Study Desk

"‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

"‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner's family,

I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

I will grant peace in the land so that you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword of war will pass through your land.

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant—

I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted.

But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the Lord 's anger will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the testimony."

You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps, among which I live."

"Also in the time when you rejoice, such as on your appointed festivals or at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may become a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God."

Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take part of the spirit that is on you, and will put it on them, and they will bear some of the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it all by yourself.

You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and obey them and so that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.

"Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!" But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

The Lord said to Moses, "Bring Aaron's staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die."

"Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join with you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be no more wrath on the Israelites.

You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp, and it must be slaughtered before him.

Why have you brought up the Lord 's community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.

So now, please come and curse this nation for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed."

The Lord said to Moses, "Arrest all the leaders of the people, and hang them up before the Lord in broad daylight, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel."