Plagues threatened

CHAP. XXVI.

for disobedience. 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and re-seven times more plagues upon you acverence my sanctuary: 1 am the LORD. cording to your sins. 3¶ If ye walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them;

22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, 4 Then I will give you rain in due sea- and destroy your cattle, and make you few son, and the land shall yield her increase, in number, and your high-ways shall be and the trees of the field shall yield their desolate. fruit:

23 And if ye will not be reformed by me 5 And your threshing shall reach unto by these things, but will walk contrary unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach me;

unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto your bread to the full, and dwell in your you, and will punish you yet seven times land safely. for your sins.

6 And I will give peace in the land, and 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, ye shall lie down, and none shall make you that shall avenge the quarrel of my cove afraid and I will rid evil beasts out of the nant: and when ye are gathered together land, neither shall the sword go through within your cities, I will send the pestiyour land. lence among you and ye shall be deli7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and vered into the hand of the enemy. they shall fall before you by the sword.

S And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

11 And I will set my tabernacle among you and my soul shall not abhor you.

12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. 13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bond-men, and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat and not be satisfied.

27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

30 And I will destroy your high places. and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

32 And I will bring the land into deso15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, lation: and your enemies which dwell or if your soul abhor my judgments, so therein shall be astonished at it. that ye will not do all my commandments, 33 And I will scatter you among the but that ye break my covenant: heathen, and will draw out a sword after 16 I also will do this unto you, I will you and your land shall be desolate, and even appoint over you terror, consump- your cities waste.

tion, and the burning ague, that shall con- 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabsume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: baths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for be in your enemies' land; even then shall your enemies shall eat it. the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

17 And I will set my face against you, 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall and ye shall be slain before your enemies: rest; because it did not rest in your sabthey that hate you shall reign over you, baths, when ye dwelt upon it. and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. 36 And upon them that are left alive of 18 And if ye will not yet for all this you, I will send a faintness into their hearts hearken unto me, then I will punish you in the lands of their enemies; and the sound seven times more for your sins. of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they 19 And I will break the pride of your shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they power; and I will make your heaven as shall fall, when none pursueth. iron, and your earth as brass: 37 And they shall fall one upon another, 20 And your strength shall be spent in as it were before a sword, when none purvain for your land shall not yield her in- sueth: and ye shall have no power to stand crease, neither shall the trees of the land before your enemies.

yield their fruits.

38 And ye shall perish among the hea

21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, then, and the land of your enemies shall and will not hearken unto me, 1 will bring eat you up.

Laws respecting vows.

LEVITICUS. Sanctifying houses and fields.

39 And they that are left of you shall shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female pine away in their iniquity in your ene- ten shekels.

them.

mies' lands; and also in the iniquities of 8 But if he be poorer than thy estimatheir fathers shall they pine away with tion, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him : according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

9¶ And if it be a beast whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.

:

41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a land of their enemies; if then their uncir- good for a bad, or a bad for a good and cumcised hearts be humbled, and they then if he shall at all change beast for beast then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: it and the exchange thereof shall be holy. 42 Then will I remember my covenant 11 And if it be any unclean beast, of with Jacob, and also my covenant with which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the Isaac, and also my covenant with Abra- LORD, then he shall present the beast beham will I remember; and I will remem-fore the priest:

ber the land.

12 And the priest shall value it, whe

43 The land also shall be left of them, ther it be good or bad: as thou valuest it and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she who art the priest, so shall it be.

lieth desolate without them: and they shall 13 But if he will at all redeem it, then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy because, even because they despised my estimation. judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

14 ¶ And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and 45 But I will for their sakes remember it shall be his. the covenant of their ancestors, whom I 16 And if a man shall sanctify unto brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the LORD some part of a field of his pos the sight of the heathen, that I might be session, then thy estimation shall be actheir God: I am the LORD. cording to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

46 These are the statutes, and judgments, and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. CHAP. XXVII.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say

17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand.

