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

And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, “Rise up, O Lord! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!”

(Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.)

those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.

Then Moses and Aaron stood before the tent of meeting.

“Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

You must place them in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant where I meet with you.

Then Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.

The people contended with Moses, saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!

Then they traveled on from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that is before Moab, on the eastern side.

and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness.

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wilderness.

the land that the Lord subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the Lord’s presence, just as my lord says.”

We will cross armed in the Lord’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”

Then you came back and wept before the Lord, but he paid no attention to you whatsoever.

(The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites in advance of the Ammonites, so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons and everyone else.