Numbers 9: Matot-Masai
Entering the Land, Commandment to Conquer, Tribal Apportionment
Matot-Masai
The portion this week is called
Matot-Masai. It is a combination
of two portions Matot
and Masai.
Numbers 30:2 to 36:13 (end of the Book of Numbers).
[Matot]
S1
[Numbers 30:2] IF A MAN VOW A VOW UNTO THE LORD, OR SWEAR AN OATH TO BIND HIS
SOUL WITH A BOND; HE SHALL NOT BREAK HIS WORD, HE SHALL DO ACCORDING TO ALL
THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
It speaks of Vows,
Nedarim,
in Hebrew. A person in principle should maintain what he says he will do
especially if he takes a special vow to that effect.
[Numbers 30:3] IF A WOMAN ALSO VOW A VOW UNTO THE LORD, AND BIND HERSELF BY A
BOND, BEING IN HER FATHER'S HOUSE IN HER YOUTH;
IN HER YOUTH. Hebrew "be-nee-orayah".
This is taken to define a biological stage in the puberty of a young girl
#A girl (12-12 and a half yrs. old -
officially called a NAARA)
who vows can have her vows nullified by her father (only on the day he hears of
them).#(TT
by Phil Chernofsky).
After this chronological-biological
stage the girl becomes an adult woman and her father cannot annul her vows.
Before this stage she is considered still a child and her vows are not binding
on her.
[Numbers 30:4] AND HER FATHER HEAR HER VOW, AND HER BOND WHEREWITH SHE HATH
BOUND HER SOUL, AND HER FATHER SHALL HOLD HIS PEACE AT HER; THEN ALL HER VOWS
SHALL STAND, AND EVERY BOND WHEREWITH SHE HATH BOUND HER SOUL SHALL
STAND.
[Numbers 30:5] BUT IF HER FATHER DISALLOW HER IN THE DAY THAT HE HEARETH; NOT
ANY OF HER VOWS, OR OF HER BONDS WHEREWITH SHE HATH BOUND HER SOUL, SHALL STAND:
AND THE LORD SHALL FORGIVE HER, BECAUSE HER FATHER DISALLOWED
HER.
[Numbers 30:6] AND IF SHE HAD AT ALL AN HUSBAND, WHEN SHE VOWED, OR UTTERED
OUGHT OUT OF HER LIPS, WHEREWITH SHE BOUND HER SOUL;
In Biblical times a female could marry
or be married off as a child if her parents agreed to it.
[Numbers 30:7] AND HER HUSBAND HEARD IT, AND HELD HIS PEACE AT HER IN THE DAY
THAT HE HEARD IT: THEN HER VOWS SHALL STAND, AND HER BONDS WHEREWITH SHE BOUND
HER SOUL SHALL STAND.
In this case we find that the husband
has a similar status regarding his wife as her father had over her when she was
an adolescent, i.e. a certain degree of authority but not an arbitrary one. If
he (like her father) did not annul her vow on the day he heard of them then the
vow remained and the girl would be obligated to keep it or to get it
ceremonially annulled, as could be done but it was not easy.
[Numbers 30:8] BUT IF HER HUSBAND DISALLOWED HER ON THE DAY THAT HE HEARD IT;
THEN HE SHALL MAKE HER VOW WHICH SHE VOWED, AND THAT WHICH SHE UTTERED WITH HER
LIPS, WHEREWITH SHE BOUND HER SOUL, OF NONE EFFECT: AND THE LORD SHALL FORGIVE
HER.
[Numbers 30:9] BUT EVERY VOW OF A WIDOW, AND OF HER THAT IS DIVORCED, WHEREWITH
THEY HAVE BOUND THEIR SOULS, SHALL STAND AGAINST HER.
[Numbers 30:10] AND IF SHE VOWED IN HER HUSBAND'S HOUSE, OR BOUND HER SOUL BY A
BOND WITH AN OATH;
[Numbers 30:11] AND HER HUSBAND HEARD IT, AND HELD HIS PEACE AT HER, AND
DISALLOWED HER NOT: THEN ALL HER VOWS SHALL STAND, AND EVERY BOND WHEREWITH SHE
BOUND HER SOUL SHALL STAND.
[Numbers 30:12] BUT IF HER HUSBAND HATH UTTERLY MADE THEM VOID ON THE DAY HE
HEARD THEM; THEN WHATSOEVER PROCEEDED OUT OF HER LIPS CONCERNING HER VOWS, OR
CONCERNING THE BOND OF HER SOUL, SHALL NOT STAND: HER HUSBAND HATH MADE THEM
VOID; AND THE LORDSHALL FORGIVE HER.
[Numbers 30:13] EVERY VOW, AND EVERY BINDING OATH TO AFFLICT THE SOUL, HER
HUSBAND MAY ESTABLISH IT, OR HER HUSBAND MAY MAKE IT VOID.
[Numbers 30:14] BUT IF HER HUSBAND ALTOGETHER HOLD HIS PEACE AT HER FROM DAY TO
DAY; THEN HE ESTABLISHETH ALL HER VOWS, OR ALL HER BONDS, WHICH ARE UPON HER: HE
CONFIRMETH THEM, BECAUSE HE HELD HIS PEACE AT HER IN THE DAY THAT HE HEARD
THEM.
[Numbers 30:15] BUT IF HE SHALL ANY WAYS MAKE THEM VOID AFTER THAT HE HATH HEARD
THEM; THEN HE SHALL BEAR HER INIQUITY.
From this it appears that if after
hearing the vows of his wife and not annulling them then his wife had to keep
her vow. If however after that the husband changed his mind and said his wife
should not keep the vow then the wife had to obey her husband. Nevertheless the
husband would not then be considered guilty and have to bring a sacrifice to
atone for his guilt. He would then bear the responsibility and not his
wife.
[Numbers 30:16] THESE ARE THE STATUTES, WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES, BETWEEN
A MAN AND HIS WIFE, BETWEEN THE FATHER AND HIS DAUGHTER, BEING YET IN HER YOUTH
IN HER FATHER'S HOUSE.
Perhaps in these laws and their
implications a whole detailed learning may be obtained concerning the proper
relationship that should exist between husband and wife.
[Numbers 31:1] AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,
[Numbers 31:2] AVENGE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OF THE MIDIANITES: AFTERWARD SHALT
THOU BE GATHERED UNTO THY PEOPLE.
[Numbers 31:3] AND MOSES SPAKE UNTO THE PEOPLE, SAYING, ARM SOME OF YOURSELVES
UNTO THE WAR, AND LET THEM GO AGAINST THE MIDIANITES, AND AVENGE THE LORD OF
MIDIAN.
The
Chatam
Sofer
(1762 - 1839) notes that when G-d commands the battle against
Midianites
(Numbers 31:2), HE calls it
NIKMAT
BNEI
YISRAEL,
a revenge for the Children of Israel. When Moshe calls the people to battle, he
says AVENGE THE LORD OF MIDIAN.
The Israelites represent the Presence of God Almighty in this world. Whoever
harms them offends God Himself. This also applies to the Jews of Judah. Whoever
hurts the Jews hurts God.
[Zechariah 1:14] SO THE ANGEL THAT COMMUNED WITH ME SAID UNTO ME, CRY THOU,
SAYING, THUS SAITH
THE LORD OF HOSTS; I AM JEALOUS FOR JERUSALEM AND FOR ZION WITH A GREAT
JEALOUSY.
[Zechariah 1:15] AND I AM VERY SORE DISPLEASED WITH THE HEATHEN THAT ARE AT
EASE: FOR I WAS BUT A LITTLE DISPLEASED, AND THEY HELPED FORWARD THE AFFLICTION.
