And the <sc>Lordsc> came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses<n id="1" /> and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them,<n id="2" /> they prophesied,<n id="3" /> but did not do so again.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now a wind<n id="1" /> went out<n id="2" /> from the <sc>Lordsc> and brought quail<n id="3" /> from the sea, and let them fall<n id="4" /> near the camp, about a day&#8217;s journey on this side, and about a day&#8217;s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet<n id="5" /> high on the surface of the ground.

The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;If her father had only spit<n id="1" /> in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;How long will this people despise<n id="1" /> me, and how long will they not believe<n id="2" /> in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

&#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love,<n id="1" /> forgiving iniquity and transgression,<n id="2" /> but by no means clearing<n id="3" /> the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.&#8217;<n id="4" />

then if anything is done unintentionally<n id="1" /> without the knowledge of<n id="2" /> the community, the whole community must prepare one young bull for a burnt offering &#8211; for a pleasing aroma to the <sc>Lordsc> &#8211; along with its grain offering and its customary drink offering, and one male goat for a purification offering.

You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> and obey them and so that you do not follow<n id="1" /> after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.<n id="2" />

Then he said to Korah and to all his company, &#8220;In the morning the <sc>Lordsc> will make known who are his, and who is holy. He will cause that person<n id="1" /> to approach him; the person he has chosen he will cause to approach him.

Does it seem too small a thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel to bring you near to himself, to perform the service of the tabernacle of the <sc>Lord,sc> and to stand before the community to minister to them?

<p class="bodytext">Moses was very angry, and he said to the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;Have no respect<n id="1" /> for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!&#8221;p>

As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives,<n id="1" /> they must be made<n id="2" /> into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the <sc>Lordsc> and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.&#8221;

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;

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Bring Aaron&#8217;s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end<n id="1" /> before me, that they will not die.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Aaron, &#8220;You and your sons and your tribe<n id="2" /> with you must bear the iniquity of the sanctuary,<n id="3" /> and you and your sons with you must bear the iniquity of your priesthood.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Aaron, &#8220;See, I have given you the responsibility for my raised offerings; I have given all the holy things of the Israelites to you as your priestly portion<n id="1" /> and to your sons as a perpetual ordinance.

The firstborn of every womb which they present to the <sc>Lordsc>, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem,<n id="1" /> and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.

But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash<n id="1" /> their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the <sc>Lordsc>.

But I have given<n id="1" /> to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.&#8221;p>

&#8220;You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them, &#8216;When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up<n id="1" /> from it as a raised offering to the <sc>Lordsc> a tenth of the tithe.

&#8220;This is the ordinance of the law which the <sc>Lordsc> has commanded: &#8216;Instruct<n id="1" /> the Israelites to bring<n id="2" /> you a red<n id="3" /> heifer<n id="4" /> without blemish, which has no defect<n id="5" /> and has never carried a yoke.