Numbers 26; Numbers 27; Numbers 28; Mark 8

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Numbers 26

1 After the plague the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar, Aaron the priest's son:

2 Take a census of the entire Israelite community, from 20 years old and above by their households, to determine everyone in Israel who is eligible for military service.

3 Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke to the people on the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho:

4 "Take a census of those 20 years old and above as the LORD commanded Moses." The Israelites who left the land of Egypt were:

5 Reuben, Israel's oldest son. Reuben's descendants: from Hanoch, the Hanochite clan; from Pallu, the Palluite clan;

6 from Hezron, the Hezronite clan; from Carmi, the Carmite clan.

7 These are the Reubenite clans. Their enrollment was 43,730.

8 Pallu's descendants: Eliab.

9 Eliab's descendants: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram chosen by the community who fought against Moses and Aaron with the community of Korah, when they fought against the LORD.

10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with Korah, when the community died and fire devoured 250 persons. They became a warning sign.

11 But Korah's descendants didn't die.

12 Simeon's descendants according to their clans: from Nemuel, the Nemuelite clan; from Jamin, the Jaminite clan; from Jachin, the Jachinite clan;

13 from Zerah, the Zerahite clan; from Shaul, the Shaulite clan.

14 These are the Simeonite clans, 22,200.

15 Gad's descendants according to their clans: from Zephon, the Zephonite clan; from Haggi, the Haggite clan; from Shuni, the Shunite clan;

16 from Ozni, the Oznite clan; from Eri, the Erite clan;

17 from Arod, the Arodite clan; from Areli, the Arelite clan.

18 These are the Gadite clans. Their enrollment was 40,500.

19 Judah's descendants: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

20 Judah's descendants according to their clans: from Shelah, the Shelanite clan; from Perez, the Perezite clan; from Zerah, the Zerahite clan.

21 Perez's descendants: from Hezron, the Hezronite clan; from Hamul, the Hamulite clan.

22 These are the Judahite clans. Their enrollment was 76,500.

23 Issachar's descendants according to their clans: from Tola, the Tolaite clan; from Puvah, the Punite clan;

24 from Jashub, the Jashubite clan; from Shimron, the Shimronite clan.

25 These are the Issacharite clans. Their enrollment was 64,300.

26 Zebulun's descendants according to their clans: from Sered, the Seredite clan; from Elon, the Elonite clan; from Jahleel, the Jahleelite clan.

27 These are the Zebulunite clans. Their enrollment was 60,500.

28 Joseph's descendants according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.

29 Manasseh's descendants: from Machir, the Machirite clan. Machir fathered Gilead. From Gilead, the Gileadite clan.

30 These are Gilead's descendants: from Iezer, the Iezerite clan; from Helek, the Helekite clan;

31 from Asriel, the Asrielite clan; from Shechem, the Shechemite clan;

32 from Shemida, the Shemidaite clan; and from Hepher, the Hepherite clan.

33 But Zelophehad, Hepher's son, had no sons, only daughters. The names of Zelophehad's daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

34 These are the Manassehite clans. Their enrollment was 52,700.

35 These are Ephraim's descendants according to their clans: from Shuthelah, the Shuthelahite clan; from Becher, the Becherite clan; from Tahan, the Tahanite clan.

36 These are Shuthelah's descendants: from Eran, the Eranite clan.

37 These are Ephraim's descendants. Their enrollment was 32,500. These are Joseph's descendants according to their clans.

38 Benjamin's descendants according to their clans: from Bela, the Belaite clan; from Ashbel, the Ashbelite clan; from Ahiram, the Ahiramite clan;

39 from Shupham, the Shuphamite clan; from Hupham, the Huphamite clan.

40 Bela's descendants were Ard and Naaman: from Ard, the Ardite clan; from Naaman, the Naamite clan.

41 These are Benjamin's descendants according to their clans. Their enrollment was 45,600.

42 These are Dan's descendants according to their clans: from Shuham, the Shuhamite clan. These are the Danite clans according to their clans.

43 All the Shuhamite clans according to their enrollment were 64,400.

44 Asher's descendants according to their clans: from Imnah, the Imnite clan; from Ishvi, the Ishvite clan; from Beriah, the Beriite clan.

45 From Beriah's descendants: from Heber, the Heberite clan; from Malchiel, the Malchielite clan.

46 The name of Asher's daughter was Serah.

47 These are the clans of Asher's descendants. Their enrollment was 53,400.

48 Naphtali's descendants according to their clans: from Jahzeel, the Jahzeelite clan; from Guni, the Gunite clan;

49 from Jezer, the Jezerite clan; from Shillem, the Shillemite clan.

50 These are Naphtali's clans according to their clans. Their enrollment was 45,400.

51 These are the ones enrolled as Israelites: 601,730.

52 The LORD spoke to Moses:

53 The land will be apportioned to these as an inheritance according to the number of names.

54 To a large clan you will give a large inheritance, and to a small clan you will give a small inheritance. Each will be given its inheritance according to the number of its enrollment.

