When she had done so, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”

The king longed to go to Absalom, for he had since been consoled over the death of Amnon.

So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses – they did it exactly so.

The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die.”