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- Theme of the year 2012
The book of Numbers.
The book of Numbers takes its name
from the numbering of the people at
Sinai (chapter 1) / Moab (chapter 26)
The book contains 36 chapters and is
a historical account of about 40 years
of Israel’s history (1450-1410 BC).
It tells many truly fascinating events
that should serve as lessons of God’s
great power, judgment, and also His
tender mercy.
The book of Numbers.
The setting of the book of
Numbers.
The book centers around a major character- Moses.
---------- 40 Years ------As son of Pharaoh’s
daughter Acts 7:23
---------- 40 Years ------Shepherd in the land
of Midian Acts 7:30
Moses born as a
Hebrew, raised as
Egyptian Exodus 2:1-10
Moses flees to Midian
Exodus 2:11-15
Moses’ position
Acts 7:20-23
Hebrews 11:23-29
Moses called by God
to lead Israel
Exodus 3:1-4:31
Acts 7:24-30
---------- 40 Years ------Leading the children
of Israel Acts 7:36
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Numbers
(Journey)
Exodus
(Exit)
Leviticus
(Legislation)
Genesis
(Origin)
Chronological order of Numbers
At Sinai
Leviticus 1-27
To Sinai
Exodus 1-18
To Moab
Numbers 10-22
LEVITICUSS
EXODUS
NUMBERS
The book of Numbers.
The setting of the book of
Numbers.
The survey of the book of
Numbers.
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The Children of
Israel at Sinai
(Num. 1-10:10)
The numbering and
arrangements of the
Tribes of Israel
(chapter 1-2)
The Children of
Israel’s Journey
(Num. 10:11-21:35)
The Children of
Israel at Moab
(Num. 22-36)
1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai,
in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second
month, in the second year after they had come out of the
land of Egypt, saying:
2 "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according
to the number of names, every male individually,
3 "from twenty years old and above-all who are able to go
to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their
armies.
- Numbers 1:1-3.
SOUTH
Numbers 2:10-16
Reuben
Simeon
Gad
46,500
59,300
45,650
151,450
WEST
Numbers 2:18-24
Ephraim
Manasseh
Benjamin
40,500
32,200
35,400
108,100
Broke Camp Second.
Broke Camp Third.
EAST
Numbers 2:3-9
NORTH
Numbers 2:25-31
Judah
Issachar
Zebulon
74,600
54,400
57,400
186,400
Broke Camp First.
Dan
Asher
Naphtali
62,700
41,500
33,400
137,600
Broke Camp Last.
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The Children of
Israel at Sinai
(Num. 1-10:10)
The numbering and
arrangements of the
Tribes of Israel
(chapter 1-2)
The assignments of
service to the Levites
(chapter 3-4)
The Children of
Israel’s Journey
(Num. 10:11-21:35)
The Children of
Israel at Moab
(Num. 22-36)
SOUTH
Numbers 3:27-32
Kohath
The ark, the table, the
lampstand, the altars, the
utensils of the sanctuay.
EAST
Numbers 3:38-39
Moses, Aaron, his sons
keeping charge of the
sanctuary.
WEST
Numbers 3:21-26
Gershon
The tabernacle, the tent
with its covering, the
screen for the door of the
tabernacle of meeting.
NORTH
Numbers 3:33- 36
Merari
The boards of the
tabernacle, its bars, its
pillars, its sockets, its
utensils.
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The Children of
Israel at Sinai
(Num. 1-10:10)
The numbering and
arrangements of the
Tribes of Israel
(chapter 1-2)
The assignments of
service to the Levites
(chapter 3-4)
Various laws of purity,
worship, passover,
and signals
for marching
(chapter 5-10:10)
The Children of
Israel’s Journey
(Num. 10:11-21:35)
The Children of
Israel at Moab
(Num. 22-36)
Numbers 7:1-9 - Now it came to pass, when Moses had
finished setting up the tabernacle, that he anointed it and
consecrated it and all its furnishings, and the altar and all
its utensils; so he anointed them and consecrated them.
2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers'
houses, who were the leaders of the tribes and over those
who were numbered, made an offering.
3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six
covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for every two of the
leaders, and for each one an ox; and they presented them
before the tabernacle.
4 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
5 "Accept these from them, that they may be used in
doing the work of the tabernacle of meeting; and you shall
give them to the Levites, to every man according to his
service.“
6 So Moses took the carts and the oxen, and gave them to
the Levites.
7 Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon,
according to their service;
8 and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of
Merari, according to their service, under the authority of
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because theirs
was the service of the holy things, which they carried on
their shoulders.
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The Children of
Israel at Sinai
(Num. 1-10:10)
The Children of
Israel’s Journey
(Num. 10:11-21:35)
The numbering and
arrangements of the
Tribes of Israel
(chapter 1-2)
The journey to Kadesh
(chapter 10-14)
The assignments of
service to the Levites
(chapter 3-4)
Various laws of purity,
worship, passover,
and signals
for marching
(chapter 5-10:10)
The Children of
Israel at Moab
(Num. 22-36)
11 Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second
month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up
from above the tabernacle of the Testimony.
12 And the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of
Sinai on their journeys; then the cloud settled down in the
Wilderness of Paran.
13 So they started out for the first time according to the
command of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
- Numbers 10:11-13.
The standard of the camp of the children of Judah set out
first according to their armies; over their army was
Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 10:14.
Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of
Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the
tabernacle..
- Numbers 10:17.
And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out according
to their armies; over their army was Elizur the son of
Shedeur.
- Numbers 10:18.
Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things. (The
tabernacle would be prepared for their arrival.)
- Numbers 10:21.
Kohathites Reuben Gershon Judah
And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim
set out according to their armies; over their army was
Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- Numbers 10:22.
Then the standard of the camp of the children of Dan (the
rear guard of all the camps) set out according to their
armies; over their army was Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.
- Numbers 10:25.
33 So they departed from the mountain of the LORD on a
journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of the
LORD went before them for the three days' journey, to
search out a resting place for them.
34 And the cloud of the LORD was above them by day
when they went out from the camp. - Numbers 10:33-34.
Dan Ephraim Kohathites Reuben Gershon Judah Ark
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The Children of
Israel at Sinai
(Num. 1-10:10)
The Children of
Israel’s Journey
(Num. 10:11-21:35)
The numbering and
arrangements of the
Tribes of Israel
(chapter 1-2)
The journey to Kadesh
(chapter 10-14)
The assignments of
service to the Levites
(chapter 3-4)
Various laws of purity,
worship, pass-over,
and signals
for marching
(chapter 5-10:10)
The people grumble
and complain,
desiring to go back to
Egypt
(chapter 11)
The Children of
Israel at Moab
(Num. 22-36)
1 Now when the people complained, it displeased the
LORD; for the LORD heard it, and His anger was aroused.
So the fire of the LORD burned among them, and
consumed some in the outskirts of the camp.
2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses
prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched.
3 So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the
fire of the LORD had burned among them.
4 Now the mixed multitude who were among them
yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also
wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat?
5 "We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the
cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the
garlic;
6 "but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at
all except this manna before our eyes!“ – Numbers 11:1-6.
18 "Then you shall say to the people, 'Consecrate
yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you
have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will
give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt."
Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.
19 'You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days,
nor ten days, nor twenty days,
20 'but for a whole month, until it comes out of your
nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have
despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept
before Him, saying, "Why did we ever come up out of
Egypt?“
– Numbers 11:18-20.
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The Children of
Israel at Sinai
(Num. 1-10:10)
The Children of
Israel’s Journey
(Num. 10:11-21:35)
The numbering and
arrangements of the
Tribes of Israel
(chapter 1-2)
The journey to Kadesh
(chapter 10-14)
The assignments of
service to the Levites
(chapter 3-4)
Various laws of purity,
worship, passover,
and signals
for marching
(chapter 5-10:10)
The people grumble
and complain,
desiring to go back to
Egypt
(chapter 11)
Aaron and Miriam
complain against
Moses (chapter 12)
The Children of
Israel at Moab
(Num. 22-36)
Numbers 12:1-8 - Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against
Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had
married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
2 So they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through
Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?" And the
LORD heard it.
3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all
men who were on the face of the earth.)
4 Suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam,
"Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!" So
the three came out.
5 Then the LORD came down in the pillar of cloud and
stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and
Miriam. And they both went forward.
6 Then He said, "Hear now My words: If there is a prophet
among you, I, the LORD, make Myself known to him in a
vision; I speak to him in a dream.
7 Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My
house.
8 I speak with him face to face, Even plainly, and not in
dark sayings; And he sees the form of the LORD. Why then
were you not afraid To speak against My servant Moses?
9 So the anger of the LORD was aroused against them, and
He departed.
10 And when the cloud departed from above the
tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as
snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she
was, a leper.
