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Num 11:1 And it came to be, when the people were as complainers, it was
evil in the ears of יהוה. And יהוה heard it, and His displeasure burned. And the
fire of יהוה burned among them, and consumed those in the outskirts of the
camp.
Num 11:2 And the people cried out to Mosheh, and Mosheh prayed to יהוה,
and the fire died down.
Num 11:3 Then he called the name of the place Taḇ‛ĕrah, because the fire of
יהוה had burned among them.
Num 11:4 And the mixed multitude who were in their midst lusted greatly, so
the children of Yisra’ĕl also wept again and said, “Who is giving us meat to
eat?
Num 11:5 “We remember the fish which we ate without cost in Mitsrayim,
the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic,
Num 11:6 but now our throat is dried up. There is naught to look at but this
manna!”
Num 11:7 Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like
the appearance of bdellium.
Num 11:8 The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or
beat it in the mortar, and cooked it in a pot, and made cakes of it. And its
taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.
Num 11:9 And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell on it.
Num 11:10 And Mosheh heard the people weeping throughout their clans,
each man at the door of his tent. And the displeasure of יהוה burned
exceedingly. And in the eyes of Mosheh it was evil,
Num 11:11 so Mosheh said to יהוה, “Why have You done evil to Your
servant? And why have I not found favour in Your eyes, to put the burden of
all these people on me?
Num 11:12 “Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought
them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as the
foster father carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their
fathers?
Num 11:13 “Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they
weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat.’
Num 11:14 “I am unable to bear all these people alone, because the burden
is too heavy for me.
Num 11:15 “And if You are doing this to me, please slay me altogether, if I
have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!”
Num 11:16 Then יהוה said to Mosheh, “Gather to Me seventy men of the
elders of Yisra’ĕl, whom you know to be the elders of the people and
officers over them. And bring them to the Tent of Meeting, and let them stand
there with you.
Num 11:17 “And I shall come down and speak with you there, and shall take
of the Spirit that is on you, and put on them. And they shall bear the burden of
the people with you, so that you do not bear it yourself alone.
Num 11:18 “And say to the people, ‘Set yourselves apart for tomorrow, and
you shall eat meat, because you have wept in the hearing of יהוה, saying,
“Who is giving us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Mitsrayim.” And
יהוה shall give you meat, and you shall eat.
Num 11:19 ‘You are going to eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days,
nor ten days, nor twenty days,
Num 11:20 but for a month of days, until it comes out of your nostrils and
becomes an abomination to you, because you have rejected יהוה who is
among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we come up out of
Mitsrayim?” ’ ”
Num 11:21 And Mosheh said, “The people in whose midst I am are six
hundred thousand men on foot, and You, You have said, ‘I give them meat to
eat for a month of days.’
Num 11:22 “Could flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient
for them? Or could all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be
sufficient for them?”
Num 11:23 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Is the arm of יהוה too short? Now see
whether My word meets you or not!”
Num 11:24 And Mosheh went out and spoke to the people the words of יהוה,
and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them
around the Tent.
Num 11:25 And יהוה came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of
the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders.
And it came to be, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, but
did not continue.
Num 11:26 However, two men had remained in the camp. The name of one
was Eldaḏ, and the name of the other Mĕyḏaḏ. And the Spirit rested upon
them. Now they were among those listed, but did not go out to the Tent. And
they prophesied in the camp.
Num 11:27 And a young man ran and informed Mosheh, and said, “Eldaḏ
and Mĕyḏaḏ are prophesying in the camp.”
Num 11:28 And Yehoshua son of Nun, Mosheh’s assistant from his youth,
answered and said, “Mosheh my master, forbid them!”
Num 11:29 Then Mosheh said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Oh, that
all the people of יהוה were prophets, that יהוה would put His Spirit upon
them!”
Num 11:30 And Mosheh returned to the camp, both he and the elders of
Yisra’ĕl.
Num 11:31 And a wind went forth from יהוה, and it brought quail from the
sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and
about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two
cubits above the surface of the ground.
