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

(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.

So Moses did as the Lord commanded him – this is what he did.

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.

So Moses did as the Lord commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight of the whole community.

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.”

and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness.

We have overpowered them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. We have shattered them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Balak son of Zippor saw all that the Israelites had done to the Amorites.

And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.

So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each altar a bull and a ram.