Then he built an altar for the LORD. He sacrificed animals and burnt them on the altar. The LORD answered the prayers of the people, and no one else died from the terrible disease.
The first time we tried to bring the chest to Jerusalem, we didn't ask the LORD what he wanted us to do. He was angry with us, because you Levites weren't there to carry the chest.”
So you had better stop sneering or you will be in worse shape than ever before. I heard the LORD All-Powerful threaten the whole country with destruction.
The LORD said to Aaron: You, your sons, and the other Levites of the Kohath clan, are responsible for what happens at the sacred tent. And you and your sons will be responsible for what the priests do.
and followed the man into his tent, where he ran the spear through the man and into the woman's stomach. The LORD immediately stopped punishing Israel with a deadly disease,
but he was so angry with the others that he forced them to wander around in the desert forty years. By that time everyone who had sinned against him had died.