Numbers 29; Numbers 30; Numbers 31

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Numbers 29

1 "'Have a holy meeting on the first day of the seventh month, and don't work on that day. That is the day you blow the trumpets.

2 Bring these burnt offerings as a smell pleasing to the Lord: one young bull, one male sheep, and seven male lambs a year old. They must have nothing wrong with them.

3 With the bull give a grain offering of six quarts of fine flour mixed with oil. With the male sheep offer four quarts,

4 and with each of the seven lambs offer two quarts.

5 Offer one male goat for a sin offering to remove your sins so you will belong to God.

6 These offerings are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings. Their grain offerings and drink offerings must be done as you have been told. These offerings are made by fire to the Lord, and their smell is pleasing to him.

7 "'Have a holy meeting on the tenth day of the seventh month. On that day do not eat and do not work.

8 Bring these burnt offerings as a smell pleasing to the Lord: one young bull, one male sheep, and seven male lambs a year old. They must have nothing wrong with them.

9 With the bull give a grain offering of six quarts of fine flour mixed with oil. With the male sheep it must be four quarts,

10 and with each of the seven lambs it must be two quarts.

11 Offer one male goat as a sin offering. This will be in addition to the sin offering which removes your sins, the daily burnt offering with its grain offering, and the drink offerings.

12 "'Have a holy meeting on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and do not work on that day. Celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days.

13 Bring these burnt offerings, made by fire, as a smell pleasing to the Lord: thirteen young bulls, two male sheep, and fourteen male lambs a year old. They must have nothing wrong with them.

14 With each of the thirteen bulls offer a grain offering of six quarts of fine flour mixed with oil. With each of the two male sheep it must be four quarts,

15 and with each of the fourteen lambs it must be two quarts.

16 Offer one male goat as a sin offering in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

17 "'On the second day of this festival give an offering of twelve bulls, two male sheep, and fourteen male lambs a year old. They must have nothing wrong with them.

18 Bring the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, sheep, and lambs, according to the number required.

19 Offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

20 "'On the third day offer eleven bulls, two male sheep, and fourteen male lambs a year old. They must have nothing wrong with them.

21 Bring the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, sheep, and lambs, according to the number required.

22 Offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

23 "'On the fourth day offer ten bulls, two male sheep, and fourteen male lambs a year old. They must have nothing wrong with them.

24 Bring the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, sheep, and lambs, according to the number required.

25 Offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

26 "'On the fifth day offer nine bulls, two male sheep, and fourteen male lambs a year old. They must have nothing wrong with them.

27 Bring the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, sheep, and lambs, according to the number required.

28 Offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

29 "'On the sixth day offer eight bulls, two male sheep, and fourteen male lambs a year old. They must have nothing wrong with them.

30 Bring the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, sheep, and lambs, according to the number required.

31 Offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

32 "'On the seventh day offer seven bulls, two male sheep, and fourteen male lambs a year old. They must have nothing wrong with them.

33 Bring the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, sheep, and lambs, according to the number required.

34 Offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

35 "'On the eighth day have a closing meeting, and do not work on that day.

36 Bring an offering made by fire, a burnt offering, as a smell pleasing to the Lord. Offer one bull, one male sheep, and seven male lambs a year old. They must have nothing wrong with them.

37 Bring the grain and drink offerings for the bull, the male sheep, and the lambs, according to the number required.

38 Offer one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the daily burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

39 "'At your festivals you should bring these to the Lord: your burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings and fellowship offerings. These are in addition to other promised offerings and special gifts you want to give to the Lord.'"

40 Moses told the Israelites everything the Lord had commanded him.

Numbers 30

1 Moses spoke with the leaders of the Israelite tribes. He told them these commands from the Lord.

2 "If a man makes a promise to the Lord or says he will do something special, he must keep his promise. He must do what he said.

3 If a young woman still living at home makes a promise to the Lord or pledges to do something special,

4 and if her father hears about the promise or pledge and says nothing, she must do what she promised. She must keep her pledge.

5 But if her father hears about the promise or pledge and does not allow it, then the promise or pledge does not have to be kept. Her father would not allow it, so the Lord will free her from her promise.

6 "If a woman makes a pledge or a careless promise and then gets married,

7 and if her husband hears about it and says nothing, she must keep her promise or the pledge she made.

8 But if her husband hears about it and does not allow it, he cancels her pledge or the careless promise she made. The Lord will free her from keeping it.

9 "If a widow or divorced woman makes a promise, she must do whatever she promised.

