Quotes About Obedience

Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses:

On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”

The LORD said to Moses,

Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD had commanded Moses,

including a tribute to the LORD of 675,

36,000 cattle, including a tribute to the LORD of 72,

and 16,000 people, including a tribute to the LORD of 32.

Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as an offering for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.

ëBecause they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—

not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.í

For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”

Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,

and if every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD, until He has driven His enemies out before Him,

But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.

The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “Your servants will do just as our lord commands.

But your servants are equipped for war, and every man will cross over to the battle before the LORD, just as our lord says.”

And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.

At the LORDís command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:

They set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon, and they camped near Migdol.

They set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.

At the LORDís command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.