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The 11th Chapter
And the people complained and it
displeased the ears of the Lord. And when the Lord heard it he was
wroth, and the fire of the Lord burnt among them and consumed the
uttermost of the host. And the people cried unto Moses, and he made
intercession unto the Lord and the fire quenched. And they called
the name of the place Tabera because the fire of the Lord burnt
among them.
And the rascal people that was among them fell a lusting. And
the children of Israel also went to and wept and said: who shall
give us flesh to eat? we remember the fish which we should eat in
Egypt for nought, and of the Cucumbers and melons, leeks, onions and
garlic. But now our souls are dried away, for our eyes look on
nothing else, save upon Manna.
The Manna was as it had been coriander seed, and to see to
like Bedellion. And the people went about and gathered it, and
ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars and baked it in pans and
made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like unto the taste of an
oilcake. And when the dew fell about the host in the night, the
manna fell therewith.
And when Moses heard the people weep in their households every
man in the door of his tent, then the wrath of the Lord waxed hot
exceedingly: and it grieved Moses also. And Moses said unto the
Lord: wherefore dealest thou so cruelly with thy servant? wherefore
do I not find favour in thy sight, seeing that thou puttest the
weight of this people upon me? have I conceived all this people, or
have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, carry them in
thy bosom (as a nurse beareth the sucking child) unto the land which
thou swarest unto their fathers? where should I have flesh to give
unto all this people? For they weep unto me saying: give us flesh
that we may eat. I am not able to bear all this people alone, for it
is too heavy for me. Wherefore if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I
pray thee, if I have found favour in thy sight and let me not see my
wretchedness.
And the Lord said unto Moses: gather unto me seventy of the
elders of Israel, which thou knowest that they are the elders of the
people and officers over them, and bring them unto the tabernacle of
witness, and let them stand there with thee. And I will come down
and talk with thee there, and take of the spirit which is upon thee
and put upon them, and they shall bear with thee in the burden of
the people, and so shalt thou not bear alone.
And say unto the people: hallow yourselves against tomorrow,
that ye may eat flesh, for ye have whined in the ears of the Lord
saying: who shall give us flesh to eat, for we were happy when we
were in Egypt? therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall
eat: Ye shall not eat one day only either two or five days, either
ten or twenty days: but even a month long, and until it come out at
the nostrils of you, that ye be ready to *parbreak: because that ye
have cast the Lord aside which is among you, and have wept before
him saying: why came we out of Egypt.
And Moses said: six hundred thousand footmen are there of the
people, among which I am. And thou hast said: I will give them flesh
and they shall eat a month long. Shall the sheep and the oxen be
slain for them to find them, either shall all the fish of the sea be
gathered together to serve them? And the Lord said unto Moses: is
the Lords hand waxed short? Thou shalt see whether my word shall
come to pass unto thee or not.
And Moses went out and told the people the saying of the Lord,
and gathered the seventy elders of the people, and set them round
about the tabernacle. And the Lord came down in a cloud and spake
unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon
the seventy elders. And as the spirit rested upon them, they
prophesied and did nought else. But there remained two of the men in
the host: the one called Eldad, and the other Medad. And the spirit
rested upon them for they were of them that were written, but they
went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the host.
And there ran a young man and told Moses and said: Eldad and
Medad do prophesy in the host. And Josua the son of Nun the servant
of Moses which he had chosen out, answered and said: master Moses,
forbid them. And Moses said unto him: enviest thou for my sake?
would God that all the Lords people could prophesy, and that the
Lord would put his spirit upon them. And then both Moses and the
elders of Israel, gat them into the host.
And there went forth a wind from the Lord and brought quails
from the sea and let them fall about the host, even a days journey
round about on every side of the host, and two cubits high upon the
earth. And the people stood up all that night and on the morrow, and
gathered quails. And he that gathered the least, gathered ten homers
full. And they killed them round about the host. And while the flesh
was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed up, the wrath of
the Lord waxed hot upon the people, and the Lord slew of the people
an exceeding mighty slaughter. And they called the name of the
place, *kibrath hathavah: because they buried the people that lusted
there.
