Israel

Said to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to the Lord among the children of Israel?

Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar off in your nation, let him make the phase to the Lord.

And when the cloud that covered the tabernacle was taken up, then the children of Israel marched forward: and in the place where the cloud stood still, there they camped.

At the commandment of the Lord they marched, and at his commandment they pitched the tabernacle. All the days that the cloud abode over the tabernacle, they remained in the same place:

And if it was so that it continued over it a long time, the children of Israel kept the watches of the Lord, and marched not,

But if it remained over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a longer time, the children of Israel remained in the same place, and marched not: but immediately as soon as it departed, they removed the camp.

And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.

This was the order of the camps, and marches of the children of Israel by their troops, when they set forward.

For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?

And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.

Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.

And forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that place:

And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,

But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:

And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.

And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:

And when all the multitude cried out, and would have stoned them, the glory of the Lord appeared over the tabernacle of the covenant to all the children of Israel.

How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.

And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly.

Speak to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them: When you shall be come unto the land of your habitation, which I will give you,

When you are come into the land which I will give you,

And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children of Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned ignorantly, offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for themselves and for their sin and their Ignorance:

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.

The same law shall be for all that sin by ignorance, whether they be natives or strangers.