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But you and your sons with you will do the religious work, in all that has to do with the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the work of being the religious leader as a gift. Anyone else who comes near the holy objects will be put to death."

Then the Lord said to Aaron, "Now see, I am giving you all the gifts brought to Me that are not burned on the altar. I am giving them to you as a share, and to your sons as a share forever.

And this is yours: their gift that is lifted up and all the wave gifts of the people of Israel. I am giving them to you and to your sons and daughters with you, as a share forever. Everyone in your house who is clean may eat it.

Then the Lord said to Aaron, "You will have no share in their land. You will not own any part of land among them. I am your part and your share among the people of Israel.

The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey on which you have traveled all your life to this day? Have I ever done this to you before?" And Balaam said, "No."

Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send men to tell you to come? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?"

Balaam said to Balak, "See, I have come to you! Am I able to speak anything at all? The Word that God puts in my mouth is what I must speak."

Now see, I am going to my people. Come, I will tell you what this people will do to your people in the days to come."

Do not make the land where you live unclean, in the place where I live. For I the Lord am living among the people of Israel.'"

"At that time I said to you, ‘I am not able to take care of you alone.

The Lord said to me, ‘Say to them, "Do not go up or fight. For I am not among you. You would be destroyed by those who hate you."'

"Now, O Israel, listen to the Laws I am teaching you. Do them so that you may live and go in to take the land for your own that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

What great nation is there that has laws as right as this whole Law which I am giving you today?

Keep His Laws which I am giving you today. Then it may go well with you and your children after you. And you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time."

‘I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house where you were servants.

Do not bow down to them or serve them. I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. I punish the children, the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren for the sins of their fathers who hate Me.

Keep these words in your heart that I am telling you today.

So keep and obey all the Laws I am telling you today.

"Be careful to do all that I am telling you today. Then you will live and have many children, and go in to own the land the Lord promised to give to your fathers.

"Be careful not to forget the Lord your God by not keeping all His Laws which I am telling you today.