Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites departed from the land of Egypt. He said:

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,

just as the Lord had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom was from his own family.

The Lord had said to Moses,

The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses -- that is what they did.

The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron:

But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.

So the Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way they camped under their standards, and that is the way they traveled, each with his clan and family.

Now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai:

So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, just as he had been commanded.

But those who were to camp in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, and his sons. They were responsible for the needs of the sanctuary and for the needs of the Israelites, but the unauthorized person who approached was to be put to death.

All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the Lord had commanded him.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

So Moses took the redemption money from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.

Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community numbered the Kohathites by their families and by clans,

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 Lord by the authority of Moses.

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 Lord.

These are those numbered from the families of the Merarites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.

All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans,

According to the word of the Lord they were numbered, by the authority of Moses, each according to his service and according to what he was to carry. Thus were they numbered by him, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the Lord had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

The Lord spoke to Moses:

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

The Lord spoke to Moses:

When Moses had completed setting up the tabernacle, he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and he anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

For the Lord said to Moses, "They must present their offering, one leader for each day, for the dedication of the altar."

Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atonement lid that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. Thus he spoke to him.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses.

This is how the lampstand was made: It was beaten work in gold; from its shaft to its flowers it was beaten work. According to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.

After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt:

So Moses instructed the Israelites to observe the Passover.

And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.

It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

So Moses said to them, "Remain here and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you."

The Lord spoke to Moses:

At the commandment of the Lord they camped, and at the commandment of the Lord they traveled on; they kept the instructions of the Lord according to the commandment of the Lord, by the authority of Moses.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment of the Lord, by the authority of Moses.

Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place about which the Lord said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things for Israel."

Moses said, "Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.

And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, "Rise up, O Lord! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!"

When the people cried to Moses, he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out.

Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased.

And Moses said to the Lord, "Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?

The Lord said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.

Moses said, "The people around me are 600,000 on foot; but you say, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.'

And the Lord said to Moses, "Is the Lord's hand shortened? Now you will see whether my word to you will come true or not!"

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.

And the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but did not do so again.

And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"

Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his choice young men, said, "My lord Moses, stop them!"

Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the Lord's people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!"

Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married (for he had married an Ethiopian woman).

They said, "Has the Lord only spoken through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?" And the Lord heard it.

(Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.)

The Lord spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: "The three of you come to the tent of meeting." So the three of them went.

My servant Moses is not like this; he is faithful in all my house.

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

So Aaron said to Moses, "O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!

Then Moses cried to the Lord, "Heal her now, O God."

The Lord said to Moses, "If her father had only spit in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again."

The Lord spoke to Moses:

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.

When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, "Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country

They came back to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.

They told Moses, "We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, "Let us go up and occupy it, for we are well able to conquer it."

And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.

The Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

Moses said to the Lord, "When the Egyptians hear it -- for you brought up this people by your power from among them --

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,

When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.

But Moses said, "Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the Lord? It will not succeed!

But they dared to go up to the crest of the hill, although neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

The Lord spoke to Moses:

"'If you sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses --