as shady groves, and as gardens by a river, and as tents which God pitched, and as cedars by the waters.
Hebrew / Jewish
Septuagint (Greek Old Testament)
Numbers
There shall come a man out of his seed, and he shall rule over many nations; and the kingdom of Gog shall be exalted, and his kingdom shall be increased.
God led him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn: he shall consume the nations of his enemies, and he shall drain their marrow, and with his darts he shall shoot through the enemy.
He lay down, he rested as a lion, and as a young lion; who shall stir him up? they that bless thee are blessed, and they that curse thee are cursed.
And Balac was angry with Balaam, and clapped his hands together; and Balac said to Balaam, I called thee to curse my enemy, and behold thou hast decidedly blessed [him] this third time.
Now therefore flee to thy place: I said, I will honour thee, but now the Lord has deprived thee of glory.
And Balaam said to Balac, Did I not speak to thy messengers also whom thou sentest to me, saying,
If Balac should give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to transgress the word of the Lord to make it good or bad by myself; whatsoever things God shall say, them will I speak.
And now, behold, I return to my place; come, I will advise thee of what this people shall do to thy people in the last days.
And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, the man who sees truly says,
hearing the oracles of God, receiving knowledge from the Most High, and having seen a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were opened.
I will point to him, but not now; I bless him, but he draws not near: a star shall rise out of Jacob, a man shall spring out of Israel; and shall crush the princes of Moab, and shall spoil all the sons of Seth.
And Edom shall be an inheritance, and Esau his enemy shall be an inheritance [of Israel], and Israel wrought valiantly.
And [one] shall arise out of Jacob, and destroy out of the city him that escapes.
And having seen Amalec, he took up his parable and said, Amalec [is] the first of the nations; yet his seed shall perish.
And having seen the Kenite, he took up his parable and said, Thy dwelling-place [is] strong; yet though thou shouldest put thy nest in a rock,
and though Beor should have a skilfully contrived hiding-place, the Assyrians shall carry thee away captive.
And he looked upon Og, and took up his parable and said, Oh, oh, who shall live, when God shall do these things?
And one shall come forth from the hands of the Citians, and shall afflict Assur, and shall afflict the Hebrews, and they shall perish together.
And Balaam rose up and departed and returned to his place, and Balac went to his own home.
And Israel sojourned in Sattin, and the people profaned itself by going a-whoring after the daughters of Moab.
And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols.
And Israel consecrated themselves to Beel-phegor; and the Lord was very angry with Israel.
And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and make them examples [of judgment] for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.
And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Slay ye every one his friend that is consecrated to Beel-phegor.
And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Madianitish woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness.
And Phinees the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand,
and went in after the Israelitish man into the chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Thus do thou say [to him], Behold, I give him a covenant of peace:
and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
Now the name of the smitten Israelitish man, who was smitten with the Madianitish woman, [was] Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Symeon.
And the name of the Madianitish woman who was smitten, [was] Chasbi, daughter of Sur, a prince of the nation of Ommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Madiam.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
Plague the Madianites as enemies, and smite them,
for they are enemies to you by the treachery wherein they ensnare you through Phogor, and through Chasbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Madiam, who was smitten in the day of the plague because of Phogor.
And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spoke to Moses and Eleazar the priest, saying,
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, according to the houses of their lineage, every one that goes forth to battle in Israel.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke in Araboth of Moab at the Jordan by Jericho, saying,
[This is the numbering] from twenty years old and upward as the Lord commanded Moses. And the sons of Israel that came out of Egypt [are as follows]:
Ruben [was] the first-born of Israel: and the sons of Ruben, Enoch, and the family of Enoch; to Phallu belongs the family of the Phalluites.
To Asron, the family of Asroni: to Charmi, the family of Charmi.
These [are] the families of Ruben; and their numbering was forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
And the sons of Phallu [were] Eliab,—
and the sons of Eliab, Namuel, and Dathan, and Abiron: these [are] renowned men of the congregation; these are they that rose up against Moses and Aaron in the gathering of Core, in the rebellion against the Lord.
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up them and Core, when their assembly perished, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty, and they were made a sign.
But the sons of Core died not.
And the sons of Symeon:—the family of the sons of Symeon: to Namuel, [belonged] the family of the Namuelites; to Jamin the family of the Jaminites; to Jachin the family of the Jachinites.
To Zara the family of the Zaraites; to Saul the family of the Saulites.
These [are] the families of Symeon according to their numbering, two and twenty thousand and two hundred.
