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All the best of the fresh oil and all the best of the fresh wine and of the grain, the first fruits of those which they give to Yahweh, I give them to you.

Every first issue of the womb of all flesh, whether man or animal, which they bring near to Yahweh, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.

But the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall splash their blood on the altar and shall offer up their fat in smoke as an offering by fire, for a soothing aroma to Yahweh.

And the sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting again, or they will bear sin and die.

Only the Levites shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

"This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel that they take to you a red heifer without blemish, in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never been placed.

Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt purification from sin and flowing water shall be added to them in a vessel.

Now there was no water for the congregation, and they assembled themselves against Moses and Aaron.

Then they set out from Kadesh, and the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.

So Moses did just as Yahweh had commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

Then Yahweh heard the voice of Israel and gave the Canaanites over; so they devoted them and their cities to destruction. Thus the name of the place was called Hormah.

Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the way.

So Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people so that many people of Israel died.

They then set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness which is opposite Moab, east toward the sunrise.

From there they set out and camped in Wadi Zered.

From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

And from there they continued to Beer, that is the well where Yahweh said to Moses, "Assemble the people, that I may give them water."

The well, which the leaders dug,Which the nobles of the people carved out,With the scepter and with their staffs."And from the wilderness they continued to Mattanah,

And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its towns and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Then they turned and went up by the way of Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan went out to meet them, he and all his people for battle at Edrei.