Numbers 1:1-3

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First census

1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the Sinai desert in the meeting tent on the first day of the second month,^[a] in the second year after they left the land of Egypt: ²Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their households, recording the name of every male, ³20 years old and above, who is eligible for military service in Israel. These you and Aaron will enlist in their military units.

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Numbers 1:1 April–May, Iyar

Numbers 14:26-35

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The Israelites’ punishment

²⁶The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: ²⁷How long will this wicked community complain against me? I’ve heard the Israelites’ dissent as they continue to complain against me. ²⁸Say to them, “As I live,” says the Lord, “just as I’ve heard you say, so I’ll do to you. ²⁹Your dead bodies will fall in this desert. None of you who were enlisted and were registered from 20 years old and above, who complained against me, ³⁰will enter the land in which I promised^[a] to settle you, with the exception of Caleb, Jephunneh’s son, and Joshua, Nun’s son. ³¹But your children, whom you said would be taken by force, I’ll bring them in and they will know the land that you rejected. ³²Your bodies, however, will fall in this desert, ³³and your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies fall in the desert. ³⁴For as many days as you explored the land, that is, forty days, just as many years you’ll bear your guilt, that is, forty years. This is how you will understand my frustration.” ³⁵I the Lord have spoken. I will do this to the entire wicked community who gathered against me. They will die in this desert. There they’ll meet their end.

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Numbers 14:30 Or raised my hand

Leviticus 27:1-8

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Dedications

27 The Lord said to Moses, ²Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When a person makes a solemn promise to the Lord involving the value of a person, ³if it is the value for a male between 20 and 60 years old, his value is fifty silver shekels according to the sanctuary’s shekel. ⁴If the person is a female, her value is thirty shekels. ⁵If the age of the person is between 5 and 20 years, the value for a male is twenty shekels, for a female ten shekels. ⁶If the age of the person is between one month and 5 years, the value for a male is five silver shekels, for a female three silver shekels. ⁷If the age of the person is 60 years or more, the value is fifteen shekels if the person is male, ten shekels for a female. ⁸But if financial difficulty prevents the promise maker from giving the full value, they must set the person before the priest. The priest will assign the person a value according to what the promise maker can afford.