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Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.
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But as for you, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
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Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
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For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’
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Do not go up, because the Lord is not with you. You will be defeated by your enemies,
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Present a loaf from the first of your ground meal and present it as an offering from the threshing floor.
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Throughout the generations to come you are to give this offering to the Lord from the first of your ground meal.
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“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.
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You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.
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Then you will remember to obey all my commands and will be consecrated to your God.
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I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.’”
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They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the Lord’s assembly?”
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You, Korah, and all your followers are to do this: Take censers
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Isn’t it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the Israelite community and brought you near himself to do the work at the Lord’s tabernacle and to stand before the community and minister to them?
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He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near himself, but now you are trying to get the priesthood too.
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It is against the Lord that you and all your followers have banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?”
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Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers are to appear before the Lord tomorrow—you and they and Aaron.
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Each man is to take his censer and put incense in it—250 censers in all—and present it before the Lord. You and Aaron are to present your censers also.”
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“Separate yourselves from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.”
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Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put incense in it, along with burning coals from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the Lord; the plague has started.”
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Duties of Priests and Levites
The Lord said to Aaron, “You, your sons and your family are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood.
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Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.
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I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the Lord to do the work at the tent of meeting.
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But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.”