Num 11:32 And the people were up all that day, and all that night, and all the
next day, and gathered the quail. He who has least gathered ten ḥomers. And
they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
Num 11:33 The meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed,
and the wrath of יהוה burned against the people, and יהוה smote the people
with an exceeding great plague.
Num 11:34 Then he called the name of that place Qiḇroth Hatta’awah,
because there they buried the people who had lusted.
Num 11:35 From Qiḇroth Hatta’awah the people set out for Ḥatsĕroth – and
they were at Ḥatsĕroth.
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Num 12:1 Now Miryam and Aharon spoke against Mosheh because of the
Kushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Kushite woman.
Num 12:2 And they said, “Has יהוה spoken only through Mosheh? Has He
not also spoken through us?” And יהוה heard it.
Num 12:3 And the man Mosheh was very humble, more than all men who
were on the face of the earth.
Num 12:4 And suddenly יהוה said to Mosheh, and Aharon, and Miryam,
“You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting!” So the three came out.
Num 12:5 And יהוה came down in the column of cloud and stood in the door
of the Tent, and called Aharon and Miryam. And they both went forward.
Num 12:6 And He said, “Hear now My words: If your prophet is of יהוה, I
make Myself known to him in a vision, and I speak to him in a dream.
Num 12:7 “Not so with My servant Mosheh, he is trustworthy in all My
house.
Num 12:8 “I speak with him mouth to mouth, and plainly, and not in riddles.
And he sees the form of יהוה. So why were you not afraid to speak against My
servant Mosheh?”
Num 12:9 And the displeasure of יהוה burned against them, and He left.
Num 12:10 And the cloud turned away from above the Tent, and look:
Miryam was leprous, as white as snow! And Aharon turned toward Miryam,
and look: a leper!
Num 12:11 And Aharon said to Mosheh, “Oh, my master! Please do not hold
against us the sin in which we have done foolishly and in which we have
sinned.
Num 12:12 “Please do not let her be as one dead when coming out of its
mother’s womb, with our flesh half consumed!”
Num 12:13 And Mosheh cried out to יהוה, saying, “O Ĕl, please heal her,
please!”
Num 12:14 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “If her father had but spit in her face,
would she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp seven
days, and after that let her be readmitted.”
Num 12:15 And Miryam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the
people did not set out until Miryam was readmitted.
Num 12:16 And afterward the people departed from Ḥatsĕroth, and they
camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
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Num 13:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 13:2 “Send men to spy out the land of Kena‛an, which I am giving to
the children of Yisra’ĕl. Send one man from each tribe of their fathers, every
one a leader among them.”
Num 13:3 And by the command of יהוה Mosheh sent them from the
Wilderness of Paran, all of them men who were heads of the children of
Yisra’ĕl.
Num 13:4 And these were their names. From the tribe of Re’uḇĕn:
Shammua, son of Zakkur.
Num 13:5 From the tribe of Shim‛on: Shaphat, son of Ḥori.
Num 13:6 From the tribe of Yehuḏah: Kalĕḇ, son of Yephunneh.
Num 13:7 From the tribe of Yissasḵar: Yiḡ’al, son of Yosĕph.
Num 13:8 From the tribe of Ephrayim: Hoshĕa, son of Nun.
Num 13:9 From the tribe of Binyamin: Palti, son of Raphu.
Num 13:10 From the tribe of Zeḇulun: Gaddi’ĕl, son of Soḏi.
Num 13:11 From the tribe of Yosĕph, from the tribe of Menashsheh: Gaddi,
son of Susi.
Num 13:12 From the tribe of Dan: Ammi’ĕl, son of Gemalli.
Num 13:13 From the tribe of Ashĕr: Shĕthur, son of Miḵa’ĕl.
Num 13:14 From the tribe of Naphtali: Naḥbi, son of Wophsi.
Num 13:15 From the tribe of Gaḏ: Geu’ĕl, son of Maḵi.
Num 13:16 These are the names of the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the
land. And Mosheh called Hoshĕa the son of Nun, Yehoshua.
Num 13:17 And Mosheh sent them to spy out the land of Kena‛an, and said
to them, “Go up here into the South, and go up to the mountains,
Num 13:18 and see what the land is like, and the people who dwell in it,
whether strong or weak, whether few or many,
Num 13:19 and whether the land they dwell in is good or evil, whether the
cities they inhabit are in camps or strongholds,
Num 13:20 and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are
forests there or not. And you shall be strong, and bring some of the fruit of the
land.” Now the time was the season of the first-fruits of grapes.
Num 13:21 So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of
Tsin as far as Reḥoḇ, near the entrance of Ḥamath.
Num 13:22 And they went up through the South and came to Ḥeḇron. And
Aḥiman, Shĕshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anaq, were there. Now
Ḥeḇron had been built seven years before Tso‛an in Mitsrayim.
Num 13:23 And they came to the wadi Eshkol, and cut down from there a
branch with one cluster of grapes. And they bore it between two of them on a
pole, also of the pomegranates and of the figs.
Num 13:24 That place was called the wadi Eshkol, because of the cluster
which the men of Yisra’ĕl cut down from there.
Num 13:25 And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.
Num 13:26 And they went and came to Mosheh and Aharon and all the
congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl in the Wilderness of Paran, at
Qaḏĕsh. And they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and
showed them the fruit of the land.
Num 13:27 And they reported to him, and said, “We went to the land where
you sent us. And truly, it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
Num 13:28 “But the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities
are walled, very great. And we saw the descendants of Anaq there too.
Num 13:29 “The Amalĕqites dwell in the land of the South, while the
Ḥittites and the Yeḇusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. And the
Kena‛anites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Yardĕn.”
Num 13:30 And Kalĕḇ silenced the people before Mosheh, and said, “Let us
go up at once and take possession, for we are certainly able to overcome it.”
Num 13:31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to
go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
Num 13:32 And they gave the children of Yisra’ĕl an evil report of the land
which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as
spies is a land eating up its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it
are men of great size.
Num 13:33 “And we saw there the Nephilim, sons of Anaq, of the Nephilim.
And we were like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and so we were in their
eyes.”
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Num 14:1 Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the
people wept that night.
Num 14:2 And all the children of Yisra’ĕl grumbled against Mosheh and
against Aharon, and all the congregation said to them, “If only we had died in
the land of Mitsrayim! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
Num 14:3 “And why is יהוה bringing us to this land to fall by the sword, that
our wives and children should become a prey? Would it not be better for us
to turn back to Mitsrayim?”
Num 14:4 And they said to each other, “Let us appoint a leader, and let us
turn back to Mitsrayim.”
Num 14:5 Then Mosheh and Aharon fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Num 14:6 And Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh, who
were among those who had spied out the land, tore their garments,
Num 14:7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl,
saying, “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
Num 14:8 “If יהוה has delighted in us, then He shall bring us into this land
and give it to us, ‘a land which is flowing with milk and honey.’
Num 14:9 “Only, do not rebel against יהוה, nor fear the people of the land,
for they are our bread. Their defence has turned away from them, and יהוה is
with us. Do not fear them.”
Num 14:10 But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the
esteem of יהוה appeared in the Tent of Meeting before all the children of
Yisra’ĕl.
Num 14:11 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “How long shall I be scorned by these
people? And how long shall I not be trusted by them, with all the signs which
I have done in their midst?
Num 14:12 “Let Me smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and
make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
Num 14:13 And Mosheh said to יהוה, “Then the Mitsrites shall hear it, for by
Your power You brought these people up from their midst,
Num 14:14 and they shall say to the inhabitants of this land they have heard
that You, יהוה, are in the midst of these people, that You, יהוה, are seen eye to
eye and that Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a
column of cloud by day and in a column of fire by night.