And the sons of Juda, Er and Aunan; and Er and Aunan died in the land of Chanaan.
And these were the sons of Juda, according to their families: to Selom [belonged] the family of the Selonites; to Phares, the family of the Pharesites; to Zara, the family of the Zaraites.
And the sons of Phares were, to Asron, the family of the Asronites; to Jamun, the family of the Jamunites.
These [are] the families of Juda according to their numbering, seventy-six thousand and five hundred.
And the sons of Issachar according to their families: to Thola, the family of the Tholaites; to Phua, the family of the Phuaites.
To Jasub, the family of the Jasubites; to Samram, the family of the Samramites.
These [are] the families of Issachar according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and four hundred.
The sons of Zabulon according to their families: to Sared, the family of the Saredites; to Allon, the family of the Allonites; to Allel, the family of the Allelites.
These [are] the families of Zabulon according to their numbering, sixty thousand and five hundred.
The sons of Gad according to their families: to Saphon, the family of the Saphonites; to Angi, the family of the Angites; to Suni, the family of the Sunites;
to Azeni, the family of the Azenites; to Addi, the family of the Addites:
to Aroadi, the family of the Aroadites; to Ariel, the family of the Arielites.
These [are] the families of the children of Gad according to their numbering, forty-four thousand and five hundred.
The sons of Aser according to their families; to Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; to Jesu, the family of the Jesusites; to Baria, the family of the Bariaites.
To Chober, the family of the Choberites; to Melchiel, the family of the Melchielites.
And the name of the daughter of Aser, Sara.
These [are] the families of Aser according to their numbering, forty-three thousand and four hundred.
The sons of Joseph according to their families, Manasse and Ephraim.
The sons of Manasse. To Machir the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Galaad: to Galaad, the family of the Galaadites.
And these [are] the sons of Galaad; to Achiezer, the family of the Achiezerites; to Cheleg, the family of the Chelegites.
To Esriel, the family of the Esrielites; to Sychem, the family of the Sychemites.
To Symaer, the family of the Symaerites; and to Opher, the family of the Opherites.
And to Salpaad the son of Opher there were no sons, but daughters: and these [were] the names of the daughters of Salpaad; Mala, and Nua, and Egla, and Melcha, and Thersa.
These [are] the families of Manasse according to their numbering, fifty-two thousand and seven hundred.
And these [are] the children of Ephraim; to Suthala, the family of the Suthalanites; to Tanach, the family of the Tanachites.
These [are] the sons of Suthala; to Eden, the family of the Edenites.
These [are] the families of Ephraim according to their numbering, thirty-two thousand and five hundred: these [are] the families of the children of Joseph according to their families.
The sons of Benjamin according to their families; to Bale, the family of the Balites; to Asyber, the family of the Asyberites; to Jachiran, the family of the Jachiranites.
To Sophan, the family of the Sophanites.
And the sons of Bale were Adar and Noeman; to Adar, the family of the Adarites; and to Noeman, the family of the Noemanites.
These [are] the sons of Benjamin by their families according to their numbering, thirty-five thousand and five hundred.
And the sons of Dan according to their families; to Same, the family of the Sameites; these [are] the families of Dan according to their families.
All the families of Samei according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and four hundred.
The sons of Nephthali according to their families; to Asiel, the family of the Asielites; to Gauni, the family of the Gaunites.
To Jeser, the family of the Jeserites; to Sellem, the family of the Sellemites.
These [are] the families of Nephthali, according to their numbering, forty thousand and three hundred.
This [is] the numbering of the children of Israel, six hundred and one thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
To these the land shall be divided, so that they may inherit according to the number of the names.
To the greater number thou shalt give the greater inheritance, and to the less number thou shalt give the less inheritance: to each one, as they have been numbered, shall their inheritance be given.
The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families.
Thou shalt divide their inheritance by lot between the many and the few.
And the sons of Levi according to their families; to Gedson, the family of the Gedsonites; to Caath, the family of the Caathites; to Merari, the family of the Merarites.
These [are] the families of the sons of Levi; the family of the Lobenites, the family of the Chebronites, the family of the Coreites, and the family of the Musites; and Caath begot Amram.
And the name of his wife [was] Jochabed, daughter of Levi, who bore these to Levi in Egypt, and she bore to Amram, Aaron and Moses, and Mariam their sister.
And to Aaron were born both Nadab and Abiud, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
And Nadab and Abiud died when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sina.
And there were according to their numbering, twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because they have no inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.