Numbers

Question 1

Outline for Book of Numbers?

Answer 1

1-10 Preparing to leave Sinai.

11-12 Sinai to Paran

13-19 Israel rejects the land

20-21 Paran to Moab

22-36 Israel settles across from Canaan

Question 2

Why aren’t the Levites numbered among the census?

Answer 2

They are to be the priests of the tabernacle.

Question 3

Which way does the opening of the tabernacle face?

Answer 3

To the East

Question 4

Organization of the Tribes around the Tabernacle?

Each Tribe position?
Sons of Levi position?

Answer 4

Question 5

Who were the three sons of Levi?

Answer 5

Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

Question 6

Who were taken instead of the firstborn among the children of Israel?

Answer 6

The levites

Question 7

How did the Lord reconcile the difference in number of firstborn in Israel vs the number of levites?

Answer 7

5 shekels apiece by poll. So 273 Difference so 1365 shekels given to Aaron and sons

Question 8

What was the ark wrapped in for transit?

Answer 8

The veil of the sanctuary

Question 9

What had to happen before the Kohathites could move the holy objects?

Answer 9

They had to be dismantled and covered by Aaron and his sons.

Question 10

Who was given oversight of Kohathites job in carrying the holy objects?

Answer 10

Eleazar son of Aaron

Question 11

What was the work of the Gershonites in the tabernacle?

Answer 11

Cloth, fabric, and skin coverings/enclosures

Question 12

What was the Merarites responsibility for the Tabernacle?

Answer 12

The boards of the tabernacle and structure. Taking down, carrying, setting back up.

Question 13

Who was given charge over the Gershonites and Merarites work on the tabernacle?

Answer 13

Ithamar

Question 14

How to make amends if the person is dead and there are no kinsmen?

Answer 14

Give the payment to the priest.

Question 15

In order to make restitution what must one do?

Answer 15

Give back the principal and add unto it a fifth part

Question 16

What is meant that the woman will have her thigh to rot and belly to swell after drinking the potion when accused of adultery?

Answer 16

Thigh to rot - atrophy of the female sex organ.
Belly to swell - either no more children or she got pregnant. More likely it is the former.

Question 17

How is the potion made in the events to decide if a woman is guilty or innocent when her husband has a suspicion that she has committed adultery?

Answer 17

Holy water and dust from the floor of the tabernacle.

Question 18

What is a nazirite?
Word Nazar meaning?

Answer 18

An israelite consecrated to God
Nazar means to separate

Question 19

What does a Nazirite vow?

Answer 19

No forms of Alcohol/strong drink
No cutting hair
No approaching the dead
Holy to the Lord

Question 20

The age range for Levites to be on Guard duty and physical labor?

Answer 20

25-50. After 50 may stay as guard.

Question 21

When does one celebrate the passover if they were defiled by coming in contact with the dead or were in a journey far away?

Answer 21

a month later.

Question 22

What instrument is used to communicate to the israelites to gather or time to leave?

Answer 22

Two silver trumpets

Question 23

What wilderness did the Israelites go to after Mount Sinai?

Answer 23

Wilderness of Paran

Question 24

What is the name of the place where the Lord burned the Israelites with fire because of their murmuring?

Answer 24

Taberah

Question 25

In Taberah when the people complained how many men did God have Moses gather to be the elders?

Answer 25

70

Question 26

How did the Lord feed the complaining Israelites in Taberah?

Answer 26

With a month of quail meat

Question 27

What is the name of the place where israelites that lusuted and murmured were buried after the quail meat?

Answer 27

Kibroth-hattaavah

Question 28

Where did the Israelites go after Kibroth-hattaavah?

Answer 28

Hazeroth

Question 29

How is Miriam related to Moses and Aaron?

Answer 29

She is their sister

Question 30

Who had issue with Moses's Ethiopian woman?

Answer 30

Miriam and Aaron. Likely concern of too many people getting power (70) elders of which they were not included. This may be a surface-level issue but really mad about the power dynamic

Question 31

What is Miriam's punishment for speaking against Moses?

Answer 31

Leprous skin and shut out from camp for 7 days.

