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‘I, the Lord , am not easily angered, and I show great love and faithfulness and forgive sin and rebellion. Yet I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents.'

Your children will wander in the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last one of you dies.

You will suffer the consequences of your sin for forty years, one year for each of the forty days you spent exploring the land. You will know what it means to have me against you!

the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them.

For all time to come, the same rules are binding on you and on the foreigners who live among you. You and they are alike in the Lord 's sight;

the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them.

For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to the Lord from the bread you bake.

The priest shall perform the ritual of purification for the community, and they will be forgiven, because the mistake was unintentional and they brought their sin offering as a food offering to the Lord .

because they have rejected what the Lord said and have deliberately broken one of his commands. They are responsible for their own death.

to say to the people of Israel: "Make tassels on the corners of your garments and put a blue cord on each tassel. You are to do this for all time to come.

Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, but they said, "We will not come!

He said to the people, "Get away from the tents of these wicked men and don't touch anything that belongs to them. Otherwise, you will be wiped out with them for all their sins."

They became holy when they were presented at the Lord 's altar. So take the fire pans of these who were put to death for their sin, beat them into thin plates, and make a covering for the altar. It will be a warning to the people of Israel."

So Eleazar the priest took the fire pans and had them beaten into thin plates to make a covering for the altar.

This was a warning to the Israelites that no one who was not a descendant of Aaron should come to the altar to burn incense for the Lord . Otherwise he would be destroyed like Korah and his men. All this was done as the Lord had commanded Eleazar through Moses.

and Moses said to Aaron, "Take your fire pan, put live coals from the altar in it, and put some incense on the coals. Then hurry with it to the people and perform the ritual of purification for them. Hurry! The Lord 's anger has already broken out and an epidemic has already begun."

Aaron obeyed, took his fire pan and ran into the middle of the assembled people. When he saw that the plague had already begun, he put the incense on the coals and performed the ritual of purification for the people.

and then write Aaron's name on the stick representing Levi. There will be one stick for each tribal leader.

So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a stick, one for each tribe, twelve in all, and Aaron's stick was put with them.

They are to fulfill their duties to you and their responsibilities for the Tent, but they must not have any contact with sacred objects in the Holy Place or with the altar. If they do, both they and you will be put to death.