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but for a whole month, until it comes out of your ears, until you are sick of it. This will happen because you have rejected the Lord who is here among you and have complained to him that you should never have left Egypt.'"

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the spirit he had given to Moses and gave it to the seventy leaders. When the spirit came on them, they began to shout like prophets, but not for long.

The whole community was threatening to stone them to death, but suddenly the people saw the dazzling light of the Lord 's presence appear over the Tent.

I will send an epidemic and destroy them, but I will make you the father of a nation that is larger and more powerful than they are!"

But Moses said to the Lord , "You brought these people out of Egypt by your power. When the Egyptians hear what you have done to your people,

But I promise that as surely as I live and as surely as my presence fills the earth,

none of these people will live to enter that land. They have seen the dazzling light of my presence and the miracles that I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but they have tried my patience over and over again and have refused to obey me.

But because my servant Caleb has a different attitude and has remained loyal to me, I will bring him into the land which he explored, and his descendants will possess the land

I promised to let you live there, but not one of you will, except Caleb and Joshua.

You said that your children would be captured, but I will bring them into the land that you rejected, and it will be their home.

But Moses said, "Then why are you disobeying the Lord now? You will not succeed!

But suppose someone unintentionally fails to keep some of these regulations which the Lord has given Moses.

But any who sin deliberately, whether they are natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating the Lord with contempt, and they shall be put to death,

Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, but they said, "We will not come!

But Moses and Aaron bowed down with their faces to the ground and said, "O God, you are the source of all life. When one of us sins, do you become angry with the whole community?"

But if the Lord does something unheard of, and the earth opens up and swallows them with all they own, so that they go down alive to the world of the dead, you will know that these men have rejected the Lord ."

The Lord said to Aaron, "You, your sons, and the Levites must suffer the consequences of any guilt connected with serving in the Tent of my presence; but only you and your sons will suffer the consequences of service in the priesthood.

They are to fulfill their duties to you and their responsibilities for the Tent, but they must not have any contact with sacred objects in the Holy Place or with the altar. If they do, both they and you will be put to death.

They are to work with you and fulfill their responsibilities for all the service in the Tent, but no unqualified person may work with you.

But you and your sons alone shall fulfill all the responsibilities of the priesthood that concern the altar and what is in the Most Holy Place. These things are your responsibility, because I have given you the gift of the priesthood. Any unqualified person who comes near the sacred objects shall be put to death."