10 "If a woman makes a promise or pledge while she is married,

11 and if her husband hears about it but says nothing and does not stop her, she must keep her promise or pledge.

12 But if her husband hears about it and cancels it, she does not have to do what she said. Her husband has canceled it, so the Lord will free her from it.

13 A woman's husband may make her keep or cancel any promise or pledge she has made.

14 If he says nothing to her about it for several days, she must keep her promises. If he hears about them and says nothing, she must keep her promises.

15 But if he cancels them long after he heard about them, he is responsible if she breaks her promise."

16 These are commands that the Lord gave to Moses for husbands and wives, and for fathers with daughters living at home.

Numbers 31

1 The Lord spoke to Moses and said,

2 "Pay back the Midianites for what they did to the Israelites; after that you will die."

3 So Moses said to the people, "Get some men ready for war. The Lord will use them to pay back the Midianites.

4 Send to war a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel."

5 So twelve thousand men got ready for war, a thousand men from each tribe.

6 Moses sent those men to war; Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest was with them. He took with him the holy things and the trumpets for giving the alarm.

7 They fought the Midianites as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed every Midianite man.

8 Among those they killed were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who were the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with a sword.

9 The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children, and they took all their flocks, herds, and goods.

10 They burned all the Midianite towns where they had settled and all their camps,

11 but they took all the people and animals and goods.

12 Then they brought the captives, the animals, and the goods back to Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the Israelites. Their camp was on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

13 Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went outside the camp to meet them.

14 Moses was angry with the army officers, the commanders over a thousand men, and those over a hundred men, who returned from war.

15 He asked them, "Why did you let the women live?

16 They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice and turned the Israelites from the Lord at Peor. Then a terrible sickness struck the Lord's people.

17 Kill all the Midianite boys, and kill all the Midianite women who have had sexual relations.

18 But save for yourselves the girls who have not had sexual relations with a man.

19 "All you men who killed anyone or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp for seven days. On the third and seventh days you and your captives must make yourselves clean.

20 You must clean all your clothes and anything made of leather, goat hair, or wood."

21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone to war, "These are the teachings that the Lord gave to Moses:

22 Put any gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead --

23 anything that will not burn -- into the fire, and then it will be clean. But also purify those things with the cleansing water. Then they will be clean. If something cannot stand the fire, wash it with the water.

24 On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may come into the camp."

25 The Lord said to Moses,

26 "You, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the family groups should take a count of the goods, the men, and the animals that were taken.

27 Then divide those possessions between the soldiers who went to war and the rest of the people.

28 From the soldiers who went to war, take a tax for the Lord of one item out of every five hundred. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, or sheep.

29 Take it from the soldiers' half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as the Lord's share.

30 And from the people's half, take one item out of every fifty. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals. Give that to the Levites, who take care of the Lord's Holy Tent."

31 So Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord commanded Moses.

32 There remained from what the soldiers had taken 675,000 sheep, 3372,000 cattle, 3461,000 donkeys,

35 and 32,000 women who had not had sexual relations with a man.

36 The soldiers who went to war got 337,000 sheep,

37 and they gave 675 of them to the Lord.

38 They got 36,000 cattle, and they gave 72 of them to the Lord.

39 They got 30,500 donkeys, and they gave 61 of them to the Lord.

40 They got 16,000 people, and they gave 32 of them to the Lord.

41 Moses gave the Lord's share to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded him.

42 Moses separated the people's half from the soldiers' half.

43 The people got 337,500 sheep, 4436,000 cattle, 4530,500 donkeys,

46 and 16,000 people.

47 From the people's half Moses took one item out of every fifty for the Lord. This included the animals and the people. Then he gave them to the Levites, who took care of the Lord's Holy Tent. This was what the Lord had commanded Moses.

48 Then the officers of the army, the commanders of a thousand men and commanders of a hundred men, came to Moses.

49 They told Moses, "We, your servants, have counted our soldiers under our command, and not one of them is missing.

50 So we have brought the Lord a gift of the gold things that each of us found: arm bands, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces. These are to remove our sins so we will belong to the Lord."

51 So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, which had been made into all kinds of objects.

52 The commanders of a thousand men and the commanders of a hundred men gave the Lord the gold, and all of it together weighed about 420 pounds;

53 each soldier had taken something for himself.

54 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of a thousand men and the commanders of a hundred men. Then they put it in the Meeting Tent as a memorial before the Lord for the people of Israel.

Numbers 29; Numbers 30; Numbers 31

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