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and have sexual relations with another man. Her sin might be kept hidden from her husband so that he does not know about the wrong she did. Perhaps no one saw it, and she wasn't caught.

"‘So this is the teaching about jealousy. This is what to do when a woman does wrong and is unfaithful while she is married to her husband.

"‘If they are next to someone who dies suddenly, their hair, which was part of their promise, has been made unclean. So they must shave their head seven days later to be clean.

The priest will offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. This removes sin so they will belong to the Lord . (They had sinned because they were near a dead body.) That same day they will again promise to let their hair grow

"So Aaron and his sons will bless the Israelites with my name, and I will bless them."

So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

So these were the gifts from the Israelite leaders when oil was poured on the altar and it was given for service to the Lord : twelve silver plates, twelve silver bowls, and twelve gold dishes.

Aaron did this, putting the lamps so they lighted the area in front of the lampstand; he obeyed the command the Lord gave Moses.

This is what you should do to make them clean: Sprinkle the cleansing water on them, and have them shave their bodies and wash their clothes so they will be clean.

"The Levites will put their hands on the bulls' heads—one bull will be a sin offering to the Lord , and the other will be a burnt offering, to remove the sins of the Levites so they will belong to the Lord .

"Make the Levites pure, and present them as an offering so that they may come to work at the Meeting Tent.

From all the Israelites I have given the Levites to Aaron and his sons so that they may serve the Israelites at the Meeting Tent. They will help remove the Israelites' sins so they will belong to the Lord and so that no disaster will strike the Israelites when they approach the Holy Place."

So Moses, Aaron, and all the Israelites obeyed and did with the Levites what the Lord commanded Moses.

The Levites made themselves clean and washed their clothes. Then Aaron presented them as an offering to the Lord . He also removed their sins so they would be pure.

So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover,

But some of the people could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were unclean from touching a dead body. So they went to Moses and Aaron that day and

So the Israelites moved at the Lord 's command, and they camped at his command. While the cloud stayed over the Tent, they remained camped.

So the Israelites moved from the Desert of Sinai and continued until the cloud stopped in the Desert of Paran.

So they left the mountain of the Lord and traveled for three days. The Ark of the Lord 's Agreement went in front of the people for those three days, as they looked for a place to camp.

So that place was called Taberah, because the Lord 's fire had burned among them.