NUMBERS 24
1 Now Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, so he did
not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the
wilderness.
2 Balaam looked up and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe. Then the spirit
of God came upon him,
3 and he uttered his oracle, saying: "The oracle of Balaam son
of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is clear,
4 the oracle of one who hears the words of God, who sees the vision
of the Almighty, who falls down, but with eyes uncovered:
5 how fair are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O
Israel!
6 Like palm groves that stretch far away, like gardens beside a
river, like aloes that the Lord has planted, like cedar trees beside the
waters.
7 Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall have
abundant water, his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be
exalted.
8 God who brings him out of Egypt, is like the horns of a wild ox for him;
he shall devour the nations that are his foes and break their bones. He shall
strike with his arrows.
9 He crouched, he lay down like a lion, and like a lioness; who will
rouse him up? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, and cursed is everyone who
curses you."
10 Then Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his
hands together. Balak said to Balaam, "I summoned you to curse my enemies,
but instead you have blessed them these three times.
11 Now be off with you! Go home! I said, "I will reward you
richly,' but the Lord has denied you any reward."
12 And Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not tell your messengers
whom you sent to me,
13 "If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I
would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad
of my own will; what the Lord says, that is what I will say'?
14 So now, I am going to my people; let me advise you what this
people will do to your people in days to come."
15 So he uttered his oracle, saying: "The oracle of Balaam son
of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is clear,
16 the oracle of one who hears the words of God, and knows the
knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls
down, but with his eyes uncovered:
17 I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near— a star shall
come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the
borderlands of Moab, and the territory of all the Shethites.
18 Edom will become a possession, Seir a possession of its enemies,
while Israel does valiantly.
19 One out of Jacob shall rule, and destroy the survivors of
Ir."
20 Then he looked on Amalek, and uttered his oracle, saying: "First
among the nations was Amalek, but its end is to perish forever."
21 Then he looked on the Kenite, and uttered his oracle, saying:
"Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock;
22 yet Kain is destined for burning. How long shall Asshur take you
away captive?"
23 Again he uttered his oracle, saying: "Alas, who shall live
when God does this?
24 But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and
Eber; and he also shall perish forever."
25 Then Balaam got up and went back to his place, and Balak also went
his way.
NUMBERS 25
1 While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have
sexual relations with the women of Moab.
2 These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the
people ate and bowed down to their gods.
3 Thus Israel yoked itself to the Baal of Peor, and the Lord's anger
was kindled against Israel.
4 The Lord said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people,
and impale them in the sun before the Lord, in order that the fierce anger of
the Lord may turn away from Israel."
5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you shall
kill any of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of
Peor."
6 Just then one of the Israelites came and brought a Midianite woman
into his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole
congregation of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the
tent of meeting.
7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he
got up and left the congregation. Taking a spear in his hand,
8 he went after the Israelite man into the tent, and pierced the two
of them, the Israelite and the woman, through the belly. So the plague was stopped
among the people of Israel.
9 Nevertheless those that died by the plague were twenty-four
thousand.
10 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
11 "Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned
back my wrath from the Israelites by manifesting such zeal among them on my
behalf that in my jealousy I did not consume the Israelites.
12 Therefore say, "I hereby grant him my covenant of
peace.
13 It shall be for him and for his descendants after him a covenant
of perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement
for the Israelites.' "
14 The name of the slain Israelite man, who was killed with the
Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, head of an ancestral house belonging to
the Simeonites.
15 The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter
of Zur, who was the head of a clan, an ancestral house in Midian.
16 The Lord said to Moses,
17 "Harass the Midianites, and defeat them;
18 for they have harassed you by the trickery with which they deceived
you in the affair of Peor, and in the affair of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader
of Midian, their sister; she was killed on the day of the plague that resulted
from Peor."
NUMBERS 26
1 After the plague the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron
the priest,
2 "Take a census of the whole congregation of the Israelites,
from twenty years old and upward, by their ancestral houses, everyone in Israel
able to go to war."
3 Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab
by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,
4 "Take a census of the people, from twenty years old and
upward," as the Lord commanded Moses. The Israelites, who came out of the
land of Egypt, were:
5 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. The descendants of Reuben: of Hanoch,
the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;
6 of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the clan of the
Carmites.
7 These are the clans of the Reubenites; the number of those enrolled
was forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
8 And the descendants of Pallu: Eliab.
9 The descendants of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are
the same Dathan and Abiram, chosen from the congregation, who rebelled against
Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they rebelled against the
Lord,
10 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up along with
Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred fifty men;
and they became a warning.
11 Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah did not die.
12 The descendants of Simeon by their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of
the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the clan of the
Jachinites;
13 of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the clan of the
Shaulites.
14 These are the clans of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two
hundred.
15 The children of Gad by their clans: of Zephon, the clan of the
Zephonites; of Haggi, the clan of the Haggites; of Shuni, the clan of the
Shunites;
16 of Ozni, the clan of the Oznites; of Eri, the clan of the
Erites;
17 of Arod, the clan of the Arodites; of Areli, the clan of the
Arelites.
18 These are the clans of the Gadites: the number of those enrolled
was forty thousand five hundred.
19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
20 The descendants of Judah by their clans were: of Shelah, the clan
of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of
the Zerahites.
21 The descendants of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the
Hezronites; of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites.
22 These are the clans of Judah: the number of those enrolled was
seventy-six thousand five hundred.
23 The descendants of Issachar by their clans: of Tola, the clan of
the Tolaites; of Puvah, the clan of the Punites;
24 of Jashub, the clan of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the clan of the
Shimronites.
25 These are the clans of Issachar: sixty-four thousand three hundred
enrolled.
26 The descendants of Zebulun by their clans: of Sered, the clan of
the Seredites; of Elon, the clan of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the clan of the
Jahleelites.
27 These are the clans of the Zebulunites; the number of those enrolled
was sixty thousand five hundred.
28 The sons of Joseph by their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.
29 The descendants of Manasseh: of Machir, the clan of the
Machirites; and Machir was the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the clan of the
Gileadites.
30 These are the descendants of Gilead: of Iezer, the clan of the
Iezerites; of Helek, the clan of the Helekites;
31 and of Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the
clan of the Shechemites;
32 and of Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the
clan of the Hepherites.
33 Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the
names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and
Tirzah.
34 These are the clans of Manasseh; the number of those enrolled was
fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
35 These are the descendants of Ephraim according to their clans: of
Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the clan of the
Becherites; of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites.
36 And these are the descendants of Shuthelah: of Eran, the clan of
the Eranites.
37 These are the clans of the Ephraimites: the number of those enrolled
was thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the descendants of Joseph by
their clans.
38 The descendants of Benjamin by their clans: of Bela, the clan of
the Belaites; of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the clan of the
Ahiramites;
39 of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the clan of
the Huphamites.
40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the
Ardites; of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites.
41 These are the descendants of Benjamin by their clans; the number
of those enrolled was forty-five thousand six hundred.
42 These are the descendants of Dan by their clans: of Shuham, the
clan of the Shuhamites. These are the clans of Dan by their clans.
43 All the clans of the Shuhamites: sixty-four thousand four hundred enrolled.
44 The descendants of Asher by their families: of Imnah, the clan of
the Imnites; of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the clan of the
Beriites.
45 Of the descendants of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites;
of Malchiel, the clan of the Malchielites.
46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
47 These are the clans of the Asherites: the number of those enrolled
was fifty-three thousand four hundred.
48 The descendants of Naphtali by their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan
of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the clan of the Gunites;
49 of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the clan of the
Shillemites.
50 These are the Naphtalites by their clans: the number of those enrolled
was forty-five thousand four hundred.
51 This was the number of the Israelites enrolled: six hundred and
one thousand seven hundred thirty.
52 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
53 To these the land shall be apportioned for inheritance according
to the number of names.
54 To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a
small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its
inheritance according to its enrolment.
55 But the land shall be apportioned by lot; according to the names
of their ancestral tribes they shall inherit.
56 Their inheritance shall be apportioned according to lot between
the larger and the smaller.
57 This is the enrolment of the Levites by their clans: of Gershon,
the clan of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites; of Merari,
the clan of the Merarites.
58 These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites, the clan of
the Hebronites, the clan of the Mahlites, the clan of the Mushites, the clan of
the Korahites. Now Kohath was the father of Amram.
59 The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed daughter of Levi, who was
born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram: Aaron, Moses, and their sister
Miriam.
60 To Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
61 But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unholy fire before the
Lord.
62 The number of those enrolled was twenty-three thousand, every male
one month old and upward; for they were not enrolled among the Israelites
because there was no allotment given to them among the Israelites.
63 These were those enrolled by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who enrolled
the Israelites in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
64 Among these there was not one of those enrolled by Moses and Aaron
the priest, who had enrolled the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.
65 For the Lord had said of them, "They shall die in the
wilderness." Not one of them was left, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and
Joshua son of Nun.
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