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I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.

I will grant peace in the land so that you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword of war will pass through your land.

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant—

I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted.

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

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

just as the Lord had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the Lord 's anger will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the testimony."

So the Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way they camped under their standards, and that is the way they traveled, each with his clan and family.

Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.

So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood, but the unauthorized person who comes near must be put to death."

"Look, I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,

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

So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him.

So Moses took the redemption money from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.

the hangings for the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance of the gate of the court, which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes, along with all the furnishings for their service and everything that is made for them. So they are to serve.

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

You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps, among which I live."

So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the Lord had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.