[Zechariah 2:8] FOR THUS SAITH
THE LORD OF HOSTS; AFTER THE GLORY HATH HE SENT ME UNTO THE NATIONS WHICH
SPOILED YOU: FOR HE THAT TOUCHETH
YOU TOUCHETH
THE APPLE OF HIS EYE.
This means that anybody who persecutes
the Jews is considered by God as if they attempted to harm the very eye of God
Himself!
[Numbers 31:4] OF EVERY TRIBE A THOUSAND, THROUGHOUT ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL,
SHALL YE SEND TO THE WAR.
Each tribe had to contribute a 1000
warriors to fight against Midian.
[Numbers 31:5] SO THERE WERE DELIVERED OUT OF THE THOUSANDS OF ISRAEL, A
THOUSAND OF EVERY TRIBE, TWELVE THOUSAND ARMED FOR WAR.
[Numbers 31:6] AND MOSES SENT THEM TO THE WAR, A THOUSAND OF EVERY TRIBE, THEM
AND PHINEHAS THE SON OF ELEAZAR THE PRIEST, TO THE WAR, WITH THE HOLY
INSTRUMENTS, AND THE TRUMPETS TO BLOW IN HIS HAND.
[Numbers 31:7] AND THEY WARRED AGAINST THE MIDIANITES, AS THE LORD COMMANDED
MOSES; AND THEY SLEW ALL THE MALES.
[Numbers 31:8] AND THEY SLEW THE KINGS OF MIDIAN, BESIDE THE REST OF THEM THAT
WERE SLAIN; NAMELY, EVI, AND REKEM, AND ZUR, AND HUR, AND REBA, FIVE KINGS OF
MIDIAN: BALAAM ALSO THE SON OF BEOR THEY SLEW WITH THE SWORD.
They killed Balaam who had given them
the evil advice to prostitute their daughters and cause the Israelites to
fornicate and commit idolatry. The Sages said that whenever the Israelites went
and worshipped idols it was because they were seeking an excuse to engage in
illicit sex.
[Numbers 31:9] AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TOOK ALL THE WOMEN OF MIDIAN CAPTIVES,
AND THEIR LITTLE ONES, AND TOOK THE SPOIL OF ALL THEIR CATTLE, AND ALL THEIR
FLOCKS, AND ALL THEIR GOODS.
[Numbers 31:10] AND THEY BURNT ALL THEIR CITIES WHEREIN THEY DWELT, AND ALL
THEIR GOODLY CASTLES, WITH FIRE.
[Numbers 31:11] AND THEY TOOK ALL THE SPOIL, AND ALL THE PREY, BOTH OF MEN AND
OF BEASTS.
[Numbers 31:12] AND THEY BROUGHT THE CAPTIVES, AND THE PREY, AND THE SPOIL, UNTO
MOSES, AND ELEAZAR THE PRIEST, AND UNTO THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL, UNTO THE CAMP AT THE PLAINS OF MOAB, WHICH ARE BY JORDAN NEAR
JERICHO.
[Numbers 31:13] AND MOSES, AND ELEAZAR THE PRIEST, AND ALL THE PRINCES OF THE
CONGREGATION, WENT FORTH TO MEET THEM WITHOUT THE CAMP.
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[Numbers 31:14] AND MOSES WAS WROTH WITH THE OFFICERS OF THE HOST, WITH THE
CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OVER HUNDREDS, WHICH CAME FROM THE
BATTLE.
[Numbers 31:15] AND MOSES SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE SAVED ALL THE WOMEN
ALIVE?
[Numbers 31:16] BEHOLD, THESE CAUSED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THROUGH THE COUNSEL
OF BALAAM, TO COMMIT TRESPASS AGAINST THE LORD IN THE MATTER OF PEOR, AND THERE
WAS A PLAGUE AMONG THE CONGREGATION OF THE LORD.
[Numbers 31:17] NOW THEREFORE KILL EVERY MALE AMONG THE LITTLE ONES, AND KILL
EVERY WOMAN THAT HATH KNOWN MAN BY LYING WITH HIM.
[Numbers 31:18] BUT ALL THE WOMEN CHILDREN, THAT HAVE NOT KNOWN A MAN BY LYING
WITH HIM, KEEP ALIVE FOR YOURSELVES.
[Numbers 31:19] AND DO YE ABIDE WITHOUT THE CAMP SEVEN DAYS: WHOSOEVER HATH
KILLED ANY PERSON, AND WHOSOEVER HATH TOUCHED ANY SLAIN, PURIFY BOTH YOURSELVES
AND YOUR CAPTIVES ON THE THIRD DAY, AND ON THE SEVENTH
DAY.
[Numbers 31:20] AND PURIFY ALL YOUR RAIMENT, AND ALL THAT IS MADE OF SKINS, AND
ALL WORK OF GOATS' HAIR, AND ALL THINGS MADE OF WOOD.
[Numbers 31:21] AND ELEAZAR THE PRIEST SAID UNTO THE MEN OF WAR WHICH WENT TO
THE BATTLE, THIS IS THE ORDINANCE OF THE LAW WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED
MOSES;
[Numbers 31:22] ONLY THE GOLD, AND THE SILVER, THE BRASS, THE IRON, THE TIN, AND
THE LEAD,
[Numbers 31:23] EVERY THING THAT MAY ABIDE THE FIRE, YE SHALL MAKE IT GO THROUGH
THE FIRE, AND IT SHALL BE CLEAN: NEVERTHELESS IT SHALL BE PURIFIED WITH THE
WATER OF SEPARATION: AND ALL THAT ABIDETH NOT THE FIRE YE SHALL MAKE GO THROUGH
THE WATER.
[Numbers 31:24] AND YE SHALL WASH YOUR CLOTHES ON THE SEVENTH DAY, AND YE SHALL
BE CLEAN, AND AFTERWARD YE SHALL COME INTO THE CAMP.
[Numbers 31:25] AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,
[Numbers 31:26] TAKE THE SUM OF THE PREY THAT WAS TAKEN, BOTH OF MAN AND OF
BEAST, THOU, AND ELEAZAR THE PRIEST, AND THE CHIEF FATHERS OF THE
CONGREGATION:
[Numbers 31:27] AND DIVIDE THE PREY INTO TWO PARTS; BETWEEN THEM THAT TOOK THE
WAR UPON THEM, WHO WENT OUT TO BATTLE, AND BETWEEN ALL THE
CONGREGATION:
[Numbers 31:28] AND LEVY A TRIBUTE UNTO THE LORD OF THE MEN OF WAR WHICH WENT
OUT TO BATTLE: ONE SOUL OF FIVE HUNDRED, BOTH OF THE PERSONS, AND OF THE BEEVES,
AND OF THE ASSES, AND OF THE SHEEP:
BEEVES, Hebrew "bakor"
meaning cattle.
There is another Hebrew word connoting cattle. This is
Mikneh
from the root "KNH"
and in Old English (as found in some versions of the KJ) we have the word "kine"
meaning cattle.
[Numbers 31:29] TAKE IT OF THEIR HALF, AND GIVE IT UNTO ELEAZAR THE PRIEST, FOR
AN HEAVE OFFERING OF THE LORD.
[Numbers 31:30] AND OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL'S HALF, THOU SHALT TAKE ONE
PORTION OF FIFTY, OF THE PERSONS, OF THE BEEVES, OF THE ASSES, AND OF THE
FLOCKS, OF ALL MANNER OF BEASTS, AND GIVE THEM UNTO THE LEVITES, WHICH KEEP THE
CHARGE OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE LORD.
The booty was to be divided into two:
Half for the men who went out to war and half for the rest of the congregation.
From the half of the men who went out to war one portion out of 500 (i.e. 0.20%)
was to be given unto Elazar
(who was the High Priest) who would use them for the Tabernacle Service and for
the service of his fellow priests (the
Cohens).
