They returned from investigating the land after forty days.p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, I have received a command<n id="1" /> to bless;p> <p class="poetry">he has blessed,<n id="2" /> and I cannot reverse it.<n id="3" />p>

But if the individual has no close relative<n id="1" /> to whom reparation can be made for the wrong, the reparation for the wrong must be paid to the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.

And when it came to rest he would say, &#8220;Return, O <sc>Lordsc>, to the many thousands of Israel!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

So they said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Let&#8217;s appoint<n id="2" /> a leader<n id="3" /> and return<n id="4" /> to Egypt.&#8221;p>

and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work.

Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc> put a message<n id="1" /> in Balaam&#8217;s mouth and said, &#8220;Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So he returned to him, and he was still<n id="1" /> standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.

<p class="bodytext">Balaam got up and departed and returned to his home,<n id="1" /> and Balak also went his way.p>

For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon<n id="1" /> them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.

then he must confess<n id="1" /> his sin that he has committed and must make full reparation,<n id="2" /> add one fifth to it, and give it to whomever he wronged.<n id="3" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Now the mixed multitude<n id="2" /> who were among them craved more desirable foods,<n id="3" /> and so the Israelites wept again<n id="4" /> and said, &#8220;If only we had meat to eat!<n id="5" />

Why has the <sc>Lordsc> brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn&#8217;t it be better for us to return to Egypt?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing<n id="1" /> 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 <sc>Lordsc>, the <sc>Lordsc> will not be with you.&#8221;p>

He replied to them, &#8220;Stay<n id="1" /> here tonight, and I will bring back to you whatever word the <sc>Lordsc> may speak to me.&#8221; So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

Then the <sc>Lordsc> met Balaam and put a message<n id="1" /> in his mouth and said, &#8220;Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.&#8221;

and the land is subdued before the <sc>Lordsc>, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the <sc>Lordsc> and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sight.p>