Transcript Meaningful Structure of the Five Books of Moses Leviticus Lev 16 Lev 11-15 unclean Lev 8-10 priests ordained Lev 1-7 offerings Exo 35-40 Tabernacle planned be holy Lev 17-20 Who? priests.

Meaningful Structure of
the Five Books of Moses
Leviticus
Lev 16
Lev 11-15 unclean
Lev 8-10
priests ordained
Lev 1-7 offerings
Exo 35-40
Tabernacle planned
be holy Lev 17-20
Who?
priests kept holy Lev 21
How?
holy sacrifice Lev 22
Where?
Exo 32-34 golden calf event
Exo 25-31
Why?
When?
Interlude –
apostasy
7 holy times Lev 23
blasphemer stoned Lev 24
When?
Where?
Leviticus
holy sabbaths Lev 25
Leviticus
Exodus
Tabernacle built
What?
Day of Atonements
The Heart of the Torah
Exo 20-24 “Ten Words” & the Sinai Covenant
What?
Sinai
The Context of the Torah
Exo 14-17 going to Sinai – rebellion
Exo 12-13 Passover – salvation
Exo 5-11 Pharaoh – opposition
Genesis
God prepares Israel to leave Sinai Num 1-10
Exo 3-4 –Moses – leader
Exo 1-2 Israel in slavery
God’s grace
Gen 1-50 before Moses
Torah Prelude
rebellion – leaving Sinai + 38 years Num 11-20
Numbers
Exodus
Exo 18-19 Israel prepares to meet God at
blessings, curses, & vows Lev 26-27
salvation – bronze snake, red heifer Num 21
opposition – Balaam
leader – Joshua
Num 26-27
Israel free to inherit
Torah Epilogue
Num 22-25
Num 28-36
God’s grace in the
ministry of Moses Deu 1-34
Deuteronomy
14th th?
10
? ?
30 days
mourning
Miriam dies
?
Passover
in Canaan
Meribah
Moses sins
camp at
Gilgal
1st
Aaron dies
?
arrive at Kadesh
bronze snake
?
?
one year
travel around Moab & Edom
cross
Jordan
defeat of Sihon and Og
?
Balaam – the sin of Baal Peor
?
Midianite War
?
Second Census
?
year
1st
year
Deuteronomy preached
30 days mourning
Moses dies
grumbling occurs 3x on the way to Sinai
(a) about the bitter waters at Marah
(b) about the lack of food in the desert of Sin
(c) about no water at all at Rephidim
!wl = “grumble”
‘grumble’ occurs 15x in the Old
Testament, 14 with Israel’s
traveling to & from Mt. Sinai
grumbling occurs 3 times on the way from Sinai
(C) when the spies returned from Canaan
(B) when Korah and friends rebelled
(A) when Aaron challenged
it appears on the way from Egypt to Sinai > > >
(1) God gains glory for himself at the crossing of the Red Sea
(2) God threatens the complainers at Marah with the plagues of Egypt
(3) God shines his glory before sending manna in the desert of Sin
(4) God reveals himself above the rock providing water at Rephidim
hwhy dbk = “Glory of the LORD”
it appears on the way from Sinai to the Promised Land
(5) after the people adopt the bad report of ten of the twelve spies
(6) before the earth swallowed up Korah and his rebellious allies
(7) after the people openly challenged Aaron’s priesthood
(8) at Meribah before Moses and Aaron disobeyed
Main Events
GRUMBLING after leaving Sinai
Location
Problem
Target
Quotable quote God's response
Resolution of the problem
KADESH spies’
report
stone
Moses &
Aaron
“better
go back
to Egypt!”
God ‘s
glory
appears
Korah
&
KADESH
others
rebell
against
Moses &
Aaron
“You
have
gone too
far!”
God’s Moses & Aaron pleadEarth swallows
glory
appears leaders- fire kills 250
supporters
“you killed
against
many
KADESH people Moses & the Lord’s
people!”
