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

And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.

But Edom said to him, “You will not pass through me, or I will come out against you with the sword.”

But he said, “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful force.

Balaam replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”

And on the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.

“‘On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

But all the young women who have not had sexual intercourse with a man will be yours.

We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.

“But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned against the Lord. And know that your sin will find you out.

But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan.”

They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

then the man must bring his wife to the priest, and he must bring the offering required for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he must not pour olive oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of suspicion, a grain offering for remembering, for bringing iniquity to remembrance.

Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say to the her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.

But the man who is ceremonially clean, and was not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people. Because he did not bring the Lord’s offering at its appointed time, that man must bear his sin.

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”

Moses was very angry, and he said to the Lord, “Have no respect for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!”

They must be responsible to care for you and to care for the entire tabernacle. However, they must not come near the furnishings of the sanctuary and the altar, or both they and you will die.