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        [
            "And Adonoy spoke to Moshe in the Sinai desert, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first [day] of the second month, in the second year of their exodus from the land of Egypt, saying:",
            "Take a head count [<b>the sum</b>] of the entire congregation of Bnei Yisroel according to their families to the house of their fathers counting the names of all males individually.",
            "From twenty years old and above, all those eligible for the army [<b>who go to war</b>] of Israel, you shall count them according to their divisions, you and Aharon.",
            "Along with you, there shall be one man for each tribe, each man shall be the head of his fathers’ house.",
            "These are the names of the men who shall stand along with you. For [the tribe of] Reuven, Elitzur the son of Shdeiur.",
            "For [the tribe of] Shimon, Shlumiel the son of Tzurishadai.",
            "For [the tribe of] Yehudah, Nachshon the son of Aminadav.",
            "For [the tribe of] Yissachar, Nesanel the son of Tzu’ar.",
            "For [the tribe of] Zevulun, Eliav the son of Cheilon.",
            "For the sons of Yoseif, for [the tribe of] Ephraim, Elishamah the son of Amihud. For [the tribe of] Menasheh, Gamliel the son of Pedahtzur.",
            "For [the tribe of] Binyamin, Avidan the son of Gid’oni.",
            "For [the tribe of] Don, Achiezer the son of Amishadai.",
            "For [the tribe of] Asher, Pagi’el the son of Ochran.",
            "For [the tribe of] Gad, Elyasaf the son of De’uel.",
            "For [the tribe of] Naftali, Achira the son of Einan.",
            "These are the ones called from the congregation, the leaders of their fathers’ tribes; they are the heads of the thousands of Yisroel.",
            "Moshe and Aharon took these men who were designated by name.",
            "They gathered together the entire congregation on the first [day] of the second month and they were registered by family ancestry according to the house of their fathers. according to the number of names each man of twenty years and above; individually.",
            "Just as Adonoy commanded Moshe. He counted them in the Sinai desert.",
            "These were the sons of Reuven, Yisroel’s firstborn, their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers. according to the number of individual names every male of twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their nunbers, for the tribe of Reuven, is forty-six thousand five hundred.",
            "For the sons of Shimon, their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers, his numbers according to the number of individual names every male of twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their numbers, for the tribe of Shimon, is fifty-nine thousand three hundred.",
            "For the sons of Gad, their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers in a counting of names. From twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their numbers, for the tribe of Gad, is forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.",
            "For the sons of Yehudah, their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers, in a counting of names. From twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their numbers, for the tribe of Yehudah, is seventy-four thousand six hundred.",
            "For the sons of Yissachar, their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers, in a counting of names. From twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their numbers, for the tribe of Yissachar is fifty-four thousand four hundred.",
            "For the sons of Zevulun, their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers, in a counting of names from twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their numbers, for the tribe of Zevulun, is fifty-seven thousand four hundred.",
            "For the sons of Yoseif; For the sons of Ephraim their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers, in a counting of names from twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their numbers, for the tribe of Ephraim is forty thousand five hundred.",
            "For the sons of Menashe, their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers, in a counting of names from twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their numbers, for the tribe of Menashe is thirty-two thousand two hundred.",
            "For the sons of Binyamin, their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers, in a counting of names from twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their numbers for the tribe of Binyamin, is thirty-five thousand four hundred.",
            "For the sons of Don, their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers, in a counting of names from twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their numbers, for the tribe of Don, is sixty-two thousand seven hundred.",
            "For the sons of Asher, their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers, in a counting of names from twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their numbers, for the tribe of Asher is forty-one thousand five hundred.",
            "The sons of Naftali, their births according to their families according to the house of their fathers, in a counting of names from twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army.",
            "Their numbers, for the tribe of Naftali is fifty-three thousand four hundred.",
            "These are the numbers which were counted [by] Moshe, Aharon and the leaders of Israel, [being] twelve men, each man was the head of his fathers’ house.",
            "All the numbers of Bnei Yisroel according to the house of their fathers, from twenty years and above, all who go forth into the army of Israel,",
            "All their numbers were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.",
            "The Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "However, the tribe of Levi you shall not count and you shall not take [<b>accept</b>] their head count among Bnei Yisroel.",
            "You shall appoint the Levites to oversee the <i>Mishkon</i> of Testimony and over all of its utensils and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the <i>Mishkon</i> and all its utensils, and they shall administer it, and they shall camp around the <i>Mishkon.</i>",
            "When the <i>Mishkon</i> is to be moved the Levites shall take it down, and when the <i>Mishkon</i> is to rest [in one place] the Levites shall erect it, and the stranger who approaches, shall die.",
            "Bnei Yisroel shall camp, each man at his own camp and each man at his own banner, according to their divisions.",
            "The Levites shall camp around the <i>Mishkon</i> of the Testimony, so that there will not be anger upon the congregation of Bnei Yisroel, and the Levites shall be careful to preserve the <i>Mishkon</i> of Testimony.",
            "Bnei Yisroel did according to all that Adonoy commanded Moshe; they did it [exactly]."
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying;",
            "Each man at his own banner, with the insignia of their fathers’ houses shall Bnei Yisroel encamp, at a distance around the Tent of Meeting they shall encamp.",
            "Those whose camp is in the forefront, on the eastern side is the camp of the banner of Yehudah according to their divisions, and the leader of the sons of Yehudah is Nachshon the son of Aminadav.",
            "Its division and their numbers is seventy-four thousand six hundred.",
            "Those who camp along with [<b>near</b>] him are; the tribe of Yissachar, and the leader of the sons of Yissachar is Nesanel the son of Tzu’ar.",
            "Its division and its numbers is fifty-four thousand four hundred.",
            "The tribe of Zevulun, and the leader of the sons of Zevulun is Eliav the son of Cheilon.",
            "Its division and its numbers is fifty-seven thousand four hundred.",
            "The total numbers for the encampment of Yehudah is one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred according to their divisions, [and] they travel [in the] first [position].",
            "The banner of the camp of Reuven is on the south side, according to their divisions, and the leader of the sons of Reuven is Elitzur the son of Shdeiur.",
            "Its divisions and its numbers is forty-six thousand five hundred.",
            "Those who camp along with him are; the tribe of Shimon, and the leader of the tribe of Shimon is Shlumiel the son of Tzurishadai.",
            "Its division and their numbers is fifty-nine thousand three hundred;",
            "The tribe of Gad, and the leader of the sons of Gad is Elyasaf the son of Re’uel.",
            "Its division and their numbers is forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.",
            "The total numbers for the encampment of Reuven is one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, according to their division, and they travel [in the] second [position].",
            "The Tent of Meeting shall travel [along with] the camp of the Levites in the center of the [other] camps, just as they camp so shall they travel, each man in his place according to their [various] banners.",
            "The banner of the camp of Ephraim, according to their divisions is on the west side, and the leader of the sons of Ephraim is Elishamah the son of Amihud.",
            "Its division and their numbers is forty-thousand five hundred.",
            "Along with [<b>near</b>] him are; the tribe of Menashe, and the leader of the sons of Menashe is Gamliel the son of Pedahtzur.",
            "Its division and their numbers is thirty-two thousand two hundred.",
            "The tribe of Binyamin, and the leader of the sons of Binyamin is Avidan the son of Gid’oni.",
            "Its division and their numbers is thirty-five thousand four hundred.",
            "The total numbers for the camp of Ephraim is one hundred eight thousand one hundred according to their divisions, and they travel [in the] third [position].",
            "The banner of the camp of Don is on the north side according to their divisions, and the leader of the sons of Don is Achiezer the son of Amishadai.",
            "Its division and their numbers is sixty-two thousand seven hundred.",
            "Those who camp with him are; the tribe of Asher, and the leader of the sons of Asher is Pagi’el the son of Ochran.",
            "Its divisions and their numbers is forty-one thousand five hundred.",
            "The tribe of Naftali, and the leader of the sons of Naftali is Achira the son of Einan.",
            "Its divisions and their numbers is fifty-three thousand four hundred.",
            "The total numbers for the encampment of Don is one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred and they travel [in the] last [position] according to their [various] banners.",
            "These are the numbers of Bnei Yisroel according to their fathers’ houses. The total numbers of the camps according to their divisions is six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.",
            "The Levites were not counted among Bnei Yisroel just as Adonoy commanded Moshe.",
            "Bnei Yisroel did all which Adonoy commanded Moshe, so they camped according to their [various] banners and so they traveled, each man with his family according to his fathers’ house."
        ],
        [
            "These are the descendants of Aharon and Moshe on the day that Adonoy spoke to Moshe on Mount Sinai.",
            "These are the names of Aharon’s sons; the firstborn, Nadav, and Avihu, Elazar and Isamar.",
            "These are the names of Aharon’s sons, the anointed <i>kohanim,</i> whose hands are occupied with bringing offerings, to serve [God].",
            "Nadav and Avihu died in the presence of Adonoy, when they offered a strange fire-offering before Adonoy, in the Sinai desert, and they had no sons. [However] Elazar and Isamar served in the presence of their father Aharon.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "Bring the tribe of Levi near and have it stand before Aharon the <i>kohein,</i> and they shall serve him.",
            "They shall take care to preserve his guardianship and the guardianship of the entire congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to serve in the service of the <i>Mishkon.</i>",
            "They shall guard all the utensils of the Tent of Meeting and the watch of Bnei Yisroel to serve in the service of the <i>Mishkon.</i>",
            "You shall place the Levites in the charge of Aharon and his sons; they are presented [<b>and given</b>] to him from [among] Bnei Yisroel.",
            "You shall appoint Aharon and his sons and they shall guard their priesthood, and an outsider (non-<i>kohein</i>) who comes near shall be put to death.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "Behold! I have taken the Levites from among Bnei Yisroel instead of all the firstborn who have opened the womb, among Bnei Yisroel, and [therefore] the Levites shall be Mine [<b>serve before Me</b>].",
            "For all the firstborn are Mine, since on the day I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified to [<b>before</b>] Me all the firstborn of Bnei Yisroel from man to beast; they shall be Mine, I am Adonoy.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe in the Sinai desert, saying;",
            "Count the sons of Levi according to their fathers’ houses according to their families. All males from the age of one month and above, you shall count them.",
            "Moshe counted them according to the word of Adonoy, just as he was commanded.",
            "These were sons of Levi according to their names, Gershon, Kehos and Merori.",
            "These are the names of Gershon’s sons according to their families; Livni and Shim’i.",
            "The sons of Kehos, according to their families were; Amram, Yitzhar Chevron and Uziel.",
            "The sons of Merori, according to their families were; Machli and Mushi. These are the families of Levi according to their fathers’ houses.",
            "Of Gershon, the family of Livni and the family of Shim’i. These are the families of the Gershonites.",
            "Their numbers, in a count of every male of one month and above; their numbers are seven thousand five hundred.",
            "The families of the Gershonites shall camp behind the <i>Mishkon</i> on the west side.",
            "The leader of the household of the Gershonites is Elyasaf the son of Lael.",
            "The guardianship of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting [was]; the <i>Mishkon</i> and the Tent, its cover and the Curtain for the entrance of the Tent of Meeting,",
            "The hanging Curtains of the courtyard and the Curtain at the entrance of the courtyard which is around the <i>Mishkon</i> and Altar, and its ropes, for all of the work involving these things [<b>its service</b>].",
            "Of Kehos, was the family of Amram, the family of Yitzhar, the family of Chevron and the family of Uziel, these are the families of the Kehosites.",
            "The number of every male from one month and above is eight thousand six hundred. [They were] the guardians of the sacred vessels.",
            "The families of the children of Kehos shall camp on the south side of the <i>Mishkon.</i>",
            "The leader of the household of the families of the Kehosites, is Elitzafan the son of Uziel.",
            "Their guardianship is the Ark, the Table, the Menorah, the Altars and the sacred utensils with which they serve. And the Curtain, and all of the work involving these things.",
            "The leader of the leaders of Levi shall be Elazar, the son of Aharon, the <i>kohein</i> [who is] in charge of the appointment of the guardians to safeguard the holy [Sanctuary].",
            "Of Merori, was the family of Machli and the family and Mushi; these are the families of the Merorites.",
            "Their numbers, in a count of every male of one month and above, is six thousand two hundred.",
            "The leader of the household of the families of the Merorites is Tzuriel the son of Avichail, they shall camp on the north side of the <i>Mishkon.</i>",
            "The appointed task of the guardianship of the sons of Merori shall be the beams of the <i>Mishkon,</i> its bars, pillars and sockets; all of its utensils, and all of the work involving these things [<b>its service</b>].",
            "Also the pillars of the surrounding courtyard and their sockets, pegs and ropes.",
            "Those who camped in front of the <i>Mishkon</i> in the forefront, in front of the Tent of Meeting on the east side [are]; Moshe, Aharon and his sons, guardians of the guardianship of the Sanctuary to guard on behalf of Bnei Yisroel. Any outsider (non-<i>kohein</i>) who comes near, shall be put to death.",
            "The number of all the Levites whom Moshe and Aharon counted at the word of Adonoy according to their families; every male from one month and above was twenty-two thousand.",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe: Count every male firstborn of Bnei Yisroel from the age of one month and above and take the number of their names.",
            "You shall take the Levites for [<b>before</b>] Me, I, [who am] Adonoy, instead of every firstborn of Bnei Yisroel; and the animals of the Levites instead of every firstborn among the animals of Bnei Yisroel.",
            "Moshe counted just as Adonoy commanded him to, every firstborn of Bnei Yisroel.",
            "Every male firstborn according to the number of names of one month and above according to their numbers, was twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "Take the Levites instead of every firstborn of Bnei Yisroel, and the animals of the Levites instead of their animals, and the Levites shall [<b>serve before Me</b>] be Mine, I am Adonoy.",
            "And the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three that are in excess of the number of Levites from the firstborns of Bnei Yisroel.",
            "You shall take five <i>shekolim</i> apiece from each individual; you shall take it in holy <i>shekolim</i> at twenty <i>gerah</i> for each <i>shekel.</i>",
            "You shall give the money to Aharon and to his sons as a redemption for those whose numbers are in excess [of the Levites.]",
            "Moshe took the redemption money from those whose numbers were in excess of those who were redeemed through the Levites.",
            "From the firstborn of Bnei Yisroel, he took the money. One thousand three hundred sixty-five, in holy <i>shekel.</i>",
            "Moshe gave the money of those who were redeemed to Aharon and to his sons according to the word of Adonoy, just as Adonoy commanded to Moshe."
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying;",
            "Take the count of the sons of Kehos from among the sons of Levi according to their families according to the house of their fathers.",
            "From thirty years and above until fifty years, all who enter into the division to perform service in the Tent of Meeting.",
            "This is the service of the sons of Kehos in the Tent of Meeting, the Holy of Holies.",
            "Aharon and his sons shall enter when the camp is about to travel, and take down the screening curtain and, with it they shall cover the Ark of the Testimony.",
            "They shall place upon it a covering of <i>tachash</i> [<b>multi-colored</b>]-hide and spread an entirely blue woolen cloth on top of it, and put its [carrying] poles [in place].",
            "On the Show Table [<b>table of the show bread</b>] they shall spread a blue woolen cloth and they shall place upon it the molds, spoons, rods and the covering props, and the continual bread shall be upon it [<b>continually</b>].",
            "They shall spread upon them a cloth of crimson thread and they shall cover it with a covering of <i>tachash</i> [<b>multi-colored</b>]-hide and put its [carrying] poles [in place].",
            "They shall take a blue woolen cloth and they shall cover the Menorah that illuminates and its lamps, its tongs and its scoops and all of its oil vessels; those with which you use to perform its service.",
            "They shall put it and all of its utensils into the covering of the <i>tachash [<b>multi-colored</b>]</i>-hide and put it on the carrying frame.",
            "On top of the golden Altar they shall spread a blue woolen cloth and they shall cover it with a covering of <i>tachash [<b>multi-colored</b>]</i>-hide, and put its [carrying] poles in place.",
            "They shall take all the service utensils with which they serve in the Sanctuary and they shall put them inside a blue woolen cloth, and they shall cover them with a covering of <i>tachash [<b>multi-colored</b>]</i>-hide, and put it on the carrying frame.",
            "They shall remove the ashes from [atop] the Altar and they shall spread upon it a cloth of purple [wool].",
            "They shall put upon it all of its utensils which they use in service, those that are used on the Altar-top; the firepans, forks, scoops and sprinklers, all the utensils of the Altar. They shall spread upon it a covering of <i>tachash [<b>multi-colored</b>]</i>-hide, and put its [carrying] poles in place.",
            "Aharon and his sons shall complete the covering of the Sanctuary and all of the holy utensils whenever the camp is about to travel, and after that, the sons of Kehos shall come to carry [these items], and they shall not touch the Holy [objects] and they will [not] die. These are what the sons of Kehos must carry for the Tent of Meeting.",
            "Encharged [<b>given</b>] to Elazar, the son of Aharon the <i>kohein,</i> is the oil for illumination, the incense of spices the continual [daily] meal-offering and the anointing oil; the charge of the entire <i>Mishkon</i> and all of its contents in the Sanctuary, and its utensils.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying:",
            "Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kehosites, from among the Levites.",
            "This is what you must do for them, that they may live and not die when they approach the Holy of Holies; Aharon and his sons shall [first] come and appoint them each man individually, to [perform] his own service, and to carry his own load.",
            "They shall not come in to see when the holy is [<b>utensils are</b>] being covered and [they will not] die.",
            "And Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "Take the count of the sons of Gershon as well, according to the house of their fathers according to their families.",
            "From thirty years and above, until fifty years, you shall count them; all those who enter the division to serve in the Tent of Meeting.",
            "This is the service of the families of the Gershonites to serve, and to carry.",
            "They shall carry the tapestries of the <i>Mishkon</i> and [of] the Tent of Meeting, its covering and the covering of <i>tachash</i> which is on top of it, and the screen for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,",
            "the hanging [tapestries] of the courtyard, the screen for the entrance to the gate of the courtyard which are over the <i>Mishkon</i> and altar on all sides, their ropes and all of their service utensils and all that will be given [<b>delivered</b>] to them, and thus shall they serve.",
            "By instruction of Aharon and [one of] his sons shall be all the services of the sons of the Gershonites for all that they carry and for all their service. You shall fix specified appointments for them for everything they carry.",
            "This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting. Their guardianship is in the hands of Isamar, the son of Aharon the <i>kohein.</i>",
            "The sons of Merori, according to their families and according to the house of their fathers you shall count them.",
            "From thirty years and above until fifty years, you shall count them; all who enter the division to serve in the Tent of Meeting.",
            "This is what they are entrusted to carry according to all their duties in the Tent of Meeting; the beams of the <i>Mishkon,</i> its bars, pillars and sockets.",
            "The pillars around the courtyard, their sockets, stakes and ropes; with all their utensils and for all their service; and by name shall you appoint the utensils to the charge of those who will carry them.",
            "This is the service of the families of the sons of Merori for all their service in the Tent of Meeting, under the direction of Isamar, the son of Aharon, the <i>kohein.</i>",
            "They counted—Moshe, Aharon and the leaders of the congregation—the sons of the Kehosites according to their families and according to the house of their fathers.",
            "Those, from thirty years and above, until fifty years; all those who enter the division to serve in the Tent of Meeting.",
            "Their numbers, according to their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.",
            "These are the numbers of the families of the Kehosites of all who serve in the Tent of Meeting whom Moshe and Aharon counted according to the word of Adonoy, through Moshe.",
            "The numbers of the sons of Gershon, according to their families and according to the house of their fathers.",
            "Those, from thirty years and above, until fifty years; all who enter the division to serve in the Tent of Meeting.",
            "Their numbers, according to their families, according to the house of their fathers were two thousand six hundred and thirty.",
            "These are the numbers of the families of the sons of the Gershonites, of all those who serve in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moshe and Aharon counted, according to the word of Adonoy.",
            "The numbers of the families of the sons of the Merorites according to their families, according to the house of their fathers.",
            "Those, from thirty years and above, until fifty years; all who enter the division to serve in the Tent of Meeting.",
            "Their numbers were, according to their families, three thousand two hundred.",
            "These are the numbers of the families of the sons of the Merorites whom Moshe and Aharon counted according to the word of Adonoy, through Moshe.",
            "The total of the numbers counted by Moshe, Aharon and the leaders of the congregation [of] the Levites according to their families, according to the house of their fathers.",
            "Those from thirty years and above, until fifty years; all who enter to serve the service of service and the service of carrying in the Tent of Meeting.",
            "Their numbers were eight thousand five hundred and eighty.",
            "According to the word of Adonoy he counted them, by the hand of Moshe, each man according to his service and according to what he carries; and they were counted, as Adonoy commanded Moshe."
