{
"book": "numbers",
"book_title": null,
"hebrew_title": null,
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of covenant, the first day of the second month, the second year of their going out of Aegypt, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Take the sum of the whole assembly of the children of Israel by their kindreds, & houses, and the names of every one, whatsoever of the male sex,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "from the twentieth year and upward, of all the strong men of Israel, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And there shall be with you the Princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elizur the son of Sedeur."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Of Juda, Nahasson, the son of Aminadab."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Suar."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And of the sons of Joseph, of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud. Of Manasses, Gamaliel, the son of Phadassur."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Of Gad, Eliazaph the son of Duel."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Of Nephthali, Ahira the son of Enan."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "These are the most noble Princes of the multitude by their tribes & kindreds, and the heads of the host of Israel:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "whom Moyses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common people:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and assembled them the first day of the second month, reckoning them by the kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and names of every one from the twentieth year and upward,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "as our Lord had commanded Moyses. And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Of Ruben the first begotten of Israel, by their generations and families and houses, and names of every head, all that is of the male sex, from the twentieth year & upward, of them that go forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "forty six thousand five hundred."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Of the sons of Simeon by the generations, and families, and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names & heads of every one, all that is of the male sex from the twentieth year and upward, of them that go forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "fifty nine thousand three hundred."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Of the sons of Gad, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds were reckoned by the names of every one from twenty years and upward, all that went forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "forty five thousand six hundred fifty."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Of the sons of Juda by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "were reckoned seventy four thousand six hundred."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Of the sons of Issachar, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from the twentieth year & upward, all that went forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "were reckoned fifty four thousand four hundred."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Of the sons of Zabulon, by the generations, & families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "fifty seven thousand four hundred."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Of the sons of Joseph, namely of the sons of Ephraim by the generations, families and houses of their kindreds were reckoned by the names of every one, from the twentieth year & upward, all that could go forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "forty thousand five hundred."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Moreover of the sons of Manasses, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names of every one from twenty years and upward, all that could go forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "thirty two thousand two hundred."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Of the sons of Benjamin by the generations & families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "thirty five thousand four hundred."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "Of the sons of Dan, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names of every one from twenty years and upward, all that could go forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "sixty two thousand seven hundred."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "Of the sons of Aser, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "forty thousand and a thousand five hundred."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Of the sons of Nephthali, by the generations, and families, and houses of their kindreds were reckoned by the names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "fifty three thousand four hundred."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "These are they, whom Moyses and Aaron numbered, and the twelve Princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their kindreds."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And the whole number of the children of Israel by their houses and families, from the twentieth year and upward, that could go to war,"
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "were (a) six hundred three thousand men five hundred fifty.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Coming into Aegypt they were but 70. Exo. 1. increased in 216. years unto 603550. not counting the tribe of Levi, nor women, nor any under 20. years, nor old men unable to go to war."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "But the Levites in the tribe of their families were not numbered with them."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put the sum of them with the children of Israel:"
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "but appoint them over the tabernacle of testimony, and all the vessels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They shall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture thereof: and they shall be in the ministry, and shall pitch round about the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What (b) stranger soever cometh to it, he shall be slain.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "All other tribes were in respect of serving about the tabernacle called strangers. S. Aug. q. 3. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "And the children of Israel shall camp every man by his troops and bands and host."
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "Moreover the Levites shall pitch their tents round about the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "The children of Israel thereof did according to all things which our Lord had commanded Moyses."
}
],
"summary": "All the men of twelve tribes of Israel, of the Age of twenty years and upwards (but not under, nor women,) are numbered: 20. and are found in all six hundred thirty thousand five hundred fifty. The Levites not yet numbered, are designed to serve about the Tabernacle. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The first part. Of those which are numbered of the 12. Tribes fit for war, & of the Levites designed to serve the Tabernacle."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Every one of the children of Israel by the troops, ensigns, and standards, and houses of their kindreds shall camp round about the tabernacle of covenant."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "On the east Judas shall pitch his tents by the troops of his band: and the Prince of his sons shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the whole sum of the warriors of his stock, seventy four thousand six hundred."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Beside him camped they of the tribe of Issachar, whose Prince was Nathanael the son of Suar:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and all the number of his warriors fifty four thousand four hundred."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "In the tribe of Zabulon the Prince was Eliab the Son of Helon."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And all the host of warriors of his stock, fifty seven thousand four hundred."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "All that were numbered in the camp of Judas, were an hundred eighty six thousand four hundred: and they by their troops shall march first."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "In the camp of the sons of Ruben on the south side the Prince shall be Elisur the son of Sedeur:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and the whole host of his warriors, that were numbered, forty six thousand five hundred."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Beside him camped they of the tribe of Simeon: whose Prince was Salamiel the son of Surisaddai,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and the whole host of his warriors, that were numbered, fifty nine thousand three hundred."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "In the tribe of Gad, the Prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "and the whole host of his warriors, that were numbered, forty five thousand six hundred fifty."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "All that were reckoned in the camp of Ruben, an hundred fifty thousand and a thousand four hundred fifty by their troops: they shall march in the second place."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "But the tabernacle of testimony shall be lifted up by the offices of the Levites and their troops. As it shall be set up, so shall it be taken down. Every one shall march by their places, and orders."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "On the west side shall be the camp of the sons of Ephraim, whose Prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "The whole host of his warriors, that were numbered, forty thousand five hundred."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And with them the tribes of the sons of Manasses, whose Prince was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and the whole host of his warriors, that were numbered, thirty two thousand two hundred."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "In the tribe of the sons of Benjamin the Prince was Abidan the son of Gedeon,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and the whole host of his warriors, that were reckoned, thirty five thousand four hundred."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "All that were numbered in the camp of Ephraim, an hundred eight thousand one hundred by their troops: they shall march the third."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "On the north part camped the sons of Dan: whose Prince was Ahiezar the son of Ammisaddai."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The whole host of his warriors, that were numbered, sixty two thousand seven hundred."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Besides him they of the tribe of Aser pitched their tents: whose Prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "the whole host of his warriors, that were numbered, forty thousand and a thousand five hundred."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Of the tribe of the sons of Nephthali the Prince was Ahira the son of Enan."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "The whole host of his warriors, fifty three thousand four hundred."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "All that were numbered in the camp of Dan, were an hundred fifty seven thousand six hundred: and they shall march last."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "This is the number of the children of Israel by the houses of their kindreds and troops of the host being divided, six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel: for so our Lord had commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And the children of Israel did according to all things that our Lord had commanded. They camped by their troops, and marched by their families and houses of their fathers."
}
],
"summary": "At the east side of the Tabernacle the tribe of Juda, as chief, with Issachar and Zabulon do pitch their tents, and march first: 10. on the south Ruben, with Simeon and Gad (17. The Tabernacle is carried, & erected by the Levites, who lodge & march round about it.) 18. On the west side, Ephraim with Manasses and Benjamin: 25. on the north, Dan with Aser and Nephthali."
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These are the generations of Aaron and Moyses in the day that our Lord spake to Moyses in Mount Sinai."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And these be the names of the sons of Aaron: his first begotten Nadab, then Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "These are the names of the sons of Aaron the Priests that were anointed, and whose hands were filled and consecrated, to do the function of the priesthood."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "For Nadab and Abiu died, when they offered the strange fire in the sight of our Lord, in the desert of Sinai, without children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the function of priesthood in the presence of Aaron their father."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Bring the tribe of Levi, & make them stand in the sight of Aaron the Priest to minister unto him, and let them watch,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and observe whatsoever pertaineth to the service of the multitude before the tabernacle of testimony,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and let them keep the vessels of the tabernacle, serving in the ministry thereof."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "to Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered of the children of Israel. But Aaron and his sons thou shalt appoint over the service of priesthood. (a) The stranger, that approacheth to minister, shall die.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "As none but Levites might serve in the tabernacle: so none but of Aaron's stock might do the office of Priesthood."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "I have taken the Levites from the children of Israel, for every first born, that openeth the matrice among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "For the first born is mine: since I struck the first born in the Land of Aegypt: I have sanctified to me whatsoever is first born in Israel from man unto beast, they are mine: I the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses in the desert of Sinai, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month & upward."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Moyses numbered, as our Lord had commanded,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "& there were found the sons of Levi by their names, Gerson & Caath and Merari."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "The sons of Gerson: Lebni & Semei."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "The sons of Caath: Amram, and Iesaar, Hebron & Oziel."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "The sons of Merari: Moholi & Musi."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Of Gerson were two families, the Lebnitical, & Semeitical:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "of whom were numbered the people of male sex from one month & upward, seven thousand five hundred."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the West,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "under their Prince Heliasaph, the son of Lael."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of covenant,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "the tabernacle it-self and the cover thereof, the hanging that is drawn before the doors of the roof of covenant, and the curtains of the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of the court of the tabernacle, and whatsoever pertaineth to the rite of the altar, the cords of the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "The kindred of Caath shall have the peoples of the Amramites, and Iesaarites, and Hebronites, and Ozielites. These are the families of the Caathites reckoned by their names:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "all of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six hundred, they shall have the guard of the Sanctuary,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "and shall camp on the south side."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And their Prince shall be Elizaphan the son of Oziel:"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and they shall keep the ark, and table, and the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels of the Sanctuary, wherein the ministration is, and the veil, and all such kind of implements."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And (b) the Prince of the Princes of the Levites, Eliazar, the son of Aaron the Priest, shall be over them that watch for the custody of the Sanctuary.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "One chief Monarch in the Church to whom all other Superiors are subordinate."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "But of Merari shall be the peoples of the Moholites, and Musites, reckoned by their names:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "all of the male kind from one month & upward, six thousand two hundred."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "There Prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel: they shall camp on the north side."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars, and the pillars and their feet, and all things that pertain to this kind of service:"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "and the pillars of the court round about with their feet, and the pins with the cords."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "Before the tabernacle of covenant, that is to say, on the east side, shall (c) Moyses and Aaron camp, with (d) their sons, having the custody of the Sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger soever cometh thereto, shall die.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Moyses is still counted, & hath chief place and office among the Priests, which were absurd, saith S. Augustin. in Psal. 98. if he were not a Priest."
},
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The sons of Moyses were with him so long as he lived, but after his death they served the Priests, as other Levites did, and were numbered with the Caathites. 1. Paral. 23. v. 12."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "All the Levites, that Moyses and Aaron numbered, according to the precept of our Lord by their families in the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty two thousand.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Number the first-born of the male sex of the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou shalt have the sum of them."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And thou shalt take the Levites unto me for all the first-born of the children of Israel, I am the Lord: & their cattle for all the first-born of the cattle of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Moyses reckoned, as our Lord had commanded, the first-born of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "And the males by their names, from one month & upward, were twenty two thousand two hundred seventy three."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "Take the Levites for the first-born of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, & the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "But for the price of two hundred seventy three of the first-born of the children of Israel, (e) that exceed the number of the Levites,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "This number exceedeth the other by reason that 300. Levites are omitted in the general sum, otherwise the number of Israelites should exceed the first born by 27. See the Annotation."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "thou shalt take five sicles for every head, after the measure of the Sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty oboles."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "And thou shalt give the money to Aaron and to his sons the price of them that are above."
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "Moyses therefore took their money, that were above, & whom he redeemed of the Levites,"
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "for the first born of the children of Israel, a thousand three hundred sixty five sicles, according to the weight of the Sanctuary,"
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "and gave it to Aaron & his sons, according to the word that our Lord had commanded him."
}
],
"summary": "The Levites are assumed to the service of the Tabernacle, 14. numbered by their several families, and their offices distinguished, 45. They are taken to God in place of the first-born of the children of Israel. The residue of the first-born above the number of Levites, are redeemed with price."
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Take the sum of the sons of Caath out of the midst of the Levites, by their houses and families,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "from the thirtieth year and upward, unto the fiftieth year, of all that go in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of covenant."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "This is the service of the sons of Caath:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "when the camp is to remove, Aaron and his sons shall enter into the tabernacle of covenant, and (a) Sanctum Sanctorum, and shall take down the veil that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap in it the ark of testimony,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "In this case it was necessary for the Priests to enter in, where otherwise none entered but the high-Priest, and that but once in the year. And all being folded up, others also entered to carry it away. v. 15."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and shall cover it again with a cover of Ianthine skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of hyacinth, and shall draw in the bars."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "The table also of proposition they shall wrap in a cloth of hyacinth, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the goblets and cups to pour the libaments: the breads shall be always on it:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they shall cover with a veil of ianthine skins, and shall put in the bars."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "They shall take also a cloth of hyacinth wherewith they shall cover the candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and snuffers and all the vessels of oil, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and over all they shall put a cover of ianthine skins, and put in the bars."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Moreover the golden altar also they shall wrap in a cloth of hyacinth, and shall spread over it a cover of ianthine skins, and put in the bars."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "All the vessels wherewith the ministration is done in the Sanctuary, they shall wrap in a cloth of hyacinth and shall spread over it a cover of ianthine skins, and put in bars."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But the altar also they shall make clean from the ashes, & shall wrap it in a purple cloth,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and shall put with it all the vessels, that they use in the ministry thereof, that is to say, fire pans, flesh hooks & forks, pot-hooks and shovels. All the vessels of the altar together they shall cover with a veil of ianthine skins, and shall put in the bars."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the Sanctuary & the vessels thereof in the removing of the camp, then shall the sons of Caath enter in to carry the things wrapped up: and they shall not touch the vessels of the Sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of the sons of Caath in the tabernacle of covenant:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "over whom shall be Eleazar the son of Aaron the Priest, to whose charge pertaineth the oil to dress the lamps, and the incense of composition, and the sacrifice, that is always offered, and the oil of unction, and whatsoever pertaineth to the service of the tabernacle, and of all the vessels, that are in the Sanctuary."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And our Lord spake unto Moyses and Aaron, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "(a) Destroy not the people of Caath out of the midst of the Levites:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "See that by your negligence those that are next unto you incur not offence, for so none shall be excused."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "but do this to them, that they may live, and not die, if they touch Sancta Sanctorum. Aaron and his sons shall enter, and they shall dispose the charges of every one, and shall divide what every one must carry."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Let others by no curiosity see the things that are in the Sanctuary before they be wrapped up, otherwise they shall die."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Take the sum of the sons of Gerson also by their houses and families & kindreds,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "from thirty years & upward, unto fifty years. Number them all that go in & minister in the tabernacle of covenant."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "This is the office of the family of the Gersonites,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "for to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, & the roof of the covenant the other cover, and over all the ianthine cover, and the hanging that hangeth in the entry of the tabernacle of covenant,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "the curtains of the court, and the veil in the entry that is before the tabernacle. All things that pertain to the altar, the cords, and vessels of the ministry,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "shall the sons of Gerson carry, by the commandment of Aaron and his sons: and every one shall know to what burden they must be assigned."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "This is the service of the family of the Gersonites in the tabernacle of covenant, and they shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the Priest."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "The sons of Merari also by the families and houses of their fathers thou shalt reckon,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "from thirty years and upward, until fifty years, all that enter in to the office of their ministry, & to the service of the covenant of testimony."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "These are their burdens: They shall carry the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof, the pillars and the feet of them,"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "the pillars also of the court round about, with their feet and pins and cords. All the vessels and implements they shall receive by account, and so shall carry them."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "This is the office of the family of the Merarites, and their ministry in the tabernacle of covenant: and they shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the Priest."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Moyses therefore and Aaron and the Princes of the synagogue reckoned the sons of Caath, by their kindreds and houses of their fathers,"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "from thirty years and upward, unto the fiftieth year, all that enter in to the ministry of the tabernacle of covenant:"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "and they were found two thousand seven hundred fifty."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "This is the number of the people of Caath that enter into the tabernacle of covenant: these did Moyses and Aaron number according to the word of our Lord by the hand of Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "The sons of Gerson also were numbered by the kindreds and houses of their fathers,"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "from thirty years and upward, unto the fiftieth year, all that enter in to minister in the tabernacle of covenant:"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "and they were found two thousand six hundred thirty."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "This is the people of the Gersonites, whom Moyses and Aaron numbered according to the word of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "The sons of Merari also were numbered by the kindreds & houses of their fathers,"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "from thirty years and upward, unto the fiftieth year, all that enter in to accomplish the rites of the tabernacle of covenant:"
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "and they were found three thousand two hundred."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "this is the number of the sons of Merari, whom Moyses and Aaron reckoned according to the commandment of our Lord by the hand of Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "All that were reckoned of the Levites, and whom Moyses and Aaron and the Princes of Israel took by name, by the kindreds and houses of their fathers,"
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "from thirty years and upward, unto the fiftieth year, entering in to the ministry of the tabernacle, and to carry the burden,"
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "were in all eight thousand five hundred eighty."
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "According to the word of our Lord did Moyses reckon them, every one according to their office and burdens, as our Lord had commanded him."
}
],
"summary": "Distinct offices are assigned to the families of Aaron, 15. of the other sons of Caath, 21. of Gerson, 29. and of Merari. 34. Who are all numbered from the age of thirty years to fifty, and so employed to their offices and burdens."
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp (a) every leper, and whosoever hath a flux of seed, & is polluted upon the dead:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Still by the less (saith Theodoret) God instructeth in the greater, q. in Num. If therefore lepers were cast out of the camp, how much more justly are heretics cast out of the Church?"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "as well man as woman cast ye out of the camp, lest when they shall dwell with you, they contaminate it."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the children of Israel did so, and they did cast them forth without the camp, as our Lord had spoken to Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel: man, or woman, when they shall do any of all the sins, that are wont to chance to men, and by negligence have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and have offended,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "they shall confess their sins, & restore the principal itself, & the fifth part over to him, against whom they sinned.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "But if there be none to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the Priest's, the ram excepted, that is offered for expiation, to be a placable host."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "All the first fruits also, which the children of Israel do offer, pertain to the Priest:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and whatsoever is offered into the Sanctuary of every one, and is delivered to the hands of the Priest, it shall be his."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man, whose wife erreth, and contemning her husband,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "hath slept with another man, and her husband could not find it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adulterous fact:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "(b) if the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, which either is polluted or is charged with false suspicion,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "God ordained this law and miraculously concurred therein, to avoid wives-slaughter, upon vehement jealousy. Theod. q. 10. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "he shall bring her to the Priest, and shall offer an oblation for her, the [1] tenth part of a satum of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* about the eighth part of our peck."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "The Priest therefore shall offer it, & set it before the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And he shall take (c) holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little gravel of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Water sanctified by special rites is called holy water, and serveth to holy uses. chap. 8. v. 7. c. 19. v. 9."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And when the woman shall stand in the sight of the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall put upon her hands the sacrifice of recordation, and the oblation of jealousy: and himself shall hold the most bitter waters, whereon he heaped curses with execration,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not polluted by forsaking thy husband's bed, these most bitter waters shall not hurt thee, whereupon I have heaped curses."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But if thou hast declined from thy husband, & art polluted, and hast lien with another man,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "thou shalt be subject to these maledictions: Our Lord give thee for a malediction, and an example of all among his people: make he thy thigh to rot, and belly swelling burst asunder."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "The (d) cursed water enter into thy belly, and thy womb being swollen let thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer, Amen, amen.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The water whereon the Priest said curses to light on the woman if she were guilty."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And the Priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters, whereupon he heaped the curses,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and he shall give them her to drink. Which when she hath drunk up,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "the Priest shall take of her hand the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall elevate it before the Lord, and shall put it upon the altar: yet so notwithstanding that first,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "he take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, & burn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman to drink."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Which when she hath drunk, if she be polluted, and by contempt of her husband guilty of adultery, the waters of malediction shall go through her, and her belly being puft up her thigh shall rot withal: and the woman shall be for a malediction, and an example to all the people."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "But if she be not polluted, she shall be blameless, and shall bear children."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "This is the law of jealousy. If the woman decline from her husband, and if she be polluted,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "and the husband stirred with the spirit of jealousy brought her in the sight of the Lord, and the Priest have done to her according to all things that are written:"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "the husband shall be without fault, and she shall bear her iniquity."
}
],
"summary": "Lepers and all polluted persons must be cast out of the camp. 5. Confession of sin, and satisfaction for trespass. 9. First fruits and oblations pertain to the Priests. 11. The law of jealousy."
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake unto Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shall say to them: Man, or woman, when they shall make a vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate themselves to the Lord:",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "they shall abstain from wine, & every thing that can make one drunk, vinegar of wine, and of any other potion, and whatsoever is pressed out of the grape, they shall not drink: new grapes and dry they shall not eat"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "all the days wherein they are by vow consecrated to the Lord: whatsoever may be of the vineyard, from the raisin to the kernel they shall not eat."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "All the time of his separation a razor shall not pass over his head, until the day be expired, that he is consecrated to the Lord. He shall be holy (a) whiles the bush of hair on his head doth grow.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "When Samson was deprived of these hairs he lost his strength. Iudic. 16."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "All the time of his consecration he shall not enter in to the dead,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "neither shall he be contaminated, no not on his father's and mother's and brother's and sister's corpse, because the consecration of his God is upon his head."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "But if any man die suddenly before him, the head of his consecration shall be polluted: which he shall shave forthwith in the same day of his purgation, and again the seventh day:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and in the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons to the Priest in the entry of the covenant of testimony."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And the Priest shall offer one for sin, and the other for an holocaust, and shall pray for him, because he hath sinned by occasion of the dead: and he shall sanctify his head that day:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, offering a lamb of a year old for sin: yet so that the former days be made frustrate, because his sanctification was polluted."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "This is the law of consecration. When the days, that by vow he had determined, shall be expired: he shall bring him to the door of the tabernacle of covenant,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and shall offer his oblation to the Lord, a male lamb of a year old without spot for an holocaust, and an ewe lamb of a year old without spot for sin, and a ram without spot, for a pacific host,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "a basket also of unleavened breads that are tempered with oil, and wafers without leaven anointed with oil, and the libaments of every one:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "which the Priest shall offer before the Lord, and shall offer as well for sin, as for an holocaust."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "But the ram he shall immolate for a pacific host to the Lord, offering withal the basket of azymes, and the libaments that by custom are due."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Then shall the Nazarite be shaven before the door of the tabernacle of covenant, from the bush of the hair of his consecration: and he shall take his hairs, and lay them upon the fire, that is put under the sacrifice of pacifics."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And a shoulder of the ram boiled, and one cake without leaven out of the basket, and one wafer unleavened, and he shall deliver them into the hands of the Nazarite, after that his head be shaven."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And receiving them again from him, he shall elevate them in the sight of the Lord: and being sanctified they shall be the Priest's, as the breast, which was commanded to be separated, and the shoulder. After these things the Nazarite may drink wine."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "This is the law of the Nazarite, when he shall vow his oblation to the Lord in the time of his consecration, besides those things which his hand shall find, according to that which he had vowed in his mind, so shall he do to the fulfilling of his sanctification."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Speak to Aaron and his sons: (b) Thus shall you bless the children of Israel, and you shall say to them:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Aspecial and determinate form of blessing."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Our Lord bless thee, and keep thee."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Our Lord shew his face to thee, and have mercy upon thee."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Our Lord turn his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And (c) they shall invocate my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "When the Priest uttereth the words God giveth the effect."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Consecration, 14. and oblation of Nazareites. 22. A set form how the Priest shall bless the people."
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And it came to pass in the day that Moyses finished the tabernacle and erected it, he anointed also and sanctified it with all the vessels thereof, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "The Princes of Israel and the heads of the families, that were in every tribe, and the Rulers of them, that had been numbered, offered"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "gifts before our Lord, six wains covered, with twelve oxen, Two Princes offered one wain, and every man one oxe, and they offered them before the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Take them of their hands to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle, and thou shalt deliver them to the Levites according to the order of their ministry."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "When Moyses therefore had taken the wains and the oxen, he delivered them to the Levites."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Two wains & four oxen he gave to the sons of Gerson, according to that which was necessary for them."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The other four wains, and the eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari according to their offices and service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the Priest."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "But to the sons of Caath he gave not wains and oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary, and carry their burdens (a) upon their own shoulders.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Of great reverence they carried the ark, and propitiatory, and the holy vessel ordinarily upon their shoulders, yet the same were sometimes carried on wains. 2. Reg. 6."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "The Princes therefore offered unto the dedication of the altar, the day wherein it was anointed, their oblation before the altar."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Let the Princes one and one every day offer their gifts unto the dedication of the altar."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "The first day Nahasson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of Juda offered his oblation:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and there were in it a silver plate of an hundred and thirty sicles weight, a phial of silver having seventy sicles according to the weight of the Sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "a little mortar of ten sicles of gold full of incense:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for an holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and a buck goat for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and for a sacrifice of pacifics, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This is the oblation of Nahasson the son of Aminadab."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "The second day offered Nathanael the son of Suar, Prince of the tribe of Issachar,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "a plate of silver weighing and hundred thirty sicles, a phial of silver having seventy sicles, according to the weight of the Sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "a little mortar of gold having ten sicles full of incense:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for an holocaust,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and a buck goat for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and for a sacrifice of pacifics two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. this was the oblation of Nathanael the son of Suar."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "The third day the Prince of the sons of Zabulon Eliab the son of Helon,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "offered a plate of silver weighing an hundred thirty sicles, a phial of silver having seventy sicles after the weight of the Sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "a little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for an holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "and for a sacrifice of pacifics, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This is the oblation of Eliab the son of Helon."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "The fourth day the Prince of the sons of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "offered a plate of silver weighing an hundred thirty sicles, a phial of silver having seventy sicles after the weight of the Sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "a little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old, for an holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "and for pacific hosts two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old, this was the oblation of Elisur the son of Sedeur."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "The fifth day the Prince of the sons of Simeon Salamiel the son of Surisaddai,"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "offered a plate of silver weighing an hundred thirty sicles, a phial of silver having seventy sicles after the weight of the Sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "a little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for an holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "& for pacific hosts, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the oblation of Salamiel the son of Surisaddai."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "The sixth day the Prince of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "offered a plate of silver weighing an hundred thirty sicles, a phial of silver having seventy sicles after the weight of the Sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "a little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:"
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for an holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "and for pacific hosts, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the oblation of Eliasaph the son of Duel."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "The seventh day the Prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud"
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "offered a plate of silver weighing an hundred thirty sicles, a phial of silver having seventy sicles after the weight of the Sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "a little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:"
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for an holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "and for pacific hosts, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the oblation of Elisama the son of Ammiud."
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "The eighth day the Prince of the sons of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur,"
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "offered a plate of silver weighing an hundred thirty sicles, a phial of silver having seventy sicles after the weight of the Sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 56,
"text": "a little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles, full of incense:"
},
{
"verse": 57,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, and a ram, & a lamb of a year old for an holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 58,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 59,
"text": "and for pacific hosts, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the oblation of Gamaliel the son of Phadassur."
},
{
"verse": 60,
"text": "The ninth day the Prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon"
},
{
"verse": 61,
"text": "offered a plate of silver weighing an hundred thirty sicles, a phial of silver having seventy sicles after the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 62,
"text": "a little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:"
},
{
"verse": 63,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for an holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 64,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 65,
"text": "and for pacific hosts, two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old, this was the oblation of Abidan the son of Gedeon."
},
{
"verse": 66,
"text": "The tenth day the Prince of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai"
},
{
"verse": 67,
"text": "offered a plate of silver weighing an hundred thirty sicles, a phial of silver having seventy sicles, after the weight of the Sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 68,
"text": "a little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:"
},
{
"verse": 69,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, & a ram, and a lamb of a year old for an holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 70,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 71,
"text": "& for pacific hosts two oxen, five rams, five buck-goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the oblation of Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai."
},
{
"verse": 72,
"text": "The eleventh day the Prince of the sons of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran"
},
{
"verse": 73,
"text": "offered a plate of silver weighing an hundred thirty sicles, a phial of silver having seventy sicles after the weight of the Sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 74,
"text": "a little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense."
},
{
"verse": 75,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, & a ram, and a lamb of a year old for an holocaust,"
},
{
"verse": 76,
"text": "and a buck goat for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 77,
"text": "& for pacific hosts, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the oblation of Phegiel the son of Ochran."
},
{
"verse": 78,
"text": "The twelfth day the Prince of the sons of Nephthali, Ahira the son of Enan"
},
{
"verse": 79,
"text": "offered a plate of silver weighing an hundred thirty sicles, a phial of silver having seventy sicles after the weight of the Sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:"
},
{
"verse": 80,
"text": "a little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles, full of incense:"
},
{
"verse": 81,
"text": "an oxe out of the herd, & a ram, & a lamb of a year old for an holocaust:"
},
{
"verse": 82,
"text": "and a buck goat for sin"
},
{
"verse": 83,
"text": "and for pacific hosts, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the oblation of Ahira the son of Enan."
},
{
"verse": 84,
"text": "These things were offered of the Princes of Israel in the dedication of the altar, in the day wherein it was consecrated: plates of silver twelve: phials of silver twelve: little mortars of gold twelve:"
},
{
"verse": 85,
"text": "so that one plate had an hundred and thirty sicles of silver, & one phial had seventy sicles: that is, in the whole of all the vessels of silver two thousand four hundred sicles, by the weight of the Sanctuary:"
},
{
"verse": 86,
"text": "little mortars of gold twelve full of incense weighing ten sicles a piece, by the weight of the Sanctuary: that is, in the whole an hundred twenty sicles of gold:"
},
{
"verse": 87,
"text": "oxen out of the herd for an holocaust, twelve, rams twelve, lambs of a year old twelve, and their libaments: twelve buck goats for sin."
},
{
"verse": 88,
"text": "For pacific hosts, oxen twenty four, rams sixty, buck goats sixty, lambs of a year old sixty. These things were offered in the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed."
},
{
"verse": 89,
"text": "And when Moyses entered into the tabernacle of covenant, to consult the oracle, he heard the voice of him that spake to him from the propitiatory, that was over the ark between the two Cherubs, from whence also he spake to him."
}
],
"summary": "In dedication of the Tabernacle the Princes of the twelve tribes offer jointly six wains, and twelve oxen. 11. Then every Prince several days make other oblations. 89. And God speaketh to Moyses from the Propitiatory."
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up in the south part over against the north, toward the table of the breads of proposition, over against that part toward which the candlestick looketh, shall they shine."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as our Lord had commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "This was the making of the candlestick, of beaten gold, as well the middle shaft, as all things that arose out of both sides of the branches: according to the example which our Lord shewed to Moyses, so wrought he the candlestick."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses saying:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and thou shalt purify them,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "according to this rite: Let them be sprinkled with (a) the water of lustration, and shave all the hairs of their flesh. And when they have washed their garments, & are cleansed,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This water was mixed with ashes of a red cow sacrificed without the camp, chap. 19."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "they shall take an oxe out of the herds, & his libament flour tempered with oil: & another oxe out of the herd thou shalt take for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "& thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of covenant, calling together all the multitude of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And when the Levites are before the Lord, the children of Israel shall put their hands upon them."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and Aaron shall offer the Levites, a gift in the sight of the Lord from the children of Israel, that they may serve in his ministry."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "The Levites also shall put their hands upon the heads of the oxen, of the which thou shalt make one for sin, and the other for holocaust of the Lord, to pray for them."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And thou shalt set the Levites in the sight of Aaron and of his sons, and being offered shall consecrate them to the Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and shall separate them from the midst of the children of Israel, to be mine."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And afterward they shall enter into the tabernacle of covenant, to serve me. And thou shalt so purify and consecrate them for an oblation of the Lord: because they were given me for a gift of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "For the first born that open every matrice in Israel, I have taken them."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "For mine are all the first born of the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts. From the day that I smote every first born in the Land of Aegypt, have I sanctified them to me:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and I have taken the Levites for all the first born of the children of Israel:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and have delivered them for a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the people, to serve me for Israel in the tabernacle of covenant, & to pray for them, that there be no plague among the people, if they should presume to approach unto my Sanctuary."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Moyses & Aaron and all the multitude of the children of Israel did concerning the Levites the things that our Lord had commanded Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and they were purified, and washed their garments. And Aaron (b) elevated them in the sight of the Lord, and prayed for them,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Aaron having received the Levites, presented them to God, and so addicted them to their designed offices."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "that being purified they might enter to their offices into the tabernacle of covenant before Aaron and his sons. Even as our Lord had commanded Moyses touching the Levites, so was it done."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "This is the law of the Levites: From twenty five years and upward, they shall enter in to minister in the tabernacle of covenant."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And when they shall have accomplisheth the fiftieth year of their age, they shall cease to serve:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and shall be the ministers of their brethren in the tabernacle of covenant, to keep the things that are commanded to them, but not to do the very works. Thus shalt thou dispose to the Levites in their custodies."
}
],
"summary": "Seven lamps are so placed on the golden candlestick, that they may shine towards the breads of proposition. 5. The ordination of the Levites. 24. And at what age they shall serve in the tabernacle."
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses in the desert of Sinai, the second year, after they went out of the land of Aegypt, the first month, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Let the children of Israel make the Phase in his time,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "the fourteenth day of this month at even, according to all the ceremonies and justifications thereof."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Moyses commanded the children of Israel that they should make the Phase."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Who made it in his time: the fourteenth day of the month at even in mount Sinai. According to all things that our Lord had commanded Moyses the children of Israel did."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "But behold certain unclean (c) upon the soul of man, which could not make the Phase on that day, coming to Moyses and Aaron,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "By touching the dead. S. Aug. q. 15. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "said to them: We are unclean upon the soul of man: why are we defrauded that we cannot offer the oblation to our Lord in due time among the children of Israel?"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "To whom Moyses answered: Stand that I may ask counsel what our Lord will command concerning you."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And our Lord (d) spake to Moyses, saying:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "God answered by a voice framed by an Angel from the propitiatory, chap. 7. v. 89."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean upon a soul, or in his journey far off in your nation, let him make the Phase to the Lord"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "in the second month, the fourteenth day of the month at even: with azymes and wild lettuce shall they eat it:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "they shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, and a bone thereof they shall not break, all the rite of the Phase they shall observe."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But if any man both be clean, and was not in his journey, and yet did not make the Phase, that soul shall be destroyed out from among his peoples, because he offered not sacrifice to the Lord in his due time: he shall bear his sin."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "The sojourner also and stranger if they be with you, shall make the Phase to the Lord, according to the ceremonies and justifications thereof. The self-same precept shall be among you as well to the stranger, as to him that is born in the country."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Therefore the day that the tabernacle was erected, a cloud covered it. And from evening over the tabernacle there was as it were the likeness of fire until morning."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "So was it done always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it were the likeness of fire."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And when the cloud that protected the tabernacle had been taken away, then the children of Israel matched: and in the place where the cloud had stood, there they camped."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "At the commandment of our Lord they marched, and at his commandment they pitched the tabernacle. All the days that the cloud stood over the tabernacle, they remained in the same place:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and if it chanced that it did continue over it a long time, the children of Israel were in the watches of our Lord, and marched not."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "for as many days soever as the cloud had been over the tabernacle. At the commandment of our Lord they pitched their tents, and at his commandment they took them down."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "If the cloud had been from even until morning, and immediately at day break had forsaken the tabernacle, they marched: & if it had departed after a day and a night, they took down their tents."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "But if for two days or one month or a longer time it had been over the tabernacle, the children of Israel remained in the same place, and marched not: but immediately as it had departed, they removed the camp."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "By the word of the Lord they pitched their tents, and by his word they marched: and were in the Watches of our Lord according to his commandment by the hand of Moyses."
}
],
"summary": "The precept of Pasch to be made the fourteenth day of the first moon, is renewed. 6. But the unclean, and travelers in journey the fourteenth day of the second month. 15. The camp must rest or march, as the cloud or pillar of fire remaineth over the tabernacle, or departeth."
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And when thou shalt sound with the trumpets, all the multitude shall gather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle of covenant."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "If thou sound but once, the Princes shall come to thee, and the heads of the multitude of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "But if the trumpeting sound in length and with a broken tune, they shall move their camp first that are on the east side."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And at the second sound and the like noise of the trumpet, they shall take up their tents that dwell toward the south, and after this manner shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound to the marching."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "But when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the trumpet shall be plain, and they (a) shall not make a broken sound.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Before the whole multitude, plain and necessary points of doctrine must only be uttered, but before the learned & wiser sort higher mysteries may be treated and taught. Theod. q. 15. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And the sons of Aaron the Priests shall sound with the trumpets: and this shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "If you go forth to war out of your land against the enemies that fight against you, you shall sound with trumpets in length, and there shall be remembrance of you before the Lord your God, that you may be delivered out of the hands of your enemies."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "If at any time you shall have a banquet, & festival days, and Calends, you shall sound with trumpets over the holocausts, & pacific victims, that they may be unto you for a remembrance of your God. I the Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "The second year, in the second month, the twentieth day of the month was the cloud lifted up from the tabernacle of covenant:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "& the children of Israel marched by their troops from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the first moved their camp according to the commandment of our Lord by the hand of Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "The sons of Judas by their troops: whose Prince was Nahasson the son of Aminadab."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "In the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the Prince was Nathanael the son of Suar."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "In the tribe of Zabulon, the Prince was Eliab the son of Helon."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the tabernacle was taken down, which the sons of Gerson and Merari carrying, marched."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And the sons of Ruben also marched, by their troops and order, whose Prince was Helisur the son of Sedeur."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And in the tribe of Simeon, the Prince was Salamiel the son of Surisaddai."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Moreover in the tribe of Gad, the Prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And the Caathites also marched carrying the Sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of erecting it."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in whose host the Prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And in the tribe of the sons of Manasses, the Prince was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And in the tribe of Benjamin the Prince was Abidan the son of Gedeon."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "The last of all the camp marched the sons of Dan by their troops, in whose host the Prince was Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the Prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And in the tribe of the sons of Nephthali the Prince was Ahira the son of Enan."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "These are the camps, and the marchings of the children of Israel by their troops when they marched."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And Moyses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, (a) his [1] allied: We march toward the place, which our Lord will give us: come with us, that we may do thee good: for our Lord hath promised good things to Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Either this Hobab was otherwise called Raguel Exo. 2. and also Jethro Exo. 3. and was father in law to Moyses, or else he was son of Raguel, and brother in law to Moyses."
},
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* cognato vel affini."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "To whom he answered: I will not go with thee, but I will return to my country, wherein I was born."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And he said: Do not forsake us: for thou knowest in what places through the desert we may camp, and (b) thou shalt be our guide.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Moyses meaneth, that when by the cloud and pillar of fire (their special guides) the people should come to new places, this Madianite his allied might direct them, where to find best pasture, water and like commodities, near to them."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And when thou comest with us, whatsoever shall be best of the riches, which our Lord shall deliver us, we will give thee."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "They marched therefore from the Mount of our Lord three days' journey, and the ark of the covenant of our Lord went before them, for three days providing a place for the camp."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "The cloud also of our Lord was over them by day when they marched."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And when the ark was lifted up, Moyses said: (c) Arise Lord, and be thine enemies dispersed, and let them fly that hate thee, from thy face.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Besides general prayers for all purposes, some are composed, and applied for special times and occasions."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And when it was set down, he said: Return Lord to the multitude of the host of Israel."
}
],
"summary": "Trumpets are sounded by the Priests, diversly for diverse purposes. 11. The camp marcheth from the desert of Sinai. 29. Moyses entreateth Hobab the Madianite to remain with them. 35. His prayer when the ark is taken up, and set down. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The second part. Of diverse impediments which happened to the Israelites, and renovation of sundry precepts in their journey from the desert of Sinai to the camp of Moab."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people, as it were repining for labour, against our Lord. Which when our Lord had heard, he was angry. And the fire of our Lord being kindled against them, devoured the uttermost part of the camp."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And when the people had cried to Moyses, Moyses prayed to our Lord, and the fire was quenched."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And he called the name of the place, Kindling: for that the fire of our Lord had been kindled against them."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "For (a) the common vulgar people that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel being joined together with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These were Aegyptians that parted out of their country with the Israelites, and now murmuring draw others by example to the same sin."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "We remember the fishes that we did eat in Aegypt gratis: the cucumbers come unto our mind, and the melons, and leeks and onions and garlic."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but Manna."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the Manna was as it were the seed of Coriander, of the colour of bdellion."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And the people went about, & gathering it, ground it in a mill, or brayed it in a mortar, boiling it in a pot, and making cakes thereof of the taste as it were of oiled bread."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the Manna also fell withal."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Moyses therefore heard the people weeping by their families, every one at the doors of his tent. And the fury of our Lord was exceeding wrath: but to Moyses also it seemed an intolerable thing."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And he said to our Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? wherefore do I not find grace before thee? and why hast thou laid the weight of all this people upon me?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Have I conceived all this multitude, or begotten them, that thou shouldest say to me: Carry them in thy bosom as the nurse is wont to carry the little infant, and bear them into the land, for the which thou hast sworn to their fathers?"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Whence shall I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? They whine against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "I alone cannot sustain all this people, because it is heavy for me."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "But (b) if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me, and let me find grace in thine eyes, that I be not molested with so great evils.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Prayers of holy men are with submission of their wills to God's will, either expressed or implied."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Gather me seventy men of the ancients of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the ancients of the people and masters: and thou shalt bring them to the door of the tabernacle of covenant, and shalt make them to stand there with thee,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "that I may descend & speak to thee: and (c) I will take of thy spirit, and will deliver to them, that they may sustain with thee the burden of the people, and thou only be not burdened.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "God imparted of the same spirit to these Ancients, whereof he had given to Moyses, that they might have so much help of grace as pleased God, and Moyses have nevertheless. S. Aug. q. 18. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "To the people also thou shalt say: Be sanctified: tomorrow you shall eat flesh: for I have heard you say: Who shall give us meats of flesh? It was well with us in Aegypt. That the Lord may give you flesh, and you may eat:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "not one day, nor two, or five, or ten, no nor twenty,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "but even to a month of days, till it go out of your nostrils, & be turned to loathsomeness, because you have rejected the Lord, who is in the midst of you, and have whined before him, saying: Wherefore came we out of Aegypt?"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Moyses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month?"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Why, shall a multitude of sheep and oxen be killed, that it may suffice for meat? Or shall all the fishes of the sea be gathered together, for to fill them?"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "To whom our Lord answered: Why, is the hand of the Lord unable? Now presently thou shalt see whether my word shall be accomplished in deed."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Moyses therefore came, and told the people the words of our Lord, assembling seventy men of the ancients of Israel, whom he caused to stand about the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And our Lord descended in a cloud, and spake to him, taking away of the spirit that was in Moyses, and giving to the seventy men. And when the spirit had rested on them, they prophesied, neither ceased they any more."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And there had remained in the camp two men, of the which one was called Eldad, and the other Medad, upon whom the spirit rested. (d) For they also had been enrolled, & were not gone forth to the tabernacle.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "God's grace sometimes preventeth the ordinary means. Theodoret. q. 21. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a boy, and told Moyses, saying: Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Forthwith Josue the Nun, the minister of Moyses, and chosen of many, said: My Lord Moyses forbid them."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me? O that all the people might prophesy, and that our Lord would give them his spirit!"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And Moyses returned, and the ancients of Israel into the camp."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And a wind coming forth from our Lord, taking quails over the sea brought them, and let them fall into the camp the space of one day's journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they did fly in the air two cubits high over the earth."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "The people therefore rising up all that day, and the night, and the next day, gathered together a multitude of quails, he that did least, ten cores: and they dried them round about the camp."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "As yet the flesh was in their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: & behold the fury of our Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And that place was called, (e) The Sepulchres of concupiscence: for there they buried the people that had lusted. And departing from the Sepulchres of concupiscence, they came unto Haseroth, and tarried there.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "By this example and figure S. Paul sheweth that all shall not be saved which are baptised, and communicate in the same faith and Sacraments, but those only which also please God in their works. 1. Cor. 10."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "The people murmuring are punished with fire. 7. Manna is again described. 10. Moyses being afflicted with solicitude of troublesome people, 16. God adjoineth seventy Ancients to sustain part of his burden. 18. Promiseth to give all the people flesh. 25. The Ancients do prophesy. 31. The people have their fill of flesh, 33. but forthwith many die of the plague, whereof the place is called, The sepulchres of concupiscence."
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Mary and Aaron spake against Moyses, for his wife the (a) Aethiopian, [1]",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Exod. 2."
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Madianites were also called Aethiopians. S. Aug. q. 20. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and they said: hath our Lord spoken by Moyses only? Hath he not spoken to us also in like manner? Which when our Lord had heard,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "( (b) For Moyses was the mildest man above all men that dwelt upon the earth)",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The Holy Ghost forced Moyses to utter his own praise, which of himself he desired not."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "immediately he spake to him, and to Aaron and Mary: Go forth you three only to the tabernacle of covenant. And when they were come forth,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "our Lord descended in the pillar of a cloud, and stood in the entry of the tabernacle calling Aaron & Mary. Who going unto him,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "he said to them: Hear my words: If there shall be among you a Prophet of the Lord, in vision will I appear to him, or in sleep I will speak to him."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "But my servant Moyses is not such an one, who in all my house is most faithful:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "for mouth to mouth I speak to him: and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why therefore did you not fear to detract from my servant Moyses?"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And being wrath against them, he went away:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "the cloud also departed that was over the tabernacle: and behold Mary appeared white with leprosy as it were snow. And (c) when Aaron had looked on her, and saw her wholly covered with leprosy,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Aaron was not publicly punished, lest thereby he had been made contemptible to the people, but was otherwise chastised."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "he said to Moyses: I beseech thee my Lord, lay not upon us this sin which we have foolishly committed,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "let not this woman be as it were dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth of the mother's womb. Lo now the one half of her flesh is devoured with the leprosy."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Moyses cried to our Lord, saying: God, I beseech thee, heal her."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "To whom our Lord answered: If her father had spit upon her face, ought she not to have been ashamed seven days at the least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall be called again."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Mary therefore was shut forth without the camp seven days: and the people moved not from that place, until Mary was called again."
}
],
"summary": "Mary and Aaron murmur against Moyses. 6. Whom God praiseth above other Prophets. 10. Mary being strucken with leprosy, Aaron confesseth his fault. 13. Moyses prayeth for her, and after seven day's separation from the camp, she is restored."
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the people marched from Haseroth pitching their tents in the desert of Pharan."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And there our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Send men that may view the Land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the Princes."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Moyses did that which our Lord had commanded, from the desert of Pharan sending principal men, whose names be these."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Huri."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the son of Sodi."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Of the tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre of Manasses, Gaddi, the son of Susi."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Of the tribe of Aser, Sthur the son of Michael."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Of the tribe of Nephthali, Nahabi the son of Vapsi."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "These are the names of the men, whom Moyses sent to view the Land: and he called Osee the son of Nun, (a) Josue.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Changing of his name literally imported the great office of chief Duke unto which he was designed, mystically prefigure our Lord JESUS, for it is the same name in Hebrew, and signifieth SAVIOUR. Theod. q. 25. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Moyses therefore sent them to view the Land of Chanaan, and said to them: Go up by the south side. And when you shall come to the mountains,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "view the Land, what it is: and the people that are the inhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or many:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "the land it-self, whether it be good or bad: what manner of cities, walled or without walls:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "the ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good courage, and bring us of the fruits of the Land. And it was the time when now the first ripe grapes are to be eaten."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And when they were gone up, they viewed the Land from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob as you enter to Emath."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And they went up at the south side, & came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai & Tholmai the sons of Enac, for Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And going forward as far as the Torrent of cluster, they cut off a branch with the grapes thereof, which two men carried upon a lever. They took of the pomegranates also & of the figs of that place:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the Torrent of cluster, for that thence the children of Israel had carried a cluster."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And the discoverers of the Land returning after forty days, having circuited all the country,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "came to Moyses & Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel into the desert of Pharan; which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude they shewed the fruits of the Land:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and reported, saying: We came into the Land to which thou didst send us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey, as by these fruits may be known:"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "but it hath very strong inhabitants, and cities great and walled. The stock of Enac we saw there."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hetheite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chananite abideth beside the sea and about the streams of Jordan."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Among these things Caleb appeasing the murmuring of the people that rose against Moyses, said: Let us go up and possess the Land because we may obtain it."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because it is stronger than we."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And they detracted from the Land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The Land, which we have viewed, (b) devoureth her inhabitants: the people, that we beheld, is of a tall stature.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Pretending falsely that the Land had an unwholesome air, devouring the inhabitants, & not possible to be obtained"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant's kind: to whom being compared, we seemed as it were locusts."
}
],
"summary": "From the desert of Pharan Moyses sendeth twelve men (of every tribe one) to view the Land of Chanaan: 17. changeth Osee his name into Josue, 18. instructeth them which way to go, and what to note in the land: 22. which they perform: 26. and after forty days return, bringing with them fruits, in token of the land's fertility. 29. But in other respects (the rest besides Caleb and Josue) discouraging the people make them to murmur."
