle, and the products of thy land, so as not to leave thee corn, wine, oil, herds or flocks, until it hath destroyed thee, ⁵² and wasted thee in thy cities; until they have demolished thy high, and strong walls, in which thou hast placed thy confidence, throughout thy whole land. And when he shall afflict thee in thy cities which he hath given thee; ⁵³ in thy siege, and in the affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee, thou shalt eat the offspring of thy body; the flesh of thy sons, and thy daughters, whom he gave thee. ⁵⁴ The tender, and very delicate man who is with thee, will look with an evil eye on his brother, and on the wife in his bosom, and the remaining children which may be left him, ⁵⁵ so as not to give one of them any of the flesh of his sons, which he may be eating, because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in that affliction of thine with which thine enemies will afflict thee, in all thy cities. ⁵⁶ And the tender, and very delicate woman among you, whose foot never ventured to tread the ground because of her delicateness, and effeminacy will look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and on her son, and her daughter, ⁵⁷ even the female infant she bore, or the male child which she may have brought forth; for on the account of the want of all things, she will eat these secretly in thy siege, and in that affliction of thine with which thine enemy will afflict thee in thy cities. ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not hearken to do all the words of this law, which are written in this book, to fear this glorious, this wonderful name, The Lord Thy God, ⁵⁹ the Lord will make thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, wonderful beyond conception; he will make them great, and marvellous, and thy diseases sore, and lasting, ⁶⁰ and will bring upon thee all the affliction of Egypt; that grievous affliction which thou didst dread on their account, and they shall cleave to thee. ⁶¹ The Lord will also bring upon thee every sickness, and every plague, which is not written, and every one which is written in this book of the law, until he root thee out. ⁶² And you shall be left few in number, instead of being, as you were, like the stars of heaven for multitude. Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, ⁶³ therefore it shall come to pass, that as the Lord delighted in you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you, in rooting you out; and you shall be removed speedily from the land to which thou art going to take possession of it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord thy God will scatter thee among all the nations, from one extremity of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods; stocks and stones, which neither thou, nor thy fathers have known. ⁶⁵ But even among these nations he will not give thee rest, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. Indeed the Lord will give thee there a strange trembling heart, and failing eyes, and a desponding soul, ⁶⁶ and thy life shall hang in suspence before thine eyes, and thou shalt be in terror, day and night, and have no assurance of thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning thou wilt say; How will it be with me in the evening! And in the evening thou wilt say, How may it be with me in the morning! on account of the terror of thy heart with which thou shalt be affrighted, and on account of the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ⁶⁸ And the Lord will send thee back into Egypt, in ships, [by the way which I ordered thou shalt see it no more:] and thou shalt there be exposed to sale to your enemies, for bond men and bond women, and there will be no purchaser.

¹⁷ But if thy heart turn aside, and thou wilt not hearken, but go astray, and worship other gods, and serve them, ¹⁸ I announce to thee this day, that you shall surely perish, and shall not prolong your lives in the land, to which you are about to cross the Jordan, to take possession of it. ¹⁹ I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that I have set Life and Death, the Blessing and the Curse before you. Chuse thou life, that thou and thy seed may live,

¹⁶ Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespass is this which you have committed in the presence of the God of Israel, to turn away this day from the Lord, having built for yourselves an altar that you may apostatize from the Lord? ¹⁷ Is the sin of Phogor a small matter to you? Because we have not been cleansed from it even to this day, though there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord; ¹⁸ are you therefore now turned away from the Lord? For the consequence will be, if you this day apostatize from the Lord, there will be to-morrow wrath against all Israel.

¹⁹ But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you; and go and serve strange gods and worship them, ²⁰ I will assuredly remove you from this land which I have given them. And I will remove out of my sight this house which I have hallowed to my name, and make it a proverb and a bye word among all the nations. ²¹ Yes, at this house which is so lofty, every one who passeth by it shall be astonished, and say, Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this land and this house? ²² To which it will be answered, Because they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods in his stead, and worshipped them and served them, therefore he brought upon them all this calamity.

