So Moses spoke these things to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites.

These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,

The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses – that is what they did.

But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.

So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him.

So Moses took the redemption money from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.

So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community numbered the Kohathites by their families and by clans,

So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

So Moses said to them, “Remain here and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”

And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, “Rise up, O Lord! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!”

And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”

They said, “Has the Lord only spoken through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard it.

(Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.)

Then Moses cried to the Lord, “Heal her now, O God.”

Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.

When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.

But Moses said, “Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the Lord? It will not succeed!

Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come up.

Then Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him.