Fiery ferpents.

Before
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e Chap. 33. ཧཱ 3. Deut. 32. 30.

bah.

25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:

26 And ftrip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his fon: and Aaron fhall be gathered unto his people, and fhall die there.

27 And Mofes did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor, in the fight of all the congregation.

28 And Mofes ftripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his fon; and f Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Mofes and Eleazar came down from the 6. & 32. 50 mount.

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■ Chap. 33. 49.

That is, Atruction.

utter de

| Or, grieved. + Heb. Shortened.

6.

29 And when all the congregation faw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the houfe of Ifrael.

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 compass 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 againft Mofes, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? for there Chap. 11. is no bread, neither is there any water, and our foul lotheth this light bread.

c Wild. 16. 3, 5.

b

6 And the LORD fent fiery ferpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much 1 Cor. 10, people of Ifrael died.

2 Kings

18. 4.

7¶Therefore the people came to Mofes, and faid, We have finned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the ferpents from us: and Moles 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 John 3. 14. put it upon a pole, and it came to pafs, that if a

Sundry journies of the Ifraelites.

ferpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the Before ferpent of brafs, he lived. Chrift

10 And the children of Ifrael fet forward, 1452. and pitched in Oboth. e Chap. 33.

II And they journeyed from Oboth, and 43. pitched at | Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which Or, heapt is before Moab, toward the fun-rifing. of Abarim.

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 wilderness that cometh out of the coafts 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,

Or, Vaheh

in Supbab. 15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and + lieth upon + Heb. 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.

leanetb.

17¶ Then Ifrael fang this fong, + Spring up, + Heb. O well, fing ye unto it:

Afcend. 18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of Or, the people digged it, by the direction of the law- an/wer. giver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to 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, + Heb. which looketh toward Jefhimon.

field.

21 ¶ And Ifrael fent meffengers unto Sihon the bill. | Or, king of the Amorites, faying,

Or, the Let me pafs through thy land; we will wildernes not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards, f Deut. we will not drink of the waters of the well: but 27. we will go along by the king's bighway, until we Judges 11. be paft thy borders.

19.

23 % And Sihon would not fuffer Ifrael to pafs & Deut. 19 through his border: but Sihon gathered all his 7 people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Ifrael.

24 And Ifrael fmote him with the edge of the n Josh. 1: fword, and poffeffed his land from Arnon unto 1. Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: Pfal. 135 for the border of the children of Ammon was 10, 11. ftrong.

Amos 2.

25 And Ifrael took all these cities: and Ifrael dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the † villages + Heb. thereof. daughter

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 Hethbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared.

28 For there is a fire gone out of Hethbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath confumed

ChrAr of Moab, and the lords of the high places of

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29 Woe to thee, Moab; thou art undone, O people of Chemoth: he hath given his fons that 1733 efcaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

* Deut. 3.

30 We have fhot at them; Hefhbon is perifhed even unto Dibon, and we have laid them wafte 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 1. & 29. 7. way of Bahan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.

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 Pfal. 135. 1 thou fhalt do to him as thou didft unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

20, 11.

■ Josh. 24.

9.

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 refufed: 15 His fecond message obtaineth him. 22 An angel would have flain him, if his afs had not faved him. 36 Balak entertaineth him.

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ND the children of Ifrael set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab, on this fide Jordan by Jericho.

2 And Baiak the fon of Zippor faw all that Ifrael had done to the Amorites.

3 And Moab was fore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was diftreffed, because of the children of Ifrael.

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 grafs of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

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 Heb. eye.+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.

7 And the elders of Moab, and the elders of Midian departed, with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and fpake unto him the words of Ba

lak.

An angel meeteth him in the way.

8 And he faid unto them, Lodge here this Before 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 said, What men are these with thee?

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

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

out.

12 And God faid unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them, thou shalt not curse the people: for they are bleffed.

13 And Balaam rofe up in the morning, and faid unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth 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.

19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also 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 shalt thou do.

21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, 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 against 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 2 Pet. 2. ftanding in the way, and his fword drawn in his 16. hand: and the afs turned afide out of the way, Jude 11. and went into the field and Balaam smote the afs to turn 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, the thruft herself unto the wall, and I 2 crusht

Balaam's afs fpeaketh.

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me.

Or, ever

Jince thou waft, &c. Or, boy bimjelf.

26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood 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, the fell down under Balaam and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he fmote the afs with a staff.

28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the afs, and the faid unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou haft fmitten me these three times ?

29 And Balaam faid unto the ass, Because thou haft mocked me: I would there were a fword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.

30 And the afs faid unto Balaam, Am not I thine afs, upon which thou haft ridden | ever fince I was thine, unto this day? was I ever wont to do fo unto thee? And he faid, Nay.

31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he faw the angel of the LORD ftanding in the way, and his fword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.

32 And the angel of the LORD faid unto him, Wherefore haft thou finitten thine afs thefe three times? behold, I went out to withbe an adverftand thee, becaufe thy way is perverfe before

+ Heb to

fary unto thee.

me.

33 And the ass faw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, furely now alfo I had flain thee, and faved her alive.

34 And Balaam faid unto the angel of the LORD, I have finned; for I knew not that thou ftoodeft in the way against me: now there+ Heb. before if it † displease thee, I will get me back again.

evil in thine eyes.

35 And the angel of the LORD faid unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I fhall fpeak unto thee, that thou fhalt fpeak: So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

36 ¶ And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him, unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.

37 And Balak faid unto Balaam, Did I not earneftly fend unto thee to call thee? Wherefore cameft thou not unto me? Am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?

38 And Balaam faid unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to fay any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that fhall I fpeak.

39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they Or, a city came unto | Kirjath-huzoth. of freets.

40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and fent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.

41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might fee the utmost part of the people.

CHAP. XXIII.

Balak's facrifice.

1, 13, 28 Balak's facrifice. 7, 18 Balaam's parable. ND Balaam faid unto Balak, Build me Before here fevén altars, and prepare me here Chrift seven oxen, and seven rams. 1452.

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2 And Balak did as Balaam had fpoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

3 And Balaam faid unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he fheweth me, I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.

Or, be went fali

4 And God met Balaam; and he said unto tary. him, I have prepared feven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and faid, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

6 And he returned unto him, and lo, he stood by his burnt-facrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

7 And he took up his parable, and faid, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, Jaying, Come, curfe me Jacob, and come, defy Ifrael.

8 How fhall I curfe, whom God hath not curfed? or how fhall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

9 For from the top of the rocks I fee him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people fhall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

10 Who can count the duft of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Ifrael? Let + me + Heb. my die the death of the righteous, and let my laft foul, or, my life.

end be like his.

11 And Balak faid unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curfe mine enemies, and behold, thou haft bleffed them altogether.

12 And he answered and said, Muft I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?

13 And Balak faid unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayeft see them: thou fhalt fee but the utmost part of them, and shalt not fee them all: and curfe me them from thence.

14¶ And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pifgah, and built fever, the bill. altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

15 And he faid unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.

■ Chap. 16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a 35. word in his mouth, and faid, Go again unto Balak, and fay thus.

17 And when he came to him, behold, he ftood by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak faid unto him, What hath the LORD fpoken?

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18 And he took up his parable, and faid, Rise Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou fon of Zippor:

up,

Chap. 24.

Or, in.

Chap.

=3-3, 15.

Heb. to The meeting

19 God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the fon of man, that he fhould repent: hath he faid, and fhall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and fhall he not make it good?

20 Behold, I have received commandment to blefs; and he hath bleffed, and I cannot reverse it.

21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he feen perverfenefs in Ifrael: the LORD his God is with him, and the fhout of a king is among them.

22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the ftrength of an unicorn.

23 Surely there is no enchantment || against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Ifrael: according to this time it shall be faid of Jacob and of Ifrael, What hath God wrought!

24 Behold, the people fhall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he fhall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the flain.

25 ¶ And Balak faid unto Balaam, Neither curfe them at all, nor bless them at all.

26 But Balaam answered and faid unto Balak, Told not I thee, faying, All that the LORD fpeaketh, that I muft do?

27¶ And Balak faid unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God, that thou mayest curfe me them from thence.

28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jefhimon.

29 And Balaam faid unto Balak, Build me here feven altars, and prepare me here feven bullocks, and feven rams.

30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. CHAP. XXIV.

1 Balaam leaving divinations, prophefieth the happinefs of Ifrael: 0 Balak in anger dimiffeth him. 15 He prophefieth of the Star of Jacob, and the deftruction of fome nations.

ND when Balaam faw that it pleafed the LORD to blefs Ifrael, he went not as at other times, to feek for enchantments, but he fet his face toward the wilderness.

2 And Balaam lift up his eyes, and he faw Ifof enchant. rael abiding in his tents according to their tribes, and the spirit of God came upon him.

nents.

