Numbers 9–11

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in the wilderness of Sinai, in the second year of their going out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying, ²‘Also, the sons of Israel prepare the passover in its appointed season; ³in the fourteenth day of this month between the evenings ye prepare it in its appointed season; according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances ye prepare it.’ ⁴And Moses speaketh unto the sons of Israel to prepare the passover, ⁵and they prepare the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses, so have the sons of Israel done. ⁶And there are men who have been defiled by the body of a man, and they have not been able to prepare the passover on that day, and they come near before Moses, and before Aaron, on that day, ⁷and those men say unto him, ‘We are defiled by the body of a man; why are we withheld so as not to bring near the offering of Jehovah in its appointed season, in the midst of the sons of Israel?’ ⁸And Moses saith unto them, ‘Stand ye, and I hear what Jehovah hath commanded concerning you.’ ⁹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ¹⁰‘Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Though any man is unclean by a body or in a distant journey (of you or of your generations), yet he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah; ¹¹in the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings they prepare it; with unleavened and bitter things they eat it; ¹²they do not leave of till morning; and a bone they do not break in it: according to all the statute of the passover they prepare it.

¹³‘And the man who is clean, and hath not been on a journey, and hath ceased to prepare the passover, even that person hath been cut off from his people; because the offering of Jehovah he hath not brought near, in its appointed season, that man doth bear his sin.

¹⁴‘And when a sojourner sojourneth with you, then he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah, according to the statute of the passover, and according to its ordinance, so he doth; one statute is to you, even to a sojourner, and to a native of the land.’

¹⁵And in the day of the raising up of the tabernacle hath the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony; and in the evening there is on the tabernacle as an appearance of fire till morning; ¹⁶so it is continually; the cloud covereth it, also the appearance of fire by night. ¹⁷And according to the going up of the cloud from off the tent and afterwards do the sons of Israel journey; and in the place where the cloud doth tabernacle, there do the sons of Israel encamp; ¹⁸by the command of Jehovah the sons of Israel journey, and by the command of Jehovah they encamp; all the days that the cloud doth tabernacle over the tabernacle they encamp. ¹⁹And in the cloud prolonging itself over the tabernacle many days, then have the sons of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journey not, ²⁰and so when the cloud is a number of days over the tabernacle; by the command of Jehovah they encamp, and by the command of Jehovah they journey. ²¹And so when the cloud is from evening till morning, when the cloud hath gone up in the morning, then they have journeyed; whether by day or by night, when the cloud hath gone up, then they have journeyed. ²²Whether two days, or a month, or days, in the cloud prolonging itself over the tabernacle, to tabernacle over it, the sons of Israel encamp, and journey not; and in its being lifted up they journey; ²³by the command of Jehovah they encamp, and by the command of Jehovah they journey; the charge of Jehovah they have kept, by the command of Jehovah in the hand of Moses.

Chapter 10

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²‘Make to thee two trumpets of silver; beaten work thou dost make them, and they have been to thee for the convocation of the company, and for the journeying of the camps; ³and they have blown with them, and all the company have met together unto thee, unto the opening of the tent of meeting. ⁴And if with one they blow, then have the princes, heads of the thousands of Israel, met together unto thee;

⁵‘And ye have blown—a shout, and the camps which are encamping eastward have journeyed.

⁶‘And ye have blown—a second shout, and the camps which are encamping southward have journeyed; a shout they blow for their journeys.

⁷‘And in the assembling of the assembly ye blow, and do not shout; ⁸and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been to you for a statute age-during to your generations.

⁹‘And when ye go into battle in your land against the adversary who is distressing you, then ye have shouted with the trumpets, and ye have been remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye have been saved from your enemies.

¹⁰‘And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in the beginnings of your months, ye have blown also with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and they have been to you for a memorial before your God; I, Jehovah, am your God.’

¹¹And it cometh to pass—in the second year, in the second month, in the twentieth of the month—the cloud hath gone up from off the tabernacle of the testimony, ¹²and the sons of Israel journey in their journeyings from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud doth tabernacle in the wilderness of Paran; ¹³and they journey at first, by the command of Jehovah, in the hand of Moses. ¹⁴And the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah journeyeth in the first place, by their hosts, and over its host is Nahshon son of Amminadab. ¹⁵And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Issachar is Nathaneel son of Zuar. ¹⁶And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon; ¹⁷And the tabernacle hath been taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle. ¹⁸And the standard of the camp of Reuben hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elizur son of Shedeur. ¹⁹And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. ²⁰And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Deuel; ²¹And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the others have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in. ²²And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elishama son of Ammihud. ²³And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh is Gamalial son of Pedahzur. ²⁴And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni. ²⁵And the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan hath journeyed (rearward to all the camps), by their hosts, and over its host is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. ²⁶And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran. ²⁷And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan. ²⁸These are journeyings of the sons of Israel by their hosts—and they journey.

²⁹And Moses saith to Hobab son of Raguel the Midianite, father-in-law of Moses, ‘We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah hath said, I give it to you; go with us, and we have done good to thee; for Jehovah hath spoken good concerning Israel.’ ³⁰And he saith unto him, ‘I do not go; but unto my land and unto my kindred do I go.’ ³¹And he saith, ‘I pray thee, forsake us not, because thou hast known our encamping in the wilderness, and thou hast been to us for eyes; ³²and it hath come to pass when thou goest with us, yea, it hath come to pass—that good which Jehovah doth kindly with us—it we have done kindly to thee.’ ³³And they journey from the mount of Jehovah a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is journeying before them the journey of three days, to spy out for them a resting-place; ³⁴and the cloud of Jehovah is on them by day, in their journeying from the camp. ³⁵And it cometh to pass in the journeying of the ark, that Moses saith, ‘Rise, O Jehovah, and Thine enemies are scattered, and those hating Thee flee from Thy presence.’ ³⁶And in its resting he saith, ‘Return, O Jehovah, to the myriads, the thousands of Israel.’

Chapter 11

¹And the people is evil, as those sighing habitually in the ears of Jehovah, and Jehovah heareth, and His anger burneth, and the fire of Jehovah burneth among them, and consumeth in the extremity of the camp. ²And the people cry unto Moses, and Moses prayeth unto Jehovah, and the fire is quenched; ³and he calleth the name of that place Taberah, for the fire of Jehovah hath ‘burned’ among them.

⁴And the rabble who are in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, ‘Who doth give us flesh? ⁵We have remembered the fish which we do eat in Egypt for nought, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick; ⁶and now our soul is dry, there is not anything, save the manna, before our eyes.’ ⁷And the manna is as coriander seed, and its aspect as the aspect of bdolach; ⁸the people have turned aside and gathered it, and ground it with millstones, or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pan, and made it cakes, and its taste hath been as the taste of the moisture of oil. ⁹And in the descending of the dew on the camp by night, the manna descendeth upon it. ¹⁰And Moses heareth the people weeping by its families, each at the opening of his tent, and the anger of Jehovah burneth exceedingly, and in the eyes of Moses it is evil. ¹¹And Moses saith unto Jehovah, ‘Why hast Thou done evil to Thy servant? and why have I not found grace in Thine eyes—to put the burden of all this people upon me? ¹²I—have I conceived all this people? I—have I begotten it, that Thou sayest unto me, Carry it in thy bosom as the nursing father beareth the suckling, unto the ground which Thou hast sworn to its fathers? ¹³Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give to us flesh, and we eat. ¹⁴I…