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.

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

The standard of the camp of the Judahites set out first according to their companies, and over his company was Nahshon son of Amminadab.

Then the tabernacle was dismantled, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.

Over the company of the tribe of the Simeonites was Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai,

And the standard of the camp of the Ephraimites set out according to their companies; over his company was Elishama son of Ammihud.

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.

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

He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek the priesthood also?

Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come up.

The Israelites said to Moses, “We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!

No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the Lord, and his holiness was maintained among them.

So the entire company of Israelites traveled from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.

The Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan River across from Jericho.

Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The Reubenites: from Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; from Pallu, the family of the Palluites;