Rung 1 of 8
The story
What happens, plainly.
Aharon lights the lamps of the menorah so that they shine toward its center, and the Levites are purified and given to the work of the Mishkan. Those who were impure at Pesach are given a second Pesach a month later, and the cloud over the Mishkan tells Israel when to camp and when to travel. Two silver trumpets are made, and the people set out from Sinai with the Ark of the covenant going before them. Soon they complain, first of hardship and then of the manna, crying for meat; Moshe tells Hashem he cannot carry the people alone, seventy elders receive some of his spirit, and quail fall until the craving ends in plague. Miriam and Aharon speak against Moshe because of the Kushite woman he married; Miriam is struck with tzara'at, Moshe prays, "G‑d, please, heal her, please," and the people do not travel until she is brought back in after seven days.