When all the community saw that Aaron was dead, the whole house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.

Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.

Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war – who went out to battle – and the other for all the community.

the Gadites and the Reubenites came and addressed Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community. They said,

the land that the Lord subdued ¹  before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

Instead, you must kill him without fail! ¹  Your own hand must be the first to strike him, ²  and then the hands of the whole community.

So I went and got Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah the grandson of Habazziniah, his brothers, all his sons, and all the rest of the Rechabite community.

and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.” ¹ 

But when you assemble the community, ¹  you must blow, but you must not sound an alarm. ² 

And the priest is to make atonement ¹  for the whole community of the Israelites, and they will be forgiven, ²  because it was unintentional and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their purification offering before the Lord, for their unintentional offense.

And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “You take too much upon yourselves, ¹  seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the Lord?”

Does it seem too small a thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel to bring you near to himself, to perform the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the community to minister to them?

“Separate yourselves ¹  from among this community, ²  that I may consume them in an instant.”

But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the Lord; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

And he will stand before Eleazar the priest, who ¹  will seek counsel ²  for him before the Lord by the decision of the Urim. ³  At his command ⁴  they will go out, and at his command they will come in, he and all the Israelites with him, the whole community.”

The community must deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the community must restore him to the town of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there ¹  until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the consecrated oil.

So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community, ¹ 

All you Israelites, ¹  make a decision here!” ² 

When he stood up, he pronounced a blessing over the entire assembly of Israel, saying in a loud voice:

I almost ¹  came to complete ruin ²  in the midst of the whole congregation!” ³