besides the Sabbaths of the Lord and all your gifts, votive offerings, and freewill offerings which you must give to the Lord.

“Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and all who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation is to stone him to death.

All the tithe of herd or flock, everything which passes under the rod, the tenth one will be holy to the Lord.

“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and families, counting the name of every individual male.

All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered according to their families.

The appointed responsibilities of the Merarites included the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets, its utensils, plus all the service connected with these things,

and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their sockets, tent pegs, and ropes, along with all their furnishings and everything for their service. You are to assign by names the items that each man is responsible to carry.

All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.

For all the firstborn males among the Israelites are mine, both humans and animals; when I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set them apart for myself.

In the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you are to observe it at its appointed time; you must keep it in accordance with all its statutes and all its customs.”

However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.

Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness – all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

When Korah assembled the whole community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, then the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole community.

Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”

If these men die a natural death, or if they share the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods.

So Moses brought out all the staffs from before the Lord to all the Israelites. They looked at them, and each man took his staff.

“All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first fruits of these things that they give to the Lord, I have given to you.

And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the Lord will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

“‘This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.