So Moses did as the Lord commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight ¹  of the whole community.

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 entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed. ¹ 

The leaders ¹  of the assembly said, “How can we find wives for those who are left? ²  After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the godly and the congregation.

Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground ¹  before the whole assembled community ²  of the Israelites.

For this reason ¹  the wicked cannot withstand ²  judgment, ³  nor can sinners join the assembly of the godly. ⁴ 

I will declare your name to my countrymen! ¹  In the middle of the assembly I will praise you!

Then I will give you thanks in the great assembly; ¹  I will praise you before a large crowd of people! ² 

then if anything is done unintentionally ¹  without the knowledge of ²  the community, the whole community must prepare one young bull for a burnt offering – for a pleasing aroma to the Lord – along with its grain offering and its customary drink offering, and one male goat for a purification offering.

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?

You must care for it ¹  until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community ²  of Israel will kill it around sundown. ³ 

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole community ¹  of the Israelites, ‘Come ²  before the Lord, because he has heard your murmurings.’”

But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke to them.

The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, ¹  according to the sanctuary shekel,

You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.

“Make ¹  two trumpets of silver; you are to make ²  them from a single hammered piece. ³  You will use them ⁴  for assembling the community and for directing the traveling of the camps.