<p class="bodytext">These are the statutes that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses, relating to<n id="1" /> a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father&#8217;s house.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Moses spoke to the people: &#8220;Arm<n id="1" /> men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s vengeance on Midian.

&#8220;These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance:<n id="1" /> Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred<n id="1" /> from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So the Israelites did according to all that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses; that is the way<n id="1" /> they camped under their standards, and that is the way they traveled, each with his clan and family.p>

then<n id="1" /> the man must bring his wife to the priest, and he must bring the offering required for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he must not pour olive oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of suspicion,<n id="2" /> a grain offering for remembering,<n id="3" /> for bringing<n id="4" /> iniquity to remembrance.p>

When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness &#8211; her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

or when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the <sc>Lordsc>, and the priest will carry out all this law upon her.

And those men said to him, &#8220;We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?&#8221;

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials<n id="2" /> over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.

And the <sc>Lordsc> came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses<n id="1" /> and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them,<n id="2" /> they prophesied,<n id="3" /> but did not do so again.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">But two men remained in the camp; one&#8217;s name was Eldad, and the other&#8217;s name was Medad. And the spirit rested on them. (Now they were among those in the registration,<n id="1" /> but had not gone to the tabernacle.) So they prophesied in the camp.

Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging<n id="1" /> report of the land they had investigated, saying, &#8220;The land that we passed through<n id="2" /> to investigate is a land that devours<n id="3" /> its inhabitants.<n id="4" /> All the people we saw there<n id="5" /> are of great stature.

put fire in them, and set incense on them before the <sc>Lordsc> tomorrow, and the man whom the <sc>Lordsc> chooses will be holy. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!&#8221;

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>

And he said to the community, &#8220;Move away from the tents of these wicked<n id="1" /> men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because<n id="2" /> of all their sins.&#8221;<n id="3" />

But if the <sc>Lordsc> does something entirely new,<n id="1" /> and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up<n id="2" /> along with all that they have, and they<n id="3" /> go down alive to the grave,<n id="4" /> then you will know that these men have despised the <sc>Lordsc>!&#8221;p>

It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of<n id="1" /> Aaron should approach to burn incense before the <sc>Lordsc>, that he might not become like Korah and his company &#8211; just as the <sc>Lordsc> had spoken by the authority<n id="2" /> of Moses.

&#8220;Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe,<n id="1" /> one from every tribal leader,<n id="2" /> twelve staffs; you must write each man&#8217;s name on his staff.