And the people took their journey from kibrath hathavah, unto
hazeroth, and bode at hazeroth.
*parbreak (vomit) *kibrath hathavah; from the Hebrew: the graves of
lust
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The 12th Chapter
And Miriam and Aaron spake
against Moses, because of his wife of Inde which he had taken: for
he had taken to wife one of India. And they said: doth the Lord
speak only through Moses? doth he not speak also by us? And the Lord
heard it. But Moses was a very meek man above all the men of the
earth. And the Lord spake at once unto Moses unto Aaron and Miriam:
come out ye three unto the tabernacle of witness: and they came out
all three.
And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood in
the door of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam. And they
went out both of them. And he said: hear my words. If there be a
prophet of the Lords among you, I will show myself unto him in a
vision and will speak unto him in a dream: But my servant Moses is
not so, which is faithful in all mine house. Unto him I speak mouth
to mouth and he seeth the sight and the fashion of the Lord, and not
through riddles. Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against
my servant Moses?
And the Lord was angry with them and went his way, and the
cloud departed from the tabernacle. And behold, Miriam was become
leprous, as it were snow. And when Aaron looked upon Miriam and saw
that she was leprous, he said unto Moses: Oh I beseech thee my Lord,
put not the sin upon us which we have foolishly committed and
sinned. Oh, let her not be as one that came dead out of his mothers
womb: for half her flesh is eaten away.
And Moses cried unto the Lord saying: Oh God, heal her. And
the Lord said unto Moses: If her father had spit in her face, should
she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out of the host seven
days, and after that let her be received in again. And Miriam was
shut out of the host seven days: and the people removed not, till
she was brought in again. And afterward they removed from Hazeroth,
and pitched in the wilderness of Pharan.
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The 13th Chapter
And the Lord spake unto Moses
saying: Send men out to search the land of Canaan, which I give unto
the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers a man and
let them all be such as are rulers among them. And Moses at the
commandment of the Lord sent forth out of the wilderness of Pharan:
such men as were all heads among the children of Israel, whose names
are these.
In the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zacur: In the tribe
of Simeon, Saphat the son of Hori. In the tribe of Juda, Caleph the
son of Jephune. In the tribe of Isachar, Igeal the son of Joseph. In
the tribe of Ephraim, Hosea the son of Nun. In the tribe of BenJamin,
Palti the son of Raphu. In the tribe of Zabulon, Gadiel the son of
Sodi. In the tribe of Joseph: that was of Manasse, Gaddi the son of
Susi. In the tribe of Dan, Amiel the son of Gemali. In the tribe of
Asser, Sethur the son of Micheel. In the tribe Nephtali, Nahebi the
son of Uaphsi. In the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi. These are
the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses
called the name of Hosea the son of Nun, Josua.
And Moses sent them forth to spy out the land of Canaan, and
said unto them: get you southward and go up into the high country,
and see the land what manner thing it is and the people that
dwelleth therein: whether they be strong or weak, either few or
many, and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or
bad, and what manner of cities they dwell in: whether they dwell in
tents or walled towns, and what manner of land it is: whether it be
fat or lean, and whether there be trees therein or not. And be of a
good courage, and bring of the fruits of the land. And it was about
the time that grapes are first ripe.
And they went up and searched out the land from the wilderness
of Zin unto Rehob as men go to Hemath, and they ascended unto the
south and came unto Hebron, where Ahiman was and Sefai and Thalmani
the sons of Enack. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in
Egypt. And they came unto the river of Escol and they cut down there
a branch with one cluster of grapes and bare it upon a staff between
twain, and also of the pomegranates and of the figs of the place.
The river was called Jrehel Escol, because of the cluster of grapes
which the children of Israel cut down there.
And they turned back again from searching the land, at forty
days end. And they went and came to Moses and Aaron and unto all the
multitude of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Pharan:
even unto Cades, and brought them word and also unto all the
congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. And they told
him saying: we came unto the land whither thou sendedst us, and
surely it is a land that floweth with milk and honey and here is of
the fruit of it. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the
land, and the cities are walled and exceeding great, and moreover we
saw the children of Enack there.
