Tag: Numbers

Numbers 16These rebels did not understand or recognize that while all the people of Israel were chosen people of the covenant, few of the people were particularly or peculiarly holy through their own choices. I think they challenged Moses and Aaron simply because they were proud, like Nehor before Alma. After the rebels were destroyed…

Numbers 15We think of sacrificial offerings as being strictly animals but they were required to give meal and wine with it so that every offering was a meal unto itself in content even if not always in quantity.

Numbers 12 – 14I doubt I’ll ever have an answer to why Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses or why only Miriam became leprous. Perhaps she led Aaron in being jealous of Moses. I had not realized that Joshua was given a different name at birth, Oshea, and Moses renamed him when Joshua came to…

Numbers 11This chapter seems a bit confusing to me. It tells of the choosing of seventy elders to help Moses bear the burden of leading the people but in this one Moses complains whereas in Exodus we hear of Jethro counseling Moses to get help from seventy elders. It seems like the same story but…

Numbers 10This traveling through the wilderness really was like Zion’s Camp. The people were organized and mobilized like an army and they were numbered according to the number of those who were fit to fight.

Numbers 9Interesting! I had never realized that we had documentation of Moses receiving revelation in direct answer to questions by the people the way I know that Joseph Smith often did. In this case Moses was taught that those who were unclean because of touching a dead body could still keep the Passover. As the…

Numbers 8I didn’t realize that there was a ceremony in which the children of Israel acknowledged that the Levites were to be set apart for the Lord in place of the firstborn of all Israel. Levites were to serve in the tabernacle from the age of 25 to the age of 50.

Numbers 7The fact that all the prices of the tribes seemed to have offered the same offering tells me that either they were instructed what to offer (which I do not remember from previous chapters or books) or else they collaborated and decided together what an appropriate and solemn offering would be.

Numbers 6I did not know that not shaving the head was a defining standard practice of those who would be Nazarites and that if they were defiled during the period of their vow they were to shave their head. Sampson should have had his head shaved long before he did but it seems that the…

Numbers 5Perhaps I am confused but if the priests are to receive as their own very trespass offering then would they have incentive to make people tresspass either by making new regulations or by minimizing the seriousness of such trespases? This law of how to deal with suspected infidelity is interesting. I notice that there…