² and he went out to meet Asa and all Juda and Benjamin, and said, Hear me Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, while you are with him. And if you seek him, he will be found by you. But if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

²³ And thy wives and thy children shall be brought out to the Chaldeans. And thou shalt not escape. For by the hand of the king of Babylon thou shalt be taken and this city shall be burned."

⁷ Alas, for the world because of these stumbling blocks, for these stumbling blocks must needs come: but alas for the man by whom the stumbling block cometh.

¹⁵ Now if on account of thy food thy brother is grieved, thou no longer walkest According to love. Destroy not by thy food him for whom Christ died.

²⁰ Do not for the sake of food destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but they are an evil to a man who eateth for a stumbling block. ²¹ It is good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor any thing by which thy brother falleth, or stumbleth, or is made weak.

¹¹ And shall the weak brother, for whom Christ died, be destroyed for thy knowledge? ¹² When you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

¹⁷ and Jacob marched on to Booths, and there built houses for himself and booths for his cattle, for which cause he called the name of that place Booths.

²² of the tribe of Dan, chief Bakchir, son of Egli;

²⁹ and said to them, If the Reubenites and the Gadites cross the Jordan with you, every one armed for battle before the Lord, when you shall have subdued the land before you, you shall give them the land of Galaad for a possession. ³⁰ But if they decline to cross with you, armed for battle before the Lord; you shall drive before you their families, and their wives, and their cattle, into the land of Chanaan, and they shall have a portion with you in the land of Chanaan. ³¹ And the Reubenites and the Gadites answered, saying, All that our lord saith to his servants we will do. ³² We will cross over, completely armed before the Lord, into the land of Chanaan, and you shall give us our possession on this side of the Jordan.

¹⁸ I gave you a charge at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land for a possession, you shall go armed before your brethren, the children of Israel, all of you who are fit for war, ¹⁹ [but your wives, and your children, and your cattle, for I know that you have much cattle, are to dwell in your cities, which I have given you] ²⁰ until the Lord your God shall have given your brethren rest, as well as you; and until they shall have taken possession of the land which the Lord our God giveth them, on the other side of the Jordan. Then you shall return, every one to his possession which I have given you.

¹² And the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, crossed over well armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had commanded them. ¹³ Forty thousand, well equipped for war, crossed over before the Lord, in battle array, to the city Jericho.

¹ Then Joshua convened the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, ² and said to them, You have hearkened to all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you; and you have obeyed my orders according to all that he commanded you. ³ You have not for these many years left your brethren: even to this day you have kept the command of the Lord your God. ⁴ Now the Lord our God hath given our brethren rest as he promised them. Now therefore return and go to your homes, and to the land of your possession, which Moses gave you on the bank of the Jordan. ⁵ But be very careful to perform the commandments and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you to do, to love the Lord our God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him and serve him with your whole heart, and with your whole soul.

¹⁰ Then Lot raised his eyes and took a view of all the country bordering on the Jordan. For before God overthrew Sodom and Gormorra it was all watered till it reacheth Zogora, like the paradise of God, and like the land, of Egypt. ¹¹ So Lot chose for himself all the country bordering on the Jordan; and Lot removed to the eastern border. And the brothers separated one from the other. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan; ¹² and Lot dwelt in a city of the borderers and pitched his tent among the Sodomites,

¹² They took also Lot, Abram's brother's son and his substance, when they went off, as he dwelt among the Sodomites.

³² We will cross over, completely armed before the Lord, into the land of Chanaan, and you shall give us our possession on this side of the Jordan. ³³ So Moses gave them, namely, to the Gadites and the Reubenites, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, one of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and the cities, with the boundaries thereof, even the cities of the land round about.

¹⁵ two tribes, and the half of a tribe, have received their lots on the south east side of the Jordan, in front of Jericho.

¹⁴ Let your wives, and your children, and your cattle abide in the land which he hath given you; but you, all your able bodied men, well equipt, shall cross over before your brethren, and assist them; ¹⁵ until the Lord our God shall give your brethren rest, as well as you; and until they possess the land which the Lord our God giveth them. Then you shall return, every one to his possession, which Moses gave you on the east side of the Jordan.

