2 And Ifrael vowed a vow unto the LORD, and faid, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Ifrael, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

4 ¶ And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red fea, to compafs the land of Edom: and the foul of the people was much difcouraged because of the way.

5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our foul lotheth this light bread.

6 And the LORD fent fiery ferpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Ifrael died.

7 Therefore the people came to Mofes, and faid, We have finned, for we have fpoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the ferpents from us. And Mofes prayed for the people.

8 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Make thee a fiery ferpent, and fet it upon a pole: and it fhall come to pafs, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, fhall live.

9 And Mofes made a ferpent of brafs, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a ferpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the ferpent of brafs, he lived.

TO And the children of Ifrael fet forward, and pitched in Oboth.

11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wildernefs which is before Moab, toward the funrifing.

12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.

13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other fide of Arnon, which is in the wildernefs that cometh out of the coast of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

14 Wherefore it is faid in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red fea, and in the brooks of Arnon, 15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.

16 And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD fpake unto Mofes, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

17 Then Ifrael fang this fong, Spring up, O well; finge unto it;

Sibon and Og flaine

18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their ftaves. And from the wilderness they sent tọ Mattanah:

19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel and from Nahaliel to Bamoth :

20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pifgah, which looketh toward Jefhimon. 21 ¶ And Ifrael fent meffengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, faying,

22 Let me pafs through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the wa. ters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be palt thy borders.

23 And Sihon would not fuffer Ifrael to pafs through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Ifrael into the wildernefs: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Ifrael.

24 And Ifrael fmote him with the edge of the fword, and poffeffed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was ftrong.

25 And Ifrael took all these cities: and Ifrael dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Hefhbon, and in all the villages thereof.

26 For Hefhbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.

27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs fay, Come into Hefhbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared :

28 For there is a fire gone out of Hefh. bon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath confumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemofh: he hath given his fons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

30 We have shot at them; Hefhbon is perifhed even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

31 Thus Ifrael dwelt in the land of the Amorites,

32 And Mofes fent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

33 And they turned and went up by. the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. 34 And

Balak fendeth for Balaam!

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34 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didft unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

35 So they fmote him, and his fons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive and they poffeffed his land. CHAP. XXII.

Balak's firft meffage for Balaam is rejected. 15 His fecond obtaineth him. zz An angel would have flain him, if his afs had not faved him. 36 Balak entertaineth him.

AND the children of Ifrael fet for

ward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this fide Jordan by Jericho. 2 And Balak the son of Zippor faw all that Ifrael had done to the Amorites.

3 And Moab was fore afraid of the people, because they were many Moab was distressed because of the dren of Ifrael.

An angel would have flain him. fhalt not go with them; thou shalt not curfe the people: for they are bleffed.

13 And Balaam rofe up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refufeth to give me leave to go with you.

14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and faid, Balaam refufeth to come with us.

15 ¶ And Balak fent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

16 And they came to Ealaam, and faid to him, Thus faith Balak the fon of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder

thee from coming unto me

17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou fayeft unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curfe me this people.

18 And Balaam answered and said unto and the fervants of Balak, If Balak would chil-give me his house full of filver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do lefs or more.

4 And Moab faid unto the elders of Midian, Now fhall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

5 He fent meffengers therefore unto Balaam the fon of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, faying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me :

6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curfe me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I fhall prevail, that we may fmite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou bleffeft is bleffed, and he whom thou curfeft is curfed.

19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye alfo here this night, that I may know what the LORD will fay unto me more.

20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and faid unto him, If the men come to call thee, rife up, and go with them; but yet the word which I fhall fay unto thee, that fhalt thou do.

21 And Balaam rose up in the morn ing, and faddled his afs, and went with the princes of Moab.

22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD ftood in the way for an adversary againft him. Now he was riding upon his afs, and his two fervants were with him.

23 And the afs faw the angel of the LORD ftanding in the way, and his sword 7 And the elders of Moab and the drawn in his hand: and the afs turned elders of Midian departed with the re-afide out of the way, and went into the wards of divination in their hand; and field: and Balaam fmote the afs, to turn they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.

8 And he faid unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD fhall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam. 9 And God came unto Balaam, and faid, What men are these with thee?

ro And Balaam fáid unto God, Balak the fon of Zippor, king of Moab, hath fent unto me, faying,

II Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curfe me them; peradventure I fhall be able to overcome them, and drive them out..

12 And God faid unto Balaam, Thou

her into the way.

24 But the angel of the LORD ftood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this fide, and a wall on that fide.

25 And when the afs faw the angel of the LORD, fhe thruft herself unto the wall, and crufhed Balaam's foot against the wall and he fmote her again.

26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and ftood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

27 And when the afs faw the angel of the LORD, fhe fell down under Balaam : and Ralaam's anger was kindled, and he fimote the afs with a staff.

