Quotes About Community

Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORDís people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

Then Moses returned to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.

All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.

“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.

So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought in again.

After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.

So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,

and these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;

from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;

from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;

from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;

See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.

Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?

When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.

Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.

And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do.

The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.

The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”

and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.

Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.