From the half of the rest of congregation one portion out of fifty (i.e. 2%)
was to be given to the Levites.
[Numbers 31:31] AND MOSES AND ELEAZAR THE PRIEST DID AS THE LORD COMMANDED
MOSES.
[Numbers 31:32] AND THE BOOTY, BEING THE REST OF THE PREY WHICH THE MEN OF WAR
HAD CAUGHT, WAS SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND AND SEVENTY THOUSAND AND FIVE THOUSAND
SHEEP,
675,000 sheep
[Numbers 31:33] AND THREESCORE AND TWELVE THOUSAND BEEVES,
72,000 cattle.
[Numbers 31:34] AND THREESCORE AND ONE THOUSAND ASSES,
ASSES. Hebrew "chamorim"
i.e. male or female donkeys.
1,300 donkeys
[Numbers 31:35] AND THIRTY AND TWO THOUSAND PERSONS IN ALL, OF WOMEN THAT HAD
NOT KNOWN MAN BY LYING WITH HIM.
32,000 virgins.
[Numbers 31:36] AND THE HALF, WHICH WAS THE PORTION OF THEM THAT WENT OUT TO
WAR, WAS IN NUMBER THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND AND SEVEN AND THIRTY THOUSAND AND FIVE
HUNDRED SHEEP:
337,500
[Numbers 31:37] AND THE LORD'S TRIBUTE OF THE SHEEP WAS SIX HUNDRED AND
THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN.
675 i.e. one-fiftieth of the portion of
the Warriors.
[Numbers 31:38] AND THE BEEVES WERE THIRTY AND SIX THOUSAND; OF WHICH THE
LORD'S TRIBUTE WAS THREESCORE AND TWELVE.
36,000 for the warriors who gave
one-fiftieth i.e. 72 for Elazar,
the Cohens,
and the Tabernacle Service.
[Numbers 31:39] AND THE ASSES WERE THIRTY THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED; OF WHICH
THE LORD'S TRIBUTE WAS THREESCORE AND ONE.
30,500 for the warriors who gave
one-fiftieth i.e. 61 for Elazar,
the Cohens,
and the Tabernacle Service.
[Numbers 31:40] AND THE PERSONS WERE SIXTEEN THOUSAND; OF WHICH THE LORD'S
TRIBUTE WAS THIRTY AND TWO PERSONS.
16,000 for the warriors who gave
one-fiftieth i.e. 32 to for
Elazar, the
Cohens,
and the Tabernacle Service.
[Numbers 31:41] AND MOSES GAVE THE TRIBUTE, WHICH WAS THE LORD'S HEAVE OFFERING,
UNTO ELEAZAR THE PRIEST, AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES.
HEAVE OFFERING. In Hebrew "trumah"
which does not necessarily mean Heave (i.e. lifted up) Offering but separated
portion in general.
[Numbers 31:42] AND OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL'S HALF, WHICH MOSES DIVIDED FROM
THE MEN THAT WARRED,
[Numbers 31:43] (NOW THE HALF THAT PERTAINED UNTO THE CONGREGATION WAS THREE
HUNDRED THOUSAND AND THIRTY THOUSAND AND SEVEN THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED
SHEEP,
337,500 sheep
[Numbers 31:44] AND THIRTY AND SIX THOUSAND BEEVES,
36,000 cattle.
[Numbers 31:45] AND THIRTY THOUSAND ASSES AND FIVE HUNDRED,
3,500 donkeys.
[Numbers 31:46] AND SIXTEEN THOUSAND PERSONS;)
16,000 virgin girls.
[Numbers 31:47] EVEN OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL'S HALF, MOSES TOOK ONE PORTION OF
FIFTY, BOTH OF MAN AND OF BEAST, AND GAVE THEM UNTO THE LEVITES, WHICH KEPT THE
CHARGE OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE LORD; AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES.
At this stage the Levites were much more
numerous than the Cohens
(Priests) who comprised only a small portion of them therefore they received a
much larger percentage (2% vers
0.25%) since they had to spread it further.
After this the warriors voluntarily
donated the golden objects they had taken as booty to the Tabernacle Service.
[Numbers 31:48] AND THE OFFICERS WHICH WERE OVER THOUSANDS OF THE HOST, THE
CAPTAINS OF THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OF HUNDREDS, CAME NEAR UNTO
MOSES:
[Numbers 31:49] AND THEY SAID UNTO MOSES, THY SERVANTS HAVE TAKEN THE SUM OF THE
MEN OF WAR WHICH ARE UNDER OUR CHARGE, AND THERE LACKETH NOT ONE MAN OF
US.
[Numbers 31:50] WE HAVE THEREFORE BROUGHT AN OBLATION FOR THE LORD, WHAT EVERY
MAN HATH GOTTEN, OF JEWELS OF GOLD, CHAINS, AND BRACELETS, RINGS, EARRINGS, AND
TABLETS, TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR OUR SOULS BEFORE THE
LORD.
[Numbers 31:51] AND MOSES AND ELEAZAR THE PRIEST TOOK THE GOLD OF THEM, EVEN ALL
WROUGHT JEWELS.
[Numbers 31:52] AND ALL THE GOLD OF THE OFFERING THAT THEY OFFERED UP TO THE
LORD, OF THE CAPTAINS OF THOUSANDS, AND OF THE CAPTAINS OF HUNDREDS, WAS
SIXTEEN THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY SHEKELS.
[Numbers 31:53] (FOR THE MEN OF WAR HAD TAKEN SPOIL, EVERY MAN FOR
HIMSELF.)
[Numbers 31:54] AND MOSES AND ELEAZAR THE PRIEST TOOK THE GOLD OF THE CAPTAINS
OF THOUSANDS AND OF HUNDREDS, AND BROUGHT IT INTO THE TABERNACLE OF THE
CONGREGATION, FOR A MEMORIAL FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BEFORE THE
LORD.
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[Numbers 32:1] NOW THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD HAD A VERY
GREAT MULTITUDE OF CATTLE: AND WHEN THEY SAW THE LAND OF JAZER, AND THE LAND OF
GILEAD, THAT, BEHOLD, THE PLACE WAS A PLACE FOR CATTLE;
[Numbers 32:2] THE CHILDREN OF GAD AND THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN CAME AND SPAKE
UNTO MOSES, AND TO ELEAZAR THE PRIEST, AND UNTO THE PRINCES OF THE CONGREGATION,
SAYING,
[Numbers 32:3] ATAROTH, AND DIBON, AND JAZER, AND NIMRAH, AND HESHBON, AND
ELEALEH, AND SHEBAM, AND NEBO, AND BEON,
[Numbers 32:4] EVEN THE COUNTRY WHICH THE LORD SMOTE BEFORE THE CONGREGATION OF
ISRAEL, IS A LAND FOR CATTLE, AND THY SERVANTS HAVE CATTLE:
[Numbers 32:5] WHEREFORE, SAID THEY, IF WE HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THY SIGHT, LET
THIS LAND BE GIVEN UNTO THY SERVANTS FOR A POSSESSION, AND BRING US NOT OVER
JORDAN.
[Numbers 32:6] AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE CHILDREN OF GAD AND TO THE CHILDREN OF
REUBEN, SHALL YOUR BRETHREN GO TO WAR, AND SHALL YE SIT
HERE?
[Numbers 32:7] AND WHEREFORE DISCOURAGE YE THE HEART OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
FROM GOING OVER INTO THE LAND WHICH THE LORD HATH GIVEN
THEM?
[Numbers 32:8] THUS DID YOUR FATHERS, WHEN I SENT THEM FROM KADESHBARNEA TO SEE
THE LAND.
[Numbers 32:9] FOR WHEN THEY WENT UP UNTO THE VALLEY OF ESHCOL, AND SAW THE
LAND, THEY DISCOURAGED THE HEART OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT
GO INTO THE LAND WHICH THE LORD HAD GIVEN THEM.
[Numbers 32:10] AND THE LORD'S ANGER WAS KINDLED THE SAME TIME, AND HE SWARE,
SAYING,
[Numbers 32:11] SURELY NONE OF THE MEN THAT CAME UP OUT OF EGYPT, FROM TWENTY
YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, SHALL SEE THE LAND WHICH I SWARE UNTO ABRAHAM, UNTO
ISAAC, AND UNTO JACOB; BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT WHOLLY FOLLOWED
ME:
[Numbers 32:12] SAVE CALEB THE SON OF JEPHUNNEH THE KENEZITE, AND JOSHUA THE SON
OF NUN: FOR THEY HAVE WHOLLY FOLLOWED THE LORD.
[Numbers 32:13] AND THE LORD'S ANGER WAS KINDLED AGAINST ISRAEL, AND HE MADE
THEM WANDER IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEARS, UNTIL ALL THE GENERATION, THAT HAD
DONE EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, WAS CONSUMED.
[Numbers 32:14] AND, BEHOLD, YE ARE RISEN UP IN YOUR FATHERS' STEAD, AN INCREASE
OF SINFUL MEN, TO AUGMENT YET THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD TOWARD
ISRAEL.
[Numbers 32:15] FOR IF YE TURN AWAY FROM AFTER HIM, HE WILL YET AGAIN LEAVE THEM
IN THE WILDERNESS; AND YE SHALL DESTROY ALL THIS PEOPLE.
[Numbers 32:16] AND THEY CAME NEAR UNTO HIM, AND SAID, WE WILL BUILD SHEEPFOLDS
HERE FOR OUR CATTLE, AND CITIES FOR OUR LITTLE ONES:
[Numbers 32:17] BUT WE OURSELVES WILL GO READY ARMED BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL, UNTIL WE HAVE BROUGHT THEM UNTO THEIR PLACE: AND OUR LITTLE ONES SHALL
DWELL IN THE FENCED CITIES BECAUSE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE
LAND.
[Numbers 32:18] WE WILL NOT RETURN UNTO OUR HOUSES, UNTIL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
HAVE INHERITED EVERY MAN HIS INHERITANCE.
[Numbers 32:19] FOR WE WILL NOT INHERIT WITH THEM ON YONDER SIDE JORDAN, OR
FORWARD; BECAUSE OUR INHERITANCE IS FALLEN TO US ON THIS SIDE JORDAN
EASTWARD.
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[Numbers 32:20] AND MOSES SAID UNTO THEM, IF YE WILL DO THIS THING, IF YE WILL
GO ARMED BEFORE THE LORD TO WAR,
[Numbers 32:21] AND WILL GO ALL OF YOU ARMED OVER JORDAN BEFORE THE LORD, UNTIL
HE HATH DRIVEN OUT HIS ENEMIES FROM BEFORE HIM,
[Numbers 32:22] AND THE LAND BE SUBDUED BEFORE THE LORD: THEN AFTERWARD YE SHALL
RETURN, AND BE GUILTLESS BEFORE THE LORD, AND BEFORE ISRAEL; AND THIS LAND SHALL
BE YOUR POSSESSION BEFORE THE LORD.
[Numbers 32:23] BUT IF YE WILL NOT DO SO, BEHOLD, YE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE
LORD: AND BE SURE YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT.
[Numbers 32:24] BUILD YOU CITIES FOR YOUR LITTLE ONES, AND FOLDS FOR YOUR SHEEP;
AND DO THAT WHICH HATH PROCEEDED OUT OF YOUR MOUTH.
[Numbers 32:25] AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD AND THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN SPAKE UNTO
MOSES, SAYING, THY SERVANTS WILL DO AS MY LORD COMMANDETH.
[Numbers 32:26] OUR LITTLE ONES, OUR WIVES, OUR FLOCKS, AND ALL OUR CATTLE,
SHALL BE THERE IN THE CITIES OF GILEAD:
[Numbers 32:27] BUT THY SERVANTS WILL PASS OVER, EVERY MAN ARMED FOR WAR, BEFORE
THE LORD TO BATTLE, AS MY LORD SAITH.
[Numbers 32:28] SO CONCERNING THEM MOSES COMMANDED ELEAZAR THE PRIEST, AND
JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN, AND THE CHIEF FATHERS OF THE TRIBES OF THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL:
[Numbers 32:29] AND MOSES SAID UNTO THEM, IF THE CHILDREN OF GAD AND THE
CHILDREN OF REUBEN WILL PASS WITH YOU OVER JORDAN, EVERY MAN ARMED TO BATTLE,
BEFORE THE LORD, AND THE LAND SHALL BE SUBDUED BEFORE YOU; THEN YE SHALL GIVE
THEM THE LAND OF GILEAD FOR A POSSESSION:
[Numbers 32:30] BUT IF THEY WILL NOT PASS OVER WITH YOU ARMED, THEY SHALL HAVE
POSSESSIONS AMONG YOU IN THE LAND OF CANAAN.
[Numbers 32:31] AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD AND THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN ANSWERED,
SAYING, AS THE LORD HATH SAID UNTO THY SERVANTS, SO WILL WE
DO.
[Numbers 32:32] WE WILL PASS OVER ARMED BEFORE THE LORD INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN,
THAT THE POSSESSION OF OUR INHERITANCE ON THIS SIDE JORDAN MAY BE OUR'S.
[Numbers 32:33] AND MOSES GAVE UNTO THEM, EVEN TO THE CHILDREN OF GAD, AND TO
THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN, AND UNTO HALF THE TRIBE OF MANASSEH THE SON OF JOSEPH,
THE KINGDOM OF SIHON KING OF THE AMORITES, AND THE KINGDOM OF OG KING OF BASHAN,
THE LAND, WITH THE CITIES THEREOF IN THE COASTS, EVEN THE CITIES OF THE COUNTRY
ROUND ABOUT.
[Numbers 32:34] AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD BUILT DIBON, AND ATAROTH, AND AROER,
[Numbers 32:35] AND ATROTH, SHOPHAN, AND JAAZER, AND JOGBEHAH,
[Numbers 32:36] AND BETHNIMRAH, AND BETHHARAN, FENCED CITIES: AND FOLDS FOR
SHEEP.
[Numbers 32:37] AND THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN BUILT HESHBON, AND ELEALEH, AND
KIRJATHAIM,
[Numbers 32:38] AND NEBO, AND BAALMEON, (THEIR NAMES BEING CHANGED,) AND SHIBMAH:
AND GAVE OTHER NAMES UNTO THE CITIES WHICH THEY BUILDED.
[Numbers 32:39] AND THE CHILDREN OF MACHIR THE SON OF MANASSEH WENT TO GILEAD,
AND TOOK IT, AND DISPOSSESSED THE AMORITE WHICH WAS IN IT.
For an article discussing the taking by
Machir
of the Gilead area east of the Jordan and the role of
Yair
in this see:
THE EXPANSION OF ISRAEL
http://britam.org/Moses/Moses-7.html
[Numbers 32:40] AND MOSES GAVE GILEAD UNTO MACHIR THE SON OF
MANASSEH; AND HE DWELT THEREIN.
[Numbers 32:41] AND JAIR THE SON OF MANASSEH WENT AND TOOK THE SMALL TOWNS
THEREOF AND CALLED THEM HAVOTH-JAIR.
[Numbers 32:42] AND NOBAH WENT AND TOOK KENATH, AND THE VILLAGES THEREOF, AND
CALLED IT NOBAH, AFTER HIS OWN NAME.
Masai
[Numbers 33:1] THESE ARE THE JOURNEYS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHICH WENT
FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WITH THEIR ARMIES UNDER THE HAND OF MOSES AND
AARON.
