Numbers
Numbers 1
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’...
Numbers 2
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,“The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it.“Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of...
Numbers 3
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he...
Numbers 4
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,“Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.“This is...
Numbers 5
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”The...
Numbers 6
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink,...
Numbers 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, gave offerings. These were the princes of the tribes. These are...
Numbers 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.'”Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as the LORD commanded Moses.This was the workmanship of the lamp...
Numbers 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,“Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed...
Numbers 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation and for the journeying of the camps.When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.If they blow...
Numbers 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The people were complaining in the ears of the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned; and the LORD’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.The name of that place was called Taberah,...
Numbers 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.They said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And the LORD heard it.Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were...
Numbers 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD....
Numbers 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!Why does the LORD bring us...
Numbers 15
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,and will make an offering by fire to the LORD–a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in...
Numbers 16
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the...
Numbers 17
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod.You shall write Aaron’s name on Levi’s rod. There shall be one rod for each head of...
Numbers 18
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be...
Numbers 19
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,“This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her...
Numbers 20
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish...
Numbers 21
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”The...
Numbers 22
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.Moab said to the elders of Midian,...
Numbers 23
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come...
Numbers 24
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.He took up his parable,...
Numbers 25
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the...
Numbers 26
Last Updated: October 10, 2026After the plague, the LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke...
Numbers 27
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.They stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the...
Numbers 28
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: male...
Numbers 29
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year...
Numbers 30
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that...
Numbers 31
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout...
Numbers 32
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock.Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest,...
Numbers 33
Last Updated: October 10, 2026These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.Moses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of the LORD. These are their journeys according to their starting points.They traveled from Rameses in the...
Numbers 34
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the...
Numbers 35
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,“Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites.They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture...
Numbers 36
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.They said, “The LORD commanded...