The Reubenites and Gadites Before CHRIST 1452. Z ver. 30. 44 And thirty and six thousand | spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar 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 Moses. 48 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 un† Heb. hand. der our † charge, and there lacketh not one man of us. + Heb. found. Ex. 30. 12, 16. † Heb. heave offering. b Deut. 20. 14. Ex. 30. 16. a ch. 21. 32. 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, a to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD. 51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels. 52 And all the gold of the toffering 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. 53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.) 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. CHAPTER XXXII. 1 The Reubenites and Gadites sue for their reproveth them. 16 They offer him conditions to his content. 33 Moses assigneth them the land. 39 They conquer it. inheritance on that side Jordan. 6 Moses Now the children of het hen a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of a Jazer, and the land of Gilead, 2 Sam. 24. 5. that, behold, the place was a place for cattle; Josh. 13. 25. 2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, Before CHRIST 1452. 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon,b ver. 36, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and d Beon, Beth-nimrah. c ver. 38. Shibmah. d ver. 38. Baal-meon. 4 Even the country which the LORD Smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cat-ch. 21.24,34. tle, and thy servants have cattle: 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 + Heb. break. ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them? 8 Thus did your fathers, whenfch. 13. 3, 26. I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. Deut. 1. 22. The Reubenites and Gadites Before NUMBERS. them in the wilderness; and ye CHRIST shall destroy all this people. 1452. * Josh. 4. 12, 13. $ Joshi. 22. 4. tver. 33. Josh. 12. 1. & 13. 8. u Deut. 3. 18. Josh. 1. 14. & 4. 12, 13. *Deut. 3. 20. & 18. 1. y Josh. 22. 4. 16 And they came near unto S 18 We will not return unto 19 For we will not inherit with 21 And will go all of you armed offer conditions to Moses. children of Reuben will pass with 30 But if they will not pass over 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. 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 ours. Before CHRIST 1452. 17. & 29. 8. Josh. 12. 6. & 13, 8 & 22. 4. 33, 35. 33 And Moses gave unto them, f Deut. 3. 12even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom ch. 21. 24, 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. 34 And the children of Gad built h Dibon, and Ataroth, and hch. 33. 45, 22 And the land be subdued Josh. 11. 23. before the LORD: then afterward y ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Is*Deut. 3. 12, rael; and this land shall bei Aroer, your possession before the LORD. 23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the 15, 16, 18. Josh. 1. 15. & 13. 8, 32. & 22. 4, 9. 35 And Atroth, Shophan, and 36 And Beth-nimrah, and Beth- 37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim, 24 b Build you cities for your 26 Our little ones, our wives, 27 & But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith. 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: 29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the 38 And Nebo, and P Baal-meon, 39 And the children of Machir 40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. 41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them u Havoth-jair. 42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name. 46. i Deut. 2. 36, k ver. 1, 3, Jazer. 1 ver. 3, Nimrah. in ver. 24. ch. 21. 27. Is. 46. 1. 9 See ver. 3. r Gen. 50, 23. Deut. 3. 12, 13, 15. Josh. 13. 31. & 17. 1. t Deut. 3. 14. Josh. 13, 30. 1 Chr. 2. 21, 22, 23. u Judg. 10. 4. 1 Kings 4.-13. Two and forty journeys Before CHRIST 1452. a Ex. 12. 37. 1491. 13. 4. NUMBERS. CHAPTER XXXIII. The children of went forth out of the land of 3 And they a departed from Rameses in the first month, on the b Ex. 12. 2. &fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. € Ex. 14. 8. d Ex. 12. 29. 4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD d e Ex. 12. 12. & had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. 18. 11. Is. 19. 1. Rev. 12. 8. f Ex. 12. 37. 8 Ex. 13. 20. h Ex. 14. 2, 9. 15. 22, 23. 5 f And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth. 6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. 7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol. 8 And they departed from beEx. 14. 22. & fore Pi-hahiroth, 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. k Ex. 15. 27. 1 Ex. 16. 1. m Ex. 17. 1. & 19.2. 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. 10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea. 11 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the I wilderness of Sin. 12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. 13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. 14 And they removed from | Alush, and encamped at m Rephi of the Israelites. dim, where was no water for the Before people to drink. 15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the CHRIST 1452. 1490. n Ex. 16. 1. & 19. 1, 2. 16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at ch. 11. 34. Kibroth-hattaavah. I That is, The graves of lust. 17 And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and Pencamped Pch. 11. 35. at Hazeroth. 18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in a Rithmah. ch. 12. 16. 19 And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez. 20 And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah. 21 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah. 22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah. 23 And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher. 24 And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah. 25 And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth. 26 And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath. 27 And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah. 28 And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mitheah. 