They brought<n id="1" /> their offering before the <sc>Lordsc>, six covered carts<n id="2" /> and twelve oxen &#8211; one cart for every two of the leaders, and an ox for each one; and they presented them in front of the tabernacle.p>

After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.p>

<p class="bodytext">It happened that some men<n id="1" /> who were ceremonially defiled<n id="2" /> by the dead body of a man<n id="3" /> could not keep<n id="4" /> the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

who will go out before them, and who will come in before them,<n id="1" /> and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that<n id="2" /> the community of the <sc>Lordsc> may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.&#8221;p>

And he will stand before Eleazar the priest, who<n id="1" /> will seek counsel<n id="2" /> for him before the <sc>Lordsc> by the decision of the Urim.<n id="3" /> At his command<n id="4" /> they will go out, and at his command they will come in, he and all the Israelites with him, the whole community.&#8221;p>

but we will maintain ourselves in armed readiness<n id="1" /> and go before the Israelites until whenever we have brought them to their place. Our descendants will be living in fortified towns as a protection against<n id="2" /> the inhabitants of the land.

Moses said to them: &#8220;If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s presence, and you conquer the land,<n id="1" /> then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then the heads of the family groups<n id="1" /> of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir<b>,b> the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses<n id="2" /> and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families.<n id="3" />

They are responsible for his needs<n id="1" /> and the needs of the whole community before the tent of meeting, by attending<n id="2" /> to the service of the tabernacle.

The priest will take the grain offering of suspicion from the woman&#8217;s hand, wave the grain offering before the <sc>Lordsc>, and bring it to the altar.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The leaders offered<n id="1" /> gifts<n id="2" /> for<n id="3" /> the dedication<n id="4" /> of the altar when it was anointed.<n id="5" /> And the leaders presented<n id="6" /> their offering before the altar.

&#8220;Speak to Aaron and tell him, &#8216;When you set up<n id="1" /> the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light<n id="2" /> in front of the lampstand.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses.

and Aaron is to offer<n id="1" /> the Levites before the <sc>Lordsc> as a wave offering from the Israelites, that they may do the work<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>.

The Levites purified themselves<n id="1" /> and washed their clothing; then Aaron presented them like a wave offering before the <sc>Lordsc>, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.

If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes<n id="1" /> you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the <sc>Lordsc> your God, and you will be saved<n id="2" /> from your enemies.p>

<p class="bodytext">So they traveled from the mountain of the <sc>Lordsc> three days&#8217; journey;<n id="1" /> and the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> was traveling before them during the three days&#8217; journey, to find a resting place for them.

When they went up through the Negev, they<n id="1" /> came<n id="2" /> to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai,<n id="3" /> descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan<n id="4" /> in Egypt.)

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the <sc>Lordsc>, the <sc>Lordsc> will not be with you.&#8221;p>

One statute must apply<n id="1" /> to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent<n id="2" /> statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike<n id="3" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>.