and went after the Israelite man into the tent and thrust through the Israelite man and into the woman’s abdomen. So the plague was stopped from the Israelites.

They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

the Lord’s tribute from the sheep was 675.

Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.

These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. All those numbered in the camps, by their divisions, are 603,550.

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

From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,

Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you remain here?

Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the Lord has spoken.

and then the border will turn from the south to the Scorpion Ascent, continue to Zin, and then its direction will be from the south to Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon.

All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered according to their families.

“Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

The Israelites traveled on and camped in Oboth.

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

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

(30:1) So Moses told the Israelites everything, just as the Lord had commanded him.

“Speak to the Israelites, and tell them, ‘When either a man or a woman takes a special vow, to take a vow as a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord,

“Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the Lord live among the Israelites.”

Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”