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but for a whole month-until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous-because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him saying, 'Why did we ever leave Egypt?'"

So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.

Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.

'Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

Your bodies will fall in this wilderness-all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older-because you have grumbled against Me.

Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.

For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you."

He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him."

and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.

And he warned the congregation, "Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins."

"Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the censers from the flames, because they are holy, and to scatter the coals far away.

Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun."

and write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi, because there must be one staff for the head of each tribe.

Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, lest you die."

Anyone who touches a corpse, the body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.

But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land I have given them."

"Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.