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You shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; anyone else who tries to do so shall be put to death."

and Moses did so.

Moses and Aaron and his sons were to camp in front of the Tent on the east. They were responsible for carrying out the services performed in the Holy Place for the people of Israel. Anyone else who tried to do so was to be put to death.

The Lord said to Moses, "All of Israel's first-born sons belong to me. So register by name every first-born male Israelite, one month old or older. But in place of them I claim all the Levites as mine! I am the Lord ! I also claim the livestock of the Levites in place of all the first-born of the livestock."

Send all these ritually unclean people out, so that they will not defile the camp, where I live among my people."

May this water enter your stomach and cause it to swell up and your genital organs to shrink." The woman shall respond, "I agree; may the Lord do so."

Your hair is the sign of your dedication to God, and so you must not defile yourself by going near a corpse, not even that of your father, mother, brother, or sister.

If your consecrated hair is defiled because you are right beside someone who suddenly dies, you must wait seven days and then shave your head; and so you become ritually clean.

"Tell Aaron that when he puts the seven lamps on the lampstand, he should place them so that the light shines toward the front."

and then Aaron shall dedicate the Levites to me as a special gift from the Israelites, so that they may do my work.

Separate the Levites in this way from the rest of the Israelites, so that they will belong to me.

So Moses, Aaron, and all the people of Israel dedicated the Levites, as the Lord commanded Moses.

The people did everything the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites. And so the Levites were qualified to work in the Tent under Aaron and his sons.

So Moses told the people to observe the Passover,

and on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month they did so in the Sinai Desert. The people did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

When short blasts are sounded a second time, the tribes on the south will move out. So short blasts are to be sounded to break camp,

Moses said to his brother-in-law Hobab son of Jethro the Midianite, "We are about to start out for the place which the Lord said he would give us. He has promised to make Israel prosperous, so come with us, and we will share our prosperity with you."

So the place was named Taberah, because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.

and he said to the Lord , "Why have you treated me so badly? Why are you displeased with me? Why have you given me the responsibility for all these people?

If you are going to treat me like this, have pity on me and kill me, so that I won't have to endure your cruelty any longer."