| 1 | The LORD said to Moses, |
| 2 | "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I give you, |
| 3 | and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock an offering by fire or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing odor to the LORD, |
| 4 | then he who brings his offering shall offer to the LORD a cereal offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil; |
| 5 | and wine for the drink offering, a fourth of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. |
| 6 | Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a cereal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil; |
| 7 | and for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing odor to the LORD. |
| 8 | And when you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow, or for peace offerings to the LORD, |
| 9 | then one shall offer with the bull a cereal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil, |
| 10 | and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD. |
| 11 | "Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each of the male lambs or the kids. |
| 12 | According to the number that you prepare, so shall you do with every one according to their number. |
| 13 | All who are native shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD. |
| 14 | And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or any one is among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to offer an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD, he shall do as you do. |
| 15 | For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the sojourner be before the LORD. |
| 16 | One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you." |
| 17 | The LORD said to Moses, |
| 18 | "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land to which I bring you |
| 19 | and when you eat of the food of the land, you shall present an offering to the LORD. |
| 20 | Of the first of your coarse meal you shall present a cake as an offering; as an offering from the threshing floor, so shall you present it. |
| 21 | Of the first of your coarse meal you shall give to the LORD an offering throughout your generations. |
| 22 | "But if you err, and do not observe all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses, |
| 23 | all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations, |
| 24 | then if it was done unwittingly without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the LORD, with its cereal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering. |
| 25 | And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; because it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error. |
| 26 | And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the error. |
| 27 | "If one person sins unwittingly, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. |
| 28 | And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who commits an error, when he sins unwittingly, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. |
| 29 | You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native among the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them. |
| 30 | But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. |
| 31 | Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him." |
| 32 | While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day. |
| 33 | And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. |
| 34 | They put him in custody, because it had not been made plain what should be done to him. |
| 35 | And the LORD said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp." |
| 36 | And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses. |
| 37 | The LORD said to Moses, |
| 38 | "Speak to the people of Israel, and bid them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put upon the tassel of each corner a cord of blue; |
| 39 | and it shall be to you a tassel to look upon and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to go after wantonly. |
| 40 | So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. |
| 41 | I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God." |
| 1 | Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abi'ram the sons of Eli'ab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, |
| 2 | took men; and they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men; |
| 3 | and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them; why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?" |
| 4 | When Moses heard it, he fell on his face; |
| 5 | and he said to Korah and all his company, "In the morning the LORD will show who is his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him; him whom he will choose he will cause to come near to him. |
| 6 | Do this: take censers, Korah and all his company; |
| 7 | put fire in them and put incense upon them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!" |
| 8 | And Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi: |
| 9 | is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them; |
| 10 | and that he has brought you near him, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also? |
| 11 | Therefore it is against the LORD that you and all your company have gathered together; what is Aaron that you murmur against him?" |
| 12 | And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abi'ram the sons of Eli'ab; and they said, "We will not come up. |
| 13 | Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us? |
| 14 | Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up." |
| 15 | And Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one ass from them, and I have not harmed one of them." |
| 16 | And Moses said to Korah, "Be present, you and all your company, before the LORD, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow; |
| 17 | and let every one of you take his censer, and put incense upon it, and every one of you bring before the LORD his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer." |
| 18 | So every man took his censer, and they put fire in them and laid incense upon them, and they stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. |
| 19 | Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation. |
| 20 | And the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron, |
| 21 | "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." |
| 22 | And they fell on their faces, and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be angry with all the congregation?" |
| 23 | And the LORD said to Moses, |
| 24 | "Say to the congregation, Get away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abi'ram." |
| 25 | Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abi'ram; and the elders of Israel followed him. |
| 26 | And he said to the congregation, "Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins." |
| 27 | So they got away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abi'ram; and Dathan and Abi'ram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones. |
| 28 | And Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord. |
| 29 | If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited by the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me. |
| 30 | But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD." |
| 31 | And as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split asunder; |
| 32 | and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods. |
| 33 | So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. |
| 34 | And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!" |
| 35 | And fire came forth from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men offering the incense. |
| 36 | Then the LORD said to Moses, |
| 37 | "Tell Elea'zar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze; then scatter the fire far and wide. For they are holy, |
| 38 | the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives; so let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD; therefore they are holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel." |
| 39 | So Elea'zar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered; and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar, |
| 40 | to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no one who is not a priest, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, lest he become as Korah and as his company -- as the LORD said to Elea'zar through Moses. |
| 41 | But on the morrow all the congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD." |
| 42 | And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting; and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. |
| 43 | And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting, |
| 44 | and the LORD said to Moses, |
| 45 | "Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces. |
| 46 | And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone forth from the LORD, the plague has begun." |
| 47 | So Aaron took it as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague had already begun among the people; and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. |
| 48 | And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stopped. |
| 49 | Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the affair of Korah. |
| 50 | And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped. |
| 1 | The LORD said to Moses, |
| 2 | "Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them rods, one for each fathers' house, from all their leaders according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods. Write each man's name upon his rod, |
| 3 | and write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi. For there shall be one rod for the head of each fathers' house. |
| 4 | Then you shall deposit them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. |
| 5 | And the rod of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against you." |
| 6 | Moses spoke to the people of Israel; and all their leaders gave him rods, one for each leader, according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. |
| 7 | And Moses deposited the rods before the LORD in the tent of the testimony. |
| 8 | And on the morrow Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds. |
| 9 | Then Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the people of Israel; and they looked, and each man took his rod. |
| 10 | And the LORD said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, lest they die." |
| 11 | Thus did Moses; as the LORD commanded him, so he did. |
| 12 | And the people of Israel said to Moses, "Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. |
| 13 | Every one who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, shall die. Are we all to perish?" |
