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So Moses did just as Yahweh commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor before the eyes of all the community.

All the community saw that Aaron died; so all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.

The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and let him remove the snakes from among us." So Moses prayed for the people.

So Moses made a snake of bronze, and he placed it on the pole; whenever a snake bit someone, and that person looked at the snake of bronze, he lived.

And so they destroyed him and his sons, and all his people until they had not spared a survivor; and they took possession of his land.

So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian went with a fee for divination in their hand; they came to Balaam and spoke the words of Balak to him.

He said to them, "Spend the night here, and I will return, and I will return word to you, just as Yahweh speaks to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

So Balaam got up in the morning and saddled his donkey, and he went with the princes of Moab.

When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she pressed herself into the wall, and she pressed the foot of Balaam into the wall, so he struck her again.

When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she lay down under Balaam, so Balaam became angry, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but speak only the word that I will speak to you." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

And Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself at your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell to you." So he went to a barren height.

So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.

So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks down on the face of the Jeshimon.

So Israel was joined together to Baal Peor, and Yahweh became angry with Israel.

Yahweh said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and kill them before the sun, so the fierce anger of Yahweh will turn from Israel."

So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill his men who are joined together with Baal Peor."

So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying,

So Moses brought their case before Yahweh.