Thus [it is with] you and all your congregation which is gathered together against God: and who is Aaron, that you murmur against him?

And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of the Ethiopian woman whom Moses took; for he had taken an Ethiopian woman.

And they said, Has the Lord spoken to Moses only? Has He not also spoken to us? And the Lord heard it.

And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night.

If only we would have died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we would have died in this wilderness! And why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? Our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt.

They provoked Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

whom our fathers did not desire to be obedient, but they rejected [him] and returned in their heart back to Egypt,

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and their sons, and the holy seed has passed among the nations of the lands, and the hand of the rulers [has been] first in this transgression.

Of what [value] to Me is the abundance of your sacrifices? Says the Lord; I am full of whole burnt offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats;

Though you bring fine flour, [it is] futile; incense is an abomination to Me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your Sabbaths, and the great day;

When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Correct your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

For if you thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old, and forever.

and you murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and have gone after strange gods whom you know not,

Is My house, which is called by My name, a den of robbers in your eyes? And behold, I have seen [it], says the Lord.

and do not think to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham out of these stones.

But even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

but he [is] a Jew that [is one] inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not of men but of God.

Moreover all the inhabitants of this land have heard that You are Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, are seen [by them] face to face, and Your cloud rests upon them, and You go before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.

And you shall not defile the land on which you dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.

And I will be called upon among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, to be called upon by them, and to be their God.

The chariots of God are ten thousand fold, thousands of rejoicing ones; the Lord is among them, in Sinai, in the holy place.