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Numbers 1.1: 1Yahweh1 spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 1.2: 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,

Numbers 1.3: 3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.

Numbers 1.4: 4 With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.

Numbers 1.10: 10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

Numbers 1.16: 16 These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes2 of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

Numbers 1.18: 18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

Numbers 1.19: 19 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 1.20: 20 The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.21: 21 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

Numbers 1.22: 22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.23: 23 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

Numbers 1.24: 24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.25: 25 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

Numbers 1.26: 26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.27: 27 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Numbers 1.28: 28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.29: 29 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.30: 30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.31: 31 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.32: 32 Of the children of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.33: 33 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.

Numbers 1.34: 34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.35: 35 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

Numbers 1.36: 36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.37: 37 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.38: 38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.39: 39 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

Numbers 1.40: 40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.41: 41 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.

Numbers 1.42: 42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.43: 43 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.44: 44 These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers’ house.

Numbers 1.45: 45 So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel—

Numbers 1.46: 46 all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

Numbers 1.47: 47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.

Numbers 1.49: 49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

Numbers 1.50: 50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

Numbers 1.51: 51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 1.52: 52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

Numbers 1.53: 53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”

Numbers 1.54: 54 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.

Zephaniah 1.1: 1Yahweh’s1 word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.

Zephaniah 1.2: 2 I will utterly sweep away everything from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

Zephaniah 1.3: 3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

Zephaniah 1.4: 4 I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,

Zephaniah 1.5: 5 those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,

Zephaniah 1.6: 6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

Zephaniah 1.7: 7 Be silent at the presence of the Lord2 Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

Zephaniah 1.8: 8 It will happen in the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.

Zephaniah 1.9: 9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

Zephaniah 1.10: 10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

Zephaniah 1.11: 11 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.

Zephaniah 1.12: 12 It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

Zephaniah 1.13: 13 Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.

Zephaniah 1.14: 14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

Zephaniah 1.15: 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

Zephaniah 1.16: 16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

Zephaniah 1.17: 17 I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

Zephaniah 1.18: 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

Zephaniah 2.1: 2Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,

Zephaniah 2.2: 2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.

Zephaniah 2.3: 3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

Zephaniah 2.4: 4 For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.

Zephaniah 2.5: 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.

Zephaniah 2.6: 6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Zephaniah 2.7: 7 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God,1 will visit them, and restore them.

Zephaniah 2.8: 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

Zephaniah 2.9: 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

Zephaniah 2.10: 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

Zephaniah 2.11: 11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.

Zephaniah 2.13: 13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

Zephaniah 2.14: 14 Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.

Zephaniah 2.15: 15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

Zephaniah 3.2: 2 She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.

Zephaniah 3.3: 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

Zephaniah 3.4: 4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

Zephaniah 3.5: 5 Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

Zephaniah 3.6: 6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

Zephaniah 3.7: 7 I said, “Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her.” But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

Zephaniah 3.8: 8 “Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Zephaniah 3.9: 9 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.

Zephaniah 3.10: 10 From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.

Zephaniah 3.11: 11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.

Zephaniah 3.12: 12 But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

Zephaniah 3.13: 13 The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

Zephaniah 3.14: 14 Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.

Zephaniah 3.15: 15 Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.

Zephaniah 3.16: 16 In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”

Zephaniah 3.17: 17 Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Zephaniah 3.18: 18 I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.

Zephaniah 3.19: 19 Behold,1 at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.

Zephaniah 3.20: 20 At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.

1 1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:16 or, chiefs, or, leaders

1 1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:7 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 2:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 3:19 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.