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1Reading 1 Numbers 33:1–10Chapter page with footnotes →

Forty-Two Journeys of the Israelites

^33:1These are the journeys of the sons of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their hosts, under the hand of Moses and Aaron. ²And Moses wrote their goings-out by their journeys, by the mouth of the LORD; and these are their journeys by their goings-out.

³And they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the Passover the sons of Israel went out with a high hand in the eyes of all Egypt. ⁴And the Egyptians were burying those whom the LORD had smitten among them, every firstborn; and upon their gods the LORD executed judgments. ⁵And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.

⁶And they journeyed from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.

⁷And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon; and they encamped before Migdol.

⁸And they journeyed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness; and they went a journey of three days in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

⁹And they journeyed from Marah, and came to Elim; and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there.

¹⁰And they journeyed from Elim, and encamped by the Sea of Reeds.

2Reading 2 Numbers 33:11–49Chapter page with footnotes →

^33:11And they journeyed from the Sea of Reeds, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

¹²And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

¹³And they journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

¹⁴And they journeyed from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

¹⁵And they journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.

¹⁶And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth-hattaavah.

¹⁷And they journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.

¹⁸And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.

¹⁹And they journeyed from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon-perez.

²⁰And they journeyed from Rimmon-perez, and encamped in Libnah.

²¹And they journeyed from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.

²²And they journeyed from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.

²³And they journeyed from Kehelathah, and encamped in mount Shepher.

²⁴And they journeyed from mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.

²⁵And they journeyed from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.

²⁶And they journeyed from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.

²⁷And they journeyed from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.

²⁸And they journeyed from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.

²⁹And they journeyed from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.

³⁰And they journeyed from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.

³¹And they journeyed from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene-jaakan.

³²And they journeyed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped in Hor-haggidgad.

³³And they journeyed from Hor-haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.

³⁴And they journeyed from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.

³⁵And they journeyed from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion-geber.

³⁶And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

³⁷And they journeyed from Kadesh, and encamped in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. ³⁸And Aaron the priest went up to mount Hor by the mouth of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first of the month. ³⁹And Aaron was a son of a hundred and twenty-three years at his death in mount Hor.

⁴⁰And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel. ⁴¹And they journeyed from mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.

⁴²And they journeyed from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.

⁴³And they journeyed from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.

⁴⁴And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped in Iye-abarim, in the border of Moab.

⁴⁵And they journeyed from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon-gad.

⁴⁶And they journeyed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.

⁴⁷And they journeyed from Almon-diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

⁴⁸And they journeyed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

⁴⁹And they encamped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim, in the plains of Moab.

3Reading 3 Numbers 33:50–34:15Chapter page with footnotes →

Instructions for Occupying Canaan

^33:50And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying: ⁵¹"Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them: When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ⁵²then you shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and all their molten images you shall destroy, and all their high places you shall demolish.

⁵³And you shall take possession of the land, and dwell in it; for to you I have given the land to possess it. ⁵⁴And you shall inherit the land by lot according to your families — to the many you shall increase his inheritance, and to the few you shall diminish his inheritance; wherever the lot comes out for him, there it shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.

⁵⁵But if you do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain of them shall be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you upon the land in which you dwell. ⁵⁶And it shall come to pass, that as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you."

The Boundaries of Canaan

^34:1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ²Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to its borders.

³And your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward; ⁴And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass over to Zin, and its goings out shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar-addar, and pass over to Azmon; ⁵And the border shall turn from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its goings out shall be at the sea.

⁶And as the western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border.

⁷And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea you shall mark out for yourselves mount Hor; ⁸From mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; ⁹And the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and its goings out shall be at Hazar-enan; this shall be your north border.

¹⁰And you shall mark out for yourselves for the east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham; ¹¹And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down and strike upon the shoulder of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; ¹²And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its goings out shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders round about.

¹³And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half tribe; ¹⁴For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received, and the half tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance; ¹⁵The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.

4Reading 4 Numbers 34:16–29Chapter page with footnotes →

Leaders to Divide the Land

^34:16And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ¹⁷These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you as inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. ¹⁸And one prince, one prince from every tribe you shall take to divide the land for inheritance. ¹⁹And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

²⁰And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

²¹Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.

²²And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.

²³Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod;

²⁴And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.

²⁵And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

²⁶And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.

²⁷And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

²⁸And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.

²⁹These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

5Reading 5 Numbers 35:1–8Chapter page with footnotes →

Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites

^35:1And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying: ²Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and open land round about the cities you shall give to the Levites. ³And the cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their open lands shall be for their cattle and for their goods and for all their beasts.

⁴And the open lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. ⁵And you shall measure outside the city: the east side two thousand cubits, and the south side two thousand cubits, and the west side two thousand cubits, and the north side two thousand cubits, with the city in the middle. This shall be to them the open lands of the cities.

⁶And the cities which you shall give to the Levites: the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the slayer to flee there; and beside them you shall give forty-two cities. ⁷All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, them and their open lands. ⁸And the cities which you shall give from the possession of the children of Israel: from the many you shall give many, and from the few you shall give few; each man according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.

6Reading 6 Numbers 35:9–34Chapter page with footnotes →

Six Cities of Refuge

^35:9And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ¹⁰Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ¹¹Then you shall appoint for yourselves cities; cities of refuge they shall be for you, that a slayer who smites a soul by error may flee there. ¹²And the cities shall be for you for refuge from the redeemer, that the slayer die not until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

¹³And the cities which you shall give shall be six cities of refuge for you. ¹⁴Three cities you shall give beyond the Jordan, and three cities you shall give in the land of Canaan; cities of refuge they shall be. ¹⁵For the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the settler among them, these six cities shall be for refuge, that everyone who smites a soul by error may flee there.

¹⁶And if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a slayer; the slayer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁷And if he smote him with a stone of the hand, by which one may die, and he died, he is a slayer; the slayer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood of the hand, by which one may die, and he died, he is a slayer; the slayer shall surely be put to death.

¹⁹The redeemer of blood, he shall put the slayer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

²⁰And if he thrust him in hatred, or hurled at him by lying in wait, so that he died, ²¹Or in enmity smote him with his hand, so that he died; the smiter shall surely be put to death; he is a slayer; the redeemer of blood shall put the slayer to death when he meets him.

²²But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any vessel without lying in wait, ²³Or with any stone by which one may die, without seeing him, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, and did not seek his harm; ²⁴Then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the redeemer of blood according to these judgments; ²⁵And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the redeemer of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled; and he shall dwell in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

²⁶But if the slayer at all goes out beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he had fled, ²⁷And the redeemer of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge, and the redeemer of blood slays the slayer, there is no blood for him. ²⁸For in his city of refuge he should dwell until the death of the high priest; and after the death of the high priest the slayer may return to the land of his possession. ²⁹And these shall be for you for a statute of judgment throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

³⁰Whoever smites a soul, at the mouth of witnesses shall the slayer be slain; but one witness shall not testify against a soul to die.

³¹And you shall take no ransom for the soul of a slayer who is wicked, to die; for he shall surely be put to death. ³²And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, to return to dwell in the land until the death of the priest.

³³And you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood, it pollutes the land, and for the land no atonement can be made for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him who shed it. ³⁴And you shall not defile the land in which you dwell, in the midst of which I dwell; for I, the LORD, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.

7Reading 7 Numbers 36:1–13Chapter page with footnotes →

Zelophehad’s Daughters Marry

^36:1And the heads of the fathers came near, of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the children of Joseph; and they spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers of the children of Israel; ²And they said: the LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. ³And if they become wives to one of the sons of the tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance shall be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong; so it shall be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. ⁴And if it is the jubilee of the children of Israel, then their inheritance shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers their inheritance shall be taken away.

⁵And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the mouth of the LORD, saying: The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks rightly. ⁶This is the thing which the LORD commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying: Let them become wives to whoever is good in their eyes; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they become wives. ⁷And no inheritance of the children of Israel shall turn about from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave, each man to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. ⁸And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from the tribes of the children of Israel shall become a wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess, each man the inheritance of his fathers. ⁹And no inheritance shall turn about from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave, each man to its inheritance.

¹⁰As the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad. ¹¹And Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, became wives to the sons of their uncles. ¹²From the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph they became wives, and their inheritance remained upon the tribe of the family of their father.

¹³These are the commandments and the judgments which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

PJeremiah 2:4–28Chapter page with footnotes →

^2:4Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel. ⁵Thus says the LORD: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

⁶And they did not say, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and the shadow of death, in a land through which no man passed, and where no man dwelt?

⁷And I brought you into a land of the fruitful field, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but you came and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

⁸The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? And those who handle the Torah did not know me; and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

⁹Therefore I will yet contend with you, declares the LORD, and with your children's children will I contend.

¹⁰For pass over to the isles of the Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.

¹¹Has a nation changed its gods, which are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

¹²Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and shudder; be utterly desolate, declares the LORD.

¹³For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

The Consequence of Israel’s Sin

¹⁴Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born slave? Why has he become a prey?

¹⁵Against him the young lions roar, they give out their voice; and they have made his land a desolation; his cities are burned, without inhabitant.

¹⁶Also the sons of Noph and Tahpanhes feed on the crown of your head.

¹⁷Have you not done this to yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, at the time he led you in the way?

¹⁸And now what have you to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? Or what have you to do with the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

¹⁹Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you; know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

²⁰For of old I broke your yoke, I burst your bands; and you said, I will not transgress; for upon every high hill and under every leafy tree you bowed down, playing the harlot.

²¹And I planted you a choice vine, wholly a seed of truth; how then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?

²²For though you wash with natron, and use much soap, your iniquity is marked before me, declares the Lord GOD.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness

²³How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? See your way in the valley, know what you have done; you are a swift young she-camel traversing her ways;

²⁴a wild ass used to the wilderness, in the desire of her soul she snuffs up the wind; her lust—who can turn it back? All who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

²⁵Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst; but you said, There is no hope; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.

²⁶As the shame of a thief when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

²⁷saying to a tree, You are my father, and to a stone, You brought me forth; for they have turned to me the back of the neck, and not the face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

²⁸And where are your gods that you have made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.

PJeremiah 3:4–4Chapter page with footnotes →

^3:4Have you not just now called to me, My father, you are the friend of my youth?

AHebrews 6:17–20Chapter page with footnotes →

^6:17So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of His purpose, He interposed with an oath, ¹⁸so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong comfort to hold fast to the hope set before us.

¹⁹We have this as an anchor of the soul, sure and steadfast, and it enters into the inner place behind the curtain, ²⁰where Yeshua has entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest for ever according to the order of Melchizedek.