1490.

■ Deut.

Or,

23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and 1.24 cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of valley, grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24 The place was called the brook || Eshcol, bevalley. cause of the cluster of grapes which the children of

Or,

That is,

A cluster Israel cut down from thence.

afgrapes 25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth Exod. with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

23. &

28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.

29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south; and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants +Heb. thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are † men of of a great stature.

statures.

33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grashoppers, and so we were in their sight. CHAP. XIV.

The people murmur at the news: 6 Joshua and Caleb labour to pacify them. 11 God threateneth them. 13 Moses intercedeth with God, and obtaineth pardon. 26 The murmurers are excluded from entering into the promised land. 36 The men who raised the evil report die by a plague. 40 The Israelites are smitten. AND

ND all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron: and the whole congrega. tion said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt or, would God we had died in this wilderness!

3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

Moses intercedeth for the people.

5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before Before all the assembly of the congregation of the children 1490. of Israel.

6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD had is with us: fear them not.

10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them; and will make of thee a greater nation, and mightier than they.

a

+ Heb.

a Exod.

13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the 32.19. Egyptians shall hear it; (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)

14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou, LORD, art among this people; that thou, LORD, art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them; and that thou goest before them, by day-time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

b

15 Now, if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

b Exod.

13. 21.

c Deut, 9, 28.

d Exod

34.6.

20. 5. &

18 The LORD is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means Psalmu clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers 103. 8. upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. e Exod.. 19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this 34.7. people, according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.

|| Or,

20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according hitherto, to thy word:

21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles which I did in Egypt, and in the wilderness, have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

If they

23+ Surely they shall not see the land which I sware + Heb. unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that pro- see the voked me see it:

land.

The people's infidelity threatened.

Before CHRIST

24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another 1490. spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed f Joshua shall possess it."

14. 6.

g Chap.

26. 65. &

25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness, by the way of the Red sea.

26

And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

h

28 Say unto them, "As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, Chap. which have murmured against me,

32. 11. Deuter. 1. 35. h. See Verse 2.

26.64.

30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, con+ Heb. cerning which I + sware to make you dwell therein, lifted up save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son my hand.

|| Or, feed.

of Nun.

31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

33 And your children shall || wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

i

34 After the number of the days in which ye searchi Psalm ed the land, even forty days, (each day for a year,) shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years; and ye shall know my breach of promise.

95.10

Ezekiel 4.6. Or,

35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto altering all this evil congregation, that are gathered together purpose. against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

of my

39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel and the people mourned greatly.

40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.

41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.

43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

The law of the meat-offering.

CHRIST

44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill-top: Before nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, 1490. and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah. CHAP. XV.

1 The law of the meat-offering, and the drink-offering, with the sacrifices. 14, 29 The stranger is under the same law. 17 The law of the first of the dough for an heave-offering. 22, 27 The sacrifices for sins of ignorance. 30 The punishment of presumption. 32 The sabbath-breaker is stoned. 37 The law of fringes. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the 29. 18. LORD bring a meat-offering of a tenth-deal of flour, d Levit. mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.

5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drinkoffering shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.

6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meatoffering two tenth-deals of flour, mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.

7 And for a drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burntoffering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow or peace-offerings unto the LORD;

9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat-offering of three tenth-deals of flour, mingled with half an hin of oil.

10 And thou shalt bring for a drink-offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.

12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one, according to their number.

13 All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.

21. &

6. 14.

e Exod 12,49.

15 One ordinance shall be both for of the conyou gregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth Chap. with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: 9.14. as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

16 One law, and one manner, shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,

The sacrifice for sins of ignorance.

Before CHRIST

19 Then it shall be, that when ye eat of the bread 1490. of the land, ye shall offer up an heave-offering unto the LORD.

from the

The rebellion of Korah, Dathan, &e.

h

Before CHRIST

22.12.

20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave-offering: as ye do the heave-offering of the thrashing-floor, so shall ye heave it.

21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave-offering in your generations.

22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,

23 Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward, among your generations;

24 Then it shall be, if ought be committed by igHeb norance, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat-offering, and his drinkdinance, offering, according to the || manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.

Or, or

25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin-offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:

26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance. fLevit, 27 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she-goat of the first year for a sinoffering.

4.27.

Heb.

28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.

29 Ye shall have one law for him that † sinneth dock in through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

Heb.

with an

high

hand.

30 But the soul that doeth ought + presumptuously, (whether he be born in the land, or a stranger,) the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people:

31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him. -32 And, while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath-day.

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

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

84.12

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

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

3 And they gathered themselves together against + Heb. Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, † Ye Itismuck take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation for you. are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?

4

And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: 5 And he spake unto Korah, and unto all his company, saying, Even to-morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.

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

7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to-morrow; and it shall be, that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy : ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

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

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

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

11 For which cause, both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?

12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; which said, We will not come up: 13 it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to

Is

P

c Genes. 4.4.

+ Heb.

as every

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

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15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them..

16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow :

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

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

19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.

20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

25 And Moses rose up, and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.

27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children. 28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; (for I have not done them of mine own mind ;)

29 If these men die † the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, dieth. then the LORD hath not sent me:

man

+ Heb. create a

30 But if the LORD † make a new thing, and the creature. earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

d Chap. 27.3.

31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end Deuter. of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:

11. 6.

Psalm

106. 17.

32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

Aaron stayeth the plague.

CHRIST

33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down Before alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: cir. 1471. and they perished from and they perished from among the congregation.

34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.

38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar; for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel

39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar :

40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD, that he be not as Korah, and as his company; as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD. 42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.

44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.

47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.

50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed. CHAP. XVII.

1. The rods of the tribes. 6 Aaron's rod only flourisheth: 10. it is laid up for a monument against the rebels. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

ANI

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take.. of every one of them a rod, according to the house

one

prince.

b Hebr.

9. 4.

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

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

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

10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring 'Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to he kept for + Heb. a token against the + rebels; and thou shalt quite take of rebel away their murmurings from me, that they die not. 11 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.

children

lion.

12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.

13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

CHAP. XVIII.

1 The charge of the priests and Leviles. 8 The priests' portion. 20 The Levites' portion. 25 The heaveoffering to the priests out of the portion of the Levites. AND the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou, and thy sons, and thy father's house with thee, shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou, and thy sons with thee, shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou, and thy sons with thee, shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.

3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle; only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.

The priests' and Levites' portion.

a

CHRIST

6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Before Levites from among the children of Israel; to you they cir. 1471. are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

7 Therefore thou, and thy sons with thee, shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave-offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them, by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.

9 This shall be thine of the most holy things reserved from the fire every oblation of theirs, every meatoffering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee, and for thy sons.

10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.

a Chap. 3. 45.

11 And this is thine; the heave-offering of their gift, with all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons, and to b Levit. thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

10.14.

12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the Heb. wine, and of the wheat, the first-fruits of them which fat. they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.

13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.

C

c Levit. 27. 28.

14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. 15 Every thing that openeth "the matrix in all flesh, d Exod. which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men 13. 2. & or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the first-born 22. 29. of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of 27. 26. unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

16 And those that are to be redeemed, from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

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17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Levit.

Ch. 3. 19.

e Ezek. 45. 12.

f Exod.

18 And the flesh of them shall be, thine, as the f wave-breast and as the right shoulder are thine. 19 All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which 29.26. the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee, and to thy seed with thee.

20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron. Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine & Deut. inheritance among the children of Israel.