“‘Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification – it is a purification for sin.

Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.

“‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.

and you eat some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering to the Lord.

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

And on the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

“‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel.

Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.

But you must offer as the burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the Lord, two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs one year old,

Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.

“Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

“‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body.

“‘On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man.

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

this is in addition to the monthly burnt offering and its grain offering, and the daily burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings as prescribed, as a sweet aroma, a sacrifice made by fire to the Lord.

And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.

You must offer these in addition to the burnt offering in the morning which is for a continual burnt offering.

So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

So when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.