Old
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Biblical
Verses Omitted From Roman Catholic Mass Readings
Chapter 1 - verses 1-54 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the
tabernacle of the covenant, the first day of the second month, the
second year of their going out of Egypt, saying: [2] Take the sum of
all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and
houses, and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex, [3]
From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for
war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron. [4] And
there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the houses in
their kindreds, [5] Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of
Sedeur.
[6] Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai. [7] Of Juda, Nahasson
the son of Aminadab. [8] Of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Suar. [9] Of
Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon. [10] And of the sons of Joseph: of
Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud: of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of
Phadassur. 11] Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon. [12] Of Dan,
Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai. [13] Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran.
[14] Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel. [15] Of Nephtali, Ahira the son
of Enan.
[16] These are the most noble princes of the multitude by their tribes
and kindreds, and the chiefs of the army of Israel: [17] Whom Moses and
Aaron took with all the multitude of the common people: [18] And
assembled them on the first day of the second month, reckoning them up
by the kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and names of
every one from twenty years old and upward, [19] As the Lord had
commanded Moses. And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai. [20] Of
Ruben the eldest son of Israel, by their generations and families and
houses and names of every head, all that were of the male sex, from
twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to war,
[21] Were forty-six thousand five hundred. [22] Of the sons of Simeon
by their generations and families, and houses of their kindreds, were
reckoned up by the names and heads of every one, all that were of the
male sex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth
to war, [23] Fifty-nine thousand three hundred. [24] Of the sons of
Gad, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds
were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war, [25] Forty-five thousand
six hundred and fifty.
[26] Of the sons of Juda, by their generations and families and houses
of their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war, [27] Were reckoned up
seventy-four thousand six hundred. [28] Of the sons of Issachar, by
their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the
names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that could go
forth to war, [29] Were reckoned up fifty-four thousand four hundred.
[30] Of the sons of Zabulon, by the generations and families and houses
of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,
[31] Fifty-seven thousand four hundred. [32] Of the sons of Joseph,
namely, of the sons of Ephraim, by the generations and families and
houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one,
from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
war, [33] Forty thousand five hundred. [34] Moreover of the sons of
Manasses, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds,
were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and
upward, all that could go forth to war, [35] Thirty-two thousand two
hundred.
[36] Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations and families and
houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one
from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
war, [37] Thirty-five thousand four hundred. [38] Of the sons of Dan,
by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were
reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war, [39] Sixty-two thousand seven
hundred. [40] Of the sons of Aser, by their generations and families
and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every
one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
war,
[41] Forty-one thousand and five hundred. [42] Of the sons of Nephtali,
by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were
reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war, [43] Fifty-three thousand four
hundred. [44] These era they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and
the twelve princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their
kindreds. [45] And the whole number of the children of Israel by their
houses and families, from twenty years old and upward, that were able
to go to war,
[46] Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.
[47] But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered
with them. [48] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [49] Number not
the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum of them with the
children of Israel: [50] But appoint them over the tabernacle of the
testimony, and all the vessels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to
the ceremonies. They shall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture
thereof: and they shall minister, and shall encamp round about the
tabernacle.
[51] When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the
tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger
soever cometh to it, shall be slain. [52] And the children of Israel
shall camp every man by his troops and bands and army. [53] But the
Levites shall pitch their tents round about the tabernacle, lest there
come indignation upon the multitude of the children of Israel, and they
shall keep watch, and guard the tabernacle of the testimony. [54] And
the children of Israel did according to all things which the Lord had
commanded Moses.
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Chapter 2 - verses 1-34 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: [2] All the children
of Israel shall camp by their troops, ensigns, and standards, and the
houses of their kindreds, round about the tabernacle of the covenant.
[3] On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the bands of his army:
and the prince of his sons shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab. [4]
And the whole sum of the fighting men of his stock, were seventy-four
thousand six hundred. [5] Next unto him they of the tribe of Issachar
encamped, whose prince was Nathanael, the son of Suar.
[6] And the whole number of his fighting men were fifty-four thousand
four hundred. [7] In the tribe of Zabulon the prince was Eliab the son
of Helon. [8] And all the army of fighting men of his stock, were
fifty-seven thousand four hundred. [9] All that were numbered in the
camp of Juda, were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred: and
they by their troops shall march first. [10] In the camp of the sons of
Ruben, on the south side, the prince shall be Elisur the son of Sedeur:
[11] And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were
forty-six thousand five hundred. [12] Beside him camped they of the
tribe of Simeon: whose prince was Salamiel the son of Surisaddai. [13]
And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were
fifty-nine thousand three hundred. [14] In the tribe of Gad the prince
was Eliasaph the son of Duel. [15] And the whole army of his fighting
men that were numbered, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
[16] All that were reckoned up in the camp of Ruben, were a hundred and
fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, by their troops: they shall
march in the second place. [17] And the tabernacle of the testimony
shall be carried by the officers of the Levites and their troops. As it
shall be set up, so shall it be taken down. Every one shall march
according to their places, and ranks. [18] On the west side shall be
the camp of the sons of Ephraim, whose prince was Elisama, the son of
Ammiud. [19] The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered,
were forty thousand five hundred. [20] And with them the tribe of the
sons of Manasses, whose prince was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.
[21] And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were
thirty-two thousand two hundred. [22] In the tribe of the sons of
Benjamin the prince was Abidan the son of Gedeon. [23] And the whole
army of his fighting men, that were reckoned up, were thirty-five
thousand four hundred. [24] All that were numbered in the camp of
Ephraim, were a hundred and eight thousand one hundred by their troops:
they shall march in the third place. [25] On the north side camped the
sons of Dan: whose prince was Ahiezar the son of Ammisaddai.
[26] The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were
sixty-two thousand seven hundred. [27] Beside him they of the tribe of
Aser pitched their tents: whose prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran.
[28] The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were
forty-one thousand five hundred. [29] Of the tribe of the sons of
Nephtali the prince was Ahira the son of Enan. [30] The whole army of
his fighting men, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
[31] All that were numbered in the camp of Dan, were a hundred and
fifty-seven thousand six hundred: and they shall march last. [32] This
is the number of the children of Israel, of their army divided
according to the houses of their kindreds and their troops, six hundred
and three thousand five hundred and fifty. [33] And the Levites were
not numbered among the children of Israel: for so the Lord had
commanded Moses. [34] And the children of Israel did according to all
things that the Lord had commanded. They camped by their troops, and
marched by the families and houses of their fathers.
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Chapter 3 - verses 1-51 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the
Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai. [2] And these the names of the sons
of Aaron: his firstborn Nadab, then Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar. [3]
These the names of the sons of Aaron the priests that were anointed,
and whose hands were filled and consecrated, to do the functions of
priesthood. [4] Now Nadab and Abiu died, without children, when they
offered strange fire before the Lord, in the desert of Sinai: and
Eleazar and Ithamar performed the priestly office in the presence of
Aaron their father. [5] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
[6] Bring the tribe of Levi, and make them stand in the sight of Aaron
the priest to minister to him, and let them watch, [7] And observe
whatsoever appertaineth to the service of the multitude before the
tabernacle of the testimony, [8] And let them keep the vessels of the
tabernacle, serving in the ministry thereof. [9] And thou shalt give
the Levites for a gift, [10] To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are
delivered by the children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and
his sons over the service of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth
to minister, shall be put to death.
[11] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [12] I have taken the Levites
from the children of Israel, for every firstborn that openeth the womb
among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. [13] For
every firstborn is mine: since I struck the firstborn in the land of
Egypt: I have sanctified to myself whatsoever is firstborn in Israel
both of man and beast, they are mine: I am the Lord. [14] And the Lord
spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying: [15] Number the sons of
Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from
one month and upward.
[16] Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded. [17] And there were
found sons of Levi by their names, Gerson and Caath and Merari. [18]
The sons of Gerson: Lebni and Semei. [19] The sons of Caath: Amram, and
Jesaar, Hebron and Oziel: [20] The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi.
[21] Of Gerson were two families, the Lebnites, and the Semeites: [22]
Of which were numbered, people of the male sex from one month and
upward, seven thousand five hundred. [23] These shall pitch behind the
tabernacle on the west, [24] Under their prince Eliasaph the son of
Lael. [25] And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of the covenant:
[26] The tabernacle itself and the cover thereof, the hanging that is
drawn before the doors of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the
curtains of the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of
the court of the tabernacle, and whatsoever belongeth to the rite of
the altar, the cords of the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof.
[27] Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and
Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the
Caathites reckoned up by their names: [28] All of the male sex from one
month and upward, eight thousand six hundred: they shall have the guard
of the sanctuary, [29] And shall camp on the south side. [30] And their
prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel:
[31] And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick,
the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister,
and the veil, and all the furniture of this kind. [32] And the prince
of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
shall be over them that watch for the guard of the sanctuary. [33] And
of Merari are the families of the Moholites, and Musites, reckoned up
by their names: [34] All of the male kind from one month and upward,
six thousand two hundred. [35] Their prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel:
they shall camp on the north side.
[36] Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the
bars, and the pillars and their sockets, and all things that pertain to
this kind of service: [37] And the pillars of the court round about
with their sockets, and the pins with their cords. [38] Before the
tabernacle of the covenant, that is to say on the east side, shall
Moses and Aaron camp, with their sons, having the custody of the
sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger soever
cometh unto it, shall be put to death. [39] All the Levites, that Moses
and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their
families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two
thousand. [40] And the Lord said to Moses: Number the firstborn of the
male sex of the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou
shalt take the sum of them.
[41] And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of the
children of Israel, I am the Lord: and their cattle for all the
firstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel: [42] Moses reckoned
up, as the Lord had commanded, the firstborn of the children of Israel:
[43] And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were
twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three. [44] And the Lord
spoke to Moses, saving: [45] Take the Levites for the firstborn of the
children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and
the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.
[46] But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the
firstborn of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the
Levites, [47] Thou shalt take five sides for every head, according to
the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols. [48] And then
shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons, the price of them that are
above. [49] Moses therefore took the money of them that were above, and
whom they had redeemed from the Levites, [50] For the firstborn of the
children of Israel, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five sicles,
according to the weight of the sanctuary,
[51] And gave it to Aaron and his sons, according to the word that the
Lord had commanded him.
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Chapter 4 - verses 1-49 have been
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[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron, saying: [2] Take the sum of
the sons of Caath from the midst of the Levites, by their houses and
families. [3] From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old, of
all that go in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of the
covenant. [4] This is the service of the sons of Caath: [5] When the
camp is to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall go into the tabernacle
of the covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take down the veil
that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap up the ark of the
testimony in it,
[6] And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall
spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars. [7]
They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet,
and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and
bowls to pour out the libations: the leaves shall be always on it: [8]
And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they
shall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.
[9] They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover
the candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and
all the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps:
[10] And over all they shall put a cover of violet skins and put in the
bars.
[11] And they shall wrap up the golden altar also in a cloth of violet,
and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars.
[12] All the vessels wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, they
shall wrap up in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of
violet skins, and put in the bars. [13] They shall cleanse the altar
also from the ashes, and shall wrap it up in a purple cloth, [14] And
shall put it with all the vessels that they use in the ministry
thereof, that is to say, firepans, fleshhooks and forks, pothooks and
shovels. They shall cover all the vessels of the altar together with a
covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars. [15] And when
Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary and the vessels
thereof at the removing of the camp, then shall the sons of Caath enter
in to carry the things wrapped up: and they shall not touch the vessels
of the sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of the sons of
Caath: in the tabernacle of the covenant:
[16] And over them shall be Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, to
whose charge pertaineth the oil to dress the lamps, and the sweet
incense, and the sacrifice, that is always offered, and the oil of
unction, and whatsoever pertaineth to the service of the tabernacle,
and of all the vessels that are in the sanctuary. [17] And the Lord
spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: [18] Destroy not the people of Caath
from the midst of the Levites: [19] But do this to them, that they may
live, and not die, by touching the holies of holies. Aaron and his sons
shall go in, and they shall appoint every man his work, and shall
divide the burdens that every man is to carry. [20] Let not others by
any curiosity see the things that are in the sanctuary before they be
wrapped up, otherwise they shall die.
[21] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [22] Take the sum of the
soils of Gerson also by their houses and families and kindreds. [23]
From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old. Number them all
that go in and minister in the tabernacle of the covenant. [24] This is
the office of the family of the Gersonites: [25] To carry the curtains
of the tabernacle and the roof of the covenant, the other covering, and
the violet covering over all, and the hanging that hangeth in the entry
of the tabernacle of the covenant,
[26] The curtains of the court, and the veil in the entry that is
before the tabernacle. All things that pertain to the altar, the cords
and the vessels of the ministry, [27] The sons of Gerson shall carry,
by the commandment of Aaron and his sons: and each man shall know to
what burden he must be assigned. [28] This is the service of the family
of the Gersonites in the tabernacle of the covenant, and they shall be
under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. [29] Thou shalt
reckon up the sons of Merari also by the families and houses of their
fathers, [30] From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old,
all that go in to the office of their ministry, and to the service of
the covenant of the testimony.
[31] These are their burdens: They shall carry the boards of the
tabernacle and the bars thereof, the pillars and their sockets, [32]
The pillars also of the court round about, with their sockets and pins
and cords. They shall receive by account all the vessels and furniture,
and so shall carry them. [33] This is the office of the family of the
Merarites, and their ministry in the tabernacle of the covenant: and
they shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
[34] So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the synagogue reckoned up
the sons of Caath, by their kindreds and the houses of their fathers,
[35] From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that
go in to the ministry of the tabernacle of the covenant:
[36] And they were found two thousand seven hundred and fifty. [37]
This is the number of the people of Caath that go in to the tabernacle
of the covenant: these did Moses and Aaron number according to the word
of the Lord by the hand of Moses. [38] The sons of Gerson also were
numbered by the kindreds and houses of their fathers, [39] From thirty
years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that go in to minister
in the tabernacle of the covenant: [40] And they were found two
thousand six hundred and thirty.
[41] This is the people of the Gersonites, whom Moses and Aaron
numbered according to the word of the Lord. [42] The sons of Merari
also were numbered by the kindreds and houses of their fathers, [43]
From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that go in
to fulfill the rites of the tabernacle of the covenant: [44] And they
were found three thousand two hundred. [45] This is the number of the
sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron reckoned up according to the
commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
[46] All that were reckoned up of the Levites, and whom Moses and Aaron
and the princes of Israel took by name, by the kindreds and houses of
their fathers, [47] From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years
old, that go into the ministry of the tabernacle, and to carry the
burdens, [48] Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty. [49]
Moses reckoned them up according to the word of the Lord, every one
according to their office and burdens, as the Lord had commanded him.
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Chapter 5 - verses 1-31 have been
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[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [2] Command the children of
Israel, that they cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever hath
an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead: [3] Whether it be man or
woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest they defile it when I shall
dwell with you. [4] And the children of Israel did so, and they cast
them forth without the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses. [5] And
the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
[6] Say to the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall have
committed any of all the sins that men are wont to commit, and by
negligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and
offended, [7] They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal
itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they
have sinned. [8] But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give
it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is
offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice. [9] All the
firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the
priest: [10] And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one,
and is delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.
[11] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [12] Speak to the children of
Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone
astray, and contemning her husband, [13] Shall have slept with another
man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret,
and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the
adultery: [14] If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against
his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,
[15] He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for
her, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil
thereon, nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of
jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.
[16] The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.
[17] And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall
cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it. [18] And
when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover her head,
and shall, put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and the
oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter waters,
whereon he hath heaped curses with execration. [19] And he shall adjure
her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if
thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband's bed, these most bitter
waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not hurt thee. [20] But if
thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain
with another man:
[21] These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse,
and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot,
and may thy belly swell and burst asunder. [22] Let the cursed waters
enter into thy belly, and may thy womb swell and thy thigh rot. And the
woman shall answer, Amen, amen. [23] And the priest shall write these
curses in a book, and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters,
upon which he hath heaped the curses, [24] And he shall give them her
to drink. And when she hath drunk them up, [25] The priest shall take
from her hand the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall elevate it before
the Lord, and shall put it upon the altar: yet so as first,
[26] To take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, and
burn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman
to drink. [27] And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and
having despised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction
shall go through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and
the woman shall be a curse, and an example to all the people. [28] But
if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children.
[29] This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her
husband, and be defiled, [30] And the husband stirred up by the spirit
of jealousy bring her before the Lord, and the priest do to her
according to all things that are here written:
[31] The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity.
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Chapter 6 - verses 1-21 have been
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[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [2] Speak to the children of
Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When a man, or woman, shall make a
vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate themselves to the Lord: [3]
They shall abstain from wine, and from every thing that may make a man
drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other drink, nor
any thing that is pressed out of the grape: nor shall they eat grapes
either fresh or dried. [4] All the days that they are consecrated to
the Lord by vow: they shall eat nothing that cometh of the vineyard,
from the raisin even to the kernel. [5] All the time of his separation
no razor shall pass over his head, until the day be fulfilled of his
consecration to the Lord. He shall be holy, and shall let the hair of
his head grow.
[6] All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead,
[7] Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for
his mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die,
because the consecration of his God is upon his head. [8] All the days
of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord. [9] But if any man die
suddenly before him: the head of his consecration shall be defiled: and
he shall shave it forthwith on the same day of his purification, and
again on the seventh day. [10] And on the eighth day he shall bring two
turtles, or two young pigeons to the priest in the entry of the
covenant of the testimony.
[11] And the priest shall offer one for sin, and the other for a
holocaust, and shall pray for him, for that he hath sinned by the dead:
and he shall sanctify his head that day: [12] And shall consecrate to
the Lord the days of his separation, offering a lamb of one year for
sin: yet so that the former days be made void, because his
sanctification was profaned. [13] This is the law of consecration. When
the days which he had determined by vow shall be expired, he shall
bring him to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, [14] And shall
offer his oblation to the Lord: one he lamb of a year old without
blemish for a holocaust, and one awe lamb of a year old without blemish
for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for a victim of peace
offering, [15] A basket also of unleavened bread, tempered with oil,
and wafers without leaven anointed with oil, and the libations of each:
[16] And the priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall offer
both the sin offering and the holocaust. [17] But the ram he shall
immolate for a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, offering at the
same time the basket of unleavened bread, and the libations that are
due by custom. [18] Then shall the hair of the consecration of the
Nazarite, be shaved off before the door of the tabernacle of the
covenant: and he shall take his hair, and lay it upon the fire, which
is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings. [19] And shall take the
boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket,
and one unleavened wafer, and he shall deliver them into the hands of
the Nazarite, after his head is shaven. [20] And receiving them again
from him, he shall elevate them in the sight of the Lord: and they
being sanctified shall belong to the priest, as the breast, which was
commanded to be separated, and the shoulder. After this the Nazarite
may drink wine.
[21] This is the law of the Nazarite, when he hath vowed his oblation
to the Lord in the time of his consecration, besides those things which
his hand shall find, according to that which he had vowed in his mind,
so shall he do for the fulfilling of his sanctification.
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Chapter 7 - verses 1-89 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the
tabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all
its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof, [2] The
princes of Israel and the heads of the families, in every tribe, who
were the rulers of them who had been numbered, offered [3] Their gifts
before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen. Two princes
offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered them before the
tabernacle. [4] And the Lord said to Moses: [5] Receive them from them
to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle, and thou shalt deliver them
to the Levites according to the order of their ministry.
[6] Moses therefore receiving the wagons and the oxen, delivered them
to the Levites. [7] Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of
Gerson, according to their necessity. [8] The other four wagons, and
eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their offices
and service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. [9]
But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve
in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders. [10]
And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar on the day when
it was anointed, their oblation before the altar.
[11] And the Lord said to Moses: Let each of the princes one day after
another offer their gifts for the dedication of the altar. [12] The
first day Nahasson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of Juda offered his
offering: [13] And his offering was a silver dish weighing one hundred
and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the
weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a
sacrifice: [14] A little mortar of ten sides of gold full of incense:
[15] An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a
holocaust:
[16] And a buck goat for sin: [17] And for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of a year
old. This was the offering of Nahasson the son of Aminadab. [18] The
second day Nathanael the son of Suar, prince of the tribe of Issachar,
made his offering, [19] A silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty
sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides, according to the weight of the
sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: [20] A
little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense:
[21] An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a
holocaust: [22] And a buck goat for sin: [23] And for the sacrifice of
peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a
year old. This was the offering of Nathanael the son of Suar. [24] The
third day the prince of the sons of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon,
[25] Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sides, a
silver bowl of seventy sides by the weight of the sanctuary, both full
of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
[26] A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense: [27]
An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
[28] And a buck goat for sin: [29] And for the sacrifice of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year
old. This is the oblation of Eliab the son of Helon. [30] The fourth
day the prince of the sons of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur,
[31] Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sides, a
silver bowl of seventy sides according to the weight of the sanctuary,
both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: [32] A little
mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense: [33] An ox of the
herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old, for a holocaust: [34] And a
buck goat for sin: [35] And for victims of peace offerings two oxen,
five rams, five buck goats. five lambs of a year old. This was the
offering of Elisur the son of Sedeur.
[36] The fifth day the prince of the sons of Simeon, Salamiel the son
of Surisaddai, [37] Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and
thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides after the weight of the
sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: [38] A
little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense: [39] An ox of
the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust: [40] And
a buck goat for sin:
[41] And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Salamiel
the son of Surisaddai. [42] The sixth day the prince of the sons of
Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel, [43] Offered a silver dish weighing a
hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides by the weight
of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
[44] A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense: [45]
An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
[46] And a buck goat for sin: [47] And for sacrifices of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year
old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Duel. [48] The
seventh day the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elisama the son Ammiud,
[49] Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides, a
silver bowl of seventy sides according to the weight of the sanctuary,
both full of hour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: [50] A little
mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense:
[51] An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a
holocaust: [52] And a buck goat for sin: [53] And for sacrifices of
peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a
year old. This was the offering of Elisama the son of Ammiud. [54] The
eighth day the prince of the sons of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of
Phadassur, [55] Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty
sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the
sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
[56] A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense: [57]
An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
[58] And a buck goat for sin: [59] And for sacrifices of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year
old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Phadassur. [60] The
ninth day the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon,
[61] Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides, a
silver bowl of seventy sides by the weight of the sanctuary, both full
of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: [62] A little mortar of
gold weighing ten sides full of incense: [63] An ox of the herd, and a
ram, and a lamb of a year old for a, holocaust: [64] And a buck goat
for sin: [65] And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering
of Abidan the son of Gedeon.
[66] The tenth day the prince of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer the son of
Ammisaddai, [67] Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty
sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides, according to the weight of the
sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: [68] A
little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense: [69] An ox of
the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust: [70] And
a buck goat for sin:
[71] And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer
the son of Ammisaddai. [72] The eleventh day the prince of the sons of
Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran, [73] Offered a silver dish weighing a
hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides, according to
the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a
sacrifice: [74] A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of
incense: [75] An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old
for a holocaust:
[76] And a buck goat for sin: [77] And for sacrifices of peace
offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year
old. This was the offering of Phegiel the son of Ochran. [78] The
twelfth day the prince of the sons of Nephtali, Ahira the son of Enan,
[79] Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides, a
silver bowl of seventy sides, according to the weight of the sanctuary,
both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: [80] A little
mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense:
[81] An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a
holocaust: [82] And a buck goat for sin: [83] And for sacrifices of
peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a
year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. [84] These
were the offerings made by the princes of Israel in the dedication of
the altar, in the day wherein it was consecrated. Twelve dishes of
silver: twelve silver bowls: twelve little mortars of gold: [85] Each
dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides of silver, and each bowl
seventy sides: that is, putting all the vessels of silver together, two
thousand four hundred sides, by the weight of the sanctuary.
[86] Twelve little mortars of gold full of incense, weighing ten sides
apiece, by the weight of the sanctuary: that is, in all a hundred and
twenty sides of gold. [87] Twelve oxen out of the herd for a holocaust,
twelve rams, twelve lambs of a year old, and their libations: twelve
buck goats for sin. [88] And for sacrifices of peace offerings, oxen
twenty-four, rams sixty, buck goats sixty, lambs of a year old sixty.
These things were offered in the dedication of the altar, when it was
anointed. [89] And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the
covenant, to consult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to
him from the propitiatory, that was over the ark between the two
cherubims, and from this place he spoke to him.
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Chapter 8 - verses 1-26 have been
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[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [2] Speak to Aaron, and thou
shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the
candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the
lamps look over against the north, towards the table of the leaves of
proposition, over against that part shall they give light, towards
which the candlestick looketh. [3] And Aaron did so, and he put the
lamps upon the candlestick, as the Lord had commanded Moses. [4] Now
this was the work of the candlestick, it was of beaten gold, both the
shaft in the middle, and all that came out of both sides of the
branches: according to the pattern which the Lord had shewn to Moses,
so he made the candlestick. [5] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
[6] Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and
thou shalt purify them, [7] According to this rite: Let them be
sprinkled with the water of purification, and let them shave all the
hairs of their flesh. And when they shall have washed their garments,
and are cleansed, [8] They shall take an ox of the herd, and for the
offering thereof fine flour tempered with oil: and thou shalt take
another ox of the herd for a sin offering: [9] And thou shalt bring the
Levites before the tabernacle of the covenant, calling together all the
multitude of the children of Israel: [10] And when the Levites are
before the Lord, the children of Israel shall put their hands upon
them: [7] "Let them be sprinkled with the water of purification"...
This was the holy water mixed with the ashes of the red cow, Num. 19.,
appointed for purifying all that were unclean. It was a figure of the
blood of Christ, applied to our souls by his holy sacraments.
[11] And Aaron shall offer the Levites, as a gift in the sight of the
Lord from the children of Israel, that they may serve in his ministry.
[12] The Levites also shall put their hands upon the heads of the oxen,
of which thou shalt sacrifice one for sin, and the other for a
holocaust to the Lord, to pray for them. [13] And thou shalt set the
Levites in the sight of Aaron and of his sons, and shalt consecrate
them being offered to the Lord, [14] And shalt separate them from the
midst of the children of Israel, to be mine. [15] And afterwards they
shall enter into the tabernacle of the covenant, to serve me. And thus
shalt thou purify and consecrate them for an oblation of the Lord: for
as a gift they were given me by the children of Israel.
[16] I have taken them instead of the firstborn that open every womb in
Israel, [17] For all the firstborn of the children of Israel, both of
men and of beasts, are mine. From the day that I slew every firstborn
in the land of Egypt, have I sanctified them to myself: [18] And I have
taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel: [19]
And have delivered them for a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the
midst of the people, to serve me for Israel in the tabernacle of the
covenant, and to pray for them, lest there should be a plague among the
people, if they should presume to approach unto my sanctuary. [20] And
Moses and Aaron and all the multitude of the children of Israel did
with the Levites all that the Lord had commanded Moses:
[21] And they were purified, and washed their garments. And Aaron
lifted them up in the sight of the Lord, and prayed for them, [22] That
being purified they might go into the tabernacle of the covenant to do
their services before Aaron and his sons. As the Lord had commanded
Moses touching the Levites, so was it done. [23] And the Lord spoke to
Moses, saying: [24] This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five
years old and upwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle
of the covenant. [25] And when they shall have accomplished the
fiftieth year of their age, they shall cease to serve:
[26] And they shall be the ministers of their brethren in the
tabernacle of the covenant, to keep the things that are committed to
their care, but not to do the works. Thus shalt thou order the Levites
touching their charge.
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Chapter 9 - verses 1-23 have been
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[1] The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, the second year
after they were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first month,
saying: [2] Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time,
[3] The fourteenth day of this month in the evening, according to all
the ceremonies and justifications thereof. [4] And Moses commanded the
children of Israel that they should make the phase. [5] And they made
it in its proper time: the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in
mount Sinai. The children of Israel did according to all things that
the Lord had commanded Moses.
[6] But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man,
who could not make the phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron,
[7] Said to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why
are we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to
the Lord among the children of Israel? [8] And Moses answered them:
Stay that I may consult the Lord what he will ordain concerning you.
[9] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [10] Say to the children of
Israel: The man that shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead,
or shall be in a journey afar off in your nation, let him make the
phase to the Lord.
[11] In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the
evening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild lettuce: [12]
They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, a nor break a
bone thereof, they shall observe all the ceremonies of the phase. [13]
But if any man is clean, and was not on a journey, and did not make the
phase, that soul shall be cut off from among his people, because he
offered not sacrifice to the Lord in due season: he shall bear his sin.
[14] The sojourner also and the stranger if they be among you, shall
make the phase to the Lord according to the ceremonies and
justifications thereof. The same ordinance shall be with you both for
the stranger, and for him that was born in the land. [15] Now on the
day that the tabernacle was reared up, a cloud covered it. But from the
evening there was over the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of
fire until the morning.
[16] So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it
were the appearance of fire. [17] And when the cloud that covered the
tabernacle was taken up, then the children of Israel marched forward:
and in the place where the cloud stood still, there they camped. [18]
At the commandment of the Lord they marched, and at his commandment
they pitched the tabernacle. All the days that the cloud abode over the
tabernacle, they remained in the same place: [19] And if it was so that
it continued over it a long time, the children of Israel kept the
watches of the Lord, and marched not, [20] For as many days soever as
the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. At the commandment of the Lord
they pitched their tents, and at his commandment they took them down.
[21] If the cloud tarried from evening until morning, and immediately
at break of day left the tabernacle, they marched forward: and if it
departed after a day and a night, they took down their tents. [22] But
if it remained over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a longer
time, the children of Israel remained in the same place, and marched
not: but immediately as soon as it departed, they removed the camp.
[23] By the word of the Lord they pitched their tents, and by his word
they marched: and kept the watches of the Lord according to his
commandment by the hand of Moses.
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Chapter 10 - verses 1-23 have been
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[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [2] Make thee two trumpets of
beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest call together the multitude when
the camp is to be removed. [3] And when thou shalt sound the trumpets,
all the multitude shall gather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle
of the covenant. [4] If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads
of the multitude of Israel shall come to thee. [5] But if the sound of
the trumpets be longer, and with interruptions, they that are on the
east side, shall first go forward.
[6] And at the second sounding and like noise of the trumpet, they who
lie on the south side shall take up their tents. And after this manner
shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound for a march. [7] But
when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the trumpets
shall be plain, and they shall not make a broken sound. [8] And the
sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and this shall be an
ordinance for ever in your generations. [9] If you go forth to war out
of your land against the enemies that fight against you, you shall
sound aloud with the trumpets, and there shall be a remembrance of you
before the Lord your God, that you may be delivered out of the hands of
your enemies. [10] If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your
festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound
the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace
offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am
the Lord your God.
[11] The second year, in the second month, the twentieth day of the
month, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the covenant. [12]
And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the desert of
Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan. [13] And the
first went forward according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand
of Moses. [14] The sons of Juda by their troops: whose prince was
Nahasson the son of Aminadab. [15] In the tribe of the sons of
Issachar, the prince was Nathanael the son of Suar.
[16] In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Eliab the son of Helon.
[17] And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and
Merari set forward, bearing it. [18] And the sons of Ruben also
marched, by their troops and ranks, whose prince was Helisur the son of
Sedeur. [19] And in the tribe of Simeon, the prince was Salamiel the
son of Surisaddai. [20] And in the tribe of Cad, the prince was
Eliasaph the son of Duel.
[21] Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long
was the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of setting it
up. [22] The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in
whose army the prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud. [23] And in the
tribe of the sons of Manasses, the prince was Gamaliel the son of
Phadassur. [24] And in the tribe of Benjamin, the prince was Abidan the
son of Gedeon. [25] The last of all the camp marched the sons of Dan by
their troops, in whose army the prince was Ahiezer the son of
Ammisaddai.
[26] And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the prince was Phegiel the
son of Ochran. [27] And in the tribe of the sons of Nephtali, the
prince was Ahira the son of Enan. [28] This was the order of the camps,
and marches of the children of Israel by their troops, when they set
forward. [29] And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite,
his kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give
us: come with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised
good things to Israel. [30] But he answered him: I will not go with
thee, but I will return to my country, wherein I was born.
[31] And he said: Do not leave us: for thou knowest in what places we
should encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide. [32] And
if thou comest with us, we will give thee what is the best of the
riches which the Lord shall deliver to us. [33] So they marched from
the mount of the Lord three days' journey, and the ark of the covenant
of the Lord went before them, for three days providing a place for the
camp. [34] The cloud also of the Lord was over them by day when they
marched. [35] And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O
Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee,
flee from before thy face.
[36] And when it was set down, he said: Return, O Lord, to the
multitude of the host of Israel.
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Chapter 11 - verses 1-4a and 16-24
have been omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against the
Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard it
he was angry. And the fire of the Lord being kindled against them,
devoured them that were at the uttermost part of the camp. [2] And when
the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was
swallowed up. [3] And he called the name of that place, The burning:
for that the fire of the Lord had been kindled against them. [4] For a
mixt multitude of people, that came up with them,...
[16] And the Lord said to Moses: Gather unto me seventy men of the
ancients of Israel, whom thou knowest to be ancients and masters of the
people: and thou shalt bring them to the door of the tabernacle of the
covenant, and shalt make them stand there with thee, [17] That I may
come down and speak with thee: and I will take of thy spirit, and will
give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden of the people,
and thou mayest not be burthened alone. [18] And thou shalt say to the
people: Be ye sanctified: tomorrow you shall eat flesh: for I have
heard you say: Who will give us flesh to eat? it was well with us in
Egypt. That the Lord may give you flesh, and you may eat: [19] Not for
one day, nor two, nor five, nor ten, no nor for twenty. [20] But even
for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils, and become
loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord, who is in the
midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out of
Egypt?
[21] And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this
people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month?
[22] Shall then a multitude of sheep and oxen be killed, that it may
suffice for their food? or shall the fishes of the sea be gathered
together to fill them? [23] And the Lord answered him: Is the hand of
the Lord unable? Thou shalt presently see whether my word shall come to
pass or no. [24] Moses therefore came, and told the people the words of
the Lord, and assembled seventy men of the ancients of Israel, and made
them to stand about the tabernacle.
[30] And Moses returned, with the ancients of Israel, into the camp.
[31] And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the
sea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one
day's journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in
the air two cubits high above the ground. [32] The people therefore
rising up all that day, and night, and the next day, gathered together
of quails, he that did least, ten cores: and they dried them round
about the camp. [33] As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither
had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being
provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great
plague. [34] And that place was called, The graves of lust: for there
they buried the people that had lusted. And departing from the graves
of lust, they came unto Haseroth, and abode there.
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Chapter 12 - verses 14-15 have been
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[14] And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her
face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let
her be separated seven days without the camp, and after wards she shall
be called again. [15] Mary therefore was put out of the camp seven
days: and the people moved not from that place until Mary was called
again.
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Chapter 13 - verses 1 and 3b-25 have
been omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in
the desert of Pharan.
[3] ...which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe,
of the rulers. [4] Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from
the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these: [5] Of the
tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur.
[6] Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Hurl. [7] Of the tribe of
Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone. [8] Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the
son of Joseph. [9] Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun. [10]
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.
[11] Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the son of Sodi. [12] Of the
tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre of Manasses, Gaddi the son of Susi.
[13] Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. [14] Of the tribe
of Aser, Sthur the son of Michael. [15] Of the tribe of Nephtali,
Nahabi the son of Vapsi.
[16] Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi. [17] These are the
names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the land: and he called Osee
the son of Nun, Josue. [18] And Moses sent them to view the land of
Chanaan, and said to them: Go you up by the south side. And when you
shall come to the mountains, [19] View the land, of what sort it is:
and the people that are the inhabitants thereof, whether they be strong
or weak: few in number or many: [20] The land itself, whether it be
good or bad: what manner of cities, walled or without walls:
[21] The ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good
courage, and bring us of the fruits of the land. Now it was the time
when the first ripe grapes are fit to be eaten. [22] And when they were
gone up, they viewed the land from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob as you
enter into Emath. [23] And they went up at the south side, and came to
Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For
Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt. [24] And
going forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut
off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a
lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that
place: [25] Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of
the cluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had
carried a cluster of grapes.
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Chapter 14 - verses 2-25, 31-33 and
36-45 have been omitted from the Mass readings.
[2] And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron,
saying: [3] Would God that we had died in Egypt and would God we may
die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into
this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led
away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt? [4] And they said
one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
[5] And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the
ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.
[6] But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who
themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments, [7] And said
to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have
gone round is very good: [8] If the Lord be favourable, he will bring
us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey. [9] Be not
rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of this land,
for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them: the
Lord is with us, fear ye not. [10] And when all the multitude cried
out, and would have stoned them, the glory of the Lord appeared over
the tabernacle of the covenant to all the children of Israel.
[11] And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me?
how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought
before them? [12] I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and
will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation,
and a mightier than this is. [13] And Moses said to the Lord: That the
Egyptians, from the midst of whom thou hast brought forth this people,
[14] And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O
Lord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud
protecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by
day, and in a pillar of fire by night,) [15] May hear that thou hast
killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:
[16] He could not bring the people into the land for which he had
sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness. [17] Let their the
strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying: [18] The
Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness,
and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth generation. [19] Forgive, I beseech
thee, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy,
as thou hast been merciful to them from their going out of Egypt unto
this place. [20] And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy
word.
