Well, I certainly touched a nerve with yesterday's post! My stats reached a new high as I let rip and said that I wanted to, er, rip that page out of my Bible. It's going to prompt a post about coping with difficult bits of the Bible, but it'll take a day or two to write, and today is meant to be a day off, so it wont get done today.
Anyway - onwards and upwards!
A year has gone by, and no doubt the Israelites were keen to get going. There was a promise to be fulfilled, a land waiting for them, and they wanted to get on and possess it. Let’s see what happens!
Preparations for leaving Sinai: Numbering the people
Numbers 1:1-54
General arrangement of the camp
Numbers 2:1-34
Journey to resume
Numbers 33:1-6
Moses reminds the people
Deuteronomy 1:6-18
From Sinai to Kadesh-Barnea: journey starts
Numbers 10:11 & 13
Here’s the reason for the name of the book: Numbers. It’s census time, and a whole lot of statistics are gathered. Doesn’t make for exciting reading. The biggest tribe is Judah, the smallest (not counting the half-tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh) was Benjamin.
So off they go. Deuteronomy 1 warns them that there is fighting ahead - they’re heading towards the territory of the Amorites, and I doubt they’ll calmly move over ad let the Israelites in.
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