&#8220;Tell the Israelites, &#8216;If any<n id="1" /> of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may<n id="2" /> observe the Passover to the <sc>Lordsc>.

Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year,<n id="1" /> that the cloud prolonged its stay<n id="2" /> over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling;<n id="3" /> but when it was taken up, they traveled on.

Is it a small thing<n id="1" /> that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey,<n id="2" /> to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince<n id="3" /> over us?

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;And its drink offering must be one quarter of a hin for each lamb.<n id="1" /> You must pour out the strong drink<n id="2" /> as a drink offering to the <sc>Lordsc> in the holy place.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On the first day of each month<n id="1" /> you must offer as a burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc> two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,

Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

<p class="bodytext">But he said, &#8220;You may not pass through.&#8221; Then Edom came out against them<n id="1" /> with a large and powerful force.<n id="2" />

&#8220;This is the ordinance of the law which the <sc>Lordsc> has commanded: &#8216;Instruct<n id="1" /> the Israelites to bring<n id="2" /> you a red<n id="3" /> heifer<n id="4" /> without blemish, which has no defect<n id="5" /> and has never carried a yoke.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the <sc>Lordsc> for seven days.

and 32,000 young women who had never had sexual intercourse with a man.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now a wind<n id="1" /> went out<n id="2" /> from the <sc>Lordsc> and brought quail<n id="3" /> from the sea, and let them fall<n id="4" /> near the camp, about a day&#8217;s journey on this side, and about a day&#8217;s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet<n id="5" /> high on the surface of the ground.

Also, they must take away the ashes from the altar<n id="1" /> and spread a purple cloth over it.

<p class="bodytext">When the Israelites were<n id="1" /> in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.<n id="2" />

On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.p>

<p class="poetry">God is not a man, that he should lie,p> <p class="poetry">nor a human being,<n id="1" /> that he should change his mind.p> <p class="poetry">Has he said, and will he not do it?p> <p class="poetry">Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a holy assembly. You must not do your ordinary work, for it is a day of blowing trumpets for you.

<p class="poetry">A ruler will be established from Jacob;p> <p class="poetry">he will destroy the remains of the city.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Did I conceive this entire people?<n id="1" /> Did I give birth to<n id="2" /> them, that you should say to me, &#8216;Carry them in your arms, as a foster father<n id="3" /> bears a nursing child,&#8217; to the land which you swore to their fathers?

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On the Sabbath day, you must offer<n id="1" /> two unblemished lambs a year old, and two-tenths of an ephah<n id="2" /> of finely ground flour as a grain offering, mixed with olive oil, along with its drink offering.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Also, on the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the <sc>Lordsc> during your Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly. You must do no ordinary work.