[21] As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of
the Lord. [22] But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the
signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have
tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice, [23] Shall not
see the land for which I aware to their fathers, neither shall any one
of them that hath detracted me behold it. [24] My servant Caleb, who
being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this
land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it. [25] For
the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. Tomorrow remove
the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
[31] But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to
the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have
despised. [32] Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness. [33] Your
children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your
fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed ill the
desert,
[36] Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and
who at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him,
speaking ill of the land that it was naught, [37] Died and were struck
in the sight of the Lord. [38] But Josue. the son of Nun. and Caleb the
son of Jephone lived, of all them that had gone to view the land. [39]
And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel, and the
people mourned exceedingly. [40] And behold rising up very early in the
morning, they went up to the top of the mountain, and said: We are
ready to go up to the place, of which the Lord hath spoken: for we have
sinned.
[41] And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord,
which shall not succeed prosperously with you? [42] Go not up, for the
Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies. [43] The
Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their sword you
shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord, neither will the
Lord be with you. [44] But they being blinded went up to the top of the
mountain. But the ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses departed
not from the camp. [45] And the Amalecite came down, and the Chanaanite
that dwelt in the mountain: and smiting and slaying them pursued them
as far as Horma.
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Chapter 15 - verses 1-41 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [2] Speak to the children of
Israel and thou shalt say to them: When you shall be come into the land
of your habitation, which I will give you, [3] And shall make an
offering to the Lord, for a holocaust, or a victim, paying your vows,
or voluntarily offering gifts, or in your solemnities burning a sweet
savour unto the Lord, of oxen or of sheep: [4] Whosoever immolateth the
victim, shall offer a sacrifice of fine flour, the tenth part of an
ephi, tempered with the fourth part of a hin of oil: [5] And he shall
give the same measure of wine to pour out in libations for the
holocaust or for the victim. For every lamb,
[6] And for every ram there shall be a sacrifice of hour of two tenths,
which shall be tempered with the third part of a hin of oil: [7] And he
shall offer the third part of the same measure of wine for the
libation, for a sweet savour to the Lord. [8] But when thou offerest a
holocaust or sacrifice of oxen, to fulfill thy vow or for victims of
peace offerings, [9] Thou shalt give for every ox three tenths of flour
tempered with half a hin of oil, [10] And wine for libations of the
same measure, for an offering of most sweet savour to the Lord.
[11] Thus shalt thou do: [12] For every ox and ram and lamb and kid.
[13] Both they that are born in the land, and the strangers, [14] Shall
offer sacrifices after the same rite. [15] There shall be all one law
and judgment both for you and for them who are strangers in the land.
[16] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [17] Speak to the children of
Israel, and thou shalt say to them: [18] When you are come into the
land which I will give you, [19] And shall eat of the bread of that
country, you shall separate firstfruits to the Lord, [20] Of the things
you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors:
[21] So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord. [22]
And if through ignorance you omit any of these things, which the Lord
hath spoken to Moses, [23] And by him hath commanded you, from the day
that he began to command and thenceforward, [24] And the multitude have
forgotten to do it: they shall offer a calf out of the herd, a
holocaust for a most sweet savour to the Lord, and the sacrifice and
libations thereof, as the ceremonies require, and a buck goat for sin:
[25] And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children of
Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned ignorantly,
offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for themselves
and for their sin and their ignorance:
[26] And it shall be forgiven all the people of the children of Israel:
and the strangers that sojourn among them: because it is the fault of
all the people through ignorance. [27] But if one soul shall sin
ignorantly, he shall offer a she goat of a year old for his sin. [28]
And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned ignorantly before
the Lord: and he shall obtain his pardon, and it shall be forgiven him.
[29] The same law shall be for all that sin by ignorance, whether they
be natives or strangers. [30] But the soul that committeth any thing
through pride, whether he be born in the land or a stranger (because he
hath been rebellious against the Lord) shall be cut off from among his
people:
[31] For he hath contemned the word the Lord, and made void his
precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.
[32] And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the
wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day,
[33] That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole multitude.
[34] And they put him into prison, not knowing what they should do with
him. [35] And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man die, let all the
multitude stone him without the camp.
[36] And when they had brought him out, they stoned him, and he died as
the Lord had commanded. [37] The Lord also said to Moses: [38] Speak to
the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them I to make to
themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in them
ribands of blue: [39] That when they shall see them, they may remember
all the commandments of the Lord, and not follow their own thoughts and
eyes going astray after divers things, [40] But rather being mindful of
the precepts of the Lord, may do them and be holy to their God.
[41] I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
that I might be your God.
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Chapter 16 - verses 1-50 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of
Levi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of
Pheleth of the children of Ruben, [2] Rose up against Moses, and with
them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leading
men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by
name. [3] And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron, they
said: Let it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of
holy ones, and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above
the people of the Lord? [4] When Moses heard this, he fell flat on his
face: [5] And speaking to Core and all the multitude, he said: In the
morning the Lord will make known who belong to him, and the holy he
will join to himself: and whom he shall choose, they shall approach to
him.
[6] Do this therefore: Take every man of you your censers, thou Core,
and all thy company. [7] And putting fire in them tomorrow, put incense
upon it before the Lord: and whomsoever he shall choose, the same shall
be holy: you take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi. [8] And he said
again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi. [9] Is it a small thing unto you,
that the God of Israel hath spared you from all the people, and joined
you to himself, that you should serve him in the service of the
tabernacle, and should stand before the congregation of the people, and
should minister to him? [10] Did he therefore make thee and all thy
brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should
challenge to yourselves the priesthood also,
[11] And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what
is Aaron that you murmur against him? [12] Then Moses sent to call
Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab. But they answered: We will not
come. [13] Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out
of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert,
except thou rule also like a lord over us? [14] Thou hast brought us
indeed into a land that floweth with rivers of milk and honey, and hast
given us possessions of fields and vineyards; wilt thou also pull out
our eyes? We will not come. [15] Moses therefore being very angry, said
to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not
taken of them so much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any
of them.
[16] And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart
before the Lord tomorrow, and Aaron apart. [17] Take every one of you
censers, and put incense upon them, offering to the Lord two hundred
and fifty censers: let Aaron also hold his censer. [18] When they had
done this, Moses and Aaron standing, [19] And had drawn up all the
multitude against them to the door of the tabernacle, the glory of the
Lord appeared to them all. [20] And the Lord speaking to Moses and
Aaron, said:
[21] Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may
presently destroy them. [22] They fell flat on their face, and said: O
most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin
shall thy wrath rage against all? [23] And the Lord said to Moses: [24]
Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents of Core
and Dathan and Abiron. [25] And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and
Abiron: and the ancients of Israel following him,
[26] He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked
men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins.
[27] And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan
and Abiron coming out stood in the entry of their pavilions with their
wives and children, and all the people. [28] And Moses said: By this
you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that you
see, and that I have not forged them of my own head: [29] If these men
die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague,
wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me.
[30] But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth
swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down
alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.
[31] And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke
asunder under their feet: [32] And opening her mouth, devoured them
with their tents and all their substance. [33] And they went down alive
into hell the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among
the people. [34] But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at
the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth
swallow us up also. [35] And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed
the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
[36] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [37] Command Eleazar the son
of Aaron the priest to take up the censers that lie in the burning, and
to scatter the fire of one side and the other: because they are
sanctified [38] In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them
into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been
offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children
of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial. [39] Then Eleazar the
priest took the brazen censers, wherein they had offered, whom the
burning fire had devoured, and beat them into plates, fastening them to
the altar: [40] That the children of Israel might have for the time to
come wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one
that is not of seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the
Lord, lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation,
according as the Lord spoke to Moses.
[41] The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of
the Lord. [42] And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult
increased, [43] Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant.
And when the were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of
the Lord appeared. [44] And the Lord said to Moses: [45] Get you out
from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And
as they were lying on the ground,
[46] Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from
the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray
for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague
rageth. [47] When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the
multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the
incense: [48] And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed
for the people, and the plague ceased. [49] And the number of them that
were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them
that had perished in the sedition of Core. [50] And Aaron returned to
Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant after the
destruction was over.
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Chapter 17 - verses 1-13 have been
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[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [2] Speak to the children of
Israel, and take of every one of them a rod by their kindreds, of all
the princes of the tribes, twelve rods, and write the name of every man
upon his rod. [3] And the name of Aaron shall be for the tribe of Levi,
and one rod shall contain all their families: [4] And thou shalt lay
them up in the tabernacle of the covenant before the testimony, where I
will speak to thee. [5] Whomsoever of these I shall choose, his rod
shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the
children of Israel, wherewith they murmur against you.
[6] And Moses spoke to the children of Israel: and all the princes gave
him rods one for every tribe: and there were twelve rods besides the
rod of Aaron. [7] And when Moses had laid them up before the Lord in
the tabernacle of the testimony: [8] He returned on the following day,
and found that the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was budded: and
that the buds swelling it had bloomed blossoms, which spreading the
leaves, were formed into almonds. [9] Moses therefore brought out all
the rods from before the Lord to all the children of Israel: and they
saw, and every one received their rods. [10] And the Lord said to
Moses: Carry back the rod of Aaron into the tabernacle of the
testimony, that it may be kept there for a token of the rebellious
children of Israel, and that their complaints may cease from me lest
they die.
[11] And Moses did as the Lord had commanded. [12] And the children of
Israel said to Moses: Behold we are consumed, we all perish. [13]
Whosoever approacheth to the tabernacle of the Lord, he dieth. Are we
all to a man to be utterly destroyed?
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Chapter 18 - verses 1-32 have been
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[1] And the Lord said to Aaron: Thou, and thy sons, and thy father's
house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and
thy sons with thee shall bear the sins of your priesthood. [2] And take
with thee thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, and the sceptre of
thy father, and let them be ready in hand, and minister to thee: but
thou and thy sons shall minister in the tabernacle of the testimony.
[3] And the Levites shall watch to do thy commands, and about all the
works of the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of
the sanctuary nor the altar, lest both they die, and you also perish
with them. [4] But let them be with thee, and watch in the charge of
the tabernacle, and in all the ceremonies thereof. A stranger shall not
join himself with you. [5] Watch ye in the charge of the sanctuary, and
in the ministry of the altar: lest indignation rise upon the children
of Israel.
[6] I have given you your brethren the Levites from among the children
of Israel, and have delivered them for a gift to the Lord, to serve in
the ministries of the tabernacle. [7] But thou and thy sons look ye to
the priesthood: and all things that pertain to the service of the
altar, and that are within the veil, shall be executed by the priests.
If any stranger shall approach, he shall be slain. [8] And the Lord
said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge of my firstfruits.
All things that are sanctified by the children of Israel, I have
delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly office, by
everlasting ordinances. [9] These therefore shalt thou take of the
things that are sanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every
offering, and sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and
for trespass, and becometh holy of holies, shall be for thee and thy
sons. [10] Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat
thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee.
[11] But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and
offer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by
a perpetual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them. [12]
All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever
firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee. [13] All
the firstripe of the fruits, that the ground bringeth forth, and which
are brought to the Lord, shall be for thy use: he that is clean in thy
house, shall eat them. [14] Every thing that the children of Israel
shall give by vow, shall be thine. [15] Whatsoever is firstborn of all
flesh, which they offer to the Lord, whether it be of men, or of
beasts, shall belong to thee: only for the firstborn of man thou shalt
take a price, and every beast that is unclean thou shalt cause to be
redeemed,
[16] And the redemption of it shall be after one month, for five sicles
of silver, by the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.
[17] But the firstling of a cow and of a sheep and of a goat thou shalt
not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the Lord.
Their blood only thou shalt pour upon the altar, and their fat thou
shalt burn for a most sweet odour to the Lord. [18] But the flesh shall
fall to thy use, as the consecrated breast, and the right shoulder
shall be thine. [19] All the firstfruits of the sanctuary which the
children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy
sons and daughters, by a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt
for ever before the Lord, to thee and to thy sons. [20] And the Lord
said to Aaron: You shall possess nothing in their land, neither shall
you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and inheritance in the
midst of the children of Israel.
[21] And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for
a possession for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle
of the covenant: [22] That the children of Israel may not approach any
more to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin, [23] But only the sons
of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and bear the sins of the
people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They
shall not possess any other thing, [24] But be content with the
oblation or tithes, which I have separated for their uses and
necessities. [25] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
[26] Command the Levites, and declare unto them: When you shall receive
of the children of Israel the tithes, which I have given you, offer the
firstfruits of them to the Lord, that is to say, the tenth part of the
tenth: [27] That it may be reckoned to you as an oblation of
firstfruits, as well of the barnfloors as of the winepresses: [28] And
of all the things of which you receive tithes, offer the firstfruits to
the Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest. [29] All the things that
you shall offer of the tithes, and shall separate for the gifts of the
Lord, shall be the best and choicest things. [30] And thou shalt say to
them: If you offer all the goodly and the better things of the tithes,
it shall be reckoned to you as if you had given the firstfruits of the
barnfloor and the winepress:
[31] And you shall eat them in all your places, both you and your
families: because it is your reward for the ministry, wherewith you
serve in the tabernacle of the testimony. [32] And you shall not sin in
this point, by reserving the choicest and fat things to yourselves,
lest you profane the oblations of the children of Israel, and die.
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Chapter 19 - verses 1-22 have been
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[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: [2] This is the
observance of the victim, which the Lord hath ordained. Command the
children of Israel, that they bring unto thee a red cow of full age, in
which there is no blemish, and which hath not carried the yoke: [3] And
you shall deliver her to Eleazar the priest, who shall bring her forth
without the camp, and shall immolate her in the sight of all: [4] And
dipping his finger in her blood, shall sprinkle it over against the
door of the tabernacle seven times, [5] And shall burn her in the sight
of all, delivering up to the fire her skin, and her flesh, and her
blood, and her dung.
[6] The priest shall also take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet
twice dyed, and cast it into the flame, with which the cow is consumed.
[7] And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter into
the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening. [8] He also that hath
burned her, shall wash his garments, and his body, and shall be unclean
until the evening. [9] And a man that is clean shall gather up the
ashes of the cow, and shall pour them forth without the camp in a most
clean place, that they may be reserved for the multitude of the
children of Israel, and for a water of aspersion: because the cow was
burnt for sin. [10] And when he that carried the ashes of the cow, hath
washed his garments, he shall be unclean until the evening. The
children of Israel, and the strangers that dwell among them, shall
observe this for a holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.
[11] He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean
seven days, [12] Shall be sprinkled with this water on the third day,
and on the seventh, and so shall be cleansed. If he were not sprinkled
on the third day, he cannot be cleansed on the seventh. [13] Every one
that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is not sprinkled with mixture,
shall profane the tabernacle of the Lord, and shall perish out of
Israel: because he was not sprinkled with the water of expiation, he
shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain upon him. [14] This
is the law of a man that dieth in a tent: All that go into his tent and
all the vessels that are there, shall be unclean seven days. [15] The
vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be unclean.
[16] If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was slain,
or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean
seven days. [17] And they shall take of the ashes of the burning and of
the sin offering, and shall pour living waters upon them into a vessel.
[18] And a man that is clean shall dip hyssop in them, and shall
sprinkle therewith all the tent, and all the furniture, and the men
that are defiled with touching any such thing: [19] And in this manner
he that is clean shall purify the unclean on the third and on the
seventh day. And being expiated the seventh day, he shall wash both
himself and his garments, and be unclean until the evening. [20] If any
man be not expiated after this rite, his soul shall perish out of the
midst of the church: because he hath profaned the sanctuary of the
Lord, and was not sprinkled with the water of purification.
[21] This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that
sprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every one that shall
touch the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening. [22]
Whatsoever a person toucheth who is unclean, he shall make it unclean:
and the person that toucheth any of these things, shall be unclean
until the evening.
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Chapter 20 - verses 14-30 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[15] In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we
dwelt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.
[16] And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an angel,
who hath brought us out of Egypt. Lo, we are now in the city of Cades,
which is in the uttermost of thy borders, [17] And we beseech thee that
we may have leave to pass through thy country. We will not go through
the fields, nor through the vineyards, we will not drink the waters of
thy wells, but we will go by the common highway, neither turning aside
to the right hand, nor to the left, till we are past thy borders. [18]
And Edom answered them: Thou shalt not pass by me: if thou dost I will
come out armed against thee. [19] And the children of Israel said: We
will go by the beaten way: and if we and our cattle drink of thy
waters, we will give thee what is just: there shall be no difficulty in
the price, only let us pass speedily. [20] But he answered: Thou shalt
not pass. And immediately he came forth to meet them with an infinite
multitude, and a strong hand,
[21] Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage
through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from him. [22]
And when they had removed the camp from Cades, they came to mount Her,
which is in the borders of the land of Edom: [23] Where the Lord spoke
to Moses: [24] Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not
go into the land which I have given the children of Israel, because he
was incredulous to my words, at the waters of contradiction. [25] Take
Aaron and his son with him, and bring them up into mount Hor:
[26] And when thou hast stripped the father of his vesture, thou shalt
vest therewith Eleazar his son: Aaron shall be gathered to his people,
and die there. [27] Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went
up into mount Hor before all the multitude. [28] And when he had
stripped Aaron of his vestments, he vested Eleazar his son with them.
[29] And Aaron being dead in the top of the mountain, he came down with
Eleazar. [30] And all the multitude seeing that Aaron was dead, mourned
for him thirty days throughout all their families.
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Chapter 21 - verses 1-3 and 10-35
have been omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And when king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, had
heard this, to wit, that Israel was come by the way of the spies, he
fought against them, and overcoming them carried off their spoils. [2]
But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: It thou wilt
deliver this people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.
[3] And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the
Chanaanite, and they cut them off and destroyed their cities: and they
called the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema.
[10] And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.
[11] And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in the
wilderness, that faceth Moab toward the east. [12] And removing from
thence, they came to the torrent Zared: [13] Which they left and
encamped over against Arnon, which is in the desert and standeth out on
the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is the border of Moab, dividing
the Moabites and the Amorrhites. [14] Wherefore it is said in the book
of the wars of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he do in the
streams of Amen. [15] The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that
they might rest in Ar, and lie down in the borders of the Moabites.
[16] When they went from that place, the well appeared whereof the Lord
said to Moses: Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
[17] Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung
thereto: [18] The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the
people prepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their
staves. And they marched from the wilderness to Mathana. [19] From
Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth. [20] From Bamoth, is
a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked
towards the desert.
[21] And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites,
saying: [22] I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy
land: we will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards, we will
not drink waters of the wells, we will go the king's highway, till we
be past thy borders. [23] And he would not grant that Israel should
pass by his borders: but rather gathering an army, went forth to meet
them in the desert, and came to Jasa, and fought against them. [24] And
he was slain by them with the edge of the sword, and they possessed his
land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and to the confines of the children
of Ammon: for the borders of the Ammonites, were kept with a strong
garrison. [25] So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities
of the Amorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and in the villages thereof.
[26] Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who
fought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been
of his dominions, as far as the Arnon. [27] Therefore it is said in the
proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and set up:
[28] A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and
hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high
places of the Arnon. [29] Woe to thee Moab: thou art undone, O people
of Chamos. He hath given his sons to flight, and his daughters into
captivity to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites. [30] Their yoke is
perished from Hesebon unto Dibon, they came weary to Nophe, and unto
Medaba.
[31] So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorrhite. [32] And Moses sent
some to take a view of Jazer: and they took the villages of it, and
conquered the inhabitants. [33] And they turned themselves, and went up
by the way of Basan, and Og the king of Basan came against them with
all his people, to fight in Edrai. [34] And the Lord said to Moses:
Fear him not, for I have delivered him and all his people, and his
country into thy hand: and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Sehon
the king of the Amorrhites, the inhabitant of Hesebon. [35] So they
slew him also with his sons, and all his people, not letting any one
escape, and they possessed his land.
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Chapter 22 - verses 1-41 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And they went forward and encamped in the plains of Moab, over
against where Jericho is situate beyond the Jordan. [2] And Balac the
son of Sephor, seeing all that Israel had done to the Amorrhite, [3]
And that the Moabites were in great fear of him, and were not able to
sustain his assault, [4] He said to the elders of Madian: So will this
people destroy all that dwell in our borders, as the ox is wont to eat
the grass to the very roots. Now he was at that time king in Moab. [5]
He sent therefore messengers to Balaam the son of Beer, a soothsayer,
who dwelt by the river of the land of the children of Ammon, to call
him, and to say: Behold a people is come out of Egypt, that hath
covered the face of the earth, sitting over against me.
[6] Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier than
I: if by any means I may beat them and drive them out of my land: for I
know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and he whom thou shalt
curse is cursed. [7] And the ancients of Moab, and the elders of
Madian, went with the price of divination in their hands. And when they
were come to Balaam, and had told him all the words of Balac: [8] He
answered: Tarry here this night, and I will answer whatsoever the Lord
shall say to me. And while they stayed with Balaam, God came and said
to him: [9] What mean these men that are with thee? [10] He answered:
Balac the son of Sephor king of the Moabites hath sent to me,
[11] Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered
the face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight
with them and drive them away. [12] And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt
not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is
blessed. [13] And he rose in the morning and said to the princes: Go
into your country, because the Lord hath forbid me to come with you.
[14] The princes returning, said to Balac: Balaam would not come with
us. [15] Then he sent many more and more noble than he had sent before:
[16] Who, when they were come to Balaam, said: Thus saith Balac the son
of Sephor, Delay not to come to me: [17] For I am ready to honour thee,
and will give thee whatsoever thou wilt: come and curse this people.
[18] Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver
and gold, I cannot alter the word of the Lord my God, to speak either
more or less. [19] I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may
know what the Lord will answer me once more. [20] God therefore came to
Balaam in the night, and said to him: It these men be come to call
thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou do what I shall command
thee.
[21] Balaam arose in the morning, and saddling his ass went with them.
[22] And God was angry. And an angel of the Lord stood in the way
against Balaam, who sat on the ass, and had two servants with him. [23]
The ass seeing the angel standing in the way, with a drawn sword,
turned herself out of the way, and went into the field. And when Balaam
beat her, and had a mind to bring her again to the way, [24] The angel
stood in a narrow place between two walls, wherewith the vineyards were
enclosed. [25] And the ass seeing him, thrust herself close to the
wall, and bruised the foot of the rider. But he beat her again:
[26] And nevertheless the angel going on to a narrow place, where there
was no way to turn aside either to the right hand or to the left, stood
to meet him. [27] And when the ass saw the angel standing, she fell
under the feet of the rider: who being angry beat her sides more
vehemently with a staff. [28] And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass,
and she said: What have I done to thee? Why strikest thou me, lo, now
this third time? [29] Balaam answered: Because thou hast deserved it,
and hast served me ill: I would I had a sword that I might kill thee.
[30] The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which thou hast been always
accustomed to ride until this present day? tell me if I ever did the
like thing to thee. But he said: Never.
[31] Forthwith the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel
standing in the way with a drawn sword, and he worshipped him falling
flat on the ground. [32] And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou
thy ass these three times? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way
is perverse, and contrary to me: [33] And unless the ass had turned out
of the way, giving place to me who stood against thee, I had slain
thee, and she should have lived. [34] Balaam said: I have sinned, not
knowing that thou didst stand against me: and now if it displease thee
that I go, I will return. [35] The angel said: Go with these men, and
see thou speak no other thing than what I shall command thee. He went
therefore with the princes.
[36] And when Balac heard it he came forth to meet him in a town of the
Moabites, that is situate in the uttermost borders of Arnon. [37] And
he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst thou not
come immediately to me? was it because I am not able to reward thy
coming? [38] He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I have power to
speak any other thing but that which God shall put in my mouth? [39] So
they went on together, and came into a city, that was in the uttermost
borders of his kingdom. [40] And when Balac had killed oxen and sheep,
he sent presents to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
[41] And when morning was come, he brought him to the high places of
Baal, and he beheld the uttermost part of the people.
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Chapter 23 - verses 1-30 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare
as many calves, and the same number of rams. [2] And when he had done
according to the word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and a ram
upon every altar. [3] And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy
burnt offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me,
and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee. [4] And when he
was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I
have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf and a ram.
[5] And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac,
and thus shalt thou speak.
[6] Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all
the princes of the Moabites: [7] And taking up his parable, he said:
Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the
mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and
detest Israel. [8] How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By
what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not? [9] I
shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from
the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned
among the nations. [10] Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the
number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just,
and my last end be like to them.
[11] And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for
thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them. [12] He
answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?
[13] Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence
thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them
from thence. [14] And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the
top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one
a calf and a ram, [15] He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt
offering while I go to meet him.
[16] And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth,
he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him. [17]
Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes
of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord
spoken? [18] But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and
give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor: [19] God is not a man, that he
should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he
said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfill?
[20] I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.
[21] There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be
seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the
victory of the king in him. [22] God hath brought him out of Egypt,
whose strength is like to the rhinoceros. [23] There is no soothsaying
in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to
Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought. [24] Behold the people shall
rise up as a lioness, and shall lift itself up as a lion: it shall not
lie down till it devour the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
[25] And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him.
[26] And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should
command me, that I would do? [27] And Balac said to him: Come and I
will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that
thou mayest curse them from thence. [28] And when he had brought him
upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,
[29] Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as
many calves, and the same number of rams. [30] Balac did as Balaam had
said: and he laid on every altar, a calf and a ram.
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Chapter 24 - verses 1-25 have been
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[1] And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless
Israel. he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but
setting his face towards the desert, [2] And lifting up his eyes, he
saw Israel abiding in their tents by their tribes: and the spirit of
God rushing upon him, [3] He took up his parable and said: Balaam the
son of Beor hath said: The man hath said, whose eye ire stopped up: [4]
The hearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beheld the
vision of the Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened:
[5] How beautiful are thy tabernacles, O Jacob, and thy tents, O
Israel!
[6] As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as
tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside.
[7] Water shall flow out of his bucket, and his seed shall be in many
waters. For Agag his king shall be removed, and his kingdom shall be
taken awry. [8] God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is
like to the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his
enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows. [9] Lying
down he hath slept as a lion, and as a lioness, whom none shall dare to
rouse. He that blesseth thee, shall also himself be blessed: he that
curseth thee shall be reckoned accursed. [10] And Balac being angry
against Balaam, clapped his hands together and said: I called thee to
curse my enemies, and thou on the contrary hast blessed them three
times.
[11] Return to thy place. I had determined indeed greatly to honour
thee, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour designed for thee.
[12] Balaam made answer to Balac: Did I not say to thy messengers, whom
thou sentest to me: [13] If Balac would give me his house full of
silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to
utter any thing of my own head either good or evil: but whatsoever the
Lord shall say, that I will speak? [14] But yet going to my people, I
will give thee counsel, what this people shall do to thy people in the
latter days. [15] Therefore taking up his parable, again he said:
Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man whose eye is stopped up, hath
said:
[16] The hearer of the words of God hath said, who knoweth the doctrine
of the Highest, and seeth the visions of the Almighty, who falling hath
his eyes opened: [17] I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him,
but not near. A STAR SHALL RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall spring
up from Israel: and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste
all the children of Seth. [18] And he shall possess Idumea: the
inheritance of Seir shall come to their enemies, but Israel shall do
manfully. [19] Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule, and shall
destroy the remains of the city. [20] And when he saw Amalec, he took
up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter
ends shall be destroyed.
[21] He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy
habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,
[22] And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be
able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive. [23] And taking up
his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do
these things? [24] They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall
overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last
they themselves also shall perish. [25] And Balaam rose, and returned
to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.
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Chapter 25 - verses 1-18 have been
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[1] And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed
fornication with the daughters of Moab, [2] Who called them to their
sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods. [3] And Israel
was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry, [4] Said
to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on
gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.
[5] And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his
neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.
[6] And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his
brethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses, and of all the
children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle.
[7] And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw
it, he rose up from the midst; of the multitude, and taking a dagger,
[8] Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both
of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital
parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel: [9] And
there were slain four and twenty thousand men. [10] And the Lord said
to Moses:
[11] Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath
turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved
with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children
of Israel in my zeal. [12] Therefore say to him: Behold I give him the
peace of my covenant, [13] And the covenant of the priesthood for ever
shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his
God, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of
Israel. [14] And the name of the Israelite, was slain with the woman of
Madian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a prince the kindred and tribe of
Simeon. [15] And the Madianite woman, that was slain with him, was
called Cozbi the daughter of Sur, a most noble prince among the
Madianites.
[16] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [17] Let the Madianites find
you enemies, and slay you them: [18] Because they also have acted like
enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol
Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who
was slain in the day the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.
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Chapter 26 - verses 1-65 have been
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[1] After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and
to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest: [2] Number the whole sum of
the children of Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their
houses and kindreds, all that are able to go forth to war. [3] Moses
therefore and Eleazar the priest, being in the plains of Moab upon the
Jordan over against Jericho, spoke to them that were [4] From twenty
years old and upward, as the Lord had commanded: and this is the number
of them: [5] Ruben the firstborn of Israel. His sons were Henoch, of
whom is the family of the Henochites: and Phallu, of whom is the family
of the Phalluites:
[6] And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi, of
whom is the family of the Charmites. [7] These are the families of the
stock of Ruben: whose number was found to be forty-three thousand seven
hundred and thirty. [8] The son of Phallu was Eliab. [9] His sons, were
Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and Abiron the princes
of the people, that rose against Moses and Aaron in the sedition of
Core, when they rebelled against the Lord: [10] And the earth opening
her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying, when the fire burned
two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought,
[11] That when Core perished, his sons did not perish. [12] The sons of
Simeon by their kindreds: Namuel, of him is the family of the
Namuelites: Jamin, of him is the family of the Jaminites: Jachin, of
him is the family of the Jachinites: [13] Zare, of him is the family of
the Zarites: Saul, of him is the family of the Saulites. [14] These are
the families of the stock of Simeon, of which the whole number was
twenty-two thousand two hundred. [15] The sons of Gad by their
kindreds: Sephon, of hin; Is the family of the Sephonites: Aggi, of him
is the family of the Aggites: Suni, of him is the family of the
Sunites:
[16] Ozni, of him is the family of the Oznites: Her, of him is the
family of the Herites: [17] Arod, of him is the family of the Arodites:
Ariel, of him is the family of the Arielites. [18] These are the
families of Gad, of which the whole number was forty thousand five
hundred. [19] The sons of Juda, Her and Onan, who both died in the land
of Chanaan. [20] And the sons of Juda by their kindreds were: Sela, of
whom is the family of the Selaites: Phares, of whom is the family of
the Pharesites: Zare, of whom is the family of the Zarites.
[21] Moreover the sons of Phares were: Hesron, of whom is the family of
the Hesronites: and Hamul, of whom is the family of the Hamulites. [22]
These are the families of Juda, of which the whole number was
seventy-six thousand five hundred. [23] The sons of Issachar, by their
kindreds: Thola, of whom is the family of the Tholaites: Phua, of whom
is the family of the Phuaites: [24] Jasub, of whom is the family of the
Jasubites: Semran, of whom is the family of the Semranites. [25] These
are the kindreds of Issachar, whose number was sixty-four thousand
three hundred.
[26] The sons of Zabulon by their kindreds: Sared, of whom is the
family of the Saredites: Elon, of whom is the family of the Elonites:
Jalel, of whom is the family of the Jalelites. [27] These are the
kindreds of Zabulon, whose number was sixty thousand five hundred. [28]
The sons of Joseph by their kindred, Manasses and Ephraim. [29] Of
Manasses was born Machir, of whom is the family of the Machirites.
Machir beget Galaad, of whom is the family of the Galaadites. [30]
Galaad had sons: Jezer, of whom is the family of the Jezerites: and
Helec, of whom is the family of the Helecites:
[31] And Asriel, of whom is the family of the Asrielites: and Sechem,
of whom is the family of the Sechemites: [32] And Semida, of whom is
the family of the Semidaites: and Hepher, of whom is the family of the
Hepherites. [33] And Hepher was the father of Salphaad, who had no
sons, but only daughters, whose names are these: Maala, and Noa, and
Hegla, and Melcha, and Thersa. [34] These are the families of Manasses,
and the number of them fifty-two thousand seven hundred. [35] And the
sons of Ephraim by their kindreds were these: Suthala, of whom is the
family of the Suthalaites: Becher, of whom is the family of the
Becherites: Thehen, of whom is the family of the Thehenites.
[36] Now the son of Suthala was Heran, of whom is the family of the
Heranites. [37] These are the kindreds of the sons of Ephraim: whose
number was thirty-two thousand five hundred. [38] These are the sons of
Joseph by their families. The sons of Benjamin in their kindreds: Bela,
of whom is the family of the Belaites: Asbel, of whom is the family of
the Asbelites: Ahiram, of whom is the family of the Ahiramites: [39]
Supham, of whom is the family of the Suphamites: Hupham, of whom is the
family of the Huphamites. [40] The sons of Bela: Hered, and Noeman. Of
Hered, is the family of the Heredites: of Noeman, the family of tile
Noemanites.
[41] These are the sons of Benjamin by their kindreds, whose number was
forty-five thousand six hundred. [42] The sons of Dan by their
kindreds: Suham, of whom is the family of the Suhamites: These are the
kindreds of Dan by their families. [43] All were Suhamites, whose
number was sixty-four thousand four hundred. [44] The sons of Aser by
their kindreds: Jemna, of whom is the family of the Jemnaites: Jessui,
of whom is the family of the Jessuites: Brie, of whom is the family of
the Brieites. [45] The sons of Brie: Heber, of whom is the family of
the Heberites: and Melchiel, of whom is the family of the Melchielites.
[46] And the name of the daughter of Aser, was Sara. [47] These are the
kindreds of the sons of Aser, and their number fifty-three thousand
four hundred. [48] The sons of Nephtali by their kindreds: Jesiel, of
whom is the family of the Jesielites: Guni, of whom is the family of
the Gunites: [49] Jeser, of whom is the family of the Jeserites:
Sellem, of whom is the family of the Sellemites. [50] These are the
kindreds of the sons of Nephtali by their families: whose number was
forty-five thousand four hundred.
[51] This is the sum of the children of Israel, that were reckoned up,
six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty. [52] And the
Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [53] To these shall the land be divided
for their possessions according to the number of names. [54] To the
greater number thou shalt give a greater portion, and to the fewer a
less: to every one, as they have now been reckoned up, shall a
possession be delivered: [55] Yet so that by lot the land be divided to
the tribe and families.
[56] Whatsoever shall fall by lot, that shall be taken by the more, or
the fewer. [57] This also is the number of the sons of Levi by their
families: Gerson, of whom is the family of the Gersonites: Caath, of
whom is the family of the Caathites: Merari, of whom is the family of
the Merarites. [58] These are the families of Levi: The family of
Lobni, the family of Hebroni, the family of Moholi, the family of Musi,
the family of Core. Now Caath beget Amram: [59] Who had to wife
Jochabed the daughter of Levi, who was horn to him in Egypt. She bore
to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses, and Mary their sister. [60]
Of Aaron were born Nadab and Abiu, and Eleazar and Ithamar:
[61] Of whom Nadab and Abiu died, when they had offered the strange
fire before the Lord. [62] And all that were numbered, were
twenty-three thousand males from one month old and upward: for they
were not reckoned up among the children of Israel, neither was a
possession given to them with the rest. [63] This is the number of the
children of Israel, that were enrolled by Moses and Eleazar the priest,
in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan, over against Jericho. [64] Among
whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and
Aaron in the desert of Sinai. [65] For the Lord had foretold that they
should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the
son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.
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Chapter 27 - verses 1-23 have been
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[1] Then came the daughters of Salphaad, the son of Hepher, the son of
Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, who was the son of
Joseph: and their names are Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and
Thersa. [2] And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all
the princes of the people at the door of the tabernacle of the
covenant, and said: [3] Our father died in the desert, and was not in
the sedition, that was raised against the Lord under Core, but he died
in his own sin: and he had no male children. Why is his name taken away
out of his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among
the kinsmen of our father. [4] And Moses referred their cause to the
judgment of the Lord. [5] And the Lord said to him:
[6] The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a
possession among their father's kindred, and let them succeed him in
his inheritance. [7] And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak
these things: [8] When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall
pass to his daughter. [9] If he have no daughter, his brethren shall
succeed him. [10] And if he have no brethren, you shall give the
inheritance to his father's brethren.
[11] But if he have no uncles by the father, the inheritance shall be
given to them that are the next akin. And this shall be to the children
of Israel sacred by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded Moses.
[12] The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into this mountain Abarim, and
view from thence the land which I will give to the children of Israel.
[13] And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also shalt go to thy
people, as thy brother Aaron is gone: [14] Because you offended me in
the desert of Sin in the contradiction of the multitude, neither would
you sanctify me before them at the waters. These are the waters of
contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin. [15] And Moses answered
him:
[16] May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man,
that may be over this multitude: [17] And may go out and in before
them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the
Lord be as sheep without a shepherd. [18] And the Lord said to him:
Take Josue the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and put thy
hand upon him. [19] And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest and
all the multitude: [20] And thou shalt give him precepts in the sight
of all, and part of thy glory, that all the congregation of the
children of Israel may hear him.
