Chapter 83

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AND in the twelfth month, in the twenty third day of the month, Mosheh took Aharon and his sons, and he dressed them in their garments, and anointed them and did unto them as Yahuah had commanded him, and Mosheh brought up all the offerings which Yahuah had on that day commanded him.

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Mosheh afterward took Aharon and his sons and said to them, For seven days shall you remain at the door of the Tabernacle, for thus am I commanded.

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And Aharon and his sons did all that Yahuah had commanded them through Mosheh, and they remained for seven days at the door of the Tabernacle.

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And on the eighth day, being the first day of the first month, in the second year from Yashar'el's departure from Mitsrayim, Mosheh erected the sanctuary, and Mosheh put up all the furniture of the Tabernacle and all the furniture of the sanctuary, and he did all that Yahuah had commanded him.

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And Mosheh called to Aharon and his sons, and they brought the ascending smoke offering and the sin offering for themselves and the children of Yashar'el, as Yahuah had commanded Mosheh.

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On that day the two sons of Aharon, Nadav and Aviyhu, took strange fire and brought it before Yahuah who had not commanded them, and a fire went forth from before Yahuah, and consumed them, and they died before Yahuah on that day.

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Then on the day when Mosheh had completed to erect the sanctuary, the princes of the children of Yashar'el began to bring their offerings before Yahuah for the dedication of the altar.

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And they brought up their offerings each prince for one day, a prince each day for twelve days.

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And all the offerings which they brought, each man in his day, one silver charger weighing one hundred and thirty sheqels, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels after the sheqel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour, mingled with oil for an oblation.

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One spoon, weighing ten sheqels of gold, full of incense.

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One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year for an ascending smoke offering.

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And one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

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And for a sacrifice of peace offering, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of a year old.

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Thus did the twelve princes of Yashar'el day by day, each man in his day.

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And it was after this, in the thirteenth day of the month, that Mosheh commanded the children of Yashar'el to observe the Pecach.

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And the children of Yashar'el kept the Pecach in its season in the fourteenth day of the month, as Yahuah had commanded Mosheh, so did the children of Yashar'el.

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And in the second month, on the first day thereof, Yahuah spoke unto Mosheh, saying,

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Number the heads of all the males of the children of Yashar'el from twenty years old and upward, you and your brother Aharon and the twelve princes of Yashar'el.

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And Mosheh did so, and Aharon came with the twelve princes of Yashar'el, and they numbered the children of Yashar'el in the wilderness of Ciynai.

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And the numbers of the children of Yashar'el by the houses of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

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But the children of Leviy were not numbered amongst their brethren the children of Yashar'el.

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And the number of all the males of the children of Yashar'el from one month old and upward, was twenty two thousand, two hundred and seventy three.

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And the number of the children of Leviy from one month old and above, was twenty two thousand.

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And Mosheh placed the priests and the Leviyiym each man to his service and to his burden to serve the sanctuary of the Tabernacle, as Yahuah had commanded Mosheh.

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And on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken away from the Tabernacle of testimony.

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At that time the children of Yashar'el continued their journey from the wilderness of Ciynai, and they took a journey of three days, and the cloud rested upon the wilderness of Pa'ran; there the anger of Yahuah was kindled against Yashar'el, for they had provoked Yahuah in asking him for meat, that they might eat.

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And Yahuah hearkened to their voice, and gave them meat which they ate for one month.

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But after this the anger of Yahuah was kindled against them, and he smote them with a great slaughter, and they were buried there in that place.

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And the children of Yashar'el called that place Qivrot Hat-Ta'avah, because there they buried the people that lusted flesh.

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And they departed from Qivrot Hat-Ta'avah and pitched in Chatseroth, which is in the wilderness of Pa'ran.

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And while the children of Yashar'el were in Chatseroth, the anger of Yahuah was kindled against Miryam on account of Mosheh, and she became leprous, white as snow.

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And she was confined without the camp for seven days, until she had been received again after her leprosy.

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The children of Yashar'el afterward departed from Chatseroth, and pitched in the end of the wilderness of Pa'ran.

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At that time, Yahuah spoke to Mosheh to send twelve men from the children of Yashar'el, one man to a tribe, to go and explore the land of Kena`an.

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And Mosheh sent the twelve men, and they came to the land of Kena`an to search and examine it, and they explored the whole land from the wilderness of Ciyn to Rekov as you come to Chamoth.

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And at the end of forty days they came to Mosheh and Aharon, and they brought him word as it was in their hearts, and ten of the men brought up an evil report to the children of Yashar'el, of the land which they had explored, saying, It is better for us to return to Mitsrayim than to go to this land, a land that consumes its inhabitants.

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But Yahusha the son of Nun, and Kalev the son of Yephunneh, who were of those that explored the land, said, The land is exceedingly good.

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If Yahuah delight in us, then he will bring us to this land and give it to us, for it is a land flowing with milk and honey.

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But the children of Yashar'el would not hearken to them, and they hearkened to the words of the ten men who had brought up an evil report of the land.

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And Yahuah heard the murmurings of the children of Yashar'el and he was angry and swore, saying,

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Surely not one man of this wicked generation shall see the land from twenty years old and upward excepting Kalev the son of Yephunneh and Yahusha the son of Nun.

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But surely this wicked generation shall perish in this wilderness, and their children shall come to the land and they shall possess it; so the anger of Yahuah was kindled against Yashar'el, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the end of that wicked generation, because they did not follow Yahuah.

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And the people dwelt in the wilderness of Pa'ran a long time, and they afterward proceeded to the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.



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