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

This is what they are responsible to carry as their entire service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets,

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.

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.

"This is what pertains to the Levites: At the age of twenty-five years and upward one may begin to join the company in the work of the tent of meeting,

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

and see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,

Say to them, 'As I live, says the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.

According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days -- one day for a year -- you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.

This is what is to be done for each ox, or each ram, or each of the male lambs or the goats.

They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.

Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the Lord! And Aaron -- what is he that you murmur against him?"

All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, "What if the earth swallows us too?"

So Moses did as the Lord commanded him -- this is what he did.

And the Lord said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand. You will do to him what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.

Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the Lord might say to me."

Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?"

The angel of the Lord said to him, "Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.

Then the Lord put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you."

Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!"

Balaam replied, "Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?"

Then the Lord met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you."

When Balaam came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, "What has the Lord spoken?"

For there is no spell against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. At this time it must be said of Jacob and of Israel, 'Look at what God has done!'

And now, I am about to go back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future."

Moses told the leaders of the tribes concerning the Israelites, "This is what the Lord has commanded:

So we have brought as an offering for the Lord what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord."

So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said you would do."

Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered, "Your servants will do what the Lord has spoken.

And what I intended to do to them I will do to you."

Then Moses gave a ruling to the Israelites by the word of the Lord: "What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right.

This is what the Lord has commanded for Zelophehad's daughters: 'Let them marry whomever they think best, only they must marry within the family of their father's tribe.