Als and reports of the spies. Chap. xiv. And Mofes called Ofhea the fon of Nun, Jchofhua. 17 And Mofes fent them to fpy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way fouthward, and go up into the mountain : 18 And fee the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein. whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in ftrong holds ; 20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firft ripe grapes. The people murmur. 133 32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had fearched unto the children of Ifrael, faying, The land, through which we have gone to fearch, it a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great ftature. 33 And there we faw the giants, the fons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our open fight as graff hoppers, and fo we were in their fight. CHAP. XIV. The people murmuring at the report of the pies, are threatened. AND all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried, and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Ifrael murmured against Mofes and against Aaron: 21 So they went up, and fearched the and the whole congregation faid unto land from the wilderness of Zin unto Re-them, Would God that we had died in the hob, as men come to Hamath. land of Erpt or would God we had 22 And they afcended by the fouth, died in this wilderness! and came u to Hebron; where Ahiman, SAnd wherefore hath the LORD brought Shebai, and Talmai, the children of A-us unto this land, to fall by the fword. nak, were. Now Hebron was built feven that our wives, and our children fhould years before Zoan in Egypt. be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 23 And they came unto the brook of Efhcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a stafl; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 4 And they faid one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. 5 Then Mofes and Aaron fell on their faces before all the aflembly of the con24 The place was called the brook Eh-gregation of the children of Ifrael. col, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Ifrael cut down from thence. 25 And they returned from fearching of the land after forty days. 26 And they went and came to Mofes, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Ifrael, unto the wildernefs of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them and unto all the congregation, and fhewed them the fruit of the land, #7 And they told him, and faid. We came unto the land whither ou fenteft us, and furely it floweth with mill and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 23 Nevertheless, the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and, moreover, we faw the children of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the fouth: and the Hittites, and the Jebulites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains and the Canaanites dwell by the fea, and by the coaft of Jordan. 30 And Caleb ftilled the people before Mofes, and faid, Let us go up at once, and poffefs it; for we are well able to overcome it. 31 But the men that went up with him faid, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 6 And Jofhua the fon of Nun, and Caleb the fon of Jephunneh, which were of them that fearched the land, rent their clothes: 7 And they fpake unto all the company of the children of Ifrael, faying, The land which we paffed through to fearch it, is an exceeding good land. 8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us: a land which floweth with milk and honey. 9 Only rebel not ye again the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. 10 But all the congregation bade stone them with fton. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Ifrael 11 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the tigns which I have thewed among them? 12 I will finite them with the peftilence, and difinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation, and mightier than they. 13 And Mofes faid unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians thall hear it, for thou 151 God threateneib the people. NUMBERS. The Amalekites discomfit them. thou broughteft up this people in thy you, according to your whole number, might from among them; from twenty years old and upward, which 14 And they will tell it to the inhabit-have murmured against me, ants of this land for they have heard . that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art feen face to face, and that thy cloud ftandeth over them, and that thou goeft before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. 15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will fpeak, faying, 30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I fware to make you dwell therein, fave Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the fon of Nun. 31 But your little ones, which ye faid fhould be a prey, them will I bring in. and they fhall know the land which ye have defpifed. 52 But as for you, your carcaffes, they fhall fall in this wilderness. S3 And your children fhall wander in 16 Because the LORD was not able to the wildernefs forty years, and bear your bring this people into the land which he whoredoms, until your carcaffes be waflfware unto them, therefore he hath flained in the wilderness. them in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in 17 And now, I befeech thee, let the which ye fearched the land, even forty power of my LORD be great, according days, each day for a year, fhall ye bear as thou haft fpoken, faying, your iniquities, even forty years, and ye 18 The LORD is longfuffering, and of thall know my breach of promife. great mercy, forgiving iniquity and tranf- 85 I the LORD have laid, I will furely greffion, and by no means clearing the do it unto all this evil congregation, that guilty, vifiting the iniquity of the fathers are gathered together against me in this upon the children unto the third and wildernefs they shall be confumed, and fourth generation. there they fhall die. 19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity 36 And the men which Mofes fent to of this people according unto the great-fearch the land, who returned, and made nefs of thy mercy, and as thou haft for all the congregation to murmur againft given this people, from Egypt even until him, by bringing up a flander upon the land, now. 20 And the LORD faid, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth fhall be filled with the glory of the LORD. 22 Because all thofe men which have feen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 28 Surely they shall not fee the land which I fware unto their fathers, neither 37 Even thofe men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD. S3 But Jofhua the fon of Nun, and Caleb the fon of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to fearch the land, lived filt 39 And Mofes told these sayings unte all the children of Ifrael: and the people mourned greatly. 