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Here is what is to be yours of the especially holy things taken from the fire: every offering they make — that is, every grain offering, sin offering and guilt offering of theirs that they turn over to me — will be especially holy for you and your sons.

All the best of the olive oil, wine and grain, the first portion of what they give to Adonai , I have given to you.

"Everything that comes first out of the womb, of all living things which they offer to Adonai , whether human or animal, will be yours. However, the firstborn of a human being you must redeem, and the firstborn of an unclean beast you are to redeem.

But the firstborn of an ox, sheep or goat you are not to redeem; they are holy — you are to splash their blood against the altar and make their fat go up in smoke as an offering made by fire, as a fragrant aroma for Adonai .

Their meat will be yours, like the breast that is waved and the right thigh — they will be yours.

From now on, the people of Isra'el are not to approach the tent of meeting, so that they will not bear the consequences of their sin and die.

Only the L'vi'im are to perform the service in the tent of meeting, and they will be responsible for whatever they do wrong. This is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations. They are to have no inheritance among the people of Isra'el,

A man who is clean is to collect the ashes of the heifer and store them outside the camp in a clean place. They are to be kept for the community of the people of Isra'el to prepare water for purification from sin.

"For the unclean person they are to take some of the ashes of the animal burned up as a purification from sin and add them to fresh water in a container.

The people of Isra'el, the whole community, entered the Tzin Desert in the first month, and they stayed in Kadesh. There Miryam died, and there she was buried.

Because the community had no water, they assembled themselves against Moshe and Aharon.

(RY: iii, LY: v) They traveled on from Kadesh; and the people of Isra'el, the whole community, arrived at Mount Hor.

Adonai listened to what Isra'el said and handed over the Kena‘anim, so they completely destroyed them and their cities and named the place Hormah [complete destruction].

(LY: vi) In response, Adonai sent poisonous snakes among the people; they bit the people, and many of Isra'el's people died.

From Ovot they traveled and camped at ‘Iyei-Ha‘avarim, in the desert fronting Mo'av on the east.

From there they traveled and camped in Vadi Zered.

From there they traveled and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the desert; this river comes out of the territory of the Emori; for the Arnon is the boundary between Mo'av and the Emori.

From there they went on to Be'er [well]; that is the well about which Adonai said to Moshe, "Assemble the people, and I will give them water."

Moshe sent men to reconnoiter Ya‘zer; they captured its towns and drove out the Emori who were there.

Then they turned and went up along the road to Bashan; and ‘Og, the king of Bashan, marched out against them, he with all his people, to fight at Edre‘i.