Numbers 13; Numbers 14; Numbers 15

1 The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

2 Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Kana`an, which I give to the children of Yisra'el: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among them.

3 Moshe sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the mitzvah of the LORD: all of them men who were heads of the children of Yisra'el.

4 These were their names: Of the tribe of Re'uven, Shammua the son of Zakkur.

5 Of the tribe of Shim`on, Shafat the son of Hori.

6 Of the tribe of Yehudah, Kalev the son of Yefunneh.

7 Of the tribe of Yissakhar, Yig'al the son of Yosef.

8 Of the tribe of Efrayim, Hoshea the son of Nun.

9 Of the tribe of Binyamin, Palti the son of Rafu.

10 Of the tribe of Zevulun, Gaddi'el the son of Sodi.

11 Of the tribe of Yosef, [namely], of the tribe of Menashsheh, Gaddi the son of Susi.

12 Of the tribe of Dan, `Ammi'el the son of Gemalli.

13 Of the tribe of Asher, Setur the son of Mikha'el.

14 Of the tribe of Naftali, Nachbi the son of Vofsi.

15 Of the tribe of Gad, Ge'u'el the son of Makhi.

16 These are the names of the men who Moshe sent to spy out the land. Moshe called Hoshea the son of Nun Yehoshua.

17 Moshe sent them to spy out the land of Kana`an, and said to them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country:

18 and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;

19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;

20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.

21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Tzin to Rechov, to the entrance of Hamat.

22 They went up by the South, and came to Hevron; and Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of `Anak, were there. (Now Hevron was built seven years before Tzo`an in Mitzrayim.)

23 They came to the valley of Eshkol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two; [they brought] also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

24 That place was called the valley of Eshkol, because of the cluster which the children of Yisra'el cut down from there.

25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

26 They went and came to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and shown them the fruit of the land.

27 They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

28 However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of `Anak there.

29 `Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Yevusi, and the Amori, dwell in the hill-country; and the Kana`ani dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Yarden.

30 Kalev stilled the people before Moshe, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

31 But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Yisra'el, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.

33 There we saw the Nefilim, the sons of `Anak, who come of the Nefilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

2 All the children of Yisra'el murmured against Moshe and against Aharon: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Mitzrayim! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

3 Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Mitzrayim?

4 They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Mitzrayim.

5 Then Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra'el.

6 Yehoshua the son of Nun and Kalev the son of Yefunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:

7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.

8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

9 Only don't rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us: don't fear them.

10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. The glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Yisra'el.

11 The LORD said to Moshe, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

13 Moshe said to the LORD, Then the Mitzrim will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;

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

15 Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.

17 Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

18 The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.

19 Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your lovingkindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Mitzrayim even until now.

20 The LORD said, I have pardoned according to your word:

21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the eretz shall be filled with the glory of the LORD;

22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Mitzrayim and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:

24 but my servant Kalev, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.

25 Now the `Amaleki and the Kana`ani dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf.

26 The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,

27 How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Yisra'el, which they murmur against me.

28 Tell them, As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

30 surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Kalev the son of Yefunneh, and Yehoshua the son of Nun.

31 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my alienation.

35 I, the LORD, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

36 The men, whom Moshe sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

37 even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

38 But Yehoshua the son of Nun, and Kalev the son of Yefunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

39 Moshe told these words to all the children of Yisra'el: and the people mourned greatly.

40 They rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned.

41 Moshe said, Why now do you disobey the mitzvah of the LORD, seeing it shall not prosper?

42 Don't go up, for the LORD isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.

43 For there the `Amaleki and the Kana`ani are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moshe, didn't depart out of the camp.

45 Then the `Amaleki came down, and the Kana`ani who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

1 The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

2 Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you are come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,

3 and will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock;

4 then shall he who offers his offering offer to the LORD a meal-offering of a tenth part [of an efah] of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil:

5 and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

6 Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts [of an efah] of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil:

7 and for the drink-offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to the LORD.

8 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace-offerings to the LORD;

9 then shall he offer with the bull a meal-offering of three tenth parts [of an efah] of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil:

10 and you shall offer for the drink- offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.

11 Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids.

12 According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall you do to everyone according to their number.

13 All who are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.

14 If a stranger sojourn with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do.

15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who sojourns [with you], a statute forever 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 spoke to Moshe, saying,

18 Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you come into the land where I bring you,

19 then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave- offering to the LORD.

20 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it.

21 Of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD a heave-offering throughout your generations.

22 When you shall err, and not observe all these mitzvot, which the LORD has spoken to Moshe,

23 even all that the LORD has commanded you by Moshe, from the day that the LORD gave mitzvah, and onward throughout your generations;

24 then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor to the LORD, with the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin-offering.

25 The Kohen shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD, and their sin-offering before the LORD, for their error:

26 and all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.

27 If one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin-offering.

28 The Kohen shall make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly, before the LORD, 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 home-born among the children of Yisra'el, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.

30 But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemes the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

31 Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his mitzvah, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.

32 While the children of Yisra'el were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the day of Shabbat.

33 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moshe and Aharon, and to all the congregation.

34 They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

35 The LORD said to Moshe, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.

36 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as the LORD commanded Moshe.

37 The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

38 Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and bid those who they make them tzitziyot in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the tzitzit of each border a cord of blue:

39 and it shall be to you for a tzitzit, that you may look on it, and remember all the mitzvot of the LORD, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;

40 that you may remember and do all my mitzvot, and be holy to your God.

41 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.