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Now, therefore abide here, I pray you even ye, - for the night, - that I may get to know what further Yahweh may be speaking with me.

And Balaam said unto the ass, Surely thou hast been making sport of me, - Would there had been a sword in my hand, for, now, would I have slain thee.

Then said Balaam unto the messenger of Yahweh - I have sinned, for I knew not, that, thou, wast stationed to meet me in the road, - Now, therefore, if it be displeasing in thine eyes, I must get me back again.

Then said Balak unto Balaam, What hast thou done for me? To revile mine enemies, I summoned thee, and lo! thou hast kept on blessing.

Yet shall it be for destruction, O Kain, - How long shall Assyria hold thee captive?

so shall it prove to be unto him and unto his seed after him, the covenant of our age-abiding priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and did put a propitiatory-covering over the sons of Israel.

for, besiegers, were they unto you, with their wiles wherewith they beguiled you, over the matter of Peor, - and over he matter of Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who was smitten in the day of the plague, over the matter of Peor.

For the large one, thou shalt make large his inheritance, and for the small one, thou shalt make small his inheritance, - unto each one, in proportion to them who were numbered of him, shall he given his inheritance.

And they who were numbered of them were found to be - twenty-three thousand, all the males from one month old and upwards - for they had not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel, because there was given unto them no inheritance, in the midst of the sons of Israel.

For Yahweh had said of them, They shall surely die, in the desert. And there was not left of them a man, save only, Caleb on of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.

A right thing, are the daughters of Zelophehad speaking: Thou shalt, surely give, them a possession for an inheritance, in the midst of the brethren of their father, - and shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass over unto them.

And, before Eleazar the priest, shall he stand, and shall ask by him for the decision of the Lights, before Yahweh, - at the bidding thereof, shall they go out, and at the bidding thereof, shall they come in - he, and all the sons of Israel with him, even all the assembly.

Command the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, - My offering, my food for my altar-flames my satisfying odour, shall ye take heed to offer unto me in its season,

also the tenth of an ephah of fine meal for a meal-offering, - overflowed with beaten oil the fourth of a hin:

Also he drink-offering thereof the fourth of a hin for each lamb, - in a holy place, shall it be poured out as a libation of strong drink unto Yahweh.

And as their drink-offerings, half a hin, shall be to a bullock and the third of a hin to a ram, and the fourth of a hin to a lamb, of wine, - This, is the ascending-sacrifice of a month in its month, for the months of the year.

but ye shall bring near - as an altar-flame - an ascending-sacrifice unto Yahweh, - two choice bullocks and one ram, - and seven he-lambs a year old, without defect, must they be for you;

and, for their meal-offering, fine meal, overflowed with oil, - three-tenths for a bullock, and two-tenths for a ram, shall ye offer;

a tenth, severally, shalt thou offer for each lamb, - for the seven lambs,;

also one he-goat for bearing sin, to put a propitiatory-covering over you: