Why do you frustrate the intent<n id="1" /> of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the <sc>Lordsc> has given them?

<p class="bodytext">Then Moses replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the <sc>Lordsc>,

Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered, &#8220;Your servants will do what the <sc>Lordsc> has spoken.<n id="1" />

Now the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the <sc>Lordsc> had killed among them; the <sc>Lordsc> also executed judgments on their gods.p>

&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and tell them, &#8216;When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

&#8220;These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance:<n id="1" /> Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

&#8220;Instruct the Israelites to give<n id="1" /> the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites<n id="2" /> will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and tell them, &#8216;When you cross over the Jordan River<n id="1" /> into the land of Canaan,

or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony<n id="1" /> of witnesses; but one witness cannot<n id="2" /> testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses gave a ruling<n id="1" /> to the Israelites by the word<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>: &#8220;What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right.

and they assembled<n id="1" /> the entire community together on the first day of the second month.<n id="2" /> Then the people recorded their ancestry<n id="3" /> by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed<n id="4" /> by name individually,

<p class="bodytext">So the Israelites did according to all that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses; that is the way<n id="1" /> they camped under their standards, and that is the way they traveled, each with his clan and family.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;All the service of the Gershonites, whether<n id="1" /> carrying loads<n id="2" /> or for any of their work, will be at the direction of<n id="3" /> Aaron and his sons. You will assign them all their tasks<n id="4" /> as their responsibility.

Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say to the her, &#8220;If no other<n id="1" /> man has had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband&#8217;s authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.<n id="2" />

When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness &#8211; her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

and he must present his offering<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>: one male lamb in its first year without blemish for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish for a purification offering, one ram without blemish for a peace offering,<n id="2" />

then the priest must wave them as a wave offering<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>; it is a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the raised offering.<n id="2" /> After this the Nazirite may drink<n id="3" /> wine.&#8217;p>

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;

All the animals for the sacrifice for the peace offering were 24 young bulls, 60 rams, 60 male goats, and 60 lambs in their first year. These were the dedication offerings for the altar after it was anointed.<n id="1" />p>