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All the Levites who were reviewed, whom Moses with 47 Aaron and the chiefs of Israel reviewed by communities, by the houses of their families, from twenty five years, and upwards, to fifty years of age, comprehending every one who went in for the performance of works and for the business of 48 carrying for the tabernacle of the testimony; even all who were reviewed, were eight thousand five hundred and eighty. At the command of the Lord, by the hand of Moses, he reviewed them, man by man, for their works, and for the things which they were to carry. They were reviewed in the manner the Lord commanded Moses.

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Give orders to the 2 children of Israel, and let them send out of the camp every one who is a leper, and every one who hath a gonorrhea, and 3 every one who is defiled by the dead; whether male or female, send them out of the camp, that they may not defile their camps 4 in which I am present among them. Whereupon the children

of Israel did so. They sent them away out of the camp, as the 5 Lord commanded Moses. And when they had done so, the 6 Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel,

and say, When a man or a woman shall commit any sin incident to man; or by inadvertency overlook or commit a tres7 pass, that person shall confess the sin which he or she hath

committed, and make compensation for the trespass. Adding one fifth to the principal, he shall give it to the person against 8 whom the trespass hath been committed. And if the man hath no kinsman to whom compensation can be made, the compensation, being given to the Lord, shall belong to the priest, over and above the ram of atonement, with which he shall make 9 atonement for him. And every dedication-whatever the children of Israel shall dedicate, and bring for the Lord, shall be for the priest-even every one's hallowed things shall be his; 10 let who will give, they shall belong to the priest. 11 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the 12 children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, If any man's 13' wife transgress, and actually despise him; and any person lie

with her carnally, and it escape the notice of her husband, and it be hid, and she be polluted, though there be no witness 14 against her, and she be not caught in the act; and a spirit of

jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be polluted; or a spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he 15 be jealous of his wife, though she be not polluted, the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring as a gift for her the tenth of an ephah of barley meal; but he shall pour no oil on it, nor lay any frankincense on it; for it is a sacrifice of jealousy-a sacrifice of remembrance, to bring into remem16 brance a sin. And the priest shall bring her forward, and set 17 her before the Lord. Then the priest shall take pure spring

water, in an earthen vessel, and having taken up some of the dust which is on the floor of the tabernacle of the testimony, 18 the priest shall put it in the water. And the priest shall present the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman's head. Then he shall put the sacrifice of remembrance-the sacrifice of jealousy into her hands; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of discovery over which an impreca19 tion is to be made; and the priest shall adjure the woman, and say to her, If no man hath lain with thee; if thou hast not transgressed, so as to be defiled, while under the jurisdiction of thy husband; be thou uninjured by this water of discovery, over which 20 an imprecation is to be made: but if thou hast transgressed, being

a married woman, or art polluted, and any person besides thy hus21 band hath lain with thee, (then the priest shall adjure the woman with solemn imprecations, and the priest shall say to the woman) the Lord make thee a curse and an imprecation in the midst of thy people, by causing thy thigh to rot, and thy belly 22 to be inflamed. Let this water over which this imprecation is

made, go into thy belly, to inflame thy belly, and rot thy thigh. 23 And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen. Then the priest shall

write these curses in a book, and dip it in the water of disco24 very, over which the imprecation was made, and shall cause the woman to drink the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made. And the water of discovery, over which 25 the imprecation was made, shall go into her-(The priest shall take the sacrifice of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and lay 26 the sacrifice before the Lord, and offer it on the altar; and when the priest shall have taken a handful of the sacrifice, the memorial of it, and offered it on the altar, after this he shall cause the 27 woman to drink the water) and it shall come to pass that if she

be defiled, and escape the notice of her husband, when the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made, shall go into her, it shall inflame her belly, and her thigh shall rot, and the 28 woman shall be a curse among her people. But if the woman be

not polluted, and be pure, she shall be uninjured, and shall con29 ceive seed. This is the law of jealousy, when a woman who is

married transgresseth and is polluted; or when a spirit of jea30 lousy cometh on a man. When he is jealous of her, and shall set his wife before the Lord, the priest shall do to her all that this law directeth; so shall the man be free from sin, and the woman shall bear her iniquity.

