You must put pure frankincense on each row, and it will become a memorial portion for the bread, a gift to the Lord.

If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him –

I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

Then they must put over it a covering of fine leather and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and then they must insert its poles.

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

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

He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required;

But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried on their shoulders, was their responsibility.

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

“‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel.

So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.

To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it.

and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;

Then you must delegate some of your authority to him, so that the whole community of the Israelites will be obedient.

So Moses gave Gilead to Machir, son of Manasseh, and he lived there.

You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards from the town wall.

“So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

Then I said to you, “You have come to the Amorite hill country which the Lord our God is about to give us.