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore all the Multitude crying out wept that night,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and all the children of Israel murmured against Moyses and Aaron, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Would God we had died in Aegypt: and (a) in this vast wilderness would God we might die, and that our Lord would not bring us into this Land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led captive. Is it not better to return into Aegypt?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These murmurers had their wish, to their own punishment. Cha. 14. v. 29. 26. v. 64."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And one said to another: (b) Let us appoint a captain, & let us return into Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "It is so absolutely necessary in every community to have one Superior of all, that very mutineers themselves do ever choose such a one, & call him the Electo."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Which Moyses & Aaron hearing fell flat upon the ground before all the multitude of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and spake to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The Land, which we have circuited, is very good."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "If our Lord be propitious, he shall bring us into it, and deliver us a ground flowing with milk and honey."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Be not rebellious against our Lord: neither fear ye the people of this land, for even as bread so we may devour them, all aid is gone from them: our Lord is with us, fear ye not."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And when all the multitude cried, and would have stoned them, the glory of our Lord appeared over the roof of covenant in the sight of all the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: How long will this people detract me? How long will they not believe me in all the signs that I have done before them?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make Prince over a great nation and a stronger than this is."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Moyses said to our Lord: That the Aegyptians, from the midst of whom thou hast brought forth this people,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and the inhabitants of this Land, which have heard that thou Lord art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud protecteth them, and in a pillar of a cloud thou goest before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "may hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man, and may say:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "He could not bring in the people into the Land, for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Let therefore the strength of our Lord be magnified as thou hast sworn, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wicked deeds, and leaving no man innocent, which visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Forgive, I beseech thee, the sin of this thy people, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been propitious to them since their going out of Aegypt unto this place."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And our Lord said: I have forgiven it according to thy word."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Live I: and the whole earth shall be replenished with the glory of the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "(c) But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Aegypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, neither have obeyed my voice,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "After the sin is forgiven, yet punishment remaineth to be inflicted."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "they shall not see the Land for the which I sware to their fathers, neither shall any of them that hath detracted me, behold it."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "My servant Caleb, who (d) being full of another spirit hath followed me, will I bring in unto this Land which he hath circuited: and his seed shall possess it.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Although grace be first given without desert: yet good works done by grace do merit reward. S. Aug. de Grat. & lib. arb. c. 6."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Because the Amalecite and the Cananeite dwell in the valleys. Tomorrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "How long doth this ungracious multitude murmur against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Say therefore to them: live I, sayeth our Lord: According as you have spoken I hearing it, so will I do to you."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "In this wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that are numbered from twenty years & upward, and have murmured against me,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "you shall not enter into the Land, over the which I have lifted up my hand to make you inhabit it, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "But your little ones, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the Land that hath misliked you."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and (e) shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Temporal punishment laid upon the children for their father's sins, is for their own spiritual good. S. Aug. Epist. 75. ad Avitum."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "according to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: a year shall be reputed for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "for as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen together against me: in this wilderness shall it fail, and die,"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Therefore all the men, whom Moyses had sent to view the Land, and which returning had made all the multitude to murmur against him, detracting from the Land that it was nought,"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "died and were strucken in the sight of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone lived of all them, that had gone to view the Land."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "And Moyses spake all these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "And behold very early in the morning rising they went up to the top of the mountain, and said: We are ready to go up to the place, whereof our Lord hath spoken: for we have sinned."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "To whom Moyses said: Why transgress you the word of our Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?"
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Go not up, for our Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "The Amalecite and the Chananite are before you, by whose sword you shall fall, for that you would not consent to our Lord, neither will our Lord be with you."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "But they being blinded went up to the top of the mountain. But the ark of the testament of our Lord & Moyses departed not from the camp."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And the Amalecite came down and the Cananeite, that dwelt in the mountain: and striking and hewing them, pursued them as far as Horma."
}
],
"summary": "The mutinous murmuring people being unplacable, 11. God expostulateth their ingratitude, threateneth to destroy them. 13. Yet Moyses pacifieth his wrath, 22. but so that all which were numbered coming from Aegypt, except Caleb and Josue, shall die in the wilderness. 31. And their children shall possess the promised land. 40. Then fighting contrary to Moyses' admonition are beaten, and many slain by their enemies."
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall be entered into the Land of your habitation, which I will give you,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and shall make oblation to the Lord for an holocaust, or victim, paying vows, or voluntarily offering gifts, or in your solemnities burning a sweet savour unto the Lord, of oxen or of sheep:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "whosoever immolateth the victim, shall offer a sacrifice of flour, the tenth part of an ephi tempered with oil, which shall have in measure the fourth part of an hin:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and wine of the same measure to pour the libaments shall he give for the holocaust or for the victim. For every lamb"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and ram there shall be a sacrifice of flour of two tenths, which shall be tempered with oil the third part of an hin:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and wine for the libament, the third part of the same measure, shall he offer for a sweet savour to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "But when thou makest an holocaust or host of oxen, to fulfill thy vow, or for pacific victims,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "thou shalt give for every oxe three tenths of flour tempered with oil, which shall have half the measure of a hin:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and wine to pour libaments of the same measure for an oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "So shalt thou do"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "for every oxe and ram and lamb & buck goat."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "As well they that are born in the country as the strangers"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "after one rite shall offer sacrifices."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "There shall be all one precept & judgment as well to yourselves as to the strangers of the land."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, & thou shalt say to them:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "When you are come into the land, which I will give you,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and shall eat of the breads of that country, you shall separate first fruits to the Lord"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "of your meats. As of your barn floors you separate first fruits,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "so of your pasts shall you give first fruits to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And if through ignorance you omit any of these things, which the Lord hath spoken to Moyses,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and by him hath commanded you, from the day that he began to command and so forward,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and the multitude have forgotten to do it: they shall offer a calf out of the herd, an holocaust for a most sweet savour to the Lord, and the sacrifice and libaments thereof, as the ceremonies require, and a buck goat for sin:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and the Priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children of Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned not wittingly, offering notwithstanding burnt sacrifice to the Lord for themselves and for their sin and error:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and it shall be forgiven all the people of the children of Israel, and the strangers, that sojourn among them: because it is the fault of all the people through ignorance."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "But if one soul shall sin unwitting, he shall offer a she goat of a year old for his sin:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and the Priest shall pray for him, because he sinned unwitting before the Lord: and he shall obtain him pardon, and it shall be forgiven him."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "As well to them that are born in the country as to the strangers one law shall be for all, that sin by ignorance."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "But the soul, that (a) through pride committeth any thing, whether he be born in the country, or a stranger, (because he hath been rebellious against the Lord) shall perish out of his people:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Though sins wittingly committed, proceeding of pride and contempt of God's commandment, could not be pardoned by the law: yet such may also be remitted through true repentance. S. Aug. q. 25. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "for he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made his precept of no effect: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "they presented him to Moyses and Aaron and the whole multitude."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Who shut him into prison, not knowing what they should do with him."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses, (b) dying let this man die, let all the multitude stone him without the camp.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Severity is used towards those that knowing God's will do contrary. Luc. 12. v. 47."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And when they had brought him out, they stoned him, and he died as our Lord had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Our Lord also said to Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, that they make themselves (c) fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in them ribands of hyacinth:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The Jews in Christ's time hypocritically enlarged these fringes, for vain shew of holiness. Mat. 23."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "which when they shall see, they may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and not follow their own cogitations and eyes fornicating after diverse things,"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "but rather mindful of the precepts of the Lord may do them, and be holy to their God."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "I the Lord your God, that brought you out of the Land of Aegypt, that I might be your God."
}
],
"summary": "Certain precepts concerning Sacrifices 17. and first fruits, are repeated, 22. also touching different punishment of sin committed by ignorance and by set willfulness: 32. and accordingly one is stoned to death for gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. 37. All are commanded to carry a sign in their garments, thereby to remember the commandments of God."
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, Hon also the son of Pheleth of the children of Ruben,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "rose against Moyses, & other of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty men, princes of the synagogue, and which in the time of assembly were called by name.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And when they had stood up against Moyses and Aaron, they said: Let it suffice you, that (a) all the multitude consisteth of holy ones, and our Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above the people of our Lord?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "So Luther (li. de abrog. Missa) & other enemies of Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, will have no proper Priesthood in the Church of Christ, because all Christians are called a holy Priesthood, 1. Pet. 2. & Priests, Apoc. 1."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Which when Moyses had heard, he fell flat on his face:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and speaking to Core and all the multitude, he said: In the morning our Lord will make it known who pertain to him, and the holy he will join to himself: and whom he shall choose, they shall approach to him."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "This do therefore: Take every man their censers, thou Core, and all thy council:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and taking fire in them tomorrow, put upon it incense before our Lord: and whom soever he shall choose, the same shall be holy: you do much exalt yourselves ye sons of Levi."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Is it a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from all the people, and joined you to himself, that you should serve him in the service of the tabernacle, and should stand before the full assembly of the people, & should minister to him?"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should challenge unto you the priesthood also,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "& all thy company should stand against our Lord? For what is Aaron that you murmur against him?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Moyses therefore sent to call Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab. Who answered: We come not."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Why, is it a small matter to thee that thou hast brought us out of a land, that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, unless thou rule also like a Lord over us?"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Indeed hast thou brought us into a land, that floweth with rivers of milk and honey, and hast thou given us possessions of fields and vineyards? What, wilt thou pluck out our eyes also? We come not."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Moyses therefore being very wrath, said to our Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as a little ass at any time, neither have afflicted any of them."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And he said to Core: Thou, and all thy congregation stand ye apart before our Lord, and Aaron tomorrow apart."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Take every one your censers, and put incense upon them, offering to our Lord two hundred fifty censers: Let Aaron also hold his censer."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Which when they had done, Moyses and Aaron standing,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "& had heaped together all the multitude against them to the door of the tabernacle, the glory of our Lord appeared to them all."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And our Lord speaking to Moyses and Aaron, said:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, that I may suddenly destroy them."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Who fell flat on their face, and said: Most mighty God of the spirits of all flesh, when one sinneth, shall thy wrath rage against all?"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Command the whole people that they separate themselves from the tabernacles of Core and Dathan and Abiron."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And Moyses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients of Israel following him,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "he said to the multitude: Depart from the tabernacles of the impious men, and touch not the things that pertain to them, (a) lest you be wrapped in their sins.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Those that touch things pertaining to impiety, or"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan and Abiron coming forth stood in the entry of their pavilions with their wives and children, and all the multitude."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And Moyses said: (b) In this you shall know that our Lord hath sent me to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my own mind:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Moyses proved before by miracles (Exod. 4.) that he was sent of God, & now he proveth again by miracle, that he and Aaron, and not these schismatics were called & sent by God to govern his people."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "If they die the accustomed death of men, and if the plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, do visit them, our Lord did not send me:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "but if our Lord do a new thing, that the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that pertain to them, and they descend quick into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Immediately therefore as he ceased to speak, the earth brake a-sunder under their feet:"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "and opening her mouth, devoured them with their tabernacles & all their substance."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "and they went down into hell quick covered with the ground, and perished out of the midst of the multitude."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "But all Israel, that stood round about, fled at the cry of them that perished, saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us also."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "But a fire also coming forth from our Lord, slew the two hundred fifty men, that offered the incense."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Command (c) Eleazar the son of Aaron the Priest that he take up the censers that lie in the burning fire, and that he sprinkle the fire hither and thither: because they be sanctified",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Aaron being already established high-Priest, God again confirmeth in Eleazar the progeny of Priestly succession, in Aaron's stock, & not in other Levites. S. Aug. q. 30. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "in the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because there hath been offered incense in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a monument."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "Eleazar therefore the Priest took the brazen censers, wherein they had offered, whom the burning fire devoured, and beat them into plates, fastening them to the altar:"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "that the children of Israel afterward might have, wherewith to be admonished, that no stranger approach, and he that is not of the seed of Aaron, to offer incense to our Lord, lest he suffer as Core hath suffered, & all his congregation, according as our Lord spake to Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured the day following against Moyses & Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "And when there rose a sedition, and the tumult grew farther,"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Moyses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of covenant. Which after they were entered the cloud covered it, and the glory of our Lord appeared."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "Depart from the midst of this multitude, (d) even now will I destroy them. And as they lay upon the ground,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "This multitude did only in words favour schismatics, what judgement then remaineth to those which in external acts participate with heretics?"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "Moyses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and drawing fire from the altar, put incense upon it, going quickly to the people to pray for them: for even now is the wrath come forth from our Lord, & the plague rageth."
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "Which when Aaron had done, and had run to the midst of the multitude, which now the burning fire did waste, he offered the incense:"
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "and standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased."
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "And there were, that were strucken, fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, beside them that had perished in the sedition of Core."
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "And Aaron returned to Moyses unto the door of the tabernacle of covenant after that the destruction was ceased."
}
],
"summary": "Core and his complices, making schism against Moyses and Aaron, 31. some are swallowed in the earth, with their families and substance; 35. other two hundred and fifty offering incense, 41. and fourteen thousand seven hundred of the common people, murmuring in behalf of the seditious, are consumed with fire from heaven."
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and (a) take a rod of every one of their kindreds, of all the Princes of their tribes, twelve rods, and the name of every one thou shalt write upon his rod.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "For more satisfaction to the whole people God confirmeth Aaron's authority by a new miracle. v. 10."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the name of Aaron shall be in the tribe of Levi, and one rod shall contain all their families:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and thou shalt lay them in the tabernacle of covenant before the testimony, where I will speak to thee."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Whomsoever of these I shall choose, his rod shall blossom: and I shall stay from me the grudgings of the children of Israel, wherewith they murmur against you."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Moyses spake to the children of Israel: and all the Princes gave him rods by every tribe: and they were twelve rods besides Aaron's rod."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Which when Moyses had laid before our Lord in the tabernacle of testimony:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "returning the day following he found that Aaron's (b) rod in the house of Levi was budded: and the buds thereof swelling, the blossoms were shot forth, which spreading the leaves; were [1] fashioned into (c) almonds.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The rod signified the B. Virgin mother and the"
},
{
"label": "c",
"text": "almonds Christ, to wit, the utter pill his humanity, the shell his cross, the kernel his divinity: Who pacified by the blood of his cross, all things in earth & in heaven. Collos. 1. S. Aug. de temp. ser. 3."
},
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* deformati, fully formed."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Moyses therefore brought forth all the rods from the sight of our Lord to all the children of Israel, and they saw and every one received their rods."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Carry back Aaron's rod into the tabernacle of testimony, that it may be kept there for a sign of the rebellious children of Israel, and let their complaints cease from me, lest they die."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Moyses did as our Lord had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And the children of Israel said to Moyses: Behold we are consumed, we are all perished."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Whosoever approacheth to the tabernacle of our Lord, he dieth. Are we all to be destroyed unto utter consumption?"
}
],
"summary": "Moyses taking of the Princes of twelve tribes twelve rods, and one of Aaron for the tribe of Levi, layeth them all in the tabernacle all night, 8. where Aaron's rod (and none of the rest) buddeth, bloometh, and bringeth forth fruit. 9. And all being shewed to the people, Aaron's is carried back, and kept for a monument in the tabernacle."
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord said to Aaron: Thou, and thy sons, and the house of thy father with thee shall bear the iniquity of the Sanctuary: both thou & thy sons together shall bear the sins of your priesthood."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "But thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, and the sceptre of thy father take with thee, and let them be ready at hand, and minister to thee: but thou and thy sons shall minister in the tabernacle of testimony."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the Levites shall watch upon thy precepts, and upon all the works of the tabernacle: so notwithstanding, that they approach not to the vessels of the Sanctuary and to the altar, lest both they die, and you perish withal."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But let them be with thee, and watch in the custodies of the tabernacle, and in all the ceremonies thereof. A stranger shall not join with you."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Watch in the custody of the Sanctuary, and in the ministry of the altar: lest indignation rise upon the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "I have given you your brethren the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and have delivered them a gift to the Lord, to serve in the ministries of his tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And thou and thy sons look to your priesthood: and all things that pertain to the service of the altar, and that are within the veil, shall be executed by the Priests. If any stranger approach, (a) he shall be slain.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Oza was slain for touching the ark 2. Reg. 6."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Aaron, behold I have given thee the custody of my first fruits. All things that are sanctified of the children of Israel, have I delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly office, as everlasting ordinances."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "These things therefore shalt thou take of those, that are sanctified, and are offered to the Lord. All oblation, and sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and offence, & becometh Holy of holies, shall be thine, and thy sons."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "In the Sanctuary shalt thou eat it: males only shall eat thereof, because it is to thee a consecrated thing."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "But the first fruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and offer, I have given thee, and thy sons, and thy daughters for a perpetual right. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "All the best of oil, and wine, and corn, whatsoever first fruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Of fruits all the first, that the ground bringeth forth, and are brought to the Lord, shall turn to thy uses: he that is clean in thy house, shall eat them."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Every thing that the children of Israel render by vow, shall be thine."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Whatsoever first breaketh forth from the matrice of all flesh, which they offer to the Lord, whether it be of men, or of beasts, shall be thy right: yet so, that for the first born of man thou take a price, and every beast that is unclean thou cause to be redeemed,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "whose redemption shall be after one month, for five sicles of silver, by the weight of the Sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty oboles."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "But the first-born of beef and sheep and goat thou shalt not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the Lord, only the blood of them thou shalt pour upon the altar, and the fat thou shalt burn for a most sweet odour to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "But the flesh shall turn to thy use, as the consecrated breast, and the right shoulder, shall be thine."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "All the first fruits of the Sanctuary which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, have I given thee and thy sons, and daughters for a perpetual right. (b) A covenant of salt is it for ever before the Lord, to thee and to thy sons.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This covenant of first-fruits & other rights given to the Priests shall be perpetual, as salt is in every sacrifice, Levit. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And our Lord said to Aaron: In their land you shall possess nothing, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And to the sons of Levi I have given all the tithes of Israel in possession for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of covenant:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "that the children of Israel approach not any more to the tabernacle, nor commit (c) deadly sin,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Punishable with death."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "only the sons of Levi serving me in the tabernacle, and bearing the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. No other thing shall they possess,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "being content with the oblation of tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessaries."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Command the Levites, and denounce unto them: When you shall receive of the children of Israel the tithes, which I have given you, offer first fruits of them to the Lord, that is to say, the tenth part of the tenth:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "that it may be reputed to you for an oblation of first fruits, as well of the barn floors as of the presses,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and of all things whereof you receive tithes, the first fruits offer to the Lord, and give them to Aaron the Priest."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "All things that you shall offer of the tithes, and shall separate for the gifts of the Lord, they shall be the best and chosen things."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And thou shalt say to them: If you offer all the goodly and the better things of the tithes, it shall be reputed to you as if you had given first fruits of the barn floor and the press:"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and you shall eat them in all your places, as well you as your families: because it is the reward for the ministry, wherewith you serve in the tabernacle of testimony."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And you shall not sin in this point, reserving the principal and fat things to yourselves, lest you pollute the oblations of the children of Israel, and die."
