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Yet, in spite of all that, I will not reject them when they are in the lands of their enemies, nor will I loathe them to the point of utterly destroying them and thus break my covenant with them, because I am Adonai their God.

However, nothing consecrated unconditionally which a person may consecrate to Adonai out of all he owns — person, animal or field he possesses — is to be sold or redeemed; because everything consecrated unconditionally is especially holy to Adonai .

All the firstborn males belong to me, because on the day that I killed all the firstborn males in the land of Egypt, I separated for myself all the firstborn males in Isra'el, both human and animal. They are mine; I am Adonai ."

"Order the people of Isra'el to expel from the camp everyone with tzara‘at, everyone with a discharge and whoever is unclean because of touching a corpse.

he is to bring his wife to the cohen, along with the offering for her, two quarts of barley flour on which he has not poured olive oil or put frankincense, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a grain offering for remembering, for recalling guilt to mind.

But if you have in fact gone astray while under your husband's authority and become unclean, because some man other than your husband has gone to bed with you . . ."

The cohen is to prepare one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering and thus make atonement for him, inasmuch as he sinned because of the dead person. That same day he is to re-consecrate his head;

he is to consecrate to Adonai the full period of his being a nazir by bringing a male lamb in its first year as a guilt offering. The previous days will not be counted, because his consecration became defiled.

But to the descendants of K'hat he gave none, because their duties involved the holy articles, which they carried on their own shoulders.

because they are entirely given to me from among the people of Isra'el; I have taken them for myself in place of all those who come first out of the womb, that is, the firstborn males of the people of Isra'el.

But there were certain people who had become unclean because of someone's corpse, so that they could not observe Pesach on that day. So they came before Moshe and Aharon that day

and said to him, "We are unclean because of someone's corpse; but why must we be kept from bringing the offering for Adonai at the time designated for the people of Isra'el?"

"Tell the people of Isra'el, ‘If any of you now or in future generations is unclean because of a corpse, or if he is on a trip abroad, nevertheless he is to observe Pesach.

But the person who is clean and not on a trip who fails to observe Pesach will be cut off from his people; because he did not bring the offering for Adonai at its designated time, that person will bear the consequences of his sin.

(S: vi) Moshe said to Hovav the son of Re‘u'el the Midyani, Moshe's father-in-law, "We are traveling to the place about which Adonai said, ‘I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well, because Adonai has promised good things to Isra'el."

Moshe continued, "Please don't leave us, because you know that we have to camp in the desert, and you can serve as our eyes.

That place was called Tav‘erah [burning] because Adonai 's fire broke out against them.

Where am I going to get meat to give to this entire people? — because they keep bothering me with their crying and saying, ‘Give us meat to eat!'

"Tell the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; because you cried in the ears of Adonai , "If only we had meat to eat! We had the good life in Egypt!" All right, Adonai is going to give you meat, and you will eat it.

but a whole month! — until it comes out of your nose and you hate it! — because you have rejected Adonai , who is here with you, and distressed him with your crying and asking, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?"'"