Lexicon :: Strong's G4864 - synagōgē

Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

“May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.

God also said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, and kings will descend from you.[fn]

“He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful and numerous; I will make many nations come from you, and I will give this land as a permanent possession to your future descendants.’

“Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to their fathers’ families, one animal per family.

“You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

“Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a resident alien or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel.

“The whole community of Israel must celebrate[fn] it.

The entire Israelite community departed from Elim and came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt.

So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,

Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the LORD, for he has heard your complaints.’ ”

On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts[fn] apiece, and all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.

The entire Israelite community left the Wilderness of Sin, moving from one place to the next according to the LORD’s command. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

“Also observe the Festival of Harvest[fn] with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering[fn] at the end of the year, when you gather your produce[fn] from the field.

“Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering[fn] at the turn of the agricultural year.

But Moses called out to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

Moses assembled the entire Israelite community and said to them, “These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do:

Then Moses said to the entire Israelite community, “This is what the LORD has commanded:

Then the entire Israelite community left Moses’s presence.

Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, 7 ¹/₂ feet long and 7 ¹/₂ feet wide,[fn] and was 4 ¹/₂ feet[fn] high.

The silver from those of the community who were registered was 7,544 pounds,[fn] according to the sanctuary shekel ​— ​

“Now if the whole community of Israel errs, and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, so that they violate any of the LORD’s commands and incur guilt by doing what is prohibited,

“Then he will bring the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

“and assemble the whole community at the entrance to the tent of meeting.”

They brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole community came forward and stood before the LORD.

Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD has spoken:

I will demonstrate my holiness[fn]

to those who are near me,

and I will reveal my glory[fn]

before all the people.”

And Aaron remained silent.

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair hang loose and do not tear your clothes, or else you will die, and the LORD will become angry with the whole community. However, your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may weep over the fire that the LORD caused.

“Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the sanctuary area? For it is especially holy, and he has assigned it to you to take away the guilt of the community and make atonement for them before the LORD.

“A spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but someone who touches a carcass in it will become unclean.

“He is to take from the Israelite community two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

“No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the most holy place until he leaves after he has made atonement for himself, his household, and the whole assembly of Israel.

“and make atonement for the most holy place. He will make atonement for the tent of meeting and the altar and will make atonement for the priests and all the people of the assembly.

“Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the resident aliens in Israel who presents his offering ​— ​whether they present payment of vows or freewill gifts to the LORD as burnt offerings ​— ​

“Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him.

“Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death; the whole community is to stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the resident alien or the native.

“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral families,[fn] counting the names of every male one by one.

“These are the men called from the community; they are leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of Israel’s clans.”

and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years old or more,

“Bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire Israelite community.

Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community did this to the Levites. The Israelites did everything to them the LORD commanded Moses regarding the Levites.

“Make two trumpets of hammered silver to summon the community and have the camps set out.