Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.”

“To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.

He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, just as the Lord commanded, by the authority of Moses.

“‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord’s Passover.

Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair.

Then Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

There the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and then its direction is to the sea.

then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.

But those who were to camp in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, and his sons. They were responsible for the needs of the sanctuary and for the needs of the Israelites, but the unauthorized person who approached was to be put to death.

Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.’”

So now, please come and curse this nation for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed.”

Then the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh of the families of Manasseh, the son Joseph came forward. Now these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

The towns you will give must be from the possession of the Israelites. From the larger tribes you must give more; and from the smaller tribes fewer. Each must contribute some of its own towns to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance allocated to each.

“Every one of the Israelites must camp under his standard with the emblems of his family; they must camp at some distance around the tent of meeting.

All those numbered of the camp of Reuben, according to their divisions, are 151,450. They will travel second.

All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim, according to their divisions, are 108,100. They will travel third.

So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood; but the unauthorized person who comes near must be put to death.”

But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”

So Aaron said to Moses, “O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!

When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country