Aaron

That being purified they might go into the tabernacle of the covenant to do their services before Aaron and his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses touching the Levites, so was it done.

But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man, who could not make the phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron,

And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and this shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations.

And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,

Immediately he spoke to him, and to Aaron and Mary: Come out you three only to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were come out,

The Lord came down in a pillar of the cloud, and stood in the entry of the tabernacle calling to Aaron and Mary. And when they were come,

The cloud also that was over the tabernacle departed: and behold Mary appeared white as snow with a leprosy. And when Aaron had looked on her, and saw her all covered with leprosy,

He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this sin, which we have foolishly committed:

And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:

And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole multitude.

And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron, they said: Let it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of holy ones, and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above the people of the Lord?

And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what is Aaron that you murmur against him?

And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart before the Lord to morrow, and Aaron apart.

Take every one of you censers, and put incense upon them, offering to the Lord two hundred and fifty censers: let Aaron also hold his censer.

When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing,

And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron, said:

Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers that lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side and the other: because they are sanctified

That the children of Israel might have for the time to come wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that is not of the seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the Lord, lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation, according as the Lord spoke to Moses.

The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of the Lord.

And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased,

Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth.