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Num 16:1 And Qoraḥ, son of Yitshar, son of Qehath, son of Lĕwi, took both
Dathan and Aḇiram the sons of Eliyaḇ, and On, son of Peleth, sons of
Re’uḇĕn,
Num 16:2 and they rose up before Mosheh with some of the children of
Yisra’ĕl, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, called ones of the
meeting, men of name.
Num 16:3 And they assembled against Mosheh and against Aharon, and said
to them, “Enough of you! For all the congregation is set-apart, all of them,
and יהוה is in their midst. Why then do you lift up yourselves above the
assembly of יהוה ?”
Num 16:4 And when Mosheh heard, he fell on his face,
Num 16:5 and spoke to Qoraḥ and all his company, saying, “Tomorrow
morning יהוה shall make known who is His and who is set-apart, and bring
him near to Him. And let Him bring near to Him the one whom He chooses.
Num 16:6 “Do this: Take fire holders, Qoraḥ and all your company,
Num 16:7 and put fire in them and put incense in them before יהוה tomorrow.
And it shall be that the one whom יהוה chooses is the set-apart one. Enough of
you, sons of Lĕwi!”
Num 16:8 And Mosheh said to Qoraḥ, “Hear now, you sons of Lĕwi:
Num 16:9 “Is it little to you that the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl has separated you
from the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, to bring you near to Himself, to perform
the service of the Dwelling Place of יהוה, and to stand before the
congregation to serve them,
Num 16:10 and that He has brought you near to Himself, you and all your
brothers, the sons of Lĕwi, with you? Yet you seek the priesthood as well?
Num 16:11 “Therefore you and all your company are set against יהוה. And
Aharon, what is he that you grumble against him?”
Num 16:12 And Mosheh sent to call Dathan and Aḇiram the sons of Eliyaḇ,
but they said, “We are not coming up!
Num 16:13 “Is it little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with
milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you would also seize total
rule over us?
Num 16:14 “Also, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and
honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you bore out
the eyes of these men? We are not coming up!”
Num 16:15 And Mosheh became very displeased, and said to יהוה, “Do not
respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I done
harm to any of them.”
Num 16:16 Then Mosheh said to Qoraḥ, “Tomorrow, you and all your
company shall be there before יהוה, you and they and Aharon.
Num 16:17 “And take each one his fire holder, and you shall put incense in
it. And let each one bring his fire holder before יהוה, two hundred and fifty
fire holders, and you and Aharon, each one with his fire holder.”
Num 16:18 So each one took his fire holder, and put fire in it, and laid
incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Mosheh and
Aharon.
Num 16:19 And Qoraḥ assembled all the congregation against them at the
door of the Tent of Meeting. Then the esteem of יהוה appeared to all the
congregation.
Num 16:20 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,
Num 16:21 “Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, and let
Me consume them in a moment.”
Num 16:22 But they fell on their faces, and said, “O Ĕl, Elohim of the spirits
of all flesh! When one man sins, are You wroth with all the congregation?”
Num 16:23 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 16:24 “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Move away from around the
tents of Qoraḥ, Dathan, and Aḇiram.’ ”
Num 16:25 So Mosheh rose up and went to Dathan and Aḇiram, and the
elders of Yisra’ĕl followed him.
Num 16:26 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Please turn away
from the tents of these wrong men! Do not touch whatever belongs to them,
lest you be consumed in all their sins.”
Num 16:27 Then they moved away from around the tents of Qoraḥ, Dathan,
and Aḇiram. And Dathan and Aḇiram came out and stood at the door of their
tents, with their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
Num 16:28 And Mosheh said, “By this you know that יהוה has sent me to do
all these works, that they are not from my own heart.
Num 16:29 “If these die as all men do, or if they are visited as all men are
visited, then יהוה has not sent me.
Num 16:30 “But if יהוה creates what is unheard of, and the earth opens its
mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down
alive into the grave, then you shall know that these men have scorned יהוה.”
