Quotes about Community
So Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel did with the Levites everything that the LORD had commanded Moses they should do.
— Numbers 8:20
“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
— Numbers 9:2
When both are sounded, the whole congregation is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
— Numbers 10:3
But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you.
— Numbers 10:4
“Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
— Numbers 10:31
If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
— Numbers 10:32
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
— Numbers 11:8
I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.
— Numbers 11:14
And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
— Numbers 11:17
So Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.
— Numbers 11:24
Then Moses returned to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.
— Numbers 11:30
From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.
— Numbers 11:35