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So Miriam was shut outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again.

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.

So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, at Lebo-hamath.

So they reported to him and said, "We came into the land where you sent us, and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

So they brought a bad report of the land which they had spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, "The land through which we have gone to spy out is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are people of great stature.

"We also saw the Nephilim there (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

"So why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder! Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"

So they said to one another, "Let's appoint a leader and return to Egypt!"

"So now, please, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, saying,

So the LORD said, "I have forgiven them in accordance with your word;

"Say to them, 'As I live,' declares the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you;

But Moses said, "Why then are you violating the command of the LORD, when doing so will not succeed?

'According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do for each one according to their number.

'Now if a stranger resides among you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he wants to make an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD, just as you do so shall he do.

'As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who resides among you, a permanent statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

'Of the first of your dough you shall lift up a loaf as an offering; as an offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.

'So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, as well as the stranger who resides among them, for guilt was attributed to all the people through an unintentional wrong.

'And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who goes astray by an unintentional sin, making atonement for him so that he may be forgiven.

So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

"It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, so that you will do them and not follow your own heart and your own eyes, which led you to prostitute yourselves,