So Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

So they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River.”

and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the Lord until he drives out his enemies from his presence

“You must give three towns on this side of the Jordan, and you must give three towns in the land of Canaan; they must be towns of refuge.

and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the town of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he will not be guilty of blood,

just as the Lord had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, just as he had been commanded.

Also, they must take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it.

“Do not allow the tribe of the families of the Kohathites to be cut off from among the Levites;

But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

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

Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that woman will bear the consequences of her iniquity.’”

So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

So I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons among the Israelites.

“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”

So Moses took the staff from before the Lord, just as he commanded him.

Therefore, announce: ‘I am going to give to him my covenant of peace.

and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;

But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it.

Then the priest will have the woman stand before the Lord, uncover the woman’s head, and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse.