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 Israel’s departure from the land of Egypt:

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

just as the Lord commanded Moses. He registered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:

These are the men Moses and Aaron registered, with the assistance of the 12 leaders of Israel; each represented his ancestral house.

For the Lord had told Moses:

The Israelites did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

But the Levites were not registered among the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; they camped by their banners in this way and moved out the same way, each man by his clan and by his ancestral house.

These are the family records of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

The Lord spoke to Moses:

The Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

So Moses registered them in obedience to the Lord as he had been commanded:

Moses, Aaron, and his sons, who performed the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites, camped in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting toward the sunrise. Any unauthorized person who came near it was to be put to death.

The total number of all the Levite males one month old or more that Moses and Aaron registered by their clans at the Lord’s command was 22,000.

The Lord told Moses: “Register every firstborn male of the Israelites one month old or more, and list their names.

So Moses registered every firstborn among the Israelites, as the Lord commanded him.

The Lord spoke to Moses again:

So Moses collected the redemption money from those in excess of the ones redeemed by the Levites.

He gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons in obedience to the Lord, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

The Lord spoke to Moses:

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the community registered the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral houses,

These were the registered men of the Kohathite clans, everyone who could serve at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron registered them at the Lord’s command through Moses.

These were the registered men of the Gershonite clans. At the Lord’s command Moses and Aaron registered everyone who could serve at the tent of meeting.

These were the registered men of the Merarite clans; Moses and Aaron registered them at the Lord’s command through Moses.

Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel registered all the Levites by their clans and their ancestral houses,

At the Lord’s command they were registered under the direction of Moses, each one according to his work and transportation duty, and his assignment was as the Lord commanded Moses.

The Lord instructed Moses:

The Israelites did this, sending them outside the camp. The Israelites did as the Lord instructed Moses.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

The Lord spoke to Moses:

The Lord instructed Moses:

The Lord spoke to Moses:

On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils. After he anointed and consecrated these things,

The Lord said to Moses,

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

The Lord told Moses, “Each day have one leader present his offering for the dedication of the altar.”

When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. He spoke to him that way.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

So Aaron did this; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

This is the way the lampstand was made: it was a hammered work of gold, hammered from its base to its flower petals. The lampstand was made according to the pattern the Lord had shown Moses.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community did this to the Levites. The Israelites did everything to them the Lord commanded Moses regarding the Levites.

After that, the Levites came to do their work at the tent of meeting in the presence of Aaron and his sons. So they did to them as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

In the first month of the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, the Lord told Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,

and they observed it in the first month on the fourteenth day at twilight in the Wilderness of Sinai. The Israelites did everything as the Lord had commanded Moses.

But there were some men who were unclean because of a human corpse, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. These men came before Moses and Aaron the same day

Moses replied to them, “Wait here until I hear what the Lord commands for you.”

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

They camped at the Lord’s command, and they set out at the Lord’s command. They carried out the Lord’s requirement according to His command through Moses.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

They set out for the first time according to the Lord’s command through Moses.

Moses said to Hobab, son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite: “We’re setting out for the place the Lord promised: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”

“Please don’t leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say:

Arise, Lord!
Let Your enemies be scattered,
and those who hate You flee from Your presence.

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

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

So Moses asked the Lord, “Why have You brought such trouble on Your servant? Why are You angry with me, and why do You burden me with all these people?

The Lord answered Moses, “Bring Me 70 men from Israel known to you as elders and officers of the people. Take them to the tent of meeting and have them stand there with you.

But Moses replied, “I’m in the middle of a people with 600,000 foot soldiers, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord’s power limited? You will see whether or not what I have promised will happen to you.”

Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He brought 70 men from the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

Then the Lord descended in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed the Spirit on the 70 elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they never did it again.

A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth, responded, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

But Moses asked him, “Are you jealous on my account? If only all the Lord’s people were prophets and the Lord would place His Spirit on them!”

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

Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he married (for he had married a Cushite woman).

They said, “Does the Lord speak only through Moses? Does He not also speak through us?” And the Lord heard it.

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

Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three come out to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went out.

Not so with My servant Moses;
he is faithful in all My household.

I speak with him directly,
openly, and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the Lord.

So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

and said to Moses, “My lord, please don’t hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “God, please heal her!”

The Lord answered Moses, “If her father had merely spit in her face, wouldn’t she remain in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”

The Lord spoke to Moses:

Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran at the Lord’s command. All the men were leaders in Israel.

These were the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and Moses renamed Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.

When Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up this way to the Negev, then go up into the hill country.

The men went back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for them and the whole community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.

They reported to Moses: “We went into the land where you sent us. Indeed it is flowing with milk and honey, and here is some of its fruit.

Then Caleb quieted the people in the presence of Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land because we can certainly conquer it!”

All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground in front of the whole assembly of the Israelite community.

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people despise Me? How long will they not trust in Me despite all the signs I have performed among them?

But Moses replied to the Lord, “The Egyptians will hear about it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from them.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

So the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and who returned and incited the entire community to complain about him by spreading a negative report about the land—

When Moses reported these words to all the Israelites, the people were overcome with grief.

But Moses responded, “Why are you going against the Lord’s command? It won’t succeed.

But they dared to go up the ridge of the hill country, even though the ark of the Lord’s covenant and Moses did not leave the camp.

The Lord instructed Moses:

The Lord instructed Moses:

“When you sin unintentionally and do not obey all these commands that the Lord spoke to Moses—