Num 16:31 And it came to be, as he ended speaking all these words, that the
ground under them split apart,
Num 16:32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with
their households and all the men with Qoraḥ, with all their goods.
Num 16:33 So they and all those with them went down alive into the grave,
and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the
assembly.
Num 16:34 And all Yisra’ĕl who were round about them fled at their cry, for
they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
Num 16:35 And a fire came out from יהוה and consumed the two hundred and
fifty men who were offering incense.
Num 16:36 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 16:37 “Say to El‛azar, son of Aharon the priest, to pick up the fire
holders out of the blaze, for they are set-apart, and scatter the fire some
distance away.
Num 16:38 “The fire holders of these men who sinned against their own
lives, let them be made into beaten plates as a covering for the altar. Because
they brought them before יהוה, therefore they are set-apart. And let them
become a sign to the children of Yisra’ĕl.”
Num 16:39 And El‛azar the priest took the bronze fire holders, which those
who were burned up had brought, and they were beaten out as a covering on
the altar –
Num 16:40 a remembrance to the children of Yisra’ĕl that no stranger who is
not of the seed of Aharon, should come near to offer incense before יהוה, and
not be like Qoraḥ and his company – as יהוה had said to him through Mosheh.
Num 16:41 But all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl grumbled
against Mosheh and against Aharon on the next day, saying, “You, you have
killed the people of יהוה.”
Num 16:42 And it came to be, when the congregation assembled against
Mosheh and against Aharon, that they turned toward the Tent of Meeting. And
see, the cloud covered it, and the esteem of יהוה appeared.
Num 16:43 And Mosheh and Aharon came before the Tent of Meeting.
Num 16:44 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 16:45 “Arise from amidst this congregation, and let Me consume them
in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.
Num 16:46 So Mosheh said to Aharon, “Take the fire holder and put fire in
it from the altar, and lay incense on, and go, hurry to the congregation and
make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from יהוה, the plague has
begun.”
Num 16:47 And Aharon took it as Mosheh commanded, and ran into the
midst of the assembly, and saw that the plague had begun among the people.
And he laid on the incense and made atonement for the people,
Num 16:48 and stood between the dead and the living. And the plague was
stopped.
Num 16:49 And those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven
hundred, besides those who died on account of Qoraḥ.
Num 16:50 Then Aharon returned to Mosheh at the door of the Tent of
Meeting, for the plague had stopped.
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Num 17:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 17:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and take from them a rod from
each father’s house, all their leaders according to their fathers’ houses,
twelve rods. Write each one’s name on his rod,
Num 17:3 and write Aharon’s name on the rod of Lĕwi, for there is one rod
for the head of each father’s house.
Num 17:4 “You shall then place them in the Tent of Meeting before the
Witness, where I meet with you.
Num 17:5 “And it shall be that the rod of the man whom I choose buds, and I
shall rid Myself of the grumblings of the children of Yisra’ĕl, which they
grumble against you.”
Num 17:6 And Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and all their
leaders gave him a rod each, for each leader according to their fathers’
houses, twelve rods. And the rod of Aharon was among their rods.
Num 17:7 So Mosheh placed the rods before יהוה in the Tent of the Witness.
Num 17:8 And it came to be on the next day that Mosheh went into the Tent
of the Witness and saw that the rod of Aharon, of the house of Lĕwi, had
budded, and brought forth buds, and blossomed and bore ripe almonds.
Num 17:9 And Mosheh brought out all the rods from before יהוה to all the
children of Yisra’ĕl. And they looked, and each man took his rod.
Num 17:10 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Bring Aharon’s rod back before the
Witness, to be kept as a sign against the rebels, so that you put an end to their
grumblings against Me, lest they die.”
Num 17:11 And Mosheh did as יהוה had commanded him, so he did.
Num 17:12 And the children of Yisra’ĕl spoke to Mosheh, saying, “See, we
shall die, we shall perish, we shall all perish!
Num 17:13 “Anyone who comes near the Dwelling Place of יהוה dies. Shall
we be consumed – to die?”
