⁵³ And they led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes were gathered together.

⁵⁴ And Peter followed Him at a distance, even right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting [^[a]in the firelight] with the guards and warming himself at the fire.

⁵⁵ Now the chief priests and the entire council (the Sanhedrin) were constantly seeking [to get] testimony against Jesus with a view to condemning Him and putting Him to death, but they did not find any.

⁵⁶ For many were repeatedly bearing false witness against Him, but their testimonies did not agree.

⁵⁷ And some stood up and were bearing false witness against Him, saying,

⁵⁸ We heard Him say, I will destroy this temple (sanctuary) which is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.

⁵⁹ Still not even [in this] did their testimony agree.

⁶⁰ And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, Have You not even one answer to make? What [about this which] these [men] are testifying against You?

⁶¹ But He kept still and did not answer at all. Again the high priest asked Him, Are You the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One), the Son of the Blessed?

⁶² And Jesus said, I Am; and you will [all] see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power (^[b]the Almighty) and coming on the clouds of heaven.^(A)

⁶³ Then the high priest tore his garments and said, What need have we for more witnesses?^(B)

⁶⁴ You have heard His blasphemy. What is your decision? And they all condemned Him as being guilty and deserving of death.^(C)

⁶⁵ And some of them began to spit on Him and to blindfold Him and to strike Him with their fists, saying to Him, Prophesy! And the guards received Him with blows and by slapping Him.

⁶⁶ While Peter was down below in the courtyard, one of the [serving] maids of the high priest came;

⁶⁷ And when she saw Peter warming himself, she gazed intently at him and said, You were with Jesus of Nazareth too.

⁶⁸ But he denied it ^[c]falsely and disowned Him, saying, I neither know nor understand what you say. Then he went outside [the courtyard and was] into the ^[d]vestibule. ^[e]And a cock crowed.

⁶⁹ And the maidservant saw him, and began again to say to the bystanders, This [man] is [one] of them.

⁷⁰ But again he denied it ^[f]falsely and disowned Him. And after a short while, again the bystanders said to Peter, ^[g]Really, you are one of them, for you are a Galilean ^[h]and your dialect shows it.

⁷¹ Then he commenced invoking a curse on himself [should he not be telling the truth] and swearing, I do not know the Man about Whom you are talking!

⁷² And at once for the second time a cock crowed. And Peter remembered how Jesus said to him, Before a cock crows twice, you will ^[i]utterly deny Me [disclaiming all connection with Me] three times. And ^[j]having put his thought upon it [and remembering], he broke down and wept aloud and ^[k]lamented.

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29 On the first day of the seventh month [on New Year’s Day of the civil year], you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no servile work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets for you [everyone blowing who wishes, proclaiming that the glad New Year has come and that the great Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles are now approaching].

² And you shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet and pleasing odor to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old without blemish.

³ Their cereal offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for a bull, two-tenths for a ram,

⁴ And one-tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs,

⁵ And one male goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you.

⁶ These are in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon and its cereal offering, and the daily burnt offering and its cereal offering, and their drink offerings, according to the ordinance for them, for a pleasant and soothing fragrance, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

⁷ And you shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month a holy [summoned] assembly; [it is the great Day of Atonement, a day of humiliation] and you shall humble and abase yourselves; you shall not do any work in it.

⁸ But you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord for a sweet and soothing fragrance: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. See that they are without blemish.

⁹ And their cereal offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,

¹⁰ A tenth for each of the seven male lambs,

¹¹ One male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, and their drink offerings.

¹² And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to the Lord for seven days.

¹³ And you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet and pleasing fragrance to the Lord: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish.

¹⁴ And their cereal offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams,

¹⁵ And a tenth part for each of the fourteen male lambs,

¹⁶ Also one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and its drink offering.

¹⁷ And on the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without spot or blemish,

¹⁸ With their cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by number according to the ordinance,

¹⁹ Also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and their drink offerings.

²⁰ And on the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,

²¹ With their cereal offering and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by number according to the ordinance,

²² And one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.

²³ On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,

²⁴ Their cereal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs shall be by number according to the ordinance,

²⁵ And one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.

²⁶ And on the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without spot or blemish,

²⁷ And their cereal offering and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by number according to the ordinance,

²⁸ And one goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.

²⁹ And on the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,

³⁰ And their cereal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by number according to the ordinance,

³¹ And one goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.

³² And on the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,

³³ And their cereal and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by number according to the ordinance.

³⁴ And one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.

³⁵ On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall do no servile work.

³⁶ You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet and pleasing fragrance to the Lord: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish,

³⁷ Their cereal offering and drink offerings for the bull, the ram, and the lambs shall be by number according to the ordinance,

³⁸ And one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.

³⁹ These you shall offer to the Lord at your appointed feasts, besides the offerings you have vowed and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, cereal offerings, drink offerings, and peace offerings.

⁴⁰ And Moses told the Israelites all that the Lord commanded him.

30 And Moses said to the heads or leaders of the tribes of Israel, This is the thing which the Lord has commanded:

² If a man vows a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break and profane his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

³ Also when a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house in her youth,

⁴ And her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound herself and he offers no objection, then all her vows shall stand and every pledge with which she has bound herself shall stand.

⁵ But if her father refuses to allow her [to carry out her vow] on the day that he hears about it, not any of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her because her father refused to let her [carry out her purpose].

⁶ And if she is married to a husband while her vows are upon her or she has bound herself by a rash utterance

⁷ And her husband hears of it and holds his peace concerning it on the day that he hears it, then her vows shall stand and her pledge with which she bound herself shall stand.

⁸ But if her husband refuses to allow her [to keep her vow or pledge] on the day that he hears of it, then he shall make void and annul her vow which is upon her and the rash utterance of her lips by which she bound herself, and the Lord will forgive her.

⁹ But the vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, with which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.

¹⁰ And if she vowed in her husband’s house or bound herself by a pledge with an oath

¹¹ And her husband heard it and did not oppose or prohibit her, then all her vows and every pledge with which she bound herself shall stand.

¹² But if her husband positively made them void on the day he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has annulled them, and the Lord will forgive her.

¹³ Every vow and every binding oath to humble or afflict herself, her husband may establish it or her husband may annul it.

¹⁴ But if her husband altogether holds his peace [concerning the matter] with her from day to day, then he establishes and confirms all her vows or all her pledges which are upon her. He establishes them because he said nothing to [restrain] her on the day he heard of them.

¹⁵ But if he shall nullify them after he hears of them, then he shall be responsible for and bear her iniquity.

¹⁶ These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter while in her youth in her father’s house.

31 The Lord said to Moses,

² Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your [departed] people.

³ And Moses said to the people, Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian and execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian [for seducing Israel].^(A)

⁴ From each of the tribes of Israel you shall send 1,000 to the war.

⁵ So there were provided out of the thousands of Israel 1,000 from each tribe, 12,000 armed for war.

⁶ And Moses sent them to the war, 1,000 from each tribe, together with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, with the [sacred] vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets to blow the alarm in his hand.

⁷ They fought with Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and slew every male,

⁸ Including the five kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba; also Balaam son of Beor they slew with the sword.^(B)

⁹ And the Israelites took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and all their cattle, their flocks, and their goods as booty.

¹⁰ They burned all the cities in which they dwelt, and all their encampments.

¹¹ And they took all the spoil and all the prey, both of man and of beast.

¹² Then they brought the captives, the prey, and the spoil to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the Israelites at the camp on the plains of Moab by Jordan at Jericho.

¹³ Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes or leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.

¹⁴ But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, who served in the war.

¹⁵ And Moses said to them, Have you let all the women live?

¹⁶ Behold, these caused the Israelites by the counsel of Balaam to trespass and act treacherously against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and so a [smiting] plague came among the congregation of the Lord.^(C)

¹⁷ Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who is not a virgin.

¹⁸ But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.

¹⁹ Encamp outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

²⁰ You shall purify every garment, all that is made of skins, all work of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.

²¹ And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle, This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses:

²² Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

²³ Everything that can stand fire, you shall make go through fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water of impurity; and all that cannot stand fire [such as fabrics] you shall pass through water.

²⁴ And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and you shall be clean; then you shall come into the camp.

²⁵ And the Lord said to Moses,

²⁶ Take the count of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation.

²⁷ Divide the booty into two [equal] parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.

²⁸ And levy a tribute to the Lord from the warriors who went to battle, one out of every 500 of the persons, the oxen, the donkeys, and the flocks.

²⁹ Take [this tribute] from the warriors’ half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord.

³⁰ And from the Israelites’ half [of the booty] you shall take one out of every fifty of the persons, the oxen, the donkeys, the flocks, and of all livestock, and give them to the Levites who have charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

³¹ And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

³² The prey, besides the booty which the men of war took, was 675,000 sheep,

³³ And 72,000 cattle,

³⁴ And 61,000 donkeys,

³⁵ And 32,000 persons in all, of the women who were virgins.

³⁶ And the half share, the portion of those who went to war, was: 337,500 sheep,

³⁷ And the Lord’s tribute of the sheep was 675;

³⁸ The cattle were 36,000, of which the Lord’s tribute was 72;

³⁹ The donkeys were 30,500, of which the Lord’s tribute was 61;

⁴⁰ The persons were 16,000, of whom the Lord’s tribute was 32 persons.

⁴¹ And Moses gave the tribute which was the Lord’s offering to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

⁴² And the Israelites’ half Moses separated from that of the warriors’—

⁴³ Now the congregation’s half was 337,500 sheep,

⁴⁴ And 36,000 cattle,

⁴⁵ And 30,500 donkeys,

⁴⁶ And 16,000 persons—

⁴⁷ Even of the Israelites’ half, Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites, who had charge of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

⁴⁸ And the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, came to Moses.

⁴⁹ They told [him], Your servants have counted the warriors under our command, and not one man of us is missing.

⁵⁰ We have brought as the Lord’s offering what each man obtained—articles of gold, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, neck ornaments—to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.

⁵¹ Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all the wrought articles.

⁵² And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the Lord from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds was 16,750 shekels.

⁵³ For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.

⁵⁴ And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord.