Torah
Bamidbar14
Numbers · Chapter 14
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
And all the children of Yisra'el murmured against Mosheh and against Aharon: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would Elohim that we had died in the land of Mitsrayim! or would Elohim we had died in this wilderness!
And wherefore hath 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Mitsrayim?
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Mitsrayim.
Then Mosheh and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra'el.
And Yehoshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Yisra'el, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it,
is an exceeding good land.
If 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Only rebel not ye against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), neither fear ye the people of the land; for they
are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is with us: fear them not.
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) appeared in the mishkan of the congregation before all the children of Yisra'el.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto Mosheh, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
And Mosheh said unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), Then the Egyptians shall hear
it,
(for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
And they will tell
it to the inhabitants of this land:
for they have heard that thou 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
art among this people, that thou 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) art seen face to face, and
that thy cloud standeth over them, and
that thou goest before them, by daytime in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
Now
if thou shalt kill
all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Because 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my master be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing
the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
generation.
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Mitsrayim even until now.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
But
as truly
as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Mitsrayim and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto Mosheh and unto Aharon, saying,
How long
shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Yisra'el, which they murmur against me.
Say unto them,
As truly as I live, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
Doubtless ye shall not come into the land,
concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Yehoshua the son of Nun.
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
But
as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land,
even
forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities,
even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
I 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
And the men, which Mosheh sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
But Yehoshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of the men that went to search the land, lived
still.
And Mosheh told these sayings unto all the children of Yisra'el: and the people mourned greatly.
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we
be here, and will go up unto the place which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath promised: for we have sinned.
And Mosheh said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the mitsvah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)? but it shall not prosper.
Go not up, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites
are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), therefore 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) will not be with you.
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the b'rit of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and Mosheh, departed not out of the camp.
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them,
even unto Hormah.
Torah
Bamidbar15
Numbers · Chapter 15
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto Mosheh, saying,
Speak unto the children of Yisra'el, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
And will make an offering by fire unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), of the herd, or of the flock:
Then shall he that offereth his offering unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth
part
of an hin of oil.
And the fourth
part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare
for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third
part of an hin of oil.
And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third
part of an hin of wine,
for a sweet savour unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And when thou preparest a bullock
for a burnt offering, or
for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH):
Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.
According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.
All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever
be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); as ye do, so he shall do.
One ordinance
shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth
with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye
are, so shall the stranger be before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
One torah and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto Mosheh, saying,
Speak unto the children of Yisra'el, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough
for an heave offering: as
ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) an heave offering in your generations.
And if ye have erred, and not observed all these mitsvot, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath spoken unto Mosheh,
Even all that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath commanded you by the hand of Mosheh, from the day that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) commanded
Mosheh, and henceforward among your generations;
Then it shall be, if
ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
And the kohen shall make an kapparah for all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and their sin offering before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), for their ignorance:
And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people
were
in ignorance.
And if any nephesh sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
And the kohen shall make an kapparah for the nephesh that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to make an kapparah for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
Ye shall have one torah for him that sinneth through ignorance,
both for him that is born among the children of Yisra'el, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
But the nephesh that doeth
ought presumptuously,
whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); and that nephesh shall be cut off from among his people.
Because he hath despised the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and hath broken his mitsvah, that nephesh shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity
shall be
upon him.
And while the children of Yisra'el were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the shabbat day.
And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Mosheh and Aharon, and unto all the congregation.
And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto Mosheh, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) commanded Mosheh.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto Mosheh, saying,
Speak unto the children of Yisra'el, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the mitsvot of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
That ye may remember, and do all my mitsvot, and be holy unto your Elohim.
I
am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim, which brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim: I
am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) your Elohim.
Torah
Bamidbar16
Numbers · Chapter 16
Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took
men:
And they rose up before Mosheh, with certain of the children of Yisra'el, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
And they gathered themselves together against Mosheh and against Aharon, and said unto them,
Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation
are holy, every one of them, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is
among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)?
And when Mosheh heard
it, he fell upon his face:
And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) will shew who
are his, and
who is holy; and will cause
him to come near unto him: even
him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
And put fire therein, and put incense in them before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) to morrow: and it shall be
that the man whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) doth choose, he
shall be holy:
ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
And Mosheh said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the Elohim of Yisra'el hath separated you from the congregation of Yisra'el, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the mishkan of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
And he hath brought thee near
to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
For which cause
both thou and all thy company
are
gathered together against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): and what
is Aharon, that ye murmur against him?
And Mosheh sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
And Mosheh was very wroth, and said unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
And Mosheh said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), thou, and they, and Aharon, to morrow:
And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aharon, each
of you his censer.
And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the mishkan of the congregation with Mosheh and Aharon.
And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the mishkan of the congregation: and the glory of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) appeared unto all the congregation.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto Mosheh and unto Aharon, saying,
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O Elohim, the Elohim of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto Mosheh, saying,
Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the mishkan of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
And Mosheh rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Yisra'el followed him.
And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
So they gat up from the mishkan of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
And Mosheh said, Hereby ye shall know that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath sent me to do all these works; for
I have not
done them of mine own mind.
If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men;
then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath not sent me.
But if 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that
appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that
was under them:
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that
appertained unto Korah, and all
their
goods.
They, and all that
appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
And all Yisra'el that
were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up
also.
And there came out a fire from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto Mosheh, saying,
Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aharon the kohen, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates
for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Yisra'el.
And Eleazar the kohen took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad
plates for a covering of the altar:
To be a memorial unto the children of Yisra'el, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aharon, come near to offer incense before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said to him by the hand of Mosheh.
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el murmured against Mosheh and against Aharon, saying, Ye have killed the people of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Mosheh and against Aharon, that they looked toward the mishkan of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) appeared.
And Mosheh and Aharon came before the mishkan of the congregation.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto Mosheh, saying,
Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
And Mosheh said unto Aharon, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an kapparah for them: for there is wrath gone out from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); the plague is begun.
And Aharon took as Mosheh commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an kapparah for the people.
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
And Aharon returned unto Mosheh unto the door of the mishkan of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.