BamidbarIn the wilderness

1Reading 1 Numbers 1:1–19Chapter page with footnotes →

The First Census of Israel

^1:1And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of appointed time (mo-ed), on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going out from the land of Egypt, saying: ²"Lift up the head of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, every male, head by head;

³from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, you shall number them by their hosts, you and Aaron. ⁴And with you there shall be a man for each tribe, a man who is head of the house of his fathers.

The Leaders of the Tribes

⁵And these are the names of the men who shall stand with you: For Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur.

⁶For Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

⁷For Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

⁸For Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar.

⁹For Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon.

¹⁰For the sons of Joseph: for Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; for Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

¹¹For Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni.

¹²For Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

¹³For Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran.

¹⁴For Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

¹⁵For Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan."

¹⁶These were the called ones of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

The Number of Every Tribe

¹⁷And Moses and Aaron took these men who were designated by names. ¹⁸And they assembled all the congregation on the first of the second month, and they declared their births by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head. ¹⁹As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

2Reading 2 Numbers 1:20–54Chapter page with footnotes →

^1:20And the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ²¹those numbered of them, for the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand and five hundred.

²²For the sons of Simeon, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, those numbered of him, by the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ²³those numbered of them, for the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand and three hundred.

²⁴For the sons of Gad, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ²⁵those numbered of them, for the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

²⁶For the sons of Judah, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ²⁷those numbered of them, for the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand and six hundred.

²⁸For the sons of Issachar, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ²⁹those numbered of them, for the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand and four hundred.

³⁰For the sons of Zebulun, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ³¹those numbered of them, for the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand and four hundred.

³²For the sons of Joseph, for the sons of Ephraim, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ³³those numbered of them, for the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.

³⁴For the sons of Manasseh, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ³⁵those numbered of them, for the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand and two hundred.

³⁶For the sons of Benjamin, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ³⁷those numbered of them, for the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand and four hundred.

³⁸For the sons of Dan, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ³⁹those numbered of them, for the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand and seven hundred.

⁴⁰For the sons of Asher, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ⁴¹those numbered of them, for the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.

⁴²The sons of Naphtali, their generations by their families, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host; ⁴³those numbered of them, for the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand and four hundred.

⁴⁴These are those numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, twelve men; one man each was for the house of his fathers. ⁴⁵And all those numbered of the sons of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel; ⁴⁶and all those numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

The Exemption of the Levites

⁴⁷But the Levites, by the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them. ⁴⁸And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ⁴⁹"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, and their head you shall not lift up among the sons of Israel; ⁵⁰but you, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that belongs to it; they shall bear the tabernacle and all its vessels, and they shall minister to it, and around the tabernacle they shall encamp.

⁵¹And in the journeying of the tabernacle, the Levites shall take it down; and in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites shall set it up; and the stranger who draws near shall be put to death.

⁵²And the sons of Israel shall encamp, each man by his camp, and each man by his standard, by their hosts. ⁵³But the Levites shall encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony."

⁵⁴And the sons of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so they did.

3Reading 3 Numbers 2:1–34Chapter page with footnotes →

The Order of the Camps

^2:1And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: ²"Each man by his standard, with the signs of the house of their fathers, shall the sons of Israel encamp; opposite, around the tent of appointed time (mo-ed) shall they encamp.

³And those encamping eastward, toward the sunrise, shall be the standard of the camp of Judah by their hosts; and the prince for the sons of Judah is Nahshon the son of Amminadab. ⁴And his host, and those numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand and six hundred.

⁵And those encamping next to him are the tribe of Issachar; and the prince for the sons of Issachar is Nethanel the son of Zuar. ⁶And his host, and those numbered of him, were fifty-four thousand and four hundred.

⁷And the tribe of Zebulun; and the prince for the sons of Zebulun is Eliab the son of Helon. ⁸And his host, and those numbered of him, were fifty-seven thousand and four hundred.

⁹All those numbered for the camp of Judah were a hundred thousand and eighty thousand and six thousand and four hundred, by their hosts; they shall set forth first.

¹⁰The standard of the camp of Reuben shall be southward by their hosts; and the prince for the sons of Reuben is Elizur the son of Shedeur. ¹¹And his host, and those numbered of him, were forty-six thousand and five hundred.

¹²And those encamping next to him are the tribe of Simeon; and the prince for the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. ¹³And his host, and those numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand and three hundred.

¹⁴And the tribe of Gad; and the prince for the sons of Gad is Eliasaph the son of Reuel. ¹⁵And his host, and those numbered of them, were forty-five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

¹⁶All those numbered for the camp of Reuben were a hundred thousand and fifty-one thousand and four hundred and fifty, by their hosts; and they shall set forth second.

¹⁷And the tent of appointed time (mo-ed) shall set forth, the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they encamp, so shall they set forth, each man at his hand, by their standards.

¹⁸The standard of the camp of Ephraim shall be seaward by their hosts; and the prince for the sons of Ephraim is Elishama the son of Ammihud. ¹⁹And his host, and those numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.

