LXX Concordance for οἱ

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

“In fact, God knows that when[fn] you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,

The Nephilim[fn] were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

“But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives.

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the vast watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.

“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, came out.

Noah's sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

Then the LORD came down to look over the city and the tower that the humans[fn] were building.

Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

“When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.' They will kill me but let you live.

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.)

(Now the men of Sodom were evil, sinning immensely[fn] against the LORD.)

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

against King Chedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Shinar, and King Arioch of Ellasar ​— ​four kings against five.

And he and his servants deployed against them by night, defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus.

“I will take nothing except what the servants have eaten. But as for the share of the men who came with me ​— ​Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre ​— ​they can take their share.”

And all the men of his household ​— ​whether born in his household or purchased from a foreigner ​— ​were circumcised with him.

The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.

The men turned from there and went toward Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the LORD.[fn]

“suppose the fifty righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five? ”

He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

The two angels entered Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in Sodom's gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He bowed with his face to the ground

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

But the angels[fn] reached out, brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

Then the angels said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here: a son-in-law, your sons and daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of this place,

At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment[fn] of the city.”

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

Early in the morning Abimelech got up, called all his servants together, and personally[fn] told them all these things, and the men were terrified.

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well that Abimelech's servants had seized.

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac. In his hand he took the fire and the knife, and the two of them walked on together.

The Hethites replied to Abraham,[fn]

Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night.

When they got up in the morning, he said, “Send me to my master.”

So they said, “Let's call the girl and ask her opinion.”[fn]

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hethite.

These are Ishmael's sons, and these are their names by their settlements and encampments: twelve leaders[fn] of their clans.[fn]

When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman,[fn] but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.[fn]

When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “The men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman.”

He had flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, and many slaves, and the Philistines were envious of him.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.

So he built an altar there, called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. Isaac's servants also dug a well there.

On that same day Isaac's servants came to tell him about the well they had dug, saying to him, “We have found water! ”

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.”

And he answered, “Here I am.”

May peoples serve you

and nations bow in homage to you.

Be master over your relatives;

may your mother's sons bow in homage to you.

Those who curse you will be cursed,

and those who bless you will be blessed.

And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching the sky, and God's angels were going up and down on it.

Jacob asked the men at the well, “My brothers! Where are you from? ”

“We're from Haran,” they answered.

But they replied, “We can't until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the well's opening. Then we will water the sheep.”

Leah had tender eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.

“When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the children, my children; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

Jacob went on his way, and God's angels met him.

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you ​— ​and he has four hundred men with him.”

That is why, still today, the Israelites don't eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because he struck Jacob's hip socket at the thigh muscle.[fn]

Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent until they returned.

Jacob's sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob's daughter, and such a thing should not be done.

But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

Their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

“These men are peaceful toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and move about in it, for indeed, the region is large enough for them. Let's take their daughters as our wives and give our daughters to them.

All the men who had come to the city gates listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all those men were circumcised.

Jacob's sons came to the slaughter and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled.

But they answered, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute? ”

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had twelve sons:

He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom

before any king reigned over the Israelites:

When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.

“Are you really going to reign over us? ” his brothers asked him. “Are you really going to rule us? ” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.

He told his father and brothers, and his father rebuked him. “What kind of dream is this that you have had? ” he said. “Am I and your mother and your brothers really going to come and bow down to the ground before you? ”

“Come on, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh,” and his brothers agreed.

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” And his father wept for him.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father's house.

So the Adullamite returned to Judah, saying, “I couldn't find her, and besides, the men of the place said, ‘There has been no cult prostitute here.' ”

and had him thrown into prison, where the king's prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.

The king of Egypt's cupbearer and baker, who were confined in the prison, each had a dream. Both had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.

“We had dreams,” they said to him, “but there is no one to interpret them.”

Then Joseph said to them, “Don't interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

“On the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms came out and its clusters ripened into grapes.

“This is its interpretation,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days.

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, full ones. Then Pharaoh woke up, and it was only a dream.

“The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven good ones. I told this to the magicians, but no one can tell me what it means.”

“The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years. The dreams mean the same thing.

So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

The sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

“No, my lord. Your servants have come to buy food,” they said.

But they replied, “We, your servants, were twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now[fn] with our father, and one is no longer living.”