[Numbers 33:2] AND MOSES WROTE THEIR GOINGS OUT ACCORDING TO THEIR JOURNEYS BY
THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD: AND THESE ARE THEIR JOURNEYS ACCORDING TO THEIR
GOINGS OUT.
[Numbers 33:3] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM RAMESES IN THE FIRST MONTH, ON THE
FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH; ON THE MORROW AFTER THE PASSOVER THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL WENT OUT WITH AN HIGH HAND IN THE SIGHT OF ALL THE
EGYPTIANS.
[Numbers 33:4] FOR THE EGYPTIANS BURIED ALL THEIR FIRSTBORN, WHICH THE LORD HAD
SMITTEN AMONG THEM: UPON THEIR GODS ALSO THE LORD EXECUTED
JUDGMENTS.
[Numbers 33:5] AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL REMOVED FROM RAMESES, AND PITCHED IN
SUCCOTH.
[Numbers 33:6] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM SUCCOTH, AND PITCHED IN ETHAM, WHICH IS IN
THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS.
[Numbers 33:7] AND THEY REMOVED FROM ETHAM, AND TURNED AGAIN UNTO PIHAHIROTH,
WHICH IS BEFORE BAALZEPHON: AND THEY PITCHED BEFORE MIGDOL.
[Numbers 33:8] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM BEFORE PIHAHIROTH, AND PASSED THROUGH THE
MIDST OF THE SEA INTO THE WILDERNESS, AND WENT THREE DAYS' JOURNEY IN THE
WILDERNESS OF ETHAM, AND PITCHED IN MARAH.
[Numbers 33:9] AND THEY REMOVED FROM MARAH, AND CAME UNTO ELIM: AND IN ELIM WERE
TWELVE FOUNTAINS OF WATER, AND THREESCORE AND TEN PALM TREES; AND THEY PITCHED
THERE.
[Numbers 33:10] AND THEY REMOVED FROM ELIM, AND ENCAMPED BY THE RED
SEA.
[Numbers 33:11] AND THEY REMOVED FROM THE RED SEA, AND ENCAMPED IN THE
WILDERNESS OF SIN.
[Numbers 33:12] AND THEY TOOK THEIR JOURNEY OUT OF THE WILDERNESS OF SIN, AND
ENCAMPED IN DOPHKAH.
[Numbers 33:13] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM DOPHKAH, AND ENCAMPED IN ALUSH.
[Numbers 33:14] AND THEY REMOVED FROM ALUSH, AND ENCAMPED AT REPHIDIM, WHERE
WAS NO WATER FOR THE PEOPLE TO DRINK.
[Numbers 33:15] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM REPHIDIM, AND PITCHED IN THE WILDERNESS
OF SINAI.
[Numbers 33:16] AND THEY REMOVED FROM THE DESERT OF SINAI, AND PITCHED AT KIBROTHHATTAAVAH.
[Numbers 33:17] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM KIBROTHHATTAAVAH, AND ENCAMPED AT
HAZEROTH.
[Numbers 33:18] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM HAZEROTH, AND PITCHED IN RITHMAH.
[Numbers 33:19] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM RITHMAH, AND PITCHED AT RIMMONPAREZ.
[Numbers 33:20] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM RIMMONPAREZ, AND PITCHED IN LIBNAH.
[Numbers 33:21] AND THEY REMOVED FROM LIBNAH, AND PITCHED AT RISSAH.
[Numbers 33:22] AND THEY JOURNEYED FROM RISSAH, AND PITCHED IN KEHELATHAH.
[Numbers 33:23] AND THEY WENT FROM KEHELATHAH, AND PITCHED IN MOUNT SHAPHER.
[Numbers 33:24] AND THEY REMOVED FROM MOUNT SHAPHER, AND ENCAMPED IN HARADAH.
[Numbers 33:25] AND THEY REMOVED FROM HARADAH, AND PITCHED IN MAKHELOTH.
[Numbers 33:26] AND THEY REMOVED FROM MAKHELOTH, AND ENCAMPED AT TAHATH.
[Numbers 33:27] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM TAHATH, AND PITCHED AT TARAH.
[Numbers 33:28] AND THEY REMOVED FROM TARAH, AND PITCHED IN MITHCAH.
[Numbers 33:29] AND THEY WENT FROM MITHCAH, AND PITCHED IN HASHMONAH.
[Numbers 33:30] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM HASHMONAH, AND ENCAMPED AT MOSEROTH.
[Numbers 33:31] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM MOSEROTH, AND PITCHED IN BENEJAAKAN.
[Numbers 33:32] AND THEY REMOVED FROM BENEJAAKAN, AND ENCAMPED AT HORHAGIDGAD.
[Numbers 33:33] AND THEY WENT FROM HORHAGIDGAD, AND PITCHED IN JOTBATHAH.
[Numbers 33:34] AND THEY REMOVED FROM JOTBATHAH, AND ENCAMPED AT EBRONAH.
[Numbers 33:35] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM EBRONAH, AND ENCAMPED AT EZIONGABER.
[Numbers 33:36] AND THEY REMOVED FROM EZIONGABER, AND PITCHED IN THE WILDERNESS
OF ZIN, WHICH IS KADESH.
[Numbers 33:37] AND THEY REMOVED FROM KADESH, AND PITCHED IN MOUNT HOR, IN THE
EDGE OF THE LAND OF EDOM.
[Numbers 33:38] AND AARON THE PRIEST WENT UP INTO MOUNT HOR AT THE COMMANDMENT
OF THE LORD, AND DIED THERE, IN THE FORTIETH YEAR AFTER THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
WERE COME OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIFTH
MONTH.
[Numbers 33:39] AND AARON WAS AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY AND THREE YEARS OLD WHEN HE
DIED IN MOUNT HOR.
[Numbers 33:40] AND KING ARAD THE CANAANITE, WHICH DWELT IN THE SOUTH IN THE
LAND OF CANAAN, HEARD OF THE COMING OF THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL.
[Numbers 33:41] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM MOUNT HOR, AND PITCHED IN ZALMONAH.
[Numbers 33:42] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM ZALMONAH, AND PITCHED IN PUNON.
[Numbers 33:43] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM PUNON, AND PITCHED IN OBOTH.
[Numbers 33:44] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM OBOTH, AND PITCHED IN IJEABARIM, IN THE
BORDER OF MOAB.
[Numbers 33:45] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM IIM, AND PITCHED IN DIBONGAD.
[Numbers 33:46] AND THEY REMOVED FROM DIBONGAD, AND ENCAMPED IN ALMONDIBLATHAIM.
[Numbers 33:47] AND THEY REMOVED FROM ALMONDIBLATHAIM, AND PITCHED IN THE
MOUNTAINS OF ABARIM, BEFORE NEBO.
[Numbers 33:48] AND THEY DEPARTED FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF ABARIM, AND PITCHED IN
THE PLAINS OF MOAB BY JORDAN NEAR JERICHO.
[Numbers 33:49] AND THEY PITCHED BY JORDAN, FROM BETHJESIMOTH EVEN UNTO
ABELSHITTIM IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB.
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[Numbers 33:50] AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB BY JORDAN
NEAR JERICHO, SAYING,
[Numbers 33:51] SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM, WHEN YE
ARE PASSED OVER JORDAN INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN;
[Numbers 33:52] THEN YE SHALL DRIVE OUT ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND FROM
BEFORE YOU, AND DESTROY ALL THEIR PICTURES, AND DESTROY ALL THEIR MOLTEN
IMAGES, AND QUITE PLUCK DOWN ALL THEIR HIGH PLACES:
[Numbers 33:53] AND YE SHALL DISPOSSESS THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND, AND DWELL
THEREIN: FOR I HAVE GIVEN YOU THE LAND TO POSSESS IT.
