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‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to them, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his seed shall take possession of it.

In the morning, however, they rose up early and went up to the ridge of the hill country, saying, "Here we are; we will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised because we have indeed sinned."

Because he has despised the word of Yahweh and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt will be on him.'"

and they put him in custody because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

Anyone who touches a corpse, the body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself, makes the tabernacle of Yahweh unclean; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not splashed on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.

‘But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself from uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly because he has made the sanctuary of Yahweh unclean; the water for impurity has not been splashed on him; he is unclean.

But Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."

Those were the waters of Meribah because the sons of Israel contended with Yahweh, and He proved Himself holy among them.

"Aaron will be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the sons of Israel because you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.

Then the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you; pray to Yahweh, that He may remove the serpents from us." And Moses prayed for the people.

So Moab was in great fear because of the people, for they were numerous; and Moab was in dread of the sons of Israel.

But God was angry because he was going, so the angel of Yahweh took his stand in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two young men were with him.

Then Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have made a mockery of me! If there had been a sword in my hand, I would have killed you by now."

And the angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary because your way was contrary to me.

and it shall be for him and his seed after him, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.'"

for they have been hostile to you with their deceptive tricks, with which they have deceived you in the affair of Peor and in the affair of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was slain on the day of the plague because of Peor."

Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father's brothers."

But if her father should forbid her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand; and Yahweh will pardon her because her father had forbidden her.

But if her husband indeed says nothing to her from day to day, then he causes all her vows or all her obligations which are on her to stand; he has caused them to stand because he said nothing to her on the day he heard them.