They answered, “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? ' And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here'? ”

The men took this gift, double the amount of silver, and Benjamin. They immediately went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

But the men were afraid because they were taken to Joseph's house. They said, “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time. They intend to overpower us, seize us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys.”

They answered, “Your servant our father is well. He is still alive.” And they knelt low and paid homage to him.

They served him by himself, his brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, since that is detestable to them.

At morning light, the men were sent off with their donkeys.

They said to him, “Why does my lord say these things? Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.

When Judah and his brothers reached Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell to the ground before him.

“when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hairs of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and also Pharaoh's household heard it.

“You can settle in the land of Goshen and be near me ​— ​you, your children, and your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and all you have.

Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept,[fn] and afterward his brothers talked with him.

The sons of Israel did this. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had commanded, and he gave them provisions for the journey.

Jacob left Beer-sheba. The sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their dependents and their wives.

His sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters, indeed all his offspring, he brought with him to Egypt.

The total number of persons belonging to Jacob ​— ​his direct descendants,[fn] not including the wives of Jacob's sons ​— ​who came to Egypt: sixty-six.

Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's family, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh, telling him, ‘My brothers and my father's family, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

“you are to say, ‘Your servants, both we and our ancestors, have raised livestock[fn] from our youth until now.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to Egyptians.”

So Joseph went and informed Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in the land of Goshen.”

And Pharaoh asked his brothers, “What is your occupation? ”

They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants, both we and our ancestors, are shepherds.”

When the silver from the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die here in front of you? The silver is gone! ”

In this way, Joseph acquired all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh, because every Egyptian sold his field since the famine was so severe for them. The land became Pharaoh's,

“Your two sons born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt are now mine. Ephraim and Manasseh belong to me just as Reuben and Simeon do.

Now his eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly[fn] see. Joseph brought them to him, and he kissed and embraced them.

Then he blessed Joseph and said:

The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,

the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

“Judah, your brothers will praise you.

Your hand will be on the necks of your enemies;

your father's sons will bow down to you.

“His eyes are darker than wine,

and his teeth are whiter than milk.

He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.

Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's servants, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt went with him,

When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn mourning on the part of the Egyptians.” Therefore the place is named Abel-mizraim.[fn] It is across the Jordan.

Joseph and his father's family remained in Egypt. Joseph lived 110 years.

Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation eventually died.

But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread[fn] the Israelites.

Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock.

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, they cried out, and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God.

“So because the Israelites' cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them,

Now in Midian the LORD told Moses, “Return to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead.”

So the overseers and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am not giving you straw.

The overseers insisted, “Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You cannot reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

“Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.

But Moses said in the LORD's presence, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am such a poor speaker? ”[fn]

Moses and Aaron were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

“The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the Israelites from among them.”

But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers ​— ​the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices.

“The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from it.”

The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad the Egyptians could not drink water from it. There was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink because they could not drink the water from the river.

“The frogs will come up on you, your people, and all your officials.”

But the magicians did the same thing by their occult practices and brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.

“the frogs will go away from you, your houses, your officials, and your people. The frogs will remain only in the Nile.”

The LORD did as Moses had said: the frogs in the houses, courtyards, and fields died.

And they did this. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and when he struck the dust of the land, gnats were on people and animals. All the dust of the land became gnats throughout the land of Egypt.

The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians.

“Therefore give orders to bring your livestock and all that you have in the field into shelters. Every person and animal that is in the field and not brought inside will die when the hail falls on them.”

The only place it didn't hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.

“But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD God.”

“They will fill your houses, all your officials' houses, and the houses of all the Egyptians ​— ​something your fathers and grandfathers never saw since the time they occupied the land until today.” Then he turned and left Pharaoh's presence.

“No, go ​— ​just able-bodied men ​— ​worship the LORD, since that's what you want.” And they were driven from Pharaoh's presence.

“All these officials of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying: Get out, you and all the people who follow you.[fn] After that, I will get out.” And he went out from Pharaoh's presence fiercely angry.

“If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each will eat.

“When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you? '

Then the Israelites went and did this; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn't a house without someone dead.

Now the Egyptians pressured the people in order to send them quickly out of the country, for they said, “We're all going to die! ”

The Israelites acted on Moses's word and asked the Egyptians for silver and gold items and for clothing.