}
],
"summary": "The charge and burden of Priests within the Tabernacle, and of Levites about the same. 8. First fruits, and oblations are due to the Priests; 21. the tithes to the Levites; 26. who of the same pay tithes to the Priests."
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "This is the religion of [1] the victim, which the Lord hath appointed. Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee (a) a red cow of (b) full age, wherein is (c) no blemish, and that hath (d) not carried yoke:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "His body of Adam signifying red earth."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "At the age of 33. years."
},
{
"label": "c",
"text": "All ways most pure from sin."
},
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Free from all bondage."
},
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* The same things, saith S. Aug. (q. 33.) and Theodo. (q. 36. in Num.) which were shadowed & prefigured in the old Testament, are revealed & manifested in the New. And this special sacrifice prefigured diverse particular things in Christ's Passion."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and you shall deliver her to Eleazar the Priest, who bringing her forth (e) without the camp, shall immolate her in the sight of all:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Crucified without the gate of Hierusalem."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and dipping his finger in her (f) blood, shall sprinkle it against the doors of the tabernacle seven times,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "All Sacraments have their virtue of Christ's blood."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and shall burn her in the sight of all, committing (g) as well her skin and the flesh, as the blood, and the dung to the fire.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "From the sole of his feet to the top of his head all wounded, with the whips, crown, nails. &c."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "(h) Wood also of the cedar, and (i) hyssop, and scarlet (k) twice dyed shall the Priest cast into the flame, that wasteth the cow.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "h",
"text": "Wood of the cross brought life to the world."
},
{
"label": "i",
"text": "Lively heat of so infinite charity dissolveth the coldness of death."
},
{
"label": "k",
"text": "Christ's suffering an example that we must also sustain afflictions."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And then at length washing his garments, and his body, he shall enter into the camp, and (l) shall be polluted until even.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "l",
"text": "Those that procured or cooperated to Christ's death were polluted with sin."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "But he also that burneth her shall wash his garments and his body, and shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And (m) a man that is clean shall gather the ashes of the cow, and shall pour them out without the camp in (n) a most clean place, that they may be reserved for the multitude of the children of Israel, and for water of aspersion: because the cow was burnt for sin.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "m",
"text": "Joseph and Nicodemus buried Christ."
},
{
"label": "n",
"text": "His sepulchre was glorious."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And when he that carried the ashes of the cow hath washed his garments, (o) he shall be unclean (p) until even. The children of Israel, and the strangers that dwell among them, shall have this for a holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "o",
"text": "Those also that buried him, need cleansing by his Passion, not for that work, but for their sins."
},
{
"label": "p",
"text": "The old law did not remit sins but the new."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "He that toucheth the dead corpse of a man, and is unclean therefore seven days,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "shall be sprinkled of (q) this water the third day, and the seventh, and so shall be cleansed. If he were not sprinkled the third day, (r) the seventh day he cannot be cleansed.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "q",
"text": "Baptism in the name of the B. Trinity."
},
{
"label": "r",
"text": "Without which no other Sacrament availeth."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Every one that toucheth the dead corpse of man's soul, and is not sprinkled with this commixtion, shall pollute the tabernacle of the Lord, and shall perish out of Israel: because he was not sprinkled with the water of expiation, he shall be unclean, and his filthiness shall remain upon him."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "This is the law of the man that dieth in a tabernacle: All that enter into his tent, and all the vessels that are there, shall be polluted seven days."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The vessel, that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be unclean."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was slain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or grave, he shall be unclean seven days."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And they shall take of the ashes of combustion & of sin, & shall pour living water upon them into a vessel:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "in the which when a man that is clean hath dipped hyssop, he shall sprinkle therewith all the tent, and all the implements, and the men polluted with such contagion,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and in this manner he that is clean shall purge the unclean the third and seventh day, And being expiated the seventh day, he shall wash both himself and his garments, and be unclean until evening."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "If any man be not expiated after this rite, his soul shall perish out of the midst of the Church: because he hath polluted the Lord's Sanctuary, and is not sprinkled with water of lustration."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that sprinkleth the waters, shall wash his garments: Every one that toucheth the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until even."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Whatsoever he toucheth that is unclean he shall make it unclean: and the soul that toucheth any of these things, shall be unclean until even."
}
],
"summary": "A red cow is offered in burnt victim for sin: 9. whose ashes are mingled in water for expiation of diverse legal uncleanness, 11. as by touching the dead, 14. by entering into the tent of the dead, also the vessel that is therein, and the vessel that lacketh a cover, 22. and whatsoever the unclean toucheth."
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] the children of Israel, and all the multitude came into the desert Sin, the first month: and the people abode in Cades. And Mary died there, and was buried in the same place.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The Epistle on Friday in the third week of Lent."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And when the people lacked water, they came together against Moyses and Aaron:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and being turned into sedition, said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Why have you brought forth the Church of our Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Why did you make us ascend out of Aegypt, and have brought us into this exceeding naughty place, which cannot be sowed, which bringeth forth neither fig, nor vines, nor pomegranates, moreover also hath no water for to drink?"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Moyses and Aaron, the multitude being dismissed, entering into the tabernacle of covenant, fell flat upon the ground, and cried to our Lord, and said: Lord God hear the cry of this people, and open unto them thy treasure the fountain of living water, that being satisfied, their murmuring may cease. And the glory of our Lord appeared over them."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak to (a) the rock before them, and it shall give waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the multitude shall drink and their cattle.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The rock signified Christ, the rod his Cross. S. Aug. q. 35. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Moyses therefore took the rod, which was in the sight of our Lord, as he commanded him,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "the multitude being assembled before the rock, and he said to them: Hear ye rebellious & incredulous: Can we out of this rock bring you forth water?"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when Moyses had lifted up his hand striking the rock (b) twice with the rod, there came forth great plenty of water, so that the people drunk and their cattle.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "By this the cross is more evidently signified, which was made of two pieces of wood. S. Aug. ibidem."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron: Because (c) you have not believed me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring in these peoples into the land, which I will give them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Not doubting of God's power, but supposing it unmeet, that God should still work miracles for so stubborn a people, they did not speak to the rock, as they were commanded, but chiding the incredulous multitude, spake to them ambiguously, & so by occasion of other's sin, also offended, & for the same were punished. See Deut. 1, v. 37. 3, v. 16. & 4, v. 21. S. Aug. q. 19. Theod. q. 38. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "This is the water of contradiction, where the children of Israel quarrelled against our Lord, and he was sanctified in them."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "In the mean time Moyses sent messengers from Cades to the King of Edom, which should say: Thus thy brother Israel biddeth us to say: Thou knowest all the labour, that hath taken us,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "in what manner our fathers went down into Aegypt, and there we dwelt a great time, and the Aegyptians afflicted us, and our fathers:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and in what manner we cried to our Lord, and he heard us, and sent an Angel, that hath brought us out of Aegypt. Lo being presently in the city of Cades, which is in thy uttermost borders,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "we beseech thee that we may have licence to pass through thy country. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, we will not drink the waters of thy wells, but we will go the common high way, declining neither to the right hand, nor to the left, till we be past thy borders."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "To whom Edom answered: Thou shalt not pass by me, otherwise I will come armed against thee."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And the children of Israel said: We will go by the beaten way: and if we and the cattle drink thy waters, we will give thee that which is just: there shall be no difficulty in the price, only let us pass speedily."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But he answered: Thou shalt not pass: And immediately he came forth to meet them with an infinite multitude, and a strong hand,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "neither would he condescend to them desiring to grant them passage through his borders. For the which cause Israel turned another way from him."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And when they had removed the camp from Cades, they came into the mountain Hor, which is in the borders of the land of Edom:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Where our Lord spake to Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not enter to the Land, which I have given the children of Israel, for that he was incredulous to my mouth, at the Waters of contradiction."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Take Aaron and his son with him, and thou shalt bring them into the mountain Hor."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And when thou hast unvested the father of his vesture, thou shalt revest therewith Eleazar his son: Aaron shall be gathered, and die there."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Moyses did as our Lord had commanded: and they went up into the mountain Hor before all the multitude."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And when he had spoiled Aaron of his vestments, he revested Eleazar his son with them."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "After that he was dead in the top of the mountain, he went down with Eleazar."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And all the multitude seeing that Aaron was dead, mourned upon him thirty days throughout all their families."
}
],
"summary": "Mary the sister of Moyses dieth. 2. The people murmur for lack of water. 7. Moyses and Aaron being commanded to draw some out of a rock, do it doubtfully: 12. and for the same are foretold that they shall die in the desert. 14. Not obtaining licence to pass through Edom, 22. they come into Mount Hor, where Eleazar is ordained High-Priest, Aaron dieth, and is mourned by the people thirty days."
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Which when the Chananite King of Arad, who dwelt toward the south, had heard, to wit, that Israel was come by the way of the spies, he fought against them, and being victor, he took the prey of them."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "But Israel binding himself by vow to our Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver this people into my hand, I will destroy their cities."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And our Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered the Chananite, whom they slew overthrowing their cities: and they called the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And they marched also from the mountain Hor, by the way that leadeth to the Red sea, that they might compass the land of Edom. And the people began to be weary of the journey and labour:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and speaking against God and Moyses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Aegypt, to die in the wilderness? There wanteth bread, waters there are none: our soul now loatheth at this most light meat."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Wherefore our Lord sent upon the people fiery serpents, at whose plagues and the deaths of very many,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "they came to Moyses, and said: We have sinned, because we have spoken against our Lord and thee: Pray that he take from us the serpents. And Moyses prayed for the people"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and our Lord spake to him: (d) Make a brazen serpent, and set it for a sign: he that being strucken looketh on it, shall live.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "God forbidding images of idols, yet commandeth to make an image for a good purpose."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Moyses therefore made (e) Abrazen Serpent, and set it for a sign: whom when they that were strucken looked on, they were healed.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Christ expoundeth this erecting of the brazen serpent, of himself to be crucified. Ioan. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And the children of Israel marching camped in Oboth."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Whence departing they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in the wilderness, that looketh toward Moab against the east part."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And removing from thence, they came to the Torrent Zared."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Which they forsaking camped against Arnon, which is in the desert, & standeth out in the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is the border of Moab, dividing the Moabites & the Amorrheites."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Whereof it is said in the book of the wars of our Lord: (f) As he did in the Red sea, so will he do in the streams of Arnon.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "As the Aegyptians were drowned in the sea, so the Amorrheites were oppressed by the rocks falling upon them, & the waters carried their carcases into the valley of Moab."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The rocks of the torrents were bowed, that they might rest in Ar, and lie in the borders of the Moabites."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "From that place appeared the well, whereof our Lord spake to Moyses: Gather the people together, and I will give them water."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Then Israel sang this verse: Arise the well. They sang thereto:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "The well, which the Princes digged, & the Captains of the multitude prepared in the lawgiver, and in their staves. And they marched from the wilderness to Mathana."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "From Bamoth is a valley in the country of Moab, in the top of Phasga, which looketh toward the desert."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Israel sent messengers to Sehon King of the Amorrheites, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "I beseech thee that I may have licence to pass through thy land: we will not go aside into the fields and the vineyards, we will not drink waters of the wells, we will go the king's high way, till we be past thy borders."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Who would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders; but rather gathering an army, went forth to meet them in the desert, and came unto Jasa, and fought against them."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Of whom he was strucken in the edge of the sword, and his land was possessed from Arnon unto Jeboc, and to the children of Ammon: for the borders of the Ammonites were kept with a strong garrison."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Israel therefore took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the Amorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and the villages thereof."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The city Hesebon was Sehon's the king of the Amorrhite, who fought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been of his dominion, as far as Arnon."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and erected:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Afire went forth from Hesebon, a flame from the town of Sehon, & devoured Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places of Arnon."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Woe to thee Moab, thou art undone people of Chamos. He hath given his sons into flight, and his daughters into captivity to Sehon the King of the Amorrheites."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "There yoke is perished from Hesebon unto Dibon, they came weary into Nophe, and unto Medaba."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Israel therefore dwelt in the Land of the Amorrhite."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And Moyses sent some to take a view of Jazer: Whose villages they took, and possessed the inhabitants."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And they turned themselves, and went up by the way of Basan, and Og the king of Basan came against them with all his people, to fight in Edrai."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses: Fear him not, for into thy hand I have delivered him, and all his people, and land: and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Sehon the king of the Amorrheites, the inhabiter of Hesebon."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "They therefore smote him also with his sons, and all his people unto utter destruction, and they possessed his land."
}
],
"summary": "Israelites at the first encounter with the Chananeites having the worse, after their vow kill the King of Arad, and destroy his cities. 4. The people again murmuring are strucken with fiery serpents, 7. but confessing their fault, Moyses by God's commandment setteth up a brazen serpent for a remedy. 10. They march through diverse places, 17. and sing a Canticle at a well which God gave them. 21. They kill Sehon King of the Amorrheites, and conquer his land. 33. Likewise Og King of Basan."
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And marching forward they camped in the champion country of Moab, where Jericho is situated beyond Jordan."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Balac the son of Sephor seeing all things that Israel had done to the Amorrhite,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and that the Moabites were in great fear of him, and could not sustain his assault,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "he said to the elders of Madian: So will this people destroy all that dwell in our coasts, as the oxe is wont to eat the grass unto the very roots. And he was at the same time king in Moab."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "He sent therefore messengers to Balaam the son of Beor a soothsayer, who dwelt upon the river of the land of the children of Ammon, to call him, and to say: Behold a people is come out of Aegypt, that hath covered the face of the earth, sitting against me."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier than I: if by any means I may strike them and cast them out of my land. For I know that he is blessed whom thou shalt bless, and cursed upon whom thou shalt heap curses."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the ancients of Moab went, and the elders of Madian, having the price of divination in their hands. And when they were come to Balaam, and had told him all the words of Balac:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "he answered: Tarry here this night, and I will answer whatsoever (a) the Lord shall say to me. And whilst they stayed with Balaam, (b) God came, and said to him:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "He consulted his false god, whom he served, and called him the Lord, not knowing our Lord God Almighty. Theodoret. q. in Num."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "God our Lord answered him, not suffering the devil to speak in this case."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "What would these men that are with thee?"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "He answered: Balac the son of Sephor king of the Moabites hath sent to me,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "saying: Behold a people that is come out of Aegypt, hath covered the face of the land: come, and curse them, if by any means fighting I may drive them away."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And God said to Balaam: Go not with them, neither do thou curse the people: because it is blessed."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Who in the morning arising said to the Princes: Go into your country, because the Lord hath forbid me to come with you."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "The princes returning, said to Balac: Balaam would not come with us."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Again he sent many more and more noble, than he had sent before."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Who when they were come to Balaam, said: Thus saith Balac the son of Sephor: Slack not to come to me:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "for I am ready to honour thee, and whatsoever thou wilt I will give thee: Come, and curse this people."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot change the word of the Lord my God, to speak either more, or less."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "I beseech you that you will also tarry here this night, and I may know what the Lord will answer me (c) once more.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Being sufficiently informed before, for worldly lucre he demandeth again, & God for his punishment letteth him go: but suffereth him not to curse, nor speak evil of the Israelites, but contrarywise to prophesy much good which should come unto them."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou do that which I shall command thee."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Balaam arose in the morning, and saddling his ass went with them."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And God was angry. And an Angel of our Lord stood in the way against Balaam, who sat upon the ass, and had two servants with him."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "The ass seeing the Angel standing in the way, with a drawn sword, turned herself out of the way, and went by the field. Whom when Balaam had beat, and had brought her again to the beaten way,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "the Angel stood in the straits of two walls, wherewith vineyards were inclosed."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Whom the ass seeing, joined herself close to the wall, and bruised the foot of him that rid. But he beat her again:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and nevertheless the Angel passing to a narrow place, where there could be no going aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, stood to meet him."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And when the ass had seen the Angel standing, she fell under the feet of the rider. Who being angry, beat her sides with a staff more vehemently."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And our Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she spake: What have I done to thee? Why strikest thou me, lo now the third time?"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Balaam (d) answered: Because thou hast deserved, and hast abused me: I would I had a sword, that I might kill thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Nothing is here to be more marveled (saith S. Aug.) than that he was not afraid when he heard his ass speak unto him. But being accustomed to such monstrous things he replied familiarly, nothing therewith astonished."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which thou hast been always accustomed to ride until this present day? Tell me what like thing did I ever to thee. But he said: Never."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Forthwith our Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he (e) saw the Angel standing in the way with a drawn sword, and he (f) adored him flat to the ground.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Yet seeing an Angel, he fell down terrified, & adored him. q. 48. in Num."
