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And one doth rule out of Jacob, And hath destroyed a remnant from Ar.'

And he taketh up his simile, and saith: `Alas! who doth live when God doth this?

and Israel is joined to Baal-Peor, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel.

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them before Jehovah--over-against the sun; and the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah doth turn back from Israel.'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath turned back My fury from the sons of Israel, by his being zealous with My zeal in their midst, and I have not consumed the sons of Israel in My zeal.

`Therefore say, Lo, I am giving to him My covenant of peace,

and it hath been to him and to his seed after him a covenant of a priesthood age-during, because that he hath been zealous for his God, and doth make atonement for the sons of Israel.'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

And it cometh to pass, after the plague, that Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,

`From a son of twenty years and upward,' as Jehovah hath commanded Moses and the sons of Israel who are coming out from the land of Egypt.

and the sons of Eliab are Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram; this is that Dathan and Abiram, called ones of the company, who have striven against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, in their striving against Jehovah,

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

and Nadab dieth--Abihu also--in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah.

for Jehovah said of them, `They do certainly die in the wilderness;' and there hath not been left of them a man save Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.

`Our father died in the wilderness, and he--he was not in the midst of the company who were met together against Jehovah in the company of Korah, but for his own sin he died, and had no sons;

and Moses bringeth near their cause before Jehovah.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

and if his father have no brethren, then ye have given his inheritance to his relation who is near unto him of his family, and he hath possessed it;' and it hath been to the sons of Israel for a statute of judgment, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go up unto this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel;

because ye provoked My mouth in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the company--to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes;' they are waters of Meribah, in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin.

And Moses speaketh unto Jehovah, saying,

`Jehovah--God of the spirits of all flesh--appoint a man over the company,

who goeth out before them, and who cometh in before them, and who taketh them out, and who bringeth them in, and the company of Jehovah is not as sheep which have no shepherd.'

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Take to thee Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and thou hast laid thine hand upon him,