Bamidbar
Book 4: Numbers
BEHA'ALOSCHA
Chapter 08
Verse 1: And Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;
Verse 2: Speak to Aharon, and say to him;
When you light the lamps
toward the face of
the Menorah
shall the seven lamps cast [their] light.
Verse 3: Aharon did so;
toward the face of the Menorah
he lit its lamps,
just as Ad-noy commanded Moshe.
Verse 4: This is how the Menorah was made;
beaten from [a block of]
gold,
from its base until its flowers
it is beaten out [of a solid block],
according to the
vision
which Ad-noy showed to Moshe,
so he made the Menorah.
Verse 5: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;
Verse 6: Take the Levites from among Bnei Yisroel
and purify them.
Verse 7: This is what you shall do to them, to purify them;
sprinkle them with the sin-offering waters,
and cause a razor to
pass over (shave)
their entire bodies,
and they shall wash their garments
and purify themselves.
Verse 8: They should take a young bullock
and its meal-offering of flour mixed with oil,
and you shall take a second young bullock,
for a sin-offering.
Verse 9: You shall bring
the Levites near,
before the Tent of Meeting,
and you shall gather the entire congregation
of Bnei Yisroel.
Verse 10: You shall bring the Levites near,
before Ad-noy,
and Bnei Yisroel shall lay
their hands on the Levites.
Verse 11: Aharon shall wave the Levites
as a wave-offering before Ad-noy
from Bnei Yisroel
and they will be [entrusted]
to do the worship of Ad-noy.
Verse 12: The Levites shall lay their hands
on the head of the bulls
and make the one for a sin-offering
and the [other] one for a burnt-offering to Ad-noy,
to atone for the Levites.
Verse 13: You shall set the Levites
before Aharon and before his sons,
and lift them up as a wave-offering to Ad-noy.
Verse 14: You shall separate the Levites
from among Bnei Yisroel
and the Levites shall be Mine.
Sheini (Second Aliyah)
Verse 15: After this is done,
the Levites shall come
to work in the Tent of Meeting,
and you shall purify them,
and you shall lift them up
as a wave-offering,
Verse 16: For they are
given; they are given to Me
from among Bnei Yisroel
in place of those who open the womb,
---every firstborn of Bnei Yisroel---
I have taken them to be Mine.
Verse 17: For every firstborn of Bnei Yisroel is Mine,
human and animal;
on the day in which I slew
every firstborn in the land of Egypt,
I have sanctified them to be Mine.
Verse 18: I have taken the Levites
instead of all firstborn
of Bnei Yisroel,
Verse 19: and I have given the Levites
to be given as a
gift
to Aharon and to his sons
from among Bnei Yisroel
to do the duties of Bnei Yisroel
in the Tent of Meeting,
and to atone for Bnei Yisroel,
so that there will not be
a plague among Bnei Yisroel
when Bnei Yisroel approach the sanctuary.
Verse 20: Moshe, Aharon,
and the entire congregation
of Bnei Yisroel
did to the Levites
just as Ad-noy commanded Moshe
regarding the Levites,
so did Bnei Yisroel do to them.
Verse 21: The Levites underwent purification
and they washed their garments,
and Aharon lifted
them as a wave-offering
before Ad-noy;
and Aharon achieved atonement on their behalf,
to purify them.
Verse 22: Afterwards, the Levites came
to perform their duties in the Tent of Meeting
in the presence of Aharon
and in the presence of his sons;
just as Ad-noy commanded Moshe
regarding the Levites,
so they did unto them.
Verse 23: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying;
Verse 24: This concerns the Levites;
from the age of twenty-five years and above
he shall
enter the division
for the duties of the Tent of Meeting.
Verse 25: From the age of fifty
he shall retire from the work force,
and shall no longer work.
Verse 26: But shall serve his brethren
in the Tent of Meeting
to keep the watch,
and he shall not do any service;
so you shall have the Levites do
in their guard duties.
Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)
Chapter 09
Verse 1: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe
in the desert of Sinai
in the second year of their exodus
from the land of Egypt,
in the first month, saying;
Verse 2: Bnei Yisroel shall
perform
the Pesach-offering in its proper time.
Verse 3: On the fourteenth day of this month,
in the afternoon,
you shall perform it in its proper time;
according to all its statutes
and according to all its laws you shall perform it.
Verse 4: Moshe spoke to
Bnei Yisroel
[telling them] to perform the Pesach-offering.
Verse 5: They performed the Pesach-offering
in the first [month]
on the fourteenth day of the month
in the afternoon
in the Sinai desert;
according to all that Ad-noy commanded Moshe,
so did Bnei Yisroel do.
Verse 6: There were men
who were impure,
having had [contact with] a corpse,
and they were not able
to perform the Pesach-offering on that day,
and they drew near before Moshe
and before Aharon, on that day.
Verse 7: Those men said to him:
"We are impure, having had contact with a corpse;
why should we be excluded
and not be able to bring the offering of Ad-noy
in its proper time, among Bnei Yisroel"?
Verse 8: Moshe said to
them:
"Stand and I will listen
to what Ad-noy will instruct for you."
Verse 9: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying:
Verse 10: Speak to Bnei Yisroel, saying;
any person, if he will be impure from a corpse,
or [is] on a distant road,
[whether
among] yourselves
or for your descendants,
he shall perform the Pesach-offering for Ad-noy
Verse 11: in the second month,
on the fourteenth day in the afternoon
he shall perform it.
Together with matzohs and bitter herbs
they shall eat it.
Verse 12: They shall not leave any of it over
until the morning
and they shall not break any of its bones;
according to all the statutes of the Pesach-offering
they shall perform it.
Verse 13: The person who is pure
and was not on the road,
and refrained from performing
the Pesach-offering,
that soul shall be cut off from its people,
for the offering of Ad-noy
he did not bring in its proper time;
that person shall bear his sin.
Verse 14: If a proselyte dwells among you
and brings the Pesach-offering to Ad-noy;
according to the
statues of the Pesach-offering
and according to its laws
so shall he perform it;
there shall be the same statute for yourselves;
[both] for the proselyte
and for the native born citizen.
Revi'i (Fourth Aliyah)
Verse 15: On the day that the Mishkon was erected,
the Cloud covered the Mishkon
[which served] as the Tent of Testimony;
and in the evening,
there was over the Mishkon
an appearance of fire, until morning.
Verse 16: So it always was,
the Cloud covered
it,
and an appearance of fire, at night.
Verse 17: Whenever the Cloud was lifted
from the Tent,
afterwards, did Bnei Yisroel travel;
in the place where the Cloud came to rest,
it is there that Bnei Yisroel did camp.
Verse 18: On the word of Ad-noy,
did Bnei Yisroel travel
and on the word of Ad-noy, did they camp;
all those days
on which the
Cloud rested above the Mishkon,
did they camp.
Verse 19: When the Cloud tarried
above the Mishkon, for many days,
Bnei Yisroel would keep
the watch of Ad-noy
and they would not travel.
Verse 20: It sometimes happened
that the Cloud was for a number of days
above the Mishkon;
on the order of Ad-noy did they camp
and on the order of Ad-noy did they travel.
Verse 21: It sometimes happened
that the Cloud was [there]
[but] from
evening until morning,
and then the Cloud rose in the morning
and they traveled;
or, [the Cloud was there] for a day and a night
and the Cloud was lifted, and they traveled.
Verse 22: Or two days or a month or a year
that the Cloud prolonged its stay
above the Mishkon
to rest upon it;
Bnei Yisroel remained encamped
and they did not travel;
when it rose they traveled.
Verse 23: On the order of Ad-noy they camped
and on the order of Ad-noy they traveled;
they kept the watch of Ad-noy
on the order of Ad-noy, through Moshe.
Chapter 10
Verse 1: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying:
Verse 2: Make for yourself two silver trumpets;
you shall make them,
beaten [from one block],
and they shall be used by you
to summon the congregation
and to initiate the departure of the camps.
Verse 3: When they will blow them,
the entire congregation shall present itself to you
at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Verse 4: But if they blow one of them,
the leaders shall
present themselves to you,
the heads of Israel's thousands.
