28 February - Numbers 11-13

Jude Sat Dec 01, 2018 4:08 am

My soul doth magnify my YAH, and my spirit hath rejoiced in EL my Saviour; For HE that is mighty hath done to me great things; and Holy is HIS Name. Now unto HIM who is ever present in my helpless estate; who is able to keep me from falling and to present me faultless before the presence of His Glory with exceeding joy, unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only wise EL our Saviour be honour and glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and for ever Halleluyah!

LEVITICUS 11

1And it came to be, when the people were as complainers, it was evil in the ears of יהוה. And יהוה heard it, and His displeasure burned. And the fire of יהוה burned among them, and consumed those in the outskirts of the camp.

2And the people cried out to Mosheh, and Mosheh prayed to יהוה, and the fire died down.

3Then he called the name of the place Taḇ‛ĕrah, because the fire of יהוה had burned among them.

4And the mixed multitude who were in their midst lusted greatly, so the children of Yisra’ĕl also wept again and said, “Who is giving us meat to eat?

5“We remember the fish which we ate without cost in Mitsrayim, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic,

6but now our throat is dried up. There is naught to look at but this manna!”

7Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.

8The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, and cooked it in a pot, and made cakes of it. And its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.

9And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell on it.

10And Mosheh heard the people weeping throughout their clans, each man at the door of his tent. And the displeasure of יהוה burned exceedingly. And in the eyes of Mosheh it was evil,

11so Mosheh said to יהוה, “Why have You done evil to Your servant? And why have I not found favour in Your eyes, to put the burden of all these people on me?

12“Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as the foster father carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?

13“Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat.’

14“I am unable to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.

15“And if You are doing this to me, please slay me altogether, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!”

16Then יהוה said to Mosheh, “Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Yisra’ĕl, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them. And bring them to the Tent of Meeting, and let them stand there with you.

17“And I shall come down and speak with you there, and shall take of the Spirit that is on you, and put on them. And they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it yourself alone.

18“And say to the people, ‘Set yourselves apart for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, because you have wept in the hearing of יהוה, saying, “Who is giving us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Mitsrayim.” And יהוה shall give you meat, and you shall eat.

19‘You are going to eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,

20but for a month of days, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes an abomination to you, because you have rejected יהוה who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we come up out of Mitsrayim?” ’ ”

21And Mosheh said, “The people in whose midst I am are six hundred thousand men on foot, and You, You have said, ‘I give them meat to eat for a month of days.’

22“Could flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or could all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

23And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Is the arm of יהוה too short? Now see whether My word meets you or not!”

24And Mosheh went out and spoke to the people the words of יהוה, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the Tent.

25And יהוה came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders. And it came to be, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, but did not continue.

26However, two men had remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldaḏ, and the name of the other Mĕyḏaḏ. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but did not go out to the Tent. And they prophesied in the camp.

27And a young man ran and informed Mosheh, and said, “Eldaḏ and Mĕyḏaḏ are prophesying in the camp.”

28And Yehoshua son of Nun, Mosheh’s assistant from his youth, answered and said, “Mosheh my master, forbid them!”

29Then Mosheh said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Oh, that all the people of יהוה were prophets, that יהוה would put His Spirit upon them!”

30And Mosheh returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Yisra’ĕl.

31And a wind went forth from יהוה, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.

32And the people were up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. He who has least gathered ten ḥomers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

33The meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, and the wrath of יהוה burned against the people, and יהוה smote the people with an exceeding great plague.

34Then he called the name of that place Qiḇroth Hatta’awah, because there they buried the people who had lusted.

35From Qiḇroth Hatta’awah the people set out for Ḥatsĕroth – and they were at Ḥatsĕroth.

LEVITICUS 12

1Now Miryam and Aharon spoke against Mosheh because of the Kushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Kushite woman.

2And they said, “Has יהוה spoken only through Mosheh? Has He not also spoken through us?” And יהוה heard it.

3And the man Mosheh was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.

4And suddenly יהוה said to Mosheh, and Aharon, and Miryam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting!” So the three came out.

5And יהוה came down in the column of cloud and stood in the door of the Tent, and called Aharon and Miryam. And they both went forward.

6And He said, “Hear now My words: If your prophet is of יהוה, I make Myself known to him in a vision, and I speak to him in a dream.

7“Not so with My servant Mosheh, he is trustworthy in all My house.

8“I speak with him mouth to mouth, and plainly, and not in riddles. And he sees the form of יהוה. So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant Mosheh?”

9And the displeasure of יהוה burned against them, and He left.

10And the cloud turned away from above the Tent, and look: Miryam was leprous, as white as snow! And Aharon turned toward Miryam, and look: a leper!

11And Aharon said to Mosheh, “Oh, my master! Please do not hold against us the sin in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned.

12“Please do not let her be as one dead when coming out of its mother’s womb, with our flesh half consumed!”

13And Mosheh cried out to יהוה, saying, “O Ěl, please heal her, please!”

14And יהוה said to Mosheh, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp seven days, and after that let her be readmitted.”

15And Miryam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miryam was readmitted.

16And afterward the people departed from Ḥatsĕroth, and they camped in the Wilderness of Paran.

LEVITICUS 13

1And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

2“Send men to spy out the land of Kena‛an, which I am giving to the children of Yisra’ĕl. Send one man from each tribe of their fathers, every one a leader among them.”

3And by the command of יהוה Mosheh sent them from the Wilderness of Paran, all of them men who were heads of the children of Yisra’ĕl.

4And these were their names. From the tribe of Re’uḇĕn: Shammua, son of Zakkur.

5From the tribe of Shim‛on: Shaphat, son of Ḥori.

6From the tribe of Yehuḏah: Kalĕḇ, son of Yephunneh.

7From the tribe of Yissasḵar: Yig̅’al, son of Yosĕph.

8From the tribe of Ephrayim: Hoshĕa, son of Nun.

9From the tribe of Binyamin: Palti, son of Raphu.

10From the tribe of Zeḇulun: Gaddi’ĕl, son of Soḏi.

11From the tribe of Yosĕph, from the tribe of Menashsheh: Gaddi, son of Susi.

12From the tribe of Dan: Ammi’ĕl, son of Gemalli.

13From the tribe of Ashĕr: Shĕthur, son of Miḵa’ĕl.

14From the tribe of Naphtali: Naḥbi, son of Wophsi.

15From the tribe of Gaḏ: Geu’ĕl, son of Maḵi.

16These are the names of the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the land. And Mosheh called Hoshĕa the son of Nun, Yehoshua.

17And Mosheh sent them to spy out the land of Kena‛an, and said to them, “Go up here into the South, and go up to the mountains,

18and see what the land is like, and the people who dwell in it, whether strong or weak, whether few or many,

19and whether the land they dwell in is good or evil, whether the cities they inhabit are in camps or strongholds,

20and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are forests there or not. And you shall be strong, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first-fruits of grapes.

21So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Tsin as far as Reḥoḇ, near the entrance of Ḥamath.

22And they went up through the South and came to Ḥeḇron. And Aḥiman, Shĕshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anaq, were there. Now Ḥeḇron had been built seven years before Tso‛an in Mitsrayim.

23And they came to the wadi Eshkol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes. And they bore it between two of them on a pole, also of the pomegranates and of the figs.

24That place was called the wadi Eshkol, because of the cluster which the men of Yisra’ĕl cut down from there.

25And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.

26And they went and came to Mosheh and Aharon and all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl in the Wilderness of Paran, at Qaḏĕsh. And they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

27And they reported to him, and said, “We went to the land where you sent us. And truly, it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

28“But the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are walled, very great. And we saw the descendants of Anaq there too.

29“The Amalĕqites dwell in the land of the South, while the Ḥittites and the Yeḇusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. And the Kena‛anites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Yardĕn.”

30And Kalĕḇ silenced the people before Mosheh, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are certainly able to overcome it.”

31But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”

32And they gave the children of Yisra’ĕl an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land eating up its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.

33“And we saw there the Nephilim, sons of Anaq, of the Nephilim. And we were like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and so we were in their eyes.”