¹ Now these are the kings of the land, whom the Israelites slew, and whose land they possessed, on the east side of the Jordan, from the vale of Arnon to mount Aermon, comprehending all the land of Araba to the east; ² Seon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Esebon; whose dominion extended from Arnon which is in the vale, along part of the vale, and the half of Galaad to Jabok, the boundary of the Ammonites, ³ comprehending Araba, to the east side of the sea of Cheneroth, and to the sea of Araba, the east side of the salt sea, the way in front of Aseimoth, that leading from Thaiman, at the foot of Asedoth Phasga: ⁴ and Og, king of Basan, who was a remnant of the giants, and who dwelt at Astaroth, and Edrain, ⁵ and whose dominion extended from mount Aermon, and from Sekchai, over all the land of Basan, to the borders of Gergesi, and over Machi, and the half of Galaad, to the borders of Seon king of Esebon. ⁶ These, Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel, smote; and Moses gave this land for a possession to Reuben, and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses.

⁸ Thou shalt give it from the Jordan to the great sea, at the setting of the sun: that great sea shall be your boundary. To the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, Moses hath given on the eastern border of the Jordan. Moses the servant of the Lord had given them

³² In those days the Lord began to lop Israel; and Azael smote them all along the border of Israel, ³³ from the Jordan towards the rising of the sun; all the land of Galaad belonging to the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, including Galaad and Basan.

²⁹ In the days of Phakee king of Israel, Thalgathphellasar king of the Assyrians came up and took Ain and Abel, and Thamacha and Anioch, and Kenez and Asor, and Galen and Galilee; all the land of Nephthaleim, and removed the inhabitants to Assyria.

²⁵ But when they revolted from the God of their fathers and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God had removed from before them, ²⁶ the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Phaloch king of Assur, and the spirit of Thaglaphalassar king [of Assur, and he removed Reuben and Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, and carried them to Chaach and Chabor, and to the river of Gozan, where they are to this day.

²¹ A portion got at first with too much haste will not at the last be blessed.

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

² and said to them, You have hearkened to all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you; and you have obeyed my orders according to all that he commanded you. ³ You have not for these many years left your brethren: even to this day you have kept the command of the Lord your God. ⁴ Now the Lord our God hath given our brethren rest as he promised them. Now therefore return and go to your homes, and to the land of your possession, which Moses gave you on the bank of the Jordan.

¹² And we took possession of this land, at that time, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, and the half of mount Galaad; and I gave all the cities thereof to Reuben, and Gad. ¹³ And the rest of Galaad, and all Basan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half of the tribe of Manasses, with all the region of Argob, even all that part of Basan which is to be accounted the land of the Raphains. ¹⁴ [Now when Jair the Manassite took the region of Argob, even to the borders of Gergesi, and Machathi, he called it after his own name Basan-Thavoth-Jair which is now its name.] ¹⁵ Now when I gave Galaad to the Machirites ¹⁶ and to Reuben and Gad, all below Galaad, to the brook Arnon, the middle of the brook being the boundary; and as far as Jabok, this brook being the boundary of the Ammanites, ¹⁷ and Araba, and the Jordan the boundary of Machanareth, even to the sea of Araba, the salt sea below Asedoth, the Phasga of the East, ¹⁸ I gave you a charge at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land for a possession, you shall go armed before your brethren, the children of Israel, all of you who are fit for war,

²⁰ until the Lord your God shall have given your brethren rest, as well as you; and until they shall have taken possession of the land which the Lord our God giveth them, on the other side of the Jordan. Then you shall return, every one to his possession which I have given you.

¹⁵ until the Lord our God shall give your brethren rest, as well as you; and until they possess the land which the Lord our God giveth them. Then you shall return, every one to his possession, which Moses gave you on the east side of the Jordan.

¹⁹ And it shall be that whoever goeth out of the door of thy house, into the street, shall incur the guilt of his own death, and we shall be clear of blame in regard to this oath which we have sworn to thee. But for all who are with thee in the house we will be answerable.

³⁰ and the Lord delivered it into the hands of Israel, and they took it and the king thereof, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every thing in it which had breath. There was not one left in it who escaped, or fled. And when they had done to the king thereof as they did to the king of Jericho,

²³ And when Joshua had taken all the land as the Lord commanded Moses, he gave it for an inheritance to Israel, in parcels, according to their tribes; and the land rested from war.

