Moses heard the people, family after family, crying at the entrance of their tents. The Lord was very angry; Moses was also provoked.

While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burned against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very severe plague.

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

The Reubenites and Gadites had a very large number of livestock. When they surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, they saw that the region was a good one for livestock.