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The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Numbers

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The work combines historical narrative and legal exposition to trace Israel's desert journey and communal organization. It begins with censuses and camp arrangement, then details priestly and Levitical duties, purity regulations, offerings, vows, and festivals. Interleaved narratives record crises and divine judgments—murming and rebellion, the scouting of the land and its consequences, the Balaam episode, and the Midianite conflict—while practical rulings on tithes, cities of refuge, and land allocation prepare a new generation for settlement on the verge of the promised territory.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] "Religion of the Semites," p. 445.

[2] "Concerning the Holy Baptism," chap. i.

[3] Ruskin, "Seven Lamps of Architecture."

[4] For chap. viii. 5-26 see p. 39.

[5] "Voltaire," by John Morley, ed. 1891, pp. 254, 255.

[6] Sayce, "The Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments," p. 359.

[7] See Keil and Delitzsch in loco.

[8] Prolegomena to the "History of Israel," p. 354.

[9] Palgrave, "Central and Eastern Arabia," p. 2.

[10] "The Higher Criticism and the Monuments," p. 274.

[11] Wellhausen, "Prolegomena," p. 424.

[12] "Antiquities of Israel:" "The Priesthood."

[13] See Ewald's "Antiquities," p. 131, Solly's translation.

[14] Expositor, 3rd Series, vol. iv., p. 88.

[15] Ewald's "Antiquities," p. 40.

Transcriber's Notes:

  • Obvious punctuation and spelling errors have been fixed throughout.
  • Inconsistent hyphenation is as in the original.