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Malcom: Welcome to Immerse: the
Daily Bible reading Experience.

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Day 100 and 38

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then the Lord told Moses, give
the following instructions

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to the people of Israel.

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When you finally settle in the land I
am giving you, you will offer special

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gifts as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

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These gifts may take the form of a
burnt offering, a sacrifice to fulfill

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a vow, a voluntary offering, or an
offering at any of your annual festivals.

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They may be taken from your herds of
cattle or your flocks of sheep and goats.

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When you present these offerings,
you must also give the Lord a grain

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offering of two quarts of choice flour
mixed with one quart of olive oil.

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For each lamb offered as a burnt
offering or a special sacrifice,

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you must also present one quart
of wine as a liquid offering.

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If the sacrifice is a ram, give
a grain offering of four quarts

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of choice flour mixed with a
third of a gallon of olive oil.

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And give a third of a gallon
of wine as a liquid offering.

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This will be a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

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When you present a young bull as a burnt
offering or as a sacrifice to fulfill a

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vow or as a peace offering to the Lord,
you must also give a grain offering of

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six quartz of choice flour mixed with
two quartz of olive oil, and give two

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quartz of wine as a liquid offering.

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This will be a special gift,
a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

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Each sacrifice of a bull ram lamb or
young goat should be prepared in this way.

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Follow these instructions with
each offering you present.

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All of you Native born Israelites
must follow these instructions

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when you offer a special gift
as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

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And if any foreigners visit you or live
among you and want to present a special

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gift as a pleasing aroma to the Lord,
they must follow these same procedures.

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Native born Israelites and foreigners
are equal before the Lord and

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are subject to the same decrees.

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This is a permanent law for you to be
observed from generation to generation.

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The same instructions and regulations
will apply both to you and to

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the foreigners living among you.

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Then the Lord said to Moses,
give the following instructions

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to the people of Israel.

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When you arrive in the land where I
am taking you and you eat the crops

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that grow there, you must set some
aside as a sacred offering to the Lord.

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Present a cake from the
first of the flower.

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You grind and set it aside
as a sacred offering.

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As you do with the first
grain from the threshing floor

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throughout the generations to come.

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You are to present a sacred
offering to the Lord each year from

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the first of your ground flower.

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But suppose you unintentionally fail
to carry out all these commands that

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the Lord has given you through Moses.

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And suppose your descendants in the
future fail to do everything the

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Lord has commanded through Moses.

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If the mistake was made unintentionally
and the community was unaware of

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it, the whole community must present
a young bull for a burnt offering

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as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

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It must be offered along with
its prescribed grain offering

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and liquid offering, and with
one male goat for a sin offering.

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With it, the priest will purify the
whole community of Israel, making them

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right with the Lord and they will be
forgiven for it was an unintentional

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sin and they have corrected it
with their offerings to the Lord.

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The special gift and the sin
offering the whole community of

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Israel will be forgiven, including
the foreigners living among you.

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For all the people were
involved in the sin.

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If one individual commits an
unintentional sin, the guilty

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person must bring a one-year-old
female goat for a sin offering.

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The priest will sacrifice it to purify
the guilty person before the Lord

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and that person will be forgiven.

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The same instructions apply both
to native born Israelites and to

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the foreigners living among you.

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But those who brazenly
violate the Lord's will.

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Whether native born Israelites or
foreigners have blasphemed the Lord and

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they must be cut off from the community.

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Since they have treated the Lord's
Word with contempt and deliberately

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disobeyed his command, they must
be completely cut off and suffer

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the punishment for their guilt.

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One day while the people of Israel were
in the wilderness, they discovered a

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man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

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The people who found him doing this
took him before Moses, Aaron, and

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the rest of the community, they
held him in custody because they

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did not know what to do with him.

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Then the Lord said to Moses,
the man must be put to death.

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The whole community must
stone him outside the camp.

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So the whole community took the man
outside the camp and stoned him to death,

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just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, Give the
following instructions to the people of

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Israel throughout the generations to come.

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You must make tassels for the hems of your
clothing and attach them with a blue cord.

