<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Whoever touches<n id="1" /> the corpse<n id="2" /> of any person<n id="3" /> will be ceremonially unclean<n id="4" /> seven days.

So these things must be a statutory ordinance<n id="1" /> for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.p>

But appoint<n id="1" /> the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony,<n id="2" /> over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry<n id="3" /> the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they<n id="4" /> must attend to it and camp around it.<n id="5" />

because all the firstborn are mine. When I destroyed<n id="1" /> all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They belong to me. I am the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

And the people stayed up<n id="1" /> all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers,<n id="2" /> and they spread them out<n id="3" /> for themselves all around the camp.

And all those numbered totaled 603,550.p>

<p class="bodytext">The Israelites did according to all that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses<n id="1" /> &#8211; that is what they did.p>

All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim, according to their divisions, are 108,100. They will travel third.p>

Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.

Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.

So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded him.

Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying beam.<n id="1" />p>

This is what they are responsible to carry as their entire service in the tent of meeting: the frames<n id="1" /> of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets,

<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" />

You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.

When<n id="1" /> they blow<n id="2" /> them both, all the community must come<n id="3" /> to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting.p>

But now we<n id="1" /> are dried up,<n id="2" /> and there is nothing at all before us<n id="3" /> except this manna!&#8221;

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

<p class="bodytext">(Now the man Moses was very humble,<n id="1" /> more so than any man on the face of the earth.)p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then all the community raised a loud cry,<n id="2" /> and the people wept<n id="3" /> that night.