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But the LORD answered Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in."

But the men who had gone up with him replied, "We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!"

But the entire congregation threatened to stone Joshua and Caleb. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting.

But Moses said to the LORD, "The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.

'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He visits the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.'

But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected-and they will enjoy it.

But as for you, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. "We have indeed sinned," they said, "but we will go to the place the LORD has promised."

But Moses said, "Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!

But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.

But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from his people.

He has brought you near, you and all your fellow Levites, but you are seeking the priesthood as well.

Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come!

But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You vent Your wrath on the whole congregation?"

But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt."

But when the congregation gathered against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the Tent of Meeting, and suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.

But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.

But bring with you also your brothers from the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and assist you and your sons before the Tent of the Testimony.

And they shall attend to your duties and to all the duties of the Tent; but they must not come near to the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar, or both they and you will die.