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Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the 2 children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When a man or a woman shall make a solemn vow to preserve the strictest purity for the Lord, they must abstain from wine, and strong 3 drink. Such a one shall not drink vinegar made of wine, nor vinegar made of strong drink; nor shall such a one drink any thing made of the grape; nor eat any grapes, fresh pulled, or 4 dryed, all the days of the vow. From every thing produced from the grape, including wine; from the pulp to the stone, 5 such a one shall abstain all the days of the purification. A razor shall not come upon his head, until the days which he hath 6 vowed to the Lord be fulfilled. Being hallowed, he shall let

the hair of his head grow all the days of his vow to the Lord. 7 He shall not come near any dead body. For a father or a mother, or for a brother or a sister, if they chance to die, he shall 8 not defile himself; for the vow of his God is on his head. All 9 the days of his vow he shall be holy to the Lord. And if any one die suddenly by him, the head of his vow will be immediately defiled, he shall therefore shave his head on the day when 10 he is cleansed. On the seventh day it shall be shaved, and on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle doves, or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doors of the tabernacle of the tes11 timony; and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the failures of which he hath been guilty 12 by the dead. And on that day he shall hallow his head which was consecrated to the Lord, for the days of his vow, and bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: And the

former days shall not be counted, because the head of his 13 vow was defiled. Now this is the law of him who hath made 14 the vow-When the days of his vow are fulfilled; he shall bring to the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony and present as his gift to the Lord, a lamb of the first year without blemish for a whole burnt offering, and a ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, for a sin offering, and a ram without blemish for 15 an offering of thanksgiving, and a basket of unleavened bread, of fine flour-the loaves tempered with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and their sacrifice of flour and their 16 libation: and the priest shall offer them before the Lord. When

he hath offered the sin offering and the whole burnt offering,. 17 he shall then offer the ram, the sacrifice of thanksgiving to the

Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread. And when the priest hath offered the sacrifice thereof, and the libation thereof, 18 then he who made the vow shall have the head of his vow shaved at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony, and shall lay the hairs on the fire which is under the sacrifice of thanksgiv19 ing. And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder from the ram,

and one unleavened loaf from the basket, and one unleavened cake, and lay them on the hands of him who made the vow, 20 after he hath shaved his consecrated head; and the priest shall offer these as a dedication laid on hands before the Lord. It shall be consecrated for the priest, over and above the breast, which was dedicated by being laid on hands, and the shoulder which was dedicated by setting it apart. And after these things, 21 he who made the vow may drink wine. This is the law for him who hath made the vow-who may have vowed to the Lord his gift to the Lord for his vow, besides what he may be able to do more, according to the nature of the vow which he may have made, according to the law of strict purity.

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Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to 23 Aaron and his sons and say, In this manner you shall bless 24 the children of Israel, saying, The Lord bless thee and keep 25 thee-The Lord make his countenance to shine upon thee, 26 and be gracious to thee-The Lord lift up his countenance 27 upon thee, and give thee peace. So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I the Lord will bless them.

VII.

Now on the day when Moses finished the rearing up of

the tabernacle, he anointed it, and hallowed it, and all the imple2 ments thereof; and the altar, and all its utensils; and when he

had anointed them, and hallowed them, the chiefs of Israel, the twelve chiefs of the houses of their head familes who were the chiefs of the tribes, the same who attended at the review, 3 made an offering, and brought as their gifts before the Lord,

six covered waggons, and twelve oxen, a waggon from two 4 chiefs, and an ox from each one. And when they had brought 5 them before the Lord, the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Re

ceive them from them, and they shall be for the works of the service of the tabernacle of the testimony; and thou shalt give them to the Levites, to each community according to their 6 service. So Moses, having taken the waggons and the oxen, 7 gave them to the Levites-he gave two waggons and four ox8 en to the Gersonites, according to their service; and four wag

gons and eight oxen, he gave to the Merarites, according to 9 their service, by Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. But to the Kaathites he gave none, because they having the sacred services of the sanctuary, are to carry on their shoulders.

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The chiefs tendered also an offering for the dedication of the altar, on the day he anointed it. But when the chiefs brought their gift over against the altar, at some distance from 11 it, the Lord said to Moses, One chief a day. Let them bring

forward, every chief his gifts on his day, for the dedication of 12 the altar. So he who brought forward his gifts on the first day, 13 was Naasson, son of Aminadab chief of the tribe of Judas;

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and he offered as his gift, one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver cup of seventy shekels after the holy shekel, both full of fine flour, mixed up with oil, for a sacrifice; one censer, of ten shekels of gold, full of incense; one young bull from the herd, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a whole burnt offering, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and for a sacrifice of thanks. giving, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe lambs of the first year. This was the gift of Naasson, son of Aminadab.

On the second day Nathaniel, son of Sogar, the chief of the tribe of Issachar made his offering; and he presented as his gift, one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels; one silver cup of seventy shekels after the

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