Study Desk

"Tell the people this: ‘Make yourselves holy for tomorrow, and you will eat meat. You cried to the Lord , "We want meat! We were better off in Egypt!" So now the Lord will give you meat to eat.

You will eat it not for just one, two, five, ten, or even twenty days,

but you will eat that meat for a whole month. You will eat it until it comes out your nose, and you will grow to hate it. This is because you have rejected the Lord , who is with you. You have cried to him, saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?"'"

Moses said, " Lord , here are six hundred thousand people standing around me, and you say, ‘I will give them enough meat to eat for a month!'

But Moses answered, "Are you jealous for me? I wish all the Lord 's people could prophesy. I wish the Lord would give his Spirit to all of them!"

Aaron said to Moses, "Please, my master, forgive us for our foolish sin.

The Lord answered Moses, "If her father had spit in her face, she would have been shamed for seven days, so put her outside the camp for seven days. After that, she may come back."

So Miriam was put outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she came back.

What about the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees there? Try to bring back some of the fruit from that land." (It was the season for the first grapes.)

Then Caleb told the people near Moses to be quiet, and he said, "We should certainly go up and take the land for ourselves. We can certainly do it."

As for you, you will die in this desert.

Your children will be shepherds here for forty years. Because you were not loyal, they will suffer until you lie dead in the desert.

For forty years you will suffer for your sins—a year for each of the forty days you explored the land. You will know me as your enemy.'

give the Lord offerings made by fire. These may be from your herds or flocks, as a smell pleasing to the Lord . These may be burnt offerings or sacrifices for special promises, or as gifts to him, or as festival offerings.

"‘If you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, whether it is for a special promise or a fellowship offering to the Lord ,

Do this for every one of the animals you bring.

The law is the same for you and for foreigners, and it will be from now on; you and the foreigners are alike before the Lord .

The teachings and rules are the same for you and for the foreigners among you.'"

"‘The priest will remove that sin for all the Israelites so they will belong to the Lord . They are forgiven, because they didn't know they were sinning. For the wrong they did they brought offerings to the Lord , an offering by fire and a sin offering.

"‘If just one person sins without meaning to, a year-old female goat must be brought for a sin offering.