For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”

Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?

Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.

And Balaam said to the donkey, “You have made me look stupid; I wish there were a sword in my hand, for I would kill you right now.”

For we will not accept any inheritance on the other side of the Jordan River and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”

But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried on their shoulders, was their responsibility.

But Hobab said to him, “I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”

So he called the name of that place Taberah because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.

I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!

Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.

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.

They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.

All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “What if the earth swallows us too?”

Nevertheless the Kenite will be consumed. How long will Asshur take you away captive?”

“If a young woman who is still living in her father’s house makes a vow to the Lord or places herself under an obligation,

except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.’

For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”

You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

“And say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat.