The Levites are responsible for the sins of the people and the priests are responsible for the sins of the Levites. If a Levite wanders himself into someplace he shouldn’t be and accidently sees God or something then both he and a priest will die for it.
If anyone is in need of some cleansing, Eleazer the priest has a recipe for some special water for cleansing. He has to ritualistically burn a heifer to ashes outside of camp, which will make him unclean. Another guy has to come and collect the ashes and then those are used to make special cleansing water.
When the Israelites come to a place to camp where there’s no water, a group of them jump immediately to their go-to complaints. “We should have stayed back in Egypt.” “Why did you bring us out here to die?” Moses and Aaron pray and God tells them to strike a rock with a staff and water will come out. When Moses strikes the rock though, he kind of implies that he’s the one bringing forth the water from the ground. It doesn’t sound like he’s trying to be disrespectful of God, but he’s very frustrated with the people and maybe spoke out of that frustration without really thinking. God tells him that for failing to glorify Him in carrying out His miracle, God will not allow Moses to lead the people into the promised land. It sounds like God’s getting a little frustrated these days too. Moses is basically God’s favorite person to date. The fact that such a seemingly small omission brought such incredible consequences really seems to demonstrate that God is not screwing around when it comes to receiving credit for what He has done.
Also, Aaron died
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