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Numbers בְּמִדְבַּר
(BaMidbar - in the desert)

CHAPTER 29

Offerings of the Feast of Trumpets

1 ‘Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.
2 ‘And you shall offer a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to Yahweh: one bull from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old without blemish;
3 also their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,
4 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs.
5 ‘And offer one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you,
6 besides the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their legal judgment, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Yahweh.

Offerings for Atonement

7 ‘Then on the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall humble yourselves; you shall not do any work.
8 ‘And you shall bring near a burnt offering to Yahweh as a soothing aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs one year old, having them without blemish;
9 and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,
10 a tenth for each of the seven lambs;
11 one male goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and their drink offerings.
12 ‘Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, and you shall celebrate a feast to Yahweh for seven days.
13 ‘And you shall bring near a burnt offering, an offering by fire as a soothing aroma to Yahweh: thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old, which are without blemish;
14 and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams,
15 and a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs;
16 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.
17 ‘Then on the second day: twelve bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;
18 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;
19 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and their drink offerings.
20 ‘Then on the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;
21 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;
22 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.
23 ‘Then on the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;
24 their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;
25 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.
26 ‘Then on the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;
27 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;
28 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.
29 ‘Then on the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;
30 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;
31 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offerings.
32 ‘Then on the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;
33 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;
34 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.
35 ‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work.
36 ‘But you shall bring near a burnt offering, an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs one year old without blemish;
37 their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;
38 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.
39 ‘You shall offer these to Yahweh at your appointed times, besides your votive offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings and for your grain offerings and for your drink offerings and for your peace offerings.’”
40 And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Legacy Standard Bible (Three Sixteen Publishing, 2022), Nu 29.

29.1-40

Offerings of the Feast of Trumpets

CHAPTER 30

The Statutes for Vows

1 Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the word which Yahweh has commanded.
2 “If a man makes a vow to Yahweh or swears an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
3 “Also if a woman makes a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s house in her youth,
4 and her father hears her vow and her obligation by which she has bound herself, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every obligation by which she has bound herself shall stand.
5 “But if her father should forbid her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand; and Yahweh will pardon her because her father had forbidden her.
6 “However, if she should marry while under her vows or the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself,
7 and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day he hears it, then her vows shall stand, and her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand.
8 “But if, on the day her husband hears of it, he forbids her, then he shall annul her vow which she is under and the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself; and Yahweh will pardon her.
9 “But the vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, everything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.
10 “However, if she vowed in her husband’s house or bound herself by an obligation with an oath,
11 and her husband heard it but said nothing to her and did not forbid her, then all her vows shall stand, and every obligation by which she bound herself shall stand.
12 “But if her husband indeed annuls them on the day he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the obligation of herself shall not stand; her husband has annulled them, and Yahweh will pardon her.
13 “Every vow and every binding oath to humble herself, her husband may cause it to stand, or her husband may annul it.
14 “But if her husband indeed says nothing to her from day to day, then he causes all her vows or all her obligations which are on her to stand; he has caused them to stand because he said nothing to her on the day he heard them.
15 “But if he indeed annuls them after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt.”
16 These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, as between a man and his wife, and as between a father and his daughter, while she is in her youth in her father’s house.

Legacy Standard Bible (Three Sixteen Publishing, 2022), Nu 30.

30.1-16

The Statutes for Vows

CHAPTER 31

Vengeance on Midian

1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Take full vengeance for the sons of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people.”
3 And Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.
4 “One thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war.”
5 So there were furnished from the thousands of Israel, one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
6 And Moses sent them, one thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, and the holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
7 So they made war against Midian, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
8 They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
9 And the sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods they plundered.
10 Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire.
11 And they took all the spoil and all the loot, both of man and of beast.
12 And they brought the captives and the loot and the spoil to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.
14 And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.
15 So Moses said to them, “Have you spared all the women?
16 “Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to act unfaithfully against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
17 “So now, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately.
18 “But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.
19 “And you, camp outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves, you and your captives, on the third day and on the seventh day.
20 “And you shall purify for yourselves every garment and every article of leather and all the work of goats’ hair and all articles of wood.”
21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle, “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
22 only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin and the lead,
23 everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean, but it shall be purified with water for impurity. But whatever cannot stand the fire you shall pass through the water.
24 “And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.”

