Numbers 29–31

Chapter 29

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‘You shall offer a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to the Lord: one ¹bull, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old without defect;

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‘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 ordinance, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.

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‘You shall present a burnt offering to the Lord as a soothing aroma: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs one year old, ^ahaving them without defect;

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 observe a feast to the Lord for seven days.

¹³‘You shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire as a soothing aroma to the Lord: thirteen bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old, which are without defect;

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, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;

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

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 defect;

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

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 defect;

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

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 defect;

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

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 defect;

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

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 defect;

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

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 present a burnt offering, an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs one year old without defect;

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

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

³⁹‘You shall present these to the Lord 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.’ ”

⁴⁰¹Moses spoke to the sons of Israel in accordance with all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

Chapter 30

The Law of Vows

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

²“^aIf a man makes a vow to the Lord, or takes 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 the Lord, 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 the Lord will forgive 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 the Lord will forgive 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 the Lord will forgive her.

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

¹⁴“But if her husband indeed says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all her obligations which are on her; he has confirmed them, 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 the Lord 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

The Slaughter of Midian

¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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

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

⁴“A 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, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

⁶Moses sent them, a 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 the Lord 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.

⁹The 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.

^11aThey took all the spoil and all the prey, both of man and of beast.

¹²They brought the captives and the prey 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.

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

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

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

¹⁶“^aBehold, these ¹caused the sons of Israel, through the ²counsel of ^bBalaam, to ³trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the Lord.

¹⁷“^aNow therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man ¹intimately.

¹⁸“But all the ¹girls who have not known man ²intimately, ³spare for yourselves.

¹⁹“^aAnd you,…