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "Command Bnei Yisroel that they must expel from the camp. anyone with <i>tzora’as,</i> and anyone from whom flows a [seminal] discharge and anyone who became defiled by a (departed) [<b>the bones of the</b>] soul [<b>of a person</b>].",
            "Whether male or female you shall send them out. Beyond the camp you shall send them, and they shall not defile their camps in which I dwell [<b>My Shechina dwells</b>] among them.",
            "Bnei Yisroel did so, and they sent them beyond the camp; just as Adonoy spoke to Moshe, so did Bnei Yisroel do.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "Speak to Bnei Yisroel: When a man or a woman commits any of the sins against man, acting treacherously [<b>untruthfully before</b>] against Adonoy, and that person is guilty.",
            "They shall confess the sins which they committed and return the principal amount [of the object] of his guilt, and add one fifth to that amount. He shall then give it to whom he is indebted.",
            "But if the man has no redeemer (relative) to whom the debt may be returned, the debt being returned then belongs to Adonoy, [then] to the <i>kohein.</i> This is besides the ram of forgiveness with which he [his sin] will be atoned.",
            "Every <i>terumah</i>-gift of all the sacred things of Bnei Yisroel that they will bring to the <i>kohein,</i> shall be his.",
            "A [<b>tenth of</b>] man’s sacred objects shall be his; whatever a man gives to the <i>kohein,</i> shall be his.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "Speak to Bnei Yisroel and say to them: If any man’s wife goes astray and acts treacherously [<b>untruthfully</b>] toward him.",
            "And a man has lain with her conjugally but it was hidden [<b>covered</b>] from her husband’s eyes and she was concealed and has become defiled and there is no witness against her, and she was not seized forcibly.",
            "[When] a spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife and she was defiled or, a spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife and she was not defiled,",
            "that man shall bring his wife to the <i>kohein</i> and he shall bring her offering for her; [which is] one tenth of an <i>epha</i> [<b>three se’in</b>] of barley flour; he shall not pour oil over it and he shall not put frankincense on it, for it is a meal-offering of jealousy, a meal-offering of remembrance, recalling an iniquity.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall bring her near and station her before Adonoy.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall take sanctified waters [<b>water from the copper wash basin</b>] in a clay utensil, and of the earth that will be on the floor [<b>base</b>] of the <i>Mishkon</i>, the <i>kohein</i> shall take and put into the water.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall station the woman before Adonoy, and expose the woman’s hair, and place on her palms [<b>hands</b>] the meal-offering of remembrance; it is a meal-offering of jealousy and there will be in the <i>kohein’s</i> hand, the bitter, lethal waters.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall place her under oath and say to the woman: If a man has not lain with you [conjugally] and if you have not gone astray to be defiled while you were married to [<b>by someone other than</b>] your husband, you shall be absolved of these bitter, lethal waters.",
            "[But] you, if you have gone astray while you were married to your husband, and if you have been defiled, and if a man has lain conjugally with you, [a man] other than your husband.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall place the woman under oath with the oath of accursedness, and the <i>kohein</i> shall say to the woman: “Adonoy shall make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Adonoy causes your thigh to collapse [<b>fall away</b>] and your abdomen to swell.",
            "This bitter, lethal water will enter your abdomen to swell [<b>inflate</b>] the abdomen, and collapse [<b>fall away</b>] the thigh and the woman shall say “Amein, Amein”.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall write all these curses, on the scroll and dissolve them (the writing) in the bitter waters.",
            "He shall have the woman drink the bitter, lethal waters and the lethal waters, shall enter her to become bitter.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall take from the woman’s hand the meal-offering of jealousy and he shall wave the meal-offering before Adonoy, and bring it close to the Altar.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall scoop out from the meal-offering its commemoration and burn it on [<b>bring it up to</b>] the Altar, and after that he shall cause the woman to drink the water.",
            "He shall make her drink the water, and it shall be that if she had been defiled and had deceived [<b>been untruthful to</b>] her husband, the lethal waters shall enter her to become bitter, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will collapse [<b>fall away</b>], and the woman will be a curse among her people.",
            "But if the woman was not defiled and [she] is pure, she will be cleansed [<b>go out exonerated</b>] and shall bear seed [<b>will conceive</b>].",
            "This is the law of jealousies, when a woman goes astray during her marriage to her husband and is defiled.",
            "If a man is overcome with a spirit of jealousy and he is jealous of his wife, then he shall have the woman stand before Adonoy, and the <i>kohein</i> shall do unto her all of these laws.",
            "The man is cleansed [<b>innocent</b>] of sin and that woman shall bear [the burden of] her iniquity."
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "Speak to Bnei Yisroel and say to them: If a man or a woman sets apart a vow, a nazirite vow, to set [himself] apart for [<b>from before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "From new or old [intoxicating] wine, he must abstain. Vinegar made from new wine and vinegar made from old wine he shall not drink; anything steeped in grapes he shall not drink; moist grapes or dried grapes (raisins) he shall not eat.",
            "As long as he is a <i>Nazir</i> from anything made of the grape-vine, from seeds to skin, he shall not eat.",
            "As long as [<b>all the days</b>] he is under his nazirite oath a razor shall not pass over [to touch] his head. Until he completes his days as a <i>Nazir</i> to Adonoy he shall be sacred, he shall let the hair of his head grow long.",
            "All the days that he is a <i>Nazir</i> to Adonoy, he shall have no contact with the dead.",
            "For his father, mother, brother and sister he shall not [ritually] defile himself for them when they die. For, the nazirite crown of his God is upon his head.",
            "All the days of his separation, he is sacred to Adonoy.",
            "If someone died near him suddenly, or unexpectedly, and caused his nazirite crowned head to be defiled, he shall shave his head on the day of his purification, he shall shave it on the seventh day.",
            "On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the <i>kohein,</i> to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall prepare one for a sin-offering and one for a burnt-offering and atone on his behalf from his sin [of contact] with a [departed] soul, and he shall sanctify his head on that day.",
            "He shall set apart, for Adonoy, his nazirite days, and bring a sheep in its first year as a guilt-offering. The first days shall elapse because his nazirite crown was defiled.",
            "This is the law of the <i>Nazir</i>: when the days of his nazirite status are fulfilled, he shall bring himself to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.",
            "He shall bring his offering to Adonoy; one unblemished sheep, in its first year, as a burnt-offering, and one unblemished ewe, in its first year as a sin-offering, and one unblemished ram as a peace-offering [<b>sacred sacrifice</b>].",
            "A basket of <i>matzos</i> of fine flour, loaves mixed with oil and <i>matzoh</i>-wafers spread with oil and their meal-offerings and libations.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall bring it before Adonoy and do the service of his sin-offering and of his burnt-offering.",
            "He shall make the ram a peace-offering [<b>sacred sacrifice</b>] for Adonoy along with the basket of <i>matzos,</i> and the <i>kohein</i> shall do the service of his meal-offering and libation.",
            "The <i>Nazir</i> shall shave—at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting—the nazirite crown of hair on his head, and he shall take the hair from the nazirite crown on his head and put it in the fire which is under the [<b>cauldron of the</b>] peace-offering [<b>sacred</b>] sacrifice.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall take the cooked foreleg from the ram and one <i>matzoh</i>-loaf from the basket, and one <i>matzoh</i>-wafer, and put it on the palms [<b>hands</b>] of the <i>Nazir</i> after he has shaved his nazirite crown.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall wave them as a wave-offering, before Adonoy. It is consecrated to the <i>kohein</i> besides the breast of the wave-offering and the separated thigh portion. After this, the <i>Nazir</i> may drink wine.",
            "This is the law of the <i>Nazir</i> who has vowed—[this is] his offering to Adonoy for his nazirite vow, aside from what he can afford [lit. <b>may attach to his hands</b>] to bring according to his vow that he vows. So shall he fulfill in addition to the laws of his nazirite [vows.]",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "Speak to Aharon and to his sons, saying; This is how you shall bless Bnei Yisroel, saying to them:",
            "May Adonoy bless you and protect you.",
            "May Adonoy cause His countenance [<b>Shechinah</b>] to shine upon you and favor you.",
            "May Adonoy lift His face to you, and grant you peace.",
            "They shall bestow [<b>the blessing of</b>] My Name upon Bnei Yisroel, and I will bless them."
        ],
        [
            "It came to pass, on the day Moshe finished erecting the <i>Mishkon,</i> and he anointed it and consecrated it and all of its utensils, and the Altar and all its utensils, and he anointed them and consecrated them.",
            "The leaders of Israel brought, [those who were] the heads of their fathers’ houses; they were the leaders of the tribes, they stood by during the counting.",
            "They brought their offerings before Adonoy; six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a wagon for each two leaders and an ox for each individual, and they placed them before the <i>Mishkon.</i>",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe, saying:",
            "Take [the offering] from them, and let them be used for the service of the Tent of Meeting. Give them to the Levites, each man according to [<b>the needs</b>] his work.",
            "Moshe took the wagons and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.",
            "Two [of the] wagons and four [of the] oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to [<b>the needs</b>] their work.",
            "Four [of the] wagons and eight [of the] oxen he gave to the sons of Merori. According to their work they were in the charge of Isamar the son of Aharon the <i>kohein.</i>",
            "He did not give any to the sons of Kehos because the sacred work was [incumbent] upon them, which they had to carry on their shoulders.",
            "The leaders brought forward the [offerings for] the consecration of the altar on the day it was anointed. The leaders placed their offering before the altar.",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe: One leader each day, one leader each day, they shall bring forth their offering, for the dedication of the altar.",
            "The one that brought his offering on the first day [was] Nachshon the son of Aminadav, of the tribe of Yehudah.",
            "His offering was one silver tray, its weight was one hundred thirty <i>shekolim;</i> one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon of ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>], filled with [<b>fragrant</b>] incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat, for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace [<b>sacred</b>]-offering, two oxen, five rams, five kids, and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of Nachshon the son of Aminadav.",
            "On the second day, [he that] brought [was] Nesanel the son of Tzu’ar, the leader of Yissachar.",
            "He brought forward his offering, one silver tray, its weight was one hundred thirty [<i>shekolim</i>]; one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon of ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>] filled with incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace-offering sacrifice, two oxen, five rams, five kids, and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of Nesanel the son of Tzu’ar.",
            "On the third day, the leader of the sons of Zevulun, Eliav the son of Cheilon.",
            "His offering was one silver tray, its weight was one hundred thirty <i>shekolim</i>; one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon of ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>], filled with incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace-offering sacrifice, two oxen, five rams, five kids and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of of Eliav the son of Cheilon.",
            "On the fourth day, the leader of the sons of Reuven, Elitzur the son of Shdeiur.",
            "His offering was one silver tray, its weight was one hundred thirty <i>shekolim</i>; one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon of ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>], filled with incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace-offering sacrifice, two oxen, five rams, five kids and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of Elitzur the son of Shdeiur.",
            "On the fifth day, the leader of the sons of Shimon, Shlumiel the son of Tzurishadai.",
            "His offering was one silver tray, its weight was one hundred thirty <i>shekolim</i>; one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon of ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>], filled with incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace-offering sacrifice, two oxen, five rams, five kids and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of Shlumiel the son of Tzurishadai.",
            "On the sixth day, the leader of the sons of Gad, Elyasaf the son of Deu’el.",
            "His offering was one silver tray, its weight was one hundred thirty <i>shekolim</i>; one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon of ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>], filled with incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace-offering sacrifice, two oxen, five rams, five kids and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of Elyasaf the son of Deu’el.",
            "On the seventh day, the leader of the sons of Ephraim, Elishamah the son of Amihud.",
            "His offering was one silver tray, its weight was one hundred thirty <i>shekolim</i>; one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon of ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>], filled with incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace-offering sacrifice, two oxen, five rams, five kids and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of Elishamah the son of Amihud.",
            "On the eighth day, the leader of the sons of Menashe, Gamliel the son of Pedahtzur.",
            "His offering was one silver tray, its weight was one hundred thirty <i>shekolim</i>; one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon of ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>], filled with incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace-offering sacrifice, two oxen, five rams, five kids and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of Gamliel the son of Pedahtzur.",
            "On the ninth day, the leader of the sons of Binyomin, Avidan the son of Gidoni.",
            "His offering was one silver tray, its weight was one hundred thirty <i>shekolim</i>; one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon of ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>], filled with incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace-offering sacrifice, two oxen, five rams, five kids and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of Avidan the son of Gidoni.",
            "On the tenth day, the leader of the sons of Don, Achiezer the son of Amishadai.",
            "His offering was one silver tray, its weight was one hundred thirty <i>shekolim</i>; one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon weighing ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>], filled with incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace-offering sacrifice, two oxen, five rams, five kids and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of Achiezer the son of Amishadai.",
            "On the day of the eleventh day, the leader of the sons of Asher, Pagi’el the son of Ochran.",
            "His offering was one silver tray, its weight was one hundred thirty <i>shekolim</i>; one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon of ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>], filled with incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace-offering sacrifice, two oxen, five rams, five kids and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of Pagi’el the son of Ochran.",
            "On the day of the twelfth day, the leader of the sons of Naftali, Achirah the son of Einon.",
            "His offering was one silver tray its weight was one hundred thirty <i>shekolim</i>; one silver bowl [that weighed] seventy <i>shekolim</i> according to sanctuary weights. Both were filled with fine flour kneaded with [olive] oil, for a meal-offering.",
            "One spoon of ten gold [<i>shekolim</i>], filled with incense.",
            "One young bull, one ram, and one yearling sheep for a burnt-offering.",
            "[And] one he-goat for a sin-offering.",
            "For the peace-offering sacrifice, two oxen, five rams, five kids and five yearling sheep. This was the offering of Achirah the son of Einon.",
            "This was the dedication of the altar on the day that it was anointed, given by the leaders of Israel; twelve silver trays twelve silver bowls and twelve golden spoons.",
            "One hundred thirty [<b>shekolim was the weight of</b>] each silver tray and each bowl weighed seventy [<i>shekolim</i>]. All the silver vessels weighed two thousand four hundred [<i>shekolim</i>] according to sanctuary weights.",
            "Twelve golden spoons filled with [<b>fragrant</b>] incense; each spoon weighed ten [<i>shekolim</i>] according to sanctuary weights. The total of the golden spoons is one hundred twenty [<i>shekolim</i>].",
            "The total of the oxen for the burnt-offering is twelve oxen, twelve rams, twelve yearling sheep and their meal-offerings, and twelve he-goats for a sin-offering.",
            "The total of the oxen for the peace [<b>sacred</b>]-offering sacrifice is twenty-four oxen, sixty rams, sixty kids and sixty yearling sheep. This was the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.",
            "When Moshe would enter the Tent of Meeting to speak with Him (God), he would hear the Voice being spoken to him from above the Ark-cover which is atop the Ark of the Testimony from between the two cherubim; and He spoke to him."
        ],
        [
            "And Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "Speak to Aharon, and say to him; When you light the lamps towards the face of the Menorah shall the seven lamps cast [their] light.",
            "Aharon did so; towards the face of the Menorah he lit its lamps, just as Adonoy commanded Moshe.",
            "This is how the Menorah was made; beaten from [a block of] gold, from its base until its flowers it is beaten out [of a solid block], according to the vision which Adonoy showed to Moshe, so he made the Menorah.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "Take [<b>bring near</b>] the Levites from among Bnei Yisroel and purify them.",
            "This is what you shall do to them, to purify them; sprinkle them with the sin-offering waters, and cause a razor to pass over (shave) their entire bodies, and they shall wash their garments and purify themselves.",
            "They should take a young bullock and its meal-offering of flour mixed with oil, and you shall take a second young bullock, for a sin-offering.",
            "You shall bring the Levites near, before the Tent of Meeting, and you shall gather the entire congregation of Bnei Yisroel.",
            "You shall bring the Levites near, before Adonoy, and Bnei Yisroel shall lay their hands on the Levites.",
            "Aharon shall wave the Levites as a wave-offering before Adonoy from Bnei Yisroel and they will be [entrusted] to do the worship of Adonoy.",
            "The Levites shall lay their hands on the head of the bulls and make the one for a sin-offering and the [other] one for a burnt-offering to Adonoy, to atone for the Levites.",
            "You shall set the Levites before Aharon and before his sons, and lift them up as a wave-offering to Adonoy.",
            "You shall separate the Levites from among Bnei Yisroel and the Levites shall be Mine [<b>serve before Me</b>].",
            "After this is done, the Levites shall come to work in the Tent of Meeting, and you shall purify them, and you shall lift them up as a wave-offering,",
            "For they are given [<b>have been separated</b>]; they are given [<b>have been separated</b>] to Me from among Bnei Yisroel in place of those who open the womb,—every firstborn of Bnei Yisroel—I have taken them to be Mine.",
            "For every firstborn of Bnei Yisroel is Mine, human and animal; on the day in which I slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I have sanctified them to be Mine.",
            "I have taken the Levites instead of all firstborn of Bnei Yisroel,",
            "and I have given the Levites to be given as a gift to Aharon and to his sons from among Bnei Yisroel to do the duties of Bnei Yisroel in the Tent of Meeting, and to atone for Bnei Yisroel, so that there will not be a plague among Bnei Yisroel when Bnei Yisroel approach the sanctuary.",
            "Moshe, Aharon, and the entire congregation of Bnei Yisroel did to the Levites just as Adonoy commanded Moshe regarding the Levites, so did Bnei Yisroel do to them.",
            "The Levites underwent purification and they washed their garments, and Aharon lifted them as a wave-offering before Adonoy; and Aharon achieved atonement on their behalf, to purify them.",
            "Afterwards, the Levites came to perform their duties in the Tent of Meeting in the presence of Aharon and in the presence of his sons; just as Adonoy commanded Moshe regarding the Levites, so they did unto them.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "This concerns the Levites; from the age of twenty-five years and above he shall enter the division for the duties of the Tent of Meeting.",
            "From the age of fifty he shall retire from the work force, and shall no longer work.",
            "But shall serve his brethren in the Tent of Meeting to keep the watch, and he shall not do any service; so you shall have the Levites do in their guard duties."