Division of the Loot

25 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
26 “You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation take a count of the loot that was captured, both of man and of animal;
27 and divide the loot between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.
28 “And you shall exact a levy for Yahweh from the men of war who went out to battle, one in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep;
29 take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as a contribution to Yahweh.
30 “And from the sons of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of Yahweh.”
31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
32 Now the loot that remained from the plunder which the men of war had plundered was 675,000 sheep,
33 and 72,000 cattle,
34 and 61,000 donkeys,
35 and of human beings, of the women who had not known man intimately, all the persons were 32,000.
36 And the half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500;
37 and the levy of Yahweh from the sheep was 675;
38 and the cattle were 36,000, from which the levy of Yahweh was 72;
39 and the donkeys were 30,500, from which the levy of Yahweh was 61;
40 and the human beings were 16,000, from whom the levy of Yahweh was 32 persons.
41 And Moses gave the levy, which was the contribution to Yahweh, to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
42 As for the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war—
43 now the congregation’s half was 337,500 sheep,
44 and 36,000 cattle,
45 and 30,500 donkeys,
46 and the human beings were 16,000—
47 and from the sons of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
48 Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses,
49 and they said to Moses, “Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.
50 “So we have brought near as an offering to Yahweh what each man found—articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before Yahweh.”
51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all kinds of crafted articles.
52 And all the gold from the contribution offering which they raised up in offering to Yahweh, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.
53 The men of war had taken plunder, every man for himself.
54 So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and they brought it to the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before Yahweh.

Legacy Standard Bible (Three Sixteen Publishing, 2022), Nu 31.

31.1-54

Vengeance on Midian

CHAPTER 32

Reuben and Gad Possess Gilead

1 Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had an exceedingly large number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that it was indeed a place suitable for livestock,
2 so the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,
3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
4 the land, which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”
5 And they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession; do not take us across the Jordan.”
6 But Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you yourselves sit here?
7 “Now why are you discouraging the sons of Israel from crossing over into the land which Yahweh has given them?
8 “This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
9 “Indeed they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, and they discouraged the sons of Israel so that they did not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
10 “So Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
11 ‘None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,
12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have followed Yahweh fully.’
13 “So Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh was brought to an end.
14 “Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of Yahweh against Israel.
15 “For if you turn away from following Him, He will once more abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.”
16 Then they came near to him and said, “We will build here sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our little ones;
17 but we ourselves will be armed ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place, and our little ones live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
18 “We will not return to our homes until every one of the sons of Israel has possessed his inheritance.
19 “For we will not have an inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of the Jordan east.”
20 So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before Yahweh for the war,
21 and all of you armed men cross over the Jordan before Yahweh until He has dispossessed His enemies from before Him,
22 and the land is subdued before Yahweh, then afterward you shall return and be free of obligation toward Yahweh and toward Israel, and this land shall be yours for a possession before Yahweh.
23 “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh, and be sure your sin will find you out.
24 “Build yourselves cities for your little ones and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.”
25 And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do just as my lord commands.
26 “Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead;
27 but your servants, everyone who is armed for war, will cross over in the presence of Yahweh to battle, just as my lord says.”
28 So Moses gave a command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the sons of Israel.
29 And Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross with you over the Jordan in the presence of Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;
30 but if they will not cross over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
31 And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, “As Yahweh has said to your servants, so we will do.
32 “We ourselves will cross over armed in the presence of Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us across the Jordan.”
33 So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph’s son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their territories, the cities of the surrounding land.
34 And the sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,
35 and Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah,
36 and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
37 And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim,
38 and Nebo and Baal-meon—their names being changed—and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
39 And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
40 So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he lived in it.
41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns and called them aHavvoth-jair.
42 And Nobah went and took Kenath and its towns and called it Nobah after his own name.

Legacy Standard Bible (Three Sixteen Publishing, 2022), Nu 32.

32.1-42

Reuben and Gad Possess Gilead

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