31 V And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

33 And they that found him gathering sticks, brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

34. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what mould be done to him.

35 And the Lord said unto Moses, The man (hall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with ltones without the camp.

36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

37 fl And the Lor D spake unto Moses, saying,

38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments, throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:

39 Anditfhallbeuntoyouforafringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember ail the commandments of the Lo R D, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart, and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

41 I am the Lor n your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to beyourGod: I am the Lord your God.

CHAP. XVI. 1 Therebellionof'Korah,is'c: 31 Hispunijhment. 41 A plague, 4.6 flayed by Aaron.

NOW Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi; and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Kt u 1.1*11, took men .

2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:

3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lo Rdm among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation ot the Lor D?

4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face.

5 And he spake unto Korah, and unto

all his company, saying.Even tomorro\ the Lord will mew v/hoare his, and ivA is holy j and will cause him to come nea untohinv. even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him .

6 This do j Take you censers, Korah and all his company;

7 And put fire therein, and put in ■ cense in them before the Lord to morrow: and it shall be that the man whorr the Lo R D doth choose, he/hall be holy :yi take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi

8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:

9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation, to minister unto them?

10 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?

11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord; and what it Aaron, that ye murmur against him?

11 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:

13// it a small thing that thou hast: brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

14. Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

15 AndMoseswas very wroth,and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken oneass from them, neither have I hurt one of them. 16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the Lord, thou, and they, and Aaron to morrow:

17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the Lord every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers j thou also, and Aaron, each of you. his censer.

18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid in cense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.

19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation t

y and

Aaron's rod buddeth.

unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was ltayed.

CHAP. XVII.

■ i Aaron's rod budding, io is laid up for a

monument.

AN D the Lord spake unto Moses, faying,

i Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the houie of their fathers, of all their princes according to the luuse of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.

. 5 And thou (halt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one m&Jhall be for the head of the houie of their father*.

+And thou (halt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.

5 And it mall come to pals, that the man's rod, whom I (hall choose, (hall blossom: and I will make to ceale from me the murmurings of the children of I frael, whereby they murmur against you.

6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their .princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one according to their fathers houies,' e<uen twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron voas among their rods.

7 And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord, in the tabernacle of witness.

8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moles went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

9 And Moles brought out all the rods from before the Lor U unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

To <J And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou slialt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

ii And Moses did/o: as the Lord commanded him, so did be.

ix And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perilh, we all per fin.

15 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord (hull die: mall we be consumed with dying?

CHAP. XVIII. i The ekurge of the priests and Levites. 9 The priests', 21 and the Le vises' portion.

AND the Lo R u (hid unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house

with thee (hall bear the iniquity of t sanctuary: and thou and thy Ions v i thee lhall bear the iniquity of yo priesthood.

z And thy brethren also of the tribe Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring tli with thee, that they may be joined un thee, and minister unto thee: but tlv and thy sons with thee jhail minister tj fore the tabernacle of witness.

3 And they (hall keep thy-charge, aj the charge of all the tabernacle: or they (hall not come nigh the vessels the lanctuary and the altar, that neitl: they, nor ye also, die.

4 And they (hall be. joined unto th< and keep the charge of the tabernacle the congregation, for all the service the tabernacle: and a stranger (hall n come nigh unto you.

5 And ye (hall keep the charge of t sanctuary, and the charge of the alta that there be no wrath any more up< the children of Israel.

6 And I, behold, I have taken yo brethren the Levites from among t, children of IIrat1: to you they are givi at a gift for the Lord, todotheservi of the tabernacle of the congregation

7 Therefore thou and thy sons wi thee lhall keep your priest's office i every thing of the altar and within t] vail; and ye shall serve: I have givi your priest's office unto you as a servi of gift: and the stranger that come nigh lhall be put to death.

8 And the Lord lake unto Aaro Behold, I also have given thee the char; of mine heave offerings of all the ha lowetl things of the children of Ifrae unto thee have I given them by reati of the anointing, and to thy sons, by: ordinance for ever.

9 f[ This (hall be thine of the most h o things, reserved from the fire : every ol lation of their's, every meat offering their's, and every sin offering of their' and every trelpass offering of theii which they (hall render unto me, jht be most holy for thee and for thy ibi><

10 In the most holy place (halt thou c it; every male (hall eat it: it shall 1 holy unto thee.

11 And this is thine; the heave offe ing of their gift, with all the wave otic ings of the children of Israel: I ha' given them unto thee, and to thy soi and to thy daughters with thee, by statute for ever: every one that is clc: in thy house (hall eat os it.

i» All the best of the oil, and all ti best of the wine, and of the wheat, t) T»!rif|i' a*i Chap

teats of them which thev shall offer

\s it lo Ib, them have I given thee.

•j idW&iUoever is first ripe in the

esc, «\k.U they shall bring unto the

i!£0,ikiiVot thine; every one that is

æi c thine house shall eit of it.

uE«ry thing devoted in Israel shall kSsse.

