“‘If she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean.

Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

If, however, it is eaten on the third day, it is spoiled, it will not be accepted,

You must not swear falsely in my name, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

As for any person who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people!

“You must take choice wheat flour and bake twelve loaves; there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in each loaf,

You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new.

“‘If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,

“The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.

collect five shekels for each one individually; you are to collect this amount in the currency of the sanctuary shekel (this shekel is twenty gerahs).

“As for the sons of Merari, you are to number them by their families and by their clans.

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

For the Lord said to Moses, “They must present their offering, one leader for each day, for the dedication of the altar.”

And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

“But if they blow with one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, must come to you.

And if you come with us, it is certain that whatever good things the Lord will favor us with, we will share with you as well.”

And when it came to rest he would say, “Return, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel!”

So he called the name of that place Taberah because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.

You will eat, not just one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,