The Israelites were commanded to expel
ALL of the non-Israelite inhabitants from the Land of Canaan. This is a
commandment. It is still in effect today.
The Arabs NEED to be transferred to some other place. They should not be allowed
to dwell in the Land of Israel.
See our article:
Transfer of Arabs
Options for Survival
A Solution to the War In Gaza
http://www.britam.org/hamas.html
[Numbers 33:54] AND YE SHALL DIVIDE THE LAND BY LOT FOR AN
INHERITANCE AMONG YOUR FAMILIES: AND TO THE MORE YE SHALL GIVE THE MORE
INHERITANCE, AND TO THE FEWER YE SHALL GIVE THE LESS INHERITANCE: EVERY MAN'S
INHERITANCE SHALL BE IN THE PLACE WHERE HIS LOT FALLETH;
ACCORDING TO THE TRIBES OF YOUR FATHERS YE SHALL
INHERIT.
[Numbers 33:55] BUT IF YE WILL NOT DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND FROM
BEFORE YOU; THEN IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT THOSE WHICH YE LET REMAIN OF THEM
SHALL BE PRICKS IN YOUR EYES, AND THORNS IN YOUR SIDES, AND SHALL VEX YOU IN
THE LAND WHEREIN YE DWELL.
[Numbers 33:56] MOREOVER IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT I SHALL DO UNTO YOU, AS I
THOUGHT TO DO UNTO THEM.
If we do not expel ALL of the
non-Israelites they will expel us. This is in danger of happening in our time.
The Arabs are demanding that we let all the Palestinian refugees and their
millions of offspring return to the Land and overwhelm the Jews with their
numbers. They are gaining more and more international support. Now all the world
is against the Jews. The US Administration under non-Israelite management (Obamination)
is now actually FORBIDDING (under threat of aid-withdrawal, sanctions, and
barely concealed hostility) the Jews from adding any building whatsoever in the
areas of Samaria and Judah and that will not be the end of their demands.
Either we get rid of the Arabs when we can or they (God forbid) will do the same
to us.
This is what the Bible itself says!
I SHALL DO UNTO YOU, AS I THOUGHT TO DO UNTO THEM!
They Must Go!
[Numbers 34:1] AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,
[Numbers 34:2] COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM, WHEN YE COME
INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN; (THIS IS THE LAND THAT SHALL FALL UNTO YOU FOR AN
INHERITANCE, EVEN THE LAND OF CANAAN WITH THE COASTS THEREOF:)
These borders are open to
interpretation. Most (but not all) explanations say that here it does not
include all the regions east of the Jordan or further to the north that were in
the original promises but only part of them. The explanation lies in relative
degrees of sanctity. It is generally agreed that even though the Promised Land
stretches from the Nile to the Euphrates some parts are more important than
others as regards initial settlement. These regions we refer to as primary
areas. The primary borders (possibly referred to here) are the primary ones, the
ones that need to be conquered and settled first of all. After that, the other
areas can be taken and settled but to a degree their sanctity is dependent on a
contiguity with Israelite settlement in the Primary Regions (Malbim).
Historically our impression (based on the Books of Joshua, Judges, and
Chronicles) is that all of the Land according to the Promise from the Nile to
the Euphrates was conquered and parts of it were settled. The settlement areas
were however not contiguent,
they did not form a continuous stretch of Hebraic inhabitation with each other.
They had large numbers of Canaanites remaining in them and separating the
different portions from each other. This caused many problems and tragedies to
the Israelite Nation.
In the future the reverse process will take place.
Judah will return and begin to resettle the Land of Israel especially on the
coastal areas.
See the points raised by Stephen Collins (based on Zephaniah 2:4-7) in the
article:
Steven M. Collins
WHY THE JEWS ARE "JUDAH"
And in our article:
THE JEWS ARE JUDAH
by Steven Collins and Yair
Davidiy
http://www.britam.org/judah.html
Four First Points of
Stephen Collins:
(1. Jewish State of "Israel" in "Palestine"
(2. Judah in Jerusalem
(3. "Judah", The "Old-New" State, and Militarily Prowess
(4. Agricultural prosperity.
Judah will also spread out over parts
of the rest of the Land of Israel and in a sense be preparing the infrastructure
for the other Tribes (Hosea 6:11)..
http://britam.org/hosea6.html
Some of the other Tribes
headed by Ephraim will at some stage establish settlement in parts of Iraq
The Return of Ephraim: The US and UK in Iraq
http://britam.org/USAMatsor.html
[Micah 7:12]
And in Lebanon and Syria and Jordan
(Zechariah 10;10 Micah 7:14) and later (in coordination with Judah) in Samaria
(Jeremiah 31:6). Eventually all of the Land from the Nile to the Euphrates will
once again be given to the Children of Israel and divided amongst the Different
Tribes. Each Tribe will receive its own separate portion (Ezekiel
ch.48).
[Numbers 34:3] THEN YOUR SOUTH QUARTER SHALL BE FROM THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN ALONG
BY THE COAST OF EDOM, AND YOUR SOUTH BORDER SHALL BE THE OUTMOST COAST OF THE
SALT SEA EASTWARD:
[Numbers 34:4] AND YOUR BORDER SHALL TURN FROM THE SOUTH TO THE ASCENT OF
AKRABBIM, AND PASS ON TO ZIN: AND THE GOING FORTH THEREOF SHALL BE FROM THE
SOUTH TO KADESHBARNEA, AND SHALL GO ON TO HAZARADDAR, AND PASS ON TO AZMON:
[Numbers 34:5] AND THE BORDER SHALL FETCH A COMPASS FROM AZMON UNTO THE RIVER OF
EGYPT, AND THE GOINGS OUT OF IT SHALL BE AT THE SEA.
[Numbers 34:6] AND AS FOR THE WESTERN BORDER, YE SHALL EVEN HAVE THE GREAT SEA
FOR A BORDER: THIS SHALL BE YOUR WEST BORDER.
[Numbers 34:7] AND THIS SHALL BE YOUR NORTH BORDER: FROM THE GREAT SEA YE SHALL
POINT OUT FOR YOU MOUNT HOR:
[Numbers 34:8] FROM MOUNT HOR YE SHALL POINT OUT YOUR BORDER UNTO THE ENTRANCE
OF HAMATH; AND THE GOINGS FORTH OF THE BORDER SHALL BE TO ZEDAD:
[Numbers 34:9] AND THE BORDER SHALL GO ON TO ZIPHRON, AND THE GOINGS OUT OF IT
SHALL BE AT HAZARENAN: THIS SHALL BE YOUR NORTH BORDER.
[Numbers 34:10] AND YE SHALL POINT OUT YOUR EAST BORDER FROM HAZARENAN TO
SHEPHAM:
[Numbers 34:11] AND THE COAST SHALL GO DOWN FROM SHEPHAM TO RIBLAH, ON THE EAST
SIDE OF AIN; AND THE BORDER SHALL DESCEND, AND SHALL REACH UNTO THE SIDE OF THE
SEA OF CHINNERETH EASTWARD:
[Numbers 34:12] AND THE BORDER SHALL GO DOWN TO JORDAN, AND THE GOINGS OUT OF IT
SHALL BE AT THE SALT SEA: THIS SHALL BE YOUR LAND WITH THE COASTS THEREOF ROUND
ABOUT.
[Numbers 34:13] AND MOSES COMMANDED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING, THIS IS THE
LAND WHICH YE SHALL INHERIT BY LOT, WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED TO GIVE UNTO THE
NINE TRIBES, AND TO THE HALF TRIBE:
[Numbers 34:14] FOR THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN ACCORDING TO THE HOUSE
OF THEIR FATHERS, AND THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF GAD ACCORDING TO THE HOUSE
OF THEIR FATHERS, HAVE RECEIVED THEIR INHERITANCE; AND HALF THE TRIBE OF
MANASSEH HAVE RECEIVED THEIR INHERITANCE:
[Numbers 34:15] THE TWO TRIBES AND THE HALF TRIBE HAVE RECEIVED THEIR
INHERITANCE ON THIS SIDE JORDAN NEAR JERICHO EASTWARD, TOWARD THE SUNRISING.
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[Numbers 34:16] AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,
[Numbers 34:17] THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE MEN WHICH SHALL DIVIDE THE LAND UNTO
YOU: ELEAZAR THE PRIEST, AND JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN.
[Numbers 34:18] AND YE SHALL TAKE ONE PRINCE OF EVERY TRIBE, TO DIVIDE THE LAND
BY INHERITANCE.
[Numbers 34:19] AND THE NAMES OF THE MEN ARE THESE: OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, CALEB
THE SON OF JEPHUNNEH.
[Numbers 34:20] AND OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF SIMEON, SHEMUEL THE SON OF
AMMIHUD.
[Numbers 34:21] OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN, ELIDAD THE SON OF CHISLON.
[Numbers 34:22] AND THE PRINCE OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF DAN, BUKKI THE
SON OF JOGLI.
[Numbers 34:23] THE PRINCE OF THE CHILDREN OF JOSEPH, FOR THE TRIBE OF THE
CHILDREN OF MANASSEH, HANNIEL THE SON OF EPHOD.
Note that here Manasseh is mentioned
before Ephraim and is given as most representative of the CHILDREN OF
JOSEPH.
[Numbers 34:24] AND THE PRINCE OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM, KEMUEL
THE SON OF SHIPHTAN.
[Numbers 34:25] AND THE PRINCE OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF ZEBULUN,
ELIZAPHAN THE SON OF PARNACH.
[Numbers 34:26] AND THE PRINCE OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISSACHAR, PALTIEL
THE SON OF AZZAN.
[Numbers 34:27] AND THE PRINCE OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF ASHER, AHIHUD THE
SON OF SHELOMI.
[Numbers 34:28] AND THE PRINCE OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF NAPHTALI, PEDAHEL
THE SON OF AMMIHUD.
[Numbers 34:29] THESE ARE THEY WHOM THE LORD COMMANDED TO DIVIDE THE
INHERITANCE UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN THE LAND OF
CANAAN.
[Numbers 35:1] AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB BY JORDAN
NEAR JERICHO, SAYING,
[Numbers 35:2] COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY GIVE UNTO THE LEVITES
OF THE INHERITANCE OF THEIR POSSESSION CITIES TO DWELL IN; AND YE SHALL GIVE
ALSO UNTO THE LEVITES SUBURBS FOR THE CITIES ROUND ABOUT THEM.
The Levites were to be given 48 cities
scattered throughout the Land of Israel. Six of these cities were to serve as
Cities of Refuge in cases on of accidental murder. The other 42 cities could
also serve as places of refuge but only in emergency situations and only
temporarily until the case was resolved.
[Numbers 35:3] AND THE CITIES SHALL THEY HAVE TO DWELL IN; AND THE SUBURBS OF
THEM SHALL BE FOR THEIR CATTLE, AND FOR THEIR GOODS, AND FOR ALL THEIR
BEASTS.
[Numbers 35:4] AND THE SUBURBS OF THE CITIES, WHICH YE SHALL GIVE UNTO THE
LEVITES, SHALL REACH FROM THE WALL OF THE CITY AND OUTWARD A THOUSAND CUBITS
ROUND ABOUT.
[Numbers 35:5] AND YE SHALL MEASURE FROM WITHOUT THE CITY ON THE EAST SIDE TWO
THOUSAND CUBITS, AND ON THE SOUTH SIDE TWO THOUSAND CUBITS, AND ON THE WEST SIDE
TWO THOUSAND CUBITS, AND ON THE NORTH SIDE TWO THOUSAND CUBITS; AND THE CITY
SHALL BE IN THE MIDST: THIS SHALL BE TO THEM THE SUBURBS OF THE
CITIES.
[Numbers 35:6] AND AMONG THE CITIES WHICH YE SHALL GIVE UNTO THE LEVITES THERE
SHALL BE SIX CITIES FOR REFUGE, WHICH YE SHALL APPOINT FOR THE MANSLAYER, THAT
HE MAY FLEE THITHER: AND TO THEM YE SHALL ADD FORTY AND TWO
CITIES.
[Numbers 35:7] SO ALL THE CITIES WHICH YE SHALL GIVE TO THE LEVITES SHALL BE
FORTY AND EIGHT CITIES: THEM SHALL YE GIVE WITH THEIR
SUBURBS.
[Numbers 35:8] AND THE CITIES WHICH YE SHALL GIVE SHALL BE OF THE POSSESSION OF
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: FROM THEM THAT HAVE MANY YE SHALL GIVE MANY; BUT FROM
THEM THAT HAVE FEW YE SHALL GIVE FEW: EVERY ONE SHALL GIVE OF HIS CITIES UNTO
THE LEVITES ACCORDING TO HIS INHERITANCE WHICH HE INHERITETH.
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[Numbers 35:9] AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,
[Numbers 35:10] SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM, WHEN YE BE
COME OVER JORDAN INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN;
[Numbers 35:11] THEN YE SHALL APPOINT YOU CITIES TO BE CITIES OF REFUGE FOR YOU;
THAT THE SLAYER MAY FLEE THITHER, WHICH KILLETH ANY PERSON AT
UNAWARES.
[Numbers 35:12] AND THEY SHALL BE UNTO YOU CITIES FOR REFUGE FROM THE AVENGER;
THAT THE MANSLAYER DIE NOT, UNTIL HE STAND BEFORE THE CONGREGATION IN
JUDGMENT.
[Numbers 35:13] AND OF THESE CITIES WHICH YE SHALL GIVE SIX CITIES SHALL YE HAVE
FOR REFUGE.
[Numbers 35:14] YE SHALL GIVE THREE CITIES ON THIS SIDE JORDAN, AND THREE CITIES
SHALL YE GIVE IN THE LAND OF CANAAN, WHICH SHALL BE CITIES OF
REFUGE.
[Numbers 35:15] THESE SIX CITIES SHALL BE A REFUGE, BOTH FOR THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL, AND FOR THE STRANGER, AND FOR THE SOJOURNER AMONG THEM: THAT EVERY ONE
THAT KILLETH ANY PERSON UNAWARES MAY FLEE THITHER.
[Numbers 35:16] AND IF HE SMITE HIM WITH AN INSTRUMENT OF IRON, SO THAT HE DIE,
HE IS A MURDERER: THE MURDERER SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO
DEATH.
[Numbers 35:17] AND IF HE SMITE HIM WITH THROWING A STONE, WHEREWITH HE MAY DIE,
AND HE DIE, HE IS A MURDERER: THE MURDERER SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO
DEATH.
[Numbers 35:18] OR IF HE SMITE HIM WITH AN HAND WEAPON OF WOOD, WHEREWITH HE MAY
DIE, AND HE DIE, HE IS A MURDERER: THE MURDERER SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO
DEATH.
[Numbers 35:19] THE REVENGER OF BLOOD HIMSELF SHALL SLAY THE MURDERER: WHEN HE
MEETETH HIM, HE SHALL SLAY HIM.
[Numbers 35:20] BUT IF HE THRUST HIM OF HATRED, OR HURL AT HIM BY LAYING OF
WAIT, THAT HE DIE;
[Numbers 35:21] OR IN ENMITY SMITE HIM WITH HIS HAND, THAT HE DIE: HE THAT SMOTE
HIM SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH; FOR HE IS A MURDERER: THE REVENGER OF BLOOD
SHALL SLAY THE MURDERER, WHEN HE MEETETH HIM.
