Today we begin Numbers Chapter Two. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. In Numbers Chapter Two, the Lord continues to prepare Israel for Holy War by giving instructions on how the tribes are to be positioned when they set up camp. Keep in mind that all together […]

“Instead, give the Levites charge over the tabernacle of the testimony, its equipment and everything else connected with it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its equipment, serve in it and set up their camp around it. When the tabernacle is to be moved onward, it is the Levites who are to take it down and set […]

“But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that no anger will come upon the assembly of the people of Israel. The Levites are to be in charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.” -Numbers 1:53 In my last post I just got done explaining why the Levites were not included in the census […]

“The ancestral tribe of the Levites, however, was not counted along with the others. The Lord had said to Moses: “You must not count the tribe of Levi or include them in the census of the other Israelites. Instead, appoint the Levites to be in charge of the tabernacle of the covenant law—over all its furnishings and everything belonging to it.”-Numbers 1:47-50 In our […]

“Moses, Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, each from a clan, counted the people of Israel by their clans, those twenty years old and over, eligible for military service in Israel; and the grand total came to 603,550.”-Numbers 1:44-46 The grand total of the census taken in chapter one of the Book of Numbers is 603,550. […]