by Septuagint
[36] And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land, — [37] the men that spoke evil reports against the land, even died of the plague before the Lord. [38] And Joshua the son of Naue and Chaleb the son of Jephonne still lived of those men that went to spy out the land. [39] And Moses spoke these words to all the children of Israel; and the people mourned exceedingly.
[40] And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we that are here will go up to the place of which the Lord has spoken, because we have sinned. [41] And Moses said, Why do ye transgress the word of the Lord? ye shall not prosper. [42] Go not up, for the Lord is not with you; so shall ye fall before the face of your enemies. [43] For Amalec and the Chananite are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; because ye have disobeyed the Lord and turned aside, and the Lord will not be among you. [44] And having forced their passage, they went up to the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses stirred not out of the camp. [45] And Amalec and the Chananite that dwelt in that mountain came down, and routed them, and destroyed them unto Herman; and they returned to the camp.
Chapter 15
[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye are come into the land of your habitation, which I give to you, [3] and thou wilt offer whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord, a whole-burnt-offering or a meat-offering to perform a vow, or a free-will offering, or to offer in your feasts a sacrifice of sweet savour to the Lord, whether of the herd or the flock: [4] then he that offers his gift to the Lord shall bring a meat-offering of fine flour, a tenth part of an ephah mingled with oil, even with the fourth part of a hin. [5] And for a drink-offering ye shall offer the fourth part of a hin on the whole-burnt-offering, or on the meat-offering: for every lamb thou shalt offer so much, as a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord. [6] And for a ram, when ye offer it as a whole-burnt-offering or as a sacrifice, thou shalt prepare as a meat-offering two tenths of fine flour mingled with oil, the third part of a hin. [7] And ye shall offer for a smell of sweet savour to the Lord wine for a drink-offering, the third part of a hin. [8] And if ye sacrifice a bullock from the herd for a whole-burnt-offering or for a sacrifice, to perform a vow or a peace-offering to the Lord, [9] then the worshipper shall offer upon the calf a meat-offering, three tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, even the half of a hin. [10] And wine for a drink-offering the half of a hin, a sacrifice for a smell of sweet savour to the Lord.
[11] Thus shalt thou do to one calf or to one ram, or to one lamb of the sheep or kid of the goats. [12] According to the number of what ye shall offer, so shall ye do to each one, according to their number. [13] Every native of the country shall do thus to offer such things as sacrifices for a smell of sweet savour to the Lord. [14] And if there should be a stranger among you in your land, or one who should be born to you among your generations, and he will offer a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord — as ye do, so the whole congregation shall offer to the Lord.
[15] There shall be one law for you and for the strangers abiding among you, a perpetual law for your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. [16] There shall be one law and one ordinance for you, and for the stranger that abides among you.
[17] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [18] Speak to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye are entering into the land, into which I bring you, [19] then it shall come to pass, when ye shall eat of the bread of the land, ye shall separate a wave-offering, a special offering to the Lord, the first-fruits of your dough. [20] Ye shall offer your bread a heave-offering: as a heave-offering from the threshing-floor, so shall ye separate it, [21] even the first-fruits of your dough, and ye shall give the Lord a heave-offering throughout your generations.
[22] But whensoever ye shall transgress, and not perform all these commands, which the Lord spoke to Moses; [23] as the Lord appointed you by the hand of Moses, from the day which the Lord appointed you and forward throughout your generations, [24] then it shall come to pass, if a trespass be committed unwillingly, unknown to the congregation, then shall all the congregation offer a calf of the herd without blemish for a whole-burnt-offering of sweet savour to the Lord, and its meat-offering and its drink-offering according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering. [25] And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the trespass shall be forgiven them, because it is involuntary; and they have brought their gift, a burnt-offering to the Lord for their trespass before the Lord, even for their involuntary sins. [26] And it shall be forgiven as respects all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that is abiding among you, because it is involuntary to all the people.
[27] And if one soul sin unwillingly, he shall bring one she-goat of a year old for a sin-offering. [28] And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that committed the trespass unwillingly, and that sinned unwillingly before the Lord, to make atonement for him. [29] There shall be one law for the native among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that abides among them, whosoever shall commit a trespass unwillingly.