Aaron
die
God’s
glory
appears
Moses intercedeschildren to inheritdefeat at Hormah
Plague strikes Aaron makes
atonement
Aaron’s staff buds
Text
Numbers 13
& 14
Numbers
16:1-35
Numbers
16:41
to 17:11
Interludes between main events
after leaving Sinai
Departure of “God’s Army” on the march from Mt. Sinai to conquer Canaan
(1) at Taberah Moses intercedes as the people complain about hardships
(2) at Kibroth Hata’avah the rabble loathe manna, are given quail & plague;
Numbers 11
Moses despairs as leader, but God pours out his Spirit on seventy
& 12
(3) at Hazaroth Miriam and Aaron criticize Moses’ wife
Moses intercedes for a Miriam whom God strikes with leprosy
GRUMBLING in Kadesh over the Report of the Twelve Spies
(1) laws on offerings given
(2) a sabbath-breaker is stoned
(3) Israel commanded to wear tassels as memorials
Numbers 15
GRUMBLING in Kadesh by Korah, Dathan, Abiram and the 250 leaders
Eleazar hammers the censers left behind by the 250 followers of Korah
Dathan and Abiram into a covering for the altar of sacrifice.
Numbers
16:36-40
GRUMBLING in Kadesh after the death of the rebels
(1) Israel despairs,
(2) Priestly duties and offerings are spelled out
(3) The water of cleaning (red heifer) is authorized
The first generation dies in the wilderness around Kadesh
Numbers
17:12-13 &,
chs. 18 &
19
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Exodus 33:1 Then the LORD
said to Moses, "Leave this
place, you and the people
you brought up out of Egypt,
and go up to the land I
promised on oath to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
saying, 'I will give it to your
descendants
TABERAH
Numbers 11:1
Now the people
complained about
their hardships in
the hearing of the
LORD, and when he
heard them his
anger was aroused.
Then fire from
the LORD
burned among
them and consumed
some of the
outskirts of the
camp
So that place was
called Taberah. . .
KIBROTH HATTAAVAH
Numbers 11:4
The rabble with them began to crave other
food, and again the Israelites started wailing
and said, "If only we had meat to eat!
Numbers 11:10
Moses heard the
people of every
family wailing, each
at the entrance to
his tent.
Numbers
11:13,14
Where can I
get meat for
all these
people? They
keep wailing
to me, 'Give
us meat to
eat! I cannot
carry all these
people by
myself; the
burden is
too heavy
for me.'
Numbers 11:17,25
I will take of the
Spirit that is on you
and put the Spirit
on them. They will
help you carry the
burden of the people
so that you will not
have to carry it alone.
Then the LORD came
down in the cloud
and spoke with him,
and he took of the
Spirit that was on
him and put the
Spirit on the seventy
elders.
Numbers11:19,31
You will not eat it
for just one day, or
two days, or five,
ten or twenty
days…. Now a
wind
went out from the
LORD 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
Numbers 11:35
From Kibroth
Hattaavah the
people traveled to
Hazeroth and
stayed there.
HAZEROTH
Numbers 12:1
Miriam and Aaron
began to talk
against Moses
because of his
Cushite wife, for
he had married a
Cushite.
Numbers 12:10,13
When the cloud lifted
from above the Tent,
there stood Miriam–
leprous, like snow. So
Moses cried out to the
LORD, "O God, please
heal her!"
DESERT of
PARAN
Numbers 12:16
After that, the people left
Hazeroth and encamped in
the Desert of Paran.
Numbers 13:2,18
"Send some men
to explore the land
of Canaan, which
I am giving to the
Israelites. See [1]
what the land
is like and [2]
whether the
people who live
there are
strong or weak,
few or many.
Numbers 13:23
When they
reached the
Valley of Eshcol,
they cut
off a branch
bearing a single
cluster of grapes.
Two of them
carried it on a
pole between
them, along with
some
pomegranates
and figs.
Numbers 13:27 They gave Moses this
account: "We went into the land to which you
sent us, and it does flow with milk
and honey! Here is its fruit.
Numbers 13:28,33 "But the people
who live there are powerful,
and the cities are fortified and very
large. We seemed like grasshoppers
in our own eyes, and
we looked the same to them."
Numbers 14:3,4
Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to let us
fall by the sword?
Our wives and children will be taken as plunder.
Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt?“
And they said to each other,
"We should choose a leader
and go back to Egypt."
Numbers 13:30 &
14:8
Then Caleb silenced
the people before
Moses and said, "We
should go up and
take possession of
the land, for we can
certainly do it.” . . .
If the LORD is
pleased with us,
he will lead us
into that land, a
land flowing with milk
and honey, and will
give it to us.
Numbers 14:13,17-19
Moses said to the LORD,
"Now may the Lord's
strength be displayed,
just as you have declared: The
LORD is slow to anger,
abounding in love and forgiving
sin and rebellion. Yet he does
not leave the guilty unpunished;
he punishes the children for the
sin of the fathers to the third
and fourth generation. In
accordance with your great love,
forgive the sin of these
people, just as you have
pardoned them from the time
they left Egypt until now."
