Arrangement of the Camp

¹The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²s“The people of Israel shall camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses. They shall camp facing the tent of meeting on every side. ³Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being tNahshon the son of Amminadab, ⁴his company as listed being 74,600. ⁵Those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, the chief of the people of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar, ⁶his company as listed being 54,400. ⁷Then the tribe of Zebulun, the chief of the people of Zebulun being Eliab the son of Helon, ⁸his company as listed being 57,400. ⁹All those listed of the camp of Judah, by their companies, were 186,400. uThey shall set out first on the march.

¹⁰“On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the chief of the people of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur, ¹¹his company as listed being 46,500. ¹²And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, the chief of the people of Simeon being Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, ¹³his company as listed being 59,300. ¹⁴Then the tribe of Gad, the chief of the people of Gad being Eliasaph the son of vReuel, ¹⁵his company as listed being 45,650. ¹⁶All those listed of the camp of Reuben, by their companies, were 151,450. wThey shall set out second.

¹⁷x“Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they camp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard.

¹⁸“On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their companies, the chief of the people of Ephraim being Elishama the son of Ammihud, ¹⁹his company as listed being 40,500. ²⁰And next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, the chief of the people of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, ²¹his company as listed being 32,200. ²²Then the tribe of Benjamin, the chief of the people of Benjamin being Abidan the son of Gideoni, ²³his company as listed being 35,400. ²⁴All those listed of the camp of Ephraim, by their companies, were 108,100. yThey shall set out third on the march.

²⁵“On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan by their companies, the chief of the people of Dan being Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, ²⁶his company as listed being 62,700. ²⁷And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher, the chief of the people of Asher being Pagiel the son of Ochran, ²⁸his company as listed being 41,500. ²⁹Then the tribe of Naphtali, the chief of the people of Naphtali being Ahira the son of Enan, ³⁰his company as listed being 53,400. ³¹All those listed of the camp of Dan were 157,600. zThey shall set out last, standard by standard.”

³²These are the people of Israel as listed by their fathers' houses. All those listed in the camps by their companies were a603,550. ³³But bthe Levites were not listed among the people of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.

³⁴Thus did the people of Israel. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, cso they camped by their standards, and so they set out, each one in his clan, according to his fathers' house.

How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love

To the choirmaster. Of David, the xservant of the Lord.

¹Transgression speaks to the wicked

deep in his heart;1

ythere is no fear of God

before his eyes.

²zFor he flatters himself in his own eyes

that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

³The words of his mouth are atrouble and deceit;

bhe has ceased to act wisely and do good.

⁴He cplots dtrouble while on his bed;

he sets himself in ea way that is not good;

fhe does not reject evil.

⁵Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,

your faithfulness to the clouds.

⁶gYour righteousness is like the mountains of God;

hyour judgments are like the great deep;

man and beast you isave, O Lord.

⁷jHow precious is your steadfast love, O God!

The children of mankind take refuge kin the shadow of your wings.

⁸They feast on lthe abundance of your house,

and you give them drink from mthe river of nyour delights.

⁹For with you is othe fountain of life;

pin your light do we see light.

¹⁰Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who qknow you,

and your righteousness to rthe upright of heart!

¹¹Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me,

nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

¹²There sthe evildoers lie fallen;

they are thrust down, tunable to rise.

Remember Your Creator in Your Youth

¹Remember also your Creator in vthe days of your youth, before wthe evil days come and the years draw near of which xyou will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; ²before ythe sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, ³in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and zthose who look through the windows are dimmed, ⁴and athe doors on the street are shut—when bthe sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all cthe daughters of song are brought low— ⁵they are afraid also of what is high, and dterrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,1 and desire fails, because man is going to his eeternal fhome, and the gmourners go about the streets— ⁶before the silver cord is snapped, or hthe golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is ishattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, ⁷and jthe dust returns to the earth as it was, and kthe spirit returns to God lwho gave it. ⁸mVanity2 of vanities, says nthe Preacher; all is vanity.

Fear God and Keep His Commandments

⁹Besides being wise, nthe Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging omany proverbs with great care. ¹⁰nThe Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.

¹¹pThe words of the wise are like goads, and like qnails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are rgiven by sone Shepherd. ¹²My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making umany books there is no end, and vmuch study is a weariness of the flesh.

¹³The end of the matter; all has been heard. wFear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.3 ¹⁴For xGod will bring every deed into judgment, with4 every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Greeting

¹Paul, aa prisoner for Christ Jesus, and bTimothy our brother,

To Philemon our beloved fellow worker ²and Apphia our sister and cArchippus our dfellow soldier, and ethe church in your house:

³fGrace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Philemon's Love and Faith

⁴gI thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, ⁵because I hhear of your love and iof the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, ⁶and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full jknowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.1 ⁷For I have derived much joy and kcomfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints lhave been refreshed through you.

Paul's Plea for Onesimus

⁸Accordingly, mthough I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do nwhat is required, ⁹yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now oa prisoner also for Christ Jesus— ¹⁰I appeal to you for pmy child, qOnesimus,2 rwhose father I became in my imprisonment. ¹¹(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.) ¹²I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. ¹³I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me son your behalf tduring my imprisonment for the gospel, ¹⁴but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be uby compulsion but of your own accord. ¹⁵For this perhaps is why vhe was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, ¹⁶wno longer as a bondservant3 but more than a bondservant, as xa beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, yboth in the flesh and in the Lord.

¹⁷So if you consider me zyour partner, receive him as you would receive me. ¹⁸If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account. ¹⁹aI, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self. ²⁰Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. bRefresh my heart in Christ.

²¹cConfident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say. ²²At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for dI am hoping that ethrough your prayers fI will be graciously given to you.

Final Greetings

²³gEpaphras, my hfellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you, ²⁴and so do iMark, iAristarchus, jDemas, and jLuke, my fellow workers.

²⁵kThe grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.