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Such property as may be redeemed from the Levites—houses sold in a city belonging to them—shall be released in the jubilee; because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.

And those of you who survive shall languish in the land of your enemies because of their iniquities; also they shall languish because of the iniquities of their ancestors.

For the land shall be deserted by them, and enjoy its sabbath years by lying desolate without them, while they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they dared to spurn my ordinances, and they abhorred my statutes.

Even if their father or mother, brother or sister, should die, they may not defile themselves; because their consecration to God is upon the head.

and the priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for them, because they incurred guilt by reason of the corpse. They shall sanctify the head that same day,

and separate themselves to the Lord for their days as nazirites, and bring a male lamb a year old as a guilt offering. The former time shall be void, because the consecrated head was defiled.

But to the Kohathites he gave none, because they were charged with the care of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulders.

So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned against them.

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you—because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?'"

So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.

While they were at Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had indeed married a Cushite woman);

That place was called the Wadi Eshcol, because of the cluster that the Israelites cut down from there.

‘It is because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land he swore to give them that he has slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me wholeheartedly, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will confront you there, and you shall fall by the sword; because you have turned back from following the Lord , the Lord will not be with you."

All the congregation of the Israelites shall be forgiven, as well as the aliens residing among them, because the whole people was involved in the error.

Because of having despised the word of the Lord and broken his commandment, such a person shall be utterly cut off and bear the guilt.

They put him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him.

because I have given to the Levites as their portion the tithe of the Israelites, which they set apart as an offering to the Lord . Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no allotment among the Israelites.

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in me, to show my holiness before the eyes of the Israelites, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them."