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe in the desert of Sinai in the second year of their exodus from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying;",
            "Bnei Yisroel shall perform the <i>Pesach</i>-offering in its proper time.",
            "On the fourteenth day of this month, in the afternoon, you shall perform it in its proper time; according to all its statutes and according to all its laws [<b>that are appropriate for it</b>] you shall perform it.",
            "Moshe spoke to Bnei Yisroel [telling them] to perform the Pesach-offering.",
            "They performed the Pesach-offering in the first [month] [<b>in Nissan</b>] on the fourteenth day of the month in the afternoon in the Sinai desert; according to all that Adonoy commanded Moshe, so did Bnei Yisroel do.",
            "There were men who were impure, having had [contact with] a corpse, and they were not able to perform the Pesach-offering on that day, and they drew near before Moshe and before Aharon, on that day.",
            "Those men said to him: “We are impure, having had contact with a corpse; why should we be excluded and not be able to bring the offering of Adonoy in its proper time, among Bnei Yisroel?”",
            "Moshe said to them: “Stand [<b>wait</b>] and I will listen to what Adonoy will instruct [<b>command</b>] for [<b>regarding</b>] you.”",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "Speak to Bnei Yisroel, saying; any person, if he will be impure from a corpse, or [is] on a distant road, [whether among] yourselves or for your descendants, he shall perform the Pesach-offering for Adonoy",
            "in the second month, on the fourteenth day in the afternoon he shall perform it. Together with <i>matzohs</i> and bitter herbs they shall eat it.",
            "They shall not leave any of it over until the morning and they shall not break any of its bones; according to all the statutes of the Pesach-offering they shall perform it.",
            "The person who is pure and was not on the road, and refrained from performing the Pesach-offering, that soul shall be cut off from its people, for the offering of Adonoy he did not bring in its proper time; that person shall bear his sin.",
            "If a proselyte dwells among you and brings the Pesach-offering to Adonoy; according to the statues of the Pesach-offering and according to its laws so shall he perform it; there shall be the same statute for yourselves; [both] for the proselyte and for the native born citizen.",
            "On the day that the <i>Mishkon</i> was erected, the Cloud covered the <i>Mishkon</i> [which served] as the Tent of Testimony; and in the evening, there was over the <i>Mishkon</i> an appearance of fire, until morning.",
            "So it always was, the Cloud covered it, and an appearance of fire, at night.",
            "Whenever the Cloud was lifted from the Tent, afterwards, did Bnei Yisroel travel; in the place where the Cloud came to rest, it is there that Bnei Yisroel did camp.",
            "On the word of Adonoy, did Bnei Yisroel travel and on the word of Adonoy, did they camp; all those days on which the Cloud will rested above the <i>Mishkon</i>, did they camp.",
            "When the Cloud tarried above the <i>Mishkon</i>, for many days, Bnei Yisroel would keep the watch of [<b>the word of</b>] Adonoy and they would not travel.",
            "It sometimes happened that the Cloud was for a number of days above the <i>Mishkon</i>; on the order of Adonoy did they camp and on the order of Adonoy did they travel.",
            "It sometimes happened that the Cloud was [there] [but] from evening until morning, and then the Cloud rose in the morning and they traveled; or, [the Cloud was there] for a day and a night and the Cloud was lifted, and they traveled.",
            "Or two days or a month or a year [<b>period of time</b>] that the Cloud prolonged its stay above the <i>Mishkon</i> to rest upon it; Bnei Yisroel remained encamped and they did not travel; when it rose they traveled.",
            "On the order of Adonoy they camped and on the order of [<b>the word of</b>] Adonoy they traveled; they kept the watch of Adonoy on the order of Adonoy, through Moshe."
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "Make for yourself two silver trumpets; you shall make them, beaten [from one block], and they shall be used by you to summon the congregation and to initiate the departure of the camps.",
            "When they will blow them, the entire congregation shall present itself to you at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.",
            "But if they blow one of them, the leaders shall present themselves to you, the heads of Israel’s thousands.",
            "When you blow a <i>teruah</i> [<b>a wailing sound</b>]; the camps that are camped eastward shall travel.",
            "If you blow a second <i>teruah,</i> then shall travel the camps that are camped on the south side. They shall blow a <i>teruah</i> for their journeys.",
            "But when gathering the congregation, you shall blow [a blast], but not a <i>teruah.</i>",
            "The sons of Aharon, the <i>kohanim,</i> shall sound the trumpets. This shall be for you an everlasting statute, for all your descendants.",
            "If war shall come into your land against the oppresor who oppresses you and you shall blow <i>teruahs</i> [<b>wail</b>] with the trumpets and you will be remembered [<b>your remembrance will come beneficially</b>] before Adonoy, your God, and you will be delivered from you enemies.",
            "On your joyous days and on your festivals and on the beginnings of your months you shall blow with the trumpets for your burnt-offerings and for your peace-offerings; and it shall be a remembrance for you before your God, I am Adonoy your God.",
            "It was in the second year, in the second month on the twentieth of the month that the Cloud rose up from above the <i>Mishkon</i> of the Testimony.",
            "Bnei Yisroel traveled along on their journeys, from the Sinai desert, and the Cloud came to rest in the desert of Paran.",
            "This was the first time that they traveled, on the order of Adonoy, through Moshe.",
            "Then traveled the banner of the sons of Yehudah’s camp in the forefront according to their divisions; in charge of its divisions [was] Nachshon the son of Aminadav.",
            "In charge of the division of the tribe of the sons of Yissachar, [was] Nesanel the son of Tzu’ar.",
            "In charge of the division of the tribe of the sons of Zevulun, [was] Eliav the son of Cheilon.",
            "[Then] the <i>Mishkon</i> was dismantled and the sons of Gershon traveled, with the sons of Merori, those who carried the <i>Mishkon</i>.",
            "[Then] the banner of Reuven’s camp traveled, according to their divisions. In charge of its division [was] Elitzur the son of Shdeiur.",
            "In charge of the division of the tribe of the sons of Shimon, [was] Shlumiel the son of Tzurishadai.",
            "In charge of the division of the tribe of the sons of Gad, [was] Elyasaf the son of De’uel.",
            "[Then] the Kehos family traveled, the carriers of the sacred, and they erected the <i>Mishkon</i> by the time of their arrival.",
            "[Then] the banner of the sons of Ephraim’s camp traveled according to their divisions. In charge of its division, [was] Elishamah the son of Amihud.",
            "In charge of the division of the tribe of the sons of Menashe, [was] Gamliel the son of Pedahtzur.",
            "In charge of the division of the tribe of the sons of Binyamin, [was] Avidan the son of Gid’oni.",
            "[Then] the banner of the sons of Don’s camp traveled; the gatherer for all the camps, according to their divisions. In charge of its division, [was] Achiezer the son of Amishadai.",
            "In charge of the division of the tribe of the sons of Asher, [was] Pagiel the son of Ochran.",
            "In charge of the division of the tribe of the sons of Naftali, [was] Achirah the son of Einan.",
            "These are the journeys of Bnei Yisroel according to their divisions; and they journeyed.",
            "Moshe said to Chovav the son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moshe’s father-in-law: “We are journeying to the place about which Adonoy said; ‘I will give it to you’, come along with us and we will treat you well, for Adonoy spoke of bringing good [fortune] on Israel.”",
            "He said to him “I will not go, but rather to my land and to my birthplace will I go.”",
            "He said to him “please do not forsake us, for, because you know of our encampment in the desert, and you will be our eyes [<b>the great things that were done for us you saw with your eyes</b>].",
            "It will be, that when you go with us, it shall be that the very good which Adonoy will bestow on us we will bestow on (share with) you.",
            "They traveled from the mountain of Adonoy [<b>upon which the glory of Hashem was revealed</b>] a journey of three days, and the Ark of the Covenant of Adonoy traveled in front of them a journey of three days, to prepare for them a place to settle.",
            "The Cloud [<b>of the glory</b>] of Adonoy was above them by day when they traveled from the camp.",
            "Whenever the Ark departed Moshe woud say: “Rise, [<b>reveal Yourself</b>] Adonoy, and may Your enemies disperse, and those who hate You flee before You.”",
            "When it rested, he would say: “Come to rest, Adonoy, [<b>dwell in Your glory</b>] among the myriads and thousands of Israel.”"
        ],
        [
            "The people were like complainers; [it was] wicked in the ears of [<b>before</b>] Adonoy. Adonoy heard [<b>before Hashem it was revealed</b>] and His Anger flared and the fire of [<b>from before</b>] Adonoy burned among them and consumed [some] of the outcasts of the camp.",
            "The people cried out to Moshe, and Moshe prayed to Adonoy, and the fire subsided.",
            "He called the name of that place Taveirah, for it was there that burned among them the fire of [<b>from before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "The collection [of nationalities] among them began to have strong cravings [<b>make demands</b>], and Bnei Yisroel turned and began to weep; and they said “Who will feed us meat?",
            "We remember the fish which we ate in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions and garlic.",
            "Now our bodies are withered, there is nothing at all, but the manna before our eyes.”",
            "The manna was like coriander seed and it is similiar to the appearance of crystal.",
            "The people [merely] strolled about and they gathered it and [<b>if they so desired,</b>] they ground it with a millstone or [<b>if they so desired,</b>] crushed it in mortars and cooked it in pots and made cakes out of it. Its taste was like the taste of cake kneaded with oil.",
            "When the dew would descend on the camp, at night, the manna would descend on it.",
            "Moshe heard the people weep according to their families, at the door of each one’s tent. The Anger of Adonoy was greatly aroused and in Moshe’s eyes, it was evil.",
            "Moshe said to Adonoy: “Why have you dealt poorly with Your servant, and why have I not found favor in Your eyes that You place the burden of the entire people upon me?",
            "Have I conceived [<b>am I a father to</b>] this entire people? have I given birth to it [<b>are they my children</b>] that You say to me, carry it [<b>with might</b>] in your lap as a nurse carries an infant, to the land which You swore to their forefathers?",
            "From where do I have meat to give to this entire people on account of which they cry to me, saying: “Give us meat and we shall eat.”",
            "I alone can not carry this entire people, for they are too burdensome for me.",
            "If this is the way You treat me, please kill me, if I have found favor in Your eyes [<b>before You</b>]; so that I will not see my evil.”",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe: “Gather seventy men for [<b>before</b>] Me, from among the elders of Israel, [men] whom you know to be the people’s elders, and its officers, and you shall take them to the Tent of Meeting, and they shall stand there with you.",
            "I will descend [<b>appear</b>] and speak there with you, and I will make greater the spirit which is upon you, and place it on them, and they will bear, along with you, the burden of the people so that you need not bear it alone.",
            "You shall say to the people, prepare yourselves for the morrow and you shall eat meat, for you have cried in the ears of [<b>before</b>] Adonoy, saying: “Who will feed us meat; we had it good in Egypt;” [now] Adonoy gives you meat and you shall eat.",
            "Not for one day will you be eating and not for two days; not for five days, not for ten days, and not for twenty days.",
            "But rather for a month of days, until it comes out of your nostrils [<b>will disgust you</b>] and it will be repulsive to you; [this is] because you have rejected [<b>the word of</b>] Adonoy Who[<b>’s Shechinah dwells</b>] is among you, and you have cried before Him, saying: “Why have we come out from Egypt?”",
            "Moshe said: “The people are six hundred thousand on foot that I am among and You say that I will give them meat, to eat it for a month of days?",
            "Will sheep and cattle be slaughtered for them would that be sufficient for them? If all the fish of the sea would be gathered for them, would that be sufficient for them?”",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe: “Has [<b>can</b>] the Hand [<b>word</b>] of Adonoy become short [<b>be restrained</b>]? Now you will see if My words will occur unto you or not.”",
            "Moshe went out and spoke the words of Adonoy to the people, and he gathered seventy men from the elders of the people and he had them stand around the Tent.",
            "Adonoy descended [<b>appeared</b>] in a cloud and spoke to him, and He magnified the spirit which was upon him and He gave it unto the seventy men, [who were] the elders. When the spirit [<b>of prophecy</b>] came to rest upon them they prophesied, and they did not cease.",
            "Two people remained in the camp; one’s name was Eldad and the second one’s name was Meidad. The spirit [<b>of prophecy</b>] rested upon them; they were among those inscribed, and they did not go out to the Tent, and they prophesied in the camp.",
            "The youth ran and told Moshe, and said: “Eldad and Meidad are prophesying in the camp.”",
            "Yehoshua the son of Nun answered, [he being] the attendant of Moshe, from his youth, and he said: “My master Moshe, destroy [<b>bind</b>] them!”",
            "Moshe said to him, “Are you vengeful for me? Would (that) it be that all Adonoy’s people were prophets, that Adonoy would give His Spirit upon them.”",
            "Moshe entered into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.",
            "From [<b>before</b>] Adonoy there gusted a wind and He caused quail to fly from the sea and spread them over the camp, about a day’s journey from this side and about a day’s journey from that side, around the camp, and about two <i>amo¯s</i> above the ground’s surface.",
            "The people arose all of that day, the entire night and the entire next day, and they gathered the quail. He who gathered the least amount, gathered ten heaps and they spread them for themselves around the camp.",
            "The meat was still between their teeth before it was [even] finished, when the wrath of Adonoy was incited upon the people, and Adonoy smote the people an enormous blow.",
            "He called the name of that place Kivros Hataavoh [<b>Graves of the Demanders</b>], for it was there that they buried the people who had these cravings.",
            "From Kivros Hataavoh the people journeyed to Chatzeiros, and they stayed in Chatzeiros."
        ],
        [
            "Miriam and Aharon spoke about Moshe concerning the Cushite [<b>fair</b>] woman that he married, for, he married [<b>sent away</b>] a Cushite [<b>fair</b>] woman.",
            "They said: “Is it only to Moshe that Adonoy has spoken? Did He not also speak with us?” and [<b>it was heard before</b>] Adonoy heard.",
            "The man, Moshe [was] most humble, more so than any other person on the face of the earth.",
            "Adonoy said, suddenly, to Moshe, Aharon and Miriam: “Come out, all three of you, to the Tent of Meeting,” and the three of them went out.",
            "Adonoy descended [<b>appeared</b>] in a pillar of cloud and He stood at the entrance of the Tent, and He called [to] Aharon and Miriam, and both of them went out.",
            "He said: “Please listen to My words. If there will be a prophet among you, [I,] Adonoy, will make [<b>reveal</b>] Myself known to him in a vision; in a dream I will speak to him.",
            "That is not the case with My servant, Moshe; in My entire house he is trusted.",
            "Mouth [<b>speaker</b>] to mouth [<b>speaker</b>] I speak to [<b>with</b>] him, in a vision and not in riddles; he gazes at the [<b>glorious</b>] likeness of Adonoy; so why are you not afraid to speak about My servant, about Moshe?”",
            "Adonoy’s anger flared against them and He left.",
            "The cloud departed from atop the Tent and behold! Miriam became afflicted with <i>tzora’as</i> white as snow; and Aharon turned towards Miriam and behold, she was afflicted with <i>tzora’as.</i>",
            "Aharon said to Moshe: “Oh, my master please do not put iniquity upon us for what we have foolishly done and for what we have transgressed.",
            "Please let her not be like the dead [<b>separated from among us for she is our sister</b>]; That, since he came from his mother’s womb, it would be as half of his own flesh was consumed [<b>pray now for this dead flesh which is in her, so she will be healed</b>].”",
            "Moshe cried out [in prayer] to Adonoy, saying: “Please, God, please heal her.”",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe: “If her father were to spit in her face [<b>strongly chastise her</b>] would she not be in shame for seven days? She shall be closed off for seven days, beyond the encampment, and after that, she may join again.”",
            "Miriam was closed off beyond the encampment for seven days, and the people did not depart until Miriam was brought in to join them.",
            "After that, the people traveled from Chatzeiros and they camped in the desert of Paran."
        ],
        [
            "And Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "“Send, for yourself, men, and have them scout the Land of Cana’an, which I am giving to Bnei Yisroel; one man, one man each, for his father’s tribe you shall send them, each leader among them.”",
            "Moshe sent them from the desert of Paran by the word of Adonoy; all of them [were] men of distinction, they were the heads of Bnei Yisroel.",
            "These are their names; for the tribe of Reuven, Shamua the son of Zaccur.",
            "For the tribe of Shimon, Shafat the son of Chori.",
            "For the tribe of Yehudah, Caleiv the son of Yefuneh.",
            "For the tribe of Yissachar, Yigal the son of Yoseif.",
            "For the tribe of Ephraim, Hosheiah the son of Nun.",
            "For the tribe of Binyamin, Palti the son of Raphu.",
            "For the tribe of Zevulun, Gadiel the son of Sodi.",
            "For the tribe of Yoseif, for the tribe of Menashe, Gadi the son of Susi.",
            "For the tribe of Don, Amiel the son of Gemali.",
            "For the tribe of Asher, Sesur the son of Michael.",
            "For the tribe of Naftali, Nachbi the son of Vofsi.",
            "For the tribe of Gad, Geu’el the son of Machi.",
            "These are the names of the men whom Moshe sent to scout the land, and Moshe called Hosheiah the son of Nun, Yehoshua.",
            "Moshe sent them to scout the land of Cana’an and he said to them: “Go up this [way], to the south and go up to the mountain.",
            "See what the land is; and the people living on it; are they strong or weak, if they are few or many;",
            "and how is the land in which they live, is it good, or bad? And how are the cities in which they reside; are they open, or are they fortified [<b>walled-in</b>]?",
            "How is the land (soil) is it fat (rich) or lean (poor), does it have trees, or not? You shall strengthen yourselves, and you shall take some fruit of the land.” Those days were the days of the first ripening of the grapes.",
            "They went up and they scouted the land from the desert of Tzin until Rechov, at the entrance of Chamas.",
            "They went up, into the southern part [of the land] and [he] came to Chevron; and there, were Achiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the offspring of the giant[<b>s</b>]. [The city of] Chevron was built seven years before the city of Tzo’an [<b>Tonas</b>] in Egypt.",
            "They came until the Valley of Eshkol, and from there they cut off a branch and one cluster of grapes, and they carried it between two on a pole, [and they took] some pomegranates and some figs.",
            "That place they called the Valley of Eshkol, because of the event of the cluster that Bnei Yisroel cut from there.",
            "They returned from spying the land, at the end of forty days.",
            "They went and came to Moshe and Aharon and to the entire congregation of Bnei Yisroel [that came] to the desert of Paran, in Kadeish [<b>to Rekom</b>]. They brought word back to them, and to the entire congregation, and they showed them the fruit of the land.",
            "They recounted to him, and they said: “We came into the land into which you sent us, and it indeed flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.",
            "However, the nation is mighty, those who inhabit the land, and the cities are greatly fortified to the utmost, and we also saw the offspring of the giant[<b>s</b>] over there.",
            "Amalek dwells in the southern part of the land, the Chiti, Yevusi and Emori dwell in the mountain and the Cana’ani dwell by the sea and next to the Yardein.”",
            "Caleiv silenced the people to [hear about] Moshe, and he said: “We can surely go up [to the land] and we shall possess it for we are surely able to overcome it.”",
            "But the men who went up with him said: “We are not able to go up against the nation, for they are more powerful than we.”",
            "They spread slander about the land that they had scouted, to Bnei Yisroel, saying: “The land through which we have passed to scout it, is a land which consumes [<b>slaughters</b>] its inhabitants; and every one of the people we saw in it, are men of dimensions [<b>stature</b>].",
            "There we saw the giants, the sons of the giant [<b>Anok</b>], of the Nephilim [<b>giants</b>], and we were like grasshoppers in our [<b>own</b>] eyes, and so we appeared in their eyes.”"
