<p class="poetry">For there is no spell against<n id="1" /> Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">nor is there any divination against Israel.p> <p class="poetry">At this time<n id="2" /> it must be said<n id="3" /> of Jacobp> <p class="poetry">and of Israel, &#8216;Look at<n id="4" /> what God has done!&#8217;p>

But the Kohathites<n id="1" /> are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.&#8221;p>

My servant<n id="1" /> Moses is not like this; he is faithful<n id="2" /> in all my house.

he must separate<n id="1" /> himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar<n id="2" /> made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice<n id="3" /> of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.<n id="4" />

It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of<n id="1" /> Aaron should approach to burn incense before the <sc>Lordsc>, that he might not become like Korah and his company &#8211; just as the <sc>Lordsc> had spoken by the authority<n id="2" /> of Moses.

Please let us pass through<n id="1" /> your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King&#8217;s Highway;<n id="2" /> we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses.p>

But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects<n id="1" /> and will be able to bear children.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;All the days that he separates himself to the <sc>Lordsc> he must not contact<n id="1" /> a dead body.<n id="2" />

But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried<n id="1" /> on their shoulders, was their responsibility.<n id="2" />p>

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

But Hobab<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.&#8221;

I am not able to bear this entire people alone,<n id="1" /> because it<n id="2" /> is too heavy for me!

They<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Has the <sc>Lordsc> only<n id="2" /> spoken through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?&#8221;<n id="3" /> And the <sc>Lordsc> heard it.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.<n id="1" />

they will by no means<n id="1" /> see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

But Moses said, &#8220;Why<n id="1" /> are you now transgressing the commandment<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>? It will not succeed!

Do not go up, for the <sc>Lordsc> is not among you, and you will be<n id="1" /> defeated before your enemies.

They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.

Then Moses summoned<n id="1" /> Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, &#8220;We will not come up.<n id="2" />