Study Desk

You will have broken my agreement, so I will punish you. I will bring armies against you. You will go into your cities for safety, but I will cause diseases to spread among you. And your enemies will defeat you.

You will become so hungry that you will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

"You will be taken to your enemy's country. Your country will be empty. So your land will finally get its rest. The land will enjoy its time of rest.

So the survivors will rot away in their sin in their enemies' countries. They will rot away in their sins just as their ancestors did.

For them, I will remember the agreement with their ancestors. I brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt so that I could become their God. The other nations saw these things. I am the Lord ."

"You can give cattle and sheep as special gifts to the Lord . But if the animal is the firstborn, it already belongs to the Lord . So you cannot give these animals as special gifts.

So if you want to get back your tenth, you must add one-fifth to its price and then buy it back.

The Levites will set up their tents so that they surround the Tent of the Agreement. They will serve as guards and keep the people away from the Tent. This will protect the Israelites from the Lord's anger."

The Lord had given these commandments to Moses. So the Israelites did everything he commanded.

So these were the Israelites. They were counted by families. The total number of Israelite men in the camps, counted by divisions, is 603,550.

So the Israelites did everything the Lord told Moses. Each group camped under its own flag. And everyone stayed with their own family and family group.

But Nadab and Abihu died while serving the Lord . They used fire that the Lord did not allow when they made an offering to him. So Nadab and Abihu died there, in the desert of Sinai. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar took their place and served the Lord as priests. This happened while their father Aaron was still alive.

So Moses obeyed the Lord . He counted them all.

So Moses did what the Lord commanded. He counted all the firstborn children of the Israelites.

There were not enough Levites to take the place of all the men from the other family groups, so Moses gathered the money for them.

You must do these things so that the Kohathite men can go near the most holy things and not die. Aaron and his sons must go in and show each Kohathite man what to do and what to carry.

So these men from the Kohath family group were given their special work to do for the Meeting Tent. Moses and Aaron did this the way the Lord had told Moses to do.

So these men from the Gershon family group were given their special work to do for the Meeting Tent. Moses and Aaron did this the way the Lord had told Moses to do.

So these men from the Merari family group were given their special work. Moses and Aaron did this the way the Lord told Moses to do.

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the Israelites counted all the people in Levi's family group. They had counted each family and each family group.