²⁹ And to the half of the tribe of Manasses, according to their communities, Moses gave, ³⁰ and these were their borders; from Maan, all the kingdom of Basan, even all the kingdom of Og, king of Basan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Basanitis, sixty cities, ³¹ and the half of Galaad, and in Astaroth, and in Edrain, the cities of the kingdom of Og, in Basanitis. These he gave to the Machirites, the children of Manasses, to one half of the Machirites, the children of Manasses, according to their communities. ³² These were they to whom Moses gave possessions on the east side of the Jordan, at Araboth; Moab, on the bank of the Jordan over against Jericho.

¹ When all the congregation of Israel assembled at Selo, and fixed there the tabernacle of the testimony, and the land was subdued under them,

⁴ Now the Lord our God hath given our brethren rest as he promised them. Now therefore return and go to your homes, and to the land of your possession, which Moses gave you on the bank of the Jordan.

⁹ And when the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, had set out from the children of Israel, at Selo in the land of Chanaan, to go to Galaad, to the land of their possession, which they had got from Moses by the command of the Lord,

²⁸ And when David afterward heard, he said, Guiltless am I and my kingdom, before the Lord for ever, from the blood of Abenner, son of Ner.

¹ For the conclusion. For the sons of Kore. A Psalm for Understanding. O God, we have heard with our ears: our fathers have told us the work which thou didst in the days of old. ² When thy hand had extirpated nations, thou didst plant them: thou didst afflict nations and drive them out. ³ For they took not possession of the land with their own sword: nor was it their own arm that saved them: but thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou tookest pleasure in them. ⁴ Thou, who didst command the deliverances of Jacob; even thou art my king and my God.

⁵⁵ and drove out nations from before them, and gave them by lot their several portions, and settled in their dwellings the tribes of Israel.

⁷ Though thou hast offered right, yet if thou hast not rightly divided, hast thou not sinned? Be composed. To thee shall be his recourse, and thou shalt rule over him."

¹⁶ And Judas said, What answer can we make to my lord? Or what can we say? Or how can we justify ourselves? God hath indeed found out the iniquity of thy servants. Behold we are slaves to our lord; both we and he with whom the cup was found.

¹⁴ Now if you will not hearken to me, nor perform these my commandments, ¹⁵ but disobey them, and your souls abhor my judgments, so as not to perform all my commandments, so as to break my covenant, ¹⁶ I will deal with you in this manner; I will send against you distress, and the scab, and the gangrene to eat out your eyes; and wasting consumption; and you shall sow your seed in vain; for your enemies shall eat it: ¹⁷ and I will set my face against you; and you shall fall before your enemies; and they who hate you shall pursue you; and you shall flee when there is none pursuing you. ¹⁸ And if for all this you will not hearken to me, I will proceed to chastise you seven fold for your offences, ¹⁹ and break the haughtiness of your pride.; I will make the heaven for you as iron, and your land as brass; ²⁰ and your strength shall be spent in vain. The earth shall not yield you its seed, nor shall the trees of the field yield you their fruit. ²¹ And after all these things, if you walk adversely and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven fold plagues upon you according to your sins; ²² I will send against you the wild beasts of the earth, and they shall devour you, and destroy your cattle; and I will make you few in number, and your high ways shall be desolate. ²³ And if by these things you be not reformed, but walk adversely before me, ²⁴ I also will walk with you in adverse wrath, and smite you seven fold for your sins; ²⁵ I will bring a sword against you to avenge the cause of the covenant; and when you flee to your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies. ²⁶ In your affliction for want of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you shall eat, but shall not be satisfied. ²⁷ And if for these things you will not hearken to me, but walk adversely before me, ²⁸ I also will walk with you in adverse ire, and chastise you seven fold, according to your sins. ²⁹ And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters also you shall eat: ³⁰ and I will lay waste your pillars, and utterly destroy your carved images of wood, and cast your mangled limbs among the mangled limbs of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. ³¹ And I will lay waste your cities, and make your sanctuaries a desolation, and no longer be regaled with the smell of your sacrifices. ³² I will also make your land a desolation, and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it. ³³ And I will scatter you among the nations, and a sword shall overtake and consume you. And your land shall be a waste, and your cities a desolation. ³⁴ And the land shall then enjoy its sabbaths all the time of its desolation. When you shall be in the land of your enemies, the land shall then rest; and the land shall keep those sabbaths, ³⁵ which it did not keep by your sabbaths when you dwelt therein. ³⁶ And upon those of you who are left, I will bring a slavery, which shall reach their very hearts, in the land of their enemies. The sound of a leaf driven by the wind will scare them; and they shall flee like those who flee from a battle, and shall fall when none pursueth. ³⁷ And brother shall overlook brother as in a battle, though none attacketh; and you shall not be able to withstand your enemies. ³⁸ And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. ³⁹ And those of you who are left shall pine away for their sins, and for the sins of their fathers; In the land of their enemies they shall pine away, ⁴⁰ and confess their sins and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed, and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me, ⁴¹ and I have walked with them in vengeful ire. When I am destroying them in the land of their enemies, then will their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then will they bear their sins with humble submission; ⁴² whereupon I will call to remembrance the covenant with Jacob, and the covenant with Isaak, and I will call to remembrance the covenant with Abraham, and remember the land. ⁴³ When the land shall be forsaken by them, and when the land shall have enjoyed its sabbaths by being made a waste on their account, and they have borne their iniquities because they neglected my judgments, and in their hearts abhorred my statutes, ⁴⁴ [as I did not, when they were in their enemies' country, wholly overlook them, nor abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, for breaking my covenant which I made with them, for I am the Lord their God] ⁴⁵ then will I remember the covenant with them; that old covenant when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage, to be their God. I am the Lord; ⁴⁶ These are my judgments, and these are my statutes, and this is the law which the Lord hath given between himself and the children of Israel, at mount Sina, by the ministration of Moses.