40 And they rofe up early in the mornthall any of them that provoked me feeling, and gat them up into the top of the it : 24 But my fervant Caleb, becaufe he had another fpirit with him, and hath toldowed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his feed shall poffefs it. 25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley. Tomorrow turn, you, and get ye into the wildernefs by the way of the Red fea. 26 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, and unto Aaron, faying, mountain, faying, Lo, we be bere, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promifed: for we have finned. 41 And Mofes faid, Wherefore now do ye tranfgrefs the commandment of the LORD but it fhall not profper. 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not fmitten before your enemies. 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye fhall fall by the fword: becaufe ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. 27 How long ball I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the chil- 43 But they prefumed to go up unto dren of Ifrael, which they murmur a-the hill top : nevertheless, the ark of the gainst me. covenant of the LORD, and Mofes departed not out of the camp. 28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, faith the LORD, as ye have spoken inmine ears, fo will I do to you. 45 Then the Amalekites came down and the Canaanites which dwelt in that 29 Your carcaffes fhall fall in this wil-hill, and fmote them, and difcomfited dernefs; and all that were numbered of them, even unto Hormah. CHAP The law of CHAP. XV. Chap xv. 1 The law of fundry offerings. 32 The fabbarb-breakers. 37 Law of fringes. AND the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, and fay unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, 19 Then it shall be, that when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave-offering unto the LORD. 20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave-offering: as ye do the heave-offering of the thrething Hoor, fo fhall ye heave it. 3 And will make an offering by fire 21 Of the firft of your dough ye shall unto the LORD, a burnt-offering or a fac.give unto the LORD an heave-offering, rifice in performing a vow, or in a free-in your generations. will-offering or in your folemn feasts, to And if ye have erred, and not obmake a sweet favour unto the LORD, of ferved all thefe commandments, which the herd, or of the flock: the LORD hath fooken unto Mofes, 4 Then thail he that offereth his offer- 23 Even all that the LORD hath coming unto the LORD, bring a meat-offer-manded you by the hand of Mofes, from ing of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the day that the LORD commanded Mothe fourth part of an hin of oil. fes, and henceforward among your generations; 5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink-offering fhalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering or facrifice for one lamb. 6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat-overing two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil. 7 And for a drink-offering thou fhalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a fweet favour unto the LORD. 8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-ordering, or for a facrifice in performing a vow, or peace-offerings unto the LORD; 24 Then it thall be, if aught be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation thall offer one youngbullock for a burnt-offering, for a fweet favour unto the LORD, with his meat-offering, and his drink-offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a fin-offering. 25 And the priest thall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Ifrael, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they hall bring their offering, a facrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their fin-offering before the LORD, for their ignorance: 9 Then thall he bring with a bullock a meat-offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil. 26 And it fhall be forgiven all the con10 And thou shalt bring for a drink-of-gregation of the children of Ifrael, and fering half an hin of wine, for an offer- the stranger that fojourneth among the:n; ing made by fire of a sweet favour unto feeing all the people were in ignorance. the LORD. 11 Thus fhall it be done for one bullock, er for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid. 12 According to the number that ye fhall prepare, fo hall ye do to every one according to their number. 13 All that are born of the country hall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire of a fweet favour unto the LORD. 14 And if a stranger fojourn with you. or whofcever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a fweet favour unto the LORD; as ye do, fo he shall do 27 And if any foul fin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she-goat of the first year for a fin-offering. 28 And the prieft shall make an atonement for the foul that finneth ignorantly, when he finneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for himn and it shall be forgiven him. 29 Ye shall have one law for him that finneth through ignorance, both for hime that is born among the children of Urach, and for the ftranger that sojourneth among them. 30 But the foul that doeth aught prefumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a ffranger, the fame reproacheth the LORD; and that foul shall be cut off from among his people. 15 One ordinance fball be both for you of the congregation, and alfo for the ftranger that fojourneth with you, an ordinance forever in your generations: as ye are, 31 Because he hath defpifed the word fo fhall the ftranger be before the LORD of the LORD, and hath broken his com16 One law and one manner (hall be for mandment, that foul shall utterly be cut you, and for the stranger that fojournethor; his iniquity fall be upon him. with you. 321 And while the children of Ifracl 17 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, were in the wilderness, they found a man Laying. hat gathered fticks upon the fabbath 18 Speak unto the children of Ifrael,day. 136 The fabbath-breaker ftoned. NUMBERS. The rebellion of Korah. 33 And they that found him gathering, in them before the LORD tomorrow : flicks, brought him unto Mofes and Aa-and it shall be that the man whom the ron, and unto all the congregation. LORD doth choofe, he shall be holy ye take too much upon you, ye fons of Levi. 8 And Mofes faid unto Korah, Hear, pray you, ye fons of Levi : 34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. $5 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, The man fhall be furely put to death all the congregation thall ftone him with ftones without the camp. 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and ftoned him with ftones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moles. 37 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 33 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, and bid them that they make them trines in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribbond of blue: 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD,and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart, and your own eyes, after which ye ufe to go a whoring: 40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. 