Today we begin Numbers Chapter 27. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. What do you do when you encounter a challenging life situation for which there doesn’t seem to be any clearcut answer in the Scriptures? I’m sure we’ve all faced this challenge at one time or […]

We’ve just finished studying the SECOND census of Israel contained in the Book of Numbers. The first census of Israel was taken soon after Israel left Egypt. What’s interesting is that in both of these censuses, the Levites were considered as an entirely separate group. A totally separate census was conducted for them apart from […]

“These are the ones counted by Moshe and El‘azar the cohen, who took a census of the people of Israel in the plains of Mo’av by the Yarden across from Yericho.  But there was not a man among them who had also been included in the census of Moshe and Aharon the cohen when they […]

“Adonai said to Moshe, “The land is to be parceled out among these as a possession to be inherited, according to the number of names.  To those families with more persons you are to give a greater inheritance, and to those with fewer you are to give a smaller inheritance — each family’s inheritance is […]

Let’s begin to pick apart and examine some key parts from the census in Numbers 26. First, take a look at verses 8 to 11. “The sons of Pallu: Eli’av; and the sons of Eli’av: N’mu’el, Datan and Aviram. These are the same Datan and Aviram, men of reputation in the community, who rebelled against […]