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¹Since Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go to seek omens as on previous occasions, but turned toward the wilderness.

²When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came on him,

³and he proclaimed his poem: The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eyes are opened,

⁴the oracle of one who hears the sayings of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls into a trance with his eyes uncovered:

⁵How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, your dwellings, Israel.

⁶They stretch out like river valleys, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the water.

⁷Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will be by abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.

⁸God brought him out of Egypt; he is like the horns of a wild ox for them. He will feed on enemy nations and gnaw their bones; he will strike them with his arrows.

⁹He crouches, he lies down like a lion or a lioness — who dares to rouse him? Those who bless you will be blessed, and those who curse you will be cursed.

¹⁰Then Balak became furious with Balaam, struck his hands together, and said to him, “I summoned you to put a curse on my enemies, but instead, you have blessed them these three times.

¹¹Now go to your home! I said I would reward you richly, but look, the LORD has denied you a reward.”

¹²Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I previously tell the messengers you sent me:

¹³If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the LORD’s command, to do anything good or bad of my own will? I will say whatever the LORD says.

¹⁴Now I am going back to my people, but first, let me warn you what these people will do to your people in the future.”

¹⁵Then he proclaimed his poem: The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eyes are opened;

¹⁶the oracle of one who hears the sayings of God and has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls into a trance with his eyes uncovered:

¹⁷I see him, but not now; I perceive him, but not near. A star will come from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will smash the forehead of Moab and strike down all the Shethites.

¹⁸Edom will become a possession; Seir will become a possession of its enemies, but Israel will be triumphant.

¹⁹One who comes from Jacob will rule; he will destroy the city’s survivors.

²⁰Then Balaam saw Amalek and proclaimed his poem: Amalek was first among the nations, but his future is destruction.

²¹Next he saw the Kenites and proclaimed his poem: Your dwelling place is enduring; your nest is set in the cliffs.

²²Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.

²³Once more he proclaimed his poem: Ah, who can live when God does this?

²⁴Ships will come from the coast of Kittim; they will carry out raids against Asshur and Eber, but they too will come to destruction.

²⁵Balaam then arose and went back to his homeland, and Balak also went his way.

¹While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, the people began to prostitute themselves with the women of Moab.

²The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.

³So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.

⁴The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD so that his burning anger may turn away from Israel.”

⁵So Moses told Israel’s judges, “Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.”

⁶An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

⁷When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

⁸followed the Israelite man into the tent, and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman — through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped,

⁹but those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.

¹⁰The LORD spoke to Moses,

¹¹“Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the Israelites because he was zealous among them with my zeal, so that I did not destroy the Israelites in my zeal.

¹²Therefore declare: I grant him my covenant of peace.

¹³It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his future descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”

¹⁴The name of the slain Israelite man, who was struck dead with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.

¹⁵The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of a family in Midian.

¹⁶The LORD told Moses:

¹⁷“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.

¹⁸For they attacked you with the treachery that they used against you in the Peor incident. They did the same in the case involving their sister Cozbi, daughter of the Midianite leader who was killed the day the plague came at Peor.”

¹After the plague, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,

²“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their ancestral families of those twenty years old or more who can serve in Israel’s army.”

³So Moses and the priest Eleazar said to them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho,

⁴“Take a census of those twenty years old or more, as the LORD had commanded Moses and the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt.”

⁵Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. Reuben’s descendants: the Hanochite clan from Hanoch; the Palluite clan from Pallu;

⁶the Hezronite clan from Hezron; the Carmite clan from Carmi.

⁷These were the Reubenite clans, and their registered men numbered 43,730.

⁸The son of Pallu was Eliab.

⁹The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. (It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the community, who fought against Moses and Aaron; they and Korah’s followers fought against the LORD.

¹⁰The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when his followers died and the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.

¹¹The sons of Korah, however, did not die.)

¹²Simeon’s descendants by their clans: the Nemuelite clan from Nemuel; the Jaminite clan from Jamin; the Jachinite clan from Jachin;

¹³the Zerahite clan from Zerah; the Shaulite clan from Shaul.

¹⁴These were the Simeonite clans, numbering 22,200 men.

¹⁵Gad’s descendants by their clans: the Zephonite clan from Zephon; the Haggite clan from Haggi; the Shunite clan from Shuni;

¹⁶the Oznite clan from Ozni; the Erite clan from Eri;

¹⁷the Arodite clan from Arod; the Arelite clan from Areli.