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The Children of
Israel at Sinai
(Num. 1-10:10)
The Children of
Israel’s Journey
(Num. 10:11-21:35)
The numbering and
arrangements of the
Tribes of Israel
(chapter 1-2)
The journey to Kadesh
(chapter 10-14)
The assignments of
service to the Levites
(chapter 3-4)
Various laws of purity,
worship, passover,
and signals
for marching
(chapter 5-10:10)
The people grumble
and complain,
desiring to go back to
Egypt
(chapter 11)
Aaron and Miriam
complain against
Moses (chapter 12)
12 spices search out
the land, and God’s
wrath is kindled
(chapter 13-14)
The Children of
Israel at Moab
(Num. 22-36)
Numbers 14:26-34 - And the LORD spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying,
27 "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who
complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which
the children of Israel make against Me.
28 "Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you have
spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:
29 'The carcasses of you who have complained against Me
shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered,
according to your entire number, from twenty years old
and above.
30 'Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the
son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I
swore I would make you dwell in.
31 'But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I
will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have
despised.
32 'But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this
wilderness.
33 'And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness
forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your
carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.
34 'According to the number of the days in which you
spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear
your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know
My rejection.
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The Children of
Israel at Sinai
(Num. 1-10:10)
The Children of
Israel’s Journey
(Num. 10:11-21:35)
The numbering and
arrangements of the
Tribes of Israel
(chapter 1-2)
The journey to Kadesh
(chapter 10-14)
The assignments of
service to the Levites
(chapter 3-4)
Various laws of purity,
worship, passover,
and signals
for marching
(chapter 5-10:10)
The people grumble
and complain,
desiring to go back to
Egypt
(chapter 11)
Aaron and Miriam
complain against
Moses (chapter 12)
12 spices search out
the land, and God’s
wrath is kindled
(chapter 13-14)
The children of Israel
begin their wilderness
wonderings
(chapter 15-21)
The Children of
Israel at Moab
(Num. 22-36)
Numbers 20:1-12 - Then the children of Israel, the whole
congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first
month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died
there and was buried there.
2 Now there was no water for the congregation; so they
gathered together against Moses and Aaron.
3 And the people contended with Moses and spoke,
saying: "If only we had died when our brethren died before
the LORD!
4 "Why have you brought up the assembly of the LORD
into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die
here?
5 "And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to
bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs
or vines or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink.“
6 So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the
assembly to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and
they fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD
appeared to them.
7 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
8 "Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the
congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes,
and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for
them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation
and their animals.“
9 So Moses took the rod from before the LORD as He
commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together
before the rock; and he said to them, "Hear now, you
rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?“
11 Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice
with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the
congregation and their animals drank.
12 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, "Because
you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the
children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this
assembly into the land which I have given them."
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The Children of
Israel at Sinai
(Num. 1-10:10)
The Children of
Israel’s Journey
(Num. 10:11-21:35)
The Children of
Israel at Moab
(Num. 22-36)
The numbering and
arrangements of the
Tribes of Israel
(chapter 1-2)
The journey to Kadesh
(chapter 10-14)
Balak (king of Moab)
calls for Balaam
(chapter 22-24)
The assignments of
service to the Levites
(chapter 3-4)
Various laws of purity,
worship, passover,
and signals
for marching
(chapter 5-10:10)
The people grumble
and complain,
desiring to go back to
Egypt
(chapter 11)
Aaron and Miriam
complain against
Moses (chapter 12)
12 spices search out
the land, and God’s
wrath is kindled
(chapter 13-14)
The children of Israel
begin their wilderness
wonderings
(chapter 15-21)
Numbers 22:1-6 - Then the children of Israel moved, and
camped in the plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan
across from Jericho.
2 Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done
to the Amorites.
3 And Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because
they were many, and Moab was sick with dread because
of the children of Israel.
4 So Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now this
company will lick up everything around us, as an ox licks
up the grass of the field." And Balak the son of Zippor was
king of the Moabites at that time.
5 Then he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at
Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the sons of
his people, to call him, saying: "Look, a people has come
from Egypt. See, they cover the face of the earth, and are
settling next to me!
6 "Therefore please come at once, curse this people for
me, for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be able
to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know
that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you
curse is cursed."
19 "Now therefore, please, you also stay here tonight, that
I may know what more the LORD will say to me.“
20 And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "If
the men come to call you, rise and go with them; but only
the word which I speak to you-that you shall do.“
21 So Balaam rose in the morning, saddled his donkey,
and went with the princes of Moab. – Numbers 22:19-21.