},
{
"label": "f",
"text": "Balaam knowing him to be an Angel that appeared, neither adore him with divine honour as God, nor with civil as a mortal man, but with religious honour, less than divine, & more than civil. See Exod. 20."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "To whom the Angel said: Why beatest thou thy ass the third time? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and contrary to me:"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "and unless the ass had turned out of the way, giving place to me resisting thee, I had slain thee, and she should have lived."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Balaam said: I have sinned, not knowing that thou didst stand against me: and now if it displease thee that I go, I will return."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "The Angel said: (g) Go with these men, and see thou speak no other thing than I shall command thee. He went therefore with the Princes.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "God sometimes maketh false Prophets to utter a truth, because prejudicate minds do rather give care to such, than to true Prophets. Theodo. q. 45. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Which when Balac heard, he came forth to meet him in a town of the Moabites, that is situated in the uttermost borders of Arnon."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst thou not come immediately unto me? Was it because I cannot reward thy coming?"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "To whom he answered: Lo here I am: Shall I be able to speak any other thing, but that which God shall put in my mouth?"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "They therefore went on together, and came into a city, that was in the uttermost borders of his Kingdom."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "And when Balac had killed oxen, and sheep, he sent thereof to Balaam, and to the Princes that were with him, presents."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And when morning was come, he brought him to the excelses of Baal, and he beheld the uttermost part of the people."
}
],
"summary": "Balac King of Moab fearing the Israelites, sendeth for Balaam a soothsayer to curse them. 8. Who consulting his false god, is forbid by God Almighty to go, and so excuseth himself. 15. Balac sendeth again offering greater reward, 19. he again consulteth, and God biddeth him go. 22. But sendeth an Angel to meet him in the way, who his ass seeing, shunned three times, and so often he beateth her, 28. then she speaketh, expostulating his hard usage: 31. he also seeth the Angel, 35. and is charged to speak nothing but that the Angel shall suggest."
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Balaam said to Balac: (a) Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and rams of the same number.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Before the devil would curse God's people he required sacrifice which being offered yet he could not work his malice. For by God's commandment (saith S. Hierom de mans. 42.) Israel is blessed, cursing turned into praise, & God's voice is heard sounding from a profane mouth."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they together laid a calf and a ram upon an altar."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while beside thy holocaust, until I go, if happenly the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And when he was gone in haste, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid thereon a calf and a ram."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And our Lord put a word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Returning he found Balac standing beside his holocaust, and all the Princes of the Moabites:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and taking up his parable, he said: From Aram hath Balac king of the Moabites brought me, from the mountains of the East: Come, quoth he, and curse Jacob: make haste, and detest Israel."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? By what means may I detest, whom the Lord detesteth not?"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "From the highest flints shall I see him, and from the hills shall I view him. The people shall dwell alone, and among the Gentiles shall not be accounted."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Who may be able to number the dust of Jacob, and to know the number of the stock of Israel? (b) My soul die the death of the just, and my last ends be made like to them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Heretics, & other infidels desire sometimes to die in state of Catholics, though they will not live as they do. S. Gre. l. 33. c. 27. Moral."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou doest? That thou shouldst curse mine enemies I called thee: and thou contrary wise blessest them."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "To whom he answered: Can I speak ought else, but that which the Lord commandeth?"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Balac therefore said: Come with me into another place whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see the whole, from thence curse them."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And when he had brought him into a high place, upon the top of the mountain Phasga, Balaam builded seven altars, and laying thereon calves and rams,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "he said to Balac: Stand here beside thy holocaust, whiles I go to meet him."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Whom when our Lord had met, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac and thus thou shalt speak to him."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Returning he found him standing beside his holocaust, and the Princes of the Moabites with him. To whom Balac said: What hath the Lord spoken?"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "But he taking up his parable, said: Stand Balac, and hearken, hear thou son of Sephor:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "God is not as man, that he may lie, nor as the son of man, that he may be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? Hath he spoken, and will he not fulfill?"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to stay."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there [1] simulachre to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* likeness of Idol."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "God hath brought him out of Aegypt, whose strength is like to the unicorn."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "There is no Soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be said to Jacob and Israel what God hath wrought."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness and as a lion shall raise itself: It shall not lie down till it devour the prey, and drink the blood of the slain."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And Balac said to Balaam: (c) neither curse, nor bless him.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "When infidels cannot draw others to false worship, or cursing, they are content that men profess no God nor religion at all."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that would I do?"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And Balac said to him: Come, and I will bring thee to another place: if happenly it please God that thence thou mayest curse them."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And when he had brought him upon the top of the mountain Phogor, which looketh to the wilderness,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and rams of the same number."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid the calves and the rams on every altar."
}
],
"summary": "Balaam endeavoureth to curse Israel, but God forceth him to bless them. 11. Again he urgeth him to curse them, but he still prophesieth good things of them. 26. Yet Balac insisteth willing him to curse, or not to bless them."
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And when Balaam had seen that it pleased our Lord that he should bless Israel, he went not as before he had gone, to seek soothsaying: but directing his countenance against the desert,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel abiding in their tents by their tribes: and the spirit of God coming (a) vehemently upon him,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The spirit of prophecy came more upon him, but not grace justifying: Many do prophesy, & cast out devils, and work other miracles, and yet be damned. Mat. 7. v. 22."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "taking up his parable he said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man hath said whose eye is stopped:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "The hearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beholden the vision of the Omnipotent, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "How beautiful are thy tabernacles, o Jacob, and thy tents, o Israel!"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "As woody valleys, as watered gardens beside the rivers, as tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waters' side."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Water shall flow out of his bucket, and his seed shall be into many waters. For Agag shall his king be taken away, and his kingdom shall be taken away."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "God hath brought him out of Aegypt, whose strength is like to the Rhinoceros. They shall devour nations his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Lying he hath slept as a lion, and as a lioness, whom none shall be bold to raise up. He that blesseth thee, himself also shall be blessed: he that curseth thee, shall be reputed accurst."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Balac being angry against Balaam, clapping his hands together said: To curse mine enemies I called thee, whom thou contrary wise hast blessed the third time:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "return to thy place. I was determined verily to honour thee magnifically, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour appointed."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Balaam made answer to Balac: did I not say to thy messengers, whom thou didst send to me:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot pass the word of the Lord my God, to utter of my own mind either any good, or evil: but whatsoever the Lord shall say, that will I speak?"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what thy people shall do to this people in the last time."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Therefore taking up his parable, again he said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man whose eye is stopped, hath said:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "the hearer of the words of God hath said, who knoweth the doctrine of the Highest, and seeth the visions of the Omnipotent, who falling hath his eyes opened:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Ishall see him, but not now: I shall behold him but not near. (b) Astar Shall Rise out of Jacob, and a rod shall arise from Israel: and shall strike the Dukes of Moab, and shall waste all the children of Seth.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "In some sort this prophecy was fulfilled in King David 2. Reg. 5. 8. & seq. but perfectly in Christ the bright & morning star. Apoc. 22. To whom not any one, or many, but in general all nations are given for inheritance, & the end of the world in possession. Psal. 2. Act. 1. v. 8."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Idumea shall be his possession: the inheritance of Seir shall come to their enemies: but Israel shall do manfully."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Of Jacob shall he be that shall rule, and shall destroy the remains of the city."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And when he had seen Amalec, taking up his parable, he said: Amalec the beginning of Gentiles, whose latter ends shall be destroyed."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "He saw also the Cineite: and taking up his parable, he said: Thy habitation indeed is strong: but if thou build thy nest in a rock,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And taking up his parable again he spake: Alas, who shall live, when God shall do these things?"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last themselves also shall perish."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And Balaam rose, and returned into (c) his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Not to his country, but to his place of abode among the Madianites for there he was slain shortly after. chap. 31. v. 8."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Balaam forced by the evidence of truth (though not converted in will to serve God, whom he confesseth to be omnipotent) prophesieth still more good of Israel: 10. wherefore Balac interrupteth him, and he answereth plainly that God Almighty will have it so. 15. And so proceeding he prophesieth of CHRIST. 20. Also of Amalecheites, Cineites, and Italians."
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 0,
"text": "by God, and rewarded."
},
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Israel at that time abode in Setim, and the people (a) fornicated with the daughters of Moab,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Balaam gave this devilish counsel to allure men by bellycheer & lechery unto idolatry. chap. 31. v. 16. And even so Heretics draw many in these days to heresy. See Apoc. 2. v. 14."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "who called them to their sacrifices. And they did eat and adore their gods."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Israel was professed to Beelphegor, and our Lord being angry,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "said to Moyses: Take all the Princes of the people, and hang (b) them up against the sun on gibbets: that my fury may be averted from Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "By assistance of the Princes hang the idolaters. v. 5."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And Moyses said to the Judges of Israel: Kill every man his neighbours, that are professed to Beelphegor."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And behold one of the children of Israel entered in before the face of his brethren to a whore a Madianite in the sight of Moyses, and of all the multitude of the children of Israel, who wept before the doors of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Which thing when Phinees had seen the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the Priest, he arose out of the midst of the multitude, and catching a dagger"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "went in after the man of Israel into the brothel house, and thrust them through both together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genitals. And the plague ceased from the children of Israel,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and there were slain four and twenty thousand men."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the Priest (c) hath averted my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that myself might not destroy the children of Israel in mine own zeal.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Either Phinees was one of the Judges, and so an example for such Magistrates to do justice, or he had a particular inspiration, which is no warrant for private men to do the like. For by Catholic doctrine, killing of men is neither allowed, nor excused, but when it is done by public authority, or by mere casualty, against the killers will. Catechis. Rom. p. 3. c. 6. q. 5. D. Tho. 2. 2. q. 60. a. 6."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Therefore speak to him: Behold I give him the peace of my covenant,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and there shall be as well to him as to his seed the covenant of priesthood for ever, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath expiated the wicked fact of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the name of the man of Israel, that was slain with the woman of Madian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a Prince of the kindred and tribe of Simeon."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Moreover the Madianess that was slain with him, was called Cozbi the daughter of Sur a most noble Prince of the Madianites."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and strike you them:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Because they also have done like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor and Cozbi the daughter of the Duke of Madian their sister, who was strucken in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor."
}
],
"summary": "By carnal fornication many are drawn to spiritual. For which twenty four thousand are slain. 10. Phinees his zeal in stabbing to death two fornicators is commended"
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "After (a) the blood of the offenders was shed, our Lord said to Moyses and Eleazar the son of Aaron, the Priest:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God's wrath being pacified by extirpation of the old bad people, the new progeny is numbered which shall possess the promised land. S. Hierom de Mans. 42. to. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Number the whole sum of the children of Israel from twenty years and upward, by their houses and kindreds, all that can go forth to wars."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Moyses therefore & Eleazar the Priest spake, in the champion country of Moab upon Jordan against Jericho, to them that were"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "from twenty years and upward, as our Lord had commanded, of whom this is the number:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Ruben the first born of Israel, his son, Henoch, of whom is the family of the Henochites: and Phallu, of whom is the family of the Phalluites:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi, of whom is the family of the Charmites."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "These are the families of the stock of Ruben: whose number was found forty three thousand, and seven hundred thirty."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The son of Phallu, Eliab:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "his sons, Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and Abiron the Princes of the people, that rose against Moyses and Aaron in the sedition of Core, when they rebelled against our Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and the earth opening her mouth devoured Core, very many dying, when the fire burnt two hundred fifty men. And there was a great miracle done,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "that Core perishing, (b) his sons perished not.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "They were retained in the air, till the earth broken under them was closed again."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "The sons of Simeon by their kindreds: Namuel, of him is the family of the Namuelites: Iamin, of him is the family of the Iaminites: Iachin, of him is the family of Iachinites:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Zare, of him is the family of the Zareites: Saul, of him is the family of the Saulites."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "These are the families of the stock of Simeon, of which the whole number was two and twenty thousand two hundred."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The sons of Gad by their kindreds: Sephon, of him is the family of the Sephonites: Aggi, of him is the family of the Aggites: Suni, of him is the family of the Sunites:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Ozni, of him is the family of the Oznites: Her, of him is the family of the Herites:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Arod, of him is the family of the Arodites: Ariel, of him is the family of the Arielites."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "These are the families of Gad, of which the whole number was forty thousand five hundred."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "The sons of Judas, Her, and Onan, who died both in the land of Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And the sons of Judas by their kindreds were: Sela, of whom is the family of the Selaites: Phares, of whom is the family of the Pharesites: Zare, of whom is the family of the Zareites."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Moreover the sons of Phares; Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Hamul, of whom is the family of the Hamulites."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "these are the families of Judas, of which the whole number was seventy six thousand five hundred."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "The sons of Issachar, by their kindreds: Thola, of whom is the family of the Tholaites: Phua, of whom is the family of the Phuaites:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Jasub, of whom is the family of the Jasubites: Semran, of whom is the family of the Semranites."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "these are the kindreds of Issachar, whose number was sixty four thousand three hundred."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The sons of Zabulon by their kindreds: Sared, of whom is the family of the Saredites: Elon of whom is the family of the Elonites: Ialel of whom is the family of Ialelites."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "These are the kindreds of Zabulon, whose number was sixty thousand five hundred:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "The sons of Joseph by their kindreds, Manasses & Ephraim."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Of Manasses was born Machir, of whom is the family of the Machirites. Machir begat Galaad, of whom is the family of the Galaadites."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Galaad had sons: Jezer, of whom is the family of the Jezerites: & Helec, of whom is the family of the Helecites:"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and Asriel, of whom is the family of the Asrielites: and Sechem, of whom is the family of the Sechemites:"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "& Semida, of whom is the family of the Semidaites: and Hepher, of whom is the family of the Hepherites."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And Hepher was the father of Salphaad, who had no sons, but only daughters, whose names are these: Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Tersa."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "These are the families of Manasses, & the number of them is fifty two thousand seven hundred."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And the sons of Ephraim by their kindreds were these: Suthala, of whom is the family of the Suthalaites: Becher, of whom is the family of the Becherites: Thehen, of whom is the family of the Thehenites."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Moreover the son of Suthala was Heran, of whom is the family of the Heranites."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "these are the kindreds of the sons of Ephraim: whose number was thirty two thousand five hundred."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "These are the sons of Joseph by their families. The sons of Benjamin in their kindreds: Bela, of whom is the family of the Belaites: Asbel, of whom is the family of the Asbelites: Ahiram, of whom is the family of the Ahiramites:"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "Supham, of whom is the family of the Suphamites: Hupham, of whom is the family of the Huphamites."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "The sons of Bela: Hered, and Noeman. Of Hered, the family of the Heredites: of Noeman, the family of the Noemanites."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "These are the sons of Benjamin by their kindreds, whose number was forty five thousand six hundred."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "The sons of Dan by their kindreds: Suham, of whom is the family of the Suhamites: these are the kindreds of Dan by their families."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "All were Suhamites, whose number was sixty four thousand four hundred."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "The sons of Aser by their kindreds: Jemna, of whom is the family of the Jemnaites: Jessui, of whom is the family of the Jessuites: Brie, of whom is the family of the Brieites."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "The sons of Brie: Heber, of whom is the family of the Heberites: and Melchiel, of whom is the family of the Melchielites."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "And the name of the daughter of Aser, was Sara."
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "These are the kindreds of the Sons of Aser, and their number fifty three thousand four hundred."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "The sons of Nephthali by their kindreds: Jesiel, of whom is the family of the Jesielites: Guni, of whom is the family of the Gunites:"
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "Ieser, of whom is the family of the Ieserites: Sellem, of whom is the family of the Sellemites."
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "these are kindreds of the sons of Nephthali by their families: whose number was forty five thousand four hundred."
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "This is the sum of the children of Israel, that were reckoned, six hundred thousand, and a thousand seven hundred thirty."
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses saying:"
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "To these shall the land be divided according to the number of names for their possessions."
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "To the greater number thou shalt give a greater portion, and to the fewer a less: to every one, as they have now been reckoned, shall possession be delivered:"
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "yet so that lot do divide the Land to the tribes and the families."
},
{
"verse": 56,
"text": "Whatsoever shall chance by lot, that let either the more take, or the fewer."
},
{
"verse": 57,
"text": "This also is the number of the sons of Levi by their families: Gerson, of whom the family of the Gersonites: Caath, of whom the family of the Caathites: Merari, of whom the family of the Merarites."
},
{
"verse": 58,
"text": "These are the families of Levi: The family of Lobni, the family of Hebroni, the family of Moholi, the family of Musi, the family of Core. Howbeit Caath begat Amram:"
},
{
"verse": 59,
"text": "who had to wife Iochabed (c) the daughter of Levi, who was born to him in Aegypt, She bare to Amram her husband sons, Aaron and Moyses, and Mary their sister.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Amram married his aunt: which sheweth that the second degree in consanguinity is not forbid by the law of nature; though it was after prohibited by a positive law. Levit. 18."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 60,
"text": "Of Aaron were born Nadab and Abiu, and Eleazar and Ithamar:"
},
{
"verse": 61,
"text": "of the which Nadab and Abiu died, when they had offered the strange fire before our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 62,
"text": "And all that were numbered were twenty three thousand of the male kind from one month and upward: who were not reckoned among the children of Israel, neither was their possession given with the rest."