29 And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah. 30 And they departed from Hashmonah, and rencamped at Deut. 10. 6. Moscroth. 31 And they departed from Moscroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan. 32 And they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at See Gen. 36. Hor-hagidgad. The Canaanites to be destroyed. Before CHRIST 1452. Deut. 10. 6. & 32.50. 1452. NUMBERS. 38 And y Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died Ych. 20. 25, 28. 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. 39 And Aaron was a hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor. 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. 41 And they departed from mount a Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah. 7 ch. 21. 1, &c. a ch. 21. 4. beh. 21. 10. c ch. 21. 11. The borders of the land. Before 1452. man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; ac- CHRIST cording to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit. 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 "Josh. 23. 13. in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. 42 And they departed from Zal-1 monah, and pitched in Punon. 43 And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth. 44 And they departed from Or, Heaps Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abaof Abarim. rim, in the border of Moab. 45 And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad. 46 And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almonf-diblathaim. d ch. 21. 11. cl. 32. 34. f Jer. 48. 22. Ez. 6. 14. 5 ch. 21. 20. e 47 And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, sand pitched in Deut. 32. 49. the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. 50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, k When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 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: 53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. 54 And mye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among tiply his in your families; and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall t give the less inheritance: every heritance, † Heb. diminish his inheritance. 56 Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them. CHAPTER XXXIV. The borders of the land. 16 The names of the men which shall divide the land. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Judg. 2. 3. Ps. 106. 34, 36. See Ex. 23. 33. 2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into a the land of Ca- Gen. 17. 8. naan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:) Deut. 1. 7. bJosh. 15. 1. See Ez. 47. 13, &c. 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 Gen. 14. 3. sea eastward: Josh. 15. 2. 4 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of a Josh. 15. 3. Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-ch. 13. 26. & barnea, and shall go on to fHazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon: 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. 6 And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border. Those which shall divide it. NUMBERS. Before east border from Hazar-enan to CHRIST Shepham: 1452. m2 Kings 23. Jer. 39. 5, 6. 33. † Heb. shoulder. n Deut. 3. 17. Josh. 11. 2. & 19. 35. Matt. 14. 34. Luke 5. 1. over. 3. P ver. 1. Josh. 14 1,2. 9 ch. 32. 33. 11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham mto Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the tside of the sea n of Chinnereth eastward: 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. 13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, P This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD com manded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe: 14 9 For the tribe of the chilJosh. 14. 2,3. dren 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: r Josh. 14. 1. & 19. 51. ch. 1. 4, 16. 18 And ye shall take one sprince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance. 19 And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 20 And of the tribe of the chilIdren of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. 22 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli. 23 The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod. 24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. 25 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. 26 And the prince of the tribe The cities of the Levites. of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan. 27 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. 28 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. 29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan. CHAPTER XXXV. 1 Eight and forty cities for the Levites with their suburbs, and measure thereof. 6 Six of them are to be cities of refuge. 9 The laws of murder. 31 No satisfaction for murder. A Moses in the plains of ND the LORD spake unto Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, Before CHRIST 1452. 1451. 4. & 21. 2. See Ez. 45. 1, &c. & 48. 8, &c. 2 a Command the children of Is-a Josh. 14. 3, rael, 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. 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. 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. 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. 6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be bsix cities for ref- byer. 13. uge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities. c Deut. 4. 41. Josh. 20. 2, 7, 8. & 21. 3, 13, 21, 27, 32, 36, 38. + Heb. above them ye shall give. 7 So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty Josh. 21. 41. and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs. 8 And the cities which ye shall give shall be dof the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have d Josh. 21. 3. ch. 26. 54. |