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Numbers 15.
32 Israel’s sons were in the wilds, and found a man foraging trees on the Sabbath day.
33 Those who found him foraging trees went to Moses, Aaron, and the whole assembly.
34 They put him in “jail”—it wasn’t clear what to do to him.
35 The LORD told Moses, “The man must die, die.
The whole assembly: Stone him with stones outside the camp.”
36 The whole assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him with stones,
just as the LORD commanded Moses.
37 The LORD told Moses, 38 “Talk to Israel’s children.
Tell them to make tassels for themselves for the ends of their clothes, for every generation.
They must put a blue cord on the corner tassel. 39 The tassel will be there for you to see.
It’ll remind you of all the LORD’s rules, so you’ll obey them,
and not go follow your hearts and your eyes, and go whoring after them.
40 You’ll remember and obey all my rules, and you’ll be holy to your God,
41 me, your LORD God, who brought you from the land of Egypt to be your God.
I’m your LORD God.”
Numbers 16.
1 Korah ben Icher (ben Qohat, ben Levi)
took Dathan and Abiram ben Eliab, and On ben Pelet, descendants of Reuben.
2 They, with other descendants of Israel, rose up against Moses’s face:
250 chiefs of the nation, appointed rulers, famous people,
3 assembled against Moses and Aaron, telling them,
“You have too much power.
The whole nation, all of us, are saints. The LORD’s in our midst.
Why do you get to lift yourselves above the LORD’s nation?”
Numbers 21.
4 They left Mt. Hor by way of the Red Sea, to go round Edom’s land.
Enroute, the people’s souls grew impatient, 5 and the people spoke against God and Moses.
“Why’d you bring us up from Egypt to die in the middle of nowhere?
For there’s no bread nor water, and our souls are sick of this nasty ‘bread.’”
6 The LORD sent seraf snakes to the people.
They bit the people, and many of Israel’s people died.
7 The people came to Moses and said, “We’ve sinned because we spoke against the LORD and you.
Pray to the LORD, to turn the snakes away from us.”
Moses prayed on the people’s behalf. 8 The LORD told Moses, “Make a seraf for yourself.
Put it on a flagpole. It’s for all the bitten: One sees it, and one lives.”
9 Moses made a bronze snake and put it on the flagpole.
So when a snake bites a man, he looks at the bronze snake, and lives.
Numbers 22.
9 God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”
10 Balaam told God, “King Balaq ben Chipor of Moab sent for me:
11 ‘Look, the people which came from Egypt cover the land’s eye!
Go curse them for me, and maybe I can fight them and drive them out.’”
12 God told Balaam, “Don’t go with them. Don’t curse the people, for they’re blessed.”
Numbers 30.
2 “A man who vows a vow to the LORD,
who swears an oath to bind his life with a bond,
must not violate his word.
He must do everything which came from his mouth.”