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Num 18:1 And יהוה said to Aharon, “You and your sons and your father’s
house with you are to bear the crookedness against the set-apart place, and
you and your sons with you are to bear the crookedness against your
priesthood.
Num 18:2 “But bring with you your brothers of the tribe of Lĕwi too, the
tribe of your father to join you and serve you while you and your sons are
with you before the Tent of the Witness.
Num 18:3 “And they shall guard your charge, and the duty of all the Tent, but
they do not come near the furnishings of the set-apart place and the altar, lest
they die, both they and you.
Num 18:4 “And they shall be joined with you and guard the duty to the Tent
of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent, but a stranger does not come near
you.
Num 18:5 “And you shall guard the duty of the set-apart place and the duty
of the altar, so that there be no more wrath on the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Num 18:6 “And see, I Myself have taken your brothers the Lĕwites from the
midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl – a gift to you, given by יהוה, to do the
service of the Tent of Meeting.
Num 18:7 “But you and your sons with you are to guard your priesthood for
all matters at the altar and behind the veil, and you shall serve. I have given
you the priesthood as a gift for service, but the stranger who comes near is
put to death.”
Num 18:8 And יהוה spoke to Aharon, “And see, I Myself have also given you
the charge of My contributions, all the set-apart gifts of the children of
Yisra’ĕl. I have given them to you for the anointing, and to your sons, as a
law forever.
Num 18:9 “This is yours of the most set-apart gifts, from the fire: all their
offerings, all their grain offerings and all their sin offerings and all their guilt
offerings which they render to Me, are most set-apart for you and your sons.
Num 18:10 “Eat it in the most set-apart place – every male eats it. It is set-
apart to you.
Num 18:11 “This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, with all the
wave offerings of the children of Yisra’ĕl. I have given them to you, and your
sons and daughters with you, as a law forever. Everyone who is clean in your
house eats it.
Num 18:12 “All the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine and the
grain – their first-fruits which they give to יהוה– I have given them to you.
Num 18:13 “The first-fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to
יהוה, are yours. Everyone who is clean in your house eats it.
Num 18:14 “All that is dedicated in Yisra’ĕl is yours.
Num 18:15 “Everyone opening a womb of all flesh, which they bring to יהוה,
whether man or beast, is yours. But the first-born of man you shall certainly
ransom, and the first-born of the unclean beast you ransom.
Num 18:16 “And ransom their ransomed ones when one month old,
according to your valuation, five sheqels of silver, according to the sheqel of
the set-apart place, which is twenty gĕrahs.
Num 18:17 “But the first-born of a cow, or the first-born of a sheep, or the
first-born of a goat you do not ransom, they are set-apart. Sprinkle their
blood on the altar, and burn their fat as an offering made by fire for a sweet
fragrance to יהוה.
Num 18:18 “And their flesh is yours, as the wave breast and as the right
thigh, it is yours.
Num 18:19 “All the contributions of the set-apart gifts, which the children of
Yisra’ĕl present to ,יהוהI have given to you and your sons and daughters with
you as a law forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before יהוה with you and
your seed with you.”
Num 18:20 And יהוה said to Aharon, “You are not to have an inheritance in
their land, nor have any portion in their midst. I am your portion and your
inheritance among the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Num 18:21 “And see, I have given the children of Lĕwi all the tithes in
Yisra’ĕl as an inheritance in return for the service which they are serving, the
service of the Tent of Meeting.
Num 18:22 “And let the children of Yisra’ĕl no more come near the Tent of
Meeting, lest they bear sin and die,
Num 18:23 because the Lĕwites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting,
so they themselves bear their crookedness. A law forever, throughout your
generations: that among the children of Yisra’ĕl they are to have no
inheritance,
Num 18:24 but the tithes of the children of Yisra’ĕl, which they present as a
contribution to ,יהוהI have given to the Lĕwites as an inheritance. That is why
I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Yisra’ĕl they have no
inheritance.’ ”
Num 18:25 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 18:26 “Speak to the Lĕwites and say to them, ‘When you take from the
children of Yisra’ĕl the tithes which I have given you from them as your
inheritance, then you shall present a contribution of it to ,יהוהa tenth of the
tithe.