Numbers 14:26,31,34 The LORD said to
Moses and Aaron: As for your children that
you said would be taken as plunder, I will
bring them in to enjoy the land you have
rejected. For forty years-- one year for
each of the forty days you explored the land-you will suffer for your sins and know what it is
like to have me against you.'
Numbers 14:44,45 Nevertheless,
in their presumption they went up
toward the high hill country,
though neither Moses nor the ark
of the LORD's covenant moved
from the campThen the
Amalekites and Canaanites who
lived in that hill country came
down and attacked them and
beat them down all the way to
Hormah.
HORMAH
Numbers 15:28,30
The priest is to make
atonement before the
LORD for the one who
erred by sinning
unintentionally, and
when atonement has
been made for him, he
will be forgiven. But
anyone who sins
defiantly, whether
native-born or alien,
blasphemes the LORD,
and that person must be
cut off from his people.
Numbers 15:32,35
While the Israelites
were in the desert, a
man was found
gathering wood on the
Sabbath day. Then the
LORD said to Moses,
"The man must die.
The whole assembly
must stone him
outside the camp."
Numbers 15:37,38,40,41
The LORD said to Moses,
“Speak to the Israelites and
say to them: ‘Throughout the
generations to come you are to
make tassels on the
corners of your
garments, with a blue cord
on each tassel. Then you will
remember to obey all my
commands and will be
consecrated to your God. I am
the LORD your God, who
brought you out of Egypt to be
your God. I am the LORD your
God.'"
Numbers 16:1,3
Korah son of Izhar, the son
of Kohath, the son of Levi,
and certain Reubenites-Dathan and Abiram, sons of
Eliab, and On son of Peleth-became insolent They came
as a group to oppose Moses
and Aaron and said to them,
"You have gone too far!
The whole community is holy,
every one of them, and the
LORD is with them. Why then
do you set yourselves above
the LORD's assembly?"
Numbers
16:16,17
Moses said
to Korah, “You
and all your
followers are to
appear before the
LORD tomorrow–
you and they and Aaron.
Each man is to take his
censer and put incense
in it-- 250 censers in all-and present it before the
LORD.
Numbers 16:28,29
Then Moses said,
"This is how you will
know that the LORD
has sent me to do all
these things and that
it was not my idea:
If these men die
a natural death
and experience only
what usually happens
to men, then the
LORD has not
sent me.
Numbers 16:31,32
As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them,
with their households and all Korah's men and all their possessions.
Numbers16:35
And fire came
out from the
LORD and
consumed
the 250 men
who were
offering the
incense.
Numbers
16:39,40
So Eleazar the
priest collected the
bronze censers
brought by those
who had been
burned up, and he
had them
hammered out to
overlay the
altar, as the
LORD directed
him through
Moses.
Numbers 16:41
The next day the
whole Israelite
community
grumbled
against Moses
and Aaron.
. "You have
killed the
LORD's
people," they
said.
Numbers 16:46
Then Moses said
to Aaron, "Take
your censer and
put incense in it,
along with fire from
the altar, and
hurry to the
assembly to
make
atonement for
them. Wrath has
come out from the
LORD; the plague
has started."
Numbers 17:6-8 So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and their leaders gave
him twelve staffs, one for the leader of each of their ancestral tribes, and
Aaron's staff was among them. Moses placed the staffs before the
LORD in the Tent of the Testimony. The next day Moses entered the
Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron's staff, which represented the
house of Levi, had not only sprouted but had
budded,
blossomed
and produced almonds.
Numbers 18:5,9,11, 14,21
[Levites]
. . . [1] you are to be
responsible for the care of
the sanctuary and the altar,
so that wrath will not fall on the
Israelites again.
. . . [2] you are to have the
part of the most holy
offerings that is kept from the
fire.
. . . This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave
offerings of the Israelites.
. . . [3] Everything in Israel that is devoted to the LORD is yours
. . . [4] I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in
return for the work they do while serving at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 19:9
"A man who is clean shall
gather up the ashes of the
heifer and put them in a
ceremonially clean place
outside the camp. They
shall be kept by the
Israelite community for use
in the water of cleansing; it
is for purification from sin.
Numbers 19:11,12
Whoever touches
the dead body of
anyone will be
unclean for seven
days. He must purify
himself with the
water on the third
day and on the
seventh day; then
he will be clean. But
if he does not purify
himself on the third
and seventh days,
he will not be clean.
Numbers 20:1
In the first month
the whole Israelite
community arrived
at the Desert of Zin,
and they stayed at
Kadesh. There
Miriam died
and was
buried.