55 The land, however, will be apportioned by lot. They will inherit according to the names of their ancestral tribes.

56 Whether they are large or small, each tribe will inherit by means of the lot.

57 These are the ones enrolled as Levites according to their clans: from Gershon, the Gershonite clan; from Kohath, the Kohathite clan; from Merari, the Merarite clan.

58 These are the Levite clans: the Libnite clan, the Hebronite clan, the Mahlite clan, the Mushite clan, and the Korahite clan. Now Kohath fathered Amram.

59 The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, Levi's daughter, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She gave birth for Amram to Aaron, Moses, and Miriam their sister.

60 To Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

61 Nadab and Abihu died when they made an unauthorized offering to the LORD.

62 Their enrollment was 23,000, consisting of every male one month old and above. They weren't enrolled with the Israelites because no inheritance of land was given to them among the Israelites.

63 These are the ones whom Moses and Eleazar the priest enrolled. They enrolled the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

64 There wasn't one person among these from those enrolled by Moses and Aaron the priest when they enrolled the Israelites in the Sinai desert.

65 The LORD had said to them, "They will die in the desert." Not one of them remained, except Caleb, Jephunneh's son, and Joshua, Nun's son.

Numbers 27

1 The daughters of Zelophehad, Hepher's son, Gilead's grandson, Machir's great-grandson, and Manasseh's great-great-grandson, belonging to the clan of Manasseh and son of Joseph, came forward. His daughters' names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

2 They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the chiefs, and the entire community at the entrance of the meeting tent and said,

3 "Our father died in the desert. He wasn't part of the community who gathered against the LORD with Korah's community. He died for his own sin, but he had no sons.

4 Why should our father's name be taken away from his clan because he didn't have a son? Give us property among our father's brothers."

5 Moses brought their case before the LORD.

6 The LORD said to Moses:

7 Zelophehad's daughters are right in what they are saying. By all means, give them property as an inheritance among their father's brothers. Hand over their father's inheritance to them.

8 Speak to the Israelites and say: If a man dies and doesn't have a son, you must hand his inheritance over to his daughters.

9 If he doesn't have a daughter, you will give his inheritance to his brothers.

10 If he doesn't have any brothers, you should give his inheritance to his father's brothers.

11 If his father had no brothers, you should give his inheritance to his nearest relative from his clan. He will take possession of it. This will be a regulation and a case law for the Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.

12 The LORD said to Moses, "Go up this mountain, Abarim, and look at the land that I've given to the Israelites.

13 You will see it and then join your ancestors just as Aaron your brother has,

14 because in the Zin desert, when the community confronted you, you rebelled against my command to show them my holiness by means of the water." (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the Zin desert.)

15 Moses spoke to the LORD:

16 "Let the LORD, the God of all living things, appoint someone over the community

17 who will go out before them and return before them, someone who will lead them out and bring them back, so that the LORD's community won't be like sheep without their shepherd."

18 The LORD said to Moses, "Take Joshua, Nun's son, a man who has the spirit, and lay your hand on him.

19 Place him before Eleazar the priest and the entire community and commission him before them.

20 You will give him some of your power so that the entire Israelite community may obey.

21 He will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will determine for him the decision by lot before the LORD. At his command, he and all the Israelites with him, the entire community, will go out, and at his command they will return."

22 Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and placed him before Eleazar the priest and the entire community.

23 He laid his hands on him and commissioned him as the LORD had spoken through Moses.

Numbers 28

1 The LORD spoke to Moses:

2 Command the Israelites and say to them: Make sure to offer to me my offering, my food, my food gift as a soothing smell to me at its appointed time.

3 You will say to them: This is the food gift that you must present to the LORD: two flawless one-year-old lambs as the regular entirely burned offering every day.

4 One lamb you will offer in the morning and the second at twilight,

5 with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil.

6 It is the regular entirely burned offering begun at Mount Sinai, a food gift that is a soothing smell to the LORD.

7 Their drink offering will be a fourth of a hin for each lamb. In the sanctuary a drink offering of brandy will be poured out for the LORD.

8 The second lamb you will offer at twilight like the grain offering and the drink offering in the morning. You will offer a food gift that is a soothing smell to the LORD.

9 On the Sabbath day: two flawless one-year-old male lambs and two-tenths of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering.

10 This is the entirely burned offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular entirely burned offering and its drink offering.

11 At the beginning of every month you will present an entirely burned offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all flawless.

12 Use three-tenths of fine flour for a grain offering mixed with oil for each bull, two-tenths of fine flour for a grain offering mixed with oil for each ram,

13 and one-tenth of fine flour for a grain offering mixed with oil for each lamb. It is an entirely burned offering with a soothing smell, a food gift to the LORD.

