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Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each silver basin seventy, so that all the silver of these vessels amounted to two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
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Speak to Aaron and say: “When you set up the menorah-lamps, have the seven lamps throw their light in front of the menorah.”
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The Seventy Elders. Then the Lord said to Moses: Assemble for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be elders and authorities among the people, and bring them to the tent of meeting. When they are in place beside you,
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The Spirit on the Elders. So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. Gathering seventy elders of the people, he had them stand around the tent.
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The Lord then came down in the cloud and spoke to him. Taking some of the spirit that was on Moses, he bestowed it on the seventy elders; and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied but did not continue.
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But the Lord answered Moses: Suppose her father had spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; afterwards she may be brought back.
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So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not start out again until she was brought back.
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Going up by way of the Negeb, they reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, descendants of the Anakim, were. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
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There were fourteen thousand seven hundred dead from the scourge, in addition to those who died because of Korah.
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Eleazar the priest will take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the tent of meeting.
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Use of the Ashes. Those who touch the corpse of any human being will be unclean for seven days;
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they shall purify themselves with the water on the third and on the seventh day, and then be clean. But if they fail to purify themselves on the third and on the seventh day, they will not become clean.
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This is the ritual: When someone dies in a tent, everyone who enters the tent, as well as everyone already in it, will be unclean for seven days;
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Moreover, everyone who in the open country touches a person who has been slain by the sword or who has died naturally, or who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
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The clean will sprinkle the unclean on the third and on the seventh day, and thus purify them on the seventh day. Then they will wash their garments and bathe in water, and in the evening be clean.
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Chapter 23
Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and here prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
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Then God met Balaam, and Balak said to him: “I have erected the seven altars, and have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”
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So he brought him to a lookout post on the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each of them.
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Balaam then said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here; and here prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
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These were the clans of the Reubenites, and those enrolled numbered forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
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These were the clans of Judah, of whom there were enrolled seventy-six thousand five hundred.
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These were the clans of Manasseh, and those enrolled numbered fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
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These were the Israelites who were enrolled: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty. Allotment of the Land.
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At the New Moon Feast. On your new moons you will offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two bulls of the herd, one ram, and seven unblemished yearling lambs,
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and the fifteenth day of this month is the pilgrimage feast. For seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.