15 Ewry thing that openeth the ma3tj in il flesh, which tiiey bring unto isLat o,iuhtther it be of men or bealts, £aii be thine: nevertheless the firstxre of man shalt thou surely redeem, ai tie firstling of unclean beasts shalt iaa redeem.

i5 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, acrerding to thine estimation, for the money c€ fire shekels, after the shekel of iae fanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 1- But the firstling of a cow, or the Jrtiing os a sheep, or the firstling of a gsar, taou shalt not redeem; they are hoi}-: tsoo shalt sprinkle their blood Bice the altar, and (halt burn their fat sa" in offering made by she, for a sweet arour unto the Lord.

18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, a the wave breast and as the right iocider are thine.

19 AU the heave offerings of the holy iirji, which the children of Israel efc unto the Lord, have I given thee, fid thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a fritute for ever: it is a corrn rat of salt for ever before the Lord into the? and to thy seed with thee.

to And the Lo R D spake unto Aaron, Thou /halt have no inheritance in their trad, neither shalt thou have any part anemg them: 1 am thy part and thine aberitance among the children of IsrmL

11 ft And, behold, I have given the caildren of Levi all the tenth in Israel 'or an inheritance, for their service »hkb they serve, even the service of the abenriclc of the congregation.

11 Neither must the children of Israel -tocesorth come nigh the tabernacle os ">< congregation, lest they bear sin, ad die.

_*3 But the Levites shall do the service * the tabernacle of the congregation, iadthey shall bear their iniquity: it /hall & a statute for ever throughout your joierarions, that among the children of i«ti they have no inheritance.

14 Bat the tithes of the children of Ifriej, which they offer as an heave offering unto the Lo Id, I have given to

^ Crvites to inherit: therefore I have

. xix. the Levitts' portion.

said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

25 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

16 Thus speak unto the Levites, and fay unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the Lo R D , even a tenth part ot the tithe. .

17 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though // ivefe the corn of the threfhingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepre/s.

18 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the Lord of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the Lord's heaveofrcringtoAaron the priest.

29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.

joTherefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threfhingfloor, and as the increase os the winepress. '■"

31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your housholds: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

32 And ye (hall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: naither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, left ye die.

CHAP. XIX.

1 The 'water of separation. 11 The use os

it J or purification of the unclean.

AND the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, laying,

2 This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, faying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

3 And ye (hall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:

4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:

5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, sliall he burn:

6 And the priest shall take cedar wood

The law offuriftcatkt

und hyssop, and scarlet, and cist ;'/ into the midst of tlie burning of the heifer.

7 Then the priest sliall wasli his clothes, and he mall bathe his stem in water, and afterward he sliall come into the camp, and the priest sliall be unclean until the even.

8 And he that burneth her, mail wasti his clothes in water, and bathe his nefh in water, and midi be unclean until the even.

9 And a man that is clean mall gather up the aslies of the heifer, and lay them Up without the camp in n clean place, and it sliall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of Separation: it w a purification for (in.

10 And he that gathereto the assies os the heifer, (hall wasli his clothes and be unclean until the even: and it sliall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

ii fl He that toucheth the dead body os any man, sliall be unclean seven days.

i» He ihall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day -he sliall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he sliall not be clean.

i j Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any "man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle os the Lord; and that soul sliall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation wa9 not (prinkled upon him, he sliall be unclean j his undeanness is yet upon him.

i+ This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, sliall be unclean seven days.

15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword iu the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, sliall be unclean seven days.

17 And for an unclean person they shall take of die allies of the burnt heifer of purification for fin, and running water sliall be put thereto in a vessel:

18 And a clean person (hall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

19 And the clean person (hall sprinkle upon the unclean on the t'nirdday, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh dsy he (hall purify himself, and wasti bis

clothes, and bathe himself in water,; lhall be clean at even.

10 But the man that lhall be unck and sliall not purify himself, that 1 sliall be cut off from among the con< gation, because he hath defiled sanctuary of the Lord: the watei separation hath not been sprinkled u him; he it unclean.

11 And it sliall be a perpetual stai unto them, that he that iprinklcth water of separation (hall wain his clotl and he that toucheth the water of it ration (hall be unclean until even.

11 And whatsover the unclean fe toucheth mall be unclean; and the i that toucheth it sliall be unclean u: even.

CHAP. XX. 7 Moses br'mgcth ivater out of the r<

14. Passage through Edom denied.

Aaron's death.

THEN came the children of Isr even the whole congregation, i the desert of Zin in the first month: t the people abode in Kadesli; andMiri died there, and was buried there.

s And there was no water for congregation: and they gathered th« selves together against Moses and aga Aaron.

3 And the people chode with Mo and spake, saying, Would God that had died when our brethren died bef the Lord!

4 And why have ye brought up congregation of the Lord into this v derness, that we aud our cattle (ho die there i

5 And wherefore have ye made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us in'. to this evil place ? it is no place of feed of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranat neither is there any water to drink.

6 And Moses and Aaron went from presence os the assembly unto the d< of the tabernacle of the congregati and they fell upon their faces: and glory of the Lor D appeared unto tlie

7 ttf And the Lo R D spake unto Moi saying,

8 Take the rod, and gather thou 1 assembly together, thou, and-Aarcn I brother, and speak ye unto die rock 1 sore their eyes; and it sliall give fortn water, and thou (halt bring forth to th water out of the rock: so "thou (halt g the congregation and their beasts dm

9 And Moses took the rod from bet< the Lord, as he commanded him.

10 And Moses and Aaron gatiie'

the congregation togedier

before

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