Verse 5: When you blow a teruah;
the camps that are camped eastward shall travel.
Verse 6: If you blow a second teruah,
then shall travel
the camps that are camped on the south side.
They shall blow a teruah for their journeys.
Verse 7: But when gathering the congregation,
you shall blow [a
blast], but not a teruah.
Verse 8: The sons of Aharon, the kohanim,
shall sound the trumpets.
This shall be for you an everlasting statute,
for all your descendants.
Verse 9: If war shall come into your land
against the oppressor who oppresses you
and you shall blow teruahs with the trumpets
and you will be remembered
before Ad-noy,
your G-d,
and you will be delivered from your enemies.
Verse 10: On your joyous days
and on your festivals
and on the beginnings of your months
you shall blow with the trumpets
for your burnt-offerings
and for your peace-offerings;
and it shall be a remembrance for you
before your G-d,
I am Ad-noy your G-d.
Chamishi (Fifth Aliyah)
Verse 11: It was in the second year,
in the second month
on
the twentieth of the month
that the Cloud rose up
from above the Mishkon of the Testimony.
Verse 12: Bnei Yisroel traveled
along on their journeys, from the Sinai desert,
and the Cloud came to rest in the desert of Paran.
Verse 13: This was the first time that they traveled,
on the order of Ad-noy, through Moshe.
Verse 14: Then traveled
the banner of the sons of Yehudah's camp
in the forefront according to their divisions;
in charge of its divisions
[was] Nachshon the son of Aminadav.
Verse 15: In charge of the division
of the tribe of the sons of Yissachar,
[was] Nesanel the son of Tzu'ar.
Verse 16: In charge of the division
of the tribe of the sons of Zevulun,
[was] Eliav the
son of Cheilon.
Verse 17: [Then] the Mishkon was dismantled
and the sons of Gershon traveled,
with the sons of Merori,
those who carried the Mishkon.
Verse 18: [Then] the banner of Reuven's camp traveled,
according to their divisions.
In charge of its division
[was] Elitzur the son of Shdeiur.
Verse 19: In charge of the division
of the tribe of the sons of Shimon,
[was] Shlumiel the son of Tzurishadai.
Verse 20: In charge of the division
of the tribe of the sons of Gad,
[was] Elyasaf the son of De'uel.
Verse 21: [Then] the Kehos family traveled,
the carriers of the sacred,
and they erected
the Mishkon
by the time of their arrival.
Verse 22: [Then] the banner
of the sons of Ephraim's camp traveled
according to their divisions.
In charge of its division,
[was] Elishamah the son of Amihud.
Verse 23: In charge of the division
of the tribe of the sons of Menashe,
[was] Gamliel the son of Pedahtzur.
Verse 24: In charge of the division
of the tribe of the sons of Binyamin,
[was] Avidan the son of Gid'oni.
Verse 25: [Then] the
banner
of the sons of Don's camp traveled;
the gatherer for all the camps,
according to their divisions.
In charge of its division,
[was] Achiezer the son of Amishadai.
Verse 26: In charge of the division
of the tribe of the sons of Asher,
[was] Pagiel the son of Ochran.
Verse 27: In charge of the division
of the tribe of the sons of Naftali,
[was] Achirah the son of Einan.
Verse 28: These are the journeys of Bnei Yisroel
according to
their divisions;
and they journeyed.
Verse 29: Moshe said to Chovav the son of Reuel,
the Midianite, Moshe's father-in-law:
"We are journeying to the place
about which
Ad-noy said;
'I will give it to you,'
come along with us and we will treat you well,
for Ad-noy spoke of bringing good [fortune]
on Israel."
Verse 30: He said to him "I will not go,
but rather to my land
and to my birthplace will I go."
Verse 31: He said to him "please do not forsake us,
for, because you
know
of our encampment in the desert,
and you will be our eyes.
Verse 32: It will be, that when you go with us,
it shall be that the very good
which Ad-noy
will bestow on us
we will bestow on (share with) you.
Verse 33: They traveled from the mountain of Ad-noy
a journey of three days,
and the Ark of the Covenant of Ad-noy
traveled in front of them
a journey of three days,
to prepare for
them a place to settle.
