19:1 Yahuwah said to Mosheh and Aharon:

² "This is a requirement of the Torah that Yahuwah has commanded: Tell the sons of Yisrael to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke.

³ Give it to Eleazar the priest; it is to be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

⁴ Then Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Appointment.

⁵ While he watches, the heifer is to be burned-- its hide, flesh, blood and offal.

⁶ The priest is to take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.

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⁷ After that, the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water. He may then come into the camp, but he will be unclean till evening.

⁸ The man who burns it must also wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he too will be unclean till evening.

⁹ "A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and put them in a clean place outside the camp. They shall be kept by the congregation of the sons of Yisrael for use in the water of cleansing; it is for purification from sin.

The water of cleansing is the Hebrew hD"ÞnI ymeîl. Nida means filthiness, menstruous, set apart.  All of the emissions that make one unclean need to be cleansed by this water with the ashes.

¹⁰ The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he too will be unclean till evening. This will be a lasting ordinance both for the sons of Yisrael and for the aliens living among them.

¹¹ "Whoever touches the dead body of anyone will be unclean for seven days.

¹² He must 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 and seventh days, he will not be clean.

¹³ Whoever touches the dead body of anyone and fails to purify himself defiles Yahuwah's tabernacle. That person must be cut off from Yisrael. Because the water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.

The cleansing of a person who touches a human corpse:

¹⁴ "This is the law that applies when a person dies in a tent: Anyone who enters the tent and anyone who is in it will be unclean for seven days,

¹⁵ and every open container without a lid fastened on it will be unclean.

¹⁶ "Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

¹⁷ "For the unclean person, put some ashes from the burned purification offering into a jar and pour fresh water over them.

¹⁸ Then a man who is clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or someone who has been killed or someone who has died a natural death.

¹⁹ The man who is clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third and seventh days, and on the seventh day he is to purify him. The person being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and that evening he will be clean.

²⁰ But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he must be cut off from the community, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahuwah. The water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on him, and he is unclean.

²¹ This is a lasting ordinance for them. "The man who sprinkles the water of cleansing must also wash his clothes, and anyone who touches the water of cleansing will be unclean till evening.

²² Anything that an unclean person touches becomes unclean, and anyone who touches it becomes unclean till evening."

20:1 In the first month the whole community of the sons of Yisrael arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

² Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Mosheh and Aharon.

How many times will an unbelieving people mount up in opposition to the leaders Yahuwah puts in charge?  Aharon and Miriam.  Koroch, Dathan and Aviram and the 250 leaders.  The following day more sons of Israel.  And now the whole community.  It's no wonder why Yahuwah gave up on this generation!

³ They quarreled with Mosheh and said, "If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before Yahuwah!

⁴ Why did you bring Yahuwah's community into this desert, that we and our livestock should die here?

⁵ Why did you bring us up out of Mitzrayim to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!"

⁶ Mosheh and Aharon went from the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Appointment and fell facedown, and the glory of Yahuwah appeared to them.

⁷ Yahuwah said to Mosheh,

⁸ "Take the staff, and you and your brother Aharon gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink."

⁹ So Mosheh took the staff from Yahuwah's presence, just as he commanded him.

¹⁰ He and Aharon gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Mosheh said to them, "Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?"

¹¹ Then Mosheh raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

¹² But Yahuwah said to Mosheh and Aharon, "Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the sons of Yisrael, you will not bring this community into the land I give them."

¹³ These were the waters of Meribah, where the sons of Yisrael quarreled with Yahuwah and where he showed himself holy among them.

This griping about needing water cost the sons of Israel dearly.  It was on account of this complaining that Yahuwah became fed up with them.  Psalm 106 says that "³² By the waters of Meribah they angered Yahuwah, and trouble came to Mosheh because of them;³³ for they rebelled against the Spirit of Elohim, and rash words came from Mosheh' lips."  And Psalm 95 notes that Yahuwah was angry with the people and ultimately rejected them because of their unbelief:

Today, if you hear his voice,⁸ do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert, ⁹ where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did. ¹⁰ For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways." ¹¹ So I declared on oath in my anger, "They shall never enter my rest."

¹⁴ Mosheh sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "This is what your brother Yisrael says: You know about all the hardships that have come upon us.

¹⁵ Our forefathers went down into Mitzrayim, and we lived there many years. The Mitzrites mistreated us and our fathers,

¹⁶ but when we cried out to Yahuwah, he heard our cry and sent an angel and brought us out of Mitzrayim. "Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.

¹⁷ Please let us pass through your country. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the king's highway and not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory."

¹⁸ But Edom answered: "You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword."

¹⁹ The sons of Yisrael replied: "We will go along the main road, and if we or our livestock drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We only want to pass through on foot-- nothing else."

²⁰ Again they answered: "You may not pass through." Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful army.

