The fourth book of Moses, falling between Leviticus and Deuteronomy
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What explanations are given for the apparent exaggeration of the number of Israelites in the Exodus account?
Exodus 12:37-38 says that the Israelites numbered about 600,000 men besides women and children (plus non-Israelites and livestock). Numbers 1 gives a similar total. This means there would have been ...
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Why did God become angry with Balaam?
Numbers 22:20-22 NIV
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." Balaam got up
in the morning, saddled his ...
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Would the bible draw parallels between the spies returning from Canaan and modern biblical criticism?
When the spies returned from Canaan, to verify the kind of land God was going to gives them, all but two said, among other problems, that there was 'big strong men' there. Therefore, if they tried to ...
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Was the serpent in the wilderness a foreshadowing of Jesus?
The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the ...
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Does Numbers 16 describe the first earthquake?
Numbers 16 describes the Levites revolting against Moses and Aaron. In proving the Lord sent him to do all those things, Moses said
"But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the ...