Verse 34: The Cloud of Ad-noy
was above them by day
when they traveled from the camp.
Shishi (Sixth Aliyah)
Verse 35: Whenever the Ark departed
Moshe woud
say:
"Rise, Ad-noy, and may your enemies disperse,
and those who hate You flee before You."
Verse 36: When
it rested, he would say:
"Come to rest, Ad-noy,
among the myriads and thousands of Israel."
Chapter 11
Verse 1: The people were like complainers;
[it was] wicked in
the ears of Ad-noy.
Ad-noy heard and His Anger flared
and the fire of Ad-noy burned among them
and consumed [some] of the outcasts of the camp.
Verse 2: The people cried out to Moshe,
and Moshe prayed to Ad-noy,
and the fire
subsided.
Verse 3: He called the name of that place Taveirah,
for it was there that burned among them
the fire of Ad-noy.
Verse 4: The collection [of nationalities] among them
began to have strong cravings,
and Bnei Yisroel turned and began to weep;
and they said "Who will feed us meat?
Verse 5: We remember the fish
which we ate in Egypt freely;
the cucumbers,
watermelons,
leeks, onions and garlic.
Verse 6: Now our bodies are withered,
there is nothing at all,
but the manna before our eyes."
Verse 7: The manna was like coriander seed
and it is similiar
to the appearance of crystal.
Verse 8: The people [merely] strolled about
and they gathered it
and they ground it with a millstone
or crushed it in mortars
and cooked it in pots
and made cakes out of it.
Its taste was like the taste of
cake kneaded with oil.
Verse 9: When the dew
would descend
on the camp, at night,
the manna would descend on it.
Verse 10: Moshe heard the people
weep according to their families,
at the door of each one's tent.
The Anger of Ad-noy was greatly aroused
and in Moshe's eyes, it was evil.
Verse 11: Moshe said to Ad-noy:
"Why have you dealt poorly with Your servant,
and why have I not found favor in Your eyes
that You place the burden
of the entire people upon me?
Verse 12: Have I conceived this entire people?
have I given birth to it
that You say to me,
carry it in
your lap
as a nurse carries an infant,
to the land which You swore
to their forefathers?
Verse 13: From where do I have meat
to give to this entire people
on account of which they cry to me, saying:
"Give us meat and we shall eat."
Verse 14: I alone can not
carry this entire people,
for they are too burdensome for me.
Verse 15: If this is the way You treat me,
please kill me,
if I have found favor in Your eyes;
so that I will
not see my evil."
Verse 16: Ad-noy said to Moshe:
"Gather seventy men for Me,
from among the elders of Israel,
[men] whom you know to be the people's elders,
and its
officers,
and you shall take them
to the Tent of Meeting,
and they shall stand there with you.
Verse 17: I will descend and speak there with you,
and I will make greater the spirit
which is upon you,
and place it on
them,
and they will bear, along with you,
the burden of the people
so that you need not bear it alone.
Verse 18: You shall say to the people,
prepare yourselves for the morrow
and you shall eat meat,
for you have cried in the ears of Ad-noy, saying:
"Who will feed us meat;
we had it good in Egypt";
[now] Ad-noy gives you meat and you shall eat.
Verse 19: Not for one day will you be eating
and not for two days;
not for five days,
not for ten
days,
and not for twenty days.
Verse 20: But rather for a month of days,
until it comes out of your nostrils
and it will be repulsive to you;
[this is] because you have rejected Ad-noy
Who is among you,
and you have
cried before Him, saying:
"Why have we come out from Egypt"?
Verse 21: Moshe said:
"The people are six hundred thousand on foot
that I am among
and You say that I will give them meat,
to eat it for a month of days?
Verse 22: Will sheep and cattle be slaughtered for them
would that be
sufficient for them?
If all the fish of the sea
would be gathered for them,
would that be sufficient for them"?
Verse 23: Ad-noy said to
Moshe:
"Has the Hand of Ad-noy become short?
Now you will see
if My words will occur unto you or not."
Verse 24: Moshe went
out
and spoke the words of Ad-noy to the people,
and he gathered seventy men
from the elders of the people
and he had them stand around the Tent.