28 And the LORD opened the mouth

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What have I done unto thee, that dam; AND Balaam faid unto Balak, Build

fo Who can count the duft of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of If rael? Let me die the death of the right36 ¶ And when Balak heard that Ba-eous, and let my laft end be like his! laam was come, he went out to meet fi And Balak faid unto Balaam, What him unto a city of Moab, which is in haft thou done unto me? I took thee to the border of Arnon, which is in the ut- curfe mine enemies, and, behold, thou most coast. haft bleffed them altogether.

37 And Balak faid unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly fend unto thee to call thee? wherefore cameft thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote 13 And Balak faid unto him, Come, thee to honour? I pray thee, with me unto another place, 38 And Balaam faid unto Balak, Lo, from whence thou mayeft fee them: I am come unto thee: have I now any thou shalt fee but the uttermoft part of power at all to say any thing? the word them, and fhalt not fee them all and that God putteth in my mouth, that curfe me them from thence. fhall I fpeak.

15 And he faid unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the 41 And it came to pafs on the mor- LORD yonder. row, that Balak took Balaam, and 16 And the LORD met Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of put a word in his mouth, and faid, Go Baal, that thence he might fee the ut-again unto Balak, and fay thus. moft part of the people.

17 And when he came to him, behold, he ftood by his burnt offering, and the 7, 18 Ba- princes of Moab with him. And Balak

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Ifrael's happiness: Laid unto him, What hath the LORD Balaam the son of Beor hath faid, and Spoken ?

22 God brought them out of Egypt; 8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an he hath as it were the strength of an uniunicorn. corn: he fhall eat up the nations his ene23 Surely there is no enchantment a-mies, and fhall break their bones, and gainst Jacob, neither is there any divina- pierce them through with his arrows. tion against Ifrael: according to this time it fhall be faid of Jacob and of Ifrael, What hath God wrought!

Whoredom and idolatry of Ifrael. NUMBERS. alfo fhall be a poffeffion for his enemies; and Ifrael fhall do valiantly.

19 Out of Jacob fhall come he that fhall have dominion, and fhall deftroy him that remaineth of the city.

20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable,' and faid, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perifh for ever.

21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and faid, Strong is thy dwelling place, and thou puttest thy pest in a rock.

22 Nevertheless the Kenite fhall be wafted, until Asfhur fhall carry thee away captive.

23 And he took up his parable, and faid, Alas, who fhall live when God doeth this!

24 And fhips hall come from the coaft of Chittim, and fhall afflict Asfhur, and fhall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak alfo went his way.

CHAP. XXV.

I The Ifraelites' whoredom and idolatry. 6 Zimri and Cozbi flain.

Ifrael numbered. IO And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying,

II Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the fon of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Ifrael, while he was zealous for my fake among them, that I consumed not the children of Ifrael in my jealousy.

12 Wherefore fay, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

13 And he fhall have it, and his feed after him, even the covenant of an everlafting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Ifrael.

14 Now the name of the Ifraelite that was flain, even that was flain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.

15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was flain was Cozbi, thẹ daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian. 16 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying,

17 Vex the Midianites, and fmite them:

18 For they vex you with their wiles,

AND Ifrael abode in Shittim, and the wherewith they have beguiled you in the

people began to commit whoredom

with the daughters of Moab.

matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their fifter, which was flain in the day of the plague for Peor's fake. CHAP. XXVI.

2 And they called the people unto the facrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Ifrael joined himself unto Baal-1 Ifrael numbered, 52 The inheritance of peor: and the anger of the LORD was the land divided. kindled against Ifrael.

4 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, AND it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD fpake unto Mofes Take all the heads of the people, and and unto Eleazar the fon of Aaron the hang them up before the LORD against prieft, faying, the fun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Ifrael.

5 And Mofes faid unto the judges of Ifrael, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.

2 Take the fum of all the congregation of the children of Ifrael, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their father's houfe, all that are able to go to war in Ifrael.

6 And, behold, one of the children 3 And Mofes and Eleazar the priest of Ifrael came and brought unto his bre-fpake with them in the plains of Moab thren a Midianitish woman in the fight by Jordan near Jericho, faying, of Mofes, and in the fight of all the con- 4 Take the fum of the people, from twengregation of the children of Ifrael, who ty years old and upward; as the LORD avere weeping before the door of the ta- commanded Mofes and the children of bernacle of the congregation. Ifrael, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.

7 And when Phinehas, the fon of Eleazar, the fon of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rofe up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;

5 Reuben, the eldest fon of Ifrael: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:

Carmites.

3 And he went after the man of Ifrael into the tent, and thruft both of them 6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezthrough, the man of Ifrael, and the wo-ronites: of Carmi, the family of the man through her belly. So the plague was ftaved from the children of Ifrael. 7 Thefe are the families of the Reus 9 And thofe that died in the plague benites; and they that were numbered were twenty and four thoufand.

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