As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives,<n id="1" /> they must be made<n id="2" /> into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the <sc>Lordsc> and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.&#8221;

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.

<p class="bodytext">On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony &#8211; and<n id="1" /> the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded almonds!<n id="2" />

Of all the most holy offerings reserved<n id="1" /> from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.

The firstborn of every womb which they present to the <sc>Lordsc>, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem,<n id="1" /> and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept<n id="1" /> for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification<n id="2" /> &#8211; it is a purification for sin.<n id="3" />

Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the <sc>Lordsc>. And that person must be cut off from Israel,<n id="1" /> because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.p>

Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.

Those of them who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.p>

and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement,<n id="1" /> as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses.&#8217;&#8221;p>

who will go out before them, and who will come in before them,<n id="1" /> and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that<n id="2" /> the community of the <sc>Lordsc> may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.&#8221;p>

<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.

You must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the <sc>Lordsc>: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs each one year old, all of them without blemish.

All the gold of the offering they offered up to the <sc>Lordsc> from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds weighed 16,750 shekels.<n id="1" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,<n id="2" />

You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone&#8217;s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral<n id="1" /> tribes.

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those whom you allow to remain will be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your side, and will cause you trouble in the land where you will be living.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must measure<n id="1" /> from outside the wall of the town on the east 1,000 yards,<n id="2" /> and on the south side 1,000 yards, and on the west side 1,000 yards, and on the north side 1,000 yards, with the town in the middle.<n id="3" /> This territory must belong to them as grazing land for the towns.

And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father&#8217;s tribe, so that every Israelite<n id="1" /> may retain the inheritance of his fathers.