22 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

23 ¶ And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish : 24 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner :

25 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

26 ¶ And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:

27 And their meat offering and their 27 drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the

manner:

28 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

29 ¶ And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:

30 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the

manner:

31 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

32 ¶ And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:

33 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the

manner:

34 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

35 On the eighth day ye shall

Vows not to be broken.

have a "solemn assembly: ye shall B. C. 1452. do no servile work therein :

36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish :

37 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner :

38 And one goat for a sin offering ; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

n Lev. 23.36.

o Lev. 23. 2. 1 Chr. 23. 31. 2 Chr. 31. 3. Ezra 3. 5. Neh. 10. 33. Is. 1. 14.

39 These things ye shall do unto Or, offer. the LORD in your set feasts, beside your Pvows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace pLev.7. 11, 16. offerings.

40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.

CHAPTER XXX.

Vows not to be broken. 3 Of a maid's vow; 6 of a wife's; 9 of a widow's, and of her that is divorced.

a

& 22. 21, 23.

a 1. & 7. 2.

of the tribes concerning the chilAND Moses spake unto the heads *ch, 1, 4, 16. dren of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.

b Lev. 27. 2. Deut. 23. 21. Judg. 11. 30, 35. Ecc. 5. 4.

2 b If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not † break† Heb. prohis word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

fane,
Ps. 55. 20.

c Lev. 5. 4. Matt. 14. 9. Acts 23. 14.

3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, a Job 22. 27. being in her father's house in her youth;

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.

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.

Vows not to be broken.

B. C. 1452.

e Gen. 3. 16.

a ch. 25. 17.

b ch. 27. 13.

+ Heb. A thousand of a

sand of a
tribe.

8 But if her husband e 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.

9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

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.

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 LORD shall forgive her.

13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

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.

15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity. 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.

2 a Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou bbe gathered unto thy people.

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.

4 Of every tribe a thousand, tribe, a thou- throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

The Midianites spoiled.

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.

10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

h

c ch. 10. 9.

d Deut. 20. 13. Judg. 21. 11.

1 Sam. 27. 9. 1 Kings 11.15, 16.

e See Judg. 6. 1, 2, 33. f Josh. 13. 21.

g Josh. 13. 22.

11 And they took all the spoil, h Deut. 20. 14. and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.

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.

13 ¶ And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the bat- Heb, host of tle.

15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

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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 m there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

17 Now therefore "kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with † him.

18 But all the women-children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

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war.

i See Deut. 20. 14. 1 Sam. 15. 3.

k ch. 25. 2. ch. 24. 14.

2 Pet. 2. 15.

Rev. 2. 14. m ch. 25. 9.

n Judg. 21. 11.

† Heb. a male.

o ch. 5. 9

19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever pch. 19. 11, &c. hath touched any slain, purify both

B. C. 1452. yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day. 20 And purify all your raiment, and † Heb. instru- all that is made of skins, and all ment, or, vessel of skins. work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.

q ch. 19. 9, 17.

r Lev. 11. 25.

+ Heb. of the captivity.

s Josh. 22. 8. 1 Sam. 30. 24.

t See ver. 30, 47. & ch. 18,

26.

47.

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;

22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

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.

24 'And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

25 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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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: 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.

28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle tone soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:

29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for a heave offering of the LORD.

30 And of the children of Israel's u See ver. 42- 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.

|| Or, goats.

x ch. 3. 7, 8, 25, 31, 36. & 18. 3, 4.

31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. 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,

33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,

34 And threescore and one thousand

asses,

35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.

The officers' oblation.

36 And the half, which was the por- | B. C. 1452. tion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:

37 And the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.

39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD's tribute was threescore and one.

40 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD's tribute was thirty and two persons.

41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD y See ch. 18. 8, commanded Moses.

y

42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,

43 (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,

44 And thirty and six thousand beeves,

45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,

46 And sixteen thousand persons,) 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 Mo

ses.

48 T And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses :

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.

19.

z ver. 30.

50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath †gotten, of jewels of gold, † Heb. found. chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement a Ex. 30. 12,16. for our souls before the LORD.

a

51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.

52 And all the gold of the offering † Heb. heave 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:

The request made by the

B. C. 1452.

b Deut. 20. 14.

c Ex. 30. 16.

a ch. 21. 32. Josh. 13. 25. 2 Sam. 24. 5.

b ver. 36, Beth-nimrah.

c ver. 38, Shibmah.

d ver. 38, Baal-meon.

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.

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,

3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and d Beon,

4 Even the country which the LORD e ch. 21. 24, 34. smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle :

† Heb. break.

f ch. 13. 3, 26. g Deut. 1. 22.

h ch. 13. 24, 31. Deut. 1.24,28.

i ch. 14, 11, 21. Deut. 1. 34.

k ch. 14. 28, 29. Deut. 1. 35.

1 ch. 14. 24, 30. † Heb. fulfilled after me.

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.

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?

7 And wherefore † discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?

f

8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea 5 to see the land.

h

9 For 1 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.

10 And the LORD's anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,

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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:

12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of

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.

m ch. 14. 24. Deut. 1. 36. Josh. 14. 8, 9.

n ch. 14. 33, 34, 35.

o ch. 26. 64, 65.

14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the P fierce P Deut. 1. 34. anger of the LORD toward Israel.

15 For if ye turn away from after 9 Deut. 30. 17. him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

16 ¶ And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

2 Chr. 7. 19. & 15. 2.

13.

17 But we ourselves will go readyr Josh. 4. 12, 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.

18 S We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance:

s Josh. 22. 4.

t ver. 33. Josh. 12. 1. & 13. 8.

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. 20 T And Moses said unto them, u Deut. 3. 18. If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,

21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,

Josh. 1. 14. & 4. 12, 13.

22 And the land be subdued be-x Deut. 3. 20.

& 18. 1.

fore the LORD; then afterward y ye Josh. 11. 23. shall return, and be guiltless before y Josh. 22. 4. the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.

23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.

b

a

z Dent. S. 12, 15, 16, 18. Josh. 1. 15. & 13. 8, 32. & 22. 4, 9.

a Gen. 4. 7. & 44. 16. Is. 59. 12.

&c.

24 Build you cities for your little b ver. 16, 34, ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.

26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead :

27 d But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.

c Josh. 1. 14.

d Josh. 4. 12.