The consecration $ And for a sacrifice of peaceofferings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. 84 This was the dedication of the altar (in the day when it was anointed) by the princes of 1srael: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold: 85 Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 86 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels. 87 All the oxen for the burntoffering were twelve bullocks, the ramstwelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat-offering: and the kids of the goats for sin-offering, twelve. CHAPTER VIII. B. C. 1490. 88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace-offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed. 9 ver. 1. 89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy-seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him. r ch.12.8. Ex. 33. 9, 11. That is, God. Ex. 25. 22. B. C. 1490. of the Levites. ewater of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their ch. 19.9, flesh, and let them wash their 17, 18. clothes, and so make themselves clean. † Heb. let them cause a razor to pass over, &c. f Le.14.8, 9. Le. 2.1. bSee Ex. 29.4.&40. 12. i Le. 8. 3. Le. 1.4. † Heb. 8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat-offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering. 9 bAnd thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together: 10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites: 11 And Aaron shall toffer the Levites before the LORD for an toffering of the children of Israel, wave-of that they may execute the service of the LORD. fering. † Heb. they may 12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the be to ex- bullocks: and thou shalt offer the ecute,&c one for a sin-offering, and the 1Ex.29.10 other for a burnt-offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites. mch.3.45. & 16. 9. n 13. 45. 13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD. 14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be "mine. 15 And after that shall the Levites goin to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and ver. 11, "offer them for an offering. 16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the chilOch. 3 12, dren of Israel; "instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me. PEX 13.2, 12, 13, 15. 2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest a Ex. 25. ch. 3. 13. the lamps, the seven lamps shall 37&40.25 Lu. 2. 23. give light over against the candlestick. 3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses. b Ex. 25. 31. 4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was "beaten work: Ex. 25. daccording unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candle-Ex. 18. 40. 25. 4 ch. 3. 9. † Heb. given. 17 PFor all the first-born of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast. on the day that I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself. 18 And I have taken the Levites for all the first-born of the children of Israel. 19 And I have given the Levites as ta gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the chil r ch.1. 53. dren of Israel: 'that there be no &16.46.& plague among the children of Is 18.5.2Ch. rael, when the children of Israel 26. 16. come nigh unto the sanctuary. 20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning 137 21 And the Levites were pu-ver. 7. rified, and they washed their clothes: and Aaron offered t ver. 11, them as an offering before the 12. LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them. u 5, 22 And after that went the u ver. 15. Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had com-ver. manded Moses concerning the &c. Levites, so did they unto them. 23 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: "From twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in fto wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: 25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more: 26 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, "to keep the charge, and shall do no service Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge. CHAPTER IX. The passover is commanded again, 1. 6 A second passover allowed for them that were unclean or absent. 15 The cloud guideth the removings and encampings of the Israelites. AND the LORD spake unto MoAses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. 3 In the fourteenth day of this month, fat even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season, according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. 4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. B. C. 1490. A second passover allowed. 8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear ech. 27. 5. what the LORD will command concerning you. f2 Ch. 30. 2, 15. Ex.12.8. h Ex. 12. y See ch. 10. 19. 36. 27. Heb. tok Ex. 12. war the 43. warfare of, &c. 1 Ge. 17. Ti. 1.18. 14. Ex.12. tHeb.re- 15. turn mver. 7. from the ch.5.31. warfare of the service. 49. 9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. 11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and Beat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, inor break any bone of it: kaccording to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. 13 But the man that is clean,and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall "bear his sin. 14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof so shall he do: Ex. 12. ye shall have one ordinance both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land. 15 T And Pon the day that the tabernacle was reared up, the cloud covered the tabernacle namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. P Ex. 40. 34. Ne. 9. 12, 19.Ps. 78. 14. 1490. 9 Ex. 13. aEx.12.1, 21. & 40. &c. Le. 38. 23. 5. ch. 28.16.De. 16. 1, 2. tHeb.ber Ex. 40. tween 36. ch. 10. the two 11, 33, 34, evenings. Ps. 80. 1. Ex. 12. 6. 17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents. 18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they 1 Co. 10. pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. 6 And there were certain men, who were 'defiled by the dead body of a man, that they & 19. 11, † Heb. could not keep the passover on 16. See prothat day: dand they came be- Jn. 18.28. longed. fore Moses and before Aaron on d Ex. 18. teh. 1. 53. that day: 15, 19, 26. & 3. 8. 7 And those men said unto ch. 27. 2. him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel? 19 And when the cloud ftarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not. 20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. The use of the silver trumpets. CHAPTER X. B. C. 1490. B. C. 1490. 21 And so it was, when the cloud fabode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was Heb. taken up in the morning, then was they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. 22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel "abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed. Ex. 40. 36, 37. nver 9. °ch. 9. 17. PEx. 40. 36.ch.2.9, 16, 24, 31. 23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in their tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they Ex.19.1. kept the charge of the LORD, ver. 19. 9. 5. at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. ch. 1.1.& Ge. 21. 21. ch. 12. 16.&13.3, 26. De. 1. 3 And when they shall blow bJe. 4. with them, all the assembly Joel 2.15. shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, Ex. 18. which are heads of the thou-21. ch. 1. 16. & 7.2. sands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. dch. 2. 3. ch. 2. 10. fver. 3. Joel 2.1. 1. Sver. 5, 6. ch. 2. 34. tch. 23,9. "ch. 1. 7. The order of the Israelites march. your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burntofferings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; that they may be to you "for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God. 11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testi mony. 12 And the children of Israel took Ptheir journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the 'wilderness of Paran. 13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 14 T In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was "Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachai was Nethaneel the son of Zuar. 16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. ch. 1.51. 17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle. 18 T And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur. Ych. 4.24, 31. & 7.6, 7, 8. 7ch. 2. 10, 16. 5 When ye blow an alarm, then dthe camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward. 6 When ye blow an alarm the hch. 31.6.ch. 4. 4, second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take Jos. 6. 4. 15. & 7.9. 1 Ch. 15. That is, their journey: they shall blow 24. 2 Ch. the Ger an alarm for their journeys. 13. 12. shonites 7 But when the congregation ich. 31. 6. and the is to be gathered together, fye Jos. 6. 5. Merashall blow, but ye shall not 2 Ch. 13. Esound an alarm. 19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came. 22 T And bthe standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud. 23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of ManasPedahzur. seh was Gamaliel the son of 24 And over the host of the tribe ofthe children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni. 25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran. 139 28 td Thus were the journey-+ Heb. ings of the children of Israel ac- These. cording to their armies, when they set forward. dch. 2. 34. 29 T And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Mi-Ex.2.18. dianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel. 30 And he said unto him, 1 will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred. 31 And he said, Leave us not, 1 pray thee: forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes. 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee. 33 ¶ And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting-place for them. Heb.re turned and and loathe nanna. rael also wept again, and said, fWho shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons. and the leeks, and the Ps.78.18. onions, and the garlic. & 106. 14. 6 But now hour soul is dried 1 Co.10.6. away; there is nothing at all, Ex.16.3. besides this manna, before our eyes. wept. hch. 21.5. i Ex. 16. 14, 31. 7 And ithe manua was as coriander-seed, and the t colour thereof as the colour of kbdel fGe. 12.7. h Ge. 32. the eye i Job 29. 15. Ju. 1.16. 3. 1. See. Ex. De. 1. 33. Jos. 3. 3,4, 6. Ps. 132. 8. Je. 31. 