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When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

And I will lay waste to the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.

Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns-whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land-can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:

So all the Israelites twenty years of age or older who could serve in Israel's army were registered according to their families.

But the Levites are to camp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath shall fall on the Israelite congregation. So the Levites are responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."

So the Israelites did everything the LORD commanded Moses; they camped by their banners in this way and set out in the same way, each man with his clan and his family.

So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any layman who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death."

So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he had been commanded.

So Moses numbered all the firstborn of the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him.

So Moses collected the redemption money from those in excess of the number redeemed by the Levites.

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation numbered the Kohathites by their clans and families,

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel counted by their clans and families all the Levites

You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them."

So the Israelites did this, sending such people outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.