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The Children of
Israel at Sinai
(Num. 1-10:10)
The Children of
Israel’s Journey
(Num. 10:11-21:35)
The Children of
Israel at Moab
(Num. 22-36)
The numbering and
arrangements of the
Tribes of Israel
(chapter 1-2)
The journey to Kadesh
(chapter 10-14)
Balak (king of Moab)
calls for Balaam
(chapter 22-24)
The assignments of
service to the Levites
(chapter 3-4)
Various laws of purity,
worship, passover,
and signals
for marching
(chapter 5-10:10)
The people grumble
and complain,
desiring to go back to
Egypt
(chapter 11)
Aaron and Miriam
complain against
Moses (chapter 12)
12 spices search out
the land, and God’s
wrath is kindled
(chapter 13-14)
The children of Israel
begin their wilderness
wonderings
(chapter 15-21)
Various instructions of
laws and events
(chapter 25-31)
1 Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people
began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.
2 They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods,
and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
3 So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the
LORD was aroused against Israel.
4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the
people and hang the offenders before the LORD, out in the
sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from
Israel.“
5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Every one of you
kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor.“
- Numbers 25:1-5.
1 And it came to pass, after the plague, that the LORD
spoke to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest,
saying:
2 "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of
Israel from twenty years old and above, by their fathers'
houses, all who are able to go to war in Israel.“
3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the
plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying:
4 "Take a census of the people from twenty years old and
above, just as the LORD commanded Moses and the
children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt."
- Numbers 26:1-4.
51 These are those who were numbered of the children of
Israel: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and
thirty.
52 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
53 "To these the land shall be divided as an inheritance,
according to the number of names.
54 "To a large tribe you shall give a larger inheritance, and
to a small tribe you shall give a smaller inheritance. Each
shall be given its inheritance according to those who were
numbered of them.
- Numbers 26:51-54.
63 These are those who were numbered by Moses and
Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in
the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.
64 But among these there was not a man of those who
were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they
numbered the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Sinai.
65 For the LORD had said of them, "They shall surely die in
the wilderness." So there was not left a man of them,
except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of
Nun.
- Numbers 26:53-65.
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The Children of
Israel at Sinai
(Num. 1-10:10)
The Children of
Israel’s Journey
(Num. 10:11-21:35)
The Children of
Israel at Moab
(Num. 22-36)
The numbering and
arrangements of the
Tribes of Israel
(chapter 1-2)
The journey to Kadesh
(chapter 10-14)
Balak (king of Moab)
calls for Balaam
(chapter 22-24)
The assignments of
service to the Levites
(chapter 3-4)
Various laws of purity,
worship, passover,
and signals
for marching
(chapter 5-10:10)
The people grumble
and complain,
desiring to go back to
Egypt
(chapter 11)
Aaron and Miriam
complain against
Moses (chapter 12)
12 spices search out
the land, and God’s
wrath is kindled
(chapter 13-14)
The children of Israel
begin their wilderness
wonderings
(chapter 15-21)
Various instructions of
laws and events
(chapter 25-31)
The reminding and
the instruction for
dividing the promised
land (chapter 32-36)
1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who
went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the
hand of Moses and Aaron.
2 Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their
journeys at the command of the LORD. And these are their
journeys according to their starting points:
3 They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the
fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the
Passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in
the sight of all the Egyptians.
4 For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom
the LORD had killed among them. Also on their gods the
LORD had executed judgments..
– Numbers 33:1-4.
9 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
10 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them:
'When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
11 'then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for
you, that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally
may flee there.
12 'They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger,
that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the
congregation in judgment.
13 'And of the cities which you give, you shall have six
cities of refuge.
14 'You shall appoint three cities on this side of the
Jordan, and three cities you shall appoint in the land of
Canaan, which will be cities of refuge.
– Numbers 35:9-14.
c.f. Joshua 20:7-8.
Kadesh
Golan
Shechem
Ramoth
Bezer
Hebron
The book of Numbers is a historical
narrative of the children of Israel’s
journey to the plains of Moab.
The book of Numbers is also a lesson
of obedience to God, “Now these
things became our examples, to the
intent that we should not lust after
evil things as they also lusted.”
- I Corinthians10:1-11.
Are you ready to learn the lesson?
Obey the gospel of Christ Jesus
today!