⁸ thou hast placed our iniquities before thee: let this age of ours be for the light of thy countenance.

¹¹ When I said, Darkness will surely trample me down: then to my great joy, night was luminous.

¹¹ A tattling chief cannot prosper in the land: evils will hunt to destruction a man of violence.

²¹ Evils shall pursue sinners, but good will overtake the righteous.

¹¹ Alas for the wicked! according to the works of his hands evils shall befal him. my people!

¹ It is not that the hand of the Lord is unable to save; nor that his ear is grown dull to hear; ² but your sins make a separation between you and your God; and on account of your sins he hath turned away his face from you that he may not exercise compassion.

¹² For our manifold iniquity is before thee; and our sins are risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our transgressions.

⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who doth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

⁵ So pass no judgment prematurely, until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and expose to view the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise for every one will be from God.

² If any man vow a vow to the Lord, or swear an oath, or bind himself with a solemn promise concerning his soul, he shall not break his word. Whatever hath proceeded from his mouth he shall do.

¹⁶ Upon this they came near to him, and said, We will build sheepcots here for our cattle, and cities for our families,

³⁴ And the Gadites rebuilt Daibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, ³⁵ and Sophar, and Jazer, and raised these, namely, ³⁶ Namram and Baithara, fenced cities, and folds for sheep. ³⁷ And the Reubenites rebuilt Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham, ³⁸ and Beelmeon, which they enclosed all around, and Sebama; and they named the cities which they rebuilt after their own names. ³⁹ Now a descendant of Machir, son of Manasses, had gone to Galaad, and taken it, and destroyed the Amorite who dwelt there. ⁴⁰ So Moses gave Galaad to the community of Machir, son of Manasses, and they dwelt there. ⁴¹ And Jair, of the tribe of Manasses, went and took their sheepcots, and called them the sheepcots of Jair. ⁴² And Nabau went and took Kaath, and its villages, and called them Naboth after his own name.

¹³ Remember what Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you saying; The Lord your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land. ¹⁴ Let your wives, and your children, and your cattle abide in the land which he hath given you; but you, all your able bodied men, well equipt, shall cross over before your brethren, and assist them;

¹⁴ Let your wives, and your children, and your cattle abide in the land which he hath given you; but you, all your able bodied men, well equipt, shall cross over before your brethren, and assist them;

²⁸ Upon which Joshua the son of Nave, who was the chosen attendant of Moses, addressing him said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

¹¹ he said to Moses, O my lord, impute not sin to us, because we have acted ignorantly; because we have sinned,

¹⁷ but we ourselves, completely armed, will march in the van before the children of Israel, until we bring them to their place. Our families indeed must dwell in walled cities, because of the inhabitants of the land,

² and said, The Lord hath commanded our lord to give the land of inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and the Lord hath commanded our lord to give the inheritance of Salpaad, our brother, to his daughters.

¹² And the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, crossed over well armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had commanded them.

⁴ [the weapons of our warfare being indeed not carnal but mighty through God for the demolition of fortifications] ⁵ demolishing surmises and every mount raised against the knowledge of God, and bringing every sentiment captive to the obedience of the Christ;

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. ¹¹ Put on the complete armour of God, that you may be able to withstand the wiles of the devil. ¹² Because our conflict is not barely with flesh and blood, but against the principalities and the powers; against the rulers of this dark age, against the spiritual [assaults] of the wickedness in the heavenly dispensation; ¹³ take up therefore the complete armour of God, that you may be able to make resistance in the evil day, and having put a stop to them all, to maintain your ground. ¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girded with truth, and having on the breast plate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and your feet shod with the preparation of the glad tidings of peace, ¹⁶ covering all with the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the evil one. ¹⁷ Take also the helmet of salvation, and the sword o" the spirit, that is the word of God; ¹⁸ in every prayer and supplication, always praying with the spirit [being for this purpose in a continual state of watchfulness and prayer] for all the saints

⁷ I have maintained the good combat. I have finished the course; I have kept the faith. ⁸ As to what remaineth, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, not only to me, but to all who have loved his glorious appearance.

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

¹⁹ Now if the land of your possession be too small for you, come over to the land of the possession of the Lord, where the tabernacle of the Lord is pitched, and take a possession among us, and do not become apostates from God, nor revolt from the Lord by building for yourselves an altar apart from the altar of the Lord our God.

²³ But Seon would not grant Israel a passage through his territories. He indeed assembled all his people, and went out to the wilderness, to attack Israel, and came to Jessa, and drew up in array against Israel. ²⁴ Whereupon Israel smote him with the slaughter of the sword, and took possession of his land, from Anion to Jabok, even to the Ammanites; for Jazer is the boundary of the Ammanites. ²⁵ So Israel took all those cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Hesebon, and in all those under the same dominion with it; ²⁶ for Hesebon was the city of Seon the king of the Amorites. He indeed had made war on a former king of Moab, and had taken all his land from Aroer to Arnon; ²⁷ for this cause the poets say, Come to Hesebon that it may be rebuilded, And that the city of Seon may be inhabited. ²⁸ For a fire went forth from Hesebon; And a flame from the city of Seon; Which devoured even to Moab; Which devoured the pillars of Arnon. ²⁹ Alas! for thee Moab! Thou wast undone, people of Chamos! Their sons were delivered up to save their lives; And their daughters were captives to Seon, king of the Amorites, ³⁰ And their seed was destroyed from Hesebon even to Daibon. And against Moab their wives rekindled a fire. ³¹ And when Israel had taken possession of all the cities of the Amorites: ³² Moses sent to view Jazer, and they took it, and all the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites who were there. ³³ Then they turned and went up by the way of Basan. And when Og king of Basan came out to meet them, he and all his people, for battle at Adraim ³⁴ the Lord said to Moses, Be not afraid of him; for into thy hands I will deliver him, and all his people, and all his land; And thou shalt do to him, as thou hast done to Seon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Hesebon. ³⁵ So he smote him, and his sons,, and all his people, until there was not one left to be taken alive. And they took possession of their land.

¹⁴ because the tribe of the Reubenites, and the tribe of the Gadites, according to the houses of their families, and the half of the tribe of the Manassites, have received their allotments.

