Then Mosessaidto Aaronand to his sonsEleazarand Ithamar,"Do not uncoveryour headsnortearyour clothes,so that you will not dieand that He will not becomewrathfulagainstallthe congregation.But your kinsmen,the wholehouseof Israel,shall bewailthe burningwhichthe LORDhas broughtabout.
Now againthe angerof the LORDburnedagainst Israel,and it incitedDavidagainst them to say,"Go,numberIsraeland Judah."
sonof Abishua,sonof Phinehas,sonof Eleazar,sonof Aaronthe chiefpriest.
For the LORDhad saidto Moses,"Sayto the sonsof Israel,You are an obstinatepeople;should I goup in your midstfor onemoment,I would destroyyou. Nowtherefore, putoffyour ornamentsfrom you, that I may knowwhatI shall dowith you.'"
AaronmarriedElisheba,the daughterof Amminadab,the sisterof Nahshon,and she borehim Nadaband Abihu,Eleazarand Ithamar.
Cutoffyour hairand cast[it] away,And takeup a lamentationon the bareheights;For the LORDhas rejectedand forsakenThe generationof His wrath.'
"As for the leperwhohas the infection,his clothesshall be torn,and the hair of his headshall be uncovered,and he shall coverhis mustacheand cry,Unclean!Unclean!'
Makeyourself baldand cutoffyour hair,Becauseof the childrenof your delight;Extendyour baldnesslike the eagle,For they will gofrom you into exile.
"But the Levitesshall camparoundthe tabernacleof the testimony,so that there will be nowrathon the congregationof the sonsof Israel.So the Levitesshall keepchargeof the tabernacleof the testimony."
Joshuathe sonof Nunand Calebthe sonof Jephunneh,of those who had spiedout the land,toretheir clothes;
But they fellon their facesand said,"O God,Godof the spiritsof allflesh,when onemansins,will You be angrywith the entirecongregation?"
"So you shall attendto the obligationsof the sanctuaryand the obligationsof the altar,so that there will nolongerbe wrathon the sonsof Israel.
"TakeAaronand his sonEleazarand bringthem up to MountHor;
The priestshall then have the womanstandbeforethe LORDand let[the hair of] the woman'sheadgoloose,and placethe grain offeringof memorialin her hands,whichis the grain offeringof jealousy,and in the handof the priestis to be the waterof bitternessthat bringsa curse.
Who saidof his fatherand his mother,'I did not considerthem'; And he did not acknowledgehis brothers,Nordid he regardhis own sons,For they observedYour word,And keptYour covenant.
that you must turnawaythis dayfrom followingthe LORD?If you rebelagainst the LORDtoday,He will be angrywith the wholecongregationof Israeltomorrow.
Did not Achanthe sonof Zerahactunfaithfullyin the thingsunderthe ban,and wrathfallon allthe congregationof Israel?And that mandid not perishalonein his iniquity.'"
But the sonsof Israelactedunfaithfullyin regard to the thingsunderthe ban,for Achan,the sonof Carmi,the sonof Zabdi,the sonof Zerah,from the tribeof Judah,tooksomeof the thingsunderthe ban,therefore the angerof the LORDburnedagainst the sonsof Israel.
"Israelhas sinned,and they have alsotransgressedMy covenantwhichI commandedthem. And they have eventakensomeof the thingsunderthe banand have bothstolenand deceived.Moreover, they have alsoput[them] among their own things.