The Amaleks dwell in the south country, and the Hethites,
Jebusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains, and the Cananites
dwell by the sea and along by the coast of Jordan.
And Caleb stilled the murmur of the people against Moses
saying: let us go up and conquer it, for we be able to overcome it.
But the men that went up with him, said: We be not able to go up
against the people, for they are stronger than we: And they brought
up an evil report of the land which they had searched, unto the
children of Israel saying: The land which we have gone through to
search it out, is *a land that eateth up the inhabiters thereof, and
the people that we saw in it are men of stature. And there we saw
also giants, the children of Enack which are of the giants. And we
seemed in our sight as it were grasshoppers and so we did in their
sight.
*a land that eateth up the
inhabiters thereof.. MN eateth up, that is suffereth them not to
live, but with battle and violence of giants continueth them. RN
also as of wicked labor of no rest : see 4th Esdras wicked labor.
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The 14th Chapter
And the multitude cried out, and
the people wept throughout that night, and all the children of
Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. And the whole congregation
said unto them: would God that we had died in the land of Egypt,
either we would that we had died in this wilderness. Wherefore hath
the Lord brought us unto this land to fall upon the sword, that both
our wives, and also our children should be a prey? is it not better
that we return unto Egypt again? And they said one to another: let
us make a captain and return unto Egypt again.
And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
congregation of the multitude of the children of Israel. And Josua
the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephune which were of them that
searched the land rent their clothes and spake unto all the company
of the children of Israel saying: The land which we walked through
to search it, is a very good land. If the Lord have lust to us, he
will bring us into this land and give it us, which is a land that
floweth with milk and honey. But in any wise rebel not against the
Lord. Moreover fear ye not the people of the land, for they are but
bread for us. Their shield is departed from them, and the Lord is
with us: fear them not therefore.
And all the whole multitude bade stone them with stones. But
the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of witness, unto
all the children of Israel. And the Lord said unto Moses: How long
shall this people rail upon me, and how long will it be, before they
believe me, for all my signs which I have shewed among them? I will
smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make of
thee a greater nation and a mightier than they.
And Moses said unto the Lord: then the Egyptians shall hear
it, for thou broughtest this people with thy might from among them.
And it will be told to the inhabiters of this land also, for they
have heard likewise, that thou the Lord art among this people, and
that thou art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over
them and that thou goest before them by day time in a pillar of
cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. If thou shalt kill all this
people as they were but one man then the nations which have heard
the fame of thee, will speak saying: because the Lord was not able
to bring in this people into the land which he swore unto them,
therefore he slew them in the wilderness.
So now let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou
hast spoken saying: the Lord is long before he be angry, and full of
mercy, and suffereth sin and trespass, and leaveth no man innocent,
and visiteth the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the children,
even upon the third and fourth generation, be merciful I beseech ye
therefore, unto the sin of this people according unto thy great
mercy, and according as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt
even unto this place.
And the Lord said: I have forgiven it, according to thy
request. But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with
my glory. For of all those men which have seen my glory and my
miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have
tempted me now this ten times and have not hearkened unto my voice,
there shall not one see the land which I sware unto their fathers,
neither shall any of them that railed upon me, see it. But my
servant Caleb, because there is another manner spirit with him, and
because he hath followed me unto utmost: him I will bring into the
land which he hath walked in, and his seed shall conquer it, and
also the Amalekites and Cananites which dwell in the low countries.
Tomorrow turn you and get you into the wilderness: even the way
toward the red sea.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: how long shall
this evil multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings
of the children of Israel which they murmur against me. Tell them,
that the Lord sayeth: As truly as I live, I will do unto you even as
ye have spoken in mine ears. Your carcasses shall lie in this
wilderness, neither shall any of these numbers which were numbered
from twenty years and above of you which have murmured against me
come in to the land over which I lifted mine hand to make you dwell
therein, save Caleb the son of Jephune, and Josua the son of Nun.
And your children which ye said should be a prey, them I will
bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have refused, and
your carcases shall lie in this wilderness. And your children shall
wander in this wilderness forty years and suffer for your whoredom
until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness, after the number of
the days in which ye searched out the land forty days, and every day
a year: so that they shall bear your unrighteousness forty years,
and ye shall feel my vengeance I the Lord have said that I will do
it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together
against me: even in this wilderness ye shall be consumed, and here
ye shall die.
And the men which Moses sent to search the land, and which
(when they came again) made all the people to murmur against it in
that they brought up a *sclander upon the land: died for their
bringing up that evil slander upon it, and were plagued before the
Lord. But Josua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephune which
were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. And Moses
told these sayings unto all the children of Israel, and the people
took great sorrow.
And they rose up early in the morning and gat them up into the
top of the mountain saying: lo we be here, and will go up unto the
place of which the Lord said, for we have sinned. And Moses said:
wherefore will ye go on this manner beyond the word of the Lord? it
will not come well to pass: go not up for the Lord is not among you
that ye be not slain before your enemies. For the Amalekites and the
Cananites are there before you, and ye will fall upon the sword:
because ye are turned away from the Lord, and therefore the Lord
will not be with you.
But they were blinded to go up into the hilltop: Never the
later, the ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses departed not
out of the host. Then the Amalekites and the Cananites which dwelt
in that hill, came down and smote them and hewed them: even unto
Horma.
*sclander (scandal/slander)
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The 15th Chapter
And the Lord spake unto Moses
saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them: when ye
be come into the land of your habitation which I give unto you, and
will offer an offering upon the fire unto the Lord, whether it be a
brurntoffering or a special vow or freewill offering or if it be in
your principal feasts to make a sweet savour unto the Lord, of the
oxen or of the flock.
Then, let him that offereth his offering unto the Lord, bring
also a meatoffering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth
part of an hin of oil, and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a
drinkoffering and offer with the brurntoffering or any other
offering when it is a lamb. And unto a ram thou shalt offer a
meatoffering of two tenth deals of flour, mingled with the third
part of an hin of oil, and to a drinkoffering thou shalt offer the
third part of an hin of wine, to be a sweet savour unto the Lord.
When thou offerest an ox to a brurntoffering or in any special
vow or peaceoffering unto the Lord, then thou shalt bring unto an
ox, a meatoffering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half
an hin of oil. And thou shalt bring for a drinkoffering half an hin
of wine, that is an offering of a sweet savour unto the Lord. This
is the manner that shall be done unto one ox, one ram, a lamb or a
kid. And according to the number of such offerings, thou shalt
increase the meatofferings and the drinkofferings.
All that are of yourselves shall do these things after this
manner, when he offereth an offering of sweet savour unto the Lord.
And if there be a stranger with you or be among you in your
generations, and will offer an offering of a sweet savour unto the
Lord: even as ye do, so he shall do. One ordinance shall serve both
for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger. And it shall
be an ordinance for ever among your children after you, that the
stranger and ye shall be like before the Lord. One law and one
manner shall serve, both for you and for the stranger that dwelleth
with you.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children
of Israel and say unto them: when ye be come in to the land whither
I will bring you, then when ye will eat of the bread of the land, ye
shall give an heaveoffering unto the Lord. Yee shall give a cake of
the first of your dough unto an heave offering: as ye do the
heaveoffering of the barn, even so ye shall heave it. Of the first
of your dough ye must give unto the Lord an heaveoffering,
throughout your generations.
If ye oversee yourselves and observe not all these
commandments which the Lord hath spoken unto Moses, and all that the
Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the first day
forward that the Lord commanded among your generation: when ought is
committed ignorantly before the eyes of the congregation, then all
the multitude shall offer a calf for a brurntoffering to be a sweet
savour unto the Lord, and the meatoffering and the drinkoffering
thereto, according to the manner: and an he goat for a sinoffering.
