Numbers 29–31

CHAPTER 29

The Various Offerings of the Seventh Month

¹‘^aNow in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; ^byou shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.

²‘And you shall offer a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to Yahweh: one bull from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old without blemish;

³also their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ¹ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,

⁴and one-tenth for ¹each of the seven lambs.

⁵‘And offer one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you,

^6abesides the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, and the ^bcontinual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their legal judgment, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Yahweh.

⁷‘Then on ^athe tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall humble yourselves; you shall not do any work.

⁸‘And you shall bring near a burnt offering to Yahweh as a soothing aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs one year old, ^ahaving them without blemish;

⁹and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ¹ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,

¹⁰a tenth for each of the seven lambs;

¹¹one male goat for a sin offering, besides ^athe sin offering of atonement and ^bthe continual burnt offering and its grain offering and their drink offerings.

¹²‘Then on ^athe fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you ^bshall do no laborious work, and you shall celebrate a feast to Yahweh for seven days.

¹³‘And you shall bring near a burnt offering, an offering by fire as a soothing aroma to Yahweh: thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old, which are without blemish;

¹⁴and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ¹ephah for ²each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for ³each of the two rams,

¹⁵and a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs;

¹⁶and one male goat for a sin offering, ^abesides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

¹⁷‘Then on ^athe second day: twelve bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;

¹⁸and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number ^aaccording to the legal judgment;

¹⁹and one male goat for a sin offering, ^abesides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and their drink offerings.

²⁰‘Then on the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;

²¹and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;

²²and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.

²³‘Then on the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;

²⁴their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;

²⁵and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.

²⁶‘Then on the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old ^awithout blemish;

²⁷and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;

²⁸and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.

²⁹‘Then on the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;

³⁰and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;

³¹and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offerings.

³²‘Then on the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;

³³and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;

³⁴and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.

³⁵‘^aOn the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work.

³⁶‘But you shall bring near a burnt offering, an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs one year old without blemish;

³⁷their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;

³⁸and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.

³⁹‘You shall offer these to Yahweh at your ^aappointed times, besides your ¹votive offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings and for your grain offerings and for your drink offerings and for your peace offerings.’”

⁴⁰¹And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses.

CHAPTER 30

The Statutes for Vows

¹Then Moses spoke to ^athe heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the word which Yahweh has commanded.

²“^aIf a man makes a vow to Yahweh or swears an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

³“Also if a woman makes a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

⁴and her father hears her vow and her obligation by which she has bound herself, and her father ¹says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every obligation by which she has bound herself shall stand.

⁵“But if her father should forbid her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand; and Yahweh will pardon her because her father had forbidden her.

⁶“However, if she should ¹marry while ²under her vows or the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself,

⁷and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day he hears it, then her vows shall stand, and her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand.

⁸“But if, on the day her husband hears of it, he forbids her, then he shall annul her vow which ¹she is under and the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself; and Yahweh will pardon her.

⁹“But the vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, everything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.

¹⁰“However, if she vowed in her husband’s house or bound herself by an obligation with an oath,

¹¹and her husband heard it but said nothing to her and did not forbid her, then all her vows shall stand, and every obligation by which she bound herself shall stand.

¹²“But if her husband indeed annuls them on the day he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the obligation of herself shall not stand; her husband has annulled them, and Yahweh will pardon her.

¹³“Every vow and every binding oath to humble herself, her husband may cause it to stand, or her husband may annul it.

¹⁴“But if her husband indeed says nothing to her from day to day, then he causes all her vows or all her obligations which are on her to stand; he has caused them to stand because he said nothing to her on the day he heard them.

¹⁵“But if he indeed annuls them after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt.”

¹⁶These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, as between a man and his wife, and as between a father and his daughter, while she is in her youth in her father’s house.

CHAPTER 31

Vengeance on Midian

¹Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

²“^aTake full vengeance for the sons of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you will be ^bgathered to your people.”

³And Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may ¹go against Midian to execute ^aYahweh’s vengeance on Midian.

⁴“One thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war.”

⁵So there were ¹furnished from the thousands of Israel, one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

⁶And Moses sent them, one thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, ^aand the holy vessels and ^bthe trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

⁷So they made war against Midian, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and ^athey killed every male.

⁸They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: ^aEvi and Rekem and ^bZur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed ^cBalaam the son of Beor with the sword.

⁹And the sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods they plundered.

¹⁰Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire.

^11aAnd they took all the spoil and all the loot, both of man and of beast.

¹²And they brought the captives and the loot and the spoil to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

¹³And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.

¹⁴And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.

¹⁵So Moses said to them, “Have you ¹spared ^aall the women?

¹⁶“^aBehold, these ¹caused the sons of Israel, through the word of ^bBalaam, to ²act unfaithfully against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

¹⁷“^aSo now, kill every male among the little…