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 12:1  And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the
Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an
Ethiopian woman.
 12:2  And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by
Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard [it].
 12:3  (Now the man Moses [was] very meek, above all the men
which [were] upon the face of the earth.)
 12:4  And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron,
and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the
congregation. And they three came out.
 12:5  And 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.
 12:6  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 in a dream.
 12:7  My servant Moses [is] not so, who [is] faithful in all
mine house.
 12:8  With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently,
and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall
he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against
my servant Moses?
 12:9  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and
he departed.
 12:10  And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and,
behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and Aaron
looked upon Miriam, and, behold, [she was] leprous.
 12:11  And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech
thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly,
and wherein we have sinned.
 12:12  Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half
consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
 12:13  And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O
God, I beseech thee.
 12:14  And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but
spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her
be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be
received in [again].
 12:15  And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and
the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in [again].
 12:16  And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and
pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
 13:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 13:2  Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan,
which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of
their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among
them.
 13:3  And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from
the wilderness of Paran: all those men [were] heads of the
children of Israel.
 13:4  And these [were] their names: of the tribe of Reuben,
Shammua the son of Zaccur.
 13:5  Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
 13:6  Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
 13:7  Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
 13:8  Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
 13:9  Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
 13:10  Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
 13:11  Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of
Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
 13:12  Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
 13:13  Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
 13:14  Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
 13:15  Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
 13:16  These [are] the names of the men which Moses sent to
spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun
Jehoshua.
 13:17  And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and
said unto them, Get you up this [way] southward, and go up into
the mountain:
 13:18  And see the land, what it [is]; and the people that
dwelleth therein, whether they [be] strong or weak, few or
many;
 13:19  And what the land [is] that they dwell in, whether it
[be] good or bad; and what cities [they be] that they dwell in,
whether in tents, or in strong holds;
 13:20  And what the land [is], whether it [be] fat or lean,
whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good
courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time [was]
the time of the firstripe grapes.
 13:21  So they went up, and searched the land from the
wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
 13:22  And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron;
where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak,
[were]. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in
Egypt.)
 13:23  And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down
from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare
it between two upon a staff; and [they brought] of the
pomegranates, and of the figs.
 13:24  The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the
cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from
thence.
 13:25  And they returned from searching of the land after
forty days.
 13:26  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 showed them the fruit
of the land.
 13:27  And they told him, and said, We came unto the land
whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and
honey; and this [is] the fruit of it.
 13:28  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.
 13:29  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.
 13:30  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.
 13:31  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.
 13:32  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 thereof; and all the people that we
saw in it [are] men of a great stature.
 13:33  And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, [which
come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
 14:1  And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and
cried; and the people wept that night.
 14:2  And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses
and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them,
Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God
we had died in this wilderness!
 14:3  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?
 14:4  And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and
let us return into Egypt.
 14:5  Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
 14:6  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land, rent
their clothes:
 14:7  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.
 14:8  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.
 14:9  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 [is] with us: fear them
not.
 14:10  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.
 14:11  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 showed among them?
 14:12  I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit
them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than
they.
 14:13  And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall
hear [it], (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might
from among them;)
 14:14  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.
 14:15  Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man,
then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak,
saying,
 14:16  Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into
the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them
in the wilderness.
 14:17  And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be
great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
 14:18  The LORD [is] longsuffering, and of great mercy,
forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing
[the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth [generation].
 14:19  Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people
according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast
forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
 14:20  And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy
word:
 14:21  But [as] truly [as] I live, all the earth shall be
filled with the glory of the LORD.
 14:22  Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my
miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have
tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my
voice;
 14:23  Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto
their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see
it:
 14:24  But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit
with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the
land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
 14:25  (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.
 14:26  And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
 14:27  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.
 14:28  Say unto them, [As truly as] I live, saith the LORD, as
ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
 14:29  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, which have murmured against me,
 14:30  Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, [concerning]
which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
 14:31  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.
 14:32  But [as for] you, your carcases, they shall fall in
this wilderness.
 14:33  And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty
years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted
in the wilderness.
 14:34  After the number of the days in which ye searched 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.
 14:35  I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this
evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in
this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall
die.
 14:36  And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who
returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him,
by bringing up a slander upon the land,
 14:37  Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon
the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
 14:38  But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, [which were] of the men that went to search the
land, lived [still].
 14:39  And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of
Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
 14:40  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.
 14:41  And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the
commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
 14:42  Go not up, for the LORD [is] not among you; that ye be
not smitten before your enemies.
 14:43  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.
 14:44  But they presumed to go up unto the hill top:
nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses,
departed not out of the camp.
 14:45  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which
dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them,
[even] unto Hormah.
 15:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 15:2  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give
unto you,
 15:3  And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt
offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill
offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto
the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:
 15:4  Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD
bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the
fourth [part] of an hin of oil.
 15:5  And the fourth [part] of an hin of wine for a drink
offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or
sacrifice, for one lamb.
 15:6  Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare [for] a meat offering
two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third [part] of an
hin of oil.
 15:7  And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third
[part] of an hin of wine, [for] a sweet savour unto the LORD.
 15:8  And when thou preparest a bullock [for] a burnt
offering, or [for] a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace
offerings unto the LORD:
 15:9  Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of
three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
 15:10  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.
 15:11  Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram,
or for a lamb, or a kid.
 15:12  According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall
ye do to every one according to their number.
 15:13  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.
 15:14  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.
 15:15  One ordinance [shall be both] for you of the
congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth [with
you], an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye [are],
so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
 15:16  One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the
stranger that sojourneth with you.
 15:17  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 15:18  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
 15:19  Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the
land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
 15:20  Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough
[for] an heave offering: as [ye do] the heave offering of the
threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
 15:21  Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD
an heave offering in your generations.
 15:22  And if ye have erred, and not observed all these
commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
 15:23  [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;
 15:24  Then it shall be, if [ought] be committed by ignorance
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 drink offering, according to the manner, and
one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
 15:25  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:
 15:26  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.
 15:27  And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall
bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
 15:28  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.
 15:29  Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through
ignorance, [both for] him that is born among the children of
Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
 15:30  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.
 15:31  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.
 15:32  And while the children of Israel were in the
wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the
sabbath day.
 15:33  And they that found him gathering sticks brought him
unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
 15:34  And they put him in ward, because it was not declared
what should be done to him.
 15:35  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.
 15:36  And all the congregation brought him without the camp,
and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
 15:37  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 15:38  Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that
they make them fringes in the borders of their garments
throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe
of the borders a ribband of blue:
 15:39  And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look
upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do
them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own
eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
 15:40  That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and
be holy unto your God.
 15:41  I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the
land of Egypt, to be your God: I [am] the LORD your God.
 16:1  Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son
of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the
son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]:
 16:2  And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the
children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the
assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
 16:3  And they gathered themselves together against Moses and
against Aaron, and said unto them, [Ye take] too much upon you,
seeing all the congregation [are] holy, every one of them, and
the LORD [is] among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves
above the congregation of the LORD?
 16:4  And when Moses heard [it], he fell upon his face:
 16:5  And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company,
saying, Even to morrow the LORD will show 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.
 16:6  This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
 16:7  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.
 16:8  And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of
Levi:
 16:9  [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?
 16:10  And he hath brought thee near [to him], and all thy
brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood
also?
 16:11  For which cause [both] thou and all thy company [are]
gathered together against the LORD: and what [is] Aaron, that
ye murmur against him?
 16:12  And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
 16:13  [Is it] a small thing that thou hast brought us up out
of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the
wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over
us?
 16:14  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.
 16:15  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.
 16:16  And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company
before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
 16:17  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.
 16:18  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.
 16:19  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.
 16:20  And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
 16:21  Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that
I may consume them in a moment.
 16:22  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?
 16:23  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 16:24  Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from
about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
 16:25  And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and
the elders of Israel followed him.
 16:26  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.
 16:27  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.
 16:28  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.
 16:29  If these men die the common death of all men, or if
they be visited after the visitation of all men; [then] the
LORD hath not sent me.
 16:30  But if the LORD make a new thing, and the 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.
 16:31  And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking
all these words, that the ground clave asunder that [was] under
them:
 16:32  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.
 16:33  They, and all that [appertained] to them, went down
alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they
perished from among the congregation.
 16:34  And all Israel that [were] round about them fled at the
cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up
[also].
 16:35  And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed
the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
 16:36  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 16:37  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.
 16:38  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.
 16:39  And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers,
wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made
broad [plates for] a covering of the altar:
 16:40  [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.
 16:41  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.
 16:42  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.
 16:43  And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the
congregation.
 16:44  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 16:45  Get you up from among this congregation, that I may
consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
 16:46  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.
 16:47  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.
 16:48  And he stood between the dead and the living; and the
plague was stayed.
 16:49  Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand
and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of
Korah.
 16:50  And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
 17:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 17:2  Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one
of them a rod according to the house of [their] fathers, of all
their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve
rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
 17:3  And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi:
for one rod [shall be] for the head of the house of their
fathers.
 17:4  And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the
congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
 17:5  And it shall come to pass, [that] the man's rod, whom I
shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me
the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur
against you.
 17:6  And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every
one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince
one, according to their fathers' houses, [even] twelve rods:
and the rod of Aaron [was] among their rods.
 17:7  And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the
tabernacle of witness.
 17:8  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.
 17:9  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.
 17:10  And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again
before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the
rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from
me, that they die not.
 17:11  And Moses did [so]: as the LORD commanded him, so did
he.
 17:12  And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying,
Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
 17:13  Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of
the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
 18:1  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.
 18:2  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.
 18:3  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.
 18:4  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.
 18:5  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.
 18:6  And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites
from among the children of Israel: to you [they are] given
[as] a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle
of the congregation.
 18:7  Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your
priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the
veil; 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.
 18:8  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.
 18:9  This shall be thine of the most holy things, [reserved]
from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering
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.
 18:10  In the most holy [place] shalt thou eat it; every male
shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
 18:11  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 thy daughters
with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in
thy house shall eat of it.
 18:12  All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine,
and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall
offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.
 18:13  [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.
 18:14  Everything devoted in Israel shall be thine.
 18:15  Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh,
which they bring unto the LORD, [whether it be] of men or
beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man
shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts
shalt thou redeem.
 18:16  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.
 18:17  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.
 18:18  And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave
breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
 18:19  All the heave offerings of the holy things, which 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.
 18:20  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 inheritance among the
children of Israel.
 18:21  And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the
tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which
they serve, [even] the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
 18:22  Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come
nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin,
and die.
 18:23  But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle
of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: [it
shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations, that
among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
 18:24  But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they
offer [as] an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to
the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among
the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
 18:25  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 18:26  Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When
ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have
given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer
up an heave offering of it for the LORD, [even] a tenth [part]
of the tithe.
 18:27  And [this] your heave offering shall be reckoned unto
you, as though [it were] the corn of the threshingfloor, and
as the fulness of the winepress.
 18:28  Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the
LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of
Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to
Aaron the priest.
 18:29  Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave
offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, [even] the
hallowed part thereof out of it.
 18:30  Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have
heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto
the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the
increase of the winepress.
 18:31  And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your
households: for it [is] your reward for your service in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
 18:32  And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have
heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the
holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.