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73 : Basic English : Numbers 16; Psalms 56,57 1. Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Pallu, the son of Reuben, made themselves ready, 2. And came before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty chiefs of the people, men of good name who had a place in the meeting of the people. 3....

72 : Basic English : Numbers 15; Psalms 55 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to the children of Israel, When you have come into the land which I am giving to you for your resting-place, 3. And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to th...

71 : Basic English : Numbers 14; Psalms 52,53,54 1. Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping. 2. And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land! 3. Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wive...

70 : Basic English : Numbers 12,13; Psalms 51 1. Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife. 2. And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it. 3. Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth. 4. And sudden...

69 : Basic English : Numbers 10,11; Gospel of Mark 16 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents. 3. When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting. 4. If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thous...

68 : Basic English : Numbers 8,9; Gospel of Mark 15 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support. 3. And Aaron did so; he put the lights in their places so that they gave light in front of the support, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. 4. The support for the lights was of hammered gold work, from i...

67 : Basic English : Numbers 7; Gospel of Mark 14 1. And when Moses had put up the House completely, and had put oil on it and made it holy, with all the things in it, and had made the altar and all its vessels holy with oil; 2. Then the chiefs of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, made offerings; these were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were numbered. 3. And they came...

66 : Basic English : Numbers 5,6; Gospel of Mark 13 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead; 3. Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them. 4....

65 : Basic English : Numbers 4; Gospel of Mark 12 1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2. Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses; 3. All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. 4. And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy th...

64 : Basic English : Numbers 2,3; Gospel of Mark 11 1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2. The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses, facing the Tent of meeting on every side. 3. Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Ammi...

63 : Basic English : Leviticus 27; Numbers 1; Gospel of Mark 10 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord. 3. And you will put the value of a male from twenty years to sixty years old at fifty shekels of silver, by the scale of the holy place. 4. And if it is a female, the...

62 : Basic English : Leviticus 26; Gospel of Mark 9 1. Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God. 2. Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord. 3. If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them, 4. Then I will give you rain at the right time,...

61 : Basic English : Leviticus 24,25; Gospel of Mark 8 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times, 3. Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your ge...

60 : Basic English : Leviticus 23; Gospel of Mark 7 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts. 3. On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living....

59 : Basic English : Leviticus 21,22; Gospel of Mark 6 1. And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, Let no man make himself unclean for the dead among his people; 2. But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother; 3. And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himsel...

58 : Basic English : Leviticus 19,20; Gospel of Mark 5 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. 3. Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. 4. Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God. 5. And w...

57 : Basic English : Leviticus 17,18; Gospel of Mark 4 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel: This is the order which the Lord has given. 3. If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle; 4. And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lor...

56 : Basic English : Leviticus 15,16; Gospel of Mark 3 1. And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, 2. Say to the children of Israel: If a man has an unclean flow from his flesh, it will make him unclean. 3. If the flow goes on or if the part is stopped up, to keep back the flow, he is still unclean. 4. Every bed on which he has been resting will be unclean, and everything on which he has been seat...

55 : Basic English : Leviticus 14; Gospel of Mark 2 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. This is the law of the leper on the day when he is made clean: he is to be taken to the priest; 3. And the priest is to go outside the tent-circle; and if, after looking, the priest sees that the mark of the disease has gone from him, 4. Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean,...

54 : Basic English : Leviticus 12,13; Gospel of Mark 1 1. And the Lord said to Moses, 2. Say to the children of Israel, If a woman is with child and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean for seven days, as when she is unwell. 3. And on the eighth day let him be given circumcision. 4. And she will be unclean for thirty-three days till the flow of her blood is stopped; no holy thing may b...

53 : Basic English : Leviticus 11; Psalms 50 1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2. Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth. 3. You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again. 4. But, at the same time, of those beasts, you...

52 : Basic English : Leviticus 9,10; Psalms 49 1. And on the eighth day Moses sent for Aaron and his sons and the responsible men of Israel; 2. And he said to Aaron, Take a young ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering, without a mark, and make an offering of them before the Lord. 3. And say to the children of Israel: Take a he-goat for a sin-offering, and a young ox and a lam...

51 : Basic English : Leviticus 7,8; Psalms 47,48 1. And this is the law of the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy. 2. They are to put to death the offering for wrongdoing in the same place as the burned offering; and the priest is to put the blood on and round the altar. 3. And all the fat of it, the fat tail and the fat covering the inside parts, is to be given as an offering. 4. And the tw...

50 : Basic English : Leviticus 5,6; Psalms 45,46 1. And if anyone does wrong by saying nothing when he is put under oath as a witness of something he has seen or had knowledge of, then he will be responsible: 2. If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any unclean animal which goes flat on the...

49 : Basic English : Leviticus 2,3,4; Psalms 43,44 1. And when anyone makes a meal offering to the Lord, let his offering be of the best meal, with oil on it and perfume: 2. And let him take it to Aaron's sons, the priests; and having taken in his hand some of the meal and of the oil, with all the perfume, let him give it to the priest to be burned on the altar, as a sign, an offering made by fire...