8:1 Yahuwah said to Mosheh,

² "Speak to Aharon and say to him, 'When you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.'"

³ Aharon did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as Yahuwah commanded Mosheh.

⁴ This is how the lampstand was made: It was made of hammered gold-- from its base to its blossoms. The lampstand was made exactly like the pattern Yahuwah had shown Mosheh.

⁵ Yahuwah said to Mosheh:

⁶ "Take the Levites from among the other sons of Yisrael and make them clean.

⁷ To purify them, do this: Sprinkle the water of cleansing on them; then have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

⁸ Have them take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil; then you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.

⁹ Bring the Levites to the front of the Tent of Appointment and assemble the whole community of the sons of Yisrael.

¹⁰ You are to bring the Levites before Yahuwah, and the sons of Yisrael are to lay their hands on them.

¹¹ Aharon is to present the Levites before Yahuwah as a wave offering from the sons of Yisrael, so that they may be ready to do the work of Yahuwah.

¹² "After the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, use the one for a sin offering to Yahuwah and the other for a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites.

¹³ Have the Levites stand in front of Aharon and his sons and then present them as a wave offering to Yahuwah.

¹⁴ In this way you are to set the Levites apart from the other sons of Yisrael, and the Levites will be mine.

¹⁵ "After you have purified the Levites and presented them as a wave offering, they are to come to do their work at the Tent of Appointment.

¹⁶ They are the sons of Yisrael who are to be given wholly to me. I have taken them as my own in place of the firstborn, the first male offspring from every Yisraelite woman.

¹⁷ Every firstborn male in Yisrael, whether man or animal, is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Mitzrayim, I set them apart for myself.

¹⁸ And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons in Yisrael.

¹⁹ Of all the sons of Yisrael, I have given the Levites as gifts to Aharon and his sons to do the work at the Tent of Appointment on behalf of the sons of Yisrael and to make atonement for them so that no plague will strike the sons of Yisrael when they go near the sanctuary."

²⁰ Mosheh, Aharon and the whole community of the sons of Yisrael did with the Levites just as Yahuwah commanded Mosheh.

²¹ The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes. Then Aharon presented them as a wave offering before Yahuwah and made atonement for them to purify them.

²² After that, the Levites came to do their work at the Tent of Appointment under the supervision of Aharon and his sons. They did with the Levites just as Yahuwah commanded Mosheh.

²³ Yahuwah said to Mosheh,

²⁴ "This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years old or more shall come to take part in the work at the Tent of Appointment,

²⁵ but at the age of fifty, they must retire from their regular service and work no longer.

²⁶ They may assist their brothers in performing their duties at the Tent of Appointment, but they themselves must not do the work. This, then, is how you are to assign the responsibilities of the Levites."

9:1 Yahuwah spoke to Mosheh in the Desert of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they came out of Mitzrayim. He said,

² "Have the sons of Yisrael celebrate the Pesach at the appointed time.

³ Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with all its rules and regulations."

⁴ So Mosheh told the sons of Yisrael to celebrate the Pesach,

⁵ and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The sons of Yisrael did everything just as Yahuwah commanded Mosheh.

⁶ But some of them could not celebrate the Pesach on that day because they were unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Mosheh and Aharon that same day

⁷ and said to Mosheh, "We have become unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be kept from presenting Yahuwah's offering with the other sons of Yisrael at the appointed time?"

⁸ Mosheh answered them, "Wait until I find out what Yahuwah commands concerning you."

⁹ Then Yahuwah said to Mosheh,

¹⁰ "Tell the sons of Yisrael: 'When any of you or your descendants are unclean because of a dead body or are away on a journey, they may still celebrate Yahuwah's Pesach.

¹¹ They are to celebrate it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

¹² They must not leave any of it till morning or break any of its bones. When they celebrate the Pesach, they must follow all the regulations.

¹³ But if a man who is clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Pesach, that person must be cut off from his people because he did not present Yahuwah's offering at the appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

¹⁴ "'An alien living among you who wants to celebrate Yahuwah's Pesach must do so in accordance with its rules and regulations. You must have the same regulations for the alien and the native-born.'"

10:1 Yahuwah said to Mosheh:

² "Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out.

³ When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Appointment.

⁴ If only one is sounded, the leaders-- the heads of the clans of Yisrael-- are to assemble before you.

⁵ When a trumpet blast is sounded, the tribes camping on the east are to set out.

⁶ At the sounding of a second blast, the camps on the south are to set out. The blast will be the signal for setting out.

⁷ To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but not with the same signal.

⁸ "The sons of Aharon, the priests, are to blow the trumpets. This is to be a lasting ordinance for you and the generations to come.

