Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.

“You are to take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,

And you are to tell the Israelites: ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

But when the cloud was lifted up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on all their journeys;

“Tell the Israelites, ‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel,

He must also take two male goats from the congregation of the Israelites for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it from the impurities of the Israelites.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘I am the Lord your God!

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

They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the Lord,

You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,

Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

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

These were the ones chosen from the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

“The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.

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.