¹⁸These were the Gadite clans numbered by their registered men: 40,500.

¹⁹Judah’s sons included Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.

²⁰Judah’s descendants by their clans: the Shelanite clan from Shelah; the Perezite clan from Perez; the Zerahite clan from Zerah.

²¹The descendants of Perez: the Hezronite clan from Hezron; the Hamulite clan from Hamul.

²²These were Judah’s clans numbered by their registered men: 76,500.

²³Issachar’s descendants by their clans: the Tolaite clan from Tola; the Punite clan from Puvah;

²⁴the Jashubite clan from Jashub; the Shimronite clan from Shimron.

²⁵These were Issachar’s clans numbered by their registered men: 64,300.

²⁶Zebulun’s descendants by their clans: the Seredite clan from Sered; the Elonite clan from Elon; the Jahleelite clan from Jahleel.

²⁷These were the Zebulunite clans numbered by their registered men: 60,500.

²⁸Joseph’s descendants by their clans from Manasseh and Ephraim:

²⁹Manasseh’s descendants: the Machirite clan from Machir. Machir fathered Gilead; the Gileadite clan from Gilead.

³⁰These were Gilead’s descendants: the Iezerite clan from Iezer; the Helekite clan from Helek;

³¹the Asrielite clan from Asriel; the Shechemite clan from Shechem;

³²the Shemidaite clan from Shemida; the Hepherite clan from Hepher;

³³Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons — only daughters. The names of Zelophehad’s daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

³⁴These were Manasseh’s clans, numbered by their registered men: 52,700.

³⁵These were Ephraim’s descendants by their clans: the Shuthelahite clan from Shuthelah; the Becherite clan from Becher; the Tahanite clan from Tahan.

³⁶These were Shuthelah’s descendants: the Eranite clan from Eran.

³⁷These were the Ephraimite clans numbered by their registered men: 32,500. These were Joseph’s descendants by their clans.

³⁸Benjamin’s descendants by their clans: the Belaite clan from Bela; the Ashbelite clan from Ashbel; the Ahiramite clan from Ahiram;

³⁹the Shuphamite clan from Shupham; the Huphamite clan from Hupham.

⁴⁰Bela’s descendants from Ard and Naaman: the Ardite clan from Ard; the Naamite clan from Naaman.

⁴¹These were the Benjaminite clans numbered by their registered men: 45,600.

⁴²These were Dan’s descendants by their clans: the Shuhamite clan from Shuham. These were the clans of Dan by their clans.

⁴³All the Shuhamite clans numbered by their registered men: 64,400.

⁴⁴Asher’s descendants by their clans: the Imnite clan from Imnah; the Ishvite clan from Ishvi; the Beriite clan from Beriah.

⁴⁵From Beriah’s descendants: the Heberite clan from Heber; the Malchielite clan from Malchiel.

⁴⁶And the name of Asher’s daughter was Serah.

⁴⁷These were the Asherite clans numbered by their registered men: 53,400.

⁴⁸Naphtali’s descendants by their clans: the Jahzeelite clan from Jahzeel; the Gunite clan from Guni;

⁴⁹the Jezerite clan from Jezer; the Shillemite clan from Shillem.

⁵⁰These were the Naphtali clans numbered by their registered men: 45,400.

⁵¹These registered Israelite men numbered 601,730.

⁵²The LORD spoke to Moses,

⁵³“The land is to be divided among them as an inheritance based on the number of names.

⁵⁴Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one. Each is to be given its inheritance according to those who were registered in it.

⁵⁵The land is to be divided by lot; they will receive an inheritance according to the names of their ancestral tribes.

⁵⁶Each inheritance will be divided by lot among the larger and smaller tribes.”

⁵⁷These were the Levites registered by their clans: the Gershonite clan from Gershon; the Kohathite clan from Kohath; the Merarite clan from Merari.

⁵⁸These were the Levite family groups: the Libnite clan, the Hebronite clan, the Mahlite clan, the Mushite clan, and the Korahite clan. Kohath was the ancestor of Amram.

⁵⁹The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, a descendant of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram: Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.

⁶⁰Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar were born to Aaron,

⁶¹but Nadab and Abihu died when they presented unauthorized fire before the LORD.