The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand able-bodied men on foot, besides their families.

The people baked the dough they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves, since it had no yeast; for when they were driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared provisions for themselves.

Then all the Israelites did this; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

So he led the people around toward the Red Sea along the road of the wilderness. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt in battle formation.

They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

“Pharaoh will say of the Israelites: They are wandering around the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.

The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the Israelites, who were going out defiantly.[fn]

“As for you, lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

“The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I receive glory through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.

He caused their chariot wheels to swerve[fn][fn] and made them drive[fn] with difficulty. “Let's get away from Israel,” the Egyptians said, “because the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt! ”

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal depth. While the Egyptians were trying to escape from it, the LORD threw them into the sea.

But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD. They said:

I will sing to the LORD,

for he is highly exalted;

he has thrown the horse

and its rider into the sea.

Then the chiefs of Edom will be terrified;

trembling will seize the leaders of Moab;

all the inhabitants of Canaan will panic;

When Pharaoh's horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the water of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger! ”

When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it? ” because they didn't know what it was.

Moses told them, “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.

So the Israelites did this. Some gathered a lot, some a little.

On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts[fn] apiece, and all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.

The house of Israel named the substance manna.[fn] It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.

The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

Moses's father-in-law, Jethro, along with Moses's wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.

Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses's father-in-law in God's presence.

“Even the priests who come near the LORD must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out in anger against them.”

And the LORD replied to him, “Go down and come back with Aaron. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or he will break out in anger against them.”

“But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

“The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it.

“The cherubim are to have wings spread out above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and are to face one another. The faces of the cherubim should be toward the mercy seat.

“The rings should be next to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table.

“You are to make a lampstand out of pure, hammered gold. It is to be made of one piece: its base and shaft, its ornamental cups, and its buds[fn] and petals.

“There are to be four cups shaped like almond blossoms on the lampstand shaft along with its buds and petals.

“Their buds and branches are to be of one piece.[fn] All of it is to be a single hammered piece of pure gold.

“The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.

“including twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and silver bands[fn] for the posts.

“All the posts around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and have silver hooks and bronze bases.

“All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use and all its tent pegs as well as all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze.

“In the tent of meeting outside the curtain that is in front of the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamp from evening until morning before the LORD. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites throughout their generations.

“The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of Israel's sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal, with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

“It will be on Aaron's forehead so that Aaron may bear the guilt connected with the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate as all their holy gifts. It is always to be on his forehead, so that they may find acceptance with the LORD.

“These must be worn by Aaron and his sons whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary area, so that they do not incur guilt and die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and for his future descendants.

“You are to bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the bull's head.

“Take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram's head.

“You are to take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the ram's head.

“Take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle them on Aaron and his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. So he and his garments will be holy, as well as his sons and their garments.

“Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

“Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and feet from the basin.

“The Israelites must observe the Sabbath, celebrating it throughout their generations as a permanent covenant.

He took the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into an image of a calf.

Then they said, “Israel, these are your gods,[fn] who brought you up from the land of Egypt! ”

“They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them; they have made for themselves an image of a calf. They have bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, ‘Israel, these are your gods, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.' ”

“Why should the Egyptians say, ‘He brought them out with an evil intent to kill them in the mountains and eliminate them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce anger and relent concerning this disaster planned for your people.

And Moses stood at the camp's entrance and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.

The Levites did as Moses commanded, and about three thousand men fell dead that day among the people.

So the Israelites remained stripped of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone! They were afraid to come near him.

and the Israelites would see that Moses's face[fn] was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil over his face again until he went to speak with the LORD.

Moses assembled the entire Israelite community and said to them, “These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do:

Both men and women came; all who had willing hearts brought brooches, earrings, rings, necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry ​— ​everyone who presented a presentation offering of gold to the LORD.

The leaders brought onyx and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,

So the Israelites brought a freewill offering to the LORD, all the men and women whose hearts prompted them to bring something for all the work that the LORD, through Moses, had commanded to be done.

They took from Moses's presence all the contributions that the Israelites had brought for the task of making the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.

There were three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on the next branch. It was this way for the six branches that extended from the lampstand.

