'Community' in the Bible
Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to their fathers’ households, one animal per household.
You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreign resident or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel.
The entire Israelite community departed from Elim and came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt.
The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for He has heard your complaints.’”
As Aaron was speaking to the entire Israelite community, they turned toward the wilderness, and there in a cloud the Lord’s glory appeared.
On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts apiece, and all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.
The entire Israelite community left the Wilderness of Sin, moving from one place to the next according to the Lord’s command. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
But Moses called out to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.
Moses assembled the entire Israelite community and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do:
Then Moses said to the entire Israelite community, “This is what the Lord has commanded:
Then the entire Israelite community left Moses’ presence.
The silver from those of the community who were registered was 7,544 pounds, according to the sanctuary shekel—
“Now if the whole community of Israel errs, and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, so that they violate any of the Lord’s commands and incur guilt by doing what is prohibited,
and assemble the whole community at the entrance to the tent of meeting.”
So Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and the community assembled at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
They brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole community came forward and stood before the Lord.
Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair hang loose and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the Lord will become angry with the whole community. However, your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn over that tragedy when the Lord sent the fire.
“Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the sanctuary area? For it is especially holy, and He has assigned it to you to take away the guilt of the community and make atonement for them before the Lord.
He is to take from the Israelite community two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.
“Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy because I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
Do not take revenge or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbor as yourself; I am Yahweh.
“Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him.
Whoever blasphemes the name of Yahweh is to be put to death; the whole community must stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the foreign resident or the native.
“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of every male one by one.
These are the men called from the community; they are leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of Israel’s clans.”
and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting one by one the names of those 20 years old or more,
The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community.”
They are to perform duties for him and the entire community before the tent of meeting by attending to the service of the tabernacle.
So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the community registered the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral houses,
Bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire Israelite community.
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.
“Make two trumpets of hammered silver to summon the community and have the camps set out.
When both are sounded in long blasts, the entire community is to gather before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
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.
Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night.
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.
and said to the entire Israelite community: “The land we passed through and explored is an extremely good land.
While the whole community threatened to stone them, the glory of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.
“How long must I endure this evil community that keeps complaining about Me? I have heard the Israelites’ complaints that they make against Me.
I, Yahweh, have spoken. I swear that I will do this to the entire evil community that has conspired against Me. They will come to an end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
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—
and if it was done unintentionally without the community’s awareness, the entire community is to prepare one young bull for a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.
The priest must then make atonement for the entire Israelite community so that they may be forgiven, for the sin was unintentional. They are to bring their offering, one made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their unintentional sin.
The entire Israelite community and the foreigner who resides among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.
Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the entire community.
Then the Lord told Moses, “The man is to be put to death. The entire community is to stone him outside the camp.”
So the entire community brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
250 prominent Israelite men who were leaders of the community and representatives in the assembly, and they rebelled against Moses.
They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have gone too far! Everyone in the entire community is holy, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the Lord’s assembly?”
Isn’t it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the Israelite community to bring you near to Himself, to perform the work at the Lord’s tabernacle, and to stand before the community to minister to them?
After Korah assembled the whole community against them at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole community.
“Separate yourselves from this community so I may consume them instantly.”
But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “God, God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You vent Your wrath on the whole community?”
“Tell the community: Get away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”
He warned the community, “Get away now from the tents of these wicked men. Don’t touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
The next day the entire Israelite community complained about Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the Lord’s people!”
When the community assembled against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the tent of meeting, and suddenly the cloud covered it, and the Lord’s glory appeared.
“Get away from this community so that I may consume them instantly.” But they fell facedown.
Then Moses told Aaron, “Take your firepan, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the community and make atonement for them, because wrath has come from the Lord; the plague has begun.”
“A man who is clean is to gather up the cow’s ashes and deposit them outside the camp in a ceremonially clean place. The ashes must be kept by the Israelite community for preparing the water to remove impurity; it is a sin offering.
The entire Israelite community entered the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and they settled in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.
There was no water for the community, so they assembled against Moses and Aaron.
“Take the staff and assemble the community. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will yield its water. You will bring out water for them from the rock and provide drink for the community and their livestock.”
Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.
After they set out from Kadesh, the entire Israelite community came to Mount Hor.
So Moses did as the Lord commanded, and they climbed Mount Hor in the sight of the whole community.
When the whole community saw that Aaron had passed away, the entire house of Israel mourned for him 30 days.
An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their ancestral houses of those 20 years old or more who can serve in Israel’s army.”
The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram.(It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the community, who fought against Moses and Aaron; they and Korah’s followers fought against the Lord.
They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the entire community at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,
When the community quarreled in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight at the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
“May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community
who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the Lord’s community won’t be like sheep without a shepherd.”
Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole community, and commission him in their sight.
Confer some of your authority on him so that the entire Israelite community will obey him.
He will stand before Eleazar who will consult the Lord for him with the decision of the Urim. He and all the Israelites with him, even the entire community, will go out and come back in at his command.”
Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua, had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the entire community,
They brought the prisoners, animals, and spoils of war to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the Israelite community at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
“Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.
“You, Eleazar the priest, and the family leaders of the community are to take a count of what was captured, man and beast.
Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to war and the entire community.
So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community and said:
which the Lord struck down before the community of Israel, is good land for livestock, and your servants own livestock.”
So Joshua established peace with them and made a treaty to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.
But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then the whole community grumbled against the leaders.
They also said, “Let them live.” So the Gibeonites became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had promised them.
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers—as they are today—for the community and for the Lord’s altar at the place He would choose.
The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh where it set up the tent of meeting there; the land had been subdued by them.
When the Israelites heard this, the entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.
“This is what the Lord’s entire community says: ‘What is this treachery you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, so that you are in rebellion against the Lord today?
Wasn’t the sin of Peor, which brought a plague on the Lord’s community, enough for us, so that we have not cleansed ourselves from it even to this day,
and now, you would turn away from the Lord? If you rebel against the Lord today, tomorrow He will be angry with the entire community of Israel.
Wasn’t Achan son of Zerah unfaithful regarding what was set apart for destruction, bringing wrath on the entire community of Israel? He was not the only one who perished because of his sin.’”
When Phinehas the priest and the community leaders, the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him, heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were pleased.