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You must send away both male or female; send them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps where I dwell among them."

Aaron is to present the Levites before the Lord as a presentation offering from the Israelites, so that they may perform the Lord 's work.

In this way you are to separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites so that the Levites will belong to Me.

From the Israelites, I have given the Levites exclusively to Aaron and his sons to perform the work for the Israelites at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary."

So that place was named Taberah, because the Lord 's fire had blazed among them.

Then I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the Spirit who is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.

The priest must then make atonement for the entire Israelite community so that they may be forgiven, for the sin was unintentional. They are to bring their offering, one made by fire to the Lord , and their sin offering before the Lord for their unintentional sin.

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord 's commands and obey them and not become unfaithful by following your own heart and your own eyes.

But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord ."

"Get away from this community so that I may consume them instantly." But they fell facedown.

The Lord told Moses, "Put Aaron's staff back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign for the rebels, so that you may put an end to their complaints before Me, or else they will die."

"You are to guard the sanctuary and the altar so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again.

You will not incur guilt because of it once you have presented the best part of it, but you must not defile the Israelites' holy offerings, so that you will not die."

Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died.

The people then came to Moses and said, "We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Intercede with the Lord so that He will take the snakes away from us." And Moses interceded for the people.

Please stay here overnight as the others did, so that I may find out what else the Lord has to tell me."

The Lord said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the Lord so that His burning anger may turn away from Israel."

"Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites because he was zealous among them with My zeal, so that I did not destroy the Israelites in My zeal.

who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the Lord 's community won't be like sheep without a shepherd."