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These are the waters of Mesotha (contention); because the children of Israel strove before the LORD, and he was sanctified among them.

And the children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway; and if we and our cattle drink of your water, then we will pay for it; we will only pass through it on foot.

And the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Rakim, and came to mount Hot.

Aaron shall be gathered to his people for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the water of Mesotha, and did not sanctify me at the water in their presence.

And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Aboth.

And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, and as far as the border of the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.

AND the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in the plains of Moab on this side of Jordan by Jericho.

And the Moabites were in great fear of the people because they were many; and Moab was distressed at the presence of the children of Israel.

So he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, an interpreter of dreams, who dwelt by the river of the land of the children of Ammon, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt; they cover the face of the land, and they are settled over against me.

I have seen him, but not clearly enough; I beheld him, but he was not nigh; there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Prince shall rise out of Israel, and shall destroy the mighty men of Moab and subdue all the children of Sheth.

And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

And the LORD said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people and expose them before the LORD in the daylight that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from the children of Israel.

And, behold, one of the men of the children of Israel came to his brethren, and then he went in to a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel while they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And he went in after the man of Israel into the private chamber and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel because he was moved with my zeal among them that I did not consume the children of Israel in my anger.

And he shall have it and his sons after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the children of Israel.

Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers houses, all that are able to go to war in Israel.

And Moses numbered them from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel who went forth out of the land of Egypt.

Notwithstanding, the children of Korah did not die.

These were the numbers of the children of Israel, six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.