01 March - Numbers 14-15 And Psalm 90

Jude Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:32 pm

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!

NUMBERS 14

1Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

2And all the children of Yisra’ĕl grumbled against Mosheh and against Aharon, and all the congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Mitsrayim! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!

3“And why is יהוה bringing us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become a prey? Would it not be better for us to turn back to Mitsrayim?”

4And they said to each other, “Let us appoint a leader, and let us turn back to Mitsrayim.”

5Then Mosheh and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl.

6And Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their garments,

7and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

8“If יהוה has delighted in us, then He shall bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which is flowing with milk and honey.’

9“Only, do not rebel against יהוה, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their defence has turned away from them, and יהוה is with us. Do not fear them.”

10But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the esteem of יהוה appeared in the Tent of Meeting before all the children of Yisra’ĕl.

11And יהוה said to Mosheh, “How long shall I be scorned by these people? And how long shall I not be trusted by them, with all the signs which I have done in their midst?

12“Let Me smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

13And Mosheh said to יהוה, “Then the Mitsrites shall hear it, for by Your power You brought these people up from their midst,

14and they shall say to the inhabitants of this land they have heard that You, יהוה, are in the midst of these people, that You, יהוה, are seen eye to eye and that Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a column of cloud by day and in a column of fire by night.

15“Now if You shall kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your report shall speak, saying,

16‘Because יהוה was not able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’

17“And now, I pray, let the power of יהוה be great, as You have spoken, saying,

18‘יהוה is patient and of great kindness, forgiving crookedness and transgression, but by no means leaving unpunisheda; visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’

19“Please forgive the crookedness of this people, according to the greatness of Your kindness, as You have forgiven this people, from Mitsrayim even until now.”

20And יהוה said, “I shall forgive, according to your word,

21but truly, as I live and all the earth is filled with the esteem of יהוה,

22for none of these men who have seen My esteem and the signs which I did in Mitsrayim and in the wilderness, and have tried Me now these ten times, and have disobeyed My voice,

23shall see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor any of those who scorned Me see it.

24“But My servant Kalĕḇ, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me completely, I shall bring into the land where he went, and his seed shall inherit it.

25“Since the Amalĕqites and the Kena‛anites are dwelling in the valley, turn back tomorrow and set out into the wilderness by the Way of the Sea of Reeds.”

26And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,

27“How long shall this evil congregation have this grumbling against Me? I have heard the grumblings which the children of Yisra’ĕl are grumbling against Me.

28“Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares יהוה, ‘as you have spoken in My hearing, so I do to you:

29‘The carcasses of you who have grumbled against Me are going to fall in this wilderness, all of you who were registered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.

30‘None of you except Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh, and Yehoshua son of Nun, shall enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.

31‘But your little ones, whom you said would become a prey, I shall bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

32‘But as for you, your carcasses are going to fall in this wilderness.

33‘And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whorings, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

34‘According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days – a day for a year, a day for a year – you are to bear your crookednesses forty years, and you shall know My breaking off.

35‘I am יהוה, I have spoken, I shall do this to all this evil congregation who are meeting against Me: In this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.’ ”

36And the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing an evil report of the land,

37even those men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before יהוה.

38Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh remained alive.

39And when Mosheh spoke these words to all the children of Yisra’ĕl, the people mourned greatly.

40And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “See, we have indeed sinned, but we shall go up to the place which יהוה had spoken of!”

41But Mosheh said, “Why do you now transgress the command of יהוה, since it does not prosper?

42“Do not go up, lest you be smitten by your enemies, for יהוה is not in your midst.

43“Because the Amalĕqites and the Kena‛anites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from יהוה, יהוה is not with you.”

44But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop, but neither the ark of the covenant of יהוה nor Mosheh left the camp.

45So the Amalĕqites and the Kena‛anites who dwelt in that mountain came down and smote them, and beat them down, even to Ḥormah.

NUMBERS 15

1And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

2“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you have come into the land of your dwellings, which I am giving you,

3and you make an offering by fire to יהוה, a burnt offering or a slaughtering, to accomplish a vow or as a voluntary offering or in your appointed times, to make a sweet fragrance to יהוה, from the herd or the flock,

4then he who brings near his offering to יהוה shall bring near a grain offering of one-tenth of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil,

5and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering you prepare with the burnt offering or the slaughtering, for each lamb.