Num 18:27 ‘And your contribution shall be reckoned to you as grain from
the threshing-floor and as filling from the winepress.
Num 18:28 ‘Thus you also present a contribution unto יהוה from all your
tithes which you receive from the children of Yisra’ĕl. And you shall give
from it the contribution to יהוה to Aharon the priest.
Num 18:29 ‘From all your gifts you present every contribution due to יהוה,
from all the best of them, the set-apart part of them.’
Num 18:30 “And you shall say to them, ‘When you have presented the best
of it, then the rest shall be reckoned to the Lĕwites as the yield of the
threshing-floor and as the yield of the winepress.
Num 18:31 ‘And you shall eat it in any place, you and your households, for
it is your reward for your service in the Tent of Meeting,
Num 18:32 and bear no sin because of it, when you have presented the best
of it, and do not profane the set-apart gifts of the children of Yisra’ĕl, lest
you die.’ ”
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Num 19:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,
Num 19:2 “This is a law of the Torah which יהוה has commanded, saying,
‘Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, that they bring you a red heifer, a perfect
one, in which there is no blemish and on which a yoke has never come.
Num 19:3 ‘And you shall give it to El‛azar the priest, and he shall bring it
outside the camp, and shall slaughter it before him.
Num 19:4 ‘And El‛azar the priest shall take some of its blood with his
finger, and sprinkle some of its blood seven times toward the front of the Tent
of Meeting.
Num 19:5 ‘And the heifer shall be burned before his eyes – he burns its
hide, and its flesh, and its blood, and its dung.
Num 19:6 ‘And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and
throw them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer.
Num 19:7 ‘The priest shall then wash his garments, and shall bathe his body
in water, and afterward come into the camp, but the priest is unclean until
evening.
Num 19:8 ‘And he who is burning it washes his garments in water, and shall
bathe his body in water, and is unclean until evening.
Num 19:9 ‘And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and shall
place them outside the camp in a clean place. And they shall be kept for the
congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl for the water for uncleanness, it is
for cleansing from sin.
Num 19:10 ‘And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his
garments, and is unclean until evening. And it shall be a law forever to the
children of Yisra’ĕl and to the stranger who sojourns in their midst.
Num 19:11 ‘He who touches the dead of any human being is unclean for
seven days.
Num 19:12 ‘He is to cleanse himself with the water on the third day, and on
the seventh day he is clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third
day, then on the seventh day he is not clean.
Num 19:13 ‘Anyone who touches the dead of a human being, and does not
cleanse himself, defiles the Dwelling Place of יהוה. And that being shall be
cut off from Yisra’ĕl. He is unclean, for the water for uncleanness was not
sprinkled on him, his uncleanness is still upon him.
Num 19:14 ‘This is the Torah when a man dies in a tent: All who come into
the tent and all who are in the tent are unclean for seven days,
Num 19:15 and every open vessel which has no cover fastened on it, is
unclean.
Num 19:16 ‘Anyone in the open field who touches someone slain by a
sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, is unclean for seven
days.
Num 19:17 ‘And for the unclean being they shall take some of the ashes of
the heifer burnt for cleansing from sin, and running water shall be put on them
in a vessel.
Num 19:18 ‘And a clean man shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and
shall sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the beings who
were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or the slain, or the dead, or a
grave.
Num 19:19 ‘And the clean one shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day
and on the seventh day. And on the seventh day he shall cleanse himself, and
shall wash his garments and bathe in water, and shall be clean in the evening.
Num 19:20 ‘But the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that
being shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the
set-apart place of יהוה– water for uncleanness has not been sprinkled on him,
he is unclean.
Num 19:21 ‘And it shall be a law for them forever. And the one who
sprinkles the water for uncleanness washes his garments. And the one who
touches the water for uncleanness is unclean until evening.
Num 19:22 ‘And whatever the unclean being touches is unclean. And the
being who touches it is unclean until evening.’ ”
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Num 20:1 And the children of Yisra’ĕl, all the congregation, came into the
Wilderness of Tsin in the first month, and the people stayed in Qaḏĕsh. And
Miryam died there and was buried there.
Num 20:2 Now there was no water for the congregation and they assembled
against Mosheh and against Aharon.
Num 20:3 And the people contended with Mosheh and spoke, saying, “If
only we had died when our brothers died before יהוה !
Num 20:4 “Why have you brought up the assembly of יהוה into this
wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?
Num 20:5 “And why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim, to bring us to
this evil place? – not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and
there is no water to drink.”
Num 20:6 Then Mosheh and Aharon went from the presence of the assembly
to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and they fell on their faces. And the
esteem of יהוה appeared to them.
Num 20:7 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 20:8 “Take the rod and assemble the congregation, you and your
brother Aharon. And you shall speak to the rock before their eyes, and it
shall give its water. And you shall bring water for them out of the rock and
give drink to the congregation and their livestock.”
Num 20:9 And Mosheh took the rod from before יהוה as He commanded him.
Num 20:10 And Mosheh and Aharon assembled the assembly before the
rock. And he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels, shall we bring water for
you out of this rock?”
Num 20:11 Then Mosheh lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his
rod. And much water came out, and the congregation and their livestock
drank.
Num 20:12 But יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, “Because you did not
believe Me, to set Me apart in the eyes of the children of Yisra’ĕl, therefore
you do not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
Num 20:13 These were the waters of Meriḇah, because the children of
Yisra’ĕl contended with יהוה, and He was set apart among them.
Num 20:14 And Mosheh sent messengers from Qaḏĕsh to the sovereign of
Eḏom. “This is what your brother Yisra’ĕl said, ‘You know all the hardship
that has befallen us,
Num 20:15 that our fathers went down to Mitsrayim, and we dwelt in
Mitsrayim a long time, and the Mitsrites did evil to us and our fathers.
Num 20:16 ‘And we cried out to יהוה, and He heard our voice and sent the
Messenger and brought us up out of Mitsrayim. And see, we are in Qaḏĕsh, a
city on the edge of your border.
Num 20:17 ‘Please let us pass over, through your land. We shall not pass
over through fields or vineyards, nor drink water from wells, we shall go
along the sovereign’s highway. We shall not turn aside, right or left, until we
have passed over your border.’ ”
Num 20:18 But Eḏom said to him, “You do not pass over through me, lest I
come out against you with the sword.”
Num 20:19 And the children of Yisra’ĕl said to him, “We shall go by the
highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I shall pay for
it. Let me only pass over on foot, without a word.”
Num 20:20 But he said, “You do not pass over.” And Eḏom came out against
them with many men and with a strong hand.
Num 20:21 So when Eḏom refused to let Yisra’ĕl pass over through his
border, Yisra’ĕl turned away from him.
Num 20:22 And the children of Yisra’ĕl, all the company, departed from
Qaḏĕsh and came to Mount Hor.
Num 20:23 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in Mount Hor near the
border of the land of Eḏom, saying,
Num 20:24 “Aharon is to be gathered to his people, for he is not to enter the
land which I have given to the children of Yisra’ĕl, because you rebelled
against My mouth at the water of Meriḇah.
Num 20:25 “Take Aharon and El‛azar his son, and bring them up to Mount
Hor,
Num 20:26 and strip Aharon of his garments and put them on El‛azar his son,
for Aharon is to be gathered to his people and die there.”
Num 20:27 And Mosheh did as יהוה commanded, and they went up to Mount
Hor before the eyes of all the congregation.
Num 20:28 And Mosheh stripped Aharon of his garments and put them on
El‛azar his son. And Aharon died there on the top of the mountain. And
Mosheh and El‛azar came down from the mountain.
Num 20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aharon was dead, all the
house of Yisra’ĕl wept for Aharon, thirty days.