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1. Opening Scripture ‘Adonai bless you and keep you! Adonai make His face to shine on you and be gracious to you! Adonai turn His face toward you and grant you shalom!’ (Numbers 6:24-26)
Numbers 9:15-23 On the day the Tabernacle was erected, the cloud covered the Tabernacle. By evening until morning, the cloud above the Tent of Testimony had an appearance like fire. (16) It was that way continually. The cloud covered it, and by night it appeared like fire. (17) Whenever the cloud lifted up from above the Tent, then Bnei-Yisrael would set out, and at the place where the cloud settled, there Bnei-Yisrael would encamp. (18) At the mouth of Adonai, Bnei-Yisrael would set out, and at the mouth of Adonai they would encamp. All the days that the cloud remained over the Tabernacle, they would remain in camp. (19) When the cloud would remain over the Tabernacle many days, Bnei-Yisrael would obey the command of Adonai and not set out. (20) At times the cloud stayed over the Tabernacle only a few days. At Adonai’s word they would encamp, and at Adonai’s word they would set out. (21) At times the cloud remained only from evening until morning. When the cloud would lift, they would set out. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud lifted, they would set out. (22) Whether for two days or a month or a year, while the cloud remained over the Tabernacle, Bnei-Yisrael remained camped and would not set out. But when it would lift, they would set out. (23) At Adonai’s word they would encamp, and at the mouth of Adonai they set out. They obeyed Adonai’s order by Moses’s hand.
“What Report Are You Spreading?” Numbers 13:32
Numbers 16:41-50 The next day, the entire community of Bnei-Yisrael grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You killed Adonai’s people!” (42) But when they gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the Tent of Meeting, behold, the cloud covered it and the glory appeared! (43) Moses and Aaron went to the front of the Tent of Meeting. (44) Adonai spoke to Moses saying, (45) Get away from among this assembly so that I may immediately consume them!” So they fell on their faces. (46) Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer, put into it fire from the altar and put in incense. Get going and hurry to the assembly and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from Adonai and the plague has started.” (47) Aaron did just as Moses had said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. Behold, the plague had already started among the people. But he offered the incense and made atonement for the people. (48) He stood between the dead and the living and the plague stopped. (49) However, there were 14,700 dead from the plague, besides those who died because of Korah. (50) Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, when the plague had been halted