Numbers: Passage Refused through Edom

Numbers 20:14-21 (NKJV)

[14] Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. “Thus says your brother Israel: ‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

[15] how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.
[16] When we cried out to the Lord, He heard our voice and sent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border.
[17] Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King’s Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.’”
[18] Then Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword.”
[19] So the children of Israel said to him, “We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.”
[20] Then he said, “You shall not pass through.” So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand.
[21] Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.
Part Seven: Aaron’s Death
Numbers 20:22-29 (NKJV)
[22] Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.
[23] And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom, saying:
[24] “Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah.
[25] Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
[26] and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; for Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there.”
[27] So Moses did just as the Lord commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
[28] Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. [29] Now when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.

Numbers: Miriam gets leprosy

Numbers 12:1-10 (NKJV)

[1] Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
[2] So they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it.
[3] (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.)
[4] Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out.
[5] Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward.
[6] Then He said,
“Hear now My words:
If there is a prophet among you,
I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision;
I speak to him in a dream.
[7] Not so with My servant Moses;
He is faithful in all My house.
[8] I speak with him face to face,
Even plainly, and not in dark sayings;
And he sees the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant Moses?”
[9] So the anger of the Lord was aroused against them, and He departed.
[10] And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper.

Numbers: Second Passover in the Wilderness

Numbers 9:1-6 (NKJV)

[1] Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:

[2] “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
[3] On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.”
[4] So Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.
[5] And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
[6] Now there were certain men who were defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron that day.

Numbers 9:14(NKJV)

[14] And if a stranger dwells among you, and would keep the Lord’s Passover, he must do so according to the rite of the Passover and according to its ceremony; you shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and the native of the land.”

Numbers: Serving in the Tabernacle

Numbers 3:5-13 (NKJV)

[5] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

[6] “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
[7] And they shall attend to his needs and the needs of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of meeting, to do the work of the tabernacle.
[8] Also they shall attend to all the furnishings of the tabernacle of meeting, and to the needs of the children of Israel, to do the work of the tabernacle.
[9] And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are given entirely to him from among the children of Israel.
[10] So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall attend to their priesthood; but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”
[11] Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
[12] “Now behold, I Myself have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel. Therefore the Levites shall be Mine,
[13] because all the firstborn are Mine. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They shall be Mine: I am the Lord.”