Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as raindrops on the tender herb, and as showers upon the grass.

The chariots of God are a vast innumerable number, thousands of thousands; the Lord is among them as at Sinai, in the Holy Place.

of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers.

What purpose then does the Law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Anyone who rejected Moses' Law dies without mercy before two or three witnesses.

And he said to them, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel: Let every man put his sword on his side, and go and return from gate to gate throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.

And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day.

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which He had not commanded them.

And fire went out from Jehovah and consumed them, and they died before Jehovah.

Take him who has cursed outside the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

And whoever blasphemes the name of Jehovah shall be executed to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones, the sojourner as well as him who is born in the land. When he blasphemes the Name, he shall be put to death.

And while the flesh was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of Jehovah burned against the people, and Jehovah struck the people with a very great plague.

Say to them, As I live, says Jehovah, just as you have spoken in My ears, so I will do to you:

Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I raised My hand and swore to make you dwell there.

But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your iniquities one year; forty years; and you shall know My opposition.

Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing an evil report of the land,

But the soul who does anything loftily, whether he is a native or a sojourner, that one blasphemes Jehovah, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

And they put him under guard, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

Therefore, as Jehovah commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.

And it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them,

So they and all those with them went down alive into Sheol; the earth covered over them, and they perished from among the assembly.

And a fire came forth from Jehovah and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.

And Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their cattle drank.

And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given to them.

And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.

And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did at Baal-Peor; for Jehovah your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal-peor.

But you who held fast to Jehovah your God are alive today, every one of you.

If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Jehovah your God is giving you, a man or a woman who has done evil in the eyes of Jehovah your God, in transgressing His covenant,

then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done that evil thing, and shall stone that man or woman with stones until they have died.

And the man who acts presumptuously to not heed the priest who is standing to serve there before Jehovah your God, or the judge, that man shall die. Thus you shall put away the evil from Israel.

Cursed is the one who does not confirm all the Words of this Law. And all the people shall say, Amen!

But with most of them God was not well pleased, for they were scattered in the wilderness.

Neither become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

nor let us test Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;

Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the recompense.