And the priest shall make an atonement for all the multitude of the
children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them for it was
ignorance. And they shall bring their gifts unto the offering of the
Lord, and their sinoffering before the Lord for their ignorance. And
it shall be forgiven unto all the multitude of the children of
Israel, and unto the stranger that dwelleth among you: for the
ignorance pertaineth unto all the people. If any one soul sin
through ignorance he shall bring a she goat of a year old for a
sinoffering. And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul
that sinned ignorantly with the sinoffering before the Lord and
reconcile him, and it shall be forgiven him. And both thou that art
born one of the children of Israel and the stranger that dwelleth
among you shall have both one law, if ye sin through ignorance.
And the soul that doth ought presumptuously, whether he be an
Israelite or a stranger, the same hath despised the Lord. And that
soul shall be destroyed from among his people, because he hath
despised the word of the Lord and hath broken his commandments, that
soul therefore shall perish and his sin shall be upon him.
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they
found a man gathering sticks upon the Sabbath day. And they that
found him gathering sticks, brought him unto Moses and Aaron and
unto all the congregation: and they put him in ward, for it was not
declared what should be done unto him. And the Lord said unto Moses:
the man shall die: let all the multitude stone him with stones
without the host. And all the multitude brought him without the host
and stoned him with stones, and he died as the Lord commanded Moses.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children
of Israel and bid them, that they make them guards upon the quarters
of their garments throughout their generations, and let them make
the guards of ribbons of Jacinth. And the guard shall be unto you to
look upon it, that ye remember all the commandments of the Lord and
do them: that ye seek not a way after your own hearts and after your
own eyes, for to go a whoring after them: but that ye remember and
do all my commandments and be holy unto your God, for I am the Lord
your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your
God. I am the Lord God.
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The 16th Chapter
And Corah the son of Jezehar the
son of Cahath the son of Levi and Dathan and Abiram the son of Eliab,
and On the son of Peleth, the son of Ruben: stood up before Moses,
with other of the children of Israel two hundred and fifty, heads of
the congregation, and counsellors, and men of fame, and they
gathered them selves together against Moses and Aaron and said unto
them: ye have done enough. For all the multitude are holy every one
of them, and the Lord is among them. Why therefore heave ye our
selves up above the congregation of the Lord.
When Moses heard it, he fell upon his face and spake unto
Corah and unto all his company saying: tomorrow the Lord will show
who is his and who is holy, and will take them unto him, and whom so
ever he hath chosen, he will cause to come to him. This do: take
firepans, thou Corah and all thy company, and do fire therein and
put cense thereto before the Lord tomorrow: And then whomsoever the
Lord doth chose, the same is holy. Ye make enough to do ye children
of Levi.
And Moses said unto Corah: hear ye children of Levi, Seemeth
it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated
you from the multitude of Israel to bring you to him, to do the
service of the dwelling place of the Lord, and to stand before the
people to minister unto them? he hath taken thee to him and all thy
brethren the sons of Levi with thee, and ye seek the office of the
priest also. For which cause both thou and all thy company are
gathered together against the Lord: for what is Aaron, that ye
should murmur against him.
And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab,
and they answered: we will not come. Seemeth it a small thing unto
thee that thou hast brought us out of a land that floweth with milk
and honey, to kill us in the wilderness. But that thou shouldest
reign over us also? More over thou hast brought us unto no land that
floweth with milk and honey, neither hast given us possessions of
fields or of vines. Either wilt thou pull out the eyes of these men?
we will not come.
And Moses waxed very angry and said unto the Lord: Turn not
unto their offerings. I have not taken so much as an ass from them,
neither have vexed any of them. Then Moses said unto Corah: Be thou
and all thy company before the Lord: both thou they and Aaron
tomorrow. And take every man his censer and put cense in them, and
come before the Lord every man with his censer: two hundred and
fifty censers, and Aaron with his censer. And they took every man
his censer and put fire in them and laid cense theron, and stood in
the door of the tabernacle of witness, and Moses and Aaron also. And
Corah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of
the tabernacle of witness.
And the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: separate yourselves
from this congregation, that I may consume them at once. And they
fell upon their faces and said: O most mighty God of the spirits of
all flesh, one man hath sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with all the
multitude? And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the
congregation and say: Get you away from about the dwelling of Corah,
Dathan and Abiram. And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram,
and the elders of Israel followed him. And he spake unto the
congregation saying: depart from the tents of these wicked men and
touch nothing of theirs: lest ye perish in all their sins. And they
gat them from the dwelling of Corah, Dathan and Abiram, on every
side. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their
tents with their wives, their sons and their children.
And Moses said: Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent
me to do all these works, and that I have not done them of mine own
mind: If these men die the common death of all men or if they be
visited after the visitation of all men, then the Lord hath not sent
me. But and if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her
mouth and swallow them and all that pertain unto them, so that they
go down quick in to hell: then ye shall understand, that these men
have railed upon the Lord. And as soon as he had made an end of
speaking all these words, the ground clove asunder that was under
them, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their
houses and all the men that were with Corah and all their goods. And
they and all that pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell,
and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the
congregation. And all Israel that were about them, fled at the cry
of them. For they said: The earth might happily swallow us also. And
there came out a fire from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and
fifty men that offered cense.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: Speak unto Eleazer the
son of Aaron the priest and let him take up the censers out of the
burning and scatter the fire here and there, for the censers of
these sinners are hallowed in their deaths: and let them be beaten
into thin plates and fastened upon the altar. For they offered them
before the Lord, and therefore they are holy and they shall be a
sign unto the children of Israel.
And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers which they that
were burnt had offered, and beat them and fastened them upon the
altar, to be a remembrance unto the children of Israel, that no
stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer cense
before the Lord, that he be not made like unto Corah and his
company: as the Lord said unto him by the hand of Moses.
And on the morrow all the multitude of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and Aaron saying: ye have killed the people
of the Lord. And when the multitude was gathered against Moses and
Aaron, they looked toward the tabernacle of witness. And behold, the
cloud had covered it and the glory of the Lord appeared. And Moses
and Aaron went before the tabernacle of witness. And the Lord spake
unto Moses saying: Get you from this congregation, that I may
consume them quickly. And they fell upon their faces.
And Moses said unto Aaron: take a censer and put fire therein
out of the altar, and pour on cense, and go quickly unto the
congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone
out from the Lord, and there is a plague begun. And Aaron took as
Moses commanded him, and ran unto the congregation: and behold, the
plague was begun among the people, and he put on cense, and made an
atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead, and them
that were alive, and the plague ceased. And the number of them that
died in the plague, were fourteen thousand and seven hundred: beside
them that died about the business of Corah. And Aaron went again
unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and the
plague ceased.
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The 17th Chapter
And the
Lord spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and
take of them, for every principal house a rod, of their princes over
the houses of their fathers: even twelve rods, and write every mans
name upon his rod. And write Aarons name upon the staff of Levi: for
every headman over the houses of their fathers shall have a rod. And
put them in the tabernacle of witness where I will meet you. And his
rod whom I chose, shall blossom: So I will make cease from me the
grudgings of the children of Israel which they grudge against you.
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and all the
princes gave him for every prince over their fathers houses, a rod:
even twelve rods, and the rod of Aaron was among the rods. And Moses
put the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness. And on
the morrow, Moses went into the tabernacle: and behold, the rod of
Aaron of the house of Levi was budded and bare blossoms and almonds.
And Moses brought out all the staves from before the Lord, unto all
the children of Israel, and they looked upon them, and took every
man his staff.
And the Lord said unto Moses: bring Aarons rod again before
the witness to be kept for a token unto the children of rebellion,
that their murmurings may cease from me, that they die not. And
Moses did as the Lord commanded him. And the children of Israel
spake unto Moses saying: behold, we are destroyed and all come to
nought: for whosoever cometh nigh the dwelling of the Lord, dieth.
Shall we utterly consume away? |
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