²¹ Since Edom refused to let them go through their territory, Yisrael turned away from them.

21:1 When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Yisrael was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked the sons of Yisrael and captured some of them.

² Then Yisrael made this vow to Yahuwah: "If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy their cities."

³ Yahuwah listened to Yisrael's plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.

⁴ They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;

⁵ they spoke against Elohim and against Mosheh, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Mitzrayim to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!"

⁶ Then Yahuwah sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many sons of Yisrael died.

⁷ The people came to Mosheh and said, "We sinned when we spoke against Yahuwah and against you. Pray that Yahuwah will take the snakes away from us." So Mosheh prayed for the people.

⁸ Yahuwah said to Mosheh, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."

⁹ So Mosheh made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.

¹⁰ The sons of Yisrael moved on and camped at Oboth.

¹¹ Then they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, in the desert that faces Moab toward the sunrise.

¹² From there they moved on and camped in the Zered Valley.

¹³ They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon, which is in the desert extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

¹⁴ That is why the Book of the Wars of Yahuwah says:"...Waheb in Suphah and the ravines, the Arnon

¹⁵ and the slopes of the ravines that lead to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab."

¹⁶ From there they continued on to Beer, the well where Yahuwah said to Mosheh, "Gather the people together and I will give them water."

¹⁷ Then Yisrael sang this song: "Spring up, O well! Sing about it,

¹⁸ about the well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people sank-- the nobles with scepters and staffs." Then they went from the desert to Mattanah,

¹⁹ from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,

²⁰ and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.

Yephtah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute.

² Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Yephtah away. "You are not going to get any inheritance in our family," they said, "because you are the son of another woman."

³ So Yephtah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a group of adventurers gathered around him and followed him.

⁴ Some time later, when the Ammonites made war on Yisrael,

⁵ the elders of Gilead went to get Yephtah from the land of Tob.

⁶ "Come," they said, "be our commander, so we can fight the Ammonites."

⁷ Yephtah said to them, "Didn't you hate me and drive me from my father's house? Why do you come to me now, when you're in trouble?"

⁸ The elders of Gilead said to him, "Nevertheless, we are turning to you now; come with us to fight the Ammonites, and you will be our head over all who live in Gilead."

⁹ Yephtah answered, "Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and Yahuwah gives them to me-- will I really be your head?"

¹⁰ The elders of Gilead replied, "Yahuwah is our witness; we will certainly do as you say."

¹¹ So Yephtah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And he repeated all his words before Yahuwah in Mizpah.

¹² Then Yephtah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: "What do you have against us that you have attacked our country?"

¹³ The king of the Ammonites answered Yephtah's messengers, "When Yisrael came up out of Mitzrayim, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Yabbok, all the way to the Yarden. Now give it back peaceably."

¹⁴ Yephtah sent back messengers to the Ammonite king,

¹⁵ saying: "This is what Yephtah says: Yisrael did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites.

¹⁶ But when they came up out of Mitzrayim, Yisrael went through the desert to the Red Sea and on to Kadesh.

¹⁷ Then Yisrael sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Give us permission to go through your country,' but the king of Edom would not listen. They sent also to the king of Moab, and he refused. So Yisrael stayed at Kadesh.

¹⁸ "Next they traveled through the desert, skirted the lands of Edom and Moab, passed along the eastern side of the country of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon. They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was its border.

¹⁹ "Then Yisrael sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, 'Let us pass through your country to our own place.'

²⁰ Sihon, however, did not trust Yisrael to pass through his territory. He mustered all his men and encamped at Yahaz and fought with Yisrael.

²¹ "Then Yahuwah, the Elohim of Yisrael, gave Sihon and all his men into Yisrael's hands, and they defeated them. Yisrael took over all the land of the Amorites who lived in that country,

²² capturing all of it from the Arnon to the Yabbok and from the desert to the Yarden.

²³ "Now since Yahuwah, the Elohim of Yisrael, has driven the Amorites out before his people Yisrael, what right have you to take it over?

²⁴ Will you not take what your god Chemosh gives you? Likewise, whatever Yahuwah our Elohim has given us, we will possess.

²⁵ Are you better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Yisrael or fight with them?

²⁶ For three hundred years Yisrael occupied Heshbon, Aroer, the surrounding settlements and all the towns along the Arnon. Why didn't you retake them during that time?

²⁷ I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let Yahuwah, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the sons of Yisrael and the Ammonites."

²⁸ The king of Ammon, however, paid no attention to the message Yephtah sent him.

²⁹ Then the Spirit of Yahuwah came upon Yephtah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites.

³⁰ And Yephtah made a vow to Yahuwah: "If you give the Ammonites into my hands,

³¹ whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be Yahuwah's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering."

³² Then Yephtah went over to fight the Ammonites, and Yahuwah gave them into his hands.

³³ He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Yisrael subdued Ammon.