18 But if he sanctify his field after the ing, jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and him the money according to the years that say unto them, When a man shall make a remain, even unto the year of the jubilee, singular vow, the persons shall be for the and it shall be abated from thy estimation. LORD, by thy estimation. 19 And if he that sanctified the field will

3 And thy estimation shall be, of the in any wise redeem it, then he shall add male from twenty years old even unto sixty the fifth part of the money of thy estimayears old, even thy estimation shall be fifty tion unto it, and it shall be assured to him. shekels of silver, after the shekel of the 20 And if he will not redeem the field, sanctuary. or if he have sold the field to another man, 4 And if it be a female, then thy estima- it shall not be redeemed any more. tion shall be thirty shekels. 21 But the field, when it goeth out in the

5 And if it be from five years old even jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a unto twenty years old, then thy estimation field devoted the possession thereof shall shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for be the priest's.

the female ten shekels.

22 And if a man sanctify unto the LORD

6 And if it be from a month old even a field which he hath bought, which is not unto five years old, then thy estimation of the fields of his possession; shall be of the male five shekels of silver, 23 Then the priest shall reckon unto and for the female thy estimation shall be him the worth of thy estimation, even unto three shekels of silver. the year of the jubilee: and he shall give 7 And if it be from sixty years old and thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing above; if it be a male, then thy estimation unto the LORD.

God commands Muses

CHAP. 1.

to number the people. 24 In the year of the jubilee the field 29 None devoted, which shall be devoted shall return unto him of whom it was bought, of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely even to him to whom the possession of the be put to death. land did belong.

25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD's firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD's.

30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD.

31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.

32 And concerning the tithe of the 27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever he shall redeem it according to thine esti- passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be mation, and shall add a fifth part of it there- holy unto the LORD.

to: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall 33 He shall not search whether it be be sold according to thy estimation. good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

29 Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.

34 These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moscs for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

The Fourth Book of MOSES, called NUMBERS.

CHAP. I.

gregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle 17 And Moses and Aaron took these of the congregation, on the first day of the men which are expressed by their names: second month, in the second year after they 18 And they assembled all the congrewere come out of the land of Egypt, say-gation together on the first day of the seing, cond month, and they declared their pedi

2 Take ye the sum of all the congrega- grees after their families, by the house of tion of the children of Israel, after their their fathers, according to the number of families, by the house of their fathers, with the names, from twenty years old and upthe number of their names, every male by ward, by their polls. their poll:

3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel; thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

5¶ And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: Of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.

6 Of Simeon; Shelamiel the son of Zurishaddai.

7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

8 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon. 10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.

12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

21 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

22 ¶ Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:

23 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

24 ¶ Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the 13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran. house of their fathers, according to the 14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel. number of the names, from twenty years 15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan. old and upward, all that were able to go

16 These were the renowned of the con- forth to war;

The number of every tribe.

NUMBERS.

The Levites are exempted. 25 Those that were numbered of them, 40 ¶ Of the children of Asher, by their even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five generations, after their families, by the thousand six hundred and fifty. house of their fathers, according to the 26 Of the children of Judah, by their number of the names, from twenty years generations, after their families, by the old and upward, all that were able to go house of their fathers, according to the forth to war; number of the names, from twenty years 41 Those that were numbered of them, old and upward, all that were able to go even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and forth to war; one thousand and five hundred.

27 Those that were numbered of them, 42 ¶ Of the children of Naphtali, througheven of the tribe of Judah, were threescore out their generations, after their families, by and fourteen thousand and six hundred. the house of their fathers, according to the 28 ¶ Of the children of Issachar, by number of the names, from twenty years their generations, after their families, by the old and upward, all that were able to go house of their fathers, according to the forth to war;

number of the names, from twenty years 43 Those that were numbered of them, old and upward, all that were able to go even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty forth to war; and three thousand and four hundred.

29 Those that were numbered of them, 44 These are those that were numbereven of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and ed, which Moses and Aaron numbered, four thousand and four hundred. and the princes of Israel, being twelve 30 Of the children of Zebulun, by men: each one was for the house of his their generations, after their families, by the fathers.

house of their fathers, according to the 45 So were all those that were numbernumber of the names, from twenty years ed of the children of Israel, by the house of old and upward, all that were able to go their fathers, from twenty years old and forth to war; upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;

31 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

32 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their ge

46 Even all they that were numbered, were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

47 But the Levites, after the tribe of nerations, after their families, by the house their fathers, were not numbered among of their fathers, according to the number them. of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to saying,

48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses,

war; 49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe 33 Those that were numbered of them, of Levi, neither take the sum of them even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty among the children of Israel: thousand and five hundred. 50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites

34 ¶ Of the children of Manasseh, by over the tabernacle of testimony, and over their generations, after their families, by the all the vessels thereof, and over all things house of their fathers, according to the that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernumber of the names, from twenty years nacle, and all the vessels thereof, and they old and upward, all that were able to go shall minister unto it, and shall encamp forth to war; round about the tabernacle.

35 Those that were numbered of them, 51 And when the tabernacle setteth foreven of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty ward, the Levites shall take it down; and and two thousand and two hundred. when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the 36 Of the children of Benjamin, by Levites shall set it up: and the stranger their generations, after their families, by the that cometh nigh shall be put to death. house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

37 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

38 ¶ Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

39 Those that were numbered of them,

52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony; that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.

54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

CHAP. II.

even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore AND the LORD spake unto Moses and

and two thousand and seven hundred.

unto Aaron, saying,

The order of the tribes

CHAP. III.

in their tents. 2 Every man of the children of Israel of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of shall pitch by his own standard, with the Ammihud.

ensign of their father's house: far off about 19 And his host, and those that were the tabernacle of the congregation shall numbered of them, were forty thousand they pitch. and five hundred. 3 And on the east side, toward the ris- 20 And by him shall be the tribe of Maing of the sun shall they of the standard nasseh: and the captain of the children of of the camp of Judah pitch throughout Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Petheir armies: and Nahshon the son of Am-dahzur.

minadab shall be captain of the children of 21 And his host, and those that were Judah. numbered of them were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

22 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

5 And those that do pitch next unto him, shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Netha- 23 And his host, and those that were neel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the numbered of them, were thirty and five children of Issachar. thousand and four hundred.

6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout 7 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab their armies and they shall go forward in the son of Helon shall be captain of the the third rank. children of Zebulun.

8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

25 ¶ The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 9 All that were numbered in the camp of 26 And his host, and those that were Judah were an hundred thousand and four-numbered of them, were threescore and two score thousand and six thousand and four thousand and seven hundred. hundred throughout their armies: these 27 And those that encamp by him shall shall first set forth. be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.

10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

12 And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

29 Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.

30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

31 All they that were numbered in the 13 And his host, and those that were camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and numbered of them, were fifty and nine fifty and seven thousand and six hundred : thousand and three hundred. they shall go hindmost with their stand

14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the cap-ards. tain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

32 ¶ These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house 15 And his host, and those that were of their fathers. All those that were numnumbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

bered of the camps throughout their hosts, were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD

16 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies: and commanded Moses. they shall set forth in the second rank.

34 And the children of Israel did accord17 Then the tabernacle of the congre- ing to all that the LORD commanded Mogation shall set forward with the camp of ses: so they pitched by their standards, the Levites, in the midst of the camp: as and so they set forward, every one after they encamp, so shall they set forward, their families, according to the house of every man in his place by their stand- their fathers.

ards.

CHAP. III.

18On the west side shall be the stand-HES HESE also are the generations of ard of the camp of Ephraim, according to Aaron and Moses, in the day that the their armies: and the captain of the sons LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.