You must purify each garment and everything that is made of skin, everything made of goat’s hair, and everything made of wood.”

From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due the Lord, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’

“Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

So Israel took all these cities; and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

The Israelites took the women of Midian captives along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.

And the whole community of the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them will be forgiven, since all the people were involved in the unintentional offense.

“Any vow or sworn obligation that would bring affliction to her, her husband can confirm or nullify.

They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man.

“All the service of the Gershonites, whether carrying loads or for any of their work, will be at the direction of Aaron and his sons. You will assign them all their tasks as their responsibility.

All the days of his separation he must be holy to the Lord.

Of all the most holy offerings reserved from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.

“Everything devoted in Israel will be yours.

Moses said to them, “Have you allowed all the women to live?

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and families, counting the name of every individual male.

All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered according to their families.

The appointed responsibilities of the Merarites included the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets, its utensils, plus all the service connected with these things,