[21] If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the
Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest
of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word. [22] Moses did as
the Lord had commanded. And when he had taken Josue, he set him before
Eleazar the priest, and all the assembly of the people, [23] And laying
his hands on his head, he repeated all things that the Lord had
commanded.
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Chapter 28 - verses 1-31 have been
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[1] The Lord also said to Moses: [2] Command the children of Israel,
and thou shalt say to them: Offer ye my oblation and my bread, and
burnt sacrifice of most sweet odour, in their due seasons. [3] These
are the sacrifices which you shall offer: Two lambs of a year old
without blemish every day for the perpetual holocaust: [4] One you
shall offer in the morning, and the other in the evening: [5] And the
tenth part of an ephi of flour, which shall be tempered with the purest
oil, of the measure of the fourth part of a hin.
[6] It is the continual holocaust which you offered in mount Sinai for
a most sweet. odour of a sacrifice by fire to the Lord. [7] And for a
libation you shall offer of wine the fourth part of a hin for every
lamb in the sanctuary of the Lord. [8] And you shall offer the other
lamb in like manner ill the evening according to all the rites of the
morning sacrifice, and of the libations thereof, an oblation of most
sweet odour to the Lord. [9] And on the sabbath day you shall offer two
lambs of a year old without blemish, and two tenths of flour tempered
with oil in sacrifice, and the libations, [10] Which regularly are
poured out every sabbath for the perpetual holocaust.
[11] And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to
the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year
old, without blemish, [12] And three tenths of flour tempered with oil
in sacrifice for every calf: and two tenths of flour tempered with oil
for every ram: [13] And the tenth of a tenth of flour tempered with oil
in sacrifice for every lamb. It is a holocaust of most sweet odour and
an offering by fire to the Lord. [14] And these shall be the libations
of wine that are to be poured out for every victim: Half a hin for
every calf, a third for a ram, and a fourth for a lamb. This shall be
the holocaust for every month, as they succeed one another in the
course of the year. [15] A buck goat also shall be offered to the Lord
for a sin offering over and above the perpetual holocaust with its
libations.
[16] And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall
be the phase of the Lord, [17] And on the fifteenth day the solemn
feast: seven days shall they eat unleavened bread. [18] And the first
day of them shall be venerable and holy: you shall not do any servile
work therein. [19] And you shall offer a burnt sacrifice a holocaust to
the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old,
without blemish: [20] And for the sacrifices of every one three tenths
of flour which shall be tempered with oil to every calf, and two tenths
to every ram,
[21] And the tenth of a tenth, to every lamb, that is to say, to all
the seven lambs: [22] And one buck goat for sin, to make atonement for
you, [23] Besides the morning holocaust which you shall always offer.
[24] So shall you do every day of the seven days for the food of the
fire, and for a most sweet odour to the Lord, which shall rise from the
holocaust, and from the libations of each. [25] The seventh day also
shall be most solemn and holy unto you: you shall do no servile work
therein.
[26] The day also of firstfruits, when after the weeks are
accomplished, you shall offer new fruits to the Lord, shall be
venerable and holy: you shall do no servile work therein. [27] And you
shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, two calves
of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:
[28] And in the sacrifices of them three tenths of flour tempered with
oil to every calf, two to every ram, [29] The tenth of a tenth to every
lamb, which in all are seven lambs: a buck goat also, [30] Which is
slain for expiation: besides the perpetual holocaust and the libations
thereof.
[31] You shall offer them all without blemish with their libations.
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Chapter 29 - verses 1-39 have been
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[1] The first day also of the seventh month shall be venerable and holy
unto you; you shall do no servile work therein, because it is the day
of the sounding and of trumpets. [2] And you shall offer a holocaust
for a most sweet odour to the Lord, one calf of the herd, one ram and
seven lambs of a year old, without blemish. [3] And for their
sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil to every calf, two
tenths to a ram, [4] One tenth to a lamb, which in all are seven lambs:
[5] And a buck goat for sin, which is offered for the expiation of the
people,
[6] Besides the holocaust of the first day of the month with the
sacrifices thereof, and the perpetual holocaust with the accustomed
libations. With the same ceremonies you shall offer a burnt sacrifice
for a most sweet odour to the Lord. [7] The tenth day also of this
seventh month shall be holy and venerable unto you, and you shall
afflict your souls: you shall do no servile work therein. [8] And you
shall offer a holocaust to the Lord for a most sweet odour, one calf of
the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish: [9]
And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil to
every calf, two tenths to a ram, [10] The tenth of a tenth to every
lamb, which are in all seven lambs:
[11] And a buck goat for sin, besides the things that are wont to be
offered for sin, for expiation, and for the perpetual holocaust with
their sacrifice and libations. [12] And on the fifteenth day of the
seventh month, which shall be unto you holy and venerable, you shall do
no servile work, but shall celebrate a solemnity to the Lord seven
days. [13] And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to
the Lord, thirteen calves of the herd, two rams, and fourteen lambs of
a year old, without blemish: [14] And for their libations three tenths
of flour tempered with oil to every calf, being in all thirteen calves:
and two tenths to each ram, being two rams, [15] And the tenth of a
tenth to every lamb, being in all fourteen lambs:
[16] And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the
sacrifice and the libation thereof. [17] On the second day you shall
offer twelve calves of the herd, two rams and fourteen lambs of a year
old, without blemish: [18] And the sacrifices and the libations for
every one, for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall
duly celebrate: [19] And a buck goat for a sin offering besides the
perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof. [20]
The third day you shall offer eleven calves, two rams, and fourteen
lambs of a year old, without blemish:
[21] And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves
and for the rams and for the lambs you shall offer according to the
rite: [22] And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust,
and the sacrifice, and the libation thereof. [23] The fourth day you
shall offer tell calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old,
without blemish: [24] And the sacrifices and the libations of every one
for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate
in right manner: [25] And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual
holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.
[26] The fifth day you shall offer nine calves, two rams, and fourteen
lambs of a year old, without blemish: [27] And the sacrifices and the
libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the
lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite: [28] And a buck goat
for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the
libation thereof. [29] The sixth day you shall offer eight calves, two
rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish: [30] And the
sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the
rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:
[31] And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the
sacrifice and the libation thereof. [32] The seventh day you shall
offer seven calves and two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old,
without blemish: [33] And the sacrifices and the libations of every one
for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate
according to the rite: [34] And a buck goat for sin, besides the
perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof. [35]
On the eighth day, which is moat solemn, you shall do no servile work:
[36] But you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the
Lord, one calf, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without
blemish: [37] And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the
calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according
to the rite: [38] And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual
holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof. [39] These
things shall you offer to the Lord in your solemnities: besides your
vows and voluntary oblations for holocaust, for sacrifice, for
libation, and for victims of peace offerings.
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Chapter 30 - verses 1-17 have been
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[1] And Moses told the children of Israel all that the Lord had
commanded him: [2] And he said to the princes of the tribes of the
children of Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: [3]
If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall
not make his word void but shall fulfill all that he promised. [4] If a
woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in her father's
house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the vow that she
hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her soul, and held
his peace, she shall be bound by the vow: [5] Whatsoever she promised
and swore, she shall fulfill in deed.
[6] But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid it,
both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound
to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it. [7] If she
have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once going out of
her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath: [8] The day that her husband
shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow, and
shall give whatsoever she promised. [9] But if as soon as he heareth he
gainsay it, and make her promises and the words wherewith she had bound
her soul of no effect: the Lord will forgive her. [10] The widow, and
she that is divorced, shall fulfill whatsoever they vow.
[11] If the wife in the house of her husband, hath bound herself by vow
and by oath, [12] If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not
disallow the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised.
[13] But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not be bound by the
promise: because her husband gainsaid it, and the Lord will be merciful
to her. [14] If she vow and bind herself by oath, to afflict her soul
by fasting, or abstinence from other things, it shall depend on the
will of her husband, whether she shall do it, or not do it. [15] But if
the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind
till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall
fulfill: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace.
[16] But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her
iniquity. [17] These are the laws which the Lord appointed to Moses
between the husband and the wife, between the father and the daughter
that is as yet but a girl in age, or that abideth in her father's house.
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Chapter 31 - verses 1-54 have been
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[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [2] Revenge first the children
of Israel on the Madianites, and so thou shalt be gathered to thy
people. [3] And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may
take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites. [4] Let a thousand men
be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war. [5] And
they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand
men well appointed for battle.
[6] And Moses sent them with Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest, and
he delivered to him the holy vessels, and the trumpets to sound. [7]
And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them,
they slew all the men. [8] And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and
Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beer
they killed with the sword. [9] And they took their women, and their
children captives, and all their cattle, and all their goods: and all
their possessions they plundered: [10] And all their cities, and their
villages, and castles, they burned.
[11] And they carried away the booty, and all that they had taken both
of men and of beasts. [12] And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar
the priest, and to all the multitude of the children of Israel. But the
rest of the things for use they carried to the camp on the plains of
Moab, beside the Jordan over against Jericho. [13] And Moses and
Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the synagogue went forth to
meet them without the camp. [14] And Moses being angry with the chief
officers of the army, the tribunes, and the centurions that were come
from the battle, [15] Said: Why have you saved the women?
[16] Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the
counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin
of Phogor, for which also the people was punished? [17] Therefore kill
all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death
the women, that have carnally known men. [18] But the girls, and all
the women that are virgins save for yourselves: [19] And stay without
the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man, or touched one that is
killed, shall be purified the third day and the seventh day. [20] And
of all the spoil, every garment, or vessel, or any thing made for use,
of the skins, or hair of goats, or of wood, shall be purified.
[21] Eleazar also the priest spoke to the men of the army, that had
fought, in this manner: This is the ordinance of the law, which the
Lord hath commanded Moses: [22] Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron,
and lend, and tin, [23] And all that may pass through the fire, shall
be purified by fire, but whatsoever cannot abide the fire, shall be
sanctified with the water of expiation: [24] And you shall wash your
garments the seventh day, and being purified, you shall afterwards
enter into the camp. [25] And the Lord said to Moses:
[26] Take the sum of the things that were taken both of man and beast,
thou and Eleazar the priest and the princes of the multitude: [27] And
thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that fought and went
out to the war, and between the rest of the multitude. [28] And thou
shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that fought and were in
the battle, one soul of five hundred as well of persons as of oxen and
asses and sheep. [29] And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest,
because they are the firstfruits of the Lord. [30] Out of the moiety
also of the children of Israel thou shalt take the fiftieth head of
persons, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of all beasts, and thou
shalt give them to the Levites that watch in the charge of the
tabernacle of the Lord.
[31] And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded. [32] And the
spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred seventy-five thousand
sheep, [33] Seventy-two thousand oxen, [34] Sixty-one thousand asses:
[35] And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not
known men.
[36] And one half was given to them that had been in the battle, to
wit, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep: [37] Out
of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six hundred
seventy-five sheep. [38] And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen,
seventy-two oxen: [39] Out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses,
sixty-one asses: [40] Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell
to the portion of the Lord, thirty-two souls.
[41] And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to
Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,[42] Out of the half of
the children of Israel, which he had separated for them that had been
in the battle. [43] But out of the half that fell to the rest of the
multitude, that is to say, out of the three hundred thirty-seven
thousand five hundred sheep, [44] And out of the thirty-six thousand
oxen, [45] And out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses,
[46] And out of the sixteen thousand persons, [47] Moses took the
fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites that watched in the
tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded. [48] And when the
commanders of the army, and the tribunes and centurions were come to
Moses, they said: [49] We thy servants have reckoned up the number of
the fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and not so much as one
was wanting. [50] Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold
every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings
and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.
[51] And Moses and Eleazar the priest received all the gold in divers
kinds, [52] In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles,
from the tribunes and from the centurions. [53] For that which every
one had taken in the booty was his own. [54] And that which was
received they brought into the tabernacle of the testimony, for a
memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.
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[1] And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their
substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer
and Galaad fit for feeding cattle, [2] They came to Moses and Eleazar
the priest, and the princes of the multitude, and said: [3] Ataroth,
and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale, and Saban, and
Nebo, and Beon, [4] The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the
sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding
of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle: [5] And we pray
thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou give it to us thy
servants in possession, and make us not pass over the Jordan.
