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

Then the Lord put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”

Then the Lord met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”

Nebo, Baal Meon (with a change of name), and Sibmah. They renamed the cities they built.

Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.

with three-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for each bull, and two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for the ram,

You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.

So a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for battle in all, were provided out of the thousands of Israel.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us – a land that is flowing with milk and honey.

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,

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.

And you must tell the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;

And one male goat must be offered to the Lord as a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,

“‘And for a western border you will have the Great Sea. This will be your western border.

“‘And this will be your northern border: From the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor;

You must give to the Lord some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.

And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.

“‘Every native-born person must do these things in this way to present an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.