ca. 1: 51, 11 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he. 12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish. The portion of the priests. CHRIST thee have I given them 'by reason of the Before anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordin- cir. 1471. ance for ever. r Exod. 29. 19. & 40. 13, Lev. 2. 2, 3 t Lev. 4. 22, & 10. 12, 13. 27.& 6. 25, 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of their's, every meat offering of their's, and every sin offering of their's, and every "trespass offering of their's, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. 10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be 7.6 holy unto thee. a Lev. 5. 1. & 7.7. & 10. 12. & 14.13. Lev. 6. 16, 18, 26, 29. & 27, 28. Lev. 7.30, 34 Lev. 10. 14. 11 And this is thine; the heave offer- y Exod. 29. ing of their gift, with all the wave offer13 Whosoever cometh any thing nearings of the children of Israel: I have given 53.& 18.47. unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: them unto thee, and to thy sons and to shall we be consumed with dying? thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. a c. 17. 13. CHAP. XVIII. 1 The charge of the priests and Levites. 9 ND the LORD said unto Aaron, A Thou and thy sons and thy father's Exod. 28. house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou Se Gen. with thee, that they may be joined unto ch. 36,7. thee, and minister unto thee: but thou ch 19. and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. e 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, "that neither they, nor ye also, die. 4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of ich the tabernacle: 'and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. k Exod. 7. 21. & 32.7 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the Le sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: 1that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel. 6 And I, behold, I have "taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: "to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 Therefore thou and thy sons with .3 10. thee shall keep your priest's office for Hebr. 9-3, every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. Deut. 18. 3. 16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, ac- ¿ Lev. 27. 2, cording to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: "thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 22 * Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of u Lev. 22.9. the congregation, "lest they bear sin, +Heb.to die. and die. x ch. 3-7 y ver. 21. 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. 24' But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel 14.27, 29. they shall have no inheritance. z ver. 20. Dent. 19. 9. & 18. 1. 2 25¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for a Neh. 10. 38. the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. 27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress. b ver. 30. b a | e Lev. 19. 8. 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the f Lev. 22. 2, best of it:, neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. 15 a The water of separation. wherein is no blemish, * and which upon never came yoke: 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar a the priest, that he may bring her bforth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: Before CHRIST cir. 1471. Deut. 21.3. Sam. 6. 7. 21. & 16. 27. b Lev. 4. 12, Hebr. 13. 11. Lev. 4. 6. 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of &T. 14. 19. her blood directly before the tabernacle Hebr. 9. 13. of the congregation seven times: 5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: 6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 7'Then the priest shall wash his clothes, Lev. 11. 25. and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. 8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. & 15-5 13. 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them Hebr. 9. up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel "for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin. 10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. 11 THe that toucheth the dead body of any +man shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. 13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, 'defileth the tabernacle of the Lev. 15.31. LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; "his uncleanness is yet upon him. n Lev. 7. 20. 14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 15 And every open vessel, which hath Lev. 11. 32. no covering bound upon it, is unclean. 16 And whosoever toucheth one that P ver. 11. is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the +ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: + Heb. dust. ver. 9. Heb. lir ing waters shall be giten. Gen. 26. 19 18 And a clean person shall take 'hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkler Ps. 51. 7. The children of Israel murmur for water. Before CHRIST CHAP. XX. it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, cir. 1471 and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and Lev. 149 on the seventh day: 'and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. < Exod. 17.1. 1 The children of Israel come to Zin, where THEN came the children of Israel, Water out of the rock. from be CHRIST 1453 Neh. 9. 15. Ps. 78. 15, 16. & 105. 41. & 14. 8. Isai. 43. 20. & 48. | fore their eyes; and it shall give forth his Before 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and 13 This is the water of || Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them. 14 ¶ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travel that hath +befallen us: 21. m ch. 17. 10. Exod.17.6. Deut. 8. 15. THEN the whole congregation, into and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: 35 the desert of Zin in the first month: and Exod. 15 the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2And there was no water for the ch. 16. 19, congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? 5 And wherefore have ye made us to 6 And Moses and Aaron went from 8 Take the rod, and gather thou the Of the fiery serpents. Before CHRIST 1453. NUMBERS. 24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the b Gen. 25. 8. land which I have given unto the children ch. 27. 13. & of Israel, because ye rebelled against my 32. 50. +word at the water of Meribah. 31.2. Deut. i ver. 12. + Heb. mouth. k ch. 33. 38. Deut. 32. 50. 1 Exod. 29. 29, 30. 1452. 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor: 26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there. 27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. m 28 'And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his m ch.33.38. son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. Deut. 10. 6. & 32. 50. Before CHRIST 1452. Journeys of the Israelites. thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, p2 Kings 18. 4. John 3. and put it upon a pole, and it came to 14, 15 pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. 10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth. q ch. 33. 43 | Or, heaps 11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and 'pitched at | Ije-abarim, in the wil- ch. 33. 44derness which is before Moab, toward of Abarim the sunrising. 12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared. Deut. 2.13. 13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites; for Arnon is tch. 22 36 the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. Judg. 11. 18. 15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, "and + lieth upon the border of Moab. 16 And from thence they went to Heb. lean Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. 17'Then Israel sang this song, † Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it: 18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah: 19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth: 20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of || Pisgah, which looketh toward || Jeshimon. 22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the c ch. 20. 17. vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. 23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel dDeut. 29. 7. to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Judg. 11. Israel. 24 And Israel smote him with the edge f Deut. 2. 33. of the sword, and possessed his land from Josh. 12. 1, Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the Ps. 135. 10, children of Ammon was strong. 11. & 136. 19. Amos 2-9. Og is overcome. Before CHRIST 1452. + Heb. daughters. CHAP. XXII. 25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the + villages thereof. 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. 27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: 428 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon. 15. Isai. 15.1. 24 1 Kings 147332 Kings 23 29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites. 30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is kler. 48. 18, perished even *unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which Lisa 152 reacheth unto 1Medeba. 21 mch. 3. 1. Jer. 45 32. n Deut. 3. 1. 29.7 12. 31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. 32 And Moses sent to spy out "Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there. 33 ¶ a And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. Josh. 13. 34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Deut. 3.2 P Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 135, 10, 11. & 13. 20. ? Dene. 3.39 ach. 32. 48. 35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land. | CHAP. XXII. 1 Balak's first message for Balaam is refused. 15 His second message obtaineth him. 22 An angel would have slain him, if his ass had not saved him. 36 Balak entertaineth him. A ND the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. 2¶ And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. 4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up Josh. 13 all that are round about us, as the ox 2 licketh up the grass of the field. And P215 Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time. Balak sendeth for Balaam. Before CHRIST 1452. is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the +face of the earth, ↑ Hcb. eye. and they abide over against me: 6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too 8 ch. 23. 7. mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed. 7,8. 7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the re- h1 Sam. 9. wards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak. 8 And he said unto them, 'Lodge here i ver. 19. this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam. 9 And God came unto Balaam, and Gen. 20. 3. said, What men are these with thee? 10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying, 11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure +I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out. 12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for 'they are blessed. 13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you. 14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us. 15 ¶ And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. |