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Numbers 24 - Balaam’s Third Oracle, Balaam’s Fourth Oracle

Now Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, so he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward...

Numbers 25 - Worship of Baal of Peor

While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab. 2 These invited the people to the...

Numbers 26 - A Census of the New Generation

After the plague the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, 2 “Take a census of the whole congregation of the...

Numbers 27 - The Daughters of Zelophehad, Joshua Appointed Moses’ Successor

Then the daughters of Zelophehad came forward. Zelophehad was son of Hepher son of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh son of Joseph, a...

Numbers 28 - Daily, Sabbath, and Monthly Offerings, Offerings at Passover and Festival of Weeks

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Command the Israelites, and say to them: My offering, the food for my offerings by fire, my pleasing...

Numbers 29 - Offerings at the Festival of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and the Festival of Booths

On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not work at your occupations. It is a day for you to...

Numbers 30 - Vows Made by Women

Then Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the Israelites: This is what the Lord has commanded. 2 When a man makes a vow to the Lord,...

Numbers 31 - War against Midian, Return from the War, Disposition of Captives and Booty

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people.” 3 So Moses...

Numbers 32 - Conquest and Division of Transjordan

Now the Reubenites and the Gadites owned a very great number of cattle. When they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a...

Numbers 33 - The Stages of Israel’s Journey from Egypt, Directions for the Conquest of Canaan

These are the stages by which the Israelites went out of the land of Egypt in military formation under the leadership of Moses and Aaron....

Numbers 34 - The Boundaries of the Land, Tribal Leaders

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Command the Israelites, and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that...

Numbers 35 - Cities for the Levites, Cities of Refuge, Concerning Murder and Blood Revenge

In the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance...

Numbers 36 - Marriage of Female Heirs

The heads of the ancestral houses of the clans of the descendants of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, of the Josephite clans, came...

Deuteronomy 1 - Horeb Events, Appointment of Leaders, Penalty for Israel’s Refusal to Enter the Land

These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan—in the wilderness, on the plain opposite Suph, between Paran and...

Deuteronomy 2 - The Desert Years, Defeat of King Sihon

We journeyed back into the wilderness, in the direction of the Red Sea,[a] as the Lord had told me and skirted Mount Seir for many days....

Deuteronomy 3 - Defeat of King Og, Moses Views Canaan from Pisgah

When we headed up the road to Bashan, King Og of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei. 2 The Lord said...

Deuteronomy 4 - Moses Commands Obedience, Cities of Refuge East of the Jordan, Transition

So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the...

Deuteronomy 5 - The Ten Commandments, Moses the Mediator of God’s Will

Moses convened all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today; you shall...

Deuteronomy 6 - The Great Commandment, Caution against Disobedience

Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that...

Deuteronomy 7 - A Chosen People, Blessings for Obedience

When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy, and he clears away many nations before you—the...

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