and to teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”

“Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

“Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them, ‘You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

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

Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.

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

These are the statutes, regulations, and instructions which the Lord established between himself and the Israelites at Mount Sinai through Moses.

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

“Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.

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

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

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

Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.

Then you are to bring the Levites before the Lord, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on the Levites;

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

So the Israelites set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.

These were the traveling arrangements of the Israelites according to their companies when they traveled.