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 THE
AARONIC BENEDICTION  
    
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to 
     
Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'Thus you shall bless 
     
the sons of Israel. You shall say to them: "The LORD 
     
bless you, and keep you; the LORD make His face 
     
shine on you, and be gracious to you; the LORD lift 
     
up His countenance on you, and give you peace."'
     
So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, 
     
and I then will bless them." -- 6:22-27
  
  
 
THE BLOWING OF TRUMPETS 
     When
you go to war in your land against the 
     
adversary who attacks you, then you shall sound 
     
an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be 
     
remembered before the LORD your God, and be
     
saved from your enemies.  Also in the day of your 
     
gladness and in your appointed feasts, and on 
     
the first days of your months, you shall blow the 
     
trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the 
     
sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall
     
be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the 
     
LORD your God." -- 10:9-10
  
  
 
THE ARK 
     Then
it came about when the ark set out that Moses
     
said, "Rise up, O LORD! And let Your enemies be
     
scattered, and let those who hate You flee before 
     
You."  When it came to rest, he said, "Return, O 
     
LORD, to the myriad thousands of Israel." -- 10:35-36 
  
  
 
THE PEOPLE GRUMBLED 
     All
the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and 
     
Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, 
     
"Would that we had died in the land of Egypt!  Or
     
would that we had died in this wilderness!  Why is 
     
the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the 
     
sword?  Our wives and our little ones will become 
     
plunder; would it not be better for us to return to 
     
Egypt?"  So they said to one another, "Let us appoint
     
a leader and return to Egypt."  Then Moses and 
     
Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the
     
assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
     
Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of 
     
Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, 
     
tore their clothes; and they spoke to all the 
     
congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, "The 
     
land which we passed through to  spy out is an 
     
exceedingly good land.  If the LORD is pleased 
     
with us, then He will bring us into this land and 
     
give it to us -- a land which flows with milk and 
     
honey.  Only do not rebel against the LORD; and
     
do not fear the people of the land, for they will be 
     
our prey. Their protection has been removed from 
     
them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them."
     
-- 14:2-9
 
THE JUSTICE OF GOD 
     But
now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, 
     
just as You have declared,  the LORD is slow to 
     
anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving
     
iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means 
     
clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on
     
the children to the third and the fourth generations.
     
Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according
     
to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You
     
also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until 
     
now. -- 14:17-19
  
  
 
MERIBAH -- WATER FROM THE
ROCK 
     There
was no water for the congregation, and they
     
assembled themselves against Moses and Aaron.
     
The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, 
     
saying, "If only we had perished when our brothers
     
perished before the LORD!  Why then have you 
     
brought the LORD'S assembly into this wilderness,
     
for us and our beasts to die here?  Why have you
     
made us come up from Egypt, to bring us in to this 
     
wretched place?  It is not a place of grain or figs or 
     
vines or pomegranates, nor is there water to drink."
     
Then Moses and Aaron came in from the presence
     
of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting 
     
and fell on their faces. Then the glory of the LORD
     
appeared to them; and the LORD spoke to Moses,
     
saying, "Take the rod; and you and your brother
     Aaron
assemble the congregation and speak to the 
     
rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. 
     
You shall thus bring forth water for them out of the 
     
rock and let the congregation and their beasts 
     
drink."  So Moses took the rod from before the 
     
LORD, just as He had commanded him; and Moses 
     
and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock.
     
And he said to them, "Listen now, you rebels; shall
     
we bring forth water for you out of this rock?"  Then
     
Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice 
     
with his rod; and water came forth abundantly, and
     
the congregation and their beasts drank.  But the 
     
LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you have 
     
not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of
     
the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this 
     
assembly into the land which I have given them."
     
Those were the waters of Meribah, because the 
     
sons of Israel contended with the LORD, and He
     
proved Himself holy among them. -- 20:2-13
  
  
 
THE FIERY SERPENTS 
     Then
they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the
     
Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the
     
people became impatient because of the journey.
     
The people spoke against God and Moses, "Why 
     
have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
     
wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and 
     
we loathe this miserable food."  The LORD sent fiery 
     
serpents among the people and they bit the people,
     
so that many people of Israel died.  So the people
     
came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, because 
     
we have spoken against the LORD and you; intercede 
     
with the LORD, that He may remove the serpents 
     
from us."  And Moses interceded for the people.
     
Then the LORD said to Moses,  "Make a fiery 
     
serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come 
     
about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks
     
at it, he will live."  And Moses made a bronze serpent 
     
and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if
     
a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze
     
serpent, he lived. -- 21:4-9
  
  
 
SPRING UP, O WELL 
     The
LORD said to Moses, "Assemble the people, 
     
that I may give them water."  Then Israel sang this
     
song: "Spring up, O well! Sing to it!  The well, which
     
the leaders sank, which the nobles of the people 
     
dug, with the scepter and with their staffs." -- 21:16-18
  
  
 
BALAAM'S DONKEY 
     When
the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she 
     
lay down under Balaam; so Balaam was angry and
     
struck the donkey with his stick.  And the LORD 
     
opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to 
     
Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have 
     
struck me these three times?"  Then Balaam said 
     
to the donkey, "Because you have made a mockery 
     
of me! If there had been a sword in my hand, I would
     
have killed you by now."  The donkey said to 
     
Balaam, "Am I not your donkey on which you have 
     
ridden all your life to this day? Have I ever been 
     
accustomed to do so to you?"  And he said, "No."
     
Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he 
     
saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with
     
his drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed all the 
     
way to the ground.  The angel of the LORD said to
     
him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three
     
times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, 
     
because your way was contrary to me. But the 
     
donkey saw me and turned aside from me these
     
three times. If she had not turned aside from me, I
     
would surely have killed you just now, and let her 
     
live." -- 22:27-33
  
  
 
BALAAM'S PROPHECIES 
     How
shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And 
     
how can I denounce whom the LORD has not
     
denounced?  As I see him from the top of the rocks, 
     
and I look at him from the hills; behold, a people who
     
dwells apart, and will not be reckoned among the 
     
nations.  Who can count the dust of Jacob, or
     
number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the 
     
death of the upright, and let my end be like his!"
     
-- 23:8-10 
      How
fair are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O
     
Israel!  Like valleys that stretch out, like gardens 
     
beside the river, like aloes planted by the LORD, 
     
like cedars beside the waters.  Water will flow from
     
his buckets, and his seed will be by many waters, 
     
and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his 
     
kingdom shall be exalted.  God brings him out of 
     
Egypt, He is for him like the horns of the wild ox.
     
He will devour the nations who are his adversaries, 
     
and will crush their bones in pieces, and shatter 
     
them with his arrows.  He couches, he lies down as
     
a lion, and as a lion, who dares rouse him? Blessed
     
is everyone who blesses you, and cursed is everyone
     
who curses you. -- 24:5-9
      I
see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near; 
     
a star shall come forth from Jacob, a scepter shall
     
rise from Israel, and shall crush through the
     
forehead of Moab, and tear down all the sons of 
     
Sheth.  Edom shall be a possession, Seir, its enemies,
     
also will be a possession, while Israel performs 
     
valiantly.  One from Jacob shall have dominion, and
     
will destroy the remnant from the city."  -- 24:17-19
 
  
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