<p class="bodytext">Then God met Balaam, who<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Who<n id="1" /> can count<n id="2" /> the dust<n id="3" /> of Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">Or number<n id="4" /> the fourth part of Israel?p> <p class="poetry">Let me<n id="5" /> die the death of the upright,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">and let the end of my life<n id="7" /> be like theirs.&#8221;<n id="8" />p>

But Balaam replied<n id="1" /> to Balak, &#8220;Did I not tell you, &#8216;All that the <sc>Lordsc> speaks,<n id="2" /> I must do&#8217;?&#8221;p>

&#8220;Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans,<n id="1" /> everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.&#8221;<n id="2" />

&#8220;Number the people<n id="1" /> from twenty years old and upward, just as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.&#8221;p>

These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.

<p class="bodytext">These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the plains of Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho.<n id="1" />

But there was not a man among these who had been<n id="1" /> among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.

&#8220;The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim.<n id="1" /> You must indeed<n id="2" /> give them possession of an inheritance among their father&#8217;s relatives, and you must transfer<n id="3" /> the inheritance of their father to them.

And you must tell the Israelites, &#8216;If a man dies<n id="1" /> and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go up this mountain of the Abarim range,<n id="2" /> and see<n id="3" /> the land I have given<n id="4" /> to the Israelites.

And the second lamb you must offer in the late afternoon; just as you offered the grain offering and drink offering in the morning,<n id="1" /> you must offer it as an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On the tenth day of this seventh month you are to have a holy assembly. You must humble yourselves;<n id="1" /> you must not do any work on it.

<v id="(30:1)" /><n id="1" /> So Moses told the Israelites everything, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded him.<n id="2" />p>

and her husband heard about it, but remained silent about her, and did not overrule her, then all her vows will stand, and every obligation which she pledged for herself will stand.

<p class="bodytext">These are the statutes that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses, relating to<n id="1" /> a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father&#8217;s house.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Moses spoke to the people: &#8220;Arm<n id="1" /> men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s vengeance on Midian.

<p class="bodytext">Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, &#8220;This is the ordinance of the law that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses:

&#8220;You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum<n id="1" /> of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

and said to him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Your servants have taken a count<n id="2" /> of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority,<n id="3" /> and not one is missing.