So Moses said to them, “Remain here and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”

And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, “Rise up, O Lord! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!”

When the people cried to Moses, he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out.

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

And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

Then Moses cried to the Lord, “Heal her now, O God.”

But truly, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.

those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

But Moses said, “Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the Lord? It will not succeed!

Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.

Then a fire went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.

Then Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.

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

(17:28) Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the Lord will die! Are we all to die?”

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