⁶²Those registered were 23,000, every male one month old or more; they were not registered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

⁶³These were the ones registered by Moses and the priest Eleazar when they registered the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

⁶⁴But among them there was not one of those who had been registered by Moses and the priest Aaron when they registered the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

⁶⁵For the LORD had said to them that they would all die in the wilderness. None of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

¹The daughters of Zelophehad approached; Zelophehad was the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh from the clans of Manasseh, the son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

²They stood before Moses, the priest Eleazar, the leaders, and the entire community at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,

³“Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among Korah’s followers, who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.

⁴Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan? Since he had no son, give us property among our father’s brothers.”

⁵Moses brought their case before the LORD,

⁶and the LORD answered him,

⁷“What Zelophehad’s daughters say is correct. You are to give them hereditary property among their father’s brothers and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.

⁸Tell the Israelites: When a man dies without having a son, transfer his inheritance to his daughter.

⁹If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.

¹⁰If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.

¹¹If his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative of his clan, and he will take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites as the LORD commanded Moses.”

¹²Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.

¹³After you have seen it, you will also be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was.

¹⁴When the community quarreled in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against my command to demonstrate my holiness in their sight at the waters.” Those were the Waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.

¹⁵So Moses appealed to the LORD,

¹⁶“May the LORD, the God who gives breath to all, appoint a man over the community

¹⁷who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the LORD’s community won’t be like sheep without a shepherd.”

¹⁸The LORD replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man who has the Spirit in him, and lay your hands on him.

¹⁹Have him stand before the priest Eleazar and the whole community, and commission him in their sight.

²⁰Confer some of your authority on him so that the entire Israelite community will obey him.

²¹He will stand before the priest Eleazar who will consult the LORD for him with the decision of the Urim. He and all the Israelites with him, even the entire community, will go out and come back in at his command.”

²²Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua, had him stand before the priest Eleazar and the entire community,

²³laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as the LORD had spoken through Moses.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses,

²“Command the Israelites and say to them: Be sure to present to me at its appointed time my offering and my food as my fire offering, a pleasing aroma to me.

³And say to them: This is the fire offering you are to present to the LORD: “Each day present two unblemished year-old male lambs as a regular burnt offering.

⁴Offer one lamb in the morning and the other lamb at twilight,

⁵along with two quarts of fine flour for a grain offering mixed with a quart of olive oil from crushed olives.

⁶It is a regular burnt offering established at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD.

⁷The drink offering is to be a quart with each lamb. Pour out the offering of beer to the LORD in the sanctuary area.

⁸Offer the second lamb at twilight, along with the same kind of grain offering and drink offering as in the morning. It is a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

⁹“On the Sabbath day present two unblemished year-old male lambs, four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and its drink offering.

¹⁰It is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

¹¹“At the beginning of each of your months present a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old — all unblemished —

¹²with six quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each bull, four quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for the ram,

¹³and two quarts of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each lamb. It is a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD.

¹⁴Their drink offerings are to be two quarts of wine with each bull, one and a third quarts with the ram, and one quart with each male lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering for all the months of the year.

¹⁵And one male goat is to be offered as a sin offering to the LORD, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering.

¹⁶“The Passover to the LORD comes in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month.

¹⁷On the fifteenth day of this month there will be a festival; unleavened bread is to be eaten for seven days.

¹⁸On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

¹⁹Present a fire offering, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. Your animals are to be unblemished.

²⁰The grain offering with them is to be of fine flour mixed with oil; offer six quarts with each bull and four quarts with the ram.

²¹Offer two quarts with each of the seven lambs

²²and one male goat for a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.

²³Offer these with the morning burnt offering that is part of the regular burnt offering.

²⁴You are to offer the same food each day for seven days as a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It is to be offered with its drink offering and the regular burnt offering.

²⁵On the seventh day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

²⁶“On the day of firstfruits, you are to hold a sacred assembly when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD at your Festival of Weeks; you are not to do any daily work.

²⁷Present a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old,

²⁸with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with each bull, four quarts with the ram,

²⁹and two quarts with each of the seven lambs,

³⁰and one male goat to make atonement for yourselves.

³¹Offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. Your animals are to be unblemished.

¹“You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you are not to do any daily work. This will be a day of trumpet blasts for you.

²Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old — all unblemished —

³with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram,

⁴and two quarts with each of the seven male lambs.

⁵Also offer one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.

⁶These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD.

⁷“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth day of this seventh month and practice self-denial; do not do any work.

⁸Present a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. All your animals are to be unblemished.

⁹Their grain offering is to be of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram,

¹⁰and two quarts with each of the seven lambs.

¹¹Offer one male goat for a sin offering. The regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings are in addition to the sin offering of atonement.

¹²“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; you do not do any daily work. You are to celebrate a seven-day festival for the LORD.

¹³Present a burnt offering, a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old. They are to be unblemished.

¹⁴Their grain offering is to be of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with each of the thirteen bulls, four quarts with each of the two rams,

¹⁵and two quarts with each of the fourteen lambs.

¹⁶Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

¹⁷“On the second day present twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old — all unblemished —

¹⁸with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

¹⁹Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink and their drink offerings.

²⁰“On the third day present eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old — all unblemished —

²¹with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

²²Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

²³“On the fourth day present ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old — all unblemished —

²⁴with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

²⁵Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

²⁶“On the fifth day present nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old — all unblemished —

²⁷with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

²⁸Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

²⁹“On the sixth day present eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old — all unblemished —

³⁰with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

³¹Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

³²“On the seventh day present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old — all unblemished —

³³with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

³⁴Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

³⁵“On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

³⁶Present a burnt offering, a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old — all unblemished —

³⁷with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

³⁸Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

³⁹“Offer these to the LORD at your appointed times in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt, grain, drink, or fellowship offerings.”

⁴⁰So Moses told the Israelites everything the LORD had commanded him.

¹Moses told the leaders of the Israelite tribes, “This is what the LORD has commanded:

²When a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to put himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever he has promised.

³“When a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or puts herself under an obligation,

⁴and her father hears about her vow or the obligation she put herself under, and he says nothing to her, all her vows and every obligation she put herself under are binding.

⁵But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, none of her vows and none of the obligations she put herself under are binding. The LORD will release her because her father has prohibited her.

⁶“If a woman marries while her vows or the rash commitment she herself made are binding,

⁷and her husband hears about it and says nothing to her when he finds out, her vows are binding, and the obligations she put herself under are binding.

⁸But if her husband prohibits her when he hears about it, he will cancel her vow that is binding or the rash commitment she herself made, and the LORD will release her.

⁹“Every vow a widow or divorced woman puts herself under is binding on her.

¹⁰“If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,

¹¹and her husband hears about it, says nothing to her, and does not prohibit her, all her vows are binding, and every obligation she put herself under is binding.

¹²But if her husband cancels them on the day he hears about it, nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or her obligation, is binding. Her husband has canceled them, and the LORD will release her.

¹³Her husband may confirm or cancel any vow or any sworn obligation to deny herself.

¹⁴If her husband says nothing at all to her from day to day, he confirms all her vows and obligations, which are binding. He has confirmed them because he said nothing to her when he heard about them.

¹⁵But if he cancels them after he hears about them, he will be responsible for her commitment.”

¹⁶These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, or between a father and his daughter in his house during her youth.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses,

²“Execute vengeance for the Israelites against the Midianites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”

³So Moses spoke to the people, “Equip some of your men for war. They will go against Midian to inflict the LORD’s vengeance on them.

⁴Send one thousand men to war from each Israelite tribe.”

⁵So one thousand were recruited from each Israelite tribe out of the thousands in Israel — twelve thousand equipped for war.

⁶Moses sent one thousand from each tribe to war. They went with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, in whose care were the holy objects and signal trumpets.

⁷They waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and killed every male.

⁸Along with the others slain by them, they killed the Midianite kings — Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.

⁹The Israelites took the Midianite women and their dependents captive, and they plundered all their cattle, flocks, and property.

¹⁰Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites lived, as well as all their encampments,

¹¹and took away all the spoils of war and the captives, both people and animals.

¹²They brought the prisoners, animals, and spoils of war to Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the Israelite community at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

¹³Moses, the priest Eleazar, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

¹⁴But Moses became furious with the officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who were returning from the military campaign.

¹⁵“Have you let every female live?” he asked them.

¹⁶“Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the LORD in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the LORD’s community.