Question 32

How many spies are sent into the land of Canaan before the israelites? How many of them say they can't take the land?

Answer 32

12 are sent 10 say they can't take the land. Joshua and Caleb give good report.

Question 33

Who were the two who thought they could take the land of Canaan amongst the 12 spies sent from Moses?

Answer 33

Caleb and Joshua

Question 34

What is Joshua's Lineage?

Answer 34

Ephraim

Question 35

What is Caleb's lineage?

Answer 35

Judah

Question 36

What did Moses/Aaron, Joshua, and Caleb do after the people murmured and feared going into Canaan after the 12 investigators returned with their reports?

Answer 36

Moses/Aaron - fell on their faces - Prostrated themselves before God knowing the sin of the people Joshua and Caleb - rent their clothes in distress.

Question 37

How did the people respond to Moses/Aaron speaking to the people saying that they need to have faith to take Canaan despite what the 10 investigators said about not being able to take the Amalekites/Canaanites?

Answer 37

They wanted to stone them with stones

Question 38

What does God do in response to Israel rebelling against Moses wanting to stone him and choosing not to take the land of Canaan?

Answer 38

God decides the adults of Israel will not enter the promised land and that after a generation they can go in. The Lord slays the false spies with a plague.

Question 39

How many years in the wilderness were appointed by God for the people's sin of not going into Canaan?

Answer 39

40 years for the 40 days the spies investigated Canaan

Question 40

After being cursed to die in the wilderness and wander for 40 years how did Israel respond and what did they try to do instead at this point?

Answer 40

They made a public display of mourning and cried on the top of a mountain followed by then going against the Amalekites/Canaanites without the Lord and utterly fell and died.

Question 41

What happened to the man who gathered sticks on the sabbath day in the Book of Numbers?

Answer 41

In violation of the Sabbath. He was stoned to death by the community.

Question 42

What was Korah's motive to rebel against Moses?

Answer 42

He desired priestly privileges

Question 43

What was the sons of Reuben, Dathan and Abiram's motives to rebel against Moses?

Answer 43

They wanted leadership power

Question 44

What test did the Lord give Korah and his followers to test their desire to have more priesthood power?

Answer 44

Get 250 of them to burn incense

Question 45

What is a censer?

Answer 45

It is a private receptacle for burning incense

Question 46

What does the Lord do to Korah, Dathan, and Abiram?

Answer 46

He has the earth swallow them up.

Question 47

What happens to the 250 leaders who followed Korah, Dathan, and Abiram who burnt incense?

Answer 47

They are consumed by fire.

Question 48

After the Lord destroys Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, what do the Israelites do? How does God respond? How does Aaron intercede?

Answer 48

They murmur saying Moses killed the holy people of God. He sends a plague and kills 14,700 before Aaron can burn incense and stop it.

Question 49

What happened to Aarons rod to signify he was the one with the priesthood over the other tribes?

Answer 49

After being placed in the Tabernacle it budded and yielded almonds.

Question 50

How did the Levites pay tithing different from other tribes?

Answer 50

They were given the 1/10th from other tribes. They then took a tenth part of the tithe and gave it to the Lord by giving it to Aaron.

Question 51

Was the red heifer male or female?

Answer 51

Female - Life giving

Question 52

Significance of Cedar wood, Hyssop, and scarlet in red heifer sacrifice?

Answer 52

Cedar wood - Preservative qualities Hyssop - Cleansing herb Scarlet - Color made by crushing worm from oak tree. represents blood which is the life giving substance

Question 53

What part of the Red Heifer is burned?

Answer 53

All of it

Question 54

What is done with the ashes of the Red Heifer?

Answer 54

Mixed with running water to make the water of separation.

Question 55

Where did Miriam die?

Answer 55

In Kadesh

Question 56

How did Moses respond to God's call at the water of Meribah?

Answer 56

God told him to speak to the rock. Moses smote it two times after being frustrated with the people

Question 57

How long did the people mourn Aaron's death?

Answer 57

30 days.

Question 57

What was the king of Edom's response to the Israelites wanting to cross his land?