DESERT of ZIN
Numbers 20:2,3 Now there was
no water for the community,
and the people gathered in
opposition to Moses and Aaron.
"If only we had died when our
brothers fell dead before the
LORD!
Numbers 20:10-12
He and Aaron gathered
the assembly together
in front of the rock and
Moses said to them, "Listen, you rebels, must we bring you
water out of this rock?“ Then Moses raised his arm and struck the
rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their
livestock drank. But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did
not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites,
you will not bring this community into the land I give them."
Numbers 20:14,17,18 Moses sent messengers
from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: Please
let us pass through your country. But Edom
answered: "You may not pass through
here; if you try, we will march out and attack you
with the sword."
Numbers 20:23,24 At Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, the LORD
said to Moses and Aaron, "Aaron will be gathered to his people.
He will not enter the land I give the Israelites, because both of you rebelled
against my command at 'the waters of Meribah.”
Numbers 21:4-6
But the people grew
impatient on the way; they
spoke against God and
against Moses, and said,
"Why have you brought us
up out of Egypt to die in the
desert? There is no bread!
There is no water! And we
detest this miserable food!
Then the LORD sent
venomous snakes among
them; they bit the people
and many Israelites died.
Numbers 21:8,9
The LORD said to Moses,
"Make a snake and put it
up on a pole; anyone who
is bitten can look at it and
live.“ So Moses made a
bronze snake and put it
up on a pole. Then when
anyone was bitten by a
snake and looked at
the bronze snake,
he lived.
John 3:14-16 Just as Moses lifted. up the snake in
the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
that everyone who believes in him may have
eternal life. "For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life
Numbers 22:1,3,4,6 Then the
Israelites traveled to the plains of
Moab and camped along the
Jordan across from Jericho. and
Moab was terrified because
there were so many people. So
Balak son of Zippor, who was
king of Moab at that time, sent
messengers to summon Balaam
son of Beor, who was at Pethor,
near the River, in his native land.
Balak said: Now come and
put a curse on these
people, because they are too
powerful for me.
Numbers 22:7
The elders of Moab
and Midian left, taking
with them the fee for
divination. When they
came to Balaam, they
told him what Balak
had said.
Numbers 22:12
But God said to
Balaam, "Do not go
with them. You must
not put a curse
on those people,
because they are
blessed."
Numbers 22:15-17
Then Balak sent other
princes, more
numerous and more
distinguished than the
first. "This is what
Balak son of Zippor
says: 'Do not let
anything keep you
from coming to me,
because I will
reward you
handsomely and
do whatever you
say.'"
Numbers 22:20 That night God came to
Balaam and said, "Since these men have
come to summon you, go with them, but
do only what I tell you."
Numbers 22:22 But God was
very angry when he went, and
the angel of the LORD
stood in the road to
oppose him.
2 Peter 2:15,16 Balaam son of
Beor, who loved the wages of
wickedness. But he was
rebuked for his wrongdoing by
a donkey-- a beast without
speech-- who spoke with a
man's voice and restrained
the prophet's
madness.
Numbers 23:1,2 Balaam said, "Build me
seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and
seven rams for me.“Balak did as Balaam said,.
Then Balaam
uttered his
oracle:
I see a people
who live apart
and do not consider themselves
one of the nations.
Who can count the dust of Jacob
or number the fourth part of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
and may my end be like theirs!"
Numbers
23:7,9
Then Balaam
uttered his
oracle:
God is not a man,
that he should lie,
nor a son of man,
that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
The LORD their God is with them;
the shout of the King
is among them.
Numbers
23:18,19,21
the oracle of
one who
hears the
words of God:
"How beautiful are your tents,
O Jacob,
your dwelling places,
O Israel!
"Their king will be
greater than Agag;
their kingdom
will be exalted.
Numbers
24:4,5,7
"I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not near.
A star will come out
of Jacob;
a scepter will rise out
of Israel.
Numbers 24:17
民
Numbers
24:17
Revelation 2:14
You have people
there who hold to
the teaching of
Balaam, who
taught Balak to
entice the
Israelites to sin
[A] by eating food
sacrificed to idols
and
[B] by committing
sexual immorality.
Numbers 25:1,2
the men began to indulge in
sexual immorality with
Moabite women,
who invited them to the
sacrifices to their gods. The
people ate the sacrificial
meal and bowed down
before these gods.
1 Corinthians 10:7
Do not be idolaters, as
some of them were; as it
is written: The people
sat down to eat and
drink and got up to
indulge in revelry.
