<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you,<n id="2" /> I the <sc>Lordsc><n id="3" /> will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.

Why has the <sc>Lordsc> brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn&#8217;t it be better for us to return to Egypt?&#8221;

Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully &#8211; I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants<n id="1" /> will possess it.

But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war,<n id="1" /> and they will enjoy<n id="2" /> the land that you have despised.

and your children will wander<n id="1" /> in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness,<n id="2" /> until your dead bodies lie finished<n id="3" /> in the wilderness.

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>.

I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Moses said to Korah, &#8220;You and all your company present yourselves before the <sc>Lordsc> &#8211; you and they, and Aaron &#8211; tomorrow.

When the community assembled<n id="1" /> against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting &#8211; and<n id="2" /> the cloud covered it, and the glory of the <sc>Lordsc> appeared.

Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah.

And the staff of the man whom I choose will blossom; so I will rid myself of the complaints of the Israelites, which they murmur against you.&#8221;p>

You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be<n id="1" /> no more wrath on the Israelites.

And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the <sc>Lordsc> will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Aaron, &#8220;You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property<n id="1" /> among them &#8211; I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer must wash his clothes and be ceremonially unclean until evening. This will be a permanent ordinance both for the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles<n id="1" /> the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks<n id="1" /> at it, he will live.&#8221;

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.<n id="1" />p>

Then on the next morning Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to Bamoth Baal.<n id="1" /> From there he saw the extent of the nation.p>