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The Census
The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said:
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as the Lord commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai:
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The Levites
This is the account of the family of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai.
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Nadab and Abihu, however, died before the Lord when they made an offering with unauthorized fire before him in the Desert of Sinai. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.
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The Lord said to Moses in the Desert of Sinai,
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and must confess the sin they have committed. They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person they have wronged.
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so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),
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The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’”
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The priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for the Nazirite because they sinned by being in the presence of the dead body. That same day they are to consecrate their head again.
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There they are to present their offerings to the Lord: a year-old male lamb without defect for a burnt offering, a year-old ewe lamb without defect for a sin offering, a ram without defect for a fellowship offering,
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“‘The priest is to present all these before the Lord and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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one male goat for a sin offering;
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The total number of animals for the burnt offering came to twelve young bulls, twelve rams and twelve male lambs a year old, together with their grain offering. Twelve male goats were used for the sin offering.
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Have them take a young bull with its grain offering of the finest flour mixed with olive oil; then you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.