²⁰And next to him the tribe of Manasseh; and the prince for the sons of Manasseh is Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. ²¹And his host, and those numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand and two hundred.

²²And the tribe of Benjamin; and the prince for the sons of Benjamin is Abidan the son of Gideoni. ²³And his host, and those numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand and four hundred.

²⁴All those numbered for the camp of Ephraim were a hundred thousand and eight thousand and a hundred, by their hosts; and they shall set forth third.

²⁵The standard of the camp of Dan shall be northward by their hosts; and the prince for the sons of Dan is Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. ²⁶And his host, and those numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand and seven hundred.

²⁷And those encamping next to him are the tribe of Asher; and the prince for the sons of Asher is Pagiel the son of Ochran. ²⁸And his host, and those numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.

²⁹And the tribe of Naphtali; and the prince for the sons of Naphtali is Ahira the son of Enan. ³⁰And his host, and those numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand and four hundred.

³¹All those numbered for the camp of Dan were a hundred thousand and fifty-seven thousand and six hundred; they shall set forth last by their standards."

³²These are those numbered of the sons of Israel by the house of their fathers; all those numbered of the camps by their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. ³³But the Levites were not numbered among the sons of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

³⁴And the sons of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so they encamped by their standards, and so they set forth, each man by his families, by the house of his fathers.

4Reading 4 Numbers 3:1–13Chapter page with footnotes →

The Sons of Aaron

^3:1And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.

²And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ³These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he filled to act as priests.

⁴And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they brought near strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons; and Eleazar and Ithamar acted as priests upon the face of Aaron their father.

The Duties of the Levites

⁵And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ⁶Bring near the tribe of Levi, and you shall make it stand before Aaron the priest, and they shall minister to him. ⁷And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of all the congregation, before the tent of appointed time (mo-ed), to serve the service of the tabernacle. ⁸And they shall keep all the vessels of the tent of appointed time (mo-ed), and the charge of the sons of Israel, to serve the service of the tabernacle.

⁹And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; wholly given are they to him from the sons of Israel. ¹⁰And Aaron and his sons you shall appoint, and they shall keep their priesthood; and the stranger who draws near shall be put to death.

¹¹And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ¹²And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn that opens the womb among the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine. ¹³For Mine is every firstborn; in the day I struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified to Me every firstborn in Israel, from man to beast; Mine they shall be. I am the LORD.

5Reading 5 Numbers 3:14–39Chapter page with footnotes →

The Numbering of the Levites

^3:14And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying: ¹⁵Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number them.

¹⁶And Moses numbered them according to the mouth of the LORD, as he was commanded.

¹⁷And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁸And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁹And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ²⁰And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levite by the house of their fathers.

The Gershonites

²¹Of Gershon was the family of the Libnite, and the family of the Shimeite; these are the families of the Gershonite. ²²Those numbered of them, by the number of every male from a month old and upward, those numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.

²³The families of the Gershonite were to camp behind the tabernacle westward; ²⁴and the prince of the house of the father for the Gershonite was Eliasaph the son of Lael.

²⁵And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of appointed time (mo-ed): the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen of the door of the tent of appointed time (mo-ed), ²⁶and the hangings of the court, and the screen of the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and its cords, for all its service.

The Kohathites

²⁷And of Kohath was the family of the Amramite, and the family of the Izharite, and the family of the Hebronite, and the family of the Uzzielite; these are the families of the Kohathite. ²⁸By the number of every male from a month old and upward, eight thousand and six hundred, keepers of the charge of the sanctuary.

²⁹The families of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the side of the tabernacle southward; ³⁰and the prince of the house of the father for the families of the Kohathite was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

³¹And their charge: the ark, and the table, and the lampstand, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.

³²And the prince of the princes of the Levite was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, the oversight of the keepers of the charge of the sanctuary.

The Merarites

³³Of Merari was the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these are the families of Merari. ³⁴And those numbered of them, by the number of every male from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.

³⁵And the prince of the house of the father for the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail; they were to camp on the side of the tabernacle northward.

³⁶And the oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari: the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all its service; ³⁷and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

Moses and Aaron

³⁸And those camping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of appointed time (mo-ed) toward the sunrise, were Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary, for the charge of the sons of Israel; and the stranger who draws near shall be put to death.

³⁹All those numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the mouth of the LORD, by their families, every male from a month old and upward, were two and twenty thousand.

6Reading 6 Numbers 3:40–51Chapter page with footnotes →

The Redemption of the Firstborn

^3:40And the LORD said to Moses: Number every firstborn male of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. ⁴¹And you shall take the Levites for Me — I am the LORD — instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel; and the beast of the Levites instead of every firstborn among the beast of the sons of Israel.

⁴²And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, every firstborn among the sons of Israel. ⁴³And every firstborn male, by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those numbered of them, were two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

⁴⁴And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ⁴⁵Take the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the beast of the Levites instead of their beast; and the Levites shall be Mine. I am the LORD. ⁴⁶And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three, those of the firstborn of the sons of Israel that are over and above the Levites, ⁴⁷you shall take five shekels apiece by the head; by the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take, twenty gerahs the shekel. ⁴⁸And you shall give the money to Aaron and to his sons, the redemption of those over and above among them.

