And God Spoke in Numbers
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The Israelites arrive on the plains of Moab. A new census gives the total number of males from twenty years and upward as ,, and the number of the Levites from the age of one month and upward as 23, The land shall be divided by lot. The daughters of Zelophehad , their father having no sons, are to share in the allotment.
Moses is ordered to appoint Joshua as his successor. Prescriptions for the observance of the feasts and the offerings for different occasions are enumerated.
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Moses orders the Israelites to massacre the people of Midian. The Reubenites and the Gadites request Moses to assign them the land east of the Jordan. Moses grants their request after they promise to help in the conquest of the land west of the Jordan. The land east of the Jordan is divided among the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
The theme of descendants marks the first event in Numbers, the census of Israel's fighting men: Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you. Moses is ordered by God to make plates to cover the altar. Moses orders the Israelites to massacre the people of Midian. God has promised the Israelites that they shall become a great i.
Moses recalls the stations at which the Israelites halted during their forty years' wanderings and instructs the Israelites to exterminate the Canaanites and destroy their idols. The boundaries of the land are spelled out; the land is to be divided under the supervision of Eleazar , Joshua, and twelve princes, one of each tribe. The majority of modern biblical scholars believe that the Torah the books of Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers, and Deuteronomy reached its present form in the post-Exilic period i.
Clines, in his influential The Themes of the Pentateuch , identified the overarching theme of the five books as the partial fulfilment of a promise made by God to the patriarchs, Abraham , Isaac and Jacob. The promise has three elements: The theme of the divine-human relationship is expressed, or managed, through a series of covenants meaning treaties, legally binding agreements stretching from Genesis to Deuteronomy and beyond. The first is the covenant between God and Noah immediately after the Deluge in which God agrees never again to destroy the Earth with water.
In this third covenant, unlike the first two, God hands down an elaborate set of laws scattered through Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers , which the Israelites are to observe; they are also to remain faithful to Yahweh, the god of Israel, meaning, among other things, that they must put their trust in his help. The theme of descendants marks the first event in Numbers, the census of Israel's fighting men: The Israelites then set out to conquer the land, but almost immediately they refuse to enter it, and Yahweh condemns the whole generation who left Egypt to die in the wilderness.
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The message is clear: In the final section, the Israelites of the new generation follow Yahweh's instructions as given through Moses and are successful in all they attempt. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the American crime film, see Book of Numbers film. Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy.
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New Heart English Bible God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? He tells no lies. He is not like humans.
He doesn't change his mind. When he says something, he does it.
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When he makes a promise, he keeps it. When He hath said, will He not do it? Or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good? Jubilee Bible God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent; he said and shall he not do it? He spoke and shall he not execute it?
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American King James Version God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: American Standard Version God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
Brenton Septuagint Translation God is not as man to waver, nor as the son of man to be threatened; shall he say and not perform? Douay-Rheims Bible God is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? Darby Bible Translation God is not a man, that he should lie; neither a son of man, that he should repent.
Shall he say and not do?
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English Revised Version God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Webster's Bible Translation God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: World English Bible God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Young's Literal Translation God is not a man -- and lieth, And a son of man -- and repenteth!
Hath He said -- and doth He not do it? And spoken -- and doth He not confirm it? For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers. Truly I have spoken, truly I will bring it to pass.