These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

Now these are the names of the men who are to help you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,

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

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he consecrated to minister as priests.

Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.

Every man’s holy things will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”

“‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, leader of the Asherites, presented an offering.

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

Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!”

they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

When he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open,

All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “What if the earth swallows us too?”

You must place them in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant where I meet with you.

And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean.

And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”

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

Then they traveled on from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that is before Moab, on the eastern side.

and the slope of the valleys that extends to the dwelling of Ar, and falls off at the border of Moab.”