⁴⁹And Moses took the redemption money from those over and above the redeemed of the Levites; ⁵⁰from the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money: a thousand three hundred and sixty-five by the shekel of the sanctuary. ⁵¹And Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the mouth of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

7Reading 7 Numbers 4:1–20Chapter page with footnotes →

The Duties of the Kohathites

^4:1And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: ²Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi, by their families, by the house of their fathers, ³from a son of thirty years and upward even to a son of fifty years, everyone who enters the host to do work in the tent of appointed time (mo-ed).

⁴This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of appointed time (mo-ed): the holy of holies. ⁵And Aaron and his sons shall come in, when the camp sets out, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover with it the ark of the testimony; ⁶and they shall put on it a covering of tachash skin, and shall spread a cloth wholly of blue above, and shall set its poles.

⁷And on the table of the presence they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put on it the dishes, and the pans, and the bowls, and the jars of the drink offering; and the continual bread shall be on it. ⁸And they shall spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of tachash skin, and shall set its poles.

⁹And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its snuff dishes, and all the vessels of its oil with which they minister to it. ¹⁰And they shall put it and all its vessels into a covering of tachash skin, and shall put it on the bar.

¹¹And on the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of tachash skin, and shall set its poles. ¹²And they shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them into a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of tachash skin, and put them on the bar.

¹³And they shall remove the ashes from the altar, and spread on it a cloth of purple; ¹⁴and they shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister on it: the fire-pans, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of tachash skin, and set its poles.

¹⁵And Aaron and his sons shall finish covering the holy thing and all the vessels of the holy place, when the camp sets out; and after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them; but they shall not touch the holy thing, lest they die. These are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of appointed time (mo-ed).

¹⁶And the oversight of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest: the oil of the light, and the incense of the spices, and the continual grain offering, and the anointing oil — the oversight of all the tabernacle and all that is in it, of the holy place and its vessels.

¹⁷And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: ¹⁸Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from the midst of the Levites; ¹⁹but this do for them, that they may live and not die, when they draw near to the holy of holies: Aaron and his sons shall come in and appoint them each man, each man, to his service and to his burden; ²⁰but they shall not come in to see the holy thing being swallowed up, lest they die.

PHosea 2:1–22Chapter page with footnotes →

^2:1And the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured and not counted; and it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Sons of the living God." ²And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head, and they shall go up from the land, for great is the day of Jezreel.

Israel’s Adultery Rebuked

³Say to your brothers, "My people," and to your sisters, "Compassioned."

⁴Plead with your mother, plead, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; and let her remove her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

⁵lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day she was born, and make her like the wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

⁶And on her children I will not have compassion, for they are children of harlotries.

⁷For their mother has played the harlot; she who conceived them has acted shamefully; for she said, "I will go after my lovers, who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink."

⁸Therefore, behold, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I will wall up her wall, and her paths she shall not find.

⁹And she shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but not find; and she shall say, "I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now."

¹⁰And she did not know that I gave to her the grain, and the new wine, and the fresh oil, and silver I multiplied to her, and gold — they made for Baal.

¹¹Therefore I will return and take my grain in its time, and my new wine in its appointed time (mo-ed), and I will snatch away my wool and my flax meant to cover her nakedness.

¹²And now I will uncover her shame before the eyes of her lovers, and no man shall deliver her from my hand.

¹³And I will make to cease all her mirth, her feast, her new moon, and her Shabbat, and all her appointed times (moedim).

¹⁴And I will lay waste her vine and her fig tree, of which she said, "These are my hire that my lovers gave me"; and I will make them a forest, and the beast of the field shall eat them.

¹⁵And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, to whom she burned incense, and she adorned herself with her ring and her jewelry, and went after her lovers; and me she forgot — declaration of the LORD.

God’s Mercy to Israel

¹⁶Therefore, behold, I am alluring her, and I will lead her into the wilderness, and I will speak to her heart.

¹⁷And I will give to her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall answer there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day of her coming up from the land of Egypt.

¹⁸And it shall be in that day — declaration of the LORD — you shall call me "my husband," and you shall no more call me "my Baal."

¹⁹And I will remove the names of the Baalim from her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

²⁰And I will cut for them a covenant in that day with the beast of the field, and with the bird of the heavens, and the creeping thing of the ground; and bow and sword and battle I will break from the land, and I will make them lie down in safety.

²¹And I will betroth you to me forever; and I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in judgment, and in mercy and in compassion.

²²And I will betroth you to me in faithfulness, and you shall know the LORD.

ARevelation 7:4–8Chapter page with footnotes →

^7:4And I heard the number of those sealed: one hundred forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel —

⁵from the tribe of Judah twelve thousand sealed, from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,

⁶from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, from the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, from the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,

⁷from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,

⁸from the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, from the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand sealed.