<p class="bodytext">Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground<n id="1" /> before the whole assembled community<n id="2" /> of the Israelites.

But truly, as I live,<n id="1" /> all the earth will be filled with the glory of the <sc>Lordsc>.

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.

When Moses told<n id="1" /> these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned<n id="2" /> greatly.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Every native-born person must do these things in this way to present an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the <sc>Lordsc>.

Thus<n id="1" /> you will remember and obey all my commandments and be holy to your God.

He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek<n id="1" /> the priesthood also?

<p class="bodytext">When he had finished<n id="1" /> speaking<n id="2" /> all these words, the ground that was under them split open,

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!

<v id="(17:28)" /><n id="1" /> Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the <sc>Lordsc> will die! Are we all to die?&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.p>

And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean.

And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.&#8217;&#8221;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" />

<p class="bodytext">So Moses did as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight<n id="1" /> of the whole community.

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

<p class="bodytext">So he returned to him, and he was still<n id="1" /> standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.

All the families of the Shuhahites according to those numbered of them were 64,400.<n id="1" />p>

&#8220;Let the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of the spirits of all humankind,<n id="1" /> appoint<n id="2" /> a man over the community,