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They may help their brothers in the meeting tent to do what needs to be done but they themselves must not do the work. These are the rules for the Levites when giving them their duties."

"Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at the time given for it.

But if a man is clean and is not away traveling, yet does not keep the Passover, he must be cut off from his people. For he did not give the Lord's gift at the time he was to do so. That man will be guilty of his sin.

If a stranger staying with you wants to keep the Passover to the Lord and obey the Law of the Passover, he may do so. You will have one law, both for the stranger and for the one who was born in the land.'"

Even when the cloud rested over the meeting tent for many days, the people of Israel would obey the Lord and not leave.

Even when the cloud stayed over the meeting tent for two days, or a month, or a year the people of Israel would stay in that place and not leave. They would leave when it was lifted.

"Make two silver horns of beaten silver. Use them for calling the people together and for having the people move on.

Aaron's sons, the religious leaders, will blow the horns. This will be a Law for all your people forever.

So they moved for the first time as the Lord had told them through Moses.

Then the flag of the people of Dan left, by their armies. They followed behind all the people of Israel, to watch for danger. Ammishaddai's son Ahiezer was the head over this army.

Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are going to the place the Lord said He will give to us. Come with us and we will do you good. For the Lord has promised good to Israel."

Moses said, "I beg you, do not leave us. For you know where we should stay in the desert. You will be like eyes for us.

If you go with us, we will do for you whatever good the Lord does for us."

So they traveled for three days from the mountain of the Lord with the special box with the Law of the Lord in front of them looking for a place for them to rest.

I am not able to carry all these people alone. The load is too heavy for me.

The Lord said to Moses, "Gather for Me seventy men from the leaders of Israel, whom you know to be the leaders of the people, the men who rule over them. Bring them to the meeting tent and let them stand there with you.

Say to the people, ‘Make yourselves holy for tomorrow, and you will eat meat. The Lord heard you when you cried and said, "If only someone would give us meat to eat! For it was well with us in Egypt." So the Lord will give you meat and you will eat.

You will not eat it for only one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days.

But Moses said, "The people whom I am among are 600,000 on foot. And You have said, ‘I will give them meat so they may eat for a whole month.'

The Lord said to Moses, "Is there an end to the Lord's power? Now you will see if My Word will come true for you or not."