[9:1] Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, [9:2] "Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. [9:3] On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season--according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."
[9:4] Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover. [9:5] They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did. [9:6] There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. [9:7] Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?"
[9:8] Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you."
[9:9] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [9:10] "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh. [9:11] In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. [9:12] They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it. [9:13] But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. [9:14] If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"
[9:15] On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning. [9:16] So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. [9:17] Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped. [9:18] At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped. [9:19] When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Yahweh's command, and didn't travel. [9:20] Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. [9:21] Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled. [9:22] Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled. [9:23] At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept Yahweh's command, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
[10:1] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [10:2] Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work: and you shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps. [10:3] When they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. [10:4] If they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. [10:5] When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey. [10:6] When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. [10:7] But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. [10:8] The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. [10:9] When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. [10:10] Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Yahweh your God. [10:11] It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tent of the testimony. [10:12] The children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran. [10:13] They first took their journey according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. [10:14] In the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their armies: and over his army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. [10:15] Over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar. [10:16] Over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. [10:17] The tent was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tent, set forward. [10:18] The standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his army was Elizur the son of Shedeur. [10:19] Over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. [10:20] Over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. [10:21] The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the others did set up the tent against their coming. [10:22] The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his army was Elishama the son of Ammihud. [10:23] Over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. [10:24] Over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni. [10:25] The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their armies: and over his army was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. [10:26] Over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran. [10:27] Over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan. [10:28] Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they set forward. [10:29] Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, I will give it to you: come you with us, and we will do you good; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel. [10:30] He said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives. [10:31] He said, Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you shall be to us instead of eyes. [10:32] It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh shall do to us, the same will we do to you. [10:33] They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them. [10:34] The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp. [10:35] It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you. [10:36] When it rested, he said, Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.
[11:1] The people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp. [11:2] The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated. [11:3] The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them. [11:4] The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? [11:5] We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: [11:6] but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look on. [11:7] The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance as the appearance of bdellium. [11:8] The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and its taste was as the taste of fresh oil. [11:9] When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. [11:10] Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased. [11:11] Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? [11:12] Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers? [11:13] Where should I get meat to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us meat, that we may eat. [11:14] I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. [11:15] If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. [11:16] Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. [11:17] I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone. [11:18] Say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you shall eat. [11:19] You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, [11:20] but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? [11:21] Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. [11:22] Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? [11:23] Yahweh said to Moses, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? now you will see whether my word shall happen to you or not. [11:24] Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent. [11:25] Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. [11:26] But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. [11:27] There ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. [11:28] Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them. [11:29] Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them! [11:30] Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. [11:31] There went forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth. [11:32] The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp. [11:33] While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague. [11:34] The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted. [11:35] From Kibrothhattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.
[12:1] Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. [12:2] They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he spoken also with us? Yahweh heard it. [12:3] Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth. [12:4] Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out you three to the Tent of Meeting. They three came out. [12:5] Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. [12:6] He said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream. [12:7] My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house: [12:8] with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh shall he see: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses? [12:9] The anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed. [12:10] The cloud removed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow: and Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. [12:11] Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, please don't lay sin on us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned. [12:12] Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb. [12:13] Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you. [12:14] Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again. [12:15] Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days: and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again. [12:16] Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
[13:1] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [13:2] Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, everyone a prince among them. [13:3] Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. [13:4] These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. [13:5] Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. [13:6] Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. [13:7] Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. [13:8] Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. [13:9] Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. [13:10] Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. [13:11] Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. [13:12] Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. [13:13] Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. [13:14] Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. [13:15] Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. [13:16] These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. [13:17] Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country: [13:18] and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; [13:19] and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; [13:20] and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. [13:21] So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. [13:22] They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) [13:23] They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two; they brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. [13:24] That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there. [13:25] They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. [13:26] They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. [13:27] They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is its fruit. [13:28] However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. [13:29] Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan. [13:30] Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. [13:31] But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. [13:32] They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature. [13:33] There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
[14:1] All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. [14:2] All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness! [14:3] Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt? [14:4] They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. [14:5] Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. [14:6] Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes: [14:7] and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. [14:8] If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. [14:9] Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: don't fear them. [14:10] But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel. [14:11] Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them? [14:12] I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they. [14:13] Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them; [14:14] and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. [14:15] Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, [14:16] Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness. [14:17] Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, [14:18] Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation. [14:19] Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. [14:20] Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to your word: [14:21] but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh; [14:22] because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; [14:23] surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it: [14:24] but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it. [14:25] Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the [Red Sea]. [14:26] Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, [14:27] How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. [14:28] Tell them, As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: [14:29] your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, [14:30] surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. [14:31] But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected. [14:32] But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. [14:33] Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. [14:34] After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation. [14:35] I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. [14:36] The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, [14:37] even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh. [14:38] But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land. [14:39] Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. [14:40] They rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: for we have sinned. [14:41] Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, seeing it shall not prosper? [14:42] Don't go up, for Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies. [14:43] For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you. [14:44] But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, didn't depart out of the camp. [14:45] Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.