[6] And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, and
will you sit here? [7] Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of
Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord
hath given them? [8] Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from
Cadesbarne to view the land? [9] And when they were come as far as the
valley of the cluster, having viewed all the country, they overturned
the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not enter into
the coasts, which the Lord gave them. [10] And he swore in his anger,
saying:
[11] If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and
upward, shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not follow me, [12] Except Caleb
the son of Jephone the Cenezite, and Josue the son of Nun: these have
fulfilled my will. [13] And the Lord being angry against Israel, led
them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation,
that had done evil in his sight, was consumed. [14] And behold, said
he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and
offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against
Israel. [15] For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people
in the wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of
all.
[16] But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls
for our cattle, and strong cities for our children: [17] And we
ourselves will go armed and ready for battle before the children of
Israel, until we bring them in unto their places. Our little ones, and
all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear of the ambushes of the
inhabitants. [18] We will not return into our houses until the children
of Israel possess their inheritance: [19] Neither will we seek any
thing beyond the Jordan, because we have already our possession on the
east side thereof, [20] And Moses said to them: If you do what you
promise, go on well appointed for war before the Lord:
[21] And let every fighting man pass over the Jordan, until the Lord
overthrow his enemies: [22] And all the land be brought under him, then
shall you be blameless before the Lord and before Israel, and you shall
obtain the countries that you desire, before the Lord. [23] But if you
do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin against God: and know
ye, that your sin shall overtake you. [24] Build therefore cities for
your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and
accomplish what you have promised. [25] And the children of Gad and
Ruben said to Moses: We are thy servants, we will do what my lord
commandeth.
[26] We will leave our children, and our wives and sheep and cattle, in
the cities of Galaad: [27] And we thy servants all well appointed will
march on to the war, as thou, my lord, speakest. [28] Moses therefore
commanded Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes
of the families of all the tribes of Israel, and said to them: [29] If
the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben pass with you over the
Jordan, all armed for war before the Lord, and the land be made subject
to you: give them Galaad in possession. [30] But if they will not pass
armed with you into the land of Chanaan, let them receive places to
dwell in among you.
[31] And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As
the Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do: [32] We will go
armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and we confess that we
have already received our possession beyond the Jordan. [33] Moses
therefore gave to the children of Cad and of Ruben, and to the half
tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king of the
Amorrhites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, and their land and the
cities thereof round about. [34] And the sons of Cad built Dibon, and
Ataroth, and Aroer, [35] And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer, and Jegbaa,
[36] And Bethnemra, and Betharan, fenced cities, and folds for their
cattle. [37] But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale, and
Cariathaim, [38] And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and
Sabama: giving names to the cities which they had built. [39] Moreover
the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, went into Galaad, and
wasted it, cutting off the Amorrhites, the inhabitants thereof. [40]
And Moses gave the land of Galaad to Machir the son of Manasses, and he
dwelt in it.
[41] And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the villages thereof,
and he called them Havoth Jair, that is to say, the villages of Jair.
[42] Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and he
called it by his own name, Nobe.
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Chapter 33 - verses 1-56 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] These are the mansions of the children of Israel, who went out of
Egypt by their troops under the conduct of Moses and Aaron, [2] Which
Moses wrote down according to the places of their encamping, which they
changed by the commandment of the Lord. [3] Now the children of Israel
departed from Ramesses the first month, on the fifteenth day of the
first month, the day after the phase, with a mighty hand, in the eight
of all the Egyptians, [4] Who were burying their firstborn, whom the
Lord had slain (upon their gods also he had executed vengeance,) [5]
And they camped in Soccoth.
[6] And from Soccoth they came into Etham, which is in the uttermost
borders of the wilderness. [7] Departing from thence they came over
against Phihahiroth, which looketh towards Beelsephon, and they camped
before Magdalum. [8] And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed
through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and having marched
three days through the desert of Etham, they camped in Mara. [9] And
departing from Mara, they came into Elim, where there were twelve
fountains of waters, and seventy palm trees: and there they camped.
[10] But departing from thence also, they pitched their tents by the
Red Sea. And departing from the Red Sea,
[11] They camped in the desert of Sin. [12] And they removed from
thence, and came to Daphca. [13] And departing from Daphca, they camped
in Alus. [14] And departing from Alus, they pitched their tents in
Raphidim, where the people wanted water to drink. [15] And departing
from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai.
[16] But departing also from the desert of Sinai, they came to the
graves of lust. [17] And departing from the graves of lust, they camped
in Haseroth. [18] And from Haseroth they came to Rethma. [19] And
departing from Rethma, they camped in Remmomphares. [20] And they
departed from thence and came to Lebna.
[21] Removing from Lebna they camped in Ressa. [22] And departing from
Ressa, they came to Ceelatha. [23] And they removed from thence and
camped in the mountain Sepher. [24] Departing from the mountain Sepher,
they came to Arada. [25] From thence they went and camped in Maceloth.
[26] And departing from Maceloth, they came to Thahath. [27] Removing
from Thahath they camped in Thare. [28] And they departed from thence,
and pitched their tents in Methca. [29] And removing from Methca, they
camped in Hesmona. [30] And departing from Hesmona, they came to
Moseroth.
[31] And removing from Moseroth, they camped in Benejaacan. [32] And
departing from Benejaacan, they came to mount Gadgad. [33] From thence
they went and camped in Jetebatha. [34] And from Jetebatha they came to
Hebrona. [35] And departing from Hebrona, they camped in Asiongaber.
[36] They removed from thence and came into the desert of Sin, which is
Cades. [37] And departing from Cades, they camped in mount Her, in the
uttermost borders of the land of Edom. [38] And Aaron the priest went
up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord: and there he died in
the fortieth year of the coming forth of the children of Israel out of
Egypt, the fifth month, the first day of the month, [39] When he was a
hundred and twenty-three years old. [40] And king Arad the Chanaanite,
who dwelt towards the south, heard that the children of Israel were
come to the land of Chanaan.
[41] And they departed from mount Her, and camped in Salmona. [42] From
whence they removed and came to Phunon. [43] And departing from Phunon,
they camped in Oboth. [44] And from Oboth they came to Ijeabarim, which
is in the borders of the Moabites. [45] And departing from Ijeabarim
they pitched their tents in Dibongab.
[46] From thence they went and camped in Helmondeblathaim. [47] And
departing from Helmondeblathaim, they came to the mountains of Abarim
over against Nabo. [48] And departing from the mountains of Abarim,
they passed to the plains of Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho.
[49] And there they camped from Bethsi moth even to Ablesatim in the
plains of the Moabites, [50] Where the Lord said to Moses:
[51] Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you shall
have passed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan, [52]
Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: beat down their pillars, and
break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places, [53]
Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a
possession. [54] And you shall divide it among you by lot. To the more
you shall give a larger part, and to the fewer a lesser. To every one
as the lot shall fall, so shall the inheritance be given. The
possession shall be divided by the tribes and the families. [55] But if
you will not kill the inhabitants of the land: they that remain, shall
be unto you as nails in your eyes, and spears in your sides, and they
shall be your adversaries in the land of your habitation.
[56] And whatsoever I had thought to do to them, I will do to you.
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Chapter 34 - verses 1-28 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: [2] Command the children of
Israel, and then shalt say to them: When you are entered into the land
of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into your possession by lot, it
shall be bounded by these limits: [3] The south side shall begin from
the wilderness of Sin, which is by Edom: and shall have the most salt
sea for its furthest limits eastward: [4] Which limits shall go round
on the south side by the ascent of the Scorpion and so into Senna, and
reach toward the south as far as Cadesbarne, from whence the frontiers
shall go out to the town called Adar, and shall reach as far as
Asemona. [5] And the limits shall fetch a compass from Asemona to the
torrent of Egypt, and shall end in the shore of the great sea.
[6] And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same
shall be the end thereof. [7] But toward the north side the borders
shall begin from the great sea, reaching to the most high mountain, [8]
From which they shall come to Emath, as far as the borders of Sedada:
[9] And the limits shall go as far as Zephrona, and the village of
Enan. These shall be the borders on the north side. [10] From thence
they shall mark out the bounds towards the east side from the village
of Enan unto Sephama.
[11] And from Sephama the bounds shall go down to Rebla over against
the fountain of Daphnis: from thence they shall come eastward to the
sea of Cenereth, [12] And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the
last shall be closed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land
with its borders round about. [13] And Moses commanded the children of
Israel, saying: This shall be the land which you shall possess by lot,
and which the Lord hath commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and
to the half tribe. [14] For the tribe of the children of Ruben by their
families, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the number
of their kindreds, and half of the tribe of Manasses, [15] That is, two
tribes and a half, have received their portion beyond the Jordan over
against Jericho at the east side.
[16] And the Lord said to Moses: [17] These are the names of the men,
that shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Josue the
son of Nun, [18] And one prince of every tribe, [19] Whose names are
these: Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone. [20] Of the
tribe of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammiud.
[21] Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chaselon. [22] Of the
tribe of the children of Dan, Bocci the son of Jogli. [23] Of the
children of Joseph of the tribe of Manasses, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
[24] Of the tribe of Ephraim, Camuel the son of Sephtan. [25] Of the
tribe of Zabulon, Elisaphan the son of Pharnach.
[26] Of the tribe of Issachar, Phaltiel the prince, the son of Ozan.
[27] Of the tribe of Aser, Ahiud the son of Salomi. [28] Of the tribe
of Nephtali: Phedael the son of Ammiud. [29] These are they whom the
Lord hath commanded to divide the land of Chanaan to the children of
Israel.
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Chapter 35 - verses 1-34 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of Moab
by the Jordan, over against Jericho: [2] Command the children of Israel
that they give to the Levites out of their possessions, [3] Cities to
dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the
towns, and the suburbs may be for their cattle and beasts: [4] Which
suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand
paces on every side: [5] Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits:
and toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits:
toward the sea also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same
extent: and the north side shall be bounded with the like limits. And
the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without.
[6] And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six
shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood
may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two
cities, [7] That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs. [8] And of
these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the
children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken: and
from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Levites
according to the extent of their inheritance. [9] The Lord said to
Moses: [10] Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to
them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan into the land of
Chanaan,
[11] Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who
have shed blood against their will. [12] And when the fugitive shall be
in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill
him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged. [13]
And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives,
[14] Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of
Chanaan, [15] As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and
sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his
will.
[16] If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall
be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die. [17] If he throw a
stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be punished in the same
manner. [18] If he that is struck with wood die: he shall be revenged
by the blood of him that struck him. [19] The kinsman of him that was
slain, shall kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he
shall kill him. [20] If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any
thing at him with ill design:
[21] Or being his enemy, strike; him with his hand, and he die: the
striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as
soon as he findeth him, shall kill him. [22] But if by chance medley,
and without hatred, [23] And enmity, he do any of these things, [24]
And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be
debated between him that struck, and the next of kin: [25] The innocent
shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought
back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall
abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with
the holy oil.
[26] If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are
appointed for the banished, [27] And be struck by him that is the
avenger of blood: he shall not be guilty that killed him. [28] For the
fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the high
priest: and after he is dead, then shall the manslayer return to his
own country. [29] These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance
in all your dwellings. [30] The murderer shall be punished by
witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.
[31] You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he
shall die forthwith. [32] The banished and fugitives before the death
of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities. [33]
Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood
of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood
that hath shed the blood of another. [34] And thus shall your
possession he cleansed, myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that
dwell among the children of Israel.
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Chapter 36 - verses 1-13 have been
omitted from the Mass readings.
[1] And the princes of the families of Galaad, the son of Machir, the
son of Manasses, of the stock Of the children of Joseph, came and spoke
to Moses before the princes of Israel, and said: [2] The Lord hath
commanded thee, my lord, that thou shouldst divide the land by lot to
the children of Israel, and that thou shouldst give to the daughters of
Salphaad our brother the possession due to their father: [3] Now if men
of another tribe take them to wives, their possession will follow them,
and being transferred to another tribe, will be a diminishing of our
inheritance. [4] And so it shall come to pass, that when the jubilee,
that is, the fiftieth year of remission, is come, the distribution made
by the lots shall be confounded, and the possession of the one shall
pass to the others. [5] Moses answered the children of Israel, and said
by the command of the Lord: The tribe of the children of Joseph hath
spoken rightly.
[6] And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the daughters
of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that it be to
men of their own tribe. [7] Lest the possession of the children of
Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of
their own tribe and kindred: [8] And all women shall take husbands of
the same tribe: that the inheritance may remain in the families, [9]
And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain so [10]
As they were separated by the Lord. And the daughters of Salphaad did
as was commanded:
[11] And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Noa were married
to the sons of their uncle by their father, [12] Of the family of
Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and the possession that had been
allotted to them, remained in the tribe and family of their father.
[13] These are the commandments and judgments, which the Lord commanded
by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab
upon the Jordan over against Jericho.
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