        ],
        [
            "The entire community arose and raised their voices; and the people wept that night.",
            "They railed against Moshe and Aharon—all of Bnei Yisroel—and the entire congregation said to them: “Would we had died in the land of Egypt or in this desert, would that we had died.",
            "Why does Adonoy bring us into this land to fall by the sword; our wives and infants would be as spoils; is it not better for us to return to Egypt?”",
            "They said to each other: “Let us appoint (lit. place) a head and we will return to Egypt.”",
            "Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before the entire gathering of the congregation of Bnei Yisroel.",
            "Yehoshua the son of Nun and Caleiv the son of Yefuneh, who were among those who scouted the land, tore their clothing [in grief].",
            "They said to the entire congregation of Bnei Yisroel, saying: “The land through which we have passed to scout it; that land is very, very good.",
            "If Adonoy desires us, He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with [<b>produces</b>] milk and honey.",
            "However, do not rebel against [<b>the word of</b>] Adonoy and you do not be afraid of the nation of the land, for they are [as] our bread [<b>delivered into our hands</b>], their protection [<b>strength</b>] is removed from them, and [<b>the word of</b>] Adonoy is with [<b>supports</b>] us; do not be afraid of them.”",
            "The entire congregation said that they should be stoned to death, when the glory of Adonoy appeared in the Tent of Meeting, to all of Bnei Yisroel.",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe: “Until where will this people provoke [<b>before</b>] Me, and how much longer will they have no faith in Me [<b>my word</b>], despite all the signs which I have done in their midst.",
            "I shall smite them with the plague and annihilate them; and I shall make you into a greater and stronger people than they.”",
            "Moshe said to Adonoy: “But Egypt will hear, that You, in Your might have brought up this people from among them.",
            "They will say concerning the inhabitants of this land, they have heard that You, Adonoy, are [<b>Your Shechinah dwells</b>] among this people, Who appears to them eye to eye (face to face) [<b>who have seen Your glorious Shechinah</b>], You, Adonoy; Your Cloud stands over them, in a Pillar of Cloud You go before [<b>lead</b>] them daily and in a Pillar of Fire, nightly.",
            "If You kill this nation like a single man, the nations will say—they who have heard of Your reputation [<b>the fame of Your power</b>]—as follows:",
            "“It is because of Adonoy’s inability to bring this people into the land that He swore to them, that he slaughtered [<b>killed</b>] them in the desert.”",
            "Now, please, let my Master’s power be enhanced [<b>before Hashem</b>] as You spoke, saying;",
            "Adonoy, slow to [<b>distances</b>] anger and abounding in [<b>performing</b>] kindness, forgiving iniquity, [<b>rebellion</b>] and transgression; Who does not completely acquit [<b>pardoning those who return to His Torah, but to those who do not return, He does not acquit</b>], Who will visit the inquities of the fathers upon their [<b>rebellious</b>] children, to the third [generation] and to the fourth [generation.]",
            "Please forgive this people according the magnitude of Your kindness, and as You have borne this people since Egypt until this time.”",
            "Adonoy said, “I have forgiven them, just as you spoke.",
            "However, just as I live and the Glory of Adonoy fills the entire land;",
            "For, all the people who see My glory and My signs which I have done in Egypt and in the desert, and they have tested [<b>before</b>] Me these ten times and they have not listened to My voice [<b>word</b>].",
            "If they will see the land that I have sworn to their fathers; all those who angered [<b>before</b>] Me will not see it.",
            "My servant Caleiv, because he possesed in him a different spirit, and followed Me fully [<b>in fear of Me</b>], I shall bring him into the land to which he came, and his children will cast [its inhabitants] from it.",
            "The Amaleki and the Cana’ani are now dwelling in the valley. Tomorrow turn back and you shall travel the desert by way of the Reed Sea.”",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying:",
            "“Until when will this wicked congregation [exist], those who provoke Me? The complaints of Bnei Yisroel, which they complain against Me, I have heard [<b>before Me</b>].",
            "Say to them: “As I live, says Adonoy, if I do not [do to you] as you have spoken in My ears [<b>before Me</b>]; so I shall do to you.",
            "In this desert your corpses shall fall, all of you who were counted according to your numbers, from twenty years and above, because you have complained against Me,",
            "Surely you shall [not] come into the land to which I raised My Hand [to swear] [<b>sworn by My word</b>] that I would cause you to live in it; except for Caleiv the son of Yefuneh and Yehoshua the son of Nun.",
            "Your infants, about whom you said that they will be as spoils, I shall bring them [there] and they will know the land which you despised.",
            "Your corpses—yours, shall fall in this desert.",
            "Your children, they shall be wanderers [<b>delayed</b>] in the desert for forty years, and they will bear [the burden of] your dissoluteness, until the last of your corpses are in the desert.",
            "According to the number of days which you scouted the land; forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year you will bear the burden of your iniquity forty years, and you will know My displeasure [<b>that you have murmured against Me</b>].",
            "I am Adonoy; I have spoken—[<b>decreed by My word</b>]—if I do not do this to this entire evil congregation that are gathered against Me; in this desert they shall be finished and there they shall die.”",
            "Those men whom Moshe sent to scout the land, who returned and provoked the complaints of the entire congregation against him, by spreading slander about the land;",
            "Those men died—who spread evil slander against the land—in a plague, before Adonoy.",
            "Yehoshua the son of Nun and Caleiv the son of Yefuneh, lived, from among those men who went to scout the land.",
            "Moshe spoke these words to all of Bnei Yisroel, and the people mourned greatly.",
            "They awoke early in the morning and went up to the peak of the mountain, saying: “We are ready to go up to the place of which Adonoy spoke (promised), for we have sinned.”",
            "Moshe said: “Why are you now transgressing the word [<b>decree</b>] of Adonoy; it will not succeed.",
            "Do not go up, for Adonoy is not among you, and do not die before your enemies,",
            "For the Amaleki and the Cana’ani are there before you, and you will fall by the sword, for, you turned from following [<b>the service of</b>] Adonoy, and [<b>the word of</b>] Adonoy will not be with you [<b>to your aid</b>].”",
            "They defiantly went up the mountain peak, but the Ark of the Covenant of Adonoy, and Moshe, did not move from amidst the encampment.",
            "The Amaleki and the Cana’ani swooped down, they who were dwelling in that mountain, and they smote and crushed [<b>persued</b>] them until Chormah."
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "“Speak to Bnei Yisroel, and say to them, when you arrive into the land in which you will dwell, which I am giving to you.",
            "When you make a fire-offering [<b>sacrifice</b>] to Adonoy, a burnt-offering or a sacrifice, by verbalizing as a pledge or as a donation or on your festivals to provide a pleasing fragrance to [<b>to be accepted with pleasure before</b>] Adonoy, from cattle or from sheep.",
            "The one bringing his offering to Adonoy shall present one tenth of flour mixed with one fourth of a <i>hin</i> of oil,",
            "Along with wine, for a wine-offering, one fourth of a <i>hin,</i> so you shall do for a burnt-offering or a sacrifice, for the one sheep.",
            "If for a ram you shall make a meal-offering of two tenths, mixed with one third of a <i>hin</i> of oil.",
            "Wine, for a wine-offering shall be one third of a <i>hin.</i> This is how you shall offer a pleasing fragrance to [<b>to be accepted with pleasure before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "If you are making a calf as a burnt-offering or sacrifice by verbalizing as a pledge or for a peace-offering, to Adonoy.",
            "Along with the calf he shall bring a meal-offering of three tenths mixed with one half of a <i>hin</i> of oil.",
            "You shall bring wine, for a wine-offering, one half of a <i>hin,</i> a fire-offering of pleasing fragrance to [<b>which will be accepted with pleasure before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "So you shall do for each ox or ram or for the sheep or goats.",
            "According to the number, which you offer, so you shall make for each one according to the[ir] number[s].",
            "Each citizen shall do this as stated, to bring a fire-offering of pleasing fragrance to [<b>which will be accepted with pleasure before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "If a proselyte will live with you or among you, for all of your generations and makes a fire-offering of pleasing fragrance to [<b>which will be accepted with pleasure before</b>] Adonoy, in the same fashion as you make it, so shall he make it.",
            "The assembly has one statute for yourselves and for the proselyte who resides; one statue for all of your generations, just as it is for yourselves, so shall it be for the proselyte, before Adonoy.",
            "One law and one rule will apply to you, and to the proselyte who lives with you.”",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "“Speak to Bnei Yisroel and say to them, at your coming to the land into which I am bringing you,",
            "When you eat from the bread of the land you shall separate a <i>terumah</i> for [<b>a separation before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "[From] the first portion of your doughs you shall separate a loaf as a separated portion; like the <i>terumah</i>-gift of the granary, so shall you separate it.",
            "Of the first portion of your doughs you shall give to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy as a <i>terumah</i>- offering, throughout your generations.”",
            "If you should err, and not fulfill all of these commandments which Adonoy said to Moshe;",
            "All that Adonoy commanded you through Moshe, from the day on which Adonoy commanded, and from then on, throughout your generations.",
            "If it was obscured from the eyes of the congregation, having been done in error, then the entire congregation shall offer one young bullock as a burnt-offering for a pleasing fragrance to [<b>to be accepted with pleasure before</b>] Adonoy. Its meal-offering and its wine-offering are according to its law, and one he-goat, as a sin-offering.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall atone on behalf of the entire congregation of Bnei Yisroel, and they shall be forgiven; for they have erred unwittingly and they have brought their offering, as a fire-offering to Adonoy, and their sin-offering before Adonoy (to atone) for their error.",
            "And it shall be forgiven to the entire congregation of Bnei Yisroel and the stranger amongst them; for the entire people sinned unintentionally.",
            "If one person will sin erroneously, that person shall bring a yearling she-goat as a sin-offering.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall atone for that erring soul which has sinned unwittingly before Adonoy; to achieve atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.",
            "[For] the citizen among Bnei Yisroel, and the proselyte who dwells among them there shall be one law for you all, for he who sins unwittingly.",
            "A person who commits a sin high-handedly [<b>publicly</b>] among the citizens or among the proselytes, blasphemes [<b>provokes before</b>] Adonoy; the soul of that person shall be cut off from among its people.",
            "For he has denigrated the word of Adonoy and he has violated His commandment; The soul of that person shall certainly be cut off; its iniquity is upon it.",
            "Bnei Yisroel were in the desert, and they found a man gathering wood on the day of the Shabbos.",
            "Those who found him brought him near—he who was gathering wood—to Moshe and to Aharon, and to the entire congregation.",
            "They placed [<b>bound</b>] him under guard since it was not specified, what was to be done to him.",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe: “That man shall be put to death, the entire congregation shall stone him beyond the encampment.”",
            "The entire congregation brought him outside beyond the encampment, and they stoned him with stones, and he died, just as Adonoy commanded Moshe.",
            "And Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "Speak to Bnei Yisroel and tell them to make for themselves, <i>tzizis</i>-fringes on the corners of their garments—throughout their generations; and they will place with the fringes of each corner a thread of blue.",
            "And it will be to you for fringes and you will look upon it and you will remember all of Adonoy’s commandments and you will perform them; and you will not search [<b>stray</b>] after [the desire of] your hearts and after [<b>the sight</b>] your eyes which cause you to go astray.",
            "In order that you will remember and perform all My commandments; and you will be holy unto [<b>before</b>] your God.",
            "I am Adonoy, your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am Adonoy your God."
        ],
        [
            "Korach took [<b>divided</b>], [Korach], the son of Yitzhar the son of Kehos, the son of Levi, and Dasan and Aviram the sons of Eliav, and On the son of Peles, the sons of Reuvein.",
            "They rose up before Moshe with men from Bnei Yisroel [numbering] two hundred and fifty, who were the leaders of the congregation, those who were called to meetings, men of [prominent] name.",
            "They gathered against Moshe and Aharon, and they said to them: “You have [taken] too much for yourselves [and] since the entire congregation are all holy and Adonoy is [<b>the Shechinah of Hashem dwells</b>] in their midst, why do [<b>what is this that</b>] you raise yourselves above the assembly of Adonoy?”",
            "Moshe heard, and he fell upon his face.",
            "He spoke to Korach and to his entire congregation, saying: “[In the] morning, Adonoy will make known who is [<b>qualified to be</b>] His, and who is holy, He will bring close to Him; and whoever He chooses, He will bring near to Him [<b>to His service</b>].",
            "Do this: Take, for yourselves, fire pans, Korach and his entire congregation,",
            "and place fire in them and put [<b>fragrant</b>] incense upon them before Adonoy, tomorrow; and it will be that the man who will be chosen by Adonoy, he is the holy one; [you have taken] too much upon yourselves, sons of Levi.”",
            "Moshe said to Korach, “Please listen sons of Levi,",
            "is it but a pittance for yourselves that the God of Israel has separated you from the [rest of the] congregation of Israel to bring you closer to [<b>before</b>] Him to perform the services of the <i>Mishkan</i> of Adonoy, and to stand before the congregation to serve them?",
            "He brought you near with all of your brethren the sons of Levi with you, and yet [<b>now</b>] you ask to be <i>kohanim</i> [<b>Kohein Gadol</b>] as well?",
            "Therefore, you and your entire congregation who are gathered against Adonoy; and what is Aharon that you rail against him?”",
            "Moshe sent to call for Dasan and Avirom the sons of Eliav and they said “We will not go up.",
            "Is it but a pittance that you have brought us up from a land flowing with [<b>that produces</b>] milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that you must excercise power over us to make yourself powerful as well?",
            "Even into a land flowing with [<b>that produces</b>] milk and honey you have not brought us, and [not] given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards if you put those people’s eyes out, [even then] we would not go up.”",
            "Moshe was extremely distressed, and said to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy: “Do not turn to [<b>accept</b>] their offering [<b>with pleasure</b>]; not a donkey did I sequester from any one of them nor have I done ill to any one of them.”",
            "Moshe said to Korach: “You and your entire congregation will be before Adonoy, you, and they, and Aharon, tomorrow.",
            "Each man will take his firepan and place [<b>fragrant</b>] incense in them and you will offer before Adonoy each man his firepan, two hundred and fifty firepans, and you and Aharon will each take his own firepan.”",
            "Each man took his firepan and they placed fire in them and they put [<b>fragrant</b>] incense in them and they stood at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting along with Moshe and Aharon.",
            "Korach congregated against them, the entire congregation at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of Adonoy appeared to the entire congregation.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying:",
            "“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, and I will annihalate them in an instant.”",
            "They fell upon their faces, and they said: “Almighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh; if one man sins shall You be angry with the entire congregation?”",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "Speak to the congregation, saying: “Depart from the vicinity of the dwelling of Korach, Dasan and Avirom.”",
            "Moshe rose up and went to Dasan and Avirom and the elders of Israel went along after him.",
            "He spoke to the congregation, saying: “Please get away from the tents of these evil [<b>guilty</b>] men, and do not touch [<b>come near</b>] anything belonging to them, lest you be swept away [<b>smitten</b>] in all their transgressions.”",
            "They withdraw from the dwelling of Korach, Dasan and Avirom, and all around; and Dasan and Avirom went out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, children and infants.",
            "Moshe said: “This is how you will know that Adonoy has sent me to perform all of these deeds, for, I did not devise them myself [<b>from my own will</b>].",
            "If as all men die will these men meet their deaths, and the reckoning (fate) of all men will be reckoned upon them, then Adonoy has not sent me.",
            "If Adonoy will create a [new] creation and the ground will open its mouth and swallow them along with all of their belongings, and they will go down alive to the grave, then you will know that these men have angered Adonoy.”",
            "As he was finishing speaking all these words the ground beneath them split.",
            "The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their houses [<b>household members</b>] and all the people belonging to Korach and all of the possessions.",
            "They, and all belonging to them, went down alive to the grave, and the earth covered them and they perished from among the assembly.",
            "All of Yisroel who were around them fled from their uproar, for they said, perhaps the earth will swallow us.",
            "A fire came forth from [<b>before</b>] Adonoy and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were bringing the [<b>fragrant</b>] incense."
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying;",
            "“Say to Elazar the son of Aharon, the <i>kohein</i> and have him lift up the firepans from the inferno, and you, scatter the fire yonder, for, they were sanctified;",
            "[These] firepans of these sinners [who paid] with their souls, and make them into hammered sheets to overlay the altar, for they were brought in offering before Adonoy and they were sanctified; and they shall be for a sign for Bnei Yisroel.",
            "Elazar the <i>kohein,</i> took the copper firepans, those that the fire victims brought and hammered them into a covering for the altar,",
            "to be a reminder for Bnei Yisroel so that a commoner shall never offer, one who is not a descendant of Aharon, to burn [<b>fragrant</b>] incense before Adonoy; so as not to be like Korach and his congregation; as Adonoy spoke to him, through Moshe.",
            "They complained—the entire congregation of Bnei Yisroel—on the next day against Moshe and Aharon, saying: “You have killed [<b>caused the death</b>] the people of Adonoy”",
            "When the congregation assembled against Moshe and Aharon, they turned to the Tent of Meeting and behold! The cloud covered it, and the Glory of Adonoy appeared.",
            "Moshe and Aharon came to the front of the Tent of Meeting.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "“Remove [<b>separate</b>] yourselves from this congregation and I shall annihalate them in an instant,” and they fell upon their faces.",
            "Moshe said to Aharon: “Take the firepan and put fire from atop the altar on it and place [<b>fragrant</b>] incense on it, and go quickly to the congregation and atone for them, for anger has come forth from before Adonoy; the plague has commenced.”",
            "Aharon took, just as Moshe spoke, and he ran to the middle of the assembly and behold! The plague had commenced among the people. He put on incense and he atoned for the people.",
            "He stood between the dead and between the living and the plague was halted [<b>ceased</b>].",
            "The dead in the plague totaled fourteen thousand seven hundred, excluding those who died due to Korach’s rebellion [<b>division</b>].",
            "Aharon returned to Moshe to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and the plague was halted.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "“Speak to Bnei Yisroel and take from among them a staff, a staff for each father’s [tribal] house, from all the leaders according to their fathers’ houses, twelve staffs; and you shall write each man’s name on his staff.",
            "You shall write the name of Aharon on the staff of Levi, for, [there is] one staff for the head of their fathers’ house.",
            "You shall leave them inside the Tent of Meeting before the testimony where there I [<b>My word</b>] meet you.",
            "It shall be that the man whom I choose, his staff shall blossom; and I will abate from Myself [<b>before Me</b>] the complaints of Bnei Yisroel that they complain against you.”",
            "Moshe spoke to Bnei Yisroel and all the leaders gave to him a staff for each leader; a staff for each leader, according to their fathers’ house, twelve staffs, and the staff of Aharon [was] among their staffs.",
            "Moshe placed the staffs before Adonoy in the Tent of the Testimony.",
            "It was on the next day, Moshe came inside the Tent of the Testimony, and behold! The staff of Aharon blossomed for the house of Levi, a blossom came forth, and bloomed buds and bore ripe almonds.",
            "Moshe then brought out all the staffs from before Adonoy to all Bnei Yisroel, and each (man) saw [<b>recognized</b>], and retrieved his staff.",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe, “Return the staff of Aharon before the (Ark of) Testimony to be preserved as a symbol to the rebellious people, so that their complaint will end [<b>from before Me</b>] and they not die.”",
            "Moshe did (this), as Adonoy commanded him—so he did.",
            "Bnei Yisroel said [the following] to Moshe: “Behold, we perish, we are lost—we are all lost [<b>killed by sword, some of us swallowed by the earth, some of us perish by plague</b>].",
            "Anyone approaching, who comes close to the Mishkon of Adonoy will die—have we been consigned to die?”"
