NKJV Bible in 365 Days
Complaining, Disobedience, and Venomous Snakes — February 12
Numbers 19-21
Numbers 19
1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 365N 43.1
2 “This is the [a] ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without [b] blemish, in which there is no defect and on which a yoke has never come. 365N 43.2
3 You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it outside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him; 365N 43.3
4 and Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of meeting. 365N 43.4
5 Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight: its hide, its flesh, its blood, and its offal shall be burned. 365N 43.5
6 And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer. 365N 43.6
7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, he shall bathe in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp; the priest shall be unclean until evening. 365N 43.7
8 And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening. 365N 43.8
9 Then a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and store them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for the water of [c] purification; it is for purifying from sin. 365N 43.9
10 And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. It shall be a statute forever to the children of Israel and to the stranger who dwells among them. 365N 43.10
11 ‘He who touches the dead [d] body of anyone shall be unclean seven days. 365N 43.11
12 He shall purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean. 365N 43.12
13 Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord . That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him; his uncleanness is still on him. 365N 43.13
14 ‘This is the law when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days; 365N 43.14
15 and every open vessel, which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean. 365N 43.15
16 Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 365N 43.16
17 ‘And for an unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and [e] running water shall be put on them in a vessel. 365N 43.17
18 A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave. 365N 43.18
19 The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; and at evening he shall be clean. 365N 43.19
20 ‘But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord . The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. 365N 43.20
21 It shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of purification shall be unclean until evening. 365N 43.21
22 Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.’ ” 365N 43.22
Numbers 20
1 Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there. 365N 43.23
2 Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. 365N 43.24
3 And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died when our brethren died before the Lord ! 365N 43.25
4 Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here? 365N 43.26
5 And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink.” 365N 43.27
6 So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and they [a] fell on their faces. And the glory of the Lord appeared to them. 365N 43.28
7 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 365N 43.29
8 “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” 365N 43.30
9 So Moses took the rod from before the Lord as He commanded him. 365N 43.31
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?” 365N 43.32
11 Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. 365N 43.33
12 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” 365N 43.34
13 This was the water of [b] Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the Lord , and He was hallowed among them. 365N 43.35
14 Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. “Thus says your brother Israel: ‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us, 365N 43.36
15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians [c] afflicted us and our fathers. 365N 43.37
16 When we cried out to the Lord , He heard our voice and sent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border. 365N 43.38
17 Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King’s Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.’ ” 365N 43.39
18 Then Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword.” 365N 43.40
19 So the children of Israel said to him, “We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more. ” 365N 43.41
20 Then he said, “You shall not pass through.” So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand. 365N 43.42
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him. 365N 43.43
22 Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor. 365N 43.44
23 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom, saying: 365N 43.45
24 “Aaron shall [d] be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah. 365N 43.46
25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; 365N 43.47
26 and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; for Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there.” 365N 43.48
27 So Moses did just as the Lord commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. 365N 43.49
28 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. 365N 43.50
29 Now when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days. 365N 43.51
Numbers 21
1 The king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the South, heard that Israel was coming on the road to Atharim. Then he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoners. 365N 43.52
2 So Israel made a vow to the Lord , and said, “If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.” 365N 43.53
3 And the Lord listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of that place was called [a] Hormah. 365N 43.54
4 Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very [b] discouraged on the way. 365N 43.55
5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul [c] loathes this worthless bread.” 365N 43.56
6 So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. 365N 43.57
7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 365N 43.58
8 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.” 365N 43.59
9 So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. 365N 43.60
10 Now the children of Israel moved on and camped in Oboth. 365N 43.61
11 And they journeyed from Oboth and camped at [d] Ije Abarim, in the wilderness which is east of Moab, toward the sunrise. 365N 43.62
12 From there they moved and camped in the Valley of Zered. 365N 43.63
13 From there they moved and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 365N 43.64
14 Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord : [e] “Waheb in Suphah, The brooks of the Arnon, 365N 43.65
15 And the slope of the brooks That reaches to the dwelling of Ar, And lies on the border of Moab.” 365N 43.66
16 From there they went to Beer, which is the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.” 365N 43.67
17 Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! All of you sing to it— 365N 43.68
18 The well the leaders sank, Dug by the nation’s nobles, By the lawgiver, with their staves.” And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah, 365N 43.69
19 from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth, 365N 43.70
20 and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the [f] country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah which looks down on the [g] wasteland. 365N 43.71
21 Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 365N 43.72
22 “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into fields or vineyards; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.” 365N 43.73
23 But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. So Sihon gathered all his people together and [h] went out against Israel in the wilderness, and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel. 365N 43.74
24 Then Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the people of Ammon; for the border of the people of Ammon was fortified. 365N 43.75
25 So Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages. 365N 43.76
26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon. 365N 43.77
27 Therefore those who speak in [i] proverbs say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be built; Let the city of Sihon be repaired. 365N 43.78
28 “For fire went out from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon; It consumed Ar of Moab, The lords of the heights of the Arnon. 365N 43.79
29 Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters into captivity, To Sihon king of the Amorites. 365N 43.80
30 “But we have shot at them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. Then we laid waste as far as Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.” 365N 43.81
31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. 365N 43.82
32 Then Moses sent to [j] spy out Jazer; and they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there. 365N 43.83
33 And they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. So Og king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 365N 43.84
34 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have [k] delivered him into your hand, with all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.” 365N 43.85
35 So they defeated him, his sons, and all his people, until there was no survivor left him; and they took possession of his land. 365N 43.86