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But if the woman has not sinned, she is pure. She is not guilty, and she will be able to have babies.

But I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn in Israel.

They may help their fellow Levites with their work at the Meeting Tent, but they must not do the work themselves. This is the way you are to give the Levites their jobs."

But some of the people could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were unclean from touching a dead body. So they went to Moses and Aaron that day and

said to Moses, "We are unclean because of touching a dead body. But why should we be kept from offering gifts to the Lord at this appointed time? Why can't we join the other Israelites?"

But celebrate it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. Eat the lamb with bitter herbs and bread made without yeast.

Anyone who is clean and is not away on a trip but does not eat the Passover must be cut off from the people. That person did not give an offering to the Lord at the appointed time and must be punished for the sin.

"‘Foreigners among you may celebrate the Lord 's Passover, but they must follow all the rules. You must have the same rules for foreigners as you have for yourselves.'"

Sometimes the cloud stayed over the Tent for a long time, but the Israelites obeyed the Lord and did not move.

The cloud might stay over the Tent for two days, a month, or a year. As long as it stayed, the people camped, but when it lifted, they moved.

When you want to gather the people, blow the trumpets, but don't blow them as loudly.

But Hobab answered, "No, I will not go. I will go back to my own land where I was born."

But Moses said, "Please don't leave us. You know where we can camp in the desert, and you can be our guide.

But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!"

but you will eat that meat for a whole month. You will eat it until it comes out your nose, and you will grow to hate it. This is because you have rejected the Lord , who is with you. You have cried to him, saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?"'"

But the Lord said to Moses, "Do you think I'm weak? Now you will see if I can do what I say."

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. The Lord took some of the Spirit Moses had, and he gave it to the seventy leaders. With the Spirit in them, they prophesied, but just that one time.

Two men named Eldad and Medad were also listed as leaders, but they did not go to the Tent. They stayed in the camp, but the Spirit was also given to them, and they prophesied in the camp.

But Moses answered, "Are you jealous for me? I wish all the Lord 's people could prophesy. I wish the Lord would give his Spirit to all of them!"

But the Lord became very angry, and he gave the people a terrible sickness that came while the meat was still in their mouths.