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because the Israelites are my own servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

"‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors' iniquities which are with them.

The land will be abandoned by them in order that it may make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them, and they will make up for their iniquity because they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred my statutes.

because all the firstborn are mine. When I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They belong to me. I am the Lord ."

then the man must bring his wife to the priest, and he must bring the offering required for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he must not pour olive oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of suspicion, a grain offering for remembering, for bringing iniquity to remembrance.

He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.

Then the priest will offer one for a purification offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because of his transgression in regard to the corpse. So he must reconsecrate his head on that day.

He must rededicate to the Lord the days of his separation and bring a male lamb in its first year as a reparation offering, but the former days will not be counted because his separation was defiled.

But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried on their shoulders, was their responsibility.

But the man who is ceremonially clean, and was not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people. Because he did not bring the Lord 's offering at its appointed time, that man must bear his sin.

Moses said, "Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.

So he called the name of that place Taberah because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.

I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!

but a whole month, until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, because you have despised the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we ever come out of Egypt?"'"

So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that craved different food.

Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married (for he had married an Ethiopian woman).

That place was called the Eshcol Valley, because of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut from there.

But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!"

‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.'