},
{
"verse": 63,
"text": "This is the number of the children of Israel, that were enrolled by Moyses and Eleazar the Priest, in the champion country of Moab upon Jordan against Jericho."
},
{
"verse": 64,
"text": "Among whom there was none of them that were numbered before by Moyses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai."
},
{
"verse": 65,
"text": "For our Lord had foretold that all should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun."
}
],
"summary": "All the men of twelve tribes being again numbered, from the age of twenty years and upward, are found to be six hundred one thousand seven hundred and thirty. 57. Of the tribe of Levi also, numbered of the male sex from the age of one month and upward, are found twenty three thousand: 64. all being dead in the desert, which were numbered before, except Caleb and Josue."
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And there came the daughters of Salphaad, the son of Hepher, the son of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: whose names are, Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Thersa."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And they stood before Moyses and Eleazar the Priest, and all the Princes of the people at the door of the tabernacle of covenant, and said:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Our father died in the desert, neither was he in the sedition, that was raised against our Lord under Core, but he died in (a) his own sin: he had no men children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, because he hath not a son? Give us possession among the kin of our father.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "For the general murmuring, whereof all the people, were guilty. chap. 14. v. 29."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Moyses referred their cause to the judgment of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Who said to him:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "The daughters of Salphaad require a just thing: give them possession among their father's kin, and let them succeed him in the inheritance."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his daughter."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "If he have no daughter, he shall have his brethren his successors."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And if he have no brethren neither, you shall give the inheritance to his father's brethren."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "But if he have no such uncles by the father neither, the inheritance shall be given to them that are the next of kin: and this shall be to the children of Israel a holy ordinance by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Our Lord also said to Moyses: Go up into this mountain Abarim, and view from thence the Land which I will give to the children of Israel:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and when thou shall have seen it, thou also shall go to thy people, as thy brother Aaron is gone:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "because you did offend me in the desert Sin in the contradiction of the multitude, neither would you sanctify me before them upon the waters. These are the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert Sin."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "To whom Moyses answered:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Our Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, provide a man that may be over this multitude:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and may go out and enter in before them, and bring them out, or bring them in: lest the people of our Lord be as sheep without a (b) pastor.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Temporal Princes are also Pastors, or shepherds of the people: but this made not Josue supreme in spiritual causes. For it is clear in the next lines that he had but part of Moyses his glory, or office: and that was to be temporal Prince, Eleazar being chief in causes spiritual, before whom and the multitude he was ordained Duke, but Eleazar consulted God for him, and directed his principal actions, called here his going out, & going in."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And our Lord said to him: Take Josue the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Who shall stand before Eleazar the Priest and all the multitude:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and thou shalt give him precepts in the sight of all, and part of thy glory, that all the synagogue of the children of Israel may hear him."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "For him, if any thing be to be done, Eleazar the Priest shall consult the Lord. At his word shall he go out and shall go in, and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Moyses did as our Lord had commanded. And when he had taken Josue, he set him before Eleazar the Priest, and all the assembly of the people."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And imposing his hands on his head, he repeated all things that our Lord had commanded."
}
],
"summary": "Salphaad's daughters succeed to their father's inheritance. 8. And the law is established that for lack of sons daughters shall inherit, and for lack also of daughters the next of kin. 12. God commandeth Moyses to ascend into Mount Abarim, and thence view the promised Land, but fortelleth him that he shall die, and not go into it. 15. He then prayeth God to provide another to lead the people, 18. and Josue is designed in presence of Eleazar and the people."
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Our Lord also said to Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: My oblation and breads, and burnt sacrifice of most sweet odour offer ye (a) in their times.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Variety of Sacrifices for diverse times."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "These are the sacrifices which you must offer: Two lambs of a year old without blemish daily for [1] the everlasting holocaust:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "1. (b) Every day twice."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "one you shall offer in the morning, and the other at even:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "the tenth part of an ephi of flour, which shall be tempered with the purest oil, and shall have the fourth part of an hin."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "It is the continual holocaust which you offered in Mount Sinai for a most sweet odour of the burnt sacrifice of the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and for a libament you shall offer of wine the fourth part of an hin for every lamb in the Sanctuary of the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And the other lamb in like manner you shall offer at even according to all the rite of the morning sacrifice, and of the libaments thereof, an oblation of most sweet odour to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And on the day of [1] the Sabbath, you shall offer two lambs of a year old without blemish, and two tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice, & the libaments,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "2. (c) On the Sabbath day."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "which are ritely poured every Sabbath for an everlasting holocaust."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And in [1] the Calends you shall offer an holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old without blemish,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "3. (d) The Neomenia, or new moon."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and three tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice for every calf: and two tenths of flour tempered with oil to every ram:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and the tenth part of a tenth of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice to every lamb. It is an holocaust of most sweet odour and burnt sacrifice to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the libaments of wine, that are to be poured for every victim, shall be these: The half part of an hin for every calf, the third to a ram, the fourth to a lamb. This shall be the holocaust through all months that succeed one another as the year turneth about."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Abuck goat also shall be offered to the Lord for sins an everlasting holocaust with his libaments."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And in the first month, [1] the fourteenth day of the month shall be the Phase of the Lord,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "4. (e) Pasch, or Phase."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and the fifteenth day the solemnity: seven days shall they eat azymes."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Of the which the first day shall be venerable & holy: no servile work shall you do therein."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And you shall offer burnt sacrifice an holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old without blemish:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and the sacrifice of every one of flour which shall be tempered with oil, three tenths to every calf, & two tenths to every ram,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and the tenth part of a tenth to every lamb, that is to say, to the seven lambs."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And one buck goat for sin, that expiation may be made for you,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "beside the morning holocaust which you shall always offer."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "So shall you do every day of the seven days for a food of the fire, & for a most sweet odour to the Lord, which shall rise of the holocaust, and of the libaments of every one."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "The seventh day also shall be most solemn and holy unto you; no servile work shall you do therein."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The day also of [1] first fruits when you shall offer new fruits to the Lord, after that the weeks be accomplished, shall be venerable and holy: no servile work shall you do therein.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "5. (f) Pentecost."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And you shall offer an holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven Lambs of a year old without blemish:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and in the sacrifices of them three tenths of flour tempered with oil to every calf, to every ram two,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "every lamb the tenth part of a tenth, which together are seven lambs. A goat also"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "which is slain for expiation: beside the everlasting holocaust & the libaments thereof."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "All shall you offer without blemish with their libaments."
}
],
"summary": "Special sacrifices are appointed for every day in the morning and evening. Likewise for every Sabbath day, 21. for the first day of every month, for Pasch, 26. and for Pentecost."
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "The [1] first day also of the seventh month shall be venerable and holy unto you, no servile work shall you do therein, because it is the day of sounding and of trumpets.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "6."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And you shall offer an holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, one calf of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old without blemish:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and in their sacrifices of flour tempered with oil three tenths to every calf, two tenths to a ram,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "one tenth to a lamb, which together are seven lambs:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and a buck goat for sin, which is offered for the expiation of the people,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "besides the holocaust of the Calends with the sacrifices thereof, and the everlasting holocaust with the accustomed libaments. With the same ceremonies shall you offer burnt sacrifice for a most sweet odour to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "The [1] tenth day also of this seventh month shall be holy and venerable unto you, & you shall (c) afflict your souls: no servile work shall you do therein.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "For remission of sins the penitents did cooperate by penal works of fasting & abstinence, from even until even. Levit. 23. v. 32. S. Aug. q. 57. in Num. Theod. q. 32. in Levit."
},
{
"label": "1",
"text": "7. (b) Feast of Expiation."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And you shall offer an holocaust to the Lord for a most sweet odour, one calf of the herd, one ram, seven Lambs of a year old without blemish:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and in their sacrifices of flour tempered with oil three tenths to every calf, two tenths to the ram,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "the tenth part of a tenth to every lamb, which are in all seven lambs:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and a buck goat for sin, besides these things that are wont to be offered for offence unto expiation, and for the everlasting holocaust with their sacrifice and libaments."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But the [1] fifteenth day of the seventh month, which shall be unto you holy and venerable, no servile work shall you do therein, but you shall celebrate the solemnity to the Lord seven days.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "8. (d) Feast of Tabernacles."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and you shall offer an holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, calves of the herd thirteen, rams two, lambs of a year old without blemish fourteen:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "& in their libaments of flour tempered with oil three tenths to every calf, which are together thirteen calves: & two tenths to every ram, that is, together to two rams,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And the tenth part of a tenth to every lamb, which are together fourteen lambs:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and a buck goat for sin, beside the everlasting holocaust, & the sacrifice & the libament thereof."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "The next day you shall offer calves of the herd twelve, two rams, lambs a year old without blemish fourteen:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and the sacrifices and libaments of every one to the calves and the rams and the lambs you shall ritely celebrate:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and a buck goat for sin, beside the everlasting holocaust, and the sacrifice and libament thereof."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "The third day you shall offer eleven calves, two rams, lambs of a year old without blemish fourteen:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and the sacrifices and the libaments of every one to the calves & the rams and the lambs you shall ritely celebrate:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin, beside the everlasting holocaust, and the sacrifice, and libament thereof."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "The fourth day you shall offer ten calves, two rams, lambs a year old without blemish fourteen:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and the sacrifices and the libaments of every one to the calves and the rams and the lambs you shall ritely celebrate:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin, beside the everlasting holocaust, and the sacrifice thereof and libament."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The fifth day you shall offer nine calves, two rams, lambs of a year old without blemish fourteen:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and the sacrifices and the libaments of every one to the calves and the rams and the lambs you shall ritely celebrate:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin, beside the everlasting holocaust, and the sacrifices thereof and libament."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "The sixth day you shall offer eight calves, two rams, lambs of a year old without blemish fourteen:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "& the sacrifices and the libaments of every one to the calves and the rams & the lambs you shall ritely celebrate:"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin, beside the everlasting holocaust, and the sacrifice thereof and libament."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "The seventh day you shall offer seven calves, and two rams, lambs of a year old without blemish fourteen:"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "and the sacrifices and the libaments of every one to the calves and the rams and the lambs you shall ritely celebrate:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin, beside the everlasting holocaust and the sacrifice thereof and libament."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "The (e) eighth day, which is most solemn, no servile work you do therein,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Feast of Assembly and Collection."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "offering an holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord: one calf, one ram, lambs of a year old with out blemish seven."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And the sacrifices and the libaments of every one to the calves and the rams and the lambs you shall ritely celebrate:"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "and a buck-goat for sin, besides the everlasting holocaust, & the sacrifice thereof and libament."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "These things shall you offer to the Lord in your solemnities: besides your vows and voluntary oblations in holocaust, in sacrifice, in libament, and in pacific hosts."
}
],
"summary": "In the seventh month are celebrated with particular sacrifices the feasts of Trumpets, 7. of expiation, 12. of Tabernacles, 35. and of Assembly and Collection."
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Moyses told the children of Israel all things that our Lord had commanded him:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and he spake to the Princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: This is the word that our Lord hath commanded:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "If any man (a) make a vow to our Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word frustrate, but all that he promised he shall fulfill.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "He that voweth abstinence from a thing lawful, maketh it unlawful to himself by his vow. S. Aug. q. 56. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself with an oath, she that is in her father's house, & as yet in maiden's age: if her father know the vow that she promised, and the oath wherewith she bound her soul, and hold his peace, she shall be bound to the vow:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Whatsoever she promised and sware, she shall fulfill in deed."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "But if immediately as he heareth it, her father do gainsay it, both her vows & her oaths shall be frustrate, neither shall she be bound to the promise, for that her father hath gainsaid it.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "If she have a husband, and vow any thing, and the word once going out of her mouth bind her soul by an oath,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "the day that her husband heareth it, and doth not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow, and shall render whatsoever she promised."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it, and make her promises frustrate, and the words wherewith she had bound her soul, our Lord will be (b) propitious to her.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "In this case God will not impute it to her for a sin. S. Aug. q. 58."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "The widow, and she that is divorced, whatsoever they vow they shall render."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "The wife in the house of her husband, when she hath bound herself by vow and by oath,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "if her husband hear, and hold his peace, neither do gainsay the promise, she shall render whatsoever she had promised."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not be holden bound to the promise: because her husband gainsaid it, and our Lord will be propitious to her."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "If she vow and bind herself by oath, to (c) afflict her soul by fasting, or abstinence from other things, it shall be in the arbitrement of her husband, whether she shall do it, or not do it.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "By afflicting of the soul is here understood, restraining sensual delectation. S. Aug. q. 57. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer sentence till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall render: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "but if he gainsay it after that he knew it, (d) himself shall bear her iniquity.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "The husband revoking his consent, once given by word or by silence to his wife's vow, sinned, but the wife was bound to obey him, & so was excused."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "These are the laws, which our Lord appointed to Moyses between the husband and the wife, between the father and the daughter, that is as yet in maiden's age, or that abideth in her father's house."
}
],
"summary": "Voluntary vows or oaths of men; 14. of maids in their father's houses, 7. or newly married; 10. of widows, or wives divorced, 11. and of wives in their husband's houses: and how they bind, or are made frustrate."
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so thou shalt be gathered to thy people."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Moyses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, which may take the revenge of our Lord on the Madianites."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Let a thousand men of every tribe be chosen of Israel to be sent to the war."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand well appointed to fight:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "whom Moyses sent with Phinees the son of Eleazar the Priest, and the holy vessels, and the trumpets to sound he delivered to him."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome, all the men they slew,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five Princes of the Nation: (a) Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "With whom he sinned, with them he was also justly punished."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And they took their wives, and little ones, and all their goods: whatsoever they had been able to make, they spoiled:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "as well cities as towns and castles the fire did consume."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And they took the prey, and all things that they had taken as well of men as of beasts,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and they brought them to Moyses, and Eleazar the Priest, and to all the multitude of the children of Israel. But the rest of the implements they carried to the camp in the champion countries of Moab, beside Jordan against Jericho."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Moyses and Eleazar the Priest went forth, & all the Princes of the synagogue to meet them without the camp."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Moyses being angry with the Princes of the host, the tribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "said: Why have you reserved the women?"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel at the suggestion of Balaam, and made you prevaricate against our Lord upon (b) the sin of Phogor, whereupon also the people was strucken?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "These women bringing images of Beelphogor, caused the Israelites to offer sacrifice to him, before they should commit fornication with them."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Therefore kill all whatsoever is of the male sex, among (c) the little ones also: & the women, that have known men in carnal copulation, slay ye:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "In more detestation of the parent's sin, God commanded to kill these children & so they were prevented, from committing the like crimes. But ordinarily women & children ought not to be slain after the victory. Deut. 20. v. 14."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "but the girls and all the women that are virgins reserve to you:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and tarry without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man, or touched him that is killed, shall be expiated the third day and the seventh."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And of all the prey, whether it be garment, or vessel, and something prepared for implements, of goats' skins, and hair, and wood shall be expiated."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Eleazar also the Priest spake to the host, that had fought in this manner: This is the precept of the law, which our Lord hath commanded Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and all that may pass through the fire, shall be purged by fire, but whatsoever cannot abide the fire, shall be sanctified with the water of expiation:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and you shall wash your garments the seventh day, and being purified, afterward you shall enter into the camp."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Take the sum of those things that were taken, from man unto beast, thou and Eleazar the Priest and the Princes of the multitude:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and thou shalt divide the prey equally between them, that fought & went forth to the war, and between the rest of the multitude:"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that fought and were in battle, one soul of five hundred as well of mankind as of oxen and asses and sheep,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "and thou shalt give it to Eleazar the Priest, because they are the first fruits of the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Out of the half part also of the children of Israel thou shalt take the fiftieth head of mankind, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of all beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites, that watch in the custodies of the tabernacle of the Lord."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And Moyses and Eleazar did, as our Lord commanded."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And the prey which the host had taken, was of sheep six hundred seventy five thousand,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "of oxen seventy two thousand,"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "of asses sixty one thousand."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "The souls of the folks of the female sex, that had not known men, thirty two thousand."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And the half part was given to them, that had been in the battle, of sheep three hundred thirty seven thousand five hundred:"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "of the which for the portion of our Lord where reckoned sheep six hundred seventy five."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "And of the thirty six thousand oxen, oxen seventy and two:"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "of the thirty thousand five hundred asses, asses sixty one:"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "of the souls of mankind sixteen thousand, there fell to the portion of our Lord thirty two souls."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And Moyses delivered the number of the first fruits of our Lord to Eleazar the Priest, as it had been commanded him,"
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "of the half part of the children of Israel, which he had separated to them, that had been in the battle."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "But of the half part that had chanced to the rest of the multitude, that is to say, of the three hundred thirty seven thousand five hundred sheep,"
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "and of the thirty six thousand oxen,"
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "and of the thirty thousand five hundred asses,"
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "and of the sixteen thousand of mankind,"
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "Moyses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites, that watched in the tabernacle of our Lord, as our Lord had commanded."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "And when the Princes of the host were come to Moyses, and the tribunes, and centurions, they said:"
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "We thy servants have reckoned the number of the warriors, which we had under our hand: and not so much as one verily was lacking."
