“Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

And the Moabites were greatly afraid of the people, because they were so numerous. The Moabites were sick with fear because of the Israelites.

Then you must delegate some of your authority to him, so that the whole community of the Israelites will be obedient.

So Moses did as the Lord commanded him; he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community.

The Lord spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: “The three of you come to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went.

You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be no more wrath on the Israelites.

“So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

So the Gadites and the Reubenites replied to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.

You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps, among which I live.”

So Aaron said to Moses, “O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!

So the Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way they camped under their standards, and that is the way they traveled, each with his clan and family.

So Israel took all these cities; and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

So Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into our hand, then we will utterly destroy their cities.”

For I will honor you greatly, and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.’”

You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and obey them and so that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.

It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.

So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He then gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tabernacle.

So Balak brought Balaam to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

So the Israelites set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.