Numbers

The Census of Israel’s Warriors

[Num 1:45-46 LSB] 45 So all the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers' households, from twenty years old and upward, whoever [was able to] go out to war in Israel, 46 even all the numbered men were 603,550.

Levites Not Numbered in the Census

Israel Camped by Their Standards

Priests and Levites

Responsibilities of the Priests

Redemption of the Firstborn

Duties of the Kohathites

Duties of the Gershonites

Duties of the Merarites

Unclean Sent Outside the Camp

Restitution for Sins

The Statutes of Jealousy

The Nazirite Vow

Yahweh Blesses the Sons of Israel

[Num 6:23-27 LSB] 23 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them: 24 Yahweh bless you, and keep you; 25 Yahweh make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; 26 Yahweh lift up His face on you, And give you peace.' 27 "So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I [then] will bless them."

Offerings of the Leaders

[Num 7:89 LSB] 89 Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, so He spoke to him.

The Seven Lamps

Cleansing of the Levites

[Num 8:22 LSB] 22 Then after that the Levites went in to perform their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons; just as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

Retirement of the Levites

[Numbers 8:25-26 LSB — “But at the age of fifty years they shall retire from their duty in the service and not serve anymore. “They may, however, minister to their brothers in the tent of meeting in order to keep up their responsibility, but they themselves shall perform no service. Thus you shall deal with the Levites concerning their responsibilities.”

The Passover

[Num 9:13 LSB] 13 'But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet neglects to celebrate the Passover, that person shall then be cut off from his people, for he did not bring near the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time. That man will bear his sin.

The Cloud Covering the Tabernacle

[Num 9:17 LSB] 17 Now whenever the cloud would go up from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp.

[Num 9:23 LSB] 23 At the command of Yahweh they camped, and at the command of Yahweh they set out; they kept the charge of Yahweh, according to the command of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.

The Silver Trumpets

Israel Sets Out From Sinai

[Num 10:35-36 LSB] 35 Then it happened when the ark set out that Moses said, "Rise up, O Yahweh! And let Your enemies be scattered, And let those who hate You flee before You." 36 And when it came to rest, he said, "Return, O Yahweh, [To] the myriad thousands of Israel."

The People Complain

Moses Complains

The Spirit Rests Upon the Elders

[Num 11:22-23 LSB] 22 "Should flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?" 23 And Yahweh said to Moses, "Is Yahweh's power limited? Now you shall see whether My word will happen for you or not."

[Num 11:29 LSB] 29 But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the people of Yahweh were prophets, that Yahweh would put His Spirit upon them!"

The Quail and the Plague

Miriam and Aaron Speak Against Moses

[Num 12:6-8 LSB] 6 and He said, "Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, shall make Myself known to him in a vision. I shall speak with him in a dream. 7 "Not so, with My servant Moses, He is faithful in all My household; 8 With him I speak mouth to mouth, Indeed clearly, and not in riddles, And he beholds the form of Yahweh. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant, against Moses?"

[Deu 34:10 LSB] 10 And there has not yet arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,

[Exo 33:20 LSB] 20 But He said, "You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!" 

[Exo 33:23 LSB] 23 "Then I will remove My hand, and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen." 

Matthew 5:8 LSB — Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

1 John 3:2 LSB — Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not been manifested as yet what we will be. We know that when He is manifested, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

The Spies Sent into Canaan

[Num 13:23 LSB] 23 Then they came to the valley of Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two [men] with some of the pomegranates and the figs.

The Spies Recount What They Saw

[Num 13:32-33 LSB] 32 So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land, which we have passed through to spy out on, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of [great] size. 33 "There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshopper.

[Gen 15:18 LSB] 18 On that day Yahweh cut a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:s in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

[Gen 17:8 LSB] 8 "And I will give to you and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."

[Exo 33:2 LSB] 2 "And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

[Exo 23:30 LSB] 30 "I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take the land as an inheritance. 

[Psa 106:24 LSB] 24 Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word, 

The People Rebel

Moses Prays for the People

[Num 14:18-19 LSB] 18 'Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth [generations].' 19 "Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."

Evil Complainers

[Num 14:22-23 LSB] 22 "Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice, 23 shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.

[Heb 3:16-19 LSB] 16 For who provoked [Him] when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt [led] by Moses? 17 And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 [So] we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

Offerings When Entering Canaan

Statute for the Sojourner

A Sabbath-breaker Put to Death

Korah Rises Up Against Moses

[Num 16:3 LSB] 3 Then they assembled together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "You have gone far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and Yahweh is in their midst; so why do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of Yahweh?"

[Psa 106:16-18 LSB] 16 Then they became envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh, 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered up the company of Abiram. 18 And a fire burned up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.

