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The person who is clean must sprinkle this water on the unclean people on the third day and on the seventh day. On the seventh day they will become clean. They must wash their clothes and take a bath, and they will be clean that evening.

If any who are unclean do not become clean, they must be cut off from the community. Since they were not sprinkled with the cleansing water, they stay unclean, and they could make the Lord 's Holy Tent unclean.

In the first month all the people of Israel arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

There was no water for the people, so they came together against Moses and Aaron.

They argued with Moses and said, "We should have died in front of the Lord as our brothers did.

So Moses and Aaron left the people and went to the entrance of the Meeting Tent. There they bowed facedown, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

Moses obeyed the Lord 's command. They climbed up Mount Hor, and all the people saw them go.

and grumbled at God and Moses. They said, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this desert? There is no bread and no water, and we hate this terrible food!"

So the Lord sent them poisonous snakes; they bit the people, and many of the Israelites died.

From there they went and camped in the Zered Valley.

From there they went and camped across the Arnon, in the desert just inside the Amorite country. The Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.

Princes dug this well. Important men made it. With their scepters and poles, they dug it." The people went from the desert to Mattanah.

From Mattanah they went to Nahaliel and on to Bamoth.

But King Sihon would not let the Israelites pass through his country. He gathered his whole army together, and they marched out to meet Israel in the desert. At Jahaz they fought the Israelites.

Israel killed the king and captured his land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. They took the land as far as the Ammonite border, which was strongly defended.

Then the Israelites went up the road toward Bashan. Og king of Bashan and his whole army marched out to meet the Israelites, and they fought at Edrei.

So the Israelites killed Og and his sons and all his army; no one was left alive. And they took his land.

Then the people of Israel went to the plains of Moab, and they camped near the Jordan River across from Jericho.

and they are too powerful for me. So come and put a curse on them. Maybe then I can defeat them and make them leave the area. I know that if you bless someone, the blessings happen, and if you put a curse on someone, it happens."

The elders of Moab and Midian went with payment in their hands. When they found Balaam, they told him what Balak had said.