6The Lord said to Moses, 2Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'If a man or woman wants to make a special vow, a vow of separation to the Lord as a Nazirite, 3he must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made fro...
5The Lord said to Moses, 2Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has an infectious skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body. 3Send away male and female alike; send them outsi...
3This is the account of the family of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord talked with Moses on Mount Sinai. 2The names of the sons of Aaron were Nadab the firstborn and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 3Those were the names of Aaron's sons, the anointed...
2The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: 2The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting some distance from it, each man under his standard with the banners of his family. 3On the east, toward the sunrise, the divisions of the camp of Judah are to e...
1The Lord spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: 2Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and familie...
By Liam Cochrane Pokhara, Nepal 06 December 2007 A record number of young Nepalese men are applying to join the British army's Brigade of Gurkhas. With political uncertainty continuing to undermine Nepal's economy, a job with the Gurkhas is one of th...
By Stephanie Ho Washington, D.C. 27 November 2007 Until relatively recently, female world leaders have been few and far between. But, as VOA's Stephanie Ho reports, their ranks are growing, with a number of prominent women in several countries stepp...
By Tendai Maphosa London 23 November 2007 A former United Nations Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis warns that revised UNAIDS HIV statistics should not be seen as a signal that the fight against the pandemic can be relaxed. He says that...
By Carolyn Weaver New York City 10 September 2007 Toxic dust clouds resulted from the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings About 3,000 people died in the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. Six years later, experts say the...
By Kari Barber Dakar 22 August 2007 A United Nations plan to reduce the number of peacekeepers in war-scarred Liberia has some Liberians concerned about the security of the country. But others are welcoming the plan for the gradual withdrawal of peac...