Num 14:15 “Now if You shall kill these people as one man, then the nations
which have heard of Your report shall speak, saying,
Num 14:16 ‘Because יהוה was not able to bring this people to the land which
He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’
Num 14:17 “And now, I pray, let the power of יהוה be great, as You have
spoken, saying,
Num 14:18 ‘ יהוה is patient and of great kindness, forgiving crookedness and
transgression, but by no means leaving unpunished; visiting the crookedness
of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’
Num 14:19 “Please forgive the crookedness of this people, according to the
greatness of Your kindness, as You have forgiven this people, from
Mitsrayim even until now.”
Num 14:20 And יהוה said, “I shall forgive, according to your word,
Num 14:21 but truly, as I live and all the earth is filled with the esteem of
,יהוה
Num 14:22 for none of these men who have seen My esteem and the signs
which I did in Mitsrayim and in the wilderness, and have tried Me now these
ten times, and have disobeyed My voice,
Num 14:23 shall see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor any of
those who scorned Me see it.
Num 14:24 “But My servant Kalĕḇ, because he has a different spirit in him
and has followed Me completely, I shall bring into the land where he went,
and his seed shall inherit it.
Num 14:25 “Since the Amalĕqites and the Kena‛anites are dwelling in the
valley, turn back tomorrow and set out into the wilderness by the Way of the
Sea of Reeds.”
Num 14:26 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,
Num 14:27 “How long shall this evil congregation have this grumbling
against Me? I have heard the grumblings which the children of Yisra’ĕl are
grumbling against Me.
Num 14:28 “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares יהוה, ‘as you have spoken in
My hearing, so I do to you:
Num 14:29 ‘The carcasses of you who have grumbled against Me are going
to fall in this wilderness, all of you who were registered, according to your
entire number, from twenty years old and above.
Num 14:30 ‘None of you except Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh, and Yehoshua son
of Nun, shall enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.
Num 14:31 ‘But your little ones, whom you said would become a prey, I
shall bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
Num 14:32 ‘But as for you, your carcasses are going to fall in this
wilderness.
Num 14:33 ‘And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years,
and shall bear your whorings, until your carcasses are consumed in the
wilderness.
Num 14:34 ‘According to the number of the days in which you spied out the
land, forty days – a day for a year, a day for a year – you are to bear your
crookednesses forty years, and you shall know My breaking off.
Num 14:35 ‘I am ,יהוהI have spoken, I shall do this to all this evil
congregation who are meeting against Me: In this wilderness they are
consumed, and there they die.’ ”
Num 14:36 And the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the land, who
returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing an
evil report of the land,
Num 14:37 even those men who brought the evil report about the land, died
by the plague before יהוה.
Num 14:38 Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Yehoshua son of
Nun, and Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh remained alive.
Num 14:39 And when Mosheh spoke these words to all the children of
Yisra’ĕl, the people mourned greatly.
Num 14:40 And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of
the mountain, saying, “See, we have indeed sinned, but we shall go up to the
place which יהוה had spoken of!”
Num 14:41 But Mosheh said, “Why do you now transgress the command of
יהוה, since it does not prosper?
Num 14:42 “Do not go up, lest you be smitten by your enemies, for יהוה is
not in your midst.
Num 14:43 “Because the Amalĕqites and the Kena‛anites are there before
you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from
יהוה, יהוה is not with you.”
Num 14:44 But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop, but neither the
ark of the covenant of יהוה nor Mosheh left the camp.
Num 14:45 So the Amalĕqites and the Kena‛anites who dwelt in that
mountain came down and smote them, and beat them down, even to Ḥormah.
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Num 15:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 15:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you
have come into the land of your dwellings, which I am giving you,
Num 15:3 and you make an offering by fire to ,יהוהa burnt offering or a
slaughtering, to accomplish a vow or as a voluntary offering or in your
appointed times, to make a sweet fragrance to יהוה, from the herd or the flock,
Num 15:4 then he who brings near his offering to יהוה shall bring near a
grain offering of one-tenth of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of
a hin of oil,
Num 15:5 and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering you prepare
with the burnt offering or the slaughtering, for each lamb.
