Book of Numbers

Pentateuch (Law)

Traditionally Moses

Traditionally dated c. 1440–1400 BC

Wilderness wandering and faithfulness.

Numbers chronicles Israel's journey from Mount Sinai to the borders of Canaan, detailing their rebellions, the census counts, and the subsequent forty years of wilderness wanderings.

“‘May the LORD bless you and keep you;”

“God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?”

“Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.”

“He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.”

“If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”