Therefore, announce: ‘I am going to give to him my covenant of peace.

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

So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.

Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the Lord might say to me.”

Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the Lord! And Aaron – what is he that you murmur against him?”

Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the Lord live among the Israelites.”

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust me enough to show me as holy before the Israelites, therefore you will not bring this community into the land I have given them.”

“Therefore you will say to them, ‘When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

“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.

That is why those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built. Let the city of Sihon be established!

So now, go back where you came from! I said that I would greatly honor you; but now the Lord has stood in the way of your honor.”

‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

But I have given to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered to the Lord as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”

Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood against me in the road. So now, if it is evil in your sight, I will go back home.”

So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that craved different food.

This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord, “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon

“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,

For I will honor you greatly, and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.’”

As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”

But you and your sons with you are responsible for your priestly duties, for everything at the altar and within the curtain. And you must serve. I give you the priesthood as a gift for service; but the unauthorized person who approaches must be put to death.”