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Whether they are a man or a woman, send them away so that the camp where I am living among you will not be made unclean."

So the Israelites obeyed God's command. They sent those people outside the camp. They did what the Lord had told Moses.

"Tell this to the Israelites: You might do something wrong to another person. When you do that, you are really sinning against God. So you are guilty of doing wrong.

"So this is the law about jealousy. This is what you should do when a woman sins against her husband while she is married to him.

so you must not let yourself become unclean like this—even for your own father or mother, brother or sister when they die. This is because you have the hair that you dedicated to God on your head!

So if you are with someone when they suddenly die, you will be unclean and you will have to shave the hair from your head. You must do that on the seventh day of your purification ceremony when you are made clean.

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

So all these things were the gifts from the leaders of the Israelites. They brought them during the time that Moses dedicated the altar by anointing it. They brought 12 silver plates, 12 silver bowls, and 12 gold spoons.

Aaron did this. He put the lamps in the right place so that they lighted the area in front of the lampstand. He obeyed the command that the Lord gave Moses.

"So make the Levites pure and give them to the Lord as a special offering. After you do this, they can come and do their work at the Meeting Tent.

So Moses, Aaron, and all the Israelites obeyed the Lord . They did with the Levites everything that the Lord commanded Moses.

Men who are at least 50 years old will be on duty to help their brothers, but they will not do the work themselves. That is what you must do for the Levites so that they can do their duty."

So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate Passover.

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

Sometimes the cloud was over the Holy Tent for only a few days. So the people obeyed the Lord 's command—they followed the cloud when it moved.

Sometimes the cloud stayed only during the night—the next morning the cloud moved. So the people gathered their things and followed it. If the cloud moved, during the day or during the night, they followed it.

So the people obeyed the Lord 's commands. They camped when the Lord told them to, and they moved when he told them to. They watched carefully and obeyed the Lord 's commands to Moses.

So the Israelites began their journey. They left the desert of Sinai and traveled until the cloud stopped in the desert of Paran.

Then the Holy Tent was taken down. And the men from the Gershon and the Merari families carried the Holy Tent. So the people from these families were next in line.

Then came the Kohath family. They carried the holy things from inside the Holy Tent. These people came at this time so that the other people could set up the Holy Tent and make it ready at the new camp before these people arrived.