14 Their drink offerings will be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third a hin of wine for a ram, and a fourth a hin of wine for a lamb. This is the monthly entirely burned offering for every month through the months of the year.

15 There will be one male goat for a purification offering to the LORD in addition to the regular entirely burned offering and its drink offering.

16 On the fourteenth day of the first month there will be a Passover offering to the LORD.

17 On the fifteenth day of this month there will be a festival. For seven days unleavened bread will be eaten.

18 The first day will be a holy occasion. You will not do any job-related work.

19 You will bring a food gift, an entirely burned offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old. They will be flawless.

20 Their grain offering will be fine flour mixed with oil. You will offer three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,

21 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,

22 along with one male goat for a purification offering to seek reconciliation for yourselves.

23 You will offer these in addition to the entirely burned offering of the morning, which is the regular entirely burned offering.

24 Like these, you will also offer each day for seven days a food gift as a soothing smell to the LORD. It will be offered in addition to the regular entirely burned offering and its drink offering.

25 The seventh day will be a holy occasion for you. You will not do any job-related work.

26 The day of the early produce, when you present your new grain offering to the LORD at your Festival of Weeks, will be a holy occasion for you. You will not do any job-related work.

27 You will present an entirely burned offering as a soothing smell to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old.

28 Their grain offering will be fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for each bull, two-tenths for the one ram,

29 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs.

30 Offer one male goat to seek reconciliation for yourselves.

31 You will offer these in addition to the regular entirely burned offering, its grain offering and drink offerings. They will be flawless.

Mark 8

1 In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. Jesus called his disciples and told them,

2 "I feel sorry for the crowd because they have been with me for three days and have nothing to eat.

3 If I send them away hungry to their homes, they won't have enough strength to travel, for some have come a long distance."

4 His disciples responded, "How can anyone get enough food in this wilderness to satisfy these people?"

5 Jesus asked, "How much bread do you have?" They said, "Seven loaves."

6 He told the crowd to sit on the ground. He took the seven loaves, gave thanks, broke them apart, and gave them to his disciples to distribute; and they gave the bread to the crowd.

7 They also had a few fish. He said a blessing over them, then gave them to the disciples to hand out also.

8 They ate until they were full. They collected seven baskets full of leftovers.

9 This was a crowd of about four thousand people! Jesus sent them away,

10 then got into a boat with his disciples and went over to the region of Dalmanutha.

11 The Pharisees showed up and began to argue with Jesus. To test him, they asked for a sign from heaven.

12 With an impatient sigh, Jesus said, "Why does this generation look for a sign? I assure you that no sign will be given to it."

13 Leaving them, he got back in the boat and crossed to the other side of the lake.

14 Jesus' disciples had forgotten to bring any bread, so they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

15 He gave them strict orders: "Watch out and be on your guard for the yeast of the Pharisees as well as the yeast of Herod."

16 The disciples discussed this among themselves, "He said this because we have no bread."

17 Jesus knew what they were discussing and said, "Why are you talking about the fact that you don't have any bread? Don't you grasp what has happened? Don't you understand? Are your hearts so resistant to what God is doing?

18 Don't you have eyes? Why can't you see? Don't you have ears? Why can't you hear? Don't you remember?

19 When I broke five loaves of bread for those five thousand people, how many baskets full of leftovers did you gather?" They answered, "Twelve."

20 "And when I broke seven loaves of bread for those four thousand people, how many baskets full of leftovers did you gather?" They answered, "Seven."

21 Jesus said to them, "And you still don't understand?"

22 Jesus and his disciples came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch and heal him.

23 Taking the blind man's hand, Jesus led him out of the village. After spitting on his eyes and laying his hands on the man, he asked him, "Do you see anything?"

24 The man looked up and said, "I see people. They look like trees, only they are walking around."

25 Then Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes again. He looked with his eyes wide open, his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.

26 Then Jesus sent him home, saying, "Don't go into the village!"

27 Jesus and his disciples went into the villages near Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"

28 They told him, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others one of the prophets."

29 He asked them, "And what about you? Who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ."

30 Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone about him.

31 Then Jesus began to teach his disciples: "The Human One must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and the legal experts, and be killed, and then, after three days, rise from the dead."

32 He said this plainly. But Peter took hold of Jesus and, scolding him, began to correct him.

33 Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, then sternly corrected Peter: "Get behind me, Satan. You are not thinking God's thoughts but human thoughts."

34 After calling the crowd together with his disciples, Jesus said to them, "All who want to come after me must say no to themselves, take up their cross, and follow me.

35 All who want to save their lives will lose them. But all who lose their lives because of me and because of the good news will save them.

36 Why would people gain the whole world but lose their lives?

37 What will people give in exchange for their lives?

38 Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this unfaithful and sinful generation, the Human One will be ashamed of that person when he comes in the Father's glory with the holy angels."