From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due the Lord, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’

The people contended with Moses, saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!

Why have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

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.

This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord, “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon

Then the angel of the Lord stood in a path among the vineyards, where there was a wall on either side.

Then the Lord put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”

How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the Lord has not denounced?

Balaam replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”

They are like valleys stretched forth, like gardens by the river’s side, like aloes that the Lord has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

So now, go back where you came from! I said that I would greatly honor you; but now the Lord has stood in the way of your honor.”

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humankind, appoint a man over the community,

He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, just as the Lord commanded, by the authority of Moses.

They fought against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

the land that the Lord subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.’

but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the Lord’s presence, just as my lord says.”

We will cross armed in the Lord’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”