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According to the command of Yahweh by the hand of Moses they were mustered, each man according to his service and according to their service and according to their burden; and so they were counted by him just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

So the Israelites did so. They sent them away outside the camp; just as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the Israelites.

So Moses took the utility carts and the cattle, and he gave them to the Levites.

And Aaron did so; he set up the lampstand in front of the face of its lamps, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

And this is how the lampstand was made, a hammered-work of gold; from its base up to its blossom, it was hammered-work according to the pattern that Yahweh showed Moses; so he made the lampstand.

So you will do to them, to purify them: sprinkle on them waters of purification, and they will shave their whole body and wash their garments.

And I have given the Levites; they are given to Aaron and his sons from the midst of the Israelites to do the work of the Israelites in the tent of the assembly and to make atonement for the Israelites, so a plague will not be among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary."

After this the Levites came to do their work in the tent of assembly before Aaron and his sons. Just as Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levities, so they did to them.

So Moses spoke to the Israelites to observe the Passover.

So it was continually; the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire by night.

These were the departures of the Israelites according to their divisions; and so they set out.

And so they set out from the mountain of Yahweh a journey of three days, with the ark of the covenant of Yahweh setting out ahead of them three days' journey to search out a resting place for them;

So Moses went out, and he spoke the words of Yahweh to the people, and he gathered together seventy men from the elders of the people, and he made them stand all around the tent.

But two men were left in the camp; the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the second was Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those who were written down, but they did not go out to the tent, so they prophesied in the camp.

So a boy ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

And so the people worked all day and all night and all the next day, and they gathered the quail (the least of the ones collecting gathered ten homers).

and Yahweh said suddenly to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, "Go out, you three, to the tent of assembly." So the three of them when out.

Not so with my servant Moses; in all my house he is faithful.

So Aaron said to Moses, "Please, my lord, please do not put on us this sin in which we were foolish and in which we have sinned.

So Miriam was confined to the outside place of the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was gathered.