³⁰ But Seon, king of Esebon, would not consent that we should pass by him, for the Lord our God had emboldened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as at this day. ³¹ Then the Lord said to me, Behold I have begun to deliver up before thee Seon, king of Esebon, the Amorite, and his land. Begin therefore to take possession of his land. ³² So Seon, king of Esebon, came out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle at Jassa. ³³ And the Lord our God delivered him up before us. And we smote him and his sons, and all his people,

¹ we turned and went up the way to Basan. And when Og, king of Basan came out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrain, ² the Lord said to me, Fear him not; for into thy hand I have delivered him, and all his people, and all his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Seon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Esebon. ³ So the Lord our God delivered also into our hands Og, king of Basan, and all his people, and we smote him till there was none of his seed left. ⁴ And we took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them; three score cities, the whole region of Argob, belonging to Og, king of Basan; ⁵ All the cities fortified with high walls, bars and gates, besides the towns of the Pherezites, which were very many, ⁶ we utterly destroyed. As we had done to Seon, king of Esebon, we destroyed every city, one after another, and the women and children. ⁷ But all the cattle, and the spoils of the cities, we took for ourselves. ⁸ So, at that time, we took this land out of the hands of the two kings of the Amorites, who were on the banks of the Jordan, from the brook Anion even to Aermon

¹² And we took possession of this land, at that time, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, and the half of mount Galaad; and I gave all the cities thereof to Reuben, and Gad. ¹³ And the rest of Galaad, and all Basan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half of the tribe of Manasses, with all the region of Argob, even all that part of Basan which is to be accounted the land of the Raphains. ¹⁴ [Now when Jair the Manassite took the region of Argob, even to the borders of Gergesi, and Machathi, he called it after his own name Basan-Thavoth-Jair which is now its name.] ¹⁵ Now when I gave Galaad to the Machirites ¹⁶ and to Reuben and Gad, all below Galaad, to the brook Arnon, the middle of the brook being the boundary; and as far as Jabok, this brook being the boundary of the Ammanites, ¹⁷ and Araba, and the Jordan the boundary of Machanareth, even to the sea of Araba, the salt sea below Asedoth, the Phasga of the East,

⁸ and took their land, and I have given it to Reuben, and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses:

⁶ These, Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel, smote; and Moses gave this land for a possession to Reuben, and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses.

⁸ Thou shalt give it from the Jordan to the great sea, at the setting of the sun: that great sea shall be your boundary. To the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, Moses hath given on the eastern border of the Jordan. Moses the servant of the Lord had given them ⁹ from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Anion, that city which is in the middle of the vale, and all Misor from Maidaban; ¹⁰ all the cities of Seon, king of the Amorites, who reigned at Esebon, to the borders, of the children of Ammon; ¹¹ and Galaaditis; and the country of the Geserites, and the Machatites; all mount Aermon; and all Basanitis to Acha; Now the children of Israel had not destroyed the Gesirites, nor the Machatite, who was a Chananite. And the king of Gesiri, and the Machatite, still dwelt among the Israelites. ¹² all the kingdom of Og, in Basanitis, who reigned in Astaroth and Edrain, he was a remnant of the giants, and Moses smote him and destroyed him.

¹⁴ But to the tribe of Levi there was no possession given. The Lord, the God of Israel is himself their possession, as the Lord said to them. Now this was the distribution which Moses made to the children of Israel at Araboth-Moab, on the border of the Jordan, over against Jericho.;

¹⁸ The Reubenites and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses who were fit for war, men wielding shields and swords and bending the bow and disciplined for battle, were forty four thousand seven hundred and sixty who marched out in array.

³¹ and of the half of the tribe of Manasses, eighteen thousand, who were enrolled for the express purpose of making David king

³² And his brethren, the heads of subordinate families, were two thousand seven hundred. And king David set them over the Reubenites and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, for every ordinance of the Lord and every affair of the king.

¹⁰ It was he who smote many nations; and slew kings of mighty power; ¹¹ Seon king of the Amorites, and Og, the king of Basan, and all the kingdoms of Chanaan;

¹⁸ and slew kings of mighty power: for his mercy endureth forever; ¹⁹ Seon king of the Amorites; for his mercy endureth forever; ²⁰ And Og the king of Basan; for his mercy endureth forever: ²¹ and gave their land for an inheritance; for his mercy endureth forever:

²⁰ and from Bamoth to Nepe, which is in that plain of Moab bordering on the craggy cliff, namely, that which looketh towards the wilderness.

⁴⁵ And they removed from Gai, and encamped at Daibon-gad. ⁴⁶ And they removed from Daibon-gad, and encamped at Gelmon-deblathaim.

