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

Every man’s holy things will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”

“‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.

The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab, from the tribe of Judah.

And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; the tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.

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

So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at the entrance of Hamath.

Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of those who had investigated the land, tore their garments.

I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

But truly, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.

they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

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!

“‘Every native-born person must do these things in this way to present an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up.

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

Thus you will remember and obey all my commandments and be holy to your God.

When he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open,