A New Generation Rises

¹After the plague, the LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

²“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”

³Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

⁴“Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel.” These are those who came out of the land of Egypt.

⁵Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

⁶of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

⁷These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.

⁸The son of Pallu: Eliab.

⁹The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they rebelled against the LORD;

¹⁰and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.

¹¹Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.

¹²The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;

¹³of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

¹⁴These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

¹⁵The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

¹⁶of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

¹⁷of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

¹⁸These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

¹⁹The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

²⁰The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

²¹The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

²²These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.

²³The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;

²⁴of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

²⁵These are the families of Issachar according to those who were counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.

²⁶The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

²⁷These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred.

²⁸The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

²⁹The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

³⁰These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;

³¹and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

³²and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

³³Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

³⁴These are the families of Manasseh. Those who were counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

³⁵These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

³⁶These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.

³⁷These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

³⁸The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;

³⁹of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

⁴⁰The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

⁴¹These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.

⁴²These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.

⁴³All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

⁴⁴The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.

⁴⁵Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

⁴⁶The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

⁴⁷These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were counted of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred.

⁴⁸The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;

⁴⁹of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.

⁵⁰These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.

⁵¹These are those who were counted of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.

⁵²The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

⁵³“To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

⁵⁴To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance be given.

⁵⁵Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

⁵⁶According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.”

⁵⁷These are those who were counted of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

⁵⁸These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.

⁵⁹The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

⁶⁰To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

⁶¹Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD.

⁶²Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

⁶³These are those who were counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

⁶⁴But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

⁶⁵For the LORD had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

¹Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

²They stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

³“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.

⁴Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”

⁵Moses brought their cause before the LORD.

⁶The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

⁷“The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.

⁸You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

⁹If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

¹⁰If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.

¹¹If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”

¹²The LORD said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

¹³When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;

¹⁴because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

¹⁵Moses spoke to the LORD, saying,

¹⁶“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

¹⁷who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

¹⁸The LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.

¹⁹Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.

²⁰You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.

²¹He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

²²Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.

²³He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as the LORD spoke by Moses.

¹The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

²“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’

³You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.

⁴You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening,

⁵with one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.

⁶It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

⁷Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for each lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD in the holy place.

⁸The other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning, and as its drink offering, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

⁹“‘On the Sabbath day, you shall offer two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

¹⁰this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

¹¹“‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect,

¹²and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one ram;

¹³and one tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb, as a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

¹⁴Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.

¹⁵Also, one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

¹⁶“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD’s Passover.

¹⁷On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.

¹⁸In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work,

¹⁹but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. They shall be without defect,

²⁰with their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram.

²¹You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

²²and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.

²³You shall offer these in addition to the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.

²⁴In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD. It shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

²⁵On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

²⁶“‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to the LORD in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;

²⁷but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;

²⁸and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for each bull, two tenths for the one ram,

²⁹one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

³⁰and one male goat, to make atonement for you.

³¹Besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect.

¹“‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.

²You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;

³and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,

⁴and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

⁵and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;

⁶in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon with its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering with its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

⁷“‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;

⁸but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old, all without defect;

⁹and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,

¹⁰one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

¹¹one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.

¹²“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.

¹³You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect;

¹⁴and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams,

¹⁵and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;

¹⁶and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

¹⁷“‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

¹⁸and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

¹⁹and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering and their drink offerings.

²⁰“‘On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

²¹and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

²²and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

²³“‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

²⁴their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

²⁵and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

²⁶“‘On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

²⁷and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,

²⁸and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

²⁹“‘On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

³⁰and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,

³¹and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and the drink offerings of it.

³²“‘On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

³³and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance,

³⁴and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

³⁵“‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall do no regular work;

³⁶but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;

³⁷their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance,

³⁸and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering, and its drink offering.

³⁹“‘You shall offer these to the LORD in your set feasts—in addition to your vows and your free will offerings—for your burnt offerings, your meal offerings, your drink offerings, and your peace offerings.’”

⁴⁰Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.

¹Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.

²When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

³“Also, when a woman vows a vow to the LORD and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth,

⁴and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

⁵But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. The LORD will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.

⁶“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,

⁷and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

⁸But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. The LORD will forgive her.

⁹“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.

¹⁰“If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

¹¹and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she bound her soul shall stand.

¹²But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. The LORD will forgive her.

¹³Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

¹⁴But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are on her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her in the day that he heard them.

¹⁵But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”

¹⁶These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.