1 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 This is the statute of the law which YAHUVEH has commanded, saying, Speak to
the sons of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer, without blemish, in which
there is no blemish, on which no yoke ever came. 3 And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and she shall be brought forth
outside the camp; and she shall be slaughtered before his face. 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and shall
sprinkle of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. 5 And the heifer shall be burned before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and
her blood with her dung, shall be burned. 6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop and scarlet, and shall cast
it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water,
and afterward he may come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until
the evening. 8 And he that burned her shall wash his clothes in water, and shall bathe his
flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening. 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and shall lay
them up outside the camp in a clean place. And it shall be kept for the
congregation of the sons of Israel for a water of impurity; it is a sin
offering. 10 And he that gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and shall
be unclean until the evening; and it shall be to the sons of Israel, and to the
stranger that lives among them, for a never ending statute. 11 He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall cleanse himself for it on the third day, and on the seventh day he
shall be clean. And if he does not cleanse himself on the third day, then on the
seventh day he shall not be clean. 13 Anyone who touches the dead body, the body of a man who dies, and does not
cleanse himself, he shall have defiled the tabernacle of YAHUVEH; and that
person shall be cut off from Israel, for the water of impurity shall not be
sprinkled upon him. He shall be unclean; his uncleanness shall be still on him. 14 This is the law when a man dies in a tent: Everyone who comes into the tent,
and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 15 And every open vessel which has no covering of thread on it shall be unclean. 16 And whoever in the open field touches one that has been pierced with a sword,
or one that has died of himself, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be
unclean seven days. 17 And for the unclean they shall take the ashes of the burning of the sin
offering, and living water in a vessel shall be put on it. 18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and shall dip it in the water, and
shall sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons
that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead,
or the grave. 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on
the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself; and he shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening. 20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul
shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because he has defiled the
sanctuary of YAHUVEH; the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he
shall be unclean. 21 And it shall be a continual statute to them; and he that sprinkles the water
of impurity shall wash his clothes; and he that touches the water of sprinkling
shall be unclean until evening. 22 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that
touches it shall be unclean until evening.
*~Numbers Chapter 20 ~*
1 And the sons of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness
of Zin in the first month; and the people remained in Kadesh. And Miriam died
there, and was buried there. 2 And there was no water for the congregation, and they were gathered against
Moses, and against Aaron. 3 And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Oh that we had died
when our brothers died before YAHUVEH! 4 And, why have you brought the assembly of YAHUVEH to this wilderness to die
there, we and our animals? 5 And, why have you brought us up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place,
not a place of seed, nor fig, nor vine, nor pomegranate; and there is no water
to drink? 6 And Moses and Aaron went in from the eyes of the assembly, to the door of the
tent of meeting; and fell on their faces. And the glory of YAHUVEH appeared to
them. 7 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying, 8 Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aaron. And
speak to the rock before their eyes. And it shall give forth its water; and you
shall bring water out of the rock to them; so you shall water the congregation
and their animals. 9 And Moses took the rod from before YAHUVEH, as He commanded him. 10 And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation before the rock. And he said
to them, Hear now, you rebels, shall we bring forth water to you out of this
rock? 11 And Moses lifted up his hand and smote the rock with his rod twice; and much
water came out; and the congregation and their animals drank. 12 And YAHUVEH said to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe in Me, to
sanctify Me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring
in this congregation to the land which I have given to them. 13 These are the Waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel contended with
YAHUVEH, and He was sanctified among them. 14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: So says your
brother Israel, You surely have known all the travail which has found us; 15 that our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many days, and the
Egyptians did evil to us and to our fathers. 16 And we cried to YAHUVEH, and He heard our voice, and sent a messenger, and is
bringing us out of Egypt; and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of
your border. 17 Please let us pass over, through your land; we shall not pass over through a
field, nor through a vineyard, nor shall we drink water of a well; we shall go
along the king’s highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the
left, until we have passed your border. 18 And Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the
sword against you. 19 And the sons of Israel said to him, We shall go in the highway; and if we
drink of your waters, our cattle and us, then I shall give their price. Only let
me pass through on my feet; there shall be no speech. 20 And he said, You shall not pass through. And Edom came out against him with
many people, and with a strong hand. 21 And Edom refused to allow Israel to pass over through his border. And Israel
turned away from him. 22 And the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, pulled up stakes from Kadesh
and came in to Mount Hor. 23 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of
Edom, saying, 24 Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not go into the land
which I have given to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My mouth
at the Waters of Strife. 25 Take Aaron and his son Eleazar, and cause them to go up to Mount Hor; 26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and you shall put them on his son Eleazar.
And Aaron shall be gathered and shall die there. 27 And Moses did as YAHUVEH had commanded; and they went up to Mount Hor before
the eyes of all the congregation. 28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and clothed his son Eleazar with
them. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. And Moses and Eleazar
came down from the mountain. 29 And all the congregation saw that Aaron had died, and they mourned Aaron
thirty days, all the house of Israel. *~Numbers Chapter 21 ~*
1 And King Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south, heard that Israel had
come the Way of Spies; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them
captive. 2 And Israel vowed a vow to YAHUVEH, and said, If giving You give this people
into my hand, then I will exterminate their cities. 3 And YAHUVEH listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites;
and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; and the name of the place was
called Hormah. 4 And they pulled up stakes from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go
around the land of Edom. And the soul of the people became impatient because of
the way. 5 And the people spoke against ELOHIM, and against Moses, Why have you brought
us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no
water; and our soul hates this light bread. 6 And YAHUVEH sent the Seraphaim in the form of serpents among the people; and
they bit the people, and many people of Israel died. 7 And the people came in to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken
against YAHUVEH, and against you. Pray to YAHUVEH, and He shall turn the serpent
away from us. And Moses prayed on behalf of the people. 8 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, Make yourself a Seraph, and set it on a pole; and
it shall be that when anyone is bitten, when he sees it, he shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it on a pole; and it happened, if a
serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived. 10 And the sons of Israel pulled up stakes and encamped in Oboth. 11 And they pulled up stakes from Oboth, and camped in Ijeabarim, in the
wilderness that is before Moab, toward the rising of the sun. 12 From there they pulled up stakes and camped in the valley of Zered. 13 From there they pulled up stakes and camped beyond Arnon, which is in the
wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorite; for Arnon is the border
of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite; 14 therefore, it is said in the Book of the Wars of YAHUVEH: Waheb in Suphah,
the torrents of Arnon, 15 and the slope of the torrent-beds that turn down toward the site of Ar, and
lean on the border of Moab. 16 And from there they went to Beer; that is the well of which YAHUVEH spoke to
Moses, saying, Gather the people and I will give water to them. 17 Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, O well, sing to it; 18 The well which the rulers dug, which the nobles of the people dug with their
staves, at the word of the Lawgiver. And from the wilderness they went to
Mattanah. 19 And from Mattanah they went to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 20 and from Bamoth in the valley which is in the field of Moab to the top of
Pisgah, and looking toward the wilderness. 21 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22 Let me pass through your land; we will not turn into a field or into a
vineyard; we will not drink waters of a well; we will go in the king’s highway
until we have passed over your border. 23 And Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border. And Sihon
gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness, and they
came to Jahaz and fought against Israel. 24 And Israel struck him by the mouth of the sword and seized his land, from
Arnon to Jabbok, to the sons of Ammon. For the border of the sons of Ammon was
strong. 25 And Israel took all these cities. And Israel dwelt in all the cities of the
Amorite, in Heshbon and in all its daughter villages. 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites. And he had fought
against the former king of Moab and had taken his land out of his hand, to Arnon. 27 On account of this the parable speakers say, Come to Heshbon! Let the city of
Sihon be built and established! 28 For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it has
consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon. 29 Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons
as fugitives and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites. 30 We have cast them down; Heshbon has perished, even to Dibon; and we have
ravaged even to Nophah, which is to Medeba. 31 And Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. 32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took its villages and drove out
the Amorite who was there. 33 And they turned and went the way of Bashan. And Og king of Bashan came out to
meet them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 34 And YAHUVEH said to Moses, Do not fear him, for I have given him into your
hand, and all his people and his land. And you shall do to him as you have done
to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon. 35 And they struck him and his sons and all his people until he did not have a
remnant left. And they seized his land.
*~Numbers Chapter 22 ~*
1 And the sons of Israel pulled up stakes and camped on the plains of Moab,
beyond the Jordan, by Jericho.