<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> and the width three and one-third miles.<n id="3" /> This entire area will be holy.<n id="4" />

The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles<n id="1" /> to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.

<p class="bodytext">To Sarah he said, &#8220;Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver<n id="1" /> to your &#8216;brother.&#8217;<n id="2" /> This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

They blessed Rebekah with these words:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Our sister, may you become the mother<n id="2" /> of thousands of ten thousands!p> <p class="poetry">May your descendants possess the strongholds<n id="3" /> of their enemies.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The Levites did what Moses ordered,<n id="1" /> and that day about three thousand men of the people died.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels,<n id="1" /> according to the sanctuary shekel,

From the remaining 1,775 shekels<n id="1" /> he made hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and made bands for them.p>

Counting every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600. They were responsible for the care<n id="1" /> of the sanctuary.

And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.p>

From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

Each silver platter weighed 130 shekels, and each silver sprinkling bowl weighed 70 shekels. All the silver of the vessels weighed 2,400 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

<p class="bodytext">Moses said, &#8220;The people around me<n id="1" /> are 600,000 on foot;<n id="2" /> but you say, &#8216;I will give them meat,<n id="3" /> that they may eat<n id="4" /> for a whole month.&#8217;

Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah.

These were the families of the Ephraimites, according to those numbered of them, 32,500.<n id="1" /> These were the descendants of Joseph by their families.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">So Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from every tribe, with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who was in charge<n id="1" /> of the holy articles<n id="2" /> and the signal trumpets.

and 32,000 young women who had never had sexual intercourse with a man.<n id="1" />p>

Indeed, may the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you<n id="1" /> just as he said he would!

So realize that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is the true God,<n id="1" /> the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully<n id="2" /> with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

<p class="poetry">How can one man chase a thousand of them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and two pursue ten thousand;p> <p class="poetry">unless their Rock had delivered them up,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc> had handed them over?p>

<p class="bodytext">Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai.<n id="1" /> Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.