Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 165
The Five Books of Moses
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22 driven from before Him, then, when the country is subdued to ]EHOvAH, you may return; and this distxzict shall be given you from the EVER- Lxvmc, and from Israel, and this country shall be yours to possess it23 in the presence of the LORD. But if you will not do so, then you will sin against the Evzx-1.1vmc:,-·~a.ud you know the punishment for sin that will
24 meet you. _You can build towns for your children, and folds for your Hocks,··-·a.nd return when you have :5 The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben replied to Moses saying; ‘Your servants will do as Our Lord
26 commands. Our children, wives and cattle shall be here in the cities of
27 Gilad; but your servants will pass over fully equipped for war with the army of the Evzn·Lxv1NG, as your Lordship has said! Glyn §arliummi sullen is smrriiun the §r¤p¤¤als· uf lizulxzu smh ®¤¤. Then Moses convoked Aliazer the
priest, and joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Isra.el,—-a.nd Moses If the sons of Gad and thesous of Reuben pass over the jordan fully equipped for the war of the Evnx·1.1vmo, and subdue the country before you, then you shall give them the landlof Gilad for a possession. But if they do not go over ready for action, then they shall only inherit in the land of Ca.nan.’ The sons of Gad, and the sons of Reuben answered, saying; ‘Your servants will do what the
EvzR—Lxv1NG has said. We will pass over fully equippedbefore the EVER· LWING tothe land of Canan, and we will possess our inheritance on this side of the jordan! 33 So Moses gave to the sons of Qad 34 35 tribe of Manasseh, the son of joseph, of the villages. _and the sons of Reuben, and the half the kingdoms of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdoms of Og, king of Bashan. The land and its towns, with the surrounding country So the sons of Gad built Diban, and
Ataroth, and Arar, and Ataroth- Shufan, and jazer, and Igbakhah, and Beth·minrah, and Beth—horon; fortified towns, with folds for sheep. And the sons of Reuben built
Kheshbon, and Alalah, Kiriathaim, and Athbano, and Athbal·maon, changing its name, and Sibma, and they called Bethmoth, Shemoth. These were the towns they built. Then the sons of Makir, the son
of Manasseh, marched to Gilad and captured it, and drove out the Amo- rites who were in it, so Moses gave Gilad to Makir, the descendant of Manasseh, and he occupied it. Then Yair the son of Manasseh
marched and captured some forts, and called them the forts of Yair. Then Nobakh marched and cap—
tured Kaneth, and its villages, and named it Nobakh, after his own name. 39 ilrrurh of Izrazfz marches from Gggpl in the Serbian. These are the marches of the 38 children of Israel who came under the direction of Moses and Aaron from the land of the Mitzeraim by their armies. (For Moses registered their advance by marches, by instruc~ tions from the Evan-mvme; and gee? are the marches they advanced They marched first from Ramases,
in the nrst month, upon the fifteenth day of the first month; After the morning of the Pass-
over, the children of Israel advanced with a. high hand in the sight of all Mitzeraim, whilst the Mitzerites . were burying those whom jEHOvA1-1 had killed among thern,·~—a11 their firstborn. And jm-IOVAH also exe- cuted justice upon their gods. S0 the children of Israel marched
from Ramases, and pitched their tents at Skuth. Then they marched from Skuth and pitched at Atham, which is on the border of the desert. Then they marched from Atham, and pitched and occupied the Mouth of Hakhiroth,2 which is oppcsite Bal- zefon, and pitched before the fortress. Then they marched from Hakhiroth and passed over through the sea to the desert, and advanced in that direction three days to the Desert of Atham, and pitched at Marah. Then they marched from Marah and came to Ailam, and there were at Ailam AV. cls an ancient .editor’s note, intro-
ducing the record of Moses, not part of his text apparently, as the change of person shows.-F. F. The Mouth of the —·F F 165
