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Do not present an animal with defects, because the Lord will not accept it on your behalf.

Do no work during that entire day because it is the Day of Atonement, when offerings of purification are made for you, making you right with the Lord your God.

I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you—wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because your enemies will eat them.

Those of you who survive will waste away in your enemies' lands because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.

After this, they may go into the Tabernacle to do their work, because you have purified them and presented them as a special offering.

"Give the following instructions to the people of Israel: If any of the people now or in future generations are ceremonially unclean at Passover time because of touching a dead body, or if they are on a journey and cannot be present at the ceremony, they may still celebrate the Lord 's Passover.

After that, the area was known as Taberah (which means "the place of burning"), because fire from the Lord had burned among them there.

So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah (which means "graves of gluttony") because there they buried the people who had craved meat from Egypt.

While they were at Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because he had married a Cushite woman.

That place was called the valley of Eshcol (which means "cluster"), because of the cluster of grapes the Israelite men cut there.

You will all drop dead in this wilderness! Because you complained against me, every one of you who is twenty years old or older and was included in the registration will die.

"‘Because your men explored the land for forty days, you must wander in the wilderness for forty years—a year for each day, suffering the consequences of your sins. Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy.'

Do not go up into the land now. You will only be crushed by your enemies because the Lord is not with you.

When you face the Amalekites and Canaanites in battle, you will be slaughtered. The Lord will abandon you because you have abandoned the Lord ."

They held him in custody because they did not know what to do with him.

Then because the plague had stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tabernacle.

because I have given them the Israelites' tithes, which have been presented as sacred offerings to the Lord . This will be the Levites' share. That is why I said they would receive no allotment of land among the Israelites."

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust me enough to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land I am giving them!"

This place was known as the waters of Meribah (which means "arguing") because there the people of Israel argued with the Lord , and there he demonstrated his holiness among them.

Because Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their country, Israel was forced to turn around.