Num 15:6 ‘Or for a ram you prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an
ĕphah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil,
Num 15:7 and as a drink offering you bring one-third of a hin of wine as a
sweet fragrance to יהוה.
Num 15:8 ‘And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering, or as a
slaughtering to accomplish a vow, or as a peace offering to יהוה,
Num 15:9 then shall be brought with the young bull a grain offering of three-
tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil,
Num 15:10 and bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering
made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה.
Num 15:11 ‘This is what is done for each young bull, for each ram, or for
each lamb or young goat.
Num 15:12 ‘According to the number that you prepare, so you do for each
one according to their number.
Num 15:13 ‘Let all who are native do so with them, in bringing near an
offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה.
Num 15:14 ‘And when a stranger sojourns with you, or whoever is among
you throughout your generations, and would make an offering made by fire, a
sweet fragrance to יהוה, as you do, so he does.
Num 15:15 ‘One law is for you of the assembly and for the stranger who
sojourns with you – a law forever throughout your generations. As you are,
so is the stranger before יהוה.
Num 15:16 ‘One Torah and one right-ruling is for you and for the stranger
who sojourns with you.’ ”
Num 15:17 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 15:18 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you
come into the land to which I bring you,
Num 15:19 then it shall be, when you eat of the bread of the land, that you
present a contribution to יהוה.
Num 15:20 ‘Present a cake of the first of your dough as a contribution – as a
contribution of the threshing-floor you present it.
Num 15:21 ‘Of the first of your dough you are to give to יהוהa contribution
throughout your generations.
Num 15:22 ‘And when you sin by mistake, and do not do all these
commands which יהוה has spoken to Mosheh,
Num 15:23 all that יהוה has commanded you by the hand of Mosheh, from the
day יהוה gave command and onward throughout your generations,
Num 15:24 then it shall be, if it is done by mistake, without the knowledge
of the congregation, that all the congregation shall prepare one young bull as
a burnt offering, as a sweet fragrance to יהוה, with its grain offering and its
drink offering, according to the right-ruling, and one male goat as a sin
offering.
Num 15:25 ‘Then the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of
the children of Yisra’ĕl, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was by mistake.
And they shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to יהוה, and their
sin offering before יהוה, for their mistake.
Num 15:26 ‘And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of
Yisra’ĕl and the stranger who sojourns in their midst, because all the people
did it by mistake.
Num 15:27 ‘And if a being sins by mistake, then he shall bring a female goat
a year old as a sin offering.
Num 15:28 ‘And the priest shall make atonement for the being who strays by
mistake, when he sins by mistake before יהוה, to make atonement for him, and
it shall be forgiven him.
Num 15:29 ‘For him who does whatever by mistake there is one Torah, both
for him who is native among the children of Yisra’ĕl and for the stranger who
sojourns in their midst.
Num 15:30 ‘But the being who does whatever defiantly, whether he is native
or a stranger, he reviles יהוה, and that being shall be cut off from among his
people.
Num 15:31 ‘Because he has despised the word of יהוה, and has broken His
command, that being shall certainly be cut off, his crookedness is upon him.’
”
Num 15:32 And while the children of Yisra’ĕl were in the wilderness, they
found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
Num 15:33 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to
Mosheh and to Aharon, and to all the congregation.
Num 15:34 And they put him in under guard, because it had not been
declared what should be done to him.
Num 15:35 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “The man shall certainly be put to
death, all the congregation stoning him with stones outside the camp.”
Num 15:36 And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and
stoned him with stones, as יהוה commanded Mosheh, and he died.
Num 15:37 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 15:38 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall say to them to
make tzitziyot on the corners of their garments throughout their generations,
and to put a blue cord in the tzitzit of the corners.
Num 15:39 “And it shall be to you for a tzitzit, and you shall see it, and shall
remember all the commands of יהוה and shall do them, and not search after
your own heart and your own eyes after which you went whoring,
Num 15:40 so that you remember, and shall do all My commands, and be
set-apart unto your Elohim.
Num 15:41 “I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of
Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim. I am יהוה your Elohim.”