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Numbers 31:12-24

Numbers 31:12-24

Israel's army returns from judgment against Midian with captives and spoil, but Moses rebukes the officers for preserving the women who participated i...

Numbers 31:25-54

Faithful to God's Promises

After victory over Midian, God directed that the plunder be divided between the soldiers and the whole congregation, with portions given to the priest...

Numbers 31:1-11

Numbers 31:1-11

Numbers 31:1-11

Vengeance is Mine

At God's command, Israel took vengeance on Midian for deliberately drawing God's people into idolatry and sexual sin. Moses remained faithful even tho...

Numbers 30

Numbers 30

Numbers 30 requires vows and binding agreements to be kept while defining how a father or husband could promptly confirm or overrule a woman's vow and...

Numbers 29:12-40

Numbers 29:12-40

During the seven-day Feast of Tabernacles and its eighth-day assembly, Israel offered a carefully ordered series of unblemished sacrifices in addition...

Numbers 29:7-11

Numbers 29:7-11

Numbers 29:7-11

Day of Atonement

Israel was to keep the Day of Atonement as a solemn holy convocation, afflicting their souls and bringing the appointed burnt, grain, drink, and sin o...

Numbers 29:1-6

Numbers 29:1-6

On the first day of Israel's seventh month, the people rested for a holy gathering, sounded trumpets, and offered the new-moon sacrifices with a sin o...

Numbers 28:26-31

Numbers 28:26-31

At the Feast of Weeks, Israel brought firstfruits and a new grain offering at the beginning of harvest, rested for a holy gathering, and offered unble...

Numbers 28:16-25

Numbers 28:16-25 - Why Celebrate the Passover Yearly?

Numbers 28:9-15

Numbers 28:9-15 - Why the Weekly and Monthly Sacrifices?

Israel offers a doubled sacrifice each Sabbath and additional sacrifices at every new moon. These weekly and monthly rhythms remind God's redeemed peo...

Numbers 28:16-25

Yearly Reminder of Redemption

At the beginning of every year, Israel observed Passover and then the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The feasts repeatedly reminded the people that the Lo...

Numbers 28:1-8

Numbers 28:1-8

Numbers 27:12-23

Numbers 27:12-23

Moses will see the promised land but die because he failed to hallow God's name. Concerned that Israel not be sheep without a shepherd, he asks for a ...

Numbers 28:1-8

Daily Sacrifices Explained

Israel was to continue offering two unblemished male lambs every day after entering the promised land, one in the morning and one in the evening, toge...

Numbers 27:12-23

Joshua is Ordained

Moses was to see the promised land and then die because of his rebellion, but he asked God not to leave Israel like sheep without a shepherd. God chos...

Numbers 27:1-11

Numbers 27:1-11

The daughters of Zelophehad rightly ask that their father's name and inheritance not disappear because he had no son. God gives Israel an order of inh...

Numbers 26:52-65

Numbers 26:52-65

Numbers 26:1-51

Men of War: Judah to Jesus

God commanded a census of Israel's men aged twenty and older who were able to go to war. The passage records the tribes and their families, totaling 6...

Numbers 26:51-65

God Keeps His Promises

God apportioned the promised land fairly among Israel's tribes, counted a new generation after the rebellious generation died in the wilderness, and r...

Numbers 25:1-18

Numbers 25

Israel joins itself to Baal of Peor in spiritual and sexual unfaithfulness, provoking God's wrath. Zimri acts brazenly, while Phinehas acts with the L...

Numbers 26:1-51

Numbers 26:1-51

Numbers 22

Numbers 22-24

Balak repeatedly hires Balaam to curse Israel, but neither money, ritual, nor sorcery can overturn God's Word. The Lord turns each intended curse into...