2. Ez. 20. 6. n Ex. 13. 12. 19. OPs, 68.1, 2.& 132.8 31. Ge.2.12 Ex. 16. 34 And "the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when 21. Ne. 9. they went out of the camp. 35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, "Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee fleeten thou-Ge. 26.3. & 50. 24. thou- Ex. 13. 5. Mat. 15. before thee. + Heb. sand 36 And when it rested, he said, sands. CHAPTER XI. 4. Or, were as it were Ex. 18. The burning at Taberah quenched by com- 18. Moses' prayer, 1.4 The people lust plainers. "Seelki. for flesh, and loathe manna. 10 Mo-† Heb. it 19. 4. Jo. ses complaineth of his charge. 16 was evil 43. God divideth his burden unto seventy in the elders. 31 Quails are given in wrath cars of, &c. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. 10 T Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and "the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. 11 "And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have 1 not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? 12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, PCarry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father beareth the sucking-child, unto the land which thou 'swarest unto their fathers? 13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. 14 'I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15 And if thou deal thus with me, "kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in Zeph. 3. thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. 15. 24. 1, 9. YSee Ex. at Kibroth-hattaavah. AND when the people I com- b Ps. 78. A plained, it displeased the 1. LORD: and the LORD heard it: Le. 10.2. band his anger was kindled; ch. 16. 35. and the fire of the LORD burnt 2 Ki. 1.12. among them, and consumed Ps. 106. 18 them that were in the uttermost 18. parts of the camp. dJa. 5.16. † Heb. That is, 2 And the people cried unto! Moses; and when Moses dpray-sunk. ed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. De. 16. aver. 25. Ge. 11.5. & 18. 21. Ex.19.20. A burn b1 Sa. 10. As Ex. 12. 38. 28. 4 T And the mixed multitude + Heb. 10. 16 T And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down and talk with thee there; and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them: and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. 18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against Qualis are given in wrath. CHAPTER XII. 1490. to-morrow, and ye shall eat B. C. 19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor e ver. 5. Ac. 7. 39. B. C. 1490. Mimam and Aaron's sedition. were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth, 32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten "honers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. month of Ps. 78. between their teeth, ere it was 33 And while the flesh was yet days. chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. " Ex. 16. P.78.29. 26. Ez.45. & 106.15. 11. + Heb. Bch.21. 5. 21 And Moses said, hThe peo-be.12.2. ple among whom I am, are six Ex 12.37. hundred thousand footmen; and & 38. 26. thou hast said, I will give them ch. 1. 46. flesh, that they may eat a whole month. 22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? 23 And the LORD said unto Moses, kis the LORD'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee, or not. 7,9. 30.31. iSee 2Ki. 17. kIs. 50. 2. Or, Ex.2.21. Fz.12.25. & 24. 14. † Heb. taken. 24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seven-mver. 16. ty men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. 20.Mi.6.4. c Ge. 29. "ver. 17. 5. 4. 18.37.4. 13. 25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, ch. 12. and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that "when the spirit rest-See 2Ki. ed upon them, Pthey prophesied, 2. 15. and did not cease. ePs.76. 9. & 16.19. fch.11.25 Job 33. PSeelSa. 10.5,6, 10. 26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the 21, 23. Da.8.2.& name of the other Medad: and Joel 2.29. 10. 8, 16, the Spirit rested upon them; and Ac. 2. 17, 17. Lu. 1. they were of them that were 18.1Co14. 11,22. Ac. written, but went not out unto 1, &c. 10 11,17. the tabernacle: and they pro-SeelSa. & 22. 17, phesied in the camp. 20.26. Je. 18. 36. 5. 27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. ND Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he ried an Ethiopian woman. had married: for "he had †mar2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? bhath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. 3(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) ly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, 4 And the LORD spake suddenand unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out. 5 fAnd the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth. 6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him bin a dream. 7 My servant Moses is not so, See Ma. 5. kHe.3.2, kwho is faithful in all mine house. 9.49.Jn.3.11Ti.3.15. 8 With him will I speak "mouth Ex. 33. to mouth, even "apparently, and $1C014.5. 11.De.34. not in dark speeches; and "the similitude of the LORD shall be behold: wherefore then Pwere ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? 10. 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, |