Census of the New Generation

¹zAfter the plague, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest, ²a“Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all in Israel who are able to go to war.” ³And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them bin the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, ⁴“Take a census of the people,1 from twenty years old and upward,” as the Lord ccommanded Moses. The people of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:

⁵dReuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites; ⁶of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the clan of the Carmites. ⁷These are the clans of the Reubenites, and those listed were e43,730. ⁸And the sons of Pallu: Eliab. ⁹The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, fchosen from the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the Lord ¹⁰and gthe earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and hthey became a warning. ¹¹But ithe sons of Korah did not die.

¹²The sons of jSimeon according to their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the clan of the Jachinites; ¹³of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the clan of the Shaulites. ¹⁴These are the clans of the Simeonites, k22,200.

¹⁵The sons of lGad according to their clans: of Zephon, the clan of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the clan of the Haggites; of Shuni, the clan of the Shunites; ¹⁶of Ozni, the clan of the Oznites; of Eri, the clan of the Erites; ¹⁷of Arod, the clan of the Arodites; of Areli, the clan of the Arelites. ¹⁸These are the clans of the sons of Gad as they were listed, m40,500.

¹⁹The sons of nJudah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. ²⁰And the sons of Judah according to their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites. ²¹And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites. ²²These are the clans of Judah as they were listed, o76,500.

²³The sons of pIssachar according to their clans: of Tola, the clan of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the clan of the Punites; ²⁴of Jashub, the clan of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the clan of the Shimronites. ²⁵These are the clans of Issachar as they were listed, q64,300.

²⁶The sons of rZebulun, according to their clans: of Sered, the clan of the Seredites; of Elon, the clan of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the clan of the Jahleelites. ²⁷These are the clans of the Zebulunites as they were listed, s60,500.

²⁸The sons of tJoseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim. ²⁹uThe sons of Manasseh: of vMachir, the clan of the Machirites; and Machir was the father of Gilead; wof Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites. ³⁰These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the clan of the Iezerites; of Helek, the clan of the Helekites; ³¹and of Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites; ³²and of Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites. ³³Now xZelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ³⁴These are the clans of Manasseh, and those listed were y52,700.

³⁵These are the sons of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the clan of the Becherites; of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites. ³⁶And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the clan of the Eranites. ³⁷These are the clans of the sons of Ephraim as they were listed, z32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their clans.

³⁸The sons of aBenjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites; ³⁹of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the clan of the Huphamites. ⁴⁰And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites; of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites. ⁴¹These are the sons of Benjamin according to their clans, and those listed were b45,600.

⁴²These are the sons of cDan according to their clans: of Shuham, the clan of the Shuhamites. These are the clans of Dan according to their clans. ⁴³All the clans of the Shuhamites, as they were listed, were d64,400.

⁴⁴The sons of eAsher according to their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the clan of the Beriites. ⁴⁵Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the clan of the Malchielites. ⁴⁶And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. ⁴⁷These are the clans of the sons of Asher as they were listed, f53,400.

⁴⁸The sons of gNaphtali according to their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the clan of the Gunites; ⁴⁹of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites. ⁵⁰These are the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, and those listed were h45,400.

⁵¹This was the list of the people of Israel, i601,730.

⁵²The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁵³j“Among these the land shall be divided for inheritance according to the number of names. ⁵⁴kTo a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance in proportion to its list. ⁵⁵But the land shall be ldivided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. ⁵⁶Their inheritance shall be divided according to lot between the larger and the smaller.”

⁵⁷mThis was the list of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites. ⁵⁸These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites, the clan of the Hebronites, the clan of the Mahlites, the clan of the Mushites, the clan of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram. ⁵⁹The name of Amram's wife was nJochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister. ⁶⁰oAnd to Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ⁶¹pBut Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord. ⁶²And those listed were q23,000, every male from a month old and upward. For rthey were not listed among the people of Israel, because sthere was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel.

⁶³These were those listed by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who listed the people of Israel tin the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. ⁶⁴uBut among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. ⁶⁵For the Lord had said of them, v“They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, wexcept Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Save Me, O God

To the choirmaster: according to tLilies. Of David.

¹Save me, O God!

For uthe waters have come up to my neck.1

²I sink in deep vmire,

where there is no foothold;

I have come into deep waters,

and the flood wsweeps over me.

³xI am weary with my crying out;

ymy throat is parched.

zMy eyes grow dim

with awaiting for my God.

⁴bMore in number than the hairs of my head

are cthose who hate me dwithout cause;

mighty are those who would destroy me,

ethose who attack me with lies.

What I did not steal

must I now restore?

⁵O God, you know my folly;

the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

⁶Let not those who hope in you fbe put to shame through me,

O Lord God of hosts;

let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,

O God of Israel.

⁷For it is gfor your sake that I have borne reproach,

that dishonor has covered my face.

⁸I have become ha stranger to my brothers,

an alien to my mother's sons.

⁹For izeal for your house has consumed me,

and jthe reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

¹⁰When I wept and humbled2 my soul with fasting,

it became my reproach.

¹¹When I made ksackcloth my clothing,

I became la byword to them.

¹²I am the talk of those who msit in the gate,

and the drunkards make nsongs about me.

¹³But as for me, my oprayer is to you, O Lord.

At pan acceptable time, O God,

in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.