[30] And whatever soul either of the natives or of the strangers shall do any thing with a presumptuous hand, he will provoke God; that soul shall be cut off from his people, [31] for he has set at nought the word of the Lord and broken his commands: that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin is upon him.
[32] And the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath-day. [33] And they who found him gathering sticks on the sabbath-day brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel. [34] And they placed him in custody, for they did not determine what they should do to him. [35] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Let the man be by all means put to death: do ye all the congregation, stone him with stones. [36] And all the congregation brought him forth out of the camp; and all the congregation stoned him with stones outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.
[37] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [38] Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them; and let them make for themselves fringes upon the borders of their garments throughout their generations: and ye shall put upon the fringes of the borders a lace of blue. [39] And it shall be on your fringes, and ye shall look on them, and ye shall remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them: and ye shall not turn back after your imaginations, and after the sight of your eyes in the things after which ye go a whoring; [40] that ye may remember and perform all my commands, and ye shall be holy unto your God. [41] I am the Lord your God that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.
Chapter 16
[1] And Core the son of Isaar the son of Caath the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron, sons of Eliab, and Aun the son of Phaleth the son of Ruben, spoke; [2] and rose up before Moses, and two hundred and fifty men of the sons of Israel, chiefs of the assembly, chosen councillors, and men of renown. [3] They rose up against Moses and Aaron, and said, Let it be enough for you that all the congregation are holy, and the Lord is among them; and why do ye set up yourselves against the congregation of the Lord? [4] And when Moses heard it, he fell on his face. [5] And he spoke to Core and all his assembly, saying, God has visited and known those that are his and who are holy, and has brought them to himself; and whom he has chosen for himself, he has brought to himself. [6] This do ye: take to yourselves censers, Core and all his company; [7] and put fire on them, and put incense on them before the Lord to-morrow; and it shall come to pass that the man whom the Lord has chosen, he shall be holy: let it be enough for you, ye sons of Levi. [8] And Moses said to Core, Hearken to me, ye sons of Levi. [9] Is it a little thing for you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, and brought you near to himself t
o minister in the services of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the tabernacle to minister for them? [10] And he has brought thee near and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee, and do ye seek to be priests also? [11] Thus it is with thee and all thy congregation which is gathered together against God: and who is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
[12] And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron sons of Eliab; and they said, We will not go up. [13] Is it a little thing that thou hast brought us up to a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, and that thou altogether rulest over us? [14] Thou art a prince, and hast thou brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and hast thou given us an inheritance of land and vineyards? wouldest thou have put out the eyes of those men? we will not go up. [15] And Moses was exceeding indignant, and said to the Lord, Do thou take no heed to their sacrifice: I have not taken away the desire of any one of them, neither have I hurt any one of them. [16] And Moses said to Core, Sanctify thy company, and be ready before the Lord, thou and Aaron and they, to-morrow. [17] And take each man his censer, and ye shall put incense upon them, and shall bring each one his censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty censers, and thou and Aaron shall bring each his censer.
[18] And each man took his censer, and they put on them fire, and laid incense on them; and Moses and Aaron stood by the doors of the tabernacle of witness. [19] And Core raised up against them all his company by the door of the tabernacle of witness; and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation. [20] And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, [21] Separate your selves from the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once. [22] And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of spirits and of all flesh, if one man has sinned, shall the wrath of the Lord be upon the whole congregation? [23] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [24] Speak to the congregation, saying, Depart from the company of Core round about.
[25] And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiron, and all the elders of Israel went with him. [26] And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these stubborn men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest ye be consumed with them in all their sin. [27] And they stood aloof from the tent of Core round about; and Dathan and Abiron went forth and stood by the doors of their tents, and their wives and their children and their store.
[28] And Moses said, Hereby shall ye know that the Lord has sent me to perform all these works, that I have not done them of myself. [29] If these men shall die according to the death of all men, if also their visitation shall be according to the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. [30] But if the Lord shall shew by a wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.
