16Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and certain Reubenites-Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth-became insolent 2and rose up against Moses. With them were 250 Israelite men, well-known community leaders who had
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15The Lord said to Moses, 2Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'After you enter the land I am giving you as a home 3and you present to the Lord offerings made by fire, from the herd or the flock, as an aroma pleasing to the Lord -whether burnt o
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14That night all the people of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. 2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this desert! 3Why is the Lord bringing us
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13The Lord said to Moses, 2Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders. 3So at the Lord 's command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were
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12Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. 2Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? they asked. Hasn't he also spoken through us? And the Lord heard this. 3(Now Moses was a very humble m
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11Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord , and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. 2When the people cried out to Moses
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17The Lord said to Moses, 2Speak to the Israelites and get twelve staffs from them, one from the leader of each of their ancestral tribes. Write the name of each man on his staff. 3On the staff of Levi write Aaron's name, for there must be one staff
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18The Lord said to Aaron, You, your sons and your father's family are to bear the responsibility for offenses against the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses against the priesthood. 2Bring your fellow Le
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19The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: 2This is a requirement of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke. 3Give it to Eleazar the priest; it is to
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20In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried. 2Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron. 3They q
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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
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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
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4The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: 2Take a census of the Kohathite branch of the Levites by their clans and families. 3Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work in the Tent of Meeting. 4This is the work of the
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7When Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings. He also anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils. 2Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of families who were the tribal leaders
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8The Lord said to Moses, 2Speak to Aaron and say to him, 'When you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.' 3Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as the Lord command
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9The Lord spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they came out of Egypt. He said, 2Have the Israelites celebrate the Passover at the appointed time. 3Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the f
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10The Lord said to Moses: 2Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out. 3When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Me
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21When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked the Israelites and captured some of them. 2Then Israel made this vow to the Lord : If you will deliver these people into ou
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24Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as at other times, but turned his face toward the desert. 2When Balaam looked out and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him 3an
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23Balaam said, Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me. 2Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 3Then Balaam said to Balak, Stay here beside your offering while I go asi
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