⁹ When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by Yahuwah your Elohim and rescued from your enemies.

¹⁰ Also at your times of rejoicing-- your appointments and New Moon festivals-- you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your Elohim. I am Yahuwah your Elohim."

The purpose of separating this portion with inverted nuns, according to the Rabbis, is to draw attention to the fact that this is a separate "book" which indicates that it has a unique message, different from the rest of Bamidbar.  While Bamidbar chronicles the journeys of the sons of Yisrael through the wilderness, this parsha speaks of the journey of the Ark and Presence of Yahuwah through the desert.

The  Stone Edition Tanach translates it as thus:

When the Ark would journey, Mosheh said, "Arise, HaShem, and let your foes be scattered, let those who hate You flee from before You."  And when it rested, he would say, "Reside tranquilly, O, HaShem, among the myriad thousands of Israel."

The focus of this blessing by Mosheh is to again emphasize that it was Yahuwah who was leading his people Yisrael into the wilderness and on into the Promised Land.

11:1 Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of Yahuwah, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from Yahuwah burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

² When the people cried out to Mosheh, he prayed to Yahuwah and the fire died down.

³ So that place was called Taberah, because fire from Yahuwah had burned among them.

⁴ The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the sons of Yisrael started wailing and said, "If only we had meat to eat!

⁵ We remember the fish we ate in Mitzrayim at no cost-- also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

⁶ But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!"

⁷ The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin.

⁸ The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a handmill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.

⁹ When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.

¹⁰ Mosheh heard the people of every family wailing, each at the entrance to his tent. Yahuwah became exceedingly angry, and Mosheh was troubled.

¹¹ He asked Yahuwah, "Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?

¹² Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their forefathers?

¹³ Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, 'Give us meat to eat!'

¹⁴ I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.

¹⁵ If this is how you are going to treat me, put me to death right now-- if I have found favor in your eyes-- and do not let me face my own ruin."

³¹ Now a wind went out from Yahuwah and drove quail in from the sea. It brought them down all around the camp to about three feet above the ground, as far as a day's walk in any direction.

³² All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers. Then they spread them out all around the camp.

³³ But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of Yahuwah burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.

³⁴ Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

³⁵ From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth and stayed there.

12:1 Miriam and Aharon began to talk against Mosheh because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite.

² "Has Yahuwah spoken only through Mosheh?" they asked. "Hasn't he also spoken through us?" And Yahuwah heard this.

³ (Now Mosheh was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)

⁴ At once Yahuwah said to Mosheh, Aharon and Miriam, "Come out to the Tent of Appointment, all three of you." So the three of them came out.

⁵ Then Yahuwah came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the Tent and summoned Aharon and Miriam. When both of them stepped forward,

⁶ he said, "Listen to my words: "When a prophet of Yahuwah is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams.

⁷ But this is not true of my servant Mosheh; he is faithful in all my house.

⁸ With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of Yahuwah. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Mosheh?"

⁹ The anger of Yahuwah burned against them, and he left them.

¹⁰ When the cloud lifted from above the Tent, there stood Miriam-- leprous, like snow. Aharon turned toward her and saw that she had leprosy;

¹¹ and he said to Mosheh, "Please, my master, do not hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.

¹² Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away."

¹³ So Mosheh cried out to Yahuwah, "O Elohim, please heal her!"

¹⁴ Yahuwah replied to Mosheh, "If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back."

¹⁵ So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.

¹⁶ After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.

3:1 Then he showed me Yahusha the high priest standing before the angel of Yahuwah, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.

² Yahuwah said to Satan, "Yahuwah rebuke you, Satan! Yahuwah, who has chosen Yerushalayim, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?"

³ Now Yahusha was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.

⁴ The angel said to those who were standing before him, "Take off his filthy clothes." Then he said to Yahusha, "See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you."

⁵ Then I said, "Put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of Yahuwah stood by.

⁶ The angel of Yahuwah gave this charge to Yahusha:

⁷ "This is what Yahuwah Almighty says: 'If you will walk in my ways and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.

⁸ "'Listen, O high priest Yahusha and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.

⁹ See, the stone I have set in front of Yahusha! There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,' says Yahuwah Almighty, 'and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.

¹⁰ "'In that day each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree,' declares Yahuwah Almighty."

4:1 Then the angel who talked with me returned and wakened me, as a man is wakened from his sleep.

² He asked me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lights on it, with seven channels to the lights.

³ Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left."

⁴ I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my master?"

⁵ He answered, "Do you not know what these are?" "No, my master," I replied.

⁶ So he said to me, "This is the word of Yahuwah to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says Yahuwah Almighty.

⁷ "What are you, O mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of 'Elohim bless it! Elohim bless it!'"