All the Israelites<n id="1" /> who were around them fled at their cry,<n id="2" /> for they said, &#8220;What if<n id="3" /> the earth swallows us too?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The Israelites said to Moses, &#8220;We are bound to die!<n id="1" /> We perish, we all perish!

No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin<n id="1" /> and die.

<p class="bodytext">These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the <sc>Lordsc>, and his holiness was maintained<n id="1" /> among them.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">So the entire company of Israelites<n id="1" /> traveled from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.<n id="2" />

Then Israel sang<n id="1" /> this song:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Spring up, O well, sing to it!p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The Israelites traveled on<n id="2" /> and camped in the plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan River<n id="3" /> across from Jericho.<n id="4" />

Balak son of Zippor saw all that the Israelites had done to the Amorites.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="2" /> Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality<n id="3" /> with the daughters of Moab.

So Moses said to the judges of Israel, &#8220;Each of you must execute those of his men<n id="1" /> who were joined to Baal-peor.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The Reubenites: from<n id="1" /> Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; from Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

<t /><p class="bodytext">These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730.<n id="1" />p>

Then you must delegate<n id="1" /> some of your authority<n id="2" /> to him, so that the whole community of the Israelites will be obedient.<n id="3" />

&#8220;Exact vengeance<n id="1" /> for the Israelites on the Midianites<n id="2" /> &#8211; after that you will be gathered to your people.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

You must send to the battle a thousand men from every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel.&#8221;<n id="1" />

So a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for battle in all, were provided out of the thousands of Israel.p>

<p class="bodytext">From the Israelites&#8217; half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,<n id="1" />

the land that the <sc>Lordsc> subdued<n id="1" /> before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.&#8221;

We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority<n id="2" /> of Moses and Aaron.