“‘Then the priest will bring her near and have her stand ¹  before the Lord.

He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

Now these are the names of the men who are to help ¹  you: from ²  Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

“Bring the tribe of Levi near, ¹  and present ²  them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him. ³ 

You are to have the Levites stand before Aaron ¹  and his sons, and then offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.

So Moses said to them, “Remain ¹  here and I will hear ²  what the Lord will command concerning you.”

And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

Then the angel of the Lord stood in a path ¹  among the vineyards, where there was a wall on either side. ² 

set him ¹  before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community, and commission ²  him publicly. ³ 

Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, ¹  made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising ²  the numbering.

So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He then gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tabernacle.

So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.

Then the angel of the Lord went farther, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.

And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,

So Moses did as the Lord commanded him; he took Joshua and set ¹  him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community.

And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.

Then the priest will have the woman stand before the Lord, uncover the woman’s head, and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse. ¹ 

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

then they will tell it to the inhabitants ¹  of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, ²  that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

Does it seem too small a thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel to bring you near to himself, to perform the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the community to minister to them?