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When you see the tassels, you will
remember and obey all the commands

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of the Lord instead of following
your own desires into filing

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yourselves as you are prone to do.

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The tassels will help you.

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Remember that You must obey all my
commands and be holy to your God.

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I am the Lord your God who
brought you out of the land of

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Egypt that I might be your God.

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I am the Lord your God.

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One day, Cora son of Isar, a descendant of
Koha, son of Levi, conspired with Dathan

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and Ab Byram, the sons of Elia, and on
son of Plith from the tribe of Rubin.

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They incited a rebellion against
Moses along with 250 other

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leaders of the community, all
prominent members of the assembly.

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They united against Moses and Aaron
and said, you have gone too far.

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The whole community of Israel
has been set apart by the

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Lord and he is with all of us.

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What right do you have to act
as though you are greater than

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the rest of the Lord's people?

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When Moses heard what they were saying,
he fell face down on the ground.

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Then he said to Cora and his followers,
Tomorrow morning, the Lord will show

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us who belongs to him and who is holy.

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The Lord will allow only those whom
he selects to enter his own presence.

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Cora, you and all your followers
must prepare your incense burners,

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light fires in them tomorrow and
burn incense before the Lord.

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Then we will see whom the
Lord chooses as his holy one.

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You, Levites are the ones
who have gone too far.

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Then Moses spoke again to Cora.

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Now listen you Levites, does it seem
insignificant to you that the God

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of Israel has chosen you from among
all the community of Israel to be

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near him so you can serve in the
Lord's tabernacle and stand before

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the people to minister to them?

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Cora, he has already given this special
ministry to you and your fellow Levites.

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Are you now demanding
the priesthood as well?

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The Lord is the one you and your
followers are really revolting against.

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For who is Aaron that you
were complaining about him.

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Then?

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Moses Summon Dathan and ab Byrum.

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The sons of a lie up, but they
replied, we refuse to come before you.

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Isn't it enough that you brought us out of
Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey

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to kill us here in this wilderness and
that you now treat us like your subjects?

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What's more, you haven't brought us into
another land flowing with milk and honey.

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You haven't given us a new
homeland with fields and vineyards.

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Are you trying to fool these men?

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We will not come.

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Then Moses became very angry
and said to the Lord, do not

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accept their grain offerings.

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I have not taken so much as a
donkey from them, and I have

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never hurt a single one of them.

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And Moses said to Cora, you and all
your followers must come here tomorrow

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and present yourselves before the Lord.

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Aaron will also be here.

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You and each of your 250 followers
must prepare an incense burner

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and put incense on it so you can
all present them before the Lord.

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Aaron will also bring his incense
burner, so each of these men

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prepared an incense burner, lit
the fire and placed incense on it.

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Then they all stood at the entrance of
the tabernacle with Moses and Aaron.

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Meanwhile, Cora had stirred up
the entire community against Moses

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and Aaron, and they all gathered
at the Tabernacle entrance.

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Then the glorious presence of the
Lord appeared to the whole community,

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and the Lord said to Moses and Aaron
get away from all these people so

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that I may instantly destroy them.

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But Moses and Aaron fell
face down on the ground.

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Oh God, they pleaded.

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You are the God who gives
breath to all creatures.

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Must you be angry with all the
people when only one man sins and

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the Lord said to Moses, then tell
all the people to get away from the

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tense of Cora Dathan and ab byram.

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So Moses got up and rushed over to
the tents of Dathan and ab Byrum,

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followed by the elders of Israel.

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Quick, he told the people.

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Get away from the tents of
these wicked men and don't touch

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anything that belongs to them.

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If you do, you'll be
destroyed for their sins.

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So all the people stood back from the
tents of Cora Dathan and Ab Byrum.

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Then Dathan and a byrum came out and stood
at the entrances of their tents together

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with their wives and children and little
ones, and Moses said, this is how you

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will know that the Lord has sent me to
do all these things that I have done.

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For, I have not done them on my own.

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If these men die a natural death
or if nothing unusual happens,

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then the Lord has not sent me.

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But if the Lord does something entirely
new and the ground opens its mouth and

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swallows them all their belongings,
and they go down alive into the grave,

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then you will know that these men
have shown contempt for the Lord.

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He had hardly finished speaking
the words when the ground

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suddenly split open beneath them.

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The Earth opened its mouth and swallowed
the men along with their households and

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all their followers who were standing
with them and everything they owned.

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So they went down, alive, into the
grave, along with all their belongings.

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The earth closed over them, and they all
vanished from among the people of Israel.

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All the people around them fled
when they heard their screams.

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The earth will swallow us too.

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They cried.

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Then fire blazed forth from
the Lord and burned up the 250

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men who were offering incense.

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And the Lord said to Moses, tell
Ezer son of air in the priest

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to pull all the incense burners
from the fire for they are holy.

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Also, tell him to scatter
the burning coals.

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Take the incense burners of these
men who have sinned at the cost of

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their lives and hammer the metal into
a thin sheet to overlay the altar.

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Since these burners were used in the
Lord's presence, they have become holy.

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Let them serve as a warning
to the people of Israel.

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So Lea or the priest collected the 250
bronze incense burners that had been

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used by the men who died in the fire.

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And the bronze was hammered into
a thin sheet to overlay the altar.

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This would warn the Israelites that no
unauthorized person, no one who was not

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a descendant of Aaron should ever enter
the Lord's presence to burn incense.

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If anyone did the same thing
would happen to him, as happened

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to Cora and his followers.

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So the Lord's instructions
to Moses were carried out.

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But the very next morning, the whole
community of Israel began muttering

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again against Moses and Aaron saying
You have killed the Lord's people.

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As the community gathered to protest
against Moses and Aaron, they turned

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toward the tabernacle and saw that
the cloud had covered it, and the

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glorious presence of the Lord appeared.

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Moses and Aaron came and stood
in front of the tabernacle.

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And the Lord said to Moses, get
away from all these people so

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that I can instantly destroy them.

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But Moses and Aaron fell face down on
the ground and Moses said to Aaron,

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quick, take an incense burner and
place burning coals on it from the

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altar, lay incense on it, and carry
it out among the people to purify them

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and make them right with the Lord.

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The Lord's anger is blazing against them.

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The plague has already begun.

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Aaron did as Moses told him
and ran out among the people.

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The plague had already begun to strike
down the people, but Aaron burned

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the incense and purified the people.

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He stood between the dead and the living
and the plague stopped, but 14,700 people

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died in that plague in addition to those
who had died in the affair involving Cora.

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Then because the plague had
stopped, Aaron returned to Moses

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at the entrance of the tabernacle.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, tell
the people of Israel to bring you 12

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wooden staffs, one from each leader of
Israel's ancestral tribes and inscribe

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each leader's name on his staff.

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Inscribe Aaron's name on the staff of the
tribe of Levi, for there must be one staff

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for the leader of each ancestral tribe.

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Place these staffs in the tabernacle
in front of the ark containing

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the tablets of the covenant.

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Where I meet with you buds will sprout on
the staff belonging to the man I choose.

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Then I will finally put an
end to the people's murmuring

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and complaining against you.

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So Moses gave the instructions to
the people of Israel and each of

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the 12 tribal leaders, including
Aaron, brought Moses a staff.

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Moses placed the staffs in
the Lord's presence in the

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tabernacle of the Covenant.

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When he went into the tabernacle of
the Covenant the next day, he found

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that Aaron's staff representing the
tribe of Levi had sprouted, butted,

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blossomed, and produced ripe almonds.

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When Moses brought all the staffs
out from the Lord's presence,

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he showed them to the people.

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Each man claimed his own staff.

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And the Lord said to Moses Place Aaron in
staff permanently before the Ark of the

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Covenant to serve as a warning to rebels.

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This should put an end to their complaints
against me and prevent any further deaths.

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So Moses did as the Lord commanded him.

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Then the people of Israel said
to Moses, look, we are doomed.

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We are dead.

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We are ruined.

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Everyone who even comes close to
the tabernacle of the Lord dies.

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Are we all doomed to die?

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This concludes today's
Immer reading experience.

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Thank you for joining us.