Numbers 25:7-9
When Phinehas son of
Eleazar, the son of Aaron,
the priest, saw this, he left
the assembly, took a spear
in his handand followed the
Israelite into the tent. He
drove the spear through both
of them-- through the
Israelite and into the
woman's body. Then the
plague against the Israelites
was stopped; but those who
died in the plague numbered
24,000.
Numbers 26:63-65 These are
the ones counted by Moses and
Eleazar the priest when they
counted the Israelites on the
plains of Moab by the Jordan
across from Jericho. Not one of
them was among those counted
by Moses and Aaron the priest
when they counted the Israelites
in the Desert of Sinai. For the
LORD had told those
Israelites they would
surely die in the desert,
and not one of them was
left except Caleb son of
Jephunneh and Joshua son of
Nun.
Joshua
Caleb
80
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60
64.3
up 60.5
up
50
22.2
way down
43.73
40.5
down
down
40
64.4
up
32.5
down
52.7
up
45.6
up
53.4 45.4
up down
23.0
up
迦得
以法蓮
瑪拿西
便雅憫
Ephraim's
Division
B
D
A
Dan's
Division
拿弗他利
西緬
M
亞設
流便
E
但
西布倫
Benjamin
Reuben's
Division
G
N
Levi
Manasseh
S
Naphtali
Ephraim
R
Asher
Gad
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Dan
Simeon
Judah's
Division
Reuben
I
Zebulun
J
Issachar
Judah
0
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猶大
20
以薩迦
30
10
counted
separately
76.5
up
Overall count is down slightly from Mt. Sinai
22,273
90
Second Census = 601,730
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Numbers 27:12-14 Then the
LORD said to Moses, "Go up
this mountain in the Abarim
range and see the land I have
given the Israelites. After you
have seen it, you too will
be gathered to your
people, as your brother
Aaron was, for when the
community rebelled at the
waters in the Desert of Zin,
both of you disobeyed my
command to honor me as holy
before their eyes."
Numbers 27:15-18
Moses said to the LORD,
"May the LORD, the God
of the spirits of all
mankind, appoint a
man over this community
to go out and come in
before them, one who
will lead them out
and bring them in,
so the LORD's people will
not be like sheep without
a shepherd."So the LORD
said to Moses, "Take
Joshua son of Nun, a man
in whom is the spirit, and
lay your hand on him.
Numbers 27:22,23
Moses did as the LORD
commanded him. He took
Joshua and had him
stand before Eleazar the
priest and the whole
assembly. Then he laid
his hands on him and
commissioned him, as the
LORD instructed through
Moses.
Numbers 31:1,2,6,7
Moses sent them into battle, a
thousand from each tribe, along
with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the
priest, who took with him articles
from the sanctuary and the
trumpets for signaling. They
fought against Midian,
as the LORD commanded Moses,
and killed every man. The LORD
said to Moses, "Take vengeance
on the Midianites for the Israelites.
After that, you will be gathered to
your people."
Numbers 31:28, 48-49
From the soldiers who
fought in the battle, set
apart as tribute for the
LORD one out of every
five hundred, whether
people, cattle, donkeys or
sheep. . . . Then the
officers who were over the
units of the army . . . said
to him, "Your servants
have counted the soldiers
under our command, and
not one is missing.
Numbers 34:1,2,13
"Command the Israelites and
say to them: 'When you enter
Canaan, the land that will be
allotted to you as an
inheritance will have these
boundaries: "Assign this
land by lot .. The LORD has
ordered that it be given to the
nine and a half tribes.
Numbers 32:1,2,5 The
Reubenites and Gadites,
who had very large
herds and flocks, saw
that the lands of Jazer
and Gilead were suitable
for livestock. So they
came to Moses and
Eleazar the priest and to
the leaders of the
community, and said…
"let this land be
given to your
servants as our
possession. Do not
make us cross the
Jordan."
Numbers 35:6,7 Six of
the towns you give the
Levites will be cities of
refuge, to which a
person who has killed
someone may flee. In
addition, give them forty-two
other towns. In all you must
give the Levites fortyeight towns, together with
their pasturelands.
Kadesh
Golan
Ramoth Gilead
Shechem
Hebron
Bezer
Numbers 36:12 They
married within the clans of
the descendants of
Manasseh son of Joseph,
and their inheritance
remained in their
father's clan and
tribe.
Deuteronomy 1:3
In the fortieth year, on the
first day of the eleventh
month, Moses proclaimed
to the Israelites all that the
LORD had commanded
him concerning them.
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