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Numbers opens with “A Census and a Cloud” and carries its history toward “Borders Drawn on a Land Not Entered.” The people are counted, then camped tribe by tribe in a square around the tent, with the Levites between the people and the holy things. Two and a half tribes ask to stay on the near side of the Jordan and are made to cross and fight first anyway.
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Numbers 1–10
The people are counted, then camped tribe by tribe in a square around the tent, with the Levites between the people and the holy things. Aaron is given words to say over them: the LORD bless thee and keep thee. When the cloud lifts they march, and when it settles they stay, for a night or for a year.
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Numbers 11–14
Complaint about manna brings quail and a plague, Miriam and Aaron challenge Moses and Miriam turns white, and twelve men come back from Canaan carrying one cluster of grapes on a pole. Ten of them frighten a nation out of its own inheritance.
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Numbers 15–20
Korah and two hundred and fifty men with censers decide the priesthood should be open to anyone, and the ground opens instead. Twelve rods are laid up overnight and Aaron’s comes out in bloom. Later Moses strikes the rock instead of speaking to it, and loses the land too.
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Numbers 21–25
Snakes come among the people, and the cure is to look at a bronze snake on a pole. Then Balak of Moab pays Balaam to curse Israel, and a donkey sees the angel in the road before the prophet does. Four times the curse comes out as a blessing. What Balaam cannot do from a hilltop, Israel does to itself at Peor.
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Numbers 26–30
A second census numbers the children of the generation that refused to go in. Zelophehad’s five daughters ask for their father’s inheritance and are granted it, Joshua is commissioned in front of everyone, and the vows a person makes are weighed and bound.
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Numbers 31–36
Two and a half tribes ask to stay on the near side of the Jordan and are made to cross and fight first anyway. The borders are described, cities of refuge are set apart for the man who kills without meaning to, and the daughters marry inside their tribe so the land stays where it was given.
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Numbers
Every figure whose history runs through these chapters, each with a sheet of its own.
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