and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet from it.

“When a man or a woman has an infection on the head or in the beard,

“‘You must keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;

The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.”’

My servant Moses is not like this; he is faithful in all my house.

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it!

So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

Those that died in the plague were 24,000.

‘Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

If you refrain from making a vow, it will not be sinful.

Your eyes have seen the great judgments, those signs and mighty wonders.

I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

For our enemies’ rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.

The Lord was with Joshua and he became famous throughout the land.