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So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Now Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, so he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.

So now, I am going to my people; let me advise you what this people will do to your people in days to come."

So he uttered his oracle, saying: "The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is clear,

he went after the Israelite man into the tent, and pierced the two of them, the Israelite and the woman, through the belly. So the plague was stopped among the people of Israel.

who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep without a shepherd."

So the Lord said to Moses, "Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand upon him;

You shall give him some of your authority, so that all the congregation of the Israelites may obey.

So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation;

So Moses told the Israelites everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

So Moses said to the people, "Arm some of your number for the war, so that they may go against Midian, to execute the Lord 's vengeance on Midian.

So out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe were conscripted, twelve thousand armed for battle.

These women here, on Balaam's advice, made the Israelites act treacherously against the Lord in the affair of Peor, so that the plague came among the congregation of the Lord .

So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord .

So Moses said to them, "If you do this—if you take up arms to go before the Lord for the war,

So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the ancestral houses of the Israelite tribes.

The Gadites and the Reubenites answered, "As the Lord has spoken to your servants, so we will do.

so Moses gave Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he settled there.

So the Israelites set out from Rameses, and camped at Succoth.

then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that a slayer who kills a person without intent may flee there.