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but I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the Israelites.

They may assist their brothers in the tent of meeting in carrying out their duties, but they shall perform no service. Thus you shall do with the Levites in assigning their duties.

But anyone who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet refrains from keeping the passover, shall be cut off from the people for not presenting the Lord 's offering at its appointed time; such a one shall bear the consequences for the sin.

Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, resting upon it, the Israelites would remain in camp and would not set out; but when it lifted they would set out.

But if only one is blown, then the leaders, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall assemble before you.

But when the assembly is to be gathered, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.

But he said to him, "I will not go, but I will go back to my own land and to my kindred."

But the people cried out to Moses; and Moses prayed to the Lord , and the fire abated.

but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at."

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you—because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?'"

But Moses said, "The people I am with number six hundred thousand on foot; and you say, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month'!

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again.

Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp.

But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord 's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!"

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.

But the Lord said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp for seven days, and after that she may be brought in again."

But Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."

But the whole congregation threatened to stone them. Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites.

But Moses said to the Lord , "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for in your might you brought up this people from among them,

‘The Lord is slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.'