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy said to Aharon: “You, your sons, and your father’s house with you will bear the sin of the Sanctuary, and you, and your sons with you will bear the sin of your <i>kehunah</i>.",
            "Also, your brothers, the tribe of Levi—the tribe of your father—bring to you, and they shall join you, and serve you, you and your sons with you, before the Tent of Testimony.",
            "They shall guard their duties to you and all the duties of the Tent, but to the holy furniture or to the Altar they must not approach, that neither they, nor you, shall die.",
            "They shall join you and guard the duties of the Tent of Meeting—all the service of the Tent, but a commoner, [a non-<i>kohein</i>] should not approach you.",
            "You shall discharge the sacred duties and the duties of the Altar, so that there will be no more wrath on Bnei Yisroel.",
            "Behold, I have brought your brothers the Levites from among Bnei Yisroel, given to you as a gift—for [<b>before</b>] Adonoy—to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting.",
            "You and your sons with you shall guard your <i>kehunah</i> [duties] regarding the Altar and all that is within the Curtain—you shall serve—the service, as a gift, I give the <i>kehunah</i> to you, and the commoner who approaches shall be killed.”",
            "Adonoy spoke to Aharon: “Behold I have given you the guarding of my <i>terumah</i>-gifts, and all the hallowed things of Bnei Yisroel, to you and your children I give them for consecration, as a portion forever.",
            "This is yours from the most holy [<b>that remain</b>] from the fire, [of] all their sacrifices—their <i>minchah</i>-offerings, their sin-offerings and their guilt-offerings which they return to [<b>before</b>] Me shall be most holy to you and your sons.",
            "You shall eat it in the supremely holy (place), every male may eat it—it shall be holy to you.",
            "Their <i>terumah</i>-gift is yours, of all of the wave-offerings of Bnei Yisroel I give to you and to your sons and daughters that are with you as an everlasting portion; all those ritually pure in your house may eat it.",
            "The best of the oil, and the best of the wine and grain—their <i>terumah</i>-gift that they present to Adonoy—I have given to you.",
            "The first fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring before Adonoy, shall be yours; all those ritually pure in your house may eat it.",
            "Everything consecrated in Israel shall be yours.",
            "Every firstling [<b>all that open the womb</b>] of every being which they offer before Adonoy—man or beast—shall be yours; but you must redeem the firstborn of man and redeem the firstborn of unclean beasts.",
            "Its redemption—from a month old you should redeem them—the valuation is five silver <i>sela’im</i> of holy silver <i>shekalim</i> which is twenty <i>gerah.</i>",
            "However, a firstborn ox, a firstborn sheep or firstborn goat do not redeem because they are holy; sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fats as a fire-offering as a pleasing fragrance to [<b>accepted with pleasure before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "Their flesh is yours; like the breast which is waved and like the right thigh—it shall be yours.",
            "All of the sacred <i>terumah</i>-gifts that Bnei Yisroel offer to Adonoy, I have given to you, your sons and daughters with you as an everlasting portion; an eternal covenant of salt before Adonoy to you and your children that are with you.”",
            "Adonoy said to Aharon: “You will have no inheritance in their land, and you will not have a share among them; I am [<b>the gift that I have given you is</b>] your inheritance and portion among Bnei Yisroel.",
            "Behold, I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance in return for their service which they perform—the service of the Tent of Meeting.",
            "Bnei Yisroel shall no longer approach the Tent of Meeting, to become guilty and die.",
            "The Levi[tes]—[they] shall perform the service of the Tent of Meeting and they will bear their guilt; it is an everlasting decree—throughout your generations—among Bnei Yisroel they (the Levites) shall have no inheritance.",
            "For the tithe of Bnei Yisroel which they must set aside to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy as a <i>terumah</i>-gift I gave to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore, I told them: ‘among Bnei Yisroel they shall have no inheritance.’”",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "“Speak to the Levites and say to them: ‘When you take the tithe from Bnei Yisroel, which I gave you from them for your inheritance, set aside from it the <i>terumah</i>-gift of [<b>separation before</b>] Adonoy, a tithe of the tithe.",
            "Your <i>terumah</i>-gift [<b>separation</b>] will be considered the same as grain from the granary and [wine and oil of] fully ripened fruit from the cistern.",
            "So must you, too, set aside the <i>terumah</i>-gift of Adonoy from all your tithes which you take from Bnei Yisroel; give from them the <i>terumah</i>-gift of [<b>separation before</b>] Adonoy to Aharon the <i>kohein.</i>",
            "From all your gifts you must set aside all of the <i>terumah</i>-gifts [<b>separations</b>] of Adonoy; from each thing—its finest part—the part that is to be consecrated.’",
            "Say to them: ‘When you set aside the finest part of it, it will be considered for the Levites like the produce of the granary and the produce of the cistern.",
            "You may consume it anywhere—you and [<b>the members of</b>] your household; since it is the reward for your service in the Tent of Meeting.",
            "You will not bear a sin because of it, when you separate its best part; but sacred things of Bnei Yisroel you must not profane, and you will not die.”’"
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe and Aharon, saying.",
            "This is the statute of the Torah which Adonoy commanded, saying; speak to Bnei Yisroel that they shall take to you a red, perfect cow without a blemish, upon which no yoke was laid.",
            "Give it to Elozor the <i>kohein</i>; he shall take it outside the camp, and someone shall slaughter it in his presence.",
            "Elozor the <i>kohein</i> shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle it directly facing the Tent of Meeting, some of its blood seven times.",
            "Someone shall burn the cow in his presence; its skin, flesh, blood, with its waste (that are in its intestines) shall be burned.",
            "The <i>kohein</i> shall take a piece of cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson wool, and throw them into the burning of the cow.",
            "Then the <i>kohein</i> shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he may enter the camp; [however,] the <i>kohein</i> shall be impure until the evening.",
            "Also, the one who burns it must wash his garments and bathe his body in water; he shall remain unclean until the evening.",
            "A ritually clean person shall gather the cow’s ashes and place [it] outside the camp in a clean place; it shall remain a keepsake for the community of Bnei Yisroel for sprinkling water for purification.",
            "The one who gathers the cow’s ashes shall wash his garments, and remain unclean until the evening; it shall be for Bnei Yisroel and for the proselyte who lives among them an eternal statute.",
            "One who touches the corpse of any [human] soul shall become unclean for seven days.",
            "He shall cleanse himself [<b>be sprinked</b>] with it on the third day and on the seventh day, so that he may become clean; if he does not have himself cleansed [<b>be sprinked</b>] on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.",
            "Whoever touches a corpse of a [human] soul, who died and does not have himself cleansed [<b>be sprinked</b>] defiles the <i>Mishkan</i> of Adonoy (if he enters it), that soul will be cut off from Yisroel; because the sprinkling water was not sprinkled on him, he will be impure his impurity remains.",
            "This is the law [regarding] a person who dies in a tent; anyone who enters the tent and everything that is in the tent shall be unclean for seven days.",
            "Any open [<b>earthenware</b>] utensil that has no cover fastened to it, shall be unclean.",
            "Anyone who touches, in an open field, one slain by the sword, a corpse, human bone, or grave, shall be unclean for seven days.",
            "They shall take for the unclean person of the ashes from the burnt purification-offering and he shall place upon them living [spring] water in a vessel.",
            "He shall take hyssop and dip it into the water; [this is done by] a ritually clean person, he shall sprinkle it on the tent, on all the utensils and people that were there, and on anyone who touched the bone, murder victim, corpse, or grave.",
            "The ritually clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day; he shall purify him on the seventh day when he must wash his garments and bathe in water, and then he becomes clean in the evening.",
            "A person who became ritually unclean [and enters the Sanctuary] without purifying himself [<b>being sprinkled</b>], that soul [<b>person</b>] will be cut off from the community; for he defiled the Sanctuary of Adonoy, the sprinkling water was not sprinkled upon him, he remains unclean.",
            "This shall be the statute for all times; one who sprinkles the sprinkling waters shall wash his garments, and one who touches the sprinkling waters shall remain unclean until the evening.",
            "Anything which the unclean person touches, shall become unclean; and anyone touching him shall be ritually unclean until the evening."
        ],
        [
            "The entire community of Bnei Yisroel came to the wilderness of Tzin, in the first month. The people settled in Kodeish [<b>Rekom</b>], and Miriam died and was buried there.",
            "There was no water for the community, and they assembled against Moshe and Aharon.",
            "The people quarreled with Moshe and said, “Would that we had died by our brothers’ death before Adonoy.",
            "Why did you bring the congregation of Adonoy into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die there?",
            "Why did you take us out of Egypt and bring us to this terrible place? It is not a place [<b>fit</b>] for seed, [<b>nor for</b>] figs, grapes, or pomegranates; and there is no water to drink!”",
            "Moshe and Aharon moved away from the assembly to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces; the glory of Adonoy appeared to them.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying.",
            "“Take the staff and assemble the community, you and Aharon your brother, and speak to the rock in their presence that it may give forth its water; you will then bring forth for them water from the rock, and give drink [to] the community and their livestock.”",
            "Moshe took the staff from before Adonoy, as He instructed him.",
            "Moshe and Aharon assembled the community before the rock; [Moshe] said to them, “Listen, you rebels! Can we extract water from this rock for you?”",
            "And Moshe raised his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice; water rushed out abundantly, and the community and their livestock drank.",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe and Aharon, “Because you did not believe in Me [<b>My word</b>] to sanctify Me in the presence of Bnei Yisroel; therefore, you will not bring this congregation into the land that I have given them.”",
            "They are the waters of dispute where Bnei Yisroel contended with [<b>before</b>] Adonoy, and He was sanctified through them.",
            "Moshe sent emissaries from Kodeish [<b>Rekom</b>] to the King of Edom (saying), “This is what your brother Yisroel declares; you know of all the hardship that we have encountered.",
            "Our forefathers went down to Egypt and we remained in Egypt for a long time; the Egyptians mistreated us and our forefathers.",
            "Then we cried out [<b>prayed</b>] to Adonoy, and He heard our voice [<b>accept our prayer</b>], He sent an emissary and led us out of Egypt; now we are in Kodeish [<b>Rekom</b>], a city at the edge of your border.",
            "Please let us pass through your land, we will not pass through any field or vineyard, and we will not drink well water; we will travel by the king’s road, we will not turn aside to the right or left, until we have passed through your territory.”",
            "Edom responded, “You shall not pass through me (my land) [<b>my border</b>], lest I go out against you [<b>to kill you</b>] with the sword!”",
            "Bnei Yisroel said, “We will go up by the [<b>paved</b>] highway, and if we or our cattle drink your water we will pay for it, it is just nothing, we only want [<b>with no evil intent</b>] to pass through on foot.”",
            "Then (Edom) responded, “Do not pass through!” Edom came to confront [Bnei Yisroel] with a massive number of people [<b>an army</b>] and a strong hand.",
            "Edom refused to allow Yisroel to pass through its territory, and Yisroel turned aside from him.",
            "They traveled from Kodeish, and the entire community of Bnei Yisroel came to Mount Hor.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe and Aharon at Mount Hor, at the border of the land of Edom, saying.",
            "“Aharon will now be gathered (die) to his people, for he shall not enter the land that I have given to Bnei Yisroel, because you defied My word at the waters of dispute.",
            "Take Aharon and his son Elozor, and bring them up to Mount Hor.",
            "Remove Aharon’s vestments and dress his son Elozor in them; Aharon will be gathered in and die there.”",
            "Moshe did as Adonoy commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the presence of the entire community.",
            "Moshe then removed Aharon’s vestments and dressed Aharon’s son, Elozor, in them; Aharon died there on top of the mountain, and Moshe and Elozor descended from the mountain.",
            "The entire community saw that Aharon died; and they wept for Aharon thirty days, the entire house of Yisroel."
        ],
        [
            "The Canaanite King of Arad heard—who lived in the south—that Yisroel had come by the route of the spies; he attacked [<b>waged war with</b>] Yisroel, and he took from them a captive.",
            "Yisroel made a vow to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy and said, “If You will deliver this people into my hand, I shall consecrate their cities.”",
            "Adonoy heard Yisroel’s voice [<b>prayers</b>], and He delivered the Canaanites (into Yisroel’s hand), and he (Yisroel) destroyed them and [consecrated] their cities; the region was named Chormo.",
            "They then traveled from Mount Hor by the Reed Sea route, in order to circle around the land of Edom; traveling was insufferable to the [<b>soul of the</b>] people.",
            "The people spoke out [<b>complained</b>] against [<b>the word of</b>] God and [<b>they fought</b>] Moshe, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no food and no water, and we are disgusted with this rotten bread [<b>which is eaten simply</b>].”",
            "Adonoy sent against the people the consuming snakes, and they bit the people, and many people of Yisroel died.",
            "The people came to Moshe and said, “We have sinned by speaking against [<b>complaining before</b>] Adonoy and [<b>fighting with</b>] you; pray to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy that He remove the snakes from us.” Moshe prayed on behalf of the people.",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe, “Make yourself [the image of] a consuming snake, and place it upon a banner; and anyone bitten will look at it and live.”",
            "Moshe made a copper snake and placed it on the banner; whenever a snake bit a person, he would gaze upon the copper snake and live.",
            "Bnei Yisroel traveled on and camped in Ovos.",
            "They traveled from Ovos and camped in the wasteland passes in the wilderness, facing Moav, eastward of the sun.",
            "They traveled from there and camped in the valley of Zered.",
            "They traveled from there and camped opposite Arnon, in the wilderness, extending from the Emorite border; Arnon being the Moav border between Moav and the Emorite.",
            "Concerning this will be told in the Book of the Wars of Adonoy, “He gave at the Reeds (Sea) and [<b>the might at</b>] the valleys of Arnon.",
            "And the spillage in the valleys when it turned to dwell at Ar, and then leaned on the border of Moav.",
            "From there, to the well; this is the well of which Adonoy said to Moshe, ‘Gather the people and I will give them water.’”",
            "It was then that Yisroel sang this song [<b>of praise</b>]: “Arise, O well, sing to it!",
            "The well dug by princes, that the nobles of the nation excavated, through the lawgiver, with their staffs; from the wilderness a gift [<b>was given to them</b>].",
            "The gift [<b>given to them</b>] (traveled) to the valley, and from the valley [<b>rose with them</b>] to the heights.",
            "And from the heights to the valley that is in the field of Moav, at the top of the peak that overlooks the wastelands.”",
            "Yisroel sent emissaries to Sichon, King of the Emorite, saying.",
            "“Let me pass through your land, we will not turn aside into the fields and vineyards, we will not drink well water; we will go by the King’s road until we have passed through your territory.”",
            "But Sichon did not allow Yisroel to pass through his territory; Sichon gathered all his people and went out against Yisroel to the wilderness; he came to Yohatz and attacked [<b>waged war with</b>] Yisroel.",
            "Yisroel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land; from Arnon to the Yabok, as far as Amon[’s border], because Amon’s border was impregnable.",
            "Yisroel took [<b>captured</b>] all these cities; Yisroel settled in all the cities of the Emorite, in Cheshbon and all its daughters [<b>villages</b>].",
            "For Cheshbon was then a city of Sichon, King of the Emorites, and he had waged war against the first king of Moav, and took all his land from his hand, as far as Arnon.",
            "Concerning this, the parable tellers say: “Come to Cheshbon, may it be built and established as the city of Sichon.",
            "For [<b>an Easterly wind as strong as</b>] a fire went forth from Cheshbon, [<b>waged war as</b>] a flame from Sichon’s capital; it consumed [<b>killing the nation that dwelled in</b>] Ar [<b>Lechoyas</b>], of Moav, [<b>killing</b>] the masters [<b>priests who serve in the house of idol worship</b>] of Arnon’s heights.",
            "Woe to you, O Moav, you are destroyed, people of [<b>who serve</b>] Kemosh, he rendered your sons as refugees, and your daughters captives, of Sichon, King of Emori.",
            "Their kingdom was uprooted from Cheshbon as far as Divon [<b>whose reign has ended</b>]; we made them desolate as far as Nofach near Meidva.”",
            "Yisroel settled in the land of the Emorite.",
            "Moshe sent [men] to spy on Ya’zer, and they captured its surrounding villages, and drove out the Emorites that were there.",
            "They then turned and headed toward the Bashan [<b>Masnon</b>]; and Og, King of the Bashan [<b>Masnon</b>], came out against them he with all his people, to wage war at Edre’i.",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe, “Do not be afraid of him, for into your hand I have delivered Ihim and all his people and territory; do to him as you have done to Sichon, King of the Emorite, who lives in Cheshbon.”",
            "And they killed him (Og), his sons, and all his people, leaving no survivors; and they took possession of his land."
        ],
        [
            "Bnei Yisroel traveled and camped in the western plains of Moav, across the Yardein from Yereicho.",
            "And Balak the son of Tzipor saw all that Yisroel had done to the Emorite.",
            "And Moav became terrified of the people [of Israel] because of their great numbers, and so, Moav detested the Bnei Yisroel.",
            "Moav said to the elders of Midian, “Now this assembly will lick up [<b>consume</b>] everything around us, just as the ox laps up the herbs of the field.” Balak the son of Tzipor was King of Moav at that time.",
            "He sent emissaries to Bil’am the son of Beor, to Pesor—which is by the river [<b>Peras</b>], the land of his people—to call him, saying: “Behold, a nation came out of Egypt, behold they have covered [<b>obscured the sunshine from</b>] the face of the earth, and is located across from me.",
            "And now, please come and curse this nation for me, for it is too mighty for me, perhaps it will enable us to strike at [<b>wage war with</b>] him, and banish them from the land; for I know, that whomever you bless is blessed, and whomever you curse is cursed.”",
            "And the elders of Moav and Midian went with magic charms in their hands; they came to Bil’am and conveyed Balak's message to him.",
            "He replied to them: “Spend this night here and then I will give you an answer according to what Adonoy tells me,’’ and the dignitaries of Moav remained with Bil’am.",
            "God[<b>’s word</b>] appeared to [<b>before</b>] Bil’am and said, “Who are these men with you?”",
            "Bil’am replied to God: “Balak son of Tzipor, King of Moav, has sent them to me [saying]:",
            "‘Behold, the people that came out of Egypt has covered [<b>obscured the sunshine from</b>] the face of the earth; come now, and curse him for me so that I will be able to wage war against him, and banish him’.”",
            "God said to Bil’am: “Do not go with them! You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”",
            "Bil’am arose in the morning and said to Balak's dignitaries: “Go back to your land, for Adonoy refuses [<b>it is not the will of Hashem</b>] to allow me to go with you.”",
            "Moav's dignitaries got up, and came to Balak and said: “Bil’am refuses to go with us.”",
            "Balak persisted and sent dignitaries in greater number and of higher rank than these.",
            "They came to Bil’am and said to him: “The following is a message from Balak the son Tzipor: ‘Please do not refuse to come to me.",
            "For I will honor you greatly and whatever you tell me, I will do, if you would just please come and curse this people for me.’”",
            "Bil’am answered and said to Balak's servants: “Even if Balak would give me silver and gold enough to fill his house, I cannot [<b>have no permission</b>] transgress the word of Adonoy my God, by doing anything small or great.",
            "Now, you also, please remain here overnight, and I will get to know what more will Adonoy tell me.”",
            "God[<b>’s word</b>] appeared [<b>before</b>] to Bil’am that night and said to him: “If the men have come to call you, arise and go with them; however, whatever I will say to you, you will do.”",
            "Bil’am arose in the morning, saddled [<b>readied</b>] his donkey, and went with the Moavite dignitaries.",
            "God showed anger because he went, and an angel of Adonoy placed himself in the way to thwart him, as he was riding on his donkey accompanied by his two attendants.",
            "The donkey saw the angel of Adonoy standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; the donkey turned aside from the way and went into the field; Bil’am struck the donkey to get it back on the way.",
            "But the angel of Adonoy stood in a narrow path of the vineyards [<b>at a place</b>] with a barrier at either side.",
            "When the donkey saw the angel of Adonoy, she was pressed against the wall and pressed Bil’am's foot against the wall; and he struck her even more.",
            "Adonoy’s angel passed further ahead and stood in a narrow place, where there was no room to turn [either] to the right or to the left.",
            "When the donkey saw the angel of Adonoy, it crouched beneath Bil’am; Bil’am[<b>’s anger was provoked</b>] became angry and beat the donkey with the stick.",
            "Adonoy opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Bil’am: “What have I done to you, that you have hit me these three times?”",
            "Bil’am said to the donkey: “Because you have ridiculed me; would that I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you now.”",
            "The donkey replied to Bil’am: “Am I not the very same donkey that you have been riding on all your life [<b>from the time I became yours</b>] until this very day? Was it ever my habit to do this to you?” And he said: “No.”",
            "Adonoy then enabled Bil’am to see, and he observed the angel of Adonoy standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand. He bowed his head and prostrated himself on his face.",
            "The angel of Adonoy said to him: “Why did you hit your donkey these three times? Behold, I came out to obstruct you, because your way is [<b>it is clear to me that you desire to proceed on a path</b>] contrary to me.",
            "And when the donkey saw me, it turned aside these three times; had she not turned aside before me as [she did] now I would surely have killed you and she, I would let live.”",
            "Bil’am said to the angel of Adonoy: “I have sinned because I did not know that you were standing in the way before me; now therefore, if it is wicked in your eyes, I shall return.”",
            "The angel of Adonoy said to Bil’am: “Go with the men, but only the word that I will speak to you shall you speak” Bil’am then continued to go with Balak's dignitaries.",
            "When Balak heard that Bil’am was coming, he went out to meet him, to the city of Moav, which is on the boundary of Arnon—at the very edge of the boundary.",
            "Balak said to Bil’am: “Did I not send so many [dignitaries] to invite you? Why did you not come to me? Am I really [<b>can you truthfully say that I am</b>] incapable of honoring you?”",
            "Bil’am replied to Balak: “Now that I have come to you, have I any power to say anything? Only the word that God puts in my mouth will I speak.”",
            "Bil’am went with Balak and they came to Kiryas Chutzos [<b>the city of his territory</b>].",
            "Balak slaughtered cattle and sheep and he sent some to Bil’am and to the dignitaries that were with him.",
            "In the morning, Balak took Bil’am and he led him up to Bamos Ba’al [<b>the high place of his idol</b>]; from there he saw part of the people."
