Day ten and day eleven summary.
Day 10 - Numbers 1:1 - Numbers 12:16
Day 11 - Numbers 13:1 - Numbers 24:25
Day 12 - Numbers 25:1 - Numbers 36:13
Fourth Book of Pentateuch, written by Moses, takes its name from the enumeration of Israel at Sinai and at Moab.
The book of Numbers takes up the story of Israel’s journey from Egypt to the border of Canaan where they deflected at Kadesh Barnea and refused to enter the Land of Promise. It then continues with their wanderings in the wilderness for thirty-eight years under the judgement of GOD, until the entire nation twenty years old and older had died, with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, and a new generation grew up and was developed. While the book is a history of more than thirty-eight years, comparatively little is recorded of those weary, disciplinary wanderings; the greater portion of the record deals with the happenings of the last year. It brings Israel to Kadesh-Barnea for the second time, then to Moab east of the Jordan.
Numbers begins with a census- hence the book’s name. Fourteen months after the Israelites escape Egypt, they number 603,550 men, not including the Levites. The mass of people, the newly formed nation of Israel, begins a march of approximately two hundred miles to the “promised land” of Canaan- a journey that will take decades to complete. The delay is God’s punishment of the people, who complain about food and water, rebel against Moses, and hesitate to enter Canaan because of powerful people already living there. God decrees that this entire generation will die in the wilderness, leaving the Promised Land to a new generation of more obedient Israelites.
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