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So a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

So the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had been greedy.

Suddenly the LORD said to Moses and Aaron and to Miriam, "You three come out to the tent of meeting." So the three of them came out.

"Not so, with My servant Moses, He is faithful in all My household;

So the anger of the LORD burned against them and He departed.

So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again.

"Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers' tribes, every one a leader among them."

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.

So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, at Lebo-hamath.

So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.

"There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."

So the LORD said, "I have pardoned them according to your word;

"Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;

'According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do for everyone according to their number.

'If an alien sojourns with you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to make an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD, just as you do so he shall do.

'As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the alien who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the alien be before the LORD.

'Of the first of your dough you shall lift up a cake as an offering; as the offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.

'So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, with the alien who sojourns among them, for it happened to all the people through error.

So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.