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Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule, and shall destroy the remains of the city.

And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things?

And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,

Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.

And the Lord said to Moses:

Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.

Therefore say to him: behold I give him the peace of my covenant,

And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest:

From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord had commanded: and this is the number of them:

His sons, were Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and Abiron the princes of the people, that rose against Moses and Aaron in the sedition of Core, when they rebelled against the Lord:

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Of whom Nadab and Abiu died, when they had offered the strange fire before the Lord.

For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that was raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and he had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our father.

And the Lord said to him:

The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a possession among their father's kindred, and let them succeed him in his inheritance.

But if he have no uncles by the father, the inheritance shall be given to them that are the next akin. And this shall be to the children of Israel sacred by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded Moses.

The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into this mountain Abarim, and view from thence the land which I will give to the children of Israel.

Because you offended me in the desert of Sin in the contradiction of the multitude, neither would you sanctify me before them at the waters. These are the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin.

And Moses answered him:

May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude:

And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd.

And the Lord said to him: take Josue the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him.