[31] And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground clave asunder beneath them. [32] And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Core, and their cattle. [33] And they went down and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation. [34] And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also. [35] And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
[36] And the Lord said to Moses, [37] and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, Take up the brazen censers out of the midst of the men that have been burnt, and scatter the strange fire yonder, for they have sanctified the censers [38] of these sinners against their own souls, and do thou make them beaten plates a covering to the altar, because they were brought before the Lord and hallowed; and they became a sign to the children of Israel. [39] And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest took the brazen censers, which the men who had been burnt brought near, and they put them as a covering on the altar: [40] a memorial to the children of Israel that no stranger might draw nigh, who is not of the seed of Aaron, to offer incense before the Lord; so he shall not be as Core and as they that conspired with him, as the Lord spoke to him by the hand of Moses.
[41] And the children of Israel murmured the next day against Moses and Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord. [42] And it came to pass when the congregation combined against Moses and Aaron, that they ran impetuously to the tabernacle of witness; and the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. [43] And Moses and Aaron went in, in front of the tabernacle of witness.
[44] And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, [45] Depart out of the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once: and they fell upon their faces. [46] And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put on it fire from the altar, and put incense on it, and carry it away quickly into the camp, and make atonement for them; for wrath is gone forth from the presence of the Lord, it has begun to destroy the people. [47] And Aaron took as Moses spoke to him, and ran among the congregation, for already the plague had begun among the people; and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. [48] And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague ceased. [49] And they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those that died on account of Core. [50] And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of witness, and the plague ceased.
Chapter 17
[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods of them, according to the houses of their families, a rod from all their princes, according to the houses of their families, twelve rods, and write the name of each on his rod. [3] And write the name of Aaron on the rod of Levi; for it is one rod for each: they shall give them according to the tribe of the house of their families. [4] And thou shalt put them in the tabernacle of witness, before the testimony, where I will be made known to thee. [5] And it shall be, the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall blossom; and I will remove from me the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
[6] And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all their chiefs gave him a rod each, for one chief a rod, according to the house of their families, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was in the midst of the rods. [7] And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness. [8] And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed, and put forth a bud, and bloomed blossoms and produced almonds. [9] And Moses brought forth all the rods from before the Lord to all the sons of Israel; and they looked, and each one took his rod.
[10] And the Lord said to Moses, Lay up the rod of Aaron before the testimonies to be kept as a sign for the children of the disobedient; and let their murmuring cease from me, and they shall not die. [11] And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded Moses, so did they. [12] And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we are cut off, we are destroyed, we are consumed. [13] Every one that touches the tabernacle of the Lord, dies: shall we die utterly?
Chapter 18
[1] And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house shall bear the sins of the holy things, and thou and thy sons shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. [2] And take to thyself thy brethren the tribe of Levi, the family of thy father, and let them be joined to thee, and let them minister to thee; and thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. [3] And they shall keep thy charges, and the charges of the tabernacle; only they shall not approach the holy vessels and the altar, so both they and you shall not die. [4] And they shall be joined to thee, and shall keep the charges of the tabernacle of witness, in all the services of the tabernacle; and a stranger shall not approach to thee. [5] And ye shall keep the charges of the holy things, and the charges of the altar, and so there shall not be anger among the children of Israel. [6] And I have taken your brethren the Levites o
ut of the midst of the children of Israel, a present given to the Lord, to minister in the services of the tabernacle of witness. [7] And thou and thy sons after thee shall keep up your priestly ministration, according to the whole manner of the altar, and that which is within the veil; and ye shall minister in the services as the office of your priesthood; and the stranger that comes near shall die.
[8] And the Lord said to Aaron, And, behold, I have given you the charge of the first-fruits of all things consecrated to me by the children of Israel; and I have given them to thee as an honour, and to thy sons after thee for a perpetual ordinance. [9] And let this be to you from all the holy things that are consecrated to me, even the burnt-offerings, from all their gifts, and from all their sacrifices, and from every trespass-offering of theirs, and from all their sin-offerings, whatever things they give to me of all their holy things, they shall be thine and thy sons’. [10] In the most holy place shall ye eat them; every male shall eat them, thou and thy sons: they shall be holy to thee.