And do this to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification on them; then have them shave all their body and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

They may observe it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight; they are to eat it with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle – the tent of the testimony – and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle.

When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the Lord and did not journey.

If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

Moses said, “Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.

Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married (for he had married an Ethiopian woman).

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.

That place was called the Eshcol Valley, because of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut from there.

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”

The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”

And the priest must make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally – when he sins unintentionally before the Lord – to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the Lord! And Aaron – what is he that you murmur against him?”

Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”

But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the Lord’s people!”

When the community assembled against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting – and the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah.

You must write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi; for one staff is for the head of every tribe.

You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be no more wrath on the Israelites.