³⁶ From Aroer, which is on the banks of the brook Arnon, including the city in the vale, even to mount Galaad, there was not a city which escaped us. The Lord our God delivered them all into our hands.

² left for ever for the folding of flocks, and for a resting place where none will scare them.

²⁷ for this cause the poets say, Come to Hesebon that it may be rebuilded, And that the city of Seon may be inhabited.

⁴ because Esebon and Eleale have screamed: even to Jassa their voice hath been heard; therefore the lungs of Moab utter lowings; her soul will be afflicted.

¹⁸ And Isaak digged again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged and which the Philistines had stopped up, after the death of his father Abraham. And he called them by the same names, by which his father had named them.

¹³ You shall keep all that I have said to you; and make no mention of the name of strange gods, nor let it be heard out of your mouth.

⁴¹ And early next morning Balak took Balaam, and led him up to the top of the pillar of Baal, and from it shewed him some part of the people.

⁷ That you may have no fellowship with those nations which are left, the names of their gods must not be mentioned among you; nor shall you perform religious service to them, nor worship them;

⁴ Their infirmities were multiplied: after these hallowed things they hastened. I will no more assemble their congregations for blood, nor make mention of their names with my lips.

¹ Bel is fallen; Nabo is broken to pieces, Their graven images were a load for wild beasts and cattle, You are carrying them bound like a burden on the weary, fainty, and hungry, who are all without strength

²³ and saw Ephraim's children to the third generation; and the children of Machir the son of Manasses were also dandled on his knees;

²⁹ The children of Manasses were from Machir, the community of the Machirites. Galaad also being a son of Machir, from Galaad, the community of the Galaadites.

¹ And the borders of the tribe of the children of Manasses were these; Because he was the first born of Joseph, Machir the first born of Manasses, the father of Galaad, being a man of war, had a possession in Galaaditis, and in Basanitis;

¹³ And the rest of Galaad, and all Basan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half of the tribe of Manasses, with all the region of Argob, even all that part of Basan which is to be accounted the land of the Raphains. ¹⁴ [Now when Jair the Manassite took the region of Argob, even to the borders of Gergesi, and Machathi, he called it after his own name Basan-Thavoth-Jair which is now its name.] ¹⁵ Now when I gave Galaad to the Machirites

²⁹ And to the half of the tribe of Manasses, according to their communities, Moses gave, ³⁰ and these were their borders; from Maan, all the kingdom of Basan, even all the kingdom of Og, king of Basan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Basanitis, sixty cities, ³¹ and the half of Galaad, and in Astaroth, and in Edrain, the cities of the kingdom of Og, in Basanitis. These he gave to the Machirites, the children of Manasses, to one half of the Machirites, the children of Manasses, according to their communities.

¹⁴ [Now when Jair the Manassite took the region of Argob, even to the borders of Gergesi, and Machathi, he called it after his own name Basan-Thavoth-Jair which is now its name.]

³⁰ and these were their borders; from Maan, all the kingdom of Basan, even all the kingdom of Og, king of Basan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Basanitis, sixty cities,

⁴ Now he had thirty two sons, who rode on thirty two ass-colts, and they had thirty two cities, which are called, The folds of Jair, to this day, in the land of Galaad.

¹³ Son Naber at Raboth Galaad; he had the district of Ergab in Basan, containing sixty large cities with walls and brasen bars, another.

²¹ And after that Esron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Galaad and took her when he was sixty five years of age; and she bore to him Seruch. ²² And Seruch begot Jair. He had twenty three cities in the land of Galaad, ²³ and he took Gedsour and Aram, the villages of Jair which belonged to them, Kanath and the villages thereof, sixty cities. All these belonged to the children of Machir, the father of Galaad.

¹⁸ Now Abessalom had, in his life time, undertaken and erected for himself a monument in which he was to have been buried. So he erected this monument to supply the place of that in the king's dale, because, said he, he hath no son to keep up the remembrance of his name. And he called that monument, The hand of Abessalom, which name it retaineth to this day.

¹¹ [a] But their graves shall be their houses forever; their dwelling places to all generations. On these parcels of earth, they have put their names,