All the animals for the burnt offering were 12 young bulls, 12 rams, 12 male lambs in their first year, with their grain offering, and 12 male goats for a purification offering.

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days,<n id="2" /> they remained camped according to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s commandment,<n id="3" /> and according to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s commandment they would journey.

<p class="bodytext">So they traveled from the mountain of the <sc>Lordsc> three days&#8217; journey;<n id="1" /> and the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> was traveling before them during the three days&#8217; journey, to find a resting place for them.

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it,<n id="1" /> the anger of the <sc>Lordsc> burned against the people, and the <sc>Lordsc> struck the people with a very great plague.p>

&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and tell them to make<n id="1" /> tassels<n id="2" /> for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and put a blue thread<n id="3" /> on the tassel of the corners.

Moreover,<n id="1" /> you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind<n id="2" /> these men? We will not come up.&#8221;p>

But the Levites must perform the service<n id="1" /> of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity.<n id="2" /> It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites<n id="3" /> have no inheritance.<n id="4" />

The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer must wash his clothes and be ceremonially unclean until evening. This will be a permanent ordinance both for the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles<n id="1" /> the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.<n id="2" />

So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders<n id="1" /> of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial<n id="2" /> for the Israelites before the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

And the <sc>Lordsc> came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.p>

<p class="poetry">For from the top of the rocks I see them;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">from the hills I watch them.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, a nation that lives alone,p> <p class="poetry">and it will not be reckoned<n id="3" /> among the nations.p>

His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels,<n id="1" /> and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

He offered for his offering one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, with the basket of bread made without yeast; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering.p>

<p class="bodytext">It happened that some men<n id="1" /> who were ceremonially defiled<n id="2" /> by the dead body of a man<n id="3" /> could not keep<n id="4" /> the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

One statute must apply<n id="1" /> to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent<n id="2" /> statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike<n id="3" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each leader,<n id="1" /> according to their tribes<n id="2" /> &#8211; twelve staffs; the staff of Aaron was among their staffs.

Balaam said to Balak, &#8220;Station yourself<n id="1" /> by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the <sc>Lordsc> will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me<n id="2" /> I will tell you.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Then he went to a deserted height.<n id="4" />p>

All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000.<n id="2" />p>