Numbers
Israel’s forty years in the wilderness, from Sinai to the plains of Moab, marked by rebellion and God’s faithfulness.
Choose a chapter
- Written by
- Traditionally Moses
- Date
- c. 1400s BC (traditional)
Themes
- Faithfulness and unbelief
- God’s patience in the wilderness
- Preparing for the promised land
Outline
- At Sinai: census and orderChapters 1–10
- From Sinai to KadeshChapters 11–14
- Forty years in the wildernessChapters 15–21
- On the plains of MoabChapters 22–36
Key verses
‘May the Lord bless you and keep you;
‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
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?