&#8220;Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify<n id="1" /> them.

Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up on Mount Hor.

&#8220;Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

&#8220;Receive these gifts<n id="1" /> from them, that they may be<n id="2" /> used in doing the work<n id="3" /> of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man<n id="4" /> as his service requires.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> replied<n id="1" /> to Moses, &#8220;Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is such a spirit,<n id="2" /> and lay your hand on him;<n id="3" />

Then Moses said to Aaron, &#8220;Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the <sc>Lordsc> &#8211; the plague has begun!&#8221;

&#8220;Take the staff and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and then speak<n id="1" /> to the rock before their eyes. It will pour forth<n id="2" /> its water, and you will bring water out of the rock for them, and so you will give the community and their beasts water to drink.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Arrest all the leaders<n id="1" /> of the people, and hang them up<n id="2" /> before the <sc>Lordsc> in broad daylight,<n id="3" /> so that the fierce anger of the <sc>Lordsc> may be turned away from Israel.&#8221;