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

But you will eat it a whole month, until it comes out of your nose and you hate it, because you have turned away from the Lord Who is among you. You have cried before Him, saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?"'"

So the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah. Because there they buried the people who had wanted meat to eat.

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite woman.

Then Aaron said to Moses, "O, my lord, I beg you. Do not punish us because we have been foolish and have sinned.

That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of much fruit the men of Israel cut down from there.

Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer because you were not faithful, until your dead bodies lie in the desert.

The Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will be killed by the sword. Because you have turned away from following the Lord, the Lord will not be with you."

Then the religious leader will pay for the sins of all the people of Israel, and they will be forgiven. Because it was a mistake, they brought their gift, a gift by fire to the Lord, and their sin gift to the Lord, for their mistake.

Because he has hated the Word of the Lord and has broken His Law, that person must be cut off for sure. His guilt will be on him.'"

They put him in chains, because they did not know what should be done to him for gathering wood on the Day of Rest.

And he said to the people, "Go away now from the tents of these sinful men. Touch nothing that belongs to them, or you will be destroyed because of all their sin."

But 14,700 people died by the disease, as well as those who died because of Korah.

You will not be guilty because of it, when you have given the best of it. But do not make unclean the holy gifts of the people of Israel, or you will die.'"

Whoever touches the body of any man who has died, and does not make himself clean, makes the meeting tent of the Lord unclean. That person must be cut off from Israel. Because the water for cleaning was not put upon him, he will be unclean.

"But the man who is unclean and does not make himself clean, will no longer be one of God's people. Because he has made unclean the holy place of the Lord. The water for cleaning has not been put on him. He is unclean.

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you have not believed Me and honored Me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, you will not bring these people into the land I have given them."

These were the waters of Meribah because the people of Israel complained against the Lord, and He proved Himself holy among them.

"Aaron will be buried with his people. For he will not go into the land I have given to the people of Israel, because you went against what I told you to do at the waters of Meribah.

Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people wanted to give up because of the long way.