¹⁷So now, kill every male among the dependents and kill every woman who has gone to bed with a man,

¹⁸but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not gone to bed with a man.

¹⁹“You are to remain outside the camp for seven days. All of you and your prisoners who have killed a person or touched the dead are to purify yourselves on the third day and the seventh day.

²⁰Also purify everything: garments, leather goods, things made of goat hair, and every article of wood.”

²¹Then the priest Eleazar said to the soldiers who had gone to battle, “This is the legal statute the LORD commanded Moses:

²²The gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead —

²³everything that can withstand fire — you are to pass through fire, and it will be clean. It must still be purified with the purification water. Anything that cannot withstand fire, pass through the water.

²⁴On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”

²⁵The LORD told Moses,

²⁶“You, the priest Eleazar, and the family heads of the community are to take a count of what was captured, people and animals.

²⁷Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to war and the entire community.

²⁸Set aside a tribute for the LORD from what belongs to the fighting men who went out to war: one out of every five hundred people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.

²⁹Take the tribute from their half and give it to the priest Eleazar as a contribution to the LORD.

³⁰From the Israelites’ half, take one out of every fifty from the people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats, all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who perform the duties of the LORD’s tabernacle.”

³¹So Moses and the priest Eleazar did as the LORD commanded Moses.

³²The captives remaining from the plunder the army had taken totaled: 675,000 sheep and goats,

³³72,000 cattle,

³⁴61,000 donkeys,

³⁵and 32,000 people, all the females who had not gone to bed with a man.

³⁶The half portion for those who went out to war numbered: 337,500 sheep and goats,

³⁷and the tribute to the LORD was 675 from the sheep and goats;

³⁸from the 36,000 cattle, the tribute to the LORD was 72;

³⁹from the 30,500 donkeys, the tribute to the LORD was 61;

⁴⁰and from the 16,000 people, the tribute to the LORD was 32 people.

⁴¹Moses gave the tribute to the priest Eleazar as a contribution for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

⁴²From the Israelites’ half, which Moses separated from the men who fought,

⁴³the community’s half was: 337,500 sheep and goats,

⁴⁴36,000 cattle,

⁴⁵30,500 donkeys,

⁴⁶and 16,000 people.

⁴⁷Moses took one out of every fifty, selected from the people and the livestock of the Israelites’ half. He gave them to the Levites who perform the duties of the LORD’s tabernacle, as the LORD had commanded him.

⁴⁸The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, approached Moses

⁴⁹and told him, “Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing.

⁵⁰So we have presented to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man found — armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces — to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”

⁵¹Moses and the priest Eleazar received from them all the articles made out of gold.

⁵²All the gold of the contribution they offered to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, was 420 pounds.

⁵³Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.

⁵⁴Moses and the priest Eleazar received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.

¹The Reubenites and Gadites had a very large number of livestock. When they surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, they saw that the region was a good one for livestock.

²So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the leaders of the community and said:

³“The territory of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

⁴which the LORD struck down before the community of Israel, is good land for livestock, and your servants own livestock.”

⁵They said, “If we have found favor with you, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Don’t make us cross the Jordan.”

⁶But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Should your brothers go to war while you stay here?

⁷Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land the LORD has given them?

⁸That’s what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

⁹After they went up as far as Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the LORD had given them.

¹⁰So the LORD’s anger burned that day, and he swore an oath:

¹¹‘Because they did not remain loyal to me, none of the men twenty years old or more who came up from Egypt will see the land I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob  —

¹²none except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, because they did remain loyal to the LORD.’

¹³The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years until the whole generation that had done what was evil in the LORD’s sight was gone.

¹⁴And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your fathers’ place adding even more to the LORD’s burning anger against Israel.

¹⁵If you turn back from following him, he will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will destroy all of them.”

¹⁶Then they approached him and said, “We want to build sheep pens here for our livestock and cities for our dependents.

¹⁷But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our dependents will remain in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

¹⁸We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has taken possession of his inheritance.

¹⁹Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance will be across the Jordan to the east.”

²⁰Moses replied to them, “If you do this — if you arm yourselves for battle before the LORD,

²¹and every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD until he has driven his enemies from his presence,

²²and the land is subdued before the LORD  — afterward you may return and be free from obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the LORD.

²³But if you don’t do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD; be sure your sin will catch up with you.

