&#8220;Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

These were those numbered from the families of the Kohathites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the <sc>Lordsc> by the authority of Moses.p>

These were those numbered from the families of the Gershonites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

These are those numbered from the families of the Merarites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the <sc>Lordsc> by the authority of Moses.p>

So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the <sc>Lordsc> had spoken<n id="1" /> to Moses, so the Israelites did.p>

&#8220;Tell the Israelites, &#8216;When<n id="1" /> a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit,<n id="2" /> thereby breaking faith<n id="3" /> with the <sc>Lordsc>, and that person is found guilty,<n id="4" />

But if the individual has no close relative<n id="1" /> to whom reparation can be made for the wrong, the reparation for the wrong must be paid to the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.

The priest will take the grain offering of suspicion from the woman&#8217;s hand, wave the grain offering before the <sc>Lordsc>, and bring it to the altar.

He must rededicate<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> the days of his separation and bring a male lamb in its first year as a reparation offering,<n id="2" /> but the former days will not be counted<n id="3" /> because his separation<n id="4" /> was defiled.p>

Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, with the basket of bread made without yeast; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering.p>

<p class="bodytext">And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses.

When<n id="1" /> the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer<n id="2" /> the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="3" /> to make atonement for the Levites.

The Levites purified themselves<n id="1" /> and washed their clothing; then Aaron presented them like a wave offering before the <sc>Lordsc>, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out<n id="2" /> of the land of Egypt:p>

When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> and did not journey.p>

If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes<n id="1" /> you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the <sc>Lordsc> your God, and you will be saved<n id="2" /> from your enemies.p>

And if you come with us, it is certain<n id="1" /> that whatever good things the <sc>Lordsc> will favor us with, we will share with you as well.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So Moses went out and told the people the words of the <sc>Lordsc>. He then gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tabernacle.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: &#8220;The three of you come to the tent of meeting.&#8221; So the three of them went.

<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.