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"Tell the Israelites this: ‘If you or your descendants become unclean because of a dead body, or if you are away on a trip during the Passover, you must still celebrate the Lord 's Passover.

Also blow your trumpets at happy times and during your feasts and at New Moon festivals. Blow them over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, because they will help you remember your God. I am the Lord your God."

Hobab was the son of Reuel the Midianite, who was Moses' father-in-law. Moses said to Hobab, "We are moving to the land the Lord promised to give us. Come with us and we will be good to you, because the Lord has promised good things to Israel."

So that place was called Taberah, because the Lord 's fire had burned among them.

but you will eat that meat for a whole month. You will eat it until it comes out your nose, and you will grow to hate it. This is because you have rejected the Lord , who is with you. You have cried to him, saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?"'"

So the people named that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried those who wanted other food.

Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife (he had married a Cushite).

That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because the Israelites cut off the bunch of grapes there.

Your children will be shepherds here for forty years. Because you were not loyal, they will suffer until you lie dead in the desert.

Don't go, because the Lord is not with you and you will be beaten by your enemies.

"‘The priest will remove that sin for all the Israelites so they will belong to the Lord . They are forgiven, because they didn't know they were sinning. For the wrong they did they brought offerings to the Lord , an offering by fire and a sin offering.

They held the man under guard, because they did not know what to do with him.

Moses warned the people, "Move away from the tents of these evil men! Don't touch anything of theirs, or you will be destroyed because of their sins."

Take the pans of these men who sinned and lost their lives, and hammer them into flat sheets that will be used to cover the altar. They are holy, because they were presented to the Lord , and they will be a sign to the Israelites."

But 14,700 people died from that sickness, in addition to those who died because of Korah.

You and your families may eat all that is left anywhere, because it is your pay for your work in the Meeting Tent.

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe me, and because you did not honor me as holy before the people, you will not lead them into the land I will give them."

"Aaron will die. He will not enter the land that I'm giving to the Israelites, because you both acted against my command at the waters of Meribah.

But God said to Balaam, "Do not go with them. Don't put a curse on those people, because I have blessed them."

But God became angry because Balaam went, so the angel of the Lord stood in the road to stop Balaam. Balaam was riding his donkey, and he had two servants with him.