²⁴Build cities for your dependents and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

²⁵The Gadites and Reubenites answered Moses, “Your servants will do just as my lord commands.

²⁶Our dependents, wives, livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead,

²⁷but your servants are equipped for war before the LORD and will go across to the battle as my lord orders.”

²⁸So Moses gave orders about them to the priest Eleazar, Joshua son of Nun, and the family heads of the Israelite tribes.

²⁹Moses told them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, every man in battle formation before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

³⁰But if they don’t go across with you in battle formation, they must accept land in Canaan with you.”

³¹The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “What the LORD has spoken to your servants is what we will do.

³²We will cross over in battle formation before the LORD into the land of Canaan, but we will keep our hereditary possession across the Jordan.”

³³So Moses gave them — the Gadites, Reubenites, and half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph — the kingdom of King Sihon of the Amorites and the kingdom of King Og of Bashan, the land including its cities with the territories surrounding them.

³⁴The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

³⁵Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

³⁶Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and built sheep pens.

³⁷The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

³⁸as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. They gave names to the cities they rebuilt.

³⁹The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

⁴⁰So Moses gave Gilead to the clan of Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled in it.

⁴¹Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages, which he renamed Jair’s Villages.

⁴²Nobah went and captured Kenath with its surrounding villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

¹These were the stages of the Israelites’ journey when they went out of the land of Egypt by their military divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

²At the LORD’s command, Moses wrote down the starting points for the stages of their journey; these are the stages listed by their starting points:

³They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month. On the day after the Passover the Israelites went out defiantly in the sight of all the Egyptians.

⁴Meanwhile, the Egyptians were burying every firstborn male the LORD had struck down among them, for the LORD had executed judgment against their gods.

⁵The Israelites traveled from Rameses and camped at Succoth.

⁶They traveled from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

⁷They traveled from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.

⁸They traveled from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They took a three-day journey into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.

⁹They traveled from Marah and came to Elim. There were twelve springs and seventy date palms at Elim, so they camped there.

¹⁰They traveled from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.

¹¹They traveled from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.

¹²They traveled from the Wilderness of Sin and camped in Dophkah.

¹³They traveled from Dophkah and camped at Alush.

¹⁴They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

¹⁵They traveled from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.

¹⁶They traveled from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

¹⁷They traveled from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.

¹⁸They traveled from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.

¹⁹They traveled from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.

²⁰They traveled from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.

²¹They traveled from Libnah and camped at Rissah.

²²They traveled from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.

²³They traveled from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

²⁴They traveled from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.

²⁵They traveled from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.

²⁶They traveled from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.

²⁷They traveled from Tahath and camped at Terah.

²⁸They traveled from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

²⁹They traveled from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.

³⁰They traveled from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.

³¹They traveled from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.

³²They traveled from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.

³³They traveled from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.

³⁴They traveled from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.

³⁵They traveled from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.

³⁶They traveled from Ezion-geber and camped in the Wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).

³⁷They traveled from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor on the edge of the land of Edom.

³⁸At the LORD’s command, the priest Aaron climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the Israelites went out of the land of Egypt.

³⁹Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

⁴⁰At that time the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard the Israelites were coming.

⁴¹They traveled from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.

⁴²They traveled from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.

⁴³They traveled from Punon and camped at Oboth.

⁴⁴They traveled from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim on the border of Moab.

⁴⁵They traveled from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.

⁴⁶They traveled from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.

⁴⁷They traveled from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the Abarim range facing Nebo.

⁴⁸They traveled from the Abarim range and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

⁴⁹They camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth to the Acacia Meadow on the plains of Moab.

⁵⁰The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho,

⁵¹“Tell the Israelites: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

⁵²you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.

⁵³You are to take possession of the land and settle in it because I have given you the land to possess.

⁵⁴You are to receive the land as an inheritance by lot according to your clans. Increase the inheritance for a large clan and decrease it for a small one. Whatever place the lot indicates for someone will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to your ancestral tribes.

⁵⁵But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs for your eyes and thorns for your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.

⁵⁶And what I had planned to do to them, I will do to you.”

¹The LORD spoke to Moses,

²“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these borders:

³Your southern side will be from the Wilderness of Zin along the boundary of Edom. Your southern border on the east will begin at the east end of the Dead Sea.

