Is it a small thing<n id="1" /> that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey,<n id="2" /> to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince<n id="3" /> over us?

So they got away from the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram on every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stationed themselves<n id="1" /> in the entrances of their tents with their wives, their children, and their toddlers.

Why<n id="1" /> have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to<n id="2" /> this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!&#8221;p>

Then the Israelites said to him, &#8220;We will go along the highway, and if we<n id="1" /> or our cattle drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We will only pass through on our feet, without doing anything else.&#8221;p>

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, &#8220;Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we<n id="1" /> detest this worthless<n id="2" /> food.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then they turned and went up by the road to Bashan. And King Og of Bashan and all his forces<n id="1" /> marched out against them to do battle at Edrei.

Then on the next morning Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to Bamoth Baal.<n id="1" /> From there he saw the extent of the nation.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then God met Balaam, who<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So Balak brought Balaam<n id="1" /> to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah,<n id="2" /> where<n id="3" /> he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go up this mountain of the Abarim range,<n id="2" /> and see<n id="3" /> the land I have given<n id="4" /> to the Israelites.

Whenever the cloud was taken up<n id="1" /> from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place<n id="2" /> the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp.

Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year,<n id="1" /> that the cloud prolonged its stay<n id="2" /> over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling;<n id="3" /> but when it was taken up, they traveled on.

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>

&#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.

When<n id="1" /> they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter<n id="2" /> the land that the <sc>Lordsc> had given<n id="3" /> them.

&#8216;Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly,<n id="1" /> not<n id="2" /> one of the men twenty years old and upward<n id="3" /> who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give<n id="4" /> to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor at the command<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>, and he died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt on the first day of the fifth month.