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"Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the Lord .

"Also in the time when you rejoice, such as on your appointed festivals or at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may become a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God."

I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!

"Send out men to investigate the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a leader among them."

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

"Speak to the Israelites and tell 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."

The Lord spoke to Aaron, "You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property among them—I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

The donkey said to Balaam, "Am not I your donkey that you have ridden ever since I was yours until this day? Have I ever attempted to treat you this way?" And he said, "No."

Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send again and again to you to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?"

Balaam said to Balak, "Look, I have come to you. Now, am I able to speak just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth."

And now, I am about to go back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future."

Therefore, announce: ‘I am going to give to him my covenant of peace.

I also said to you at that time, "I am no longer able to sustain you by myself.

Do not be hostile toward them, because I am not giving you any of their land, not even a footprint, for I have given Mount Seir as an inheritance for Esau.

But when you come close to the Ammonites, do not harass or provoke them because I am not giving you any of the Ammonites' land as your possession; I have already given it to Lot's descendants as their possession."

Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord , the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I am delivering to you.

And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?

Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.