Verse 25: Ad-noy descended in a cloud and spoke to him,
and He magnified the spirit which was upon him
and He gave it unto the seventy men,
[who were] the elders.
When the spirit came to rest upon them
they prophesied, and they did not cease.
Verse 26: Two people remained in the camp;
one's name was Eldad
and the second one's name was Meidad.
The spirit rested upon them;
they were among
those inscribed,
and they did not go out to the Tent,
and they prophesied in the camp.
Verse 27: The youth ran and told Moshe, and said:
"Eldad and Meidad are prophesying in the camp."
Verse 28: Yehoshua the son of Nun answered,
[he being] the attendant of Moshe, from his youth,
and he said: "My master Moshe, destroy them!"
Verse 29: Moshe said
to him,
"Are you vengeful for me?
Would it be that all Ad-noy's people were prophets,
that Ad-noy would give His Spirit upon them."
Shevi'i (Seventh Aliyah)
Verse 30: Moshe entered into the camp,
he and the elders of Israel.
Verse 31: From Ad-noy
there gusted a wind
and He caused quail to fly from the sea
and spread them over the camp,
about a day's journey from this side
and about a day's journey from that side,
around the camp,
and about two amos above the ground's surface.
Verse 32: The people arose all of that day,
the entire night and the entire next day,
and they gathered the quail.
He who gathered the least amount,
gathered ten heaps
and they
spread them for themselves
around the camp.
Verse 33: The meat was still between their teeth
before it was [even] finished,
when the wrath of Ad-noy
was incited upon the people,
and Ad-noy smote the people
an enormous blow.
Verse 34: He called the name of that place
Kivros Hataavoh,
for it was there that they buried the people
who had these cravings.
Verse 35: From Kivros Hataavoh
the people journeyed to Chatzeiros,
and they stayed in Chatzeiros.
Chapter 12
Verse 1: Miriam and Aharon spoke about Moshe
concerning the Cushite
woman
that he married,
for, he married a Cushite woman.
Verse 2: They said:
"Is it only to Moshe
that Ad-noy has spoken?
Did He not also speak with us"?
and Ad-noy heard.
Verse 3: The man, Moshe [was] most humble,
more so than any other person
on the face of the earth.
Verse 4: Ad-noy said,
suddenly,
to Moshe, Aharon and Miriam:
"Come out, all three of you,
to the Tent of Meeting,"
and the three of them went out.
Verse 5: Ad-noy descended in a pillar of cloud
and He stood at the
entrance of the Tent,
and He called [to] Aharon and Miriam,
and both of them went out.
Verse 6: He said: "Please listen to My words.
If there will be a prophet among you,
[I,] Ad-noy,
will make Myself known to him in a vision;
in a dream I will
speak to him.
Verse 7: That is not the case with My servant, Moshe;
in My entire house he is trusted.
Verse 8: Mouth to mouth I speak to him,
in a vision and not in riddles;
he gazes at the likeness of Ad-noy;
so why are you not afraid
to speak about My
servant, about Moshe"?
Verse 9: Ad-noy's anger flared against them
and He left.
Verse 10: The cloud departed from atop the Tent
and behold! Miriam became afflicted with tzora'as
white as snow;
and Aharon turned towards Miriam
and behold, she was afflicted with tzora'as.
Verse 11: Aharon said to Moshe:
"Oh, my master
please do not
put iniquity upon us
for what we have foolishly done
and for what we have transgressed.
Verse 12: Please let her not be like the dead;
That, since he came from his mother's womb,
it would be as
half of his own flesh was consumed."
Verse 13: Moshe cried out [in prayer] to Ad-noy, saying:
"Please, G-d,
please heal her."
Maftir
Verse 14: Ad-noy said to Moshe:
"If her father were to spit in her face
would
she not be in shame for seven days?
She shall be closed off for seven days,
beyond the encampment,
and after that, she may join again."
Verse 15: Miriam was closed off beyond the encampment
for seven days,
and the people did not depart
until Miriam was brought in to join them.
Verse 16: After that, the people traveled from Chatzeiros
and they camped in the desert of Paran.
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