Numbers 18 - 20
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So the Lord said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you shall q bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, r and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood.
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And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may s join you and t minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.
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They shall keep guard over you and u over the whole tent, v but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar w lest they, and you, die.
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They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, x and no outsider shall come near you.
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And you shall y keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, z that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.
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a And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. b They are a gift to you, given to the Lord, to do the service of the tent of meeting.
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And c you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and d that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and e any outsider who comes near shall be put to death."
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Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, "Behold, f I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you g as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.
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This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs and every h sin offering of theirs and every i guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons.
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In a most holy place shall you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.
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This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the j wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to k you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. l Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
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m All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, n the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.
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The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, o which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. l Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
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p Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.
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q Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the Lord, shall be yours. Nevertheless, r the firstborn of man you shall redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.
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And their redemption price s (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, t which is twenty gerahs.
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u But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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But their flesh shall be yours, as v the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.
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w All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. x It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your offspring with you."
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And the Lord said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. y I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.
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z "To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting,
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a so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, b lest they bear sin and die.
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But c the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, d and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
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For the tithe of the people of Israel, which e they present as a contribution to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance f among the people of Israel."
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, 'When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the Lord, g a tithe of the tithe.
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h And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
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So you shall also present a contribution to the Lord from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel. And from it you shall give the Lord's contribution to Aaron the priest.
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Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the Lord; from each its best part is to be dedicated.'
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Therefore you shall say to them, 'When you have offered from it the best of it, i then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress.
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And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is j your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
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And you shall k bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not l profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.'"
Numbers 19
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Now the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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"This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, m and on which a yoke has never come.
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And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and n it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him.
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And Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and o sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
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And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. p Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.
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And the priest shall take q cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.
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Then the priest r shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening.
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s The one who burns the heifer r shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening.
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And a man who is clean shall gather up t the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a u clean place. And they shall be kept for the water for v impurity for the congregation of the people of Israel; it is a sin offering.
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And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer r shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute for the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.
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w "Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.
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He x shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.
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Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, y defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, z and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.
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"This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.
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And every a open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.
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b Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a c grave, shall be unclean seven days.
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For the unclean they shall take d some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel.
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Then a clean person shall take e hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave.
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And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean f on the third day and on the seventh day. g Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall h wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.
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"If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, i that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.
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And it shall be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
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And j whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening."
Numbers 20
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And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came k into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And l Miriam died there and was buried there.
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m Now there was no water for the congregation. n And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
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And the people o quarreled with Moses and said, "Would that we had perished p when our brothers perished before the Lord!
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Why have you brought the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?
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And q why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink."
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Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting and r fell on their faces. s And the glory of the Lord appeared to them,
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and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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t "Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So u you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle."
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And Moses took the staff v from before the Lord, as he commanded him.
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Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, w "Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?"
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And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, u and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
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And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because x you did not believe in me, y to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them."
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z These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the Lord, and through them he showed himself holy.
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a Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to b the king of Edom: "Thus says c your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met:
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d how our fathers went down to Egypt, e and we lived in Egypt a long time. f And the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers.
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And g when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and h sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
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i Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, j or drink water from a well. We will go along the King's Highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory."
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But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you."
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And the people of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway, k and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, l then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more."
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But he said, m "You shall not pass through." And Edom came out against them with a large army and with a strong force.
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Thus Edom n refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel o turned away from him.
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And they journeyed from p Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came to q Mount Hor.
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And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom,
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r "Let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land that I have given to the people of Israel, because s you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.
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Take Aaron and Eleazar his son and bring them up to Mount Hor.
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And strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron r shall be gathered to his people and shall die there."
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Moses did as the Lord commanded. And they went up Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
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t And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there u on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
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And when all the congregation saw that Aaron had perished, v all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.
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Numbers 18:23
But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Exodus 28:38
It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts. It shall regularly be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.
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Numbers 18:23
But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
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Genesis 29:34
Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, "Now this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore his name was called Levi.
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Numbers 3:6 - 10
Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
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Numbers 3:25
And the guard duty of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 3:31
And their guard duty involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen; all the service connected with these.
Numbers 3:36
And the appointed guard duty of the sons of Merari involved the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and all their accessories; all the service connected with these.
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Numbers 16:40
To be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become like Korah and his company - as the Lord said to him through Moses.
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Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.
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Numbers 17:13
Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the Lord, shall die. Are we all to perish?
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Numbers 3:38
Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, guarding the sanctuary itself, to protect the people of Israel. And any outsider who came near was to be put to death.
Exodus 27:21
In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute forever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.
Exodus 30:7
And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.
Leviticus 24:3
Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
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Leviticus 10:6
And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, "Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not tear your clothes, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning that the Lord has kindled.
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Numbers 3:12
Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine.
Numbers 3:45
Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. The Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.
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Numbers 3:9
And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the people of Israel.
Numbers 8:19
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the people of Israel, that there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary.
