Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

“Do not allow the tribe of the families of the Kohathites to be cut off from among the Levites;

“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.

“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”

The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

From harm and violence he will defend them; he will value their lives.

“Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

“Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.

“People of Judah, get out of Babylon quickly! Leave the land of Babylonia! Be the first to depart! Be like the male goats that lead the herd.

Saul said to the Kenites, “Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.

The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked – and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!

When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”

The glory of the Lord resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

“Look, I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,

They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.

I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the Lord, to perform the duties of the tent of meeting.

When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he got up from among the assembly, took a javelin in his hand,