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So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the congregation enrolled the Kohathites, by their clans and their ancestral houses,

The Israelites did so, putting them outside the camp; as the Lord had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.

if a man has had intercourse with her but it is hidden from her husband, so that she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her since she was not caught in the act;

This is the law for the nazirites who take a vow. Their offering to the Lord must be in accordance with the nazirite vow, apart from what else they can afford. In accordance with whatever vow they take, so they shall do, following the law for their consecration.

So they shall put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.

So Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

Aaron did so; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Now this was how the lampstand was made, out of hammered work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern that the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Thus you shall do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification on them, have them shave their whole body with a razor and wash their clothes, and so cleanse themselves.

Thereafter the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting in attendance on Aaron and his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did with them.

So Moses told the Israelites that they should keep the passover.

They kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai. Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.

Now there were certain people who were unclean through touching a corpse, so that they could not keep the passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron on that day,

Moses spoke to them, "Wait, so that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you."

Any alien residing among you who wishes to keep the passover to the Lord shall do so according to the statute of the passover and according to its regulation; you shall have one statute for both the resident alien and the native.

It was always so: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night.

When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, so that you may be remembered before the Lord your God and be saved from your enemies.

So they set out from the mount of the Lord three days' journey with the ark of the covenant of the Lord going before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them,

So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned against them.

So Moses said to the Lord , "Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?