¹⁴Deliver me

from sinking in qthe mire;

rlet me be delivered from my enemies

and from sthe deep waters.

¹⁵Let not the flood sweep over me,

or the deep swallow me up,

or tthe pit close uits mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, O Lord, for your vsteadfast love is good;

according to your abundant wmercy, xturn to me.

¹⁷yHide not your face from your servant,

zfor I am in distress; amake haste to answer me.

¹⁸Draw near to my soul, redeem me;

ransom me because of my enemies!

¹⁹You know my breproach,

and my shame and my dishonor;

my foes are all known to you.

²⁰bReproaches have broken my heart,

so that I am in cdespair.

I dlooked for epity, but there was none,

and for fcomforters, but I found none.

²¹They gave me gpoison for food,

and for my thirst they gave me hsour wine to drink.

²²iLet their own jtable before them become a snare;

kand when they are at peace, let it become a trap.3

²³lLet their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,

mand make their loins tremble continually.

²⁴Pour out your indignation upon them,

and let your burning anger overtake them.

²⁵nMay their camp be a desolation;

let no one dwell in their tents.

²⁶For they opersecute him whom pyou have struck down,

and they recount the pain of qthose you have wounded.

²⁷rAdd to them punishment upon punishment;

may they have no acquittal from you.4

²⁸Let them be sblotted out of the book of the living;

let them not be tenrolled among the righteous.

²⁹But I am afflicted and in pain;

let your salvation, O God, uset me on high!

³⁰I will vpraise the name of God with a song;

I will wmagnify him with xthanksgiving.

³¹This will yplease the Lord more than an ox

or a bull zwith horns and hoofs.

³²When athe humble see it they will be glad;

you who seek God, alet your hearts revive.

³³For the Lord hears the needy

and bdoes not despise his own people who are prisoners.

³⁴Let cheaven and earth praise him,

the seas and everything that moves in them.

³⁵For dGod will save Zion

and build up the cities of Judah,

and people shall dwell there and possess it;

³⁶ethe offspring of his servants shall inherit it,

and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

¹tSend the lamb to the ruler of the land,

from uSela, by way of the desert,

to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

²Like fleeing birds,

like a scattered nest,

so are the daughters of Moab

at vthe fords of the Arnon.

³“Give counsel;

grant justice;

wmake your shade like night

at the height of noon;

shelter the outcasts;

do not reveal the fugitive;

⁴let xthe outcasts of Moab

sojourn among you;

be a shelter to them1

from the destroyer.

When the oppressor is no more,

and destruction has ceased,

and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,

⁵ythen a throne will be established in steadfast love,

and on it will sit in faithfulness

in the tent of David

one who judges and seeks justice

and is swift to do righteousness.”

⁶zWe have heard of the pride of Moab—

how proud he is!—

aof his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence;

in his idle boasting he is not right.

⁷Therefore let Moab wail for Moab,

blet everyone wail.

Mourn, utterly stricken,

for the craisin cakes of dKir-hareseth.

⁸For the fields of Heshbon languish,

and ethe vine of Sibmah;

the lords of the nations

have struck down its branches,

which reached to Jazer

and strayed to the desert;

its shoots spread abroad

and passed over the sea.

⁹Therefore fI weep with ethe weeping of Jazer

for the vine of Sibmah;

I drench you with my tears,

O Heshbon and Elealeh;

for over gyour summer fruit and your harvest

the shout has ceased.

¹⁰hAnd joy and gladness are taken away from ithe fruitful field,

and in the vineyards no jsongs are sung,

no cheers are raised;

no ktreader treads out wine lin the presses;

I have put an end to the shouting.

¹¹Therefore mmy inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab,

and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.

¹²And when Moab presents himself, when nhe wearies himself on othe high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.

¹³This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab pin the past. ¹⁴But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “In three years, qlike the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be rvery few and feeble.”

Stewards of God's Grace

¹Since therefore zChrist suffered in the flesh,1 aarm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for bwhoever has suffered in the flesh chas ceased from sin, ²dso as to live for ethe rest of the time in the flesh fno longer for human passions but gfor the will of God. ³For the time that is past hsuffices ifor doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. ⁴With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of jdebauchery, and kthey malign you; ⁵but they will give account to him who is ready lto judge the living and the dead. ⁶For this is why mthe gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.

⁷nThe end of all things is at hand; therefore obe self-controlled and sober-minded pfor the sake of your prayers. ⁸Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since qlove covers a multitude of sins. ⁹rShow hospitality to one another without grumbling. ¹⁰sAs each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, tas good stewards of God's varied grace: ¹¹whoever speaks, as one who speaks uoracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves vby the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything wGod may be glorified through Jesus Christ. xTo him belong glory and ydominion forever and ever. Amen.

Suffering as a Christian

¹²Beloved, do not be surprised at zthe fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. ¹³But rejoice ainsofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad bwhen his glory is revealed. ¹⁴cIf you are insulted dfor the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory2 and of God rests upon you. ¹⁵But elet none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or fas a meddler. ¹⁶Yet eif anyone suffers as a gChristian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God din that name. ¹⁷For it is time for judgment hto begin at the household of God; and iif it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who jdo not obey the gospel of God? ¹⁸And

k“If the righteous is scarcely saved,

what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”3

¹⁹Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will lentrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.