Joshua said to the people, “Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the Lord?” They replied, “We are witnesses!”

He told them: “You are the leaders of the Levites’ families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves and bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel up to the place I have prepared for it.

And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God?

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Will you defile yourselves like your fathers and engage in prostitution with detestable idols?

God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,

When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were looking depressed.

So Joseph moved them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.

The Egyptians piled them in countless heaps, and the land stank.

You are to make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold,

You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

When Moses finished speaking with them, he would put a veil on his face.

He made poles of acacia wood, overlaid them with gold,

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a gift to the Lord. It is a guilt offering.

You must be sure to obey my statutes. I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

“‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,

So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, just as he had been commanded.

“As for the sons of Merari, you are to number them by their families and by their clans.