Blessings for Obedience

26 “You shall not make ^widols for yourselves or erect an ^ximage or ^ypillar, and you shall not set up a ^zfigured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. 2 ^aYou shall keep my ^bSabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

3 ^c“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 4 then ^dI will give you your rains in their season, and ^ethe land shall yield its increase, and ^fthe trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 ^gYour threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. 6 I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will ^hremove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 ⁱFive of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 I will ^jturn to you and make you ^kfruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 10 ^lYou shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. 11 ^mI will make my ⁿdwelling¹ among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will ^owalk among you and ^pwill be your God, and you shall be my people. 13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have ^qbroken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Punishment for Disobedience

14 ^r“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but ^sbreak my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And ^tyou shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will ^uset my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. ^vThose who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee ^wwhen none pursues you. 18 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will ^xbreak the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

21 “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22 And I will ^ylet loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that ^zyour roads shall be deserted.

23 “And if ^aby this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me, 24 then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 When I ^bbreak your supply² of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and ^cyou shall eat and not be satisfied.

27 “But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins. 29 ^dYou shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 And I will ^edestroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31 And I will lay your cities ^fwaste and will make your ^gsanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it. 33 And I will ^hscatter you among the nations, and I will ⁱunsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34 “Then the land shall enjoy^{3 j}its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 36 And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. ^kThe sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power ^lto stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you who are left shall ^mrot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also ⁿbecause of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

40 “But if they ^oconfess their iniquity ^pand the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their ^quncircumcised heart is ^rhumbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will ^sremember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43 But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not ^tspurn them, neither will I abhor them ^uso as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^vin the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”

46 ^wThese are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.

Laws About Vows

27 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone ^xmakes a special ^yvow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons, 3 then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels¹ of silver, according to the ^zshekel of the sanctuary. 4 If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 8 And ^aif someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.

9 “If the vow² is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the Lord, all of it that he gives to the Lord is holy. 10 He shall not ^bexchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy. 11 And if it is any ^cunclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the Lord, then he shall stand the animal before the priest, 12 and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be. 13 But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall ^dadd a fifth to the valuation.

14 “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 15 And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.

16 “If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer³ of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he dedicates his field from the year of ^ejubilee, the valuation shall stand, 18 but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation. 19 And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his. 20 But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore. 21 But the field, ^fwhen it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. ^gThe priest shall be in possession of it. 22 If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has ^hbought, which is not a part of his possession, 23 then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord. 24 ⁱIn the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession. 25 Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs⁴ shall make a shekel.

26 “But a firstborn of animals, ^jwhich as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. 27 And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.

28 “But no ^kdevoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. 29 No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction⁵ from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

30 “Every ^ltithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. 31 If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. 32 And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that ^mpass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. 33 One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a ⁿsubstitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

34 ^oThese are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.

Numbers

A Census of Israel’s Warriors

1 The Lord spoke to Moses ^ain the wilderness of Sinai, ^bin the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “Take a ^ccensus of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. 3 ^dFrom twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company. 4 And there shall be with you ^ea man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers. 5 And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, ^fElizur the son of Shedeur; 6 from Simeon, ^gShelumiel the son of Zurishaddai; 7 from Judah, ^hNahshon the son of Amminadab; 8 from Issachar, ⁱNethanel the son of Zuar; 9 from Zebulun, ^jEliab the son of Helon; 10 from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, ^kElishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, ^lGamaliel the son of Pedahzur; 11 from Benjamin, ^mAbidan the son of Gideoni; 12 from Dan, ⁿAhiezer the son of Ammishaddai; 13 from Asher, ^oPagiel the son of Ochran; 14 from Gad, ^pEliasaph the son of Deuel; 15 from Naphtali, ^qAhira the son of Enan.” 16 These were the ones ^rchosen from the congregation, the ^schiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.

17 Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named, 18 and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head, 19 as the Lord commanded Moses. So he listed them in the wilderness of Sinai.

20 The people of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 21 ^tthose listed of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

22 Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, those of them who were listed, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 23 ^uthose listed of the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.

24 Of the people of Gad, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 25 ^vthose listed of the tribe of Gad were 45,650.

26 Of the people of Judah, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 27 ^wthose listed of the tribe of Judah were 74,600.

28 Of the people of Issachar, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 29 ^xthose listed of the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.

30 Of the people of Zebulun, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 31 ^ythose listed of the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.

32 Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 33 ^zthose listed of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

34 Of the people of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 35 ^athose listed of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.

36 Of the people of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 37 ^bthose listed of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.

38 Of the people of Dan, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 39 ^cthose listed of the tribe of Dan were 62,700.

40 Of the people of Asher, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 41 ^dthose listed of the tribe of Asher were 41,500.

42 Of the people of Naphtali, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 43 ^ethose listed of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.

44 These are ^fthose who were listed, whom Moses and Aaron listed with the help of the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers’ house. 45 So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel— 46 all those listed were ^g603,550.

Levites Exempted

47 But ^hthe Levites were not listed along with them by their ancestral tribe. 48 For the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not list, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel. 50 But appoint the Levites over ⁱthe tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it and shall camp around the tabernacle. 51 When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall ^jtake it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall ^kset it up. And ^lif any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death. 52 The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies, each man in his own camp and ^meach man by his own standard. 53 But ⁿthe Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, ^oso that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the people of Israel. And ^pthe Levites shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony.” 54 Thus did the people of Israel; they did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses.

Arrangement of the Camp

2 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 “The people of Israel shall camp ^qeach by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall camp facing the tent of meeting on every side. 3 Those to camp ^ron the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being ^sNahshon the son of Amminadab, 4 ^this company as listed being 74,600. 5 Those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, the chief of the people of Issachar being ^uNethanel the son of Zuar, 6 ^vhis company as listed being 54,400. 7 Then the tribe of Zebulun, the chief of the people of Zebulun being ^wEliab the son of Helon, 8 ^xhis company as listed being 57,400. 9 All those listed of the camp of Judah, by their companies, were 186,400. ^yThey shall set out first on the march.

10 ^z“On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the chief of the people of Reuben being ^aElizur the son of Shedeur, 11 ^bhis company as listed being 46,500. 12 And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, the chief of the people of Simeon being ^cShelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, 13 ^dhis company as listed being 59,300. 14 Then the tribe of Gad, the chief of the people of Gad being ^eEliasaph the son of Reuel, 15 ^fhis company as listed being 45,650. 16 All those listed of the camp of Reuben, by their companies, were 151,450. ^gThey shall set out second.