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

‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

The Lord replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is such a spirit, and lay your hand on him;

For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”

then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that the community of the Lord may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”

Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying beam.

and see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,

Then the heifer must be burned in his sight – its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.

how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised.

So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.

And Balaam said to the donkey, “You have made me look stupid; I wish there were a sword in my hand, for I would kill you right now.”

When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he got up from among the assembly, took a javelin in his hand,

“Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.”

So Moses took the redemption money from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;