⁴Your border will turn south of the Scorpions’ Ascent, proceed to Zin, and end south of Kadesh-barnea. It will go to Hazar-addar and proceed to Azmon.

⁵The border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, where it will end at the Mediterranean Sea.

⁶Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border.

⁷This will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea draw a line to Mount Hor;

⁸from Mount Hor draw a line to the entrance of Hamath, and the border will reach Zedad.

⁹Then the border will go to Ziphron and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your northern border.

¹⁰For your eastern border, draw a line from Hazar-enan to Shepham.

¹¹The border will go down from Shepham to Riblah east of Ain. It will continue down and reach the eastern slope of the Sea of Chinnereth.

¹²Then the border will go down to the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. This will be your land defined by its borders on all sides.”

¹³So Moses commanded the Israelites, “This is the land you are to receive by lot as an inheritance, which the LORD commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes.

¹⁴For the tribe of Reuben’s descendants and the tribe of Gad’s descendants have received their inheritance according to their ancestral families, and half the tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.

¹⁵The two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

¹⁶The LORD spoke to Moses,

¹⁷“These are the names of the men who are to distribute the land as an inheritance for you: the priest Eleazar and Joshua son of Nun.

¹⁸Take one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

¹⁹These are the names of the men: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;

²⁰Shemuel son of Ammihud from the tribe of Simeon’s descendants;

²¹Elidad son of Chislon from the tribe of Benjamin;

²²Bukki son of Jogli, a leader from the tribe of Dan’s descendants;

²³from the sons of Joseph: Hanniel son of Ephod, a leader from the tribe of Manasseh’s descendants,

²⁴Kemuel son of Shiphtan, a leader from the tribe of Ephraim’s descendants;

²⁵Eli-zaphan son of Parnach, a leader from the tribe of Zebulun’s descendants;

²⁶Paltiel son of Azzan, a leader from the tribe of Issachar’s descendants;

²⁷Ahihud son of Shelomi, a leader from the tribe of Asher’s descendants;

²⁸Pedahel son of Ammihud, a leader from the tribe of Naphtali’s descendants.”

²⁹These are the ones the LORD commanded to distribute the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

¹The LORD again spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:

²“Command the Israelites to give cities out of their hereditary property for the Levites to live in and pastureland around the cities.

³The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other animals.

⁴The pasturelands of the cities you are to give the Levites will extend from the city wall five hundred yards on every side.

⁵Measure a thousand yards outside the city for the east side, a thousand yards for the south side, a thousand yards for the west side, and a thousand yards for the north side, with the city in the center. This will belong to them as pasturelands for the cities.

⁶“The cities you give the Levites will include six cities of refuge, which you will provide so that the one who kills someone may flee there; in addition to these, give forty-two other cities.

⁷The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, along with their pasturelands.

⁸Of the cities that you give from the Israelites’ territory, you should take more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one. Each tribe is to give some of its cities to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance it receives.”

⁹The LORD said to Moses,

¹⁰“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

¹¹designate cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.

¹²You will have the cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who kills someone will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

¹³The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.

¹⁴Select three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan to be cities of refuge.

¹⁵These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the alien or temporary resident among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

¹⁶“If anyone strikes a person with an iron object and death results, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

¹⁷If anyone has in his hand a stone capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.

¹⁸If anyone has in his hand a wooden object capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.

¹⁹The avenger of blood himself is to kill the murderer; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

²⁰Likewise, if anyone in hatred pushes a person or throws an object at him with malicious intent and he dies,

²¹or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood is to kill the murderer when he finds him.

²²“But if anyone suddenly pushes a person without hostility or throws any object at him without malicious intent

²³or without looking drops a stone that could kill a person and he dies, but he was not his enemy and didn’t intend to harm him,

²⁴the assembly is to judge between the person who kills someone and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

²⁵The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

²⁶“If the one who kills someone ever goes outside the border of the city of refuge he fled to,

²⁷and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills him, the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,

²⁸for the one who killed a person was supposed to live in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the one who has killed a person return to the land he possesses.

²⁹These instructions will be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations wherever you live.

³⁰“If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.

³¹You are not to accept a ransom for the life of someone who is guilty of murder; he must be put to death.

³²Neither should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to his city of refuge, allowing him to return and live in the land before the death of the high priest.