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Numbers 3:10
And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. But if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.
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Hebrews 9:3
Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place.
Hebrews 9:6
These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties.
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Numbers 1:51
When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.
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Numbers 5:9
And every contribution, all the holy donations of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.
Leviticus 7:32
And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings.
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Exodus 29:29
The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them.
Exodus 40:13
And put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.
Exodus 40:15
And anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.
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Leviticus 4:22
When a leader sins, doing unintentionally any one of all the things that by the commandments of the Lord his God ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt.
Leviticus 4:27
If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the Lord 's commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt.
Leviticus 6:25 - 26
Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord ; it is most holy.
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Leviticus 7:7
The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.
Leviticus 14:13
And he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
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Exodus 29:27 - 28
And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the priests' portion that is contributed from the ram of ordination, from what was Aaron's and his sons'.
Leviticus 7:30
His own hands shall bring the Lord 's food offerings. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord.
Leviticus 7:34
For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.
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Leviticus 10:14
But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, for they are given as your due and your sons' due from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 18:3
And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.
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Leviticus 22:2 - 3
Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 22:11 - 13
But if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.
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Deuteronomy 18:4
The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.
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Exodus 23:19
The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Exodus 34:26
The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Nehemiah 10:35 - 36
We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord.
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Exodus 22:29
You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.
Leviticus 2:14
If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.
Deuteronomy 26:2
You shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.
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Numbers 18:11
This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
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Leviticus 27:28
But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
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Exodus 13:2
"Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine."
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Exodus 13:13
Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.
Exodus 34:20
The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed.
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Numbers 3:47
You shall take five shekels per head; you shall take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs).
Leviticus 27:2
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons.
Leviticus 27:6
If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
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Exodus 30:13
Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 15:19
All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall dedicate to the Lord your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
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Exodus 29:26
You shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's ordination and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be your portion.
Exodus 29:28
It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is a contribution. It shall be a contribution from the people of Israel from their peace offerings, their contribution to the Lord.
Leviticus 7:31 - 32
The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.
Leviticus 7:34
For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.
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Numbers 18:11
This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
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Leviticus 2:13
You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
2 Chronicles 13:5
Ought you not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?
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Numbers 18:23 - 24
But the Levites shall do the service of the ten...
Deuteronomy 10:9
Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance wi...
Deuteronomy 12:12
And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God,...
Deuteronomy 14:27
And you shall not neglect the Levite who is wit...
Deuteronomy 18:1 - 2
The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, s...
Joshua 13:33
But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inherita...
Joshua 14:3
For Moses had given an inheritance to the two a...
Joshua 18:7
The Levites have no portion among you, for the ...
Ezekiel 44:28
This shall be their inheritance: I am their inh...
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Numbers 18:24
For the tithe of the people of Israel, which th...
Numbers 18:26
Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levite...
Leviticus 27:30
Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of...
Leviticus 27:32
And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tent...
Deuteronomy 14:22
You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that...
Nehemiah 10:37
And to bring the first of our dough, and our co...
Nehemiah 12:44
On that day men were appointed over the storero...
Hebrews 7:5
And those descendants of Levi who receive the p...
Hebrews 7:8 - 9
In the one case tithes are received by mortal m...
Genesis 14:20
And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered...
Genesis 28:22
And this stone, which I have set up for a pilla...
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Numbers 1:51
When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.
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Leviticus 22:9
They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
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Numbers 3:7
They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle.
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Numbers 18:1
So the Lord said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood.
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Numbers 18:19
All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your offspring with you.
Numbers 18:26
Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, 'When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe.
Numbers 18:29
Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the Lord ; from each its best part is to be dedicated.
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Numbers 18:20 - 21
And the Lord said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.
Numbers 18:26
Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, 'When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe.
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Nehemiah 10:38
And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse.
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Numbers 18:30
Therefore you shall say to them, 'When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress.
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Numbers 18:27
And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
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Matthew 10:10
No bag for your journey, nor two tunics nor sandals nor a staff, for the laborer deserves his food.
Luke 10:7
And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.
1 Timothy 5:17 - 18
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
1 Corinthians 9:4 - 14
Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
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Leviticus 19:8
And everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned what is holy to the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 22:16
And so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
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Leviticus 22:2
Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 22:15
They shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, which they contribute to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 21:3
And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.
1 Samuel 6:7
Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.
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Leviticus 4:12
All the rest of the bull - he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up.
Hebrews 13:11
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
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Leviticus 4:6
And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 4:17
And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord in front of the veil.
Leviticus 16:14
And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
Leviticus 16:19
And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and consecrate it from the uncleannesses of the people of Israel.
Hebrews 9:13
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh.
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Exodus 29:14
But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 4:11 - 12
But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung -
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Leviticus 14:4
The priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.
Leviticus 14:6
He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.
Leviticus 14:49
And for the cleansing of the house he shall take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.