        ],
        [
            "Bil’am said to Balak: “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”",
            "Balak did as Bil’am requested. Balak and Bil’am then sacrificed as burnt-offerings an ox and a ram on each altar.",
            "Bil’am said to Balak: “Stand beside your burnt-offering and I will go away. Perhaps, [<b>a word from before</b>] Adonoy will appear to me, and whatever He will show me I will tell you.” And he went away alone.",
            "[<b>A word from before</b>] God chanced to appear to Bil’am, and he said to Him: “I have set up the seven altars and I offered [as burnt-offerings] an ox and a ram on the altar.”",
            "Adonoy put a message in Bil’am's mouth and He said: “Return to Balak and tell him as follows.”",
            "When he returned, Balak was still standing next to his burnt-offering together with all the dignitaries of Moav.",
            "Bil’am set forth his parable, and said: “From Aram has Balak, King of Moav, brought me, out of the mountains of the east [saying]: 'Come, curse Yaakov for me; go, invoke wrath against Yisroel.",
            "How can I curse, when God has not cursed? What Divine wrath can I evoke if Adonoy has not been angry?",
            "For I view it, from the mountain peaks, I gaze upon it from the hills; behold! A people which shall dwell alone [<b>and are destined to inhabit the world</b>] and will not be reckoned among the nations [<b>not be judged for annihilation</b>].",
            "Who can count the dust of [<b>the house of</b>] Yaakov [<b>of whom it is said: they will multiply as the dust of the earth</b>] or count the seed of Yisroel [<b>or one of the four camps of Yisrael</b>]? May my soul die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his.”",
            "Balak said to Bil’am: “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies but you have in fact blessed them!”",
            "Bil’am replied and said: “Only what Adonoy tells me must I be careful to say.”",
            "Balak then said to him, “Come with me to another place from where you will see them. But you will see only a part of them, without seeing them all, and curse them for me from there.”",
            "He took him [Bil’am] to the field of Tzofim, to the peak of the mountain; he built seven altars and sacrificed as a burnt-offering a bull and a ram on each altar.",
            "He then said to Balak: “Stand here next to your burnt-offering, and I will be called here by chance [<b>will continue there</b>].”",
            "[<b>A word from before</b>] Adonoy chanced to appear to Bil’am and placed the word in his mouth; He said: “Return to Balak and say as follows.”",
            "When he returned, he (Balak) was still standing next to his burnt-offering accompanied by the Moavite dignitaries; Balak asked: “What did Adonoy say?”",
            "Bil’am set forth his parable, and said: “Arise, Balak, and hear, listen closely to me [<b>my word</b>], son of Tzipor.",
            "God is not like man that He should act falsely, nor is He mortal that He should change His mind. [<b>God’s word is not as that of man who speaks with deceit. Nor is it as that of mankind who decree and then change their mind</b>] Would He say and not do it? Or speak and not fulfill it [<b>He says and does, and His word endures</b>]?",
            "Behold, I was commanded to bless, and [when] He has blessed, I cannot reverse it [<b>turn my blessing from him</b>].",
            "[<b>Behold,</b>] One does not see evildoers [<b>there are no idol worshippers</b>] in [<b>the house of</b>] Yaakov; and He has seen no transgression [<b>nor is there the work of liars</b>] in Yisroel; [<b>the word of</b>] Adonoy, his God, is with [<b>aids them</b>] him, and he has the King's friendship [<b>and the Shechinah of their King is among them</b>].",
            "God Who has brought them out of Egypt, has shown His great strength to them [<b>with His might and loftiness</b>].",
            "For, there is no sorcery in [<b>sorcerers wish no good to come to the house of</b>] Yaakov, nor occult powers against [<b>nor greatness for the house of</b>] Yisroel; in due time it will be said to Yaakov and Yisroel, 'What has God done?'",
            "Behold, a people that rises [<b>dwells</b>] like a young lion, and lifts itself up like a lion; he does not lie down [<b>dwell in his land</b>] until it devours its prey [<b>slaughters the kill</b>] and drinks the blood of its kill [<b>inherits the wealth of nations</b>].”",
            "Balak said to Bil’am: “Also do not curse them, also do not bless them.”",
            "Bil’am answered Balak and said: “Did I not tell you that all that Adonoy tells me will I do.”",
            "Balak then said to Bil’am: “Come, I will take you somewhere else, perhaps God will consider it proper [<b>it will be the will before Hashem</b>] and you will curse them for me, from there.”",
            "Balak took Bil’am to the peak of Pe’or which overlooks the Yeshimon.",
            "Bil’am said to Balak: “Build seven altars for me here and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”",
            "Balak did as Bil’am said, and he sacrificed as a burnt-offering a bull and a ram on each altar."
        ],
        [
            "When Bil’am saw that it was favorable [<b>fitting before</b>] to Adonoy to bless Yisroel, he did not approach, as at each time, towards sorcery; but he set his face toward the wilderness.",
            "Bil’am raised his eyes and saw Israel encamped according to its tribes, and the spirit of God rested upon him [<b>prophesy from before Hashem</b>].",
            "He set forth his parable, and said: “This is the declaration of Bil’am, the son of Be’or; this is the declaration of the man of the open-socketed eye [<b>who sees well</b>].",
            "This is the declaration of one who hears [<b>from before</b>] God's utterance, who sees the vision of [<b>from before</b>] the Almighty; fallen, with opened eyes [<b>it is apparent to him</b>].",
            "How goodly are your tents [<b>land</b>], Yaakov, your dwelling places, Yisroel.",
            "They stretch forth like streams, like gardens by the river [<b>flowing like irrigated gardens near Peras</b>], like the aloe trees that Adonoy has planted; like cedar trees [<b>standing</b>] by the water.",
            "Water flows out from his buckets, and his seed will have an abundant flow [<b>the anointed king shall grow and rule over many nations</b>]; his king will be greater than Agag and his monarchy shall be uplifted.",
            "God Who has brought him out of Egypt, has shown His great strength to him [<b>might and loftiness is His</b>]; He will consume His enemy nations, crushing their bones and dip His arrows [in their blood] [<b>Bnei Yisroel will eat from the wealth of the nations—their enemies, and will enjoy the spoils of their kings, and will inhabit their land</b>].",
            "He crouches and lies [<b>rests and dwells with might</b>] like a lion, and, being a lion, who would dare rouse him? [<b>No kingdom can cause him fear.</b>] those who bless you are blessed, and those who curse you are cursed.”",
            "Balak became enraged at Bil’am and clapped his hands together; Balak then said to Bil’am: “I called you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them these three times.",
            "Now, hurry [<b>go</b>] back home! I said I would exceedingly honor you, but Adonoy has held you back from honor.”",
            "Bil’am said to Balak: “Even to your emissaries whom you sent to me I said:",
            "‘Even if Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot transgress the word of Adonoy to do good or evil [<b>from</b>] on my own [<b>will</b>];’ only what Adonoy declares will I speak.",
            "And now that I am returning to my people, come, I will advise you [<b>what you should do and I will show you</b>] what this people will do to your people in the end of days.”",
            "He set forth his parable, and said: “This is the declaration of Bil’am the son of Beor, the declaration of the man, of the open-sockered eye [<b>sees well</b>].",
            "This is the declaration of one who hears God's utterances and knows the thoughts of the Most Exalted; who sees the vision of the Almighty; fallen, with opened eyes [<b>and is apparent to him</b>].",
            "I see it but not now, I perceive it but not in the near future; a star [<b>king</b>] has gone forth from Yaakov, and a staff has arisen [<b>the Moshiach will be magnified by</b>] from Yisroel, which will smash the corners [<b>kill the leaders</b>] of Moav, and impale all of the sons of Sheis [<b>will rule over mankind</b>].",
            "Edom will be possession and Seir shall become the possession of his enemies; but Yisroel will triumph [<b>be successful in enterprise</b>].",
            "A ruler shall come from [<b>the house of</b>] Yaakov, who will annihilate the survivors of the city.”",
            "When Bil’am saw Amalek, he declared his parable, and said: “Amalek was the first among nations [<b>to fight with Yisroel</b>], and his end will be total destruction.”",
            "[When] he saw the Keinite [<b>Shalmites</b>], he set forth his parable, and said: “How powerful is your dwelling place, and set in a cliff your nest [<b>your dwelling in a forified city</b>].",
            "For, if Kayin is to be uprooted [<b>the Shalmites are to be destroyed</b>], until where will Ashur take you captive?”",
            "He set forth his parable, and said: “Alas! Who can survive from God's devastation? [<b>Woe to those evil people who are living when Hashem does this.</b>]",
            "Warships will come from Kittim [<b>groups will beg help from Rome</b>] and destroy Ashur, and cause suffering to those on the other side [<b>will enslave those beyond Peras</b>], but they, too, shall be lost for eternity.”",
            "Bil’am arose, went, and returned home; and Balak too, went on his way."
        ],
        [
            "Yisroel settled in Shittim and the people [of Yisroel] began acting promiscuously with the daughters of Moav.",
            "They [girls of Moav] invited the people [of Yisroel] to their idolatrous sacrifices [<b>abominations</b>]; and the people ate and prostrated themselves before their gods [<b>abominations</b>].",
            "Yisroel became united with Ba’al Pe’or; and the rage of Adony flared against Yisroel.",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe: “Take all the leaders of the people and hang them, [<b>judge and execute those guilty by death</b>] before Adonoy, facing the sun; thereby removing the rage of Adony against Yisroel.”",
            "Moshe said to the judges of Yisroel: “Each of you must execute his men who were united with Ba’al Pe’or.”",
            "And behold, a man came from among Bnei Yisroel, and brought the Midianite woman to his brethren, before the eyes of Moshe and before the eyes of the entire congregation of Yisroel, who were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.",
            "When he saw this—Pinchas the son of Elazar [and grand]son of Aharon the <i>Kohein</i>—he rose up from the midst of the community and took a spear in his hand.",
            "He followed the Israelite man into the inner chamber of the tent and pierced both of them through—the Israelite man and the woman through her belly—and the plague stopped from [afflicting] the Bnei Yisroel.",
            "Those that died in the plague, [numbered] twenty-four thousand.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe saying.",
            "“Pinchas, the son of Elozor, [and grand] son of Aharon the <i>kohein,</i> has turned My anger away from Bnei Yisroel by his vengeance for Me among them, so that I did not destroy Bnei Yisroel in My vengeance.",
            "Therefore tell [him], that I give [<b>decree for</b>] him My covenant [of] peace.",
            "It shall be for him and his descendants after him a covenant of eternal <i>kehunah</i> because he was zealous for [<b>before</b>] his God and made atonement for Bnei Yisroel.”",
            "The name of the slain Israelite man, who was killed along with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, son of Salu, leader of a paternal house of Shimon.",
            "The name of the slain Midianite woman was Kozbi, daughter of Tzur, the national leader of a paternal house in Midian.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe saying:",
            "“Antagonize the Midianites and kill them,",
            "for they antagonized you with their guiles in the matter of Pe’or, and in the matter of Kozbi the daughter of a Midianite prince, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that resulted from Pe’or.”"
        ],
        [
            "It was after the plague. Adonoy spoke to Moshe and Elozor, son of Aharon the <i>kohein,</i> saying:",
            "“[<b>Take the</b>] count [<b>of</b>] the whole community of Bnei Yisroel twenty years of age and above, according to their paternal house, every one who is fit for duty in the army of Yisroel.”",
            "Moshe and Elozor the <i>kohein</i> spoke with [<b>to count</b>] them on the plains of Moav, by the Yardein near Yereicho, saying:",
            "“[Count those] twenty years of age and above, as Adonoy commanded Moshe and Bnei Yisroel who had left Egypt.”",
            "Reuvein, [was] Yisroel’s firstborn; the descendants of Reuvein are: the Chanochite family from Chanoch, the Paluite family from Palu,",
            "the Chetzronite family from Chetzron and the Karmite family from Karmi.",
            "These are Reuvein’s families and they numbered forty-three thousand, and seven hundred and thirty.",
            "Palu’s son[s were] was Eliav.",
            "Eliav’s sons were Nemueil, Dasan and Aviram. They are Dasan and Aviram, the communal leaders, who incited against Moshe and Aharon in the assembly of Korach when they incited against Adonoy.",
            "The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korach when that assembly died; when fire consumed the two hundred and fifty men; they became a symbol.",
            "But the sons of Korach did not die.",
            "The descendants of Shimon by their families are: the Nemuelite family from Nemuel, the Yaminite family from Yamin, the Yachinite family from Yachin,",
            "the Zarchite family from Zerach, [and] the Shaulite family from Shaul.",
            "These are the families of Shimon—twenty- two thousand and two hundred.",
            "The descendants of Gad by their families are: The Tzefonite family from Tzefon, the Chagite family from Chagi, the Shunite family from Shuni,",
            "the Oznite family from Ozni, the Eirite family from Eiri,",
            "the Arodite family from Arod, and the Areilite family from Areili.",
            "These are the families of Gad’s descendants and they numbered forty thousand and five hundred.",
            "The sons of Yehudah are Eir and Onan; Eir and Onan died in the land of Canaan.",
            "The descendants of Yehudah by their families are: The Sheilanite family from Sheila, the Partzite family from Peretz, the Zarchite family from Zerach.",
            "The descendants of Peretz were: The Chetzronite family from Chetzron, and the Chamulite family from Chamul.",
            "These are the families of Yehudah and they numbered seventy-six thousand and five hundred.",
            "The descendants of Yissachar by their families are: The Tolaite family from Tola, the Punite family from Puva,",
            "the Yashuvite family from Yashuv, and the Shimronite family from Shimron.",
            "These are the families of Yissachar and they numbered sixty-four thousand and three hundred.",
            "The descendants of Zevulun by their families are: The Sardite family from Sered, the Eilonite family from Eilon, [and] the Yachle’eilite family from Yachle’eil.",
            "These are the families of Zevulun and they numbered sixty thousand and five hundred.",
            "The descendants of Yoseif by their families are: Menashe and Ephraim.",
            "The descendants of Menashe are: The Machirite family from Machir; Machir’s son was Gil’ad, the Gil’adite family from Gil’ad.",
            "The descendants of Gil’ad are: The I’ezerite family from I’ezer, the Chelkite family from Cheilek,",
            "the Asrieilite family from Asrieil, the Shechemite family from Shechem,",
            "the Shemidaite family from Shemida, and the Chefrite family from Cheifer.",
            "Tzelofchad the son of Cheifer had no sons, only daughters; The name[s] of Tzelofchad’s daughters were Machlah, No’ah, Choglah, Milkah and Sirtzah.",
            "These are the families of Menashe and they numbered fifty-two thousand and seven hundred.",
            "The descendants of Ephraim by their families are: The Shusalchite family from Shuselach, the Bachrite family from Becher, and the Tachanite family from Tachan.",
            "These are the sons of Shuselach: The Eiranite family from Eiran.",
            "These are the families of Ephraim’s descendants, and they numbered thirty-two thousand and five hundred; these are the descendants of Yoseif by their families.",
            "The descendants of Binyamin by their families were: The Balite family from Bela, the Ashbelite family from Ashbeil, the Achiramite family from Achiram,",
            "the Shufamite family from Shfufam, and the Chufamite family from Chufam.",
            "The sons of Bela were Ard and Na’aman [giving rise to] the Ardite family, and the Na’amite family from Na’aman.",
            "These are the descendants of Binyamin by their families, and they numbered forty-five thousand and six hundred.",
            "These are the descendants of Don by their families: The Shuchamite family from Shucham, these are Don’s families.",
            "All Shuchamite families numbered sixty-four thousand and four hundred.",
            "The descendants of Asher by their families are: The Yimnite family from Yimnah, the Yishvite family from Yishvi, [and] the Bri’ite family from Briah .",
            "The descendants of Briah are: The Chevronite family from Chever, the Malkieilite family from Malkieil.",
            "The name of Asher’s daughter was Serach.",
            "These are the families of Asher and they numbered fifty-three thousand and four hundred.",
            "The descendants of Naftali by their families are: the Yachtze’eilite family from Yachtze’eil, the Gunite family from Guni,",
            "the Yitzrite family from Yeitzer, and the Shileimite family from Shileim.",
            "These are the families of Nafatli and they numbered forty-five thousand and four hundred.",
            "The total number of Bnei Yisroel was six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe saying.",
            "“The land shall be apportioned among these, as an inheritance according to the number of names.",
            "To the large [tribe], increase their inheritance, and to the small, diminish their inheritance; each person, according to his number, shall be given his inheritance.",
            "Only by lot should the land be divided, according to the names of their fathers’ tribes should they inherit it.",
            "By word of the lottery should their inheritance be divided, with regard to whether they are many or few.”",
            "These are the numbered ones of the Levites by their families: The Gershonite family of Gershon, the Kehosite family of Kehos, [and] the Merorite family of Merori.",
            "These are the families of Levi: the Livnite family, the Chevronite family, the Machlite family, the Mushite family, and the Korchite family; Kehos’ son was Amram.",
            "The name of Amram’s wife was Yocheved, daughter of Levi, whom [her mother] bore to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram, Aharon, Moshe, and their sister Miriam.",
            "To Aharon were borne, Nadav and Avihu, Elozor and Isamar.",
            "Nadav and Avihu died when they offered a forbidden fire before Adonoy.",
            "They numbered twenty-three thousand, for all males from one month and older. They were not counted among Bnei Yisroel, since no inheritance was given to them among Bnei Yisroel.",
            "This is the census of Moshe and Elozor the <i>kohein</i> who counted the Bnei Yisroel in the plains of Moav, at Yardein Yereicho.",
            "Among this [census] there was no man who had been included in the census of Moshe and Aharon the <i>kohein,</i> who had counted Bnei Yisroel in the wilderness of Sinai,",
            "because Adonoy said to them that they would die in the desert. No one was left with the exception of Kaleiv, son of Yefuneh and Yehoshua, son of Nun."
        ],
        [
            "And they approached—the daughters of Tzelofchad, son of Cheifer, son of Gil’ad, son of Machir, son of Menashe, of the families of Menashe the son of Yoseif. The names of his daughters were: Machlah, No’ah, Choglah, Milkah and Sirtzah.",
            "They stood before Moshe and before Elozor the <i>kohein,</i> and before the princes, and the entire community at the Tent of Meeting entrance, saying:",
            "“Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the group that banded together against Adonoy, in the company of Korach, but he died because of his own sin without leaving any sons.",
            "Why should the name of our father be omitted [<b>held back</b>] from his family because he did not have a son? Give us a possession [of land] among our father’s brothers.”",
            "Moshe brought their case before Adonoy.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe saying:",
            "“Tzelofchad’s daughters speak justly, give them a hereditary portion of land among their father’s brothers, and transfer the inheritance of their father to them.",
            "Speak to Bnei Yisroel and tell them, that if a man dies and has no son, his hereditary property shall be transferred to his daughter.",
            "If he has no daughter, you shall give his hereditary property to his brothers.",
            "If he has no brothers, you shall give his hereditary property to his father’s brothers.",
            "If his father had no brothers, you shall give his hereditary property to the relative closest to him in his family who will then inherit it. This shall remain a decreed law for Bnei Yisroel, as Adonoy had commanded Moshe.”",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe: “Go up this Avarim Mountain and look at the land that I have given to Bnei Yisroel.",
            "[After] you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aharon was gathered.",
            "Because you disobeyed My words in the wilderness of Tzin, when the community quarreled, [you were] to sanctify Me through the water, before their eyes.” Those were the waters of dispute at Kadeish [<b>Rekam</b>], in the wilderness of Tzin.",
            "Moshe spoke to Adonoy, saying:",
            "“Let Adonoy, God of the spirits, appoint a man over the community,",
            "who will go forth before them, and who will come back before them, and who would lead them out and bring them in, so that the community of Adonoy shall not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”",
            "Adonoy said to Moshe: “Take to yourself Yehoshua son of Nun, a man in whom there is spirit [<b>of prophecy</b>], and lay your hand on him.",
            "Stand him before Elozor the <i>kohein</i> and before the entire community, and command him before their eyes.",
            "Bestow some of your radiance on him, so that the entire community of Bnei Yisroel will hear [<b>be receptive to him</b>].",
            "He shall stand before Elozor the <i>kohein,</i> and ask, of him, through the judgment of the <i>Urim</i> before Adonoy. By his word they will come out and [<b>by his word they will</b>] go in—he, all Bnei Yisroel with him, and the entire community.”",
            "Moshe did as Adonoy commanded him. He took Yehoshua and presented him to Elozor the <i>kohein</i> and to the entire community.",
            "He laid his hands on him and commanded him, just as Adonoy had commanded through Moshe."
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe saying:",
            "“Command Bnei Yisroel and say to them, ‘My offering, My food of [<b>prepared for</b>] My fires, a pleasing aroma [<b>to be accepted willingly</b>] to Me, you shall be vigilant to offer to [<b>before</b>] Me at its prescribed time’.”",
            "Say to them: “This is the fire-offering that you shall offer to Adonoy; yearling lambs without blemish, two each day, as a constant (daily) burnt-offering.",
            "Offer one lamb in the morning and offer the second lamb in the afternoon.",
            "And one tenth of an <i>eiphah</i> [<b>three se’in</b>] of fine flour as a meal-offering, mixed with beaten oil measuring one fourth of a <i>hin.</i>",
            "[This is] a constant (daily) burnt-offering as offered on Mount Sinai, for a pleasing aroma [<b>to be accepted willingly</b>], a fire-offering to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "Its libation [shall be] one fourth of a <i>hin</i> for the one lamb, in the Holy [Sanctuary], you shall pour an intoxicating libation [<b>of aged wine</b>] to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "Offer the second lamb in the afternoon, with the same meal-offering of the morning together with its libation you shall offer it, a fire-offering of a pleasing aroma [<b>accepted willingly</b>] to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "On the Shabbos day [the offering shall be] two yearling lambs without blemish, and two tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] of fine flour as a meal-offering, mixed with [olive] oil, and its libation.",
            "This is the burnt-offering on its [<b>which is done on</b>] Shabbos, in addition to the constant (daily) burnt-offering and its libation.",
            "At the beginning of your months you shall bring a burnt-offering to Adonoy, two young bulls, one ram, seven yearling lambs, [all] without blemish.",
            "And three tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] of fine flour as a meal-offering mixed with the [olive] oil for each bull, two tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] of fine flour as a meal-offering, mixed with the [olive] oil for the one ram,",
            "And one tenth [of an <i>eiphah</i>] of fine flour as a meal-offering mixed with the [olive] oil for each lamb. A burnt-offering of pleasing aroma, a fire-offering [<b>accepted willingly</b>] to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "Their libations [shall be], one half of a <i>hin</i> for (a) bull, one third of a <i>hin</i> for the ram, and one fourth of a <i>hin</i> for (the) lamb, of wine. This is the burnt-offering of each [Rosh] Chodesh [<b>new moon</b>], at its renewal throughout [<b>thus all</b>] the months [<b>new months</b>] of the year.",
            "And [You shall also bring] one he-goat for a sin offering to Adonoy, in addition to the constant (daily) burnt-offering it shall be done, and its libation.",
            "In the first month—on the fourteenth day of the month [bring a] <i>Pesach</i> [offering] to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "The fifteenth day of that month is a festival, <i>matzohs</i> shall be eaten for seven days.",
            "The first day shall be a sacred holiday, any work of consequence you must not do.",
            "You shall bring a burnt fire-offering to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy [consisting of] two young bulls, one ram, and seven yearling sheep. They shall [all] be without blemish.",
            "Their meal-offering shall be fine flour mixed with [olive] oil, three tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for each bull, two tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for the ram,",
            "and one tenth [of an <i>eiphah</i>] [<b>thus</b>] for each of the seven sheep.",
            "[You should also bring] one he-goat as a sin-offering, to make atonement for you,",
            "in addition to the morning burnt-offering which is offered as a constant (daily) burnt-offering, you shall make these.",
            "Like these, you shall make daily for seven days, food as a fire-offering of a pleasing aroma [<b>accepted willingly</b>] to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy, (it shall be offered) in addition to the constant (daily) burnt-offering and its libation.",
            "The seventh day shall be a sacred holiday to you, when you shall not do any work of consequence.",
            "On the day of the first fruits when you bring a new meal-offering to Adonoy on your Festival of Weeks, there shall be a sacred holiday to you when you shall not do any work of consequence.",
            "You shall make a burnt-offering of a pleasing aroma [<b>accepted willingly</b>] to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy [consisting of] two young bulls, one ram, [and] seven yearling lambs.",
            "Their meal-offering [shall be] fine flour mixed with [olive] oil, three tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for each bull, two tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for the one ram,",
            "and one tenth [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for each of the seven lambs.",
            "[You should also bring] one he-goat to make atonement for you,",
            "in addition to bringing the constant (daily) burnt-offering and its meal- offering. [The sacrifices] shall be without blemish—and their libations."
        ],
        [
            "The first day of the seventh month shall be a sacred holiday to you when you shall not do any work of consequence. It shall be a day of sounding the ram’s horn [<b>wailing for you</b>].",
            "You shall bring a burnt-offering of a pleasing aroma [<b>accepted willingly</b>] to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy, [consisting of] one young bull, one ram, and seven yearling lambs, [all] without blemish.",
            "Their meal-offering [shall be] fine flour mixed with [olive] oil, three tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for the bull, two tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for the one ram,",
            "and one tenth [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for each of the seven lambs.",
            "[You should also bring] one he-goat as a sin-offering to make atonement for you.",
            "Aside from the [Rosh] Chodesh burnt-offering and its meal-offering, and the constant (daily) burnt-offering and its required meal-offering and libations [<b>appropriate for them</b>], for a pleasing aroma [<b>accepted willingly</b>], a fire-offering to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "On the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a sacred holiday to you, when you shall fast and not do any work.",
            "You shall bring a burnt-offering [<b>before</b>] Adonoy, for a pleasing aroma [<b>accepted willingly</b>], [consisting of] one young bull, one ram, and seven yearling lambs. They shall [all] be without blemish.",
            "Their meal-offering [shall be] fine flour mixed with [olive] oil, three tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for the bull, two tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for the one ram,",
            "and one tenth [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for each of the seven lambs.",
            "[You shall also bring] one he-goat as a sin-offering, aside from the atonement sin-offering, and the constant (daily) burnt-offering and its meal-offering, and their libations.",
            "The fifteenth day of the seventh month shall be a sacred holiday to you, when you shall not do any work of consequence. You shall celebrate a festival to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy",
            "You shall bring a burnt-offering, a fire-offering for a pleasing aroma [<b>accepted willingly</b>] to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy, [consisting of] thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs. They shall [all] be without blemish.",
            "Their meal-offering [shall be] fine flour mixed with [olive] oil, three tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for the bull for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for the ram for each of the two rams,",
            "and one tenth [of an <i>eiphah</i>] for the lamb for each of the fourteen lambs.",
            "[You shall also bring] one he-goat as a sin-offering, in addition to [bringing] the constant (daily) burnt-offering with its meal-offering and libation.",
            "On the second day [you shall bring] twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs, [all] without blemish,",
            "together with their meal-offerings and their libitions for the bulls, rams, and the lambs, of the required number.",
            "[You shall also bring] one he-goat as a sin-offering, in addition to [bringing] the constant (daily) burnt-offering with its meal-offering and their libations.",
            "On the third day [you shall bring] eleven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs, [all] without blemish,",
            "together with their meal-offerings and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs, of the required number.",
            "[You shall also bring] one he-goat as a sin-offering, in addition to [bringing] the constant (daily) burnt-offering with its meal-offering and libation.",
            "On the fourth day [you shall bring] ten young bulls, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs, [all] without blemish,",
            "together with their meal-offerings and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs, of the required number.",
            "[You shall also bring] one he-goat as a sin-offering, in addition to [bringing] the constant (daily) burnt-offering with its meal-offering and libation.",
            "On the fifth day [you shall bring] nine young bulls, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs, [all] without blemish,",
            "together with their meal-offerings and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs, of the required number.",
            "[You shall also bring] one he-goat as a sin-offering, in addition to [bringing] the constant (daily) burnt-offering with its meal-offering and libation.",
            "On the sixth day [you shall bring] eight young bulls, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs, [all] without blemish,",
            "together with their meal-offerings and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs. of the required number.",
            "[You shall also bring] one he-goat as a sin-offering, in addition to [bringing] the constant (daily) burnt-offering with its meal-offering and libations.",
            "On the seventh day [you shall bring] seven young bulls, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs, [all] without blemish,",
            "together with their meal-offerings and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs. of their required number.",
            "[You shall also bring] one he-goat as a sin-offering, in addition to [bringing] the constant (daily) burnt-offering with its meal-offering and libation.",
            "On the eighth day shall be a [day of] restraint [<b>assembly</b>] for you, when you shall not do any work of consequence.",
            "You shall bring a burnt-offering, a fire-offering for a pleasing aroma [<b>accepted willingly</b>] to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy, [consisting of] one young bull, one ram, and seven yearling lambs, [all] without blemish;",
            "[together with] their meal-offerings and libations for the bull, ram, and lambs. of the required number.",
            "And one he-goat as a sin-offering, in addition to [bringing] the constant (daily) burnt-offering with its meal-offering and libation.",
            "These you shall make to Adonoy on your festivals, aside from your vows and dedications, burnt-offerings and meal-offerings, and libations and peace-offerings.”"
        ],
        [
            "Moshe spoke to Bnei Yisroel all that Adonoy had commanded him.",
            "Moshe spoke to the tribal leaders of Bnei Yisroel saying: “This is the word that Adonoy has commanded.",
            "If a man makes a vow to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy or makes an oath; to initiate a prohibition himself; he may not profane his word. He shall do all that he said.",
            "[But] if a woman makes a vow to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy or obligates herself in her father’s home while still in her youth,",
            "and her father hears her vow or her self-imposed prohibition and remains silent, then all her vows shall stand and the self-imposed prohibition shall stand.",
            "But if her father restrained her on the day he heard it, then all her vows and self imposed prohibitions shall not stand. [<b>From before</b>] Adonoy will forgive her because her father has restrained her.",
            "If she is [married] to a man, and her vows were upon herself, or an utterance of self-imposed prohibitions,",
            "and her husband heard about them and remained silent on the day he heard, then her vows shall stand, and the self-imposed prohibitions shall stand.",
            "But, if on the day her husband hears about it, he restrains her, he then annuls her vow which was upon her, and self-imposed verbal prohibitions, and [<b>from before</b>] Adonoy will forgive her.",
            "The vow of a widow or a divorced woman—everything she prohibited for herself shall remain incumbent upon her.",
            "But, if she took the vow in her husband’s home, or has taken a self-imposed prohibitions upon herself, with an oath,",
            "and her husband heard and remained silent, [and] did not restrain her [<b>them</b>], then all her vows shall stand, and all her self-imposed prohibitions shall stand.",
            "But, if her husband annuls them on the day he hears them, then, whatever emanates from her lips regarding her vows and self-imposed prohibitions shall not stand. Her husband has annulled them, and [<b>from before</b>] Adonoy will forgive her.",
            "Every vow and every oath of self-denial, her husband can [either] let it stand, or her husband can annul it.",
            "But, if her husband remains silent from one day to the next, then he has upheld all her vows or all her prohibitions that she has assumed. He has upheld them because he remained silent on the day he heard.",
            "If he annuls them after having heard them, he must bear her transgression.”",
            "These are the statutes that Adonoy commanded Moshe, regarding a man and his wife, a father and his daughter in her youth, while in her father’s house."
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying.",
            "“Take revenge for [<b>retaliate for the evil done to</b>] Bnei Yisroel against the Midianites, afterward, you shall be gathered to your people (die).”",
            "Moshe spoke to the people, saying: “Arm men from among yourselves for the army and they will be against Midian, to bring revenge [<b>for the nation</b>] of Adonoy against Midian.",
            "One thousand from each tribe, one thousand from each tribe, for all of the tribes of Yisroel, you shall send into the army.”",
            "They were handed over [<b>chosen</b>] from among the thousands of Yisroel, one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed men for the army.",
            "Moshe sent, one thousand from each tribe to the army, them, and Pinchas, son of Elozor the <i>kohein</i> to the army, with the sacred vessels and the trumpets [<b>of wailing</b>] in his hand.",
            "They mounted a campaign against Midian, as Adonoy had commanded Moshe, and they killed every male.",
            "They killed the Midianite kings upon those they had slain: Evi, Rekem, Tzur, Chur and Reva—[the] five kings of Midian. And Bil’am son of Beor they killed with the sword.",
            "Bnei Yisroel took captive the Midianite women and their children. All their livestock, flocks and wealth they took as booty.",
            "All their residential cities and palaces [<b>houses of worship</b>] they set on fire.",
            "They took [<b>captured</b>] all the booty, all that had been seized, of man and livestock,",
            "And they brought to Moshe and to Elozor the <i>kohein</i> and to the entire community of Bnei Yisroel, the captives, and all that had been seized, and the booty, to the camp, at the plains of Moav, which was by the Yardein near Yereicho.",
            "They went out—Moshe, Elozor the <i>kohein</i> and the princes of the community—to greet them outside the camp.",
            "Moshe was angry with the commanders of the army, at the officers of the thousands and at the officers of the hundreds who had returned from the army service of the war.",
            "Moshe said to them: “Did you let every female live?",
            "They were the very same ones who, on Bila’m’s advice were involved with Bnei Yisroel to cause them to commit a betrayal [<b>deception</b>] against [<b>before</b>] Adonoy regarding the matter of Pe’or, so that the plague broke out within the community of Adonoy.",
            "Now execute every male among the children, and every woman with intimate knowledge of a man, you shall execute.",
            "All the children among the females without intimate knowledge of a man, keep alive for yourselves.",
            "You shall remain outside the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed a person or touched a corpse, purify yourselves, [<b>sprinkle on him</b>] on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.",
            "Every garment, every leather article, everything made of goat products and every wooden article shall undergo such purification [<b>sprinkle on it</b>].”",
            "Elozor the <i>kohein</i> said to the soldiers who came to the war: “This is the statute of the Torah which Adonoy commanded Moshe.",
            "Only the gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and lead,",
            "Anything placed [of these materials] on a fire, you must pass through fire, and it will be purified; however, it must be purified [<b>sprinkled upon</b>] with sprinkling water. But anything [of these materials] that was not placed on a fire you may pass through water.",
            "You shall immerse your garments on the seventh day and become purified; afterward you may come into the camp.”",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "“Take count of the booty seized, of what was captured of the men and animals—you, together with Elozor the <i>kohein,</i> and the leaders of the community.",
            "Divide in half the spoils seized among those who took the war in hand [<b>waged war</b>], who went into the army, and the entire community.",
            "Levy [<b>separate</b>] a tribute to Adonoy from the people of the army who went out to war, one living being out of five hundred from the people, cattle, donkeys and sheep.",
            "Take this from their half and give it to Elozor the <i>kohein</i> as a gift to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "And from the half of the Bnei Yisroel, take one part out of fifty, of the people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and of all the other animals, and give it to the Levites who are entrusted with the <i>Mishkon</i> of Adonoy.”",
            "Moshe and Elozor the <i>kohein</i> did as Adonoy commanded Moshe.",
            "The spoil was—in addition to the booty that was taken by the [<b>those who served in the</b>] army: 675,000",
            "72,000 cattle,",
            "61,000 donkeys,",
            "And the number of women who did not have intimate relations with a man all the souls amounted to 32,000.",
            "The half-portion of those who went in the army, the amount of sheep [was] 337,500",
            "The tribute to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy from the sheep, amounted to 675.",
            "From the 36,000 cattle the tribute to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy amounted to 72.",
            "From the 30,500 donkeys the tribute to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy amounted to 61.",
            "From the 16,000 people the tribute to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy amounted to 32 people.",
            "Moshe gave the tribute as a gift to [<b>before</b>] Adonoy, to Elozor the <i>kohein,</i> as Adonoy had commanded Moshe.",
            "From the half [designated] for Bnei Yisroel that Moshe divided from the men of the [<b>who served in the</b>] army:",
            "The community’s half consisted of 337,500 sheep,",
            "36,000 cattle,",
            "30,500 donkeys,",
            "and 16,000 people.",
            "Moshe took from Bnei Yisroel’s half, one part out of the fifty, from the people and from the animals, and gave them to the Levites who are entrusted with the <i>Mishkon</i> of Adonoy; as Adonoy had commanded Moshe.",
            "The army officers approached Moshe—the officers who were over divisions of the thousands and the officers of the thousands, and the officers of the hundreds.",
            "And they said to Moshe: “Your servants have taken a census of the soldiers who went out to war [<b>who are with us</b>] and not one of us is missing.",
            "We have therefore brought an offering for Adonoy. Any man who found a gold article—an anklet, or a bracelet, a ring, earring or clasp [has dedicated it for Adonoy] to atone for ourselves before Adonoy.”",
            "Moshe and Elozor the <i>kohein</i> took the gold from them, every fashioned article.",
            "All the gold of the offering that they set apart for Adonoy was 16,750 <i>shekolim,</i> from the officers who were over divisions of the thousands and from the officers who were over divisions of the hundreds.",
            "The men of war, took booty for themselves.",
            "Moshe and Elozor the <i>kohein</i> took the gold from the officers who were over divisions of the thousands and the hundreds, and they brought it to the Tent of Meeting as a remembrance for Bnei Yisroel before Adonoy."
        ],
        [
            "Very large herds belonged to the children (tribes) of Reuvein and Gad—[an] extremely large [number]; and they saw the land of Ya’zeir and the land of Gilad, and behold, the region was an area [<b>suited</b>] for livestock.",
            "The tribes of Reuvein and Gad came and spoke to Moshe and to Elozor the <i>kohein,</i> and to the princes of the community, saying:",
            "“Ataros, Divon, Ya’zeir, [<b>Machlelta and Malbeshta and Kumrin,</b>] Nimrah [<b>Beis Nimrin</b>], Cheshbon [<b>Beis Chushbana</b>], Elalei [<b>Baalei Debaba</b>], Sevam [<b>Kima</b>], Nevo [<b>Moshe’s burial place</b>] and Be’on,",
            "the land that Adonoy struck down [<b>its inhabitants</b>] before Bnei Yisroel, is an area [<b>suited</b>] for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”",
            "They said: “If we have found favor in your eyes, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not bring us over the Yardein.”",
            "Moshe said to the children (tribes) of Gad and Reuvein: “Should your brothers go out to war while you settle here?",
            "Why do you dishearten Bnei Yisroel from crossing over to the land that Adonoy has given them?",
            "This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadeish Barnei’a [<b>Rekam Geyah</b>] to look at the land.",
            "They went up to Nachal Eshkol and saw the land. They then disheartened Bnei Yisroel from coming [<b>so as not to go up</b>] into the land that Adonoy has given them.",
            "Adonoy displayed His anger on that day and He swore, saying:",
            "’None of the men who came up from Egypt will see—those who are twenty years and above—the land that I swore to Avraham, Yitzchok and Yaakov, for they did not follow Me fully [<b>fear Me</b>].",
            "Except for Kaleiv, son of Yefuneh, the Kenizite, and Yehoshua, son of Nun, because they followed [<b>the fear of</b>] Adonoy fully.’",
            "Adonoy displayed anger against Yisroel and He made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until the end (death) of the entire generation that had done evil in the eyes of [<b>before</b>] Adonoy.",
            "Behold, you have now risen in the place of your fathers as a group [<b>disciples</b>] of sinners, to add to the [<b>mighty</b>] wrath of Adonoy against Yisroel.",
            "If you will turn away from following [<b>fearing</b>] Him, He will again place [<b>delay</b>] them in the wilderness. and you will destroy this entire nation.”",
            "They (the tribes of Reuvein and Gad) approached him (Moshe) and said: “We will build enclosures for our flocks here and cities for our children.",
            "We will then arm ourselves rapidly, and will be ready to go before Bnei Yisroel until we have brought them to their place. Our children will dwell in fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.",
            "We will not return to our homes until each person of Bnei Yisroel takes possession of his hereditary property.",
            "But we do not want to take possession with them across the Yardein and beyond, for, our inheritance came to us to the east of the Yardein.”",
            "Moshe said to them: “If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before [<b>the nation of</b>] Adonoy and go forth to the war,",
            "and every armed man will cross the Yardein, before [<b>the nation of</b>] Adonoy, until He has driven His enemies before Him,",
            "and the land is conquered before [<b>the nation of</b>] Adonoy—afterwards you will return. You will then be vindicated from [<b>before</b>] Adonoy and from Yisroel, and this land will become yours permanently, before Adonoy.",
            "But if you will not do this, behold, you will have sinned against [<b>before</b>] Adonoy and you must realize that your sin will find you!",
            "Build for yourselves cities for your children and enclosures for your sheep. But what you have expressed verbally, you must fulfill.”",
            "The tribe of Gad and Reuvein said to Moshe saying: “Your servants will do as my master instructs.",
            "Our children, wives, cattle and all livestock will remain there in the cities of Gil’ad.",
            "And your servants will cross over—all those in the army—before [<b>the nation of</b>] Adonoy, to the war, as my master commands.”",
            "Moshe commanded to them, Elozor the <i>kohein,</i> Yehoshua, son of Nun, and the heads of the tribes of Bnei Yisroel.",
            "Moshe said to them: “If the tribe of Gad and Reuvein will cross the Yardein with you, every man that is armed for battle before [<b>the nation of</b>] Adonoy, and the land is conquered before you, you shall give them the land of Gil’ad as a permanent possession.",
            "But if they do not cross over with you, armed for battle, then they shall take possession among you in the land of Canaan.”",
            "The tribes of Gad and Reuvein answered, saying: “As Adonoy has spoken to your servants, so shall we do.",
            "We will cross over armed for battle before [<b>the nation of</b>] Adonoy, to the land of Canaan, and we shall [then] have our permanent inheritance on this side of the Yardein.”",
            "Moshe gave to them—to the tribe of Gad, to the tribe of Reuvein and to half the tribe of Menashe son of Yoseif—the empire of Sichon, king of the Emorites and the empire of Og, king of the Bashan [<b>Masnon</b>], the land along with the cities within their borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.",
            "The sons of Gad built up Divon, Ataros, Aro’eir,",
            "Atros Shofan, Yazeir, Yogbehah [<b>the Heights</b>],",
            "Beis Nimrah, and Beis Haran as fortified cities and sheep pens.",
            "The tribe of Reuvein built up Cheshbon, El’alei, Kiryasayim,",
            "Nevo, Ba’al Me’on—their names having been changed, and Sivmah. They retained the names of the other cities that they built.",
            "The sons of Machir, son of Menashe, went to Gil’ad and captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were in it.",
            "Moshe gave the Gil’ad to Machir, son of Menashe, and he settled in it.",
            "Yair, son of Menashe, went and conquered their villages and called them Chavos Yair.",
            "Novach went and conquered Kenas and its suburbs, and called it Novach, after his own name."
        ],
        [
            "These are the journeys of Bnei Yisroel who went out of Egypt in organized groups under the leadership of Moshe and Aharon.",
            "Moshe recorded their departures for their journeys according to Adonoy’s command; these were the departure for their journeys.",
            "They journeyed from Ra’meses in the first month—on the fifteenth day of the first month—on the day after the [Korban] <i>Pesach,</i> Bnei Yisroel left triumphantly [<b>publicly</b>] before the eyes of all Egyptians.",
            "Egypt was burying that which Adonoy had struck among them—all their firstborn—and on their idols [<b>abominations</b>] Adonoy had inflicted punishments.",
            "Bnei Yisroel journeyed from Ra’meses and camped in Succos.",
            "They journeyed from Succos and camped in Eisom which is on the edge of the wilderness.",
            "They journeyed from Eisom and turned back to Pi Hachiros facing Ba’al Tzefon, and they camped by Migdol.",
            "They journeyed from before [<b>Pi</b>] Hachiros and crossed amidst the sea toward the wilderness. They traveled for three days in the wilderness of Eisom, and camped in Moroh.",
            "They journeyed from Moroh and came to Eilim. In Eilim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.",
            "They journeyed from Eilim and camped by the Sea of Reeds.",
            "They journeyed from the Sea of Reeds and camped in the wilderness of Sin.",
            "They journeyed from the wilderness of Sin and camped in Dofkoh.",
            "They journeyed from Dofkoh and camped in Alush.",
            "They journeyed from Alush and camped in Refidim, [but] there was no water there for the people to drink.",
            "They journeyed from Refidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.",
            "They journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai and camped in Kivros Hata’avoh [<b>Graves of the Demanders</b>].",
            "They journeyed from Kivros Hata’avoh [<b>Graves of the Demanders</b>] and camped in Chatzeiros.",
            "They journeyed from Chatzeiros and camped in Rismoh.",
            "They journeyed from Rismoh and camped in Rimon Peretz.",
            "They journeyed from Rimon Peretz and camped in Livnoh.",
            "They journeyed from Livnoh and camped in Risoh.",
            "They journeyed from Risoh and camped in Keheilosoh.",
            "They journeyed from Keheilosoh and camped in Har Shefer.",
            "They journeyed from Har Shefer and camped in Charodoh.",
            "They journeyed from Charodoh and camped in Makheilos.",
            "They journeyed from Makheilos and camped in Tochas.",
            "They journeyed from Tochas and camped in Torach.",
            "They journeyed from Torach and camped in Miskoh.",
            "They journeyed from Miskoh and camped in Chashmonoh.",
            "They journeyed from Chashmonoh and camped in Moseiros.",
            "They journeyed from Moseiros and camped in Bnei Ya’akon.",
            "They journeyed from Bnei Ya’akon and camped in Chor Hagidgod.",
            "They journeyed from Chor Hagidgod and camped in Yotvosoh.",
            "They journeyed from Yotvosoh and camped in Avronoh.",
            "They journeyed from Avronoh and camped in Etzyon Gover.",
            "They journeyed from Etzyon Gover and camped in the wilderness of Sin, which is Kodeish [<b>Rekom</b>].",
            "They journeyed from Kodeish [<b>Rekom</b>] and camped in Hor Hohor, at the edge of the land of Edom.",
            "Then Aharon the <i>kohein</i> ascended Hor Hohor by the word of Adonoy and died there; in the fortieth year of Bnei Yisroel’s exodus from Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.",
            "Aharon was 123 years old at his death on Hor Hohor.",
            "The Canaanite, the king of Arod heard that Bnei Yisroel were approaching—he dwelt in the south of the land of Canaan.",
            "They journeyed from Hor Hohor and camped in Tzalmonoh.",
            "They journeyed from Tzalmonoh and camped in Punon.",
            "They journeyed from Punon and camped in Ovos.",
            "They journeyed from Ovos and camped at the ruins of Avorim on Moav’s border.",
            "They journeyed from the ruins and camped in Divon Gad.",
            "They journeyed from Divon Gad and camped in Almon Divlasayim.",
            "They journeyed from Almon Divlasayim and camped in the Avorim Mountains before Nevo.",
            "They journeyed from the Avorim Mountains and camped in the plains of Moav along the Yardein near Yereicho.",
            "They camped along the Yardein, from Beis Yeshimos until Aveil Hasheetim, in the plains of Moav.",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe in the plains of Moav along the Yardein [near] Yereicho, saying:",
            "“Speak to Bnei Yisroel and say to them: ‘When you cross the Yardein to the land of Canaan,",
            "you must drive out all of the inhabitants of the land before you. You must destroy all their carved stones, and demolish all their cast metal idols and tear down all their altars.",
            "Drive out [the inhabitants of] the land and settle in it, because I have given this land to you to possess.",
            "You shall give the land as an inheritance to your families by means of a lottery; to the large [family] you shall increase its portion, to the small [family] you shall decrease its portion. To whomever the lottery [system] ordains, it shall be his; according to your paternal tribes shall you inherit.",
            "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those whom you will leave over will be spikes in your eyes and thorns in your sides [<b>armed groups coming against you and battalions surrounding you</b>], and they will persecute you upon the land in which you settle.",
            "And it shall be that what I had intended to do to them I will do to you.’”"
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "“Instruct Bnei Yisroel and say to them: ‘When you come to the land of Canaan, this is the land which will fall to [<b>divided for</b>] you as hereditary property, the land of Canaan according to its borders.",
            "Your southern flank shall be from the Tzin wilderness along [the land of] [<b>the borders of</b>] Edom; the southern border shall be from the edge of the Salt Sea to the east.",
            "The border then turns south of Maaleh [<b>the heights of</b>] Akrabim passing toward Tzin; and its outskirts shall be south of Kadeish Barne’a [<b>Rekam Geyoh</b>], and then it shall extend to Chatzar Adar and continue toward Atzmon.",
            "The border turns from Atzmon toward the Egyptian Estuary and its outskirts shall reach the sea.",
            "As for the western border; it shall be the border of the Great Sea, this shall be your western border.",
            "This shall be your northern border; from the Great Sea turn yourselves to Hor Hahar.",
            "From Hor Hahar turn to [<b>direct yourselves toward</b>] Levo Chamas and the outskirts of the border shall be toward Tzedad.",
            "The border shall then extend toward Zifron, and its outskirts shall be at Chatzar Einan; this shall be your northern border.",
            "You shall turn yourselves toward the eastern border from Chatzar Einan to Shefam.",
            "The border shall then descend from Shefam to Rivlah to the east of Ayin; the border shall descend and contact the bank of the eastern shore of the Kineres Sea [<b>of Ginesar</b>].",
            "The border shall then descend along the Yardein and its outskirts shall be the Salt (Dead) Sea. This should be your land according to its borders all around.’”",
            "Moshe instructed Bnei Yisroel, saying: “This is the land which you must distribute as hereditary property by means of a lottery, which Adonoy has commanded to give to the nine and one half tribes.",
            "Because the tribe of Reuvein’s descendants, the tribe of Gad’s descendants, and half of the tribe of Menashe have already taken their hereditary property.",
            "These two and one half tribes have taken their hereditary property on this side of the Yardein near Yereicho, to the east, toward the sunrise.”",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "“These are the names of the men who shall inherit the land for you: Elozor the <i>kohein</i> and Yehoshua son of Nun,",
            "And one leader from each tribe you shall take, to help inherit the land.",
            "These are the names of the men: for the tribe of Yehudah, Kaleiv son of Yefuneh.",
            "For the tribe of Shimon, Shmuel, son of Amihud.",
            "For the tribe of Binyamin, Elidad, son of Kislon.",
            "The leader for the tribe of Don, Buki, son of Yogli.",
            "For Yoseif’s children, the leader for the tribe of Menashe, Chaniel, son of Eifod.",
            "The leader for the tribe of Ephraim, Kemuel, son of Shiftan.",
            "The leader for the tribe of Zevulun, Elitzafan, son of Parnach.",
            "The leader for the tribe of Yissachar, Paltiel, son of Azan.",
            "The leader for the tribe of Asher, Achihud, son of Shlomi.",
            "The leader for the tribe of Naftali, Pedah’eil, son of Amihud.”",
            "These are the ones whom Adonoy commanded to apportion the inheritance to Bnei Yisroel, in the land of Canaan."
        ],
        [
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe in the plains of Moav by the Yardein near Yereicho, saying:",
            "“Instruct Bnei Yisroel and have them give to the Levites from their hereditary possession, cities in which to settle; and open space for the cities all around you shall give to the Levites.",
            "These cities shall be theirs for dwelling, and their open space shall be for their animals, their property and all of their necessities to live.",
            "The open space for the cities that you shall give the Levites [shall extend] from the walls of the city and outward a thousand <i>amo¯s</i> all around.",
            "You shall measure from outside the city two thousand <i>amo¯s</i> on the eastern side, two thousand <i>amo¯s</i> on the southern side, two thousand <i>amo¯s</i> on the western side, and two thousand <i>amo¯s</i> on the northern side; with the city in the center. This shall be the open spaces for the cities.",
            "Along with the cities that you shall give the Levites shall be the six refuge cities which you shall provide [as places] for a murderer to flee; and in addition to them, you shall provide forty-two cities.",
            "The total number of cities that you shall give to the Levites is forty eight cities, with their open spaces.",
            "The cities that you shall give, [shall be] from the possession of Bnei Yisroel; take more from a larger [holding], and less from a smaller [holding], each person, according to his inheritance, shall give of his cities to the Levites.”",
            "Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:",
            "“Speak to Bnei Yisroel and say to them: ‘When you cross the Yardein into the land of Canaan,",
            "you shall provide cities for yourselves, which shall serve as refuge cities for you, so that a murderer can flee there, one who accidentally killed a person.",
            "These cities shall serve you as a refuge from the [<b>blood</b>] avenger, so that the murderer will not die until he stands in judgment before the congregation.",
            "The cities that you shall give, will serve you as six refuge cities.",
            "Three cities on this side of the Yardein, and the [other] three cities you shall give in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.",
            "For Bnei Yisroel, the proselyte, and resident among them, shall these six cities be a refuge, to flee there anyone who accidentally kills a person.",
            "But if he struck him with an iron instrument and he died, then he is a murderer; the murderer must be executed.",
            "Or if with a stone that can be held [<b>taken</b>] in the hand and which can [<b>has the ability to</b>] kill he strikes him, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer must be executed.",
            "Or if with a wooden implement [that can be held] [<b>taken</b>] in the hand and which can [<b>has the ability to</b>] cause death he strikes him, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer must be executed.",
            "The blood avenger shall kill the murderer, wherever he meets him [<b>when he has been proven guilty by law</b>] he may kill him.",
            "If he pushes [his victim] out of hatred or throws at him deliberately, and he died,",
            "or if in enmity, he struck him with his hand and he died, the assailant must be executed; he is a murderer. The blood avenger may kill the murderer wherever he meets him.",
            "But if suddenly, without enmity, he pushed him or threw any object at him not deliberately,",
            "Or (even) with a stone which can [<b>has the ability to</b>] kill, without seeing [the victim], he threw it down on him and he died, but he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm.",
            "Then the congregation shall judge between the assailant and the blood avenger, abiding by these laws.",
            "The congregation shall protect the murderer from the blood avenger, and return him to his refuge city where he had fled, and he must remain there until the death of the <i>Kohein Gadol</i> who was anointed with the sacred oil.",
            "But if the murderer goes outside of the border of his refuge city where he had fled,",
            "and the blood avenger finds him outside the border of his refuge city, and the blood avenger kills the murderer, he has no blood.",
            "For he (the killer) must remain in his refuge city until the death of the <i>Kohein Gadol.</i> After the death of the <i>Kohein Gadol</i> the murderer may return to the land of his possession.",
            "These [rules] shall be for you the law of justice for all your descendants in all your dwelling places.",
            "If anyone kills a person, only upon the testimony of witnesses shall the murderer be killed. But one witness may not testify against a person, in a case of capital punishment.",
            "And do not accept atonement [<b>monetary</b>] compensation for the life of a murderer who is wicked to incur the death penalty, for he must be executed.",
            "And do not accept atonement compensation for one who has fled to his refuge city, to allow him to return to live in the land, before the death of the <i>Kohein</i> (<i>Gadol</i>).",
            "Do not pollute [<b>incur guilt on</b>] the land in which you live, for, the blood pollutes the land, and for the land there can be no atonement for the [<b>innocent</b>] blood that was spilled in it, except through the blood of the one who spilled it.",
            "You must not defile the land in which you live, wherein I [<b>My Shechinah</b>] reside[<b>s</b>], for, I, Adonoy, [<b>whose Shechinah</b>] dwell[<b>s</b>] among Bnei Yisroel.’”"
        ],
        [
            "The paternal leaders approached—for the children of Gilad, son of Machir, son of Menashe, of the families of Yoseif’s sons—and they spoke before Moshe and the leaders who were the paternal heads of Bnei Yisroel.",
            "They said: “Adonoy commanded our master to give the land as an inheritance, through the casting of lots, to Bnei Yisroel, and our master was commanded by [<b>the word of</b>] Adonoy to give the inheritance of our brother Tzelofchad to his daughters.",
            "But if they marry a member of another tribe of Bnei Yisroel, their inheritance will be diminished [<b>subtracted</b>] from our father’s inheritance, and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they will marry, and from the lot of our inheritance it will be subtracted.",
            "And even when the <i>yoveil</i> occurs for Bnei Yisroel, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they will marry, and from the inheritance of our fathers’ tribe, their inheritance will be subtracted.",
            "Moshe instructed Bnei Yisroel according to command of Adony, saying: “Correctly are the descendants of Yoseif’s tribe speaking.",
            "This is the word that Adonoy has commanded regarding Tzelofchad’s daughters: ‘Let them marry whom they think best, as long as they marry within their tribe of their father.",
            "Thereby, there will be no transfer of inheritance of Bnei Yisroel from tribe to tribe but each person to the inheritance of his father’s tribe, shall Bnei Yisroel remain attached.",
            "Every daughter who inherits property among the tribes of Bnei Yisroel to a member of her father’s tribe shall she marry, so that each one of Bnei Yisroel will inherit the property of his fathers.",
            "And no inheritance will be transferred from one tribe to another tribe; for, through every man with his own inheritance, will the tribes of Bnei Yisroel be attached.",
            "Exactly as Adonoy commanded Moshe, so did Tzelofchad’s daughters.",
            "And they were—Machlah, Sirtzah, Choglah, Milkah and No’ah, the daughters of Tzelofchad—wives to their cousins [<b>the sons of their father’s brothers</b>].",
            "From the families of Menashe, son of Yoseif, they married, and their inheritance remained with the tribe of their father’s family.",
            "These are the commandments and the laws that Adonoy commanded Bnei Yisroel through Moshe, in the plains of Moav at the Yardein near Yereicho. <b>Chazak</b>"
        ]
    ],
    "sectionNames": [
        "Chapter",
        "Verse"
    ]
}