The Lord replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is such a spirit, and lay your hand on him;

“Command the Israelites: ‘With regard to my offering, be sure to offer my food for my offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to me at its appointed time.’

So Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

So they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River.”

and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the Lord until he drives out his enemies from his presence

just as the Lord had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

Also, they must take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it.

“Do not allow the tribe of the families of the Kohathites to be cut off from among the Levites;

But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that woman will bear the consequences of her iniquity.’”

So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.

So I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons among the Israelites.

So Moses took the staff from before the Lord, just as he commanded him.

Therefore, announce: ‘I am going to give to him my covenant of peace.

and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;

Then they must place on it all its implements with which they serve there – the trays, the meat forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar – and they must spread on it a covering of fine leather, and then insert its poles.

Then the priest will have the woman stand before the Lord, uncover the woman’s head, and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse.

or when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest will carry out all this law upon her.

According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.