6‘Or for a ram you prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil,

7and as a drink offering you bring one-third of a hin of wine as a sweet fragrance to יהוה.

8‘And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering, or as a slaughtering to accomplish a vow, or as a peace offering to יהוה,

9then shall be brought with the young bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil,

10and bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה.

11‘This is what is done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat.

12‘According to the number that you prepare, so you do for each one according to their number.

13‘Let all who are native do so with them, in bringing near an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה.

14‘And when a stranger sojourns with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and would make an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה, as you do, so he does.

15‘One law is for you of the assembly and for the stranger who sojourns with you – a law forever throughout your generations. As you are, so is the stranger before יהוה.

16‘One Torah and one right-ruling is for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.’ ”

17And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

18“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land to which I bring you,

19then it shall be, when you eat of the bread of the land, that you present a contribution to יהוה.

20‘Present a cake of the first of your dough as a contribution – as a contribution of the threshing-floor you present it.

21‘Of the first of your dough you are to give to יהוה a contribution throughout your generations.

22‘And when you sin by mistake, and do not do all these commands which יהוה has spoken to Mosheh,

23all that יהוה has commanded you by the hand of Mosheh, from the day יהוה gave command and onward throughout your generations,

24then it shall be, if it is done by mistake, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet fragrance to יהוה, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the right-ruling, and one male goat as a sin offering.

25‘Then the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was by mistake. And they shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to יהוה, and their sin offering before יהוה, for their mistake.

26‘And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl and the stranger who sojourns in their midst, because all the people did it by mistake.

27‘And if a being sins by mistake, then he shall bring a female goat a year old as a sin offering.

28‘And the priest shall make atonement for the being who strays by mistake, when he sins by mistake before יהוה, to make atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

29‘For him who does whatever by mistake there is one Torah, both for him who is native among the children of Yisra’ĕl and for the stranger who sojourns in their midst.

30‘But the being who does whatever defiantly, whether he is native or a stranger, he reviles יהוה, and that being shall be cut off from among his people.

31‘Because he has despised the word of יהוה, and has broken His command, that being shall certainly be cut off, his crookedness is upon him.’ ”

32And while the children of Yisra’ĕl were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

33And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Mosheh and to Aharon, and to all the congregation.

34And they put him in under guard, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

35And יהוה said to Mosheh, “The man shall certainly be put to death, all the congregation stoning him with stones outside the camp.”

36And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, as יהוה commanded Mosheh, and he died.

37And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

38“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall say to them to make tzitziyota on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue cord in the tzitzitb of the corners.

39“And it shall be to you for a tzitzit, and you shall see it, and shall remember all the commands of יהוה and shall do them, and not search after your own heart and your own eyes after which you went whoring,

40so that you remember, and shall do all My commands, and be set-apart unto your Elohim.

41“I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim. I am יהוה your Elohim.”

PSALM 90

1יהוה, You have been our refuge In all generations.

2Before the mountains were born, Or You had brought forth the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting You are Ěl.

3You turn man back to dust, And say, “Return, O children of men.”

4For a thousand years in Your eyes Are like yesterday that has past, Or like a watch in the night.

5You have swept them away, They are as a sleep, Like grass that springs up in the morning.

6At evening it is cut down and withered.

7For we have been consumed by Your displeasure, And by Your wrath we are alarmed.

8You have set our crookednesses before You, Our secret sin in the light of Your face.

9For all our days have passed away in Your wrath, We spend our years like a whisper.

10The days of our lives are seventy years; Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet the best of them is but toil and exertion; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

11Who knows the power of Your displeasure? And your wrath, according to the fear of You?

12Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom.

13Return, O יהוה! How long? And be sorry for Your servants.

14Satisfy us in the morning with Your kindness, And let us sing for joy all our days!

15Give us joy according to The days You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

16Reveal Your work to Your servants, And Your splendour to their children.

17And let the pleasantness Of יהוה our Elohim be upon us, And confirm the work of our hands for us; O confirm the work of our hands!