³³“Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

³⁴Do not make the land unclean where you live and where I dwell; for I, the LORD, reside among the Israelites.”

¹The family heads from the clan of the descendants of Gilead — the son of Machir, son of Manasseh  — who were from the clans of the sons of Joseph, approached and addressed Moses and the leaders who were heads of the Israelite families.

²They said, “The LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites. My lord was further commanded by the LORD to give our brother Zelophehad’s inheritance to his daughters.

³If they marry any of the men from the other Israelite tribes, their inheritance will be taken away from our fathers’ inheritance and added to that of the tribe into which they marry. Therefore, part of our allotted inheritance would be taken away.

⁴When the Jubilee comes for the Israelites, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”

⁵So Moses commanded the Israelites at the word of the LORD, “What the tribe of Joseph’s descendants says is right.

⁶This is what the LORD has commanded concerning Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they like provided they marry within a clan of their ancestral tribe.

⁷No inheritance belonging to the Israelites is to transfer from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of his ancestral tribe.

⁸Any daughter who possesses an inheritance from an Israelite tribe must marry someone from the clan of her ancestral tribe, so that each of the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his fathers.

⁹No inheritance is to transfer from one tribe to another, because each of the Israelite tribes is to retain its inheritance.”

¹⁰The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses.

¹¹Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married cousins on their father’s side.

¹²They married men from the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.

¹³These are the commands and ordinances the LORD commanded the Israelites through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

¹These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

²It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.

³In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses told the Israelites everything the LORD had commanded him to say to them.

⁴This was after he had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

⁵Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:

⁶“The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb: ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

⁷Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites and their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Judean foothills, the Negev and the sea coast — to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon as far as the great river, the Euphrates River.

⁸See, I have set the land before you. Enter and take possession of the land the LORD swore to give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their future descendants.’

⁹“I said to you at that time: I can’t bear the responsibility for you on my own.

¹⁰The LORD your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.

¹¹May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as he promised you.

¹²But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?

¹³Appoint for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.

¹⁴“You replied to me, ‘What you propose to do is good.’

¹⁵“So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and set them over you as leaders: commanders for thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and officers for your tribes.

¹⁶I commanded your judges at that time: Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge rightly between a man and his brother or his resident alien.

¹⁷Do not show partiality when deciding a case; listen to small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.

¹⁸At that time I commanded you about all the things you were to do.

¹⁹“We then set out from Horeb and went across all the great and terrible wilderness you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the LORD our God had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,

²⁰I said to you: You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.

²¹See, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.

²²“Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let’s send men ahead of us, so that they may explore the land for us and bring us back a report about the route we should go up and the cities we will come to.’

²³The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one man for each tribe.

²⁴They left and went up into the hill country and came to the Valley of Eshcol, scouting the land.

²⁵They took some of the fruit from the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us back a report: ‘The land the LORD our God is giving us is good.’

²⁶“But you were not willing to go up. You rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

²⁷You grumbled in your tents and said, ‘The LORD brought us out of the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites in order to destroy us, because he hates us.

²⁸Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart, saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens. We also saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’

²⁹“So I said to you: Don’t be terrified or afraid of them!

³⁰The LORD your God who goes before you will fight for you, just as you saw him do for you in Egypt.

³¹And you saw in the wilderness how the LORD your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place.

³²But in spite of this you did not trust the LORD your God,

³³who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.

³⁴“When the LORD heard your words, he grew angry and swore an oath:

³⁵‘None of these men in this evil generation will see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

³⁶except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he remained loyal to the LORD.’

³⁷“The LORD was angry with me also because of you and said: ‘You will not enter there either.

³⁸Joshua son of Nun, who attends you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit it.

³⁹Your children, whom you said would be plunder, your sons who don’t yet know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it.

⁴⁰But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.’

⁴¹“You answered me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ Then each of you put on his weapons of war and thought it would be easy to go up into the hill country.

⁴²“But the LORD said to me, ‘Tell them: Don’t go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from being defeated by your enemies.’

⁴³So I spoke to you, but you didn’t listen. You rebelled against the LORD’s command and defiantly went up into the hill country.

⁴⁴Then the Amorites who lived there came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir as far as Hormah.

⁴⁵When you returned, you wept before the LORD, but he didn’t listen to your requests or pay attention to you.

⁴⁶For this reason you stayed in Kadesh as long as you did.