You will eat, not just one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,

But when you assemble the community, ¹  you must blow, but you must not sound an alarm. ² 

Indeed, I have received a command ¹  to bless; he has blessed, ²  and I cannot reverse it. ³ 

And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’” ¹ 

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, ¹  that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen? ² 

But the Kohathites ¹  are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work.

Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be ¹  defeated before your enemies.

No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin ¹  and die.

And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.

They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

‘I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not close at hand. ¹  A star ²  will march forth ³  out of Jacob, and a scepter ⁴  will rise out of Israel. He will crush the skulls ⁵  of Moab, and the heads ⁶  of all the sons of Sheth. ⁷ 

But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the Lord’s anger ¹  will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care ²  of the tabernacle of the testimony.”

You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that ¹  they will not defile their camps, among which I live.”

When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions ¹  of the Lord and did not journey.

With him I will speak face to face, ¹  openly, ²  and not in riddles; and he will see the form ³  of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”

¹ “‘If you ²  sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses –

You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be ¹  no more wrath on the Israelites.