For the six branches that extended from it, a bud was under the first pair of branches from it, a bud under the second pair of branches from it, and a bud under the third pair of branches from it.

including their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and silver bands[fn] for the posts.

the hangings on one side of the gate were 22½ feet,[fn] including their three posts and their three bases.

The bases for the posts were bronze; the hooks and bands of the posts were silver; and the plating for the tops of the posts was silver. All the posts of the courtyard were banded with silver.

It had four posts with their four bronze bases. Their hooks were silver, and their top plating and their bands were silver.

The twelve stones corresponded to the names of Israel's sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

So all the work for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

The Israelites had done all the work according to everything the LORD had commanded Moses.

He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey.

“He is to slaughter the bull before the LORD; Aaron's sons the priests are to present the blood and splatter it on all sides of the altar that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

“The sons of Aaron the priest will prepare a fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

“He will slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD. Aaron's sons the priests will splatter its blood against the altar on all sides.

“He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then Aaron's sons the priests will splatter the blood on all sides of the altar.

“Aaron's sons will burn it on the altar along with the burnt offering that is on the burning wood, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

“He must lay his hand on the head of his offering, then slaughter it before the tent of meeting. Aaron's sons will splatter its blood on all sides of the altar.

“He must lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the tent of meeting. Aaron's sons will splatter[fn] its blood on all sides of the altar.

“The elders of the community are to lay their hands on the bull's head before the LORD and it is to be slaughtered before the LORD.

“Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron's sons will present it before the LORD in front of the altar.

“Aaron and his sons may eat the rest of it. It is to be eaten in the form of unleavened bread in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.

Then he brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering.

Then he presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Next he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket for the ordination offering as I commanded:[fn] Aaron and his sons are to eat it.

So Aaron and his sons did everything the LORD had commanded through Moses.

Aaron's sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and applied it to the horns of the altar. He poured out the blood at the base of the altar.

Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. Aaron's sons brought him the blood, and he splattered it on all sides of the altar.

Finally, he slaughtered the ox and the ram as the people's fellowship sacrifice. Aaron's sons brought him the blood, and he splattered it on all sides of the altar.

Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his own firepan, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and presented unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them to do.

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair hang loose and do not tear your clothes, or else you will die, and the LORD will become angry with the whole community. However, your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may weep over the fire that the LORD caused.

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or beer when you enter the tent of meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

“But you and your sons and your daughters may eat the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution in any ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the Israelites' fellowship sacrifices.

“This is so the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they have been offering in the open country. They are to bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting and offer them as fellowship sacrifices to the LORD.

“For the people who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable acts, and the land has become defiled.

“But if the people of the country look the other way when that man[fn] gives any of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,

“Say to them: If any man from any of your descendants throughout your generations is in a state of uncleanness yet approaches the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person will be cut off from my presence; I am the LORD.

“But if a priest purchases someone with his own silver, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food.

“Aaron is to tend it continually from evening until morning before the LORD outside the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

“Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him.

After Moses spoke to the Israelites, they brought the one who had cursed to the outside of the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

“The open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession.

“For the Israelites are my servants. They are my servants that I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

“Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

“then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you ​— ​wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

“I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

“Those[fn] who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their iniquity; they will also waste away because of their ancestors' iniquities along with theirs.

The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

These are the men Moses and Aaron registered, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of Israel; each represented his ancestral family.

But the Levites were not registered with them by their ancestral tribe.

“Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near it is to be put to death.

“The Israelites are to camp under their respective banners beside the flags of their ancestral families.[fn] They are to camp around the tent of meeting at a distance from it:

“His military division numbers 46,500.

“His military division numbers 40,500.

“His military division numbers 62,700.

But the Levites were not registered among the Israelites, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

These are the names of Aaron's sons, the anointed priests, who were ordained to serve as priests.

“See, I have taken the Levites from the Israelites in place of every firstborn Israelite from the womb. The Levites belong to me,

These were Levi's sons by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The clans of the Kohathites camped on the south side of the tabernacle,

Moses, Aaron, and his sons, who performed the duties of[fn] the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites, camped in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting toward the sunrise. Any unauthorized person who came near it was to be put to death.

“Take the Levites in place of every firstborn among the Israelites, and the Levites' cattle in place of their cattle. The Levites belong to me; I am the LORD.

