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"When Aaron and his sons bless the people of Israel, they must say:

with gifts for the Lord . They brought six strong carts and twelve oxen—one ox from each leader and a cart from every two.

They are to bring a bull and its proper grain sacrifice of flour mixed with olive oil. And they must bring a second bull as a sacrifice for sin.

After they have been made acceptable and have been dedicated, they will be allowed to work at my sacred tent.

They are mine and will take the place of the first-born Israelite sons.

"Levites who are between the ages of twenty-five and fifty can work at my sacred tent. But once they turn fifty, they must retire.

Moses told the people what the Lord had said, and they celebrated Passover there in the desert in the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.

Some people in Israel's camp had touched a dead body and had become unfit to worship the Lord , and they could not celebrate Passover. But they asked Moses and Aaron,

The Lord used this cloud to tell the Israelites when to move their camp and where to set it up again. As long as the cloud covered the tent, the Israelites did not break camp. But when the cloud moved, they followed it, and wherever it stopped, they camped and stayed there,

They obeyed the Lord 's commands and went wherever he directed Moses.

Dan and the tribes that camped alongside it were to protect the Israelites against an attack from behind, and so they marched last, carrying their banner. Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was the leader of the tribe of Dan,

The people of Israel began their journey from Mount Sinai. They traveled three days, and the Levites who carried the sacred chest led the way, so the Lord could show them where to camp.

And when they stopped to set up camp, he would pray, "Our Lord , stay close to Israel's thousands and thousands of people."

The Israelites stood around their tents complaining. Moses heard them and was upset that they had made the Lord angry.

As for the Israelites, I have heard them complaining about not having meat and about being better off in Egypt. So tell them to make themselves acceptable to me, because tomorrow they will have meat.

In fact, they will have meat day after day for a whole month—not just a few days, or even ten or twenty. They turned against me and wanted to return to Egypt. Now they will eat meat until they get sick of it.

and the Lord spoke with him. Then the Lord took some authority from Moses and gave it to the seventy leaders. And when the Lord 's Spirit took control of them, they started shouting like prophets. But they did it only this one time.

Eldad and Medad were two leaders who had not gone to the tent. But when the Spirit took control of them, they began shouting like prophets right there in camp.

Then they left Hazeroth and set up camp in the Paran Desert.

and find out what those regions are like. Be sure to remember how many people live there, how strong they are,