“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it.

because all the firstborn are mine. When I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They belong to me. I am the Lord.”

And the people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

And all those numbered totaled 603,550.

The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses – that is what they did.

All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim, according to their divisions, are 108,100. They will travel third.

Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.

Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.

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

Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying beam.

This is what they are responsible to carry as their entire service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets,

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

You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.

When they blow them both, all the community must come to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”

I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!

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

Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.