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Leviticus 11:25
And whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
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Numbers 19:5
And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.
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Numbers 19:7
Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening.
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Hebrews 9:13
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh.
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Leviticus 4:12
All the rest of the bull - he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up.
Leviticus 6:11
Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
Leviticus 10:14
But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, for they are given as your due and your sons' due from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the people of Israel.
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Numbers 19:13
Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.
Numbers 19:20 - 21
If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.
Numbers 31:23
Everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless, it shall also be purified with the water for impurity. And whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water.
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Numbers 19:7
Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening.
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Numbers 19:16
Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers 5:2
Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.
Numbers 9:6
And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
Numbers 9:10
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord.
Numbers 31:19
Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.
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Numbers 31:19
Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.
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Numbers 19:20
If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.
Leviticus 15:31
"Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst."
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Exodus 30:33
Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.'
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Numbers 31:20
You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood.
Leviticus 11:32
And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean.
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Numbers 19:11
Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.
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Matthew 23:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.
Luke 11:44
Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.
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Hebrews 9:13
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh.
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Exodus 12:22
Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
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Numbers 19:12
He shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.
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Leviticus 14:9
And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.
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Leviticus 11:25
And whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
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Exodus 30:33
Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.
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Numbers 19:11
Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.
Haggai 2:13
Then Haggai said, "If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?" The priests answered and said, "It does become unclean.
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Numbers 13:21
So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.
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Numbers 12:1
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.
Numbers 26:59
The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.
Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
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Exodus 17:1
All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
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Numbers 16:19
Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.
Numbers 16:42
And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
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Numbers 14:2
And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Exodus 17:2
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord ?
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Numbers 11:1
And the people complained in the hearing of the...
Numbers 11:33
While the meat was yet between their teeth, bef...
Numbers 14:37
The men who brought up a bad report of the land...
Numbers 16:32 - 33
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed th...
Numbers 16:35
And fire came out from the Lord and consumed th...
Numbers 16:49
Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, b...
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Exodus 17:3
But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?
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Numbers 14:5
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
Numbers 16:4
When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.
Numbers 16:22
And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
Numbers 16:45
Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.
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Leviticus 9:23
And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.
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Exodus 17:5
And the Lord said to Moses, "Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
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Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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Numbers 17:10
And the Lord said to Moses, "Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.
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Psalms 106:32 - 33
They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account.
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Numbers 20:8
"Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle."
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Numbers 27:14
Because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation quarreled, failing to uphold me as holy at the waters before their eyes." (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
Deuteronomy 1:37
Even with me the Lord was angry on your account and said, 'You also shall not go in there.
Deuteronomy 3:26
But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the Lord said to me, 'Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.
Deuteronomy 32:51
Because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.
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Ezekiel 20:41
As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 36:23
And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezekiel 38:16
You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
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Numbers 27:14
Because you rebelled against my word in the wil...
Exodus 17:7
And he called the name of the place Massah and ...
Deuteronomy 32:51
Because you broke faith with me in the midst of...
Deuteronomy 33:8
And of Levi he said, "Give to Levi your Thummim...
Psalms 81:7
In distress you called, and I delivered you; I ...
Psalms 95:8
Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on...
Psalms 106:32
They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and ...
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Judges 11:16 - 17
But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
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Genesis 36:31 - 39
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.
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Deuteronomy 2:4
And command the people, "You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful.
Deuteronomy 2:8
So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy 23:7
You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.
Obadiah 1:10
Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
Obadiah 1:12
But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress.
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Genesis 46:6
They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him.
Acts 7:15
And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers.
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Exodus 12:40
The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.
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Exodus 1:11
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Deuteronomy 26:6
And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.
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Exodus 2:23
During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
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Exodus 3:2
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
Exodus 14:19
Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.
Exodus 23:20
Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
Exodus 33:2
I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Numbers 21:22
"Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory."
Deuteronomy 2:27
Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.
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Numbers 20:19
And the people of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway, and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.
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Numbers 20:17
Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink water from a well. We will go along the King's Highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.
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Deuteronomy 2:6
You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.
Deuteronomy 2:28
You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot.
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Judges 11:17
Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let us pass through your land,' but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.
Amos 1:11
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.
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Deuteronomy 2:29
As the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving to us.
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Numbers 21:4
From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way.
Deuteronomy 2:8
So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
Judges 11:18
Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.
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Numbers 33:37
And they set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
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Numbers 21:4
From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way.
Numbers 33:37
And they set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
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Numbers 27:13
When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was.
Deuteronomy 32:50
And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
Numbers 31:2
"Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."
Genesis 25:8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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Numbers 20:12
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.
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Numbers 20:24
Let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land that I have given to the people of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.
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Exodus 29:29 - 30
The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them.
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Numbers 33:38
And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
Deuteronomy 32:50
And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
Deuteronomy 10:6
(The people of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place.
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Deuteronomy 34:8
And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
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