[Numbers 35:22] BUT IF HE THRUST HIM SUDDENLY WITHOUT ENMITY, OR HAVE CAST UPON
HIM ANY THING WITHOUT LAYING OF WAIT,
[Numbers 35:23] OR WITH ANY STONE, WHEREWITH A MAN MAY DIE, SEEING HIM NOT, AND
CAST IT UPON HIM, THAT HE DIE, AND WAS NOT HIS ENEMY, NEITHER SOUGHT HIS
HARM:
[Numbers 35:24] THEN THE CONGREGATION SHALL JUDGE BETWEEN THE SLAYER AND THE
REVENGER OF BLOOD ACCORDING TO THESE JUDGMENTS:
[Numbers 35:25] AND THE CONGREGATION SHALL DELIVER THE SLAYER OUT OF THE HAND OF
THE REVENGER OF BLOOD, AND THE CONGREGATION SHALL RESTORE HIM TO THE CITY OF HIS
REFUGE, WHITHER HE WAS FLED: AND HE SHALL ABIDE IN IT UNTO THE DEATH OF THE
HIGH PRIEST, WHICH WAS ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY OIL.
[Numbers 35:26] BUT IF THE SLAYER SHALL AT ANY TIME COME WITHOUT THE BORDER OF
THE CITY OF HIS REFUGE, WHITHER HE WAS FLED;
[Numbers 35:27] AND THE REVENGER OF BLOOD FIND HIM WITHOUT THE BORDERS OF THE
CITY OF HIS REFUGE, AND THE REVENGER OF BLOOD KILL THE SLAYER; HE SHALL NOT BE
GUILTY OF BLOOD:
[Numbers 35:28] BECAUSE HE SHOULD HAVE REMAINED IN THE CITY OF HIS REFUGE UNTIL
THE DEATH OF THE HIGH PRIEST: BUT AFTER THE DEATH OF THE HIGH PRIEST THE SLAYER
SHALL RETURN INTO THE LAND OF HIS POSSESSION.
[Numbers 35:29] SO THESE THINGS SHALL BE FOR A STATUTE OF JUDGMENT UNTO YOU
THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS IN ALL YOUR DWELLINGS.
[Numbers 35:30] WHOSO KILLETH ANY PERSON, THE MURDERER SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH BY
THE MOUTH OF WITNESSES: BUT ONE WITNESS SHALL NOT TESTIFY AGAINST ANY PERSON TO
CAUSE HIM TO DIE.
[Numbers 35:31] MOREOVER YE SHALL TAKE NO SATISFACTION FOR THE LIFE OF A
MURDERER, WHICH IS GUILTY OF DEATH: BUT HE SHALL BE SURELY PUT TO
DEATH.
[Numbers 35:32] AND YE SHALL TAKE NO SATISFACTION FOR HIM THAT IS FLED TO THE
CITY OF HIS REFUGE, THAT HE SHOULD COME AGAIN TO DWELL IN THE LAND, UNTIL THE
DEATH OF THE PRIEST.
[Numbers 35:33] SO YE SHALL NOT POLLUTE THE LAND WHEREIN YE ARE: FOR BLOOD IT
DEFILETH THE LAND: AND THE LAND CANNOT BE CLEANSED OF THE BLOOD THAT IS SHED
THEREIN, BUT BY THE BLOOD OF HIM THAT SHED IT.
[Numbers 35:34] DEFILE NOT THEREFORE THE LAND WHICH YE SHALL INHABIT, WHEREIN I
DWELL: FOR I THE LORD DWELL AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
[Numbers 36:1] AND THE CHIEF FATHERS OF THE FAMILIES OF THE CHILDREN OF GILEAD,
THE SON OF MACHIR, THE SON OF MANASSEH, OF THE FAMILIES OF THE SONS OF JOSEPH,
CAME NEAR, AND SPAKE BEFORE MOSES, AND BEFORE THE PRINCES, THE CHIEF FATHERS OF
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL:
[Numbers 36:2] AND THEY SAID, THE LORD COMMANDED MY LORD TO GIVE THE LAND FOR
AN INHERITANCE BY LOT TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: AND MY LORD WAS COMMANDED BY
THE LORD TO GIVE THE INHERITANCE OF ZELOPHEHAD OUR BROTHER UNTO HIS
DAUGHTERS.
[Numbers 36:3] AND IF THEY BE MARRIED TO ANY OF THE SONS OF THE OTHER TRIBES OF
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THEN SHALL THEIR INHERITANCE BE TAKEN FROM THE
INHERITANCE OF OUR FATHERS, AND SHALL BE PUT TO THE INHERITANCE OF THE TRIBE
WHEREUNTO THEY ARE RECEIVED: SO SHALL IT BE TAKEN FROM THE LOT OF OUR
INHERITANCE.
[Numbers 36:4] AND WHEN THE JUBILE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL BE, THEN
SHALL THEIR INHERITANCE BE PUT UNTO THE INHERITANCE OF THE TRIBE WHEREUNTO THEY
ARE RECEIVED: SO SHALL THEIR INHERITANCE BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE INHERITANCE OF
THE TRIBE OF OUR FATHERS.
[Numbers 36:5] AND MOSES COMMANDED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ACCORDING TO THE WORD
OF THE LORD, SAYING, THE TRIBE OF THE SONS OF JOSEPH HATH SAID
WELL.
[Numbers 36:6] THIS IS THE THING WHICH THE LORD DOTH COMMAND CONCERNING THE
DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD, SAYING, LET THEM MARRY TO WHOM THEY THINK BEST; ONLY
TO THE FAMILY OF THE TRIBE OF THEIR FATHER SHALL THEY
MARRY.
[Numbers 36:7] SO SHALL NOT THE INHERITANCE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL REMOVE
FROM TRIBE TO TRIBE: FOR EVERY ONE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL KEEP HIMSELF
TO THE INHERITANCE OF THE TRIBE OF HIS FATHERS.
[Numbers 36:8] AND EVERY DAUGHTER, THAT POSSESSETH AN INHERITANCE IN ANY TRIBE
OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SHALL BE WIFE UNTO ONE OF THE FAMILY OF THE TRIBE OF
HER FATHER, THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MAY ENJOY EVERY MAN THE INHERITANCE OF
HIS FATHERS.
[Numbers 36:9] NEITHER SHALL THE INHERITANCE REMOVE FROM ONE TRIBE TO ANOTHER
TRIBE; BUT EVERY ONE OF THE TRIBES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL KEEP HIMSELF
TO HIS OWN INHERITANCE.
[Numbers 36:10] EVEN AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES, SO DID THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD:
[Numbers 36:11] FOR MAHLAH, TIRZAH, AND HOGLAH, AND MILCAH, AND NOAH, THE
DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD, WERE MARRIED UNTO THEIR FATHER'S BROTHERS'
SONS:
[Numbers 36:12] AND THEY WERE MARRIED INTO THE FAMILIES OF THE SONS OF MANASSEH
THE SON OF JOSEPH, AND THEIR INHERITANCE REMAINED IN THE TRIBE OF THE FAMILY OF
THEIR FATHER.
[Numbers 36:13] THESE ARE THE COMMANDMENTS AND THE JUDGMENTS, WHICH THE LORD
COMMANDED BY THE HAND OF MOSES UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB
BY JORDAN NEAR JERICHO.
This is the end of the Book of Numbers.
After this comes the Book of Deuteronomy (Sefer
Devorim
in Hebrew).
Haftara
- - Jeremiah 2:4-28, 3:4
Some end with 4:1-2##
Both Israel (the Ten Tribes) and Judah
sinned and were exiled from their Land. God wants them to repent so that HE may
show them how to return to the Land.
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