“‘On the sixth day you must offer eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

“‘On the seventh day you must offer seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the Israelites went out defiantly in plain sight of all the Egyptians.

He must rededicate to the Lord the days of his separation and bring a male lamb in its first year as a reparation offering, but the former days will not be counted because his separation was defiled.

Now a wind went out from the Lord and brought quail from the sea, and let them fall near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet high on the surface of the ground.

So they traveled from the mountain of the Lord three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them.

“‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body.

“‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you are to have a holy assembly. You must humble yourselves; you must not do any work on it.

For the Lord said to Moses, “They must present their offering, one leader for each day, for the dedication of the altar.”

You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”

On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting.

They may observe it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight; they are to eat it with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.

This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night.

On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony.

all that the Lord has commanded you by the authority of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and continuing through your future generations –

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

When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the Lord and did not journey.

But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the Lord’s people!”

You will say to them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you must offer to the Lord: two unblemished lambs one year old each day for a continual burnt offering.