Tag: Numbers

Numbers 28 – 29The priests were to offer two first-year lambs per day plus an extra two each sabbath. Then there was the requirement that they offer seven unblemished first year lambs (plus two bullocks and a ram) at the beginning of each month plus seven extra offerings at Passover and one on the day…

Numbers 27I did not know that daughters could inherit in Israel if there were no sons. I remember being taught that Moses was not allowed to enter the promised land because he killed the Egyptian but it is clear here in Numbers that the reason is because he was disobedient to the Lord at Meribah…

Numbers 25I had remembered that the children of Israel complained a lot Moses but I had not remembered that they turned to idolatry and whoredoms even while Moses was still with them. Moses must have been heartbroken that twenty-four thousand of the people had gone astray so quickly.

Numbers 23-24The way Balak responded to the unfavorable responses from the Lord through Balaam tells us a lot about his belief and attitude toward God. Balak thought that God was a being to be bought off; someone to whom you would offer up petitions until He agreed with you rather than someone from whom you…

Numbers 22The story of Balaam is solid proof of the fact that the Lord had prophets outside Israel even while Israel was actively following a prophet.

Numbers 21Interesting that the account here does not talk of the fact that some people refused to look at the brass serpent. The Book of Mormon gives us that information. This is the second time intel chapters that we are told a story of the Israelites offering to pass peacefully and being refused. It appears…

Numbers 20This sounds like Aaron was with Moses while the Lord was showing Himself to them. In Horeb (see Exodus 17) the people complained for water and the Lord told him to smite a rock with his rod. Here in Kadesh the people complain for water and the Lord tells Moses to simply speak to…

Numbers 19I wonder why there was so much emphasis on the rituals of uncleanliness. Was it to continually remind the people of the need for purification if they were to be a peculiar people, a nation of priests before the lord?

Numbers 18The firstborn of both men and animals belonged to the house of Aaron and the tribe of Levi, yet they were commanded to redeem (rather than claim) the firstborn of men and the firstborn of any unclean beast. The Levites were to live off the tithes of the people and offer one tenth of…

Numbers 17I don’t understand the reason for the test of the rods. I guess it was to prevent future murmuring about who was chosen by the Lord but I am starting to get confused by the repetition of stories and I seriously wonder about how inspired this account is.