Study Desk

And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.

But you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, one calf, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:

And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:

And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.

These things shall you offer to the Lord in your solemnities: besides your vows and voluntary oblations for holocaust, for sacrifice, for libation, and for victims of peace offerings.

And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand men well appointed for battle.

And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to all the multitude of the children of Israel. But the rest of the things for use they carried to the camp on the plains of Moab, beside the Jordan over against Jericho.

Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves:

And of all the spoil, every garment, or vessel, or any thing made for use, of the skins, or hair of goats, or of wood, shall be purified.

Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six hundred seventy five sheep.

Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had separated for them that had been in the battle.

Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.

For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.

And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of the testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.

And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer and Galaad fit for feeding cattle,

The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle:

For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.

But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls for our cattle, and strong cities for our children:

And we ourselves will go armed and ready for battle before the children of Israel, until we bring them in unto their places. Our little ones, and all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear of the ambushes of the inhabitants.