Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock. Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying, “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, the land which יהוה struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for...
Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab; for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods. Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and יהוה’s anger burned against Israel. יהוה said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to יהוה before the sun, that the fierce anger of יהוה may turn away from Israel.” Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who...
The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. Israel vowed a vow to יהוה, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.” יהוה listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah. They traveled from Mount Hor by the way...
The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there. There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before יהוה! Why have you brought יהוה’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our...
Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men. They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown. They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and יהוה...
יהוה spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.” Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of יהוה. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel. These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. Of the tribe of...
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. They said, “Has יהוה indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And יהוה heard it. Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth. יהוה spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!” The three of them came out. יהוה came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood...
The people were complaining in the ears of יהוה. When יהוה heard it, his anger burned; and יהוה’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to יהוה, and the fire abated. The name of that place was called Taberah, because יהוה’s fire burned among them. The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish,...
