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"Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me and say, 'Give us meat, so that we may eat.'

"I am not able to carry all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.

But Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 [fighting men] on foot [besides all the women and children]; yet You have said, 'I will give them meat, so that they may eat it for a whole month!'

"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel. From each of their fathers' tribes you shall send a man, every one a leader among them."

"Speak to the Israelites and say to them, 'When you come into the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

"Speak to the Israelites and say to them, 'When you enter the land to which I am bringing you,

"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God."

"Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar [of burnt offering and the altar of incense] and [of the Holy of Holies] within the veil, and you are to serve. I am giving you the priesthood as a bestowed service, but the stranger (outsider, layman) who approaches shall be put to death."

Then the LORD said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in the land [of the Israelites], nor have any portion [of land] among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life until this day? Have I ever been accustomed to do so to you?" And he said, "No."

Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not urgently send word to you to call you? Why did you not come to me [immediately]? Am I really unable to honor (pay) you?"

So Balaam said to Balak, "Indeed I have come to you now, but am I able to say anything at all? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I shall speak."

"And now, look, I am going to my people; come, I will advise you as to what this people [Israel] will do to your people [Moab] in the days to come."

"I spoke to you at that time, saying, 'I am not able to bear the burden of you alone.

"But the LORD said to me, 'Say to them, "Do not go up and do not fight, for I am not among you [because of your rebellion]; otherwise you will be [badly] defeated by your enemies."'

"Now, O Israel, listen and pay attention to the statutes and the judgments (God's legal decisions) which I am teaching you to do, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

"You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I am commanding you.

"Or what great nation has statutes and judgments so righteous (upright, just) as this whole law which I am placing before you today?

"For I am going to die in this land, I am not going to cross the Jordan, but you shall cross over and take possession of this good land.

"So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am commanding you today, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may live long on the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time."