³ The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt!^(A) There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food^(B) we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”^(C)

²¹ Then he shall take the bull outside the camp^(A) and burn it as he burned the first bull. This is the sin offering for the community.^(B)

⁷ To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets,^(A) but not with the signal for setting out.^(B)

¹⁵ The community is to have the same rules for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.^(A) You and the foreigner shall be the same before the Lord:

⁶ Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting^(A) and fell facedown,^(B) and the glory of the Lord^(C) appeared to them.

¹⁰ He and Aaron gathered the assembly together^(A) in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”^(B)