and went after the Israelite man into the tent and thrust through the Israelite man and into the woman’s abdomen. So the plague was stopped from the Israelites.

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.

You are to assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively to him out of all the Israelites.

So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him.

And for the redemption of the 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites,

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

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.

“But if they blow with one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, must come to you.

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

Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.

When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.

And the whole community of the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them will be forgiven, since all the people were involved in the unintentional offense.

You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.

When the Israelites were in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

Then Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him.