41 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God. CHAP. XVI. I 9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Ifrael hath feparated you from the congregation of Ifrael, to bring you near to himself to do the fervice of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to ftand before the congregation to minifler unto them? 10And he hath brought thee neartobim, and all thy brethren the fons of Levi with thee: and, fcek ye the priesthood alfo? 11 For which caufe borb thou and all thy company are gathered together againit the LORD: and, what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him? 12 And Mofes fent to call Dathan and Abiram, the fons of Eliab : which faid, We will not come up: 13 Is it a fmall thing that thon haft brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness. except thou make thyself al. together a prince over us? 14 Moreover thou haft not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes ofthefe men? we will not come up." 15 And Mofes was very wroth,and faid unto the LORD. Refpect not thou their The rebellion of Korab, &c. 3 His pun-offering: I have not taken one als from ifoment.41 A plag, 46 fayed by iaron. them, neither have I hurt one of them. NOW Korah the fan of Izhar, the fon of Kohath, the fon of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram. the fons of Eliab, and On, the fon of Peleth, fons of Reuben, took men: 2 And they rofe up before Mofes, with certain of the children of Ifrael, two hundred and fifty princes of the affembly, fainous in the congregation, men of renown: 16 And Mofes faid unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron tomorrow: 17 And take every man his cenfer, and put incenfe in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his cenfer, two hundred and fifty centers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his cenfer. 18 And they took every man his cenfer, and put fire in them, and laid incenfe 3 And they gathered themfelves togeth-thereon, and flood in the door of the taber againft Mofes and against Aaron, and ernacle of the congregation with Meles faid unto them, Ye take too much upon and Aaron. you, feeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourfelves above the congregation of the LORD? 4 And when Mofes heard it, he fell upon his face : 19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the glory of the LORD ap peared unto all the congregation. : 20 And the LORD fpake unto Moses, and unto Aaron, faying, 21 Separate yourfelves from among this congregation, that I may confume them in a moment. 5 And he fpake unto Korah, and unto all his company, faying, Even tomorrow the LORD will thew who are his, and who is holy and will caufe him to come near 22 And they fell upon their faces, and unto him: even him whom he hath chofen faid, O God, the God of the fpirits of all will he caufe to come near unto him. fleth fhall one man fin, and wilt thou be 6 This do; take you cenfers, Korah,wroth with all the congregation ? 93 And the LORD ipake unto Mofes, and all his company; And put fire therein, and put incenfe faying, 24 Speak The punishment of Korab, and bis company 187 Chap. xvii. 24 Speak unto the congregation faying, of Ifrael, that no ftranger, which is not Get you up from about the tabernacle of of the feed of Aaron, come near to offer Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. incenfe before the LORD; that he be not 25 And Mofes rofe up and went unto asKorah,and ashis company: as the LORD Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of faid to him by the hand of Mofes. Ifrael followed him. 41 But on the morrow, all the con 26 And he fpake unto the congrega-gregation of the children of Ifrael murtion, faying, Depart, I pray you, from mured against Mofes and against Aaron, the tents of thefe wicked men, and touch faying, Ye have killed the people of the nothing of theirs, left ye be confumed in LORD. all their fins. 42 And it came to pafs, when the congregation was gathered against Mofes and againft Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glo 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every fide: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their fons, and their lit-ry of the LORD appeared. tle children. 28 And Mofes faid, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath fent me to do all thefe works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. 43 And Mofes and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. 44 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may confume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. 99 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be vifited after the vifitation of all men; then the LORD hath not fent me. 461 And Mofes faid unto Aaron,Take 30 But if the LORD make a new thing, a cenfer, and put fire therein from off and the earth open her mouth, and fwal-the altar, and put on incenfe, and go low them up, with all that appertain unto quickly unto the congregation, and make them, and they go down quick into the an atonement for them: for there is wrath pit; then ye fall understand that these gone out from the LORD; the plague is men have provoked the LORD. begun. 31 And it came to pafs, as he had made an end of speaking all thefe words, that the ground clave afunder that was under them: 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and fwallowed them up, and their houfes, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth clofed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. 47 And Aaron took as Mofes commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incenfe, and made an atonement for the people. 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. 49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and feven hundred, befide them that died about the matter of Korah. 34 And all Ifrael that were round about 50 And Aaron returned unto Mofes them, fed at the cry of them; for they unto the door of the tabernacle of the faid, Left the earth fwallow us up alfo.congregation and the plague was stayed. $5 And there came out a fire from the CHAP. XVII. LORD, and confumed the two hundred 1 Aaron's rod budding, 10 is laid up før and fifty men that offered incenfe. 36 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 37 Speak unto Eleazar the fon of AaTon the priest, that he take up the cenfers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed. a monument. AND the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying, 2 Speak unto the children of Ifrael, and take of every one of them a rod, according to the houfe of theirfathers, of all their princes, according to the house of their fathers, twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod. 3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod fail be for the head of the houfe of their fathers. 33 The cenfers of these finners against their own fouls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar; for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a fign unto the children of Ifrael. 4 And thou shalt lay them up in the 39 And Eleazar the priest took the bra-tabernacle of the congregation before the fen cenfers, wherewith they that were teftimony, where I will meet with you. burnt had offered; and they were made 5 And it hall come to pafs, that the broad plates for a covering of the altar man's rod, whom I shall choofe, fhall blof40 To be a memorial unto the children fom: and I will make to ceafe from me S the |