<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>

When Balaam lifted up his eyes, he saw Israel camped tribe by tribe;<n id="1" /> and the Spirit of God came upon him.

So it will be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he has been zealous for his God,<n id="1" /> and has made atonement<n id="2" /> for the Israelites.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">After the plague the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,<n id="2" />

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.

And the Judahites by their families were: from Shelah, the family of the Shelahites; from Perez, the family of the Perezites; and from Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

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.

For their drink offerings, include<n id="1" /> half a hin of wine with each bull, one-third of a hin for the ram, and one-fourth of a hin for each lamb. This is the burnt offering for each month<n id="2" /> throughout the months of the year.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;But you must offer to the <sc>Lordsc> an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Also, on the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the <sc>Lordsc> during your Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly. You must do no ordinary work.

<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.

But you must offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the <sc>Lordsc>, one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish.<n id="1" />

<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.

The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men<n id="1" /> had gathered<n id="2" /> was 675,000 sheep,

<p class="bodytext">The half-portion of those who went to war numbered 337,500 sheep;

there were 337,500 sheep from the portion belonging to the community,

and then the border will turn from the south to the Scorpion Ascent,<n id="1" /> continue to Zin, and then its direction<n id="2" /> will be from the south to Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon.

you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.