- Chap. 23. And he took up his parable, and faid, Ba18. laam the fon of Beor hath faid, and the man Heb. who † whole eyes are open, hath faid:

d his eyes

, but God, which faw the vifion of the Almighty, fall4 He hath faid, which heard the words of open. ing into a trance, but having his eyes open:

5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O lfrael!

6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's fide, as the trees of lign-aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar-trees

befide the waters.

prophecy of Christ.

8 God brought him forth out of Egypt, Chap. 23. he hath as it were the ftrength of an unicorn: he fhall eat up the nations his enemies, and fhall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

9

He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion who shall stir him up? Bleffed is he that bleffeth thee, and curfed is he that curseth thee.

10 ¶ And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he fmote his hands together: and Balak faid unto Balaam, I called thee to curfe mine enemies, and behold, thou haft altogether bleffed them these three times.

II Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour, but lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from ho

nour.

12 And Balaam faid unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy meffengers which thou fentest unto me, faying,

13 If Balak would give me his houfe full of filver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD faith, that will I speak?

14 And now behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee, what this people thall do to thy people in the latter days.

15 And he took up his parable, and faid, Balaam the son of Beor hath faid, and the man whose eyes are open, hath faid:

16 He hath faid, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which faw the vifion of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open :

17 I fhall fee him, but not now: I fhall behold him, but not nigh: there fhall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre fhall rife out of Ifrael, and fhall || finite the corners of Moab, and deftroy all the children of Sheth.

18 And Edom fhall be a poffeffion, Seir alfo fhall be a poffeffion for his enemies, and Ifrael fhall do valiantly.

& Gen. 49.

9.

Or, mite through the princes of Moab.

19 Out of Jacob fhall come he that fhall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth || Or, the of the city.

firft of the 20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took nations that up his parable, and faid, Amalek was the first warred aof the nations, but his latter end || fhall be that gainft Ifrael, he perish for ever. Exod. 17. 21 And he looked on the Kenites; and Or, fhall took up his parable, and faid, Strong is thy be even to dwelling-place, and thou puttest thy neft in a defiruction. rock.

Zimri and Cozbi flain by Phinehas.

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▸ Deut. 4.

Joh. 22.

17.

< Pfalm 106. 30.

1 Mac. 2. 54.

1 Cor. 70. 8.

• Pfalm 106.30.

Ecclus 45.24. Mac. 2.

54.

+ Heb.

boule of a father.

ple began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

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-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Ifrael.

4 And the LORD faid unto Mofes, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against 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.

6 And behold, one of the children of Ifrael came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman, in the fight of Mofes, and in the fight of all the congregation of the children of Ifrael, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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

8 And he went after the man of Ifrael into the tent, and thruft both of them through, the man of Ifrael, and the woman through her belly: So the plague was ftayed from the children of Ifrael.

9 And thofe that died in the plague, were twenty and four thousand.

10 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, faying,

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11 Phinehas the fon of Eleazar, the son 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 confumed not the children of Ifrael in my jealousy.

12 Wherefore say, ' 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 everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

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

15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was flain, was Cozbi the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.

The fum of all

16 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes, fay- Before ing, Chrift 1452.

17 Vex the Midianites, and fmite them: 18 For they vex you with their wiles, where- Chap 31. with they have beguiled you, in the matter of 2. 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.

1 The fum of all Ifrael is taken in the plains of Mo-
ab. 52
The law of dividing among them the in-
heritance of the land. 57 The families and num-
ber of the Levites. 63 None were left of them
which were numbered at Sinai, but Caleb and
Fobua.

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ND it came to pafs after the plague, that the LORD fpake unto Mofes, and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, faying, 2 Take the fum of all the congregation of the children of Ifrael, from twenty years old and Chap. 1. upward, throughout their fathers house, all that 3. are able to go to war in Ifrael.

3 And Mofes and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, faying,

a

4 Take the fum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Chap. 1. Mofes and the children of Ifrael, which went 1. forth out of the land of Egypt. 5¶Reuben the eldest fon of Ifrael: the chil- Gen. 46. dren of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the faExod. 6. mily of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:

c

8.

14. 1 Chron. 5.

6 Of Hefron, the family of the Hefronites: 1. of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

7 Thefe are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them, were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

8 And the fons of Pallu; Eliab.

d Chap. 16.

9 And the fons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram which were famous in the congregation, who ftrove against Mofes and againft Aaron in " the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:

10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a fign.

II Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.

12 ¶ The fons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:

13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

14 Thefe are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

15¶ The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites: