that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
*All who were numbered of the camp of Re'uven were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.
All who were numbered of the camp of Yehudah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
They killed the kings of Midyan with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Tzur, and Chur, and Reva, the five kings of Midyan: Bil`am also the son of Be'or they killed with the sword.
I heard the voice from heaven saying, *Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'* *Yes,* says the Spirit, *that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.*