“Whenever the camp is about to move on, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the screening curtain, and cover the ark of the testimony with it.

“They are to spread a blue cloth over the table of the Presence and place the plates and cups on it, as well as the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The regular bread offering is to be on it.

“Aaron and his sons are to finish covering the holy objects and all their equipment whenever the camp is to move on. The Kohathites will come and carry them, but they are not to touch the holy objects or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the tent of meeting.

“Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty.

“This is what they are responsible to carry as the whole of their service at the tent of meeting: the supports of the tabernacle, with its crossbars, pillars, and bases,

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the community registered the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral families,

Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel registered all the Levites by their clans and their ancestral families,

Their registered men numbered 8,580.

The Israelites did this, sending them outside the camp. The Israelites did as the LORD instructed Moses.

the leaders of Israel, the heads of their ancestral families,[fn] presented an offering. They were the tribal leaders who supervised the registration.

The leaders also presented the dedication gift for the altar when it was anointed. The leaders presented their offerings in front of the altar.

“Speak to Aaron and tell him: When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand.”

“Then present the Levites before the LORD, and have the Israelites lay their hands on them.

“Next the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls. Sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.

“After that the Levites may come to serve at the tent of meeting, once you have ceremonially cleansed them and presented them as a presentation offering.

Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community did this to the Levites. The Israelites did everything to them the LORD commanded Moses regarding the Levites.

“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.

and they observed it in the first month on the fourteenth day at twilight in the Wilderness of Sinai. The Israelites did everything as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Whenever the cloud was lifted up above the tent, the Israelites would set out; at the place where the cloud stopped, there the Israelites camped.

Whether it was two days, a month, or longer,[fn] the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. But when it was lifted, they set out.

“However, if one is sounded, only the leaders, the heads of Israel's clans, are to gather before you.

“The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. Your use of these is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

The Israelites traveled on from the Wilderness of Sinai, moving from one place to the next until the cloud stopped in the Wilderness of Paran.

The tabernacle was then taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting the tabernacle.

The Kohathites then set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say:

Arise, LORD!

Let your enemies be scattered,

and those who hate you flee from your presence.

The riffraff[fn] among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, “Who will feed us meat?

“But now our appetite is gone;[fn] there's nothing to look at but this manna! ”

Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

Suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three come out to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went out.

That place was called Eshcol[fn] Valley because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there.

But the men who had gone up with him responded, “We can't attack the people because they are stronger than we are! ”

All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

“They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among these people, how you, LORD, are seen face to face, how your cloud stands over them, and how you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

“none of the men who have seen my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested me these ten times and did not obey me,

“Your corpses will fall in this wilderness ​— ​all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you twenty years old or more ​— ​because you have complained about me.

“Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness.

So the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and who returned and incited the entire community to complain about him by spreading a negative report about the land ​— ​

While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

“But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD.”

At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled because they thought, “The earth may swallow us too! ”

So the priest Eleazar took the bronze firepans that those who were burned had presented, and they were hammered into plating for the altar,

The next day the entire Israelite community complained about Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD's people! ”

But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who died because of the Korah incident.

So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each of the leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. Aaron's staff was among them.

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we're perishing! We're lost; we're all lost!

The LORD said to Aaron, “You, your sons, and your ancestral family[fn] will be responsible for iniquity against the sanctuary. You and your sons will be responsible for iniquity involving your priesthood.

“But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift,[fn] but an unauthorized person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.”

“You are to eat it as a most holy offering.[fn] Every male may eat it; it is to be holy to you.

“I give to you and to your sons and daughters all the holy contributions that the Israelites present to the LORD as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you as well as your offspring.”

“The Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

“then you and your household may eat it anywhere. It is your wage in return for your work at the tent of meeting.

The entire Israelite community entered the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and they[fn] settled in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.

Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you? ”

These are the Waters of Meribah,[fn] where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and he demonstrated his holiness to them.

“Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

“We will go on the main road,” the Israelites replied to them, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay its price. There will be no problem; only let us travel through on foot.”

After they set out from Kadesh, the entire Israelite community came to Mount Hor.

The Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.

Therefore the poets[fn] say:

Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt;

let the city of Sihon be restored.[fn]

Woe to you, Moab!

You have been destroyed, people of Chemosh!

He gave up his sons as refugees,

and his daughters into captivity

to Sihon the Amorite king.

The Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan across from Jericho.

He said to them, “Spend the night here, and I will give you the answer the LORD tells me.” So the officials of Moab stayed with Balaam.

The officials of Moab arose, returned to Balak, and reported, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”

So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with all the officials of Moab.

So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the officials of Moab. Balak asked him, “What did the LORD say? ”

the oracle of one who hears the sayings of God,

who sees a vision from the Almighty,

who falls into a trance with his eyes uncovered:

He crouches, he lies down like a lion

or a lioness ​— ​who dares to rouse him?

Those who bless you will be blessed,

and those who curse you will be cursed.

the oracle of one who hears the sayings of God

and has knowledge from the Most High,

who sees a vision from the Almighty,

who falls into a trance with his eyes uncovered:

but those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.

“Take a census of those twenty years old or more, as the LORD had commanded Moses and the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt.”

The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram.

(It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the community, who fought against Moses and Aaron; they and Korah's followers fought against the LORD.

The sons of Korah, however, did not die.)

Judah's descendants by their clans:

the Shelanite clan from Shelah;

the Perezite clan from Perez;

the Zerahite clan from Zerah.

Bela's descendants from Ard and Naaman:

the Ardite clan from Ard;

the Naamite clan from Naaman.

All the Shuhamite clans numbered by their registered men: 64,400.

“Confer some of your authority on him so that the entire Israelite community will obey him.

“and her father hears about her vow or the obligation she put herself under, and he says nothing to her, all her vows and every obligation she put herself under are binding.

“and her husband hears about it and says nothing to her when he finds out, her vows are binding, and the obligations she put herself under are binding.

“and her husband hears about it, says nothing to her, and does not prohibit her, all her vows are binding, and every obligation she put herself under is binding.

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

“You, the priest Eleazar, and the family heads of the community are to take a count of what was captured, people and animals.

The captives remaining from the plunder the army had taken totaled:

675,000 sheep and goats,

The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, approached Moses

Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.

So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the leaders of the community and said,

But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Should your brothers go to war while you stay here?

“That's what your ancestors did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

“‘Because they did not remain loyal to me, none of the men twenty years old or more who came up from Egypt will see the land I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ​— ​

“The LORD's anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years until the whole generation that had done what was evil in the LORD's sight was gone.

“We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has taken possession of his inheritance.

The Gadites and Reubenites answered Moses, “Your servants will do just as my lord commands.

“but your servants are equipped for war before the LORD and will go across to the battle as my lord orders.”

Moses told them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, every man in battle formation before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “What the LORD has spoken to your servants is what we will do.

The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month. On the day after the Passover the Israelites went out defiantly[fn] in the sight of all the Egyptians.

At that time the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard the Israelites were coming.

The family heads from the clan of the descendants of Gilead ​— ​the son of Machir, son of Manasseh ​— ​who were from the clans of the sons of Joseph, approached and addressed Moses and the leaders who were heads of the Israelite families.

“No inheritance belonging to the Israelites is to transfer from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of his ancestral tribe.

These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph,[fn] between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

“Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart,[fn] saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens. We also saw the descendants of the Anakim there.'

The Emim, a great and numerous people as tall as the Anakim, had previously lived there.

“When all the fighting men had died among the people,

This too used to be regarded as the land of the Rephaim. The Rephaim lived there previously, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,

The Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor,[fn] destroyed the Avvites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and settled in their place.

“just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir did for us, and the Moabites who live in Ar, until we cross the Jordan into the land the LORD our God is giving us.'

“which the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call Senir,

“I commanded Joshua at that time: Your own eyes have seen everything the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.

“Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.

“Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you don't forget the things your eyes have seen and so that they don't slip from your mind[fn] as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

“When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, in the future you will return to the LORD your God and obey him.

across the Jordan in the valley facing Beth-peor in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites. He lived in Heshbon, and Moses and the Israelites defeated him after they came out of Egypt.

“but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Do not do any work ​— ​you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or donkey, any of your livestock, or the resident alien who lives within your city gates, so that your male and female slaves may rest as you do.

“All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing with fire.

“Do this so that you may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life by keeping all his statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.

“the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, the strong hand and outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you fear.