[Psa 106:16-18 LSB] 16 Then they became envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh, 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered up the company of Abiram. 18 And a fire burned up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.

Grumbling and Plague

[Num 16:48 LSB] 48 And he took his stand between the dead and the living, so that the plague was checked.

[1Ti 2:5 LSB] 5 For there is one God, [and] one mediator also between God and men, [the] man Christ Jesus,

Aaron’s Rod Buds

[Num 17:8 LSB] 8 Now it happened on the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced flowers, and it bore ripe almonds.

Responsibilities of the Levites

The Priests’ Portion

Statute of the Red Heifer

No Water for the Congregation

Moses Strikes the Rock

[Num 20:11 LSB] 11 Then Moses raised high his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation and their beasts drank.

[Num 20:12 LSB] 12 But Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."

[Deu 32:50-52 LSB] 50 "Then die on the mountain where you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 51 because you [both] acted unfaithfully with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you [both] did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel. 52 "For you shall see the land at a distance, but you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel."

Edom Refuses Passage

The Death of Aaron

Destruction of Canaanite Cities

The Bronze Serpent

[Num 21:9 LSB] 9 And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it happened, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.

[Jhn 3:14 LSB] 14 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;

Sihon and Og Struck Down

Balak Sends for Balaam

Balaam’s Donkey and the Angel

[Num 22:38 LSB] 38 So Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come now to you! Am I able to speak anything at all? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I shall speak."

Yahweh Speaks Through Balaam

Balaam’s Discourse

Spirit of God Comes Upon Balaam

[Num 24:9 LSB] 9 "He crouches, he lies down as a lion, And as a lion, who dares rouse him? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, And cursed is everyone who curses you."

[Gen 49:9 LSB] 9 "Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, he lies down as a lion, And as a lioness, who dares rouse him up?

[Gen 12:3 LSB] 3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

Israel Sacrifices to Baal

Numbers 25:7-9 LSB — And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, so he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand, and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the body. Then the plague on the sons of Israel was checked. So those who died by the plague were 24,000.

The Jealousy of Phinehas

Numbers 25:11 LSB — “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned away My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in My jealousy.

2 Corinthians 11:2 LSB — For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, for I betrothed you to one husband, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Numbers 25:12-13 LSB — “Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give him My covenant of peace; and it shall be for him and his seed after him, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.’”

Census of the Sons of Israel

Reuben 43,730 (v. 7) -2,770

Simeon 22,200 (v. 14) -37,100

Gad 40,500 (v. 18) -5,150

Judah 76,500 (v. 22) +1,900

Issachar 64,300 (v. 25) +9,900

Zebulun 60,500 (v. 27) +3,100

Manasseh 52,700 (v. 34) +20,500

Ephraim 32,500 (v. 37) -8,000

Benjamin 45,600 (v. 41) +10,200

Dan 64,400 (v. 43) +1,700

AshTheer 53,400 (v. 47) +11,900

Naphtali 45,400 (v. 50) -8,000

Total 601,730 (v. 51) -1,820

Daughters of Zelophehad

Moses Commissions Joshua

Numbers 27:15-17 LSB — Then Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying, “May Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of Yahweh will not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”

Matthew 9:36 LSB — And seeing the crowds, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd.

Mark 6:34 LSB — And when Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.

Daily Offerings

Numbers 28:2 LSB — “Command the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘You shall be careful to bring near My offering, My food for My offerings by fire, of a soothing aroma to Me, at their appointed time.’

Ephesians 5:1-2 LSB — Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

Sabbath Offerings

Monthly Offerings

Passover Offerings

Offerings for the Feast of Weeks

Offerings of the Feast of Trumpets

Offerings for Atonement

The Statutes for Vows

Numbers 30:2 LSB — “If a man makes a vow to Yahweh or swears an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Judges 11:35 LSB — So it happened that when he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me. But I have opened my mouth to vow to Yahweh, and I cannot take it back.”

Vengeance on Midian

[Num 31:8 LSB] 8 They killed the kings of Midian along with the [rest of] their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

[Num 31:16 LSB] 16 "Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to act unfaithfully against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

[Num 25:3 LSB] 3 So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel.

Division of the Loot

Reuben and Gad Possess Gilead

The Journey from Egypt to Jordan

Statutes of Possessing the Land

Apportioning Canaan

Cities for the Levites

Cities of Refuge

[Num 35:34 LSB] 34 'And you shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I Yahweh am dwelling in the midst of the sons of Israel.'"

[2Co 6:16 LSB] 16 Or what agreement has a sanctuary of God with idols? For we are a sanctuary of the living God; just as God said, "I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.

Inheritance Through Marriage