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "For this cause we offer in the donaries of our Lord every one that which we could find in the prey of gold, garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayest pray to our Lord for us."
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "And Moyses and Eleazar the Priest received all the gold in diverse forms"
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "in weight sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty sicles of the tribunes and of the centurions."
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "For that which every one had spoiled in the prey, was his own."
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of testimony, for a monument of the children of Israel before our Lord."
}
],
"summary": "The Madianites are slain in battle, for that they had drawn the people of Israel to sin. 11. The prey is brought to Moyses, 14. who being angry that the women (which were the occasion of sin) are saved alive, commandeth to kill all the male children, and all the women saving only virgins. 19. The soldiers are purified, as also the prey, 26. & then divided among the victors, and other people, taking out portions for the Levites. 48. The Princes of the host give free offerings to our Lord."
},
{
"chapter": 32,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the children of Ruben and Gad had much cattle, and they had in beasts an infinite substance. And when they had seen Jazer and Galaad fit countries for to feed cattle,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "they came to Moyses and Eleazar the Priest, and the Princes of the multitude, and said:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale, and Sabam, and Nebo, and Beon,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "the land, which our Lord smote in the sight of the children of Israel, is of a very plentiful soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and we pray thee if we have found grace before thee, that thou give us thy servants the same in possession, and (a) make us not pass over Jordan.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Aright figure of those that would possess heaven without labour or danger. But none shall be crowned unless he strive lawfully. 2. Tim. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "To whom Moyses answered: Why shall your brethren go to fight, and will you sit here?"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Why subvert you the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not be bold to pass into the place, which our Lord will give them?"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Did not your fathers so, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the Land?"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And when they were come as far as the Valley of cluster, having viewed all the country, they subverted the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not enter the coasts, which our Lord gave them."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Who being wrath sware, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "If these men, that came up out of Aegypt, from twenty years and upward, shall see the land, which under oath I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and they would not follow me,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "except Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezeite, and Josue the son of Nun: these have fulfilled my will."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And our Lord being wrath against Israel, led him about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation was consumed, that had done evil in his sight."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And behold, quoth he, you are risen up in stead of your fathers, the offspring and disciples of sinful men, to augment the fury of our Lord against Israel."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "But if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the death of all."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But they coming near, said: We will make sheepcotes, and stalls for our cattle, for our little ones also fenced cities:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and we ourselves armed and girded will march on to battle before the children of Israel, until we bring them in unto their places. Our little ones and whatsoever we can have, shall be in walled cities, because of the lying of wait of the inhabitants."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "We will not return into our houses, until the children of Israel possess their inheritance:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "neither will we seek any thing beyond Jordan, because already we have our possession on the east side thereof."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "To whom Moyses said: If you do that you promise, march on well appointed before our Lord to fight:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and let every man of war pass over Jordan, until our Lord subvert his enemies,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and all the Land be subdued to him: then shall you be blameless before our Lord & before Israel, & you shall obtain the countries that you would in the sight of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "But if you do not that which you say, no man can doubt but you sin against God: and know ye that your sin shall apprehend you."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Build therefore cities for your little ones, and sheepcotes and stalls for your sheep and cattle: and accomplish that which you have promised."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moyses: We are thy servants, we will do that which our Lord commandeth."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "We will leave our little ones, and our wives, and sheep, and cattle in the cities of Galaad:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and we thy servants all well appointed will march on to the war, as thou my Lord speakest."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Moyses therefore commanded Eleazar the Priest, & Josue the son of Nun, and the Princes of the families by the tribes of Israel, and he said to them:"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben pass with you over Jordan all armed to the war before our Lord, and the Land be subdued to you: give them Galaad in possession."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "But if they will not pass armed with you into the Land of Chanaan, let them take places to dwell in among you."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As our lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do:"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "ourselves armed will march before our Lord into the Land of Chanaan, and we confess that we have already received our possession beyond Jordan."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Moyses therefore gave to the children of Gad and Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king of the Amorrhite, and the Kingdom of Og king of Basan, and their land and the cities thereof round about."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Therefore the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "and Etroth, and Sophan, and Iazar, and Iegbaa,"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "and Bethnemra, and Betharan, cities fenced, and sheepcotes for their sheep."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "But the children of Ruben builded Hesebon, and Eleale, & Cariathaim,"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "and Nabo, and Baalmeon changing their names, Sabama also: giving names to the cities, which they had built."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "Moreover the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, went into Galaad, and wasted it killing the Amorrhite the inhabiter thereof."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "Moyses therefore gave the land of Galaad to Machir the son of Manasses, who dwelt in it."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the villages thereof, which he called Havoth Jair, that is to say, the Villages of Jair."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and he called it by his own name Nobe."
}
],
"summary": "The children of Ruben and Gad, demanding to have inheritance on that side Jordan, where they yet are, 7. Moyses justly rebuketh them; 16. yet upon condition that they will march first over Jordan, and remain the first in battle, till the land be subdued to the children of Israel, 28. he granteth to them, and the half tribe of Manasses, that which they request."
},
{
"chapter": 33,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These are (a) the mansions of the children of Israel, that went out of Aegypt by their troops in the hand of Moyses and Aaron,",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These removings and camping places signify by what degrees Christians leaving sins & following Christ (our guide) may come to perfect piety. S. Hierom de mans. 42. ad Fabiol."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "which Moyses described according to the places of the camp, which by our Lord's commandment they changed."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "The children of Israel therefore departing from Ramesses the first month, the fifteenth day of the first month, the morrow after they made the Phase, in a mighty hand, all the Aegyptians seeing them,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "& burying their first born, which our Lord had strucken (yea and on their gods also he had exercised vengeance)"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "they camped in Soccoth."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And from Soccoth they came into Etham, which is in the uttermost borders of the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Departing thence they came over against Phihahiroth, which looketh toward Beelsephon, and camped before Magdal."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and walking three days through the desert Etham, they camped in Mara."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And departing from Mara, they came into Elim, where there were the twelve fountains of waters, and the seventy palm trees: and there they camped."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But departing thence also, they pitched their tents upon the Red sea. And departing from the Red sea,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "they camped in the desert Sin."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "From whence departing, they came into Daphca."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And departing from Daphca, they camped in Alus."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And departing from Alus, they pitched their tents in Raphidim, where the people wanted water to drink."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But departing also from the desert Sinai, they came to the Sepulchres of concupiscence."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And departing from the Sepulchres of concupiscence, they camped in Haseroth."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And from Haseroth they came into Rethma."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And departing from Rethma, they camped in Remmonphares."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Whence departing they came into Lebna."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "From Lebna they camped in Ressa."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And departing from Ressa, they came into Ceelatha."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Whence departing, they camped in the mountain Sepher."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Departing from the mountain Sepher, they came into Harada."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Thence departing, they camped in Maceloth."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And departing from Maceloth, they came into Thahath."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "From Thahath they camped in Thare."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Whence departing, they pitched their tents in Methca."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And from Methca they camped in Hesmona."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And departing from Hesmona, they came into Moseroth."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And from Moseroth they camped in Benejaacan."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And departing from Benejaacan, they came into the mount Gadgad."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Whence departing, they camped in Jetebatha."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And from Jetebatha they came into Hebrona."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And departing from Hebrona, they camped in Asiongaber."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Thence departing, they came into the desert Sin, this is Cades."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And departing from Cades, they camped in the mount Hor, in the uttermost borders of the Land of Edom."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "And Aaron the Priest went up into the mountain Hor at the commandment of our Lord: and there he died the fortieth year of the coming forth of the children of Israel out of Aegypt, the fifth month, the first day of the month,"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "when he was an hundred three and twenty years old."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "And the Chananite king of Arad, who dwelt toward the south, heard that the children of Israel were come into the Land of Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And departing from the mountain Hor, they camped in Salmona."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Whence departing, they came into Phunon."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "And departing from Phunon, they camped in Oboth."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "And from Oboth they came into Ijeabarim, which is in the borders of the Moabites."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And departing from Ijeabarim they pitched their tents in Dibongad."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "Whence departing, they camped in Helmondeblathaim."
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "And departing from Helmondeblathaim, they came to the mountains Abarim against Nabo."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "And departing from the mountains Abarim, they passed to the champion countries of Moab, upon Jordan, against Jericho."
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "And there they camped from Bethsimoth unto Abelsatim in the plainer places of the Moabites,"
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "where our Lord spake to Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you shall have passed Jordan, entering the Land of Chanaan,"
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "destroy all the inhabitants of that Land: break their titles, and burst to fitters their statues, and waste all their excelses,"
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "cleansing the Land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you in possession,"
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "which you shall divide among you by lot. To the more you shall give the larger, and to the fewer the straiter. To every one as the lot shall fall, so shall the inheritance be given. By the tribes and the families the possession shall be divided."
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "But (b) if you will not kill the inhabitants of the Land: they that remain, shall be unto you as it were nails in your eyes, and spears in your sides, and they shall be your adversaries in the Land of your habitation:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Danger to those that destroy not infidelity, and all enormous sins, which dwelt in their souls before their conversion."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 56,
"text": "and whatsoever I had thought to do to them, I will do to you."
}
],
"summary": "& the Land of promise are recited. 50. They are commanded to kill all the inhabitants, to purge the land of idolatry, and divide it among them."
},
{
"chapter": 34,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you are entered into the Land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen unto you by lot in possession, it shall be limited by these borders:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "The southside shall begin from the wilderness Sin, which is beside Edom: and it shall have toward the East (a) the most salt sea for the limits.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Otherwise called the dead sea, where Sodom and Gomorre had stood."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "The which shall compass the south side by the ascending of (b) the Scorpion, so that they shall pass into Senna, and reach toward the South as far as Cadesbarne, from whence the frontiers shall go forth to the town named Adar, and shall reach as far as Asemona.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Amountain so called of the multitude of scorpions which were in it."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And the border shall go round about from Asemona to the Torrent of Aegypt, and shall end in the shore of the (c) great sea.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Mediterranean sea, called great in respect of the lakes in the holy Land."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same shall be the limit thereof."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Moreover toward the North part the borders shall begin from the great sea, reaching unto the (d) most high mountain,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Mount of Libanus."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "from the which they shall come unto Emath as far as the borders of Sedada:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and the frontiers shall go as far as Sephorna, and the town Enan. These shall be the borders in the North part."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "From thence they shall mark out the bounds toward the East side from the Village Enan unto Sephama,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and from Sephama the bounds shall go down unto Rebla against the fountain Daphnim: from thence they shall come eastward to the sea Cenereth,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and shall reach as far as Jordan, and at the last shall be closed in by the most salt sea. This you shall have for your Land by the bounds thereof round about."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Moyses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall be the Land, which you shall possess by lot, and which our Lord hath commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "For the tribe of the children of Ruben by their families, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the number of their kindreds, the half also of the tribe of Manasses,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "that is, two tribes and an half, have taken their portion beyond Jordan against Jericho at the east side."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And our Lord said to Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "These are the names of the men, that shall divide the Land unto you: Eleazar the Priest, and Josue the son of Nun,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and one Prince of every tribe,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "whose names are these: Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb son of Jephone."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Of the tribe of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammiud."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Of the tribe of Benjamin Elidad the son of Chaselon."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bocci the son of Iogli."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Of the children of Joseph of the tribe of Manasses, Hanniel the son of Ephod."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Of the tribe of Ephraim, Camuel the son of Sephthan."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Of the tribe of Zabulon, Elisaphan the son of Pharnach."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Of the tribe of Issachar, Duke Phaltiel the son of Ozan."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Of the tribe of Aser, Ahiud the son of Salomi."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Of the tribe of Nephthali: Phedael the son of Ammiud."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "These are they whom our Lord commanded to divide the Land of Chanaan to the children of Israel."
}
],
"summary": "The situation and limits of Chanaan, towards the South, the West, the North, and the East, 13. which must be divided by lot among nine tribes and a half (the other two and a half having their parts over Jordan) 16. with the name of the persons that shall make the division."
},
{
"chapter": 35,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These things also spake our Lord to Moyses in the champion countries of Moab upon Jordan, against Jericho:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Command the children of Israel that they give unto the Levites of their possessions"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that themselves may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for their cattle and beasts."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Which from the walls of the cities outward, round about, shall reach the space of a thousand paces."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Toward the East shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the South in like manner shall be two thousand: toward the sea also, which looketh to the West, shall be the same measure: and the North part shall be limited with equal bounds. And the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And of the same towns, which you shall give to the Levites, six shall be separated for the aid of fugitives, that he may fly to them which hath shed blood: and beside these other forty two towns,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "that is, in all forty eight with their suburbs."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And those cities, that shall be given of the possessions of the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken away: and that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Levites according to the measure of their inheritance."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Our Lord said to Moyses:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have passed over Jordan into the Land of Chanaan,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "determine what cities shall be for the succour of fugitives, that have not voluntarily shed blood:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "in which when the fugitive shall be, the kinsman of him that is killed cannot kill him, until he stand in the sight of the multitude, and his cause be judged."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And of those cities, that are separated for refuge of the fugitives,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "three shall be beyond Jordan, and three in the Land of Chanaan,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "as well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may fly to them, which hath not voluntarily shed blood."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "If any man strike with iron, and he die that was strucken, he shall be guilty of murder, and himself shall die."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "If he cast a stone, and he that is strucken die: he shall be punished in like manner."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "If he that is strucken with wood die, he shall be revenged by the striker's blood."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "The kinsman of him that is slain, shall kill the murderer, (a) as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Yet not before sentence of death. v. 12. & 24. S. Aug. q. 65. in Num."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "If through hatred one push a man, or cast any thing at him by stratagem,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder. The kinsman of him that is slain as soon as he findeth him, shall kill him."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "But if by chance-medley, and without hatred,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and enmity, he do any of these things,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the question debated between him that struck, and the next of blood:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "the innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, & by sentence shall be brought back into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall tarry there, (b) until the High-priest, that is anointed with the holy oil, do die.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Mystically this signified, that the way to true life was not open before Christ's death. Theod. q. 51. in Num. S. Greg. ho. 6. in Ezechielem."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities, that are deputed to the banished,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and be strucken of him that is the revenger of blood: he shall be guiltless that killed him."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the High-priest. And after he is dead, then shall the murderer return into his country."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all your habitations."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned, at the testimony of one man."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "You shall not take a price of him, that is guilty of blood, he also shall die forthwith."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "The banished and fugitives before the death of the High-Priest may by no means return into their own cities."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Pollute not the land of your habitation, which is polluted with the blood of innocents: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood, that sheddeth another man's blood."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And so shall your possession be cleansed myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel."
}
],
"summary": "Cities and suburbs are appointed for the Levites, among the other tribes. 6. Of which six shall be for refuge of such as unwittingly kill any man, 22. where keeping themselves till the death of the high-Priest, they shall be safe. 30. Willful murderers convicted (so it be by more than one witness) must die forthwith."
},
{
"chapter": 36,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the Princes also of the families of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses of the stock of the children of Joseph came, and spake to Moyses before the Princes of Israel, and said:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Our Lord hath commanded thee our lord that thou shouldest by lot divide the Land to the children of Israel, and that to the daughters of Salphaad our brother thou shouldest give the possession due to their father:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Whom if men of another tribe take to wives, their possession shall follow, and being translated to another tribe, it shall be a diminishing of our inheritance."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And so it shall come to pass, that when the Jubilee, that is the fiftieth year of remission is come, the distribution of the lots shall be confounded, and the possession of one shall pass to others.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Moyses answered the children of Israel, and as our Lord commanded, said: The tribe of the children of Joseph hath spoken rightly."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And this law is promulgated of our Lord touching the daughters of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only that it be to the men of their own tribe:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe into tribe. For (a) all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "All were not bound by this law to marry; but all that would marry must contract within their own tribe."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and all women shall take husbands of the same tribe: that the inheritance may remain in the families,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and that the tribes be not mingled among themselves, but remain so"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "as they were separated by our Lord. And the daughters of Salphaad did as it had been commanded:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Noa were married to the sons of their uncle by their father,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "of the family of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and the possession, that had been allotted to them, remained in the tribe and family of their father."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "These are the commandments and judgments, which our Lord commanded by the hand of Moyses to the children of Israel, in the champion countries of Moab upon Jordan against Jericho."
}
],
"summary": "That the inheritance may not be alienated from one tribe to another, all must marry within their own tribes."
}
]
}