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The Festival of Unleavened Bread begins on the 15th day of that month. This festival lasts for seven days. The only bread you can eat is bread made without yeast.

You must also give a grain offering of 24 cups of fine flour mixed with olive oil with each bull, and 16 cups of fine flour mixed with oil with the ram, and 8 cups of fine flour mixed with oil for each lamb.

"In this way, each day for seven days, you must bring the food that is offered by fire. The smell of these offerings will please the Lord . You must give these offerings in addition to the daily burnt offering and the drink offering that goes with it.

"There will be a special meeting on the first day of the seventh month. You will not do any work on that day. That is the day for blowing the trumpets.

You will also offer 1 male goat as a sin offering. This will be in addition to the sin offering for the Day of Atonement. This will also be in addition to the daily sacrifice and its grain offerings and drink offerings.

"There will be a special meeting on the 15th day of the seventh month. You must not do any work on that day. You must celebrate a special festival for the Lord for seven days.

You must also give the right amount of grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs.

"The eighth day of this festival is a very special meeting for you. You must not do any work on that day.

But if the husband hears about the promises and stops them, he is responsible for breaking her promises."

And then, all you men who killed other people must stay outside the camp for seven days. You must stay outside the camp even if you just touched a dead body. On the third day you and your prisoners must make yourselves pure. You must do the same thing again on the seventh day.

Then Eleazar the priest spoke to the soldiers. He said, "These are the rules that the Lord gave to Moses for soldiers coming back from war.

And then, from the people's half, take one thing for every 50 items. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or any other animal. Give that share to the Levites, because they take care of the Lord 's Holy Tent."

Moses gave all these gifts for the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded him.

Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders and captains and then put that gold in the Meeting Tent. This present was a memorial before the Lord for the Israelites.

The tribes of Reuben and Gad had many cattle. These people looked at the land near Jazer and Gilead. They saw that this land was good for their cattle.

They said, "We, your servants, have many cattle. And the land that the Lord let the people of Israel capture is good land for cattle. This land includes the area around Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sibmah, Nebo, and Beon.

"The Lord was very angry with the Israelites. So he made the people stay in the desert for 40 years. He made them stay there until all the people who had sinned against the Lord were dead.

But the people from the tribes of Reuben and Gad went to Moses. They said, "We will build cities for our children and barns for our animals here.

Your soldiers must cross the Jordan River and be ready to fight for the Lord until he forces the enemy to leave.

But if you don't do these things, you will be sinning against the Lord . And know for sure that you will be punished for your sin.