“And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up... So they...... fell alive into the pit” Numbers 16:32-3
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“Instruct them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments” Numbers 16:38
“And the people became complainers of evil in the ears of the Lord” Numbers 11:1
“Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying ‘Thus shall you bless the people of Israel’” Numbers 6:23-24
“Take a census of the entire assembly of Israel according to their families, according to their father’s household by number of the names of every male, according to their head count” Numbers 1:2
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God” Leviticus 25.38
“And you shall count from the next day after the Sabbath [Pesach]” Leviticus 23:15. “It [Yom Kippur] shall be to you a Sabbath of rest” 23:32
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“He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy” II Kings 5:1
“A fire came forth from before the Lord and consumed them” Leviticus 10:2
“You shall make no molten gods for yourselves” Exodus 34.17
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet . . . And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers” Malachi 3:23, 24
“An offering made by fire, of a sweet smell to the Lord” Leviticus 1:9
"Everyone whose heart is willing [nediv], let them bring it, an offering to the Eternal” Exodus 35:5
“He made it into a molten calf; then they said: ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the Land of Egypt’” Exodus 32:4
“Remember what Amalek did to you on the journey when you left Egypt” Deuteronomy 25:17