Category Archives: Numbers

Exploring Canaan 1 TheLordsaid to Moses, 2 “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.” 3 So at theLord’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites. 4 […]

Daily Offerings 1 TheLordsaid to Moses, 2 “Give this command to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Make sure that you present to me at the appointed time my food offerings, as an aroma pleasing to me.’ 3 Say to them: ‘This is the food offering you are to present to theLord: two lambs a […]

The Census 1 TheLordspoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: 2 “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by […]

The Arrangement of the Tribal Camps 1 TheLordsaid to Moses and Aaron: 2 “The Israelites are to camp around the tent of meeting some distance from it, each of them under their standard and holding the banners of their family.” 3 On the east, toward the sunrise, the divisions of the camp of Judah are […]

The Levites 1 This is the account of the family of Aaron and Moses at the time theLordspoke to Moses at Mount Sinai. 2 The names of the sons of Aaron were Nadab the firstborn and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 3 Those were the names of Aaron’s sons, the anointed priests, who were ordained to […]

The Kohathites 1 TheLordsaid to Moses and Aaron: 2 “Take a census of the Kohathite branch of the Levites by their clans and families. 3 Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting. 4 “This is the work of the […]

The Purity of the Camp 1 TheLordsaid to Moses, 2 “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin diseaseor a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body. 3 Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they […]

The Nazirite 1 TheLordsaid to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man or woman wants to make a special vow, a vow of dedication to theLordas a Nazirite, 3 they must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made from wine or other fermented […]

Offerings at the Dedication of the Tabernacle 1 When Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings. He also anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils. 2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of families who were the tribal leaders in charge of those who […]

Setting Up the Lamps 1 TheLordsaid to Moses, 2 “Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you set up the lamps, see that all seven light up the area in front of the lampstand.’ ” 3 Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as theLordcommanded […]