Study Desk

You and your sons alone must fulfill the responsibilities for the Holy Place and the altar, so that my anger will not again break out against the people of Israel.

I am the one who has chosen your relatives the Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you. They are dedicated to me, so that they can carry out their duties in the Tent.

There was no water where they camped, so the people gathered around Moses and Aaron

Why have you brought us out into this wilderness? Just so that we can die here with our animals?

The Lord heard them and helped them conquer the Canaanites. So the Israelites completely destroyed them and their cities, and named the place Hormah.

The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Now pray to the Lord to take these snakes away." So Moses prayed for the people.

Then the Lord told Moses to make a metal snake and put it on a pole, so that anyone who was bitten could look at it and be healed.

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who had been bitten would look at the bronze snake and be healed.

So the people of Israel captured all the Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all the surrounding towns, and settled in them.

So the people of Israel settled in the territory of the Amorites,

So the Israelites killed Og, his sons, and all his people, leaving no survivors, and then they occupied his land.

The Moabites said to the leaders of the Midianites, "This horde will soon destroy everything around us, like a bull eating the grass in a pasture." So King Balak

They outnumber us, so please come and put a curse on them for me. Then perhaps we will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. I know that when you pronounce a blessing, people are blessed, and when you pronounce a curse, they are placed under a curse."

So the Moabite and Midianite leaders took with them the payment for the curse, went to Balaam, and gave him Balak's message.

Balaam said to them, "Spend the night here, and tomorrow I will report to you whatever the Lord tells me." So the Moabite leaders stayed with Balaam.

that a people who came from Egypt has spread out over the whole land. He wants me to curse them for him, so that he can fight them and drive them out."

So they returned to Balak and told him that Balaam had refused to come with them.

But please spend the night, as the others did, so that I may learn whether or not the Lord has something else to tell me."

So the next morning Balaam saddled his donkey and went with the Moabite leaders.

But the angel said, "Go on with these men, but say only what I tell you to say." So Balaam went on with them.