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19 And the LORD spoke to Moses, and to Aaron, saying,
2 “This is the Ordinance of the Law, which the LORD has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the children of Israel so that they bring you a red cow, without blemish, in which is no spot, upon which never came yoke.
3 ‘And you shall give her to Eleazar the Priest, so that he may bring her outside the camp and cause her to be killed before his face.
4 ‘Then, Eleazar the Priest shall take some of her blood with his finger and sprinkle it before the Tabernacle of the Congregation seven times,
5 ‘and cause the cow to be burnt in his sight. He shall burn her with her skin and her flesh and her blood and her dung.
6 ‘Then the Priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet lace and cast them in the midst of the fire where the cow burns.
7 ‘Then the Priest shall wash his clothes; and he shall wash his flesh in water and then come into the camp. And the Priest shall be unclean until the evening.
8 ‘Also, he who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and wash his flesh in water, and be unclean until evening.
9 ‘And a clean man shall take up the ashes of the cow and put them outside the camp in a clean place. And it shall be kept for the Congregation of the children of Israel for a sprinkling water. It is a Sin Offering.
10 ‘Therefore, he who gathers the ashes of the cow shall wash his clothes and remain unclean until evening. And it shall be a Statute, forever, to the children of Israel and to the stranger who dwells among them.
11 ‘He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean for seven days.
12 ‘He shall purify himself with the water on the third day; and the seventh day he shall be clean. But, if he does not purify himself on the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 ‘Whoever touches the corpse of any man who is dead, and does not purge himself, defiles the Tabernacle of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from Israel, because the sprinkling water was not sprinkled upon him. He shall be unclean; and his uncleanness shall remain upon him.
14 ‘This is the Law: When a man dies in a tent, all who come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean for seven days.
15 ‘And all the vessels that are open, which have no covering fastened upon them, shall be unclean.
16 ‘Also, whoever touches one who is killed with a sword in the field, or a dead person, or a bone of a dead man, or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.
17 ‘Therefore, for an unclean person, they shall take from the burnt ashes of the Sin Offering; and pure water shall be put on them in a vessel.
18 ‘And a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and on the people who were inside, and upon him who touched the bone, or the killed, or the dead, or the grave.
19 ‘And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and the seventh day. And he shall purify himself on the seventh day, and wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.
20 ‘But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the Congregation, because he has defiled the Sanctuary of the LORD; and the sprinkling water has not been sprinkled upon him. He shall be unclean.
21 ‘And it shall be a perpetual Law to them, that he who sprinkles the sprinkling water shall wash his clothes and he who touches the sprinkling water shall be unclean until evening.
22 ‘And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean. And the person who touches him shall be unclean until the evening.’”
20 Then the children of Israel came with the whole Congregation to the desert of Zin in the first month. And the people stayed at Kadesh, where Miriam died and was buried.
2 But there was no water for the Congregation; and they assembled themselves against Moses and against Aaron.
3 And the people argued with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had perished when our brothers died before the LORD!
4 “Why have you brought the Congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, so that we and our cattle should die here?
5 “Why now have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us into this miserable place, which is no place of seed or figs or vines or pomegranates? Nor is there any water to drink.”
6 Then Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation and fell upon their faces. And the Glory of the LORD appeared to them.
7 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
8 “Take the branch, and you and your brother Aaron gather the Congregation together. And speak to the rock before their eyes. And it shall give forth its water. And you shall bring them water out of the rock. So you shall give the Congregation and the beasts drink.”
9 Then Moses took the branch from before the LORD, as He had Commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the Congregation before the rock and said to them, “Hear now you rebels! Shall we bring you water out of this rock?”
11 Then Moses lifted up his hand; and with his rod, he struck the rock twice. And the water came out, abundantly. So the Congregation, and their beasts, drank.
12 Again, the LORD said to Moses, and to Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me (to sanctify Me in the presence of the children of Israel), therefore you shall not bring this Congregation into the land which I have given them.”
13 This is the Water of Meribah, because the children of Israel strove with the LORD. And He was sanctified in them.
14 Then Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying, “Thus says your brother, Israel, ‘You know all the trouble that we have had:
15 “how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, where the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.
16 “But when we cried to the LORD, He heard our voice and sent an angel, and has brought us out of Egypt. And behold, we are in the city, Kadesh, in your utmost border.
17 “Please let us pass through your country. We will not go through the fields or the vineyards, nor will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go by the King’s Way and turn neither to the right hand nor to the left, until we are past your borders.’”
18 And Edom answered him, “You shall not pass by me, lest I come out against you with the sword.”
19 Then the children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway. And if I or my cattle drink from your water, then I will pay for it. I will only go through on foot, nothing else.”
20 He answered again, “You shall not go through.” Then Edom came out against him with many people, and with a mighty power.
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his country. Therefore, Israel turned away from him.
22 And when the children of Israel, with all the Congregation, departed from Kadesh, they came to Mount Hor.
23 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron on Mount Hor, near the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
24 “Aaron shall be gathered to his people. For he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel because you disobeyed My Commandment at the Water of Meribah.
25 “Take Aaron, and Eleazar his son, and bring them up onto Mount Hor,
26 “and cause Aaron to take off his garments, and put them upon Eleazar, his son. For Aaron shall be gathered to his fathers and shall die there.”
27 “And Moses did as the LORD had commanded. And they went up onto Mount Hor, in the sight of all the Congregation.
28 And Moses took off Aaron’s clothes and put them upon Eleazar, his son. So Aaron died there, on top of the mountain. And Moses and Eleazar came down from off the mountain.
29 When all the Congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the House of Israel wept for Aaron for thirty days.
1 Since many have attempted to set forth the story of those things of which we are fully persuaded
2 (exactly as they were delivered to us by those ministers of the Word who saw them themselves from the beginning),
3 it seemed good to me also - once I had carefully investigated all things from the beginning - to write to you of them from point to point, most noble Theophilus,
4 so that you might acknowledge the certainty of those things of which you have been instructed.
5 In the time of Herod, King of Judea, there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the class of Abijah. And his wife was among the daughters of Aaron. And her name was Elizabeth.
6 Both were righteous before God and walked in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord, without reproof.
7 And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren. And both were well-advanced in age.
8 And it so happened that as he executed the priest’s office before God (as per his class),
9 the lot fell to him to burn incense when he went into the Temple of the Lord, according to the custom of the priest’s office.
10 And the whole multitude of the people were outside in prayer while the incense was burning.
11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the Altar of Incense.
12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
13 But the angel said to him, “Fear not, Zacharias. For your prayer is heard, and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son. And you shall call his name, John.
14 “And you shall have joy and gladness. And many shall rejoice at his birth.
15 “For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. And he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.
16 “And he shall turn many of the children of Israel to their Lord God.
17 “For he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
18 Then Zacharias said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is of a great age.”
19 And the angel answered, and said to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I am sent to speak to you, and to show you these good tidings.
20 “And behold, you shall be silent, and unable to speak, until the day that these things are done, because you did not believe my words which shall be fulfilled in their season.”
21 Now the people waited for Zacharias. And they marveled that he remained so long in the Temple.
22 And when he came out, he could not speak to them. Then, they perceived that he had seen a vision in the Temple. For he made signs to them and remained silent.
23 And it happened that when the days of his office were fulfilled, he departed to his own house.
24 And after those days, his wife Elizabeth conceived, and hid herself for five months, saying,
25 “Thus has the Lord dealt with me, in the days on when he looked on me, to take from me my rebuke among man.”
56 Be merciful to me, O God; for man desires to swallow me up. He fights continually and troubles me.
2 My enemies would swallow me up daily; for many fight against me, O You Most High.
3 When I was afraid, I trusted in You.
4 I will rejoice in God because of His Word. I trust in God and will not fear what flesh can do to me.
5 My own words grieve me daily. All their thoughts are against me, to do me hurt.
6 They gather together and keep themselves close. They mark my steps because they wait for my soul.
7 They think they shall escape by iniquity. O God, cast these people down in Your anger.
8 You have counted my wanderings. Put my tears into Your bottle. Are they not in Your register?
9 When I cry, then my enemies shall turn back. This I know; for God is with me.
10 I will rejoice in God because of His Word. I will rejoice in the LORD because of His Word.
11 In God do I trust. I will not be afraid what man can do to me.
12 Your vows are upon me, O God. I will render praises to You.
13 For You have delivered my soul from death—and also my feet from falling—so that I may walk before God in the light of the living. To him who excels: Do not destroy. A Psalm of David, on Michtam, when he fled from Saul in the cave
8 The righteous escapes out of trouble. And it comes to the wicked instead.
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