Answer 57

Threatened to kill them

Question 58

Who replaced Aaron at mount Hor?

Answer 58

Eleazar

Question 59

Why did people need to be healed and look at the serpent of brass on a pole to live?

Answer 59

God sent fiery serpents among the people because the people murmured against Moses again.

Question 60

What are the two commands that God gave Balaam concerning the moabites and Balak?

Answer 60

Don't go with them and don't curse the Israelites

Question 61

What is the story of the talking donkey in Numbers?

Answer 61

Balaam rode his donkey on the way to the Moabites and an angel stood in the way. Balaam couldn't see the angel but the donkey could. 3 times the donkey refused to go past the angel and Balaam got incredibly upset. The angel revealed himself to Balaam and he apologizes.

Question 62

How many oracles/parables does Balaam give to Balak?

Answer 62

5 different ones.

Question 63

What did God command Moses to do after the Israelites committed whoredoms and joined himself unto Baal-Peor?

Answer 63

To kill the heads of the people that joined with Baal-peor

Question 64

Who killed the midianitish woman and brother when israel joined with Baal-Peor?

Answer 64

Phinehas

Question 65

Who was Phinehas?

Answer 65

Son of eleazar, son of Aaron the priest

Question 66

What chapter in numbers is the census when the Lords promise that no one over 20 years old would enter the promised land?

Answer 66

Chapter 26

Question 67

Who were the three people left among the people at the census in Numbers 26 when all over 20 had died as the Lord promised before the Israelites would enter the promised land?

Answer 67

Moses, Caleb, Joshua

Question 68

Why isn't Moses allowed to go to the promised land?

Answer 68

His rebellion in the desert of Zin at the water of Meribah in Kadesh

Question 69

What was the daughters of Zelophehad's concern and what was God's answer to Moses to deal with this?

Answer 69

They wanted a land of inheritance even though their father died without sons, as he was a descendant of Korah but was not part of their rebellion. Moses received God's answer that they inherit their father's land. If there is no son or daughter then it goes to uncle and then kinsmen.

Question 70

How was the transfer of power conducted between Moses and Joshua?

Answer 70

oses laid his hands on his head in the presence of Eleazar

Question 71

How would Joshua get revelation from God?

Answer 71

He would stand before Eleazar the high priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim and Thummim before the Lord.

Question 72

What are the 7 feasts of the Israelites?

Answer 72

Sabbath, New Moon, Unleavened Bread, Weeks, Day of Trumpet Blowing, Day of Atonement, Tabernacles

Question 73

How many Israelites were sent to fight the Midianites?

Answer 73

12,000

Question 74

Who did the Lord tell Moses to kill of the Midianites after the war when all the men were killed?

Answer 74

Kill any woman that slept with a man and all male children

Question 75

Why was Moses upset with his captains of the army when they had fought the midianites?

Answer 75

They didn't kill the women who had tempted the Israelites to sin in the incident of Baal-Peor

Question 76

What did the tribes of Reuben and Gad want before going to Canaan? What did they agree to do to secure these lands?

Answer 76

Wanted the land of Jazer and Gilead for their multitude of cattle Go with the Israelites to conquer Canaan before returning to this land

Question 77

Who divided the land among the tribes?

Answer 77

Eleazar and Joshua

Question 78

What land did the Levites get in Canaan?

Answer 78

None. They were to dwell in suburbs of the cities.

Question 79

How many cities were to be given to the Levites?

Answer 79

48 cities suburbs

Question 80

How many of the 48 cities for Levites were to be cities of refuge?

Answer 80

6. 3 transjordan and 3 in Canaan proper

Question 81

What is the city of refuge for?

Answer 81

For people who committed inadvertent killing

Question 82

What are the rules around inadvertent killing in Israel?

Answer 82

The person could be killed by one seeking revenge if they weren't in a city of refuge. Once in a city of refuge they couldn't be killed unless found guilty by the congregation of murder. They had to stay in the Refuge city until the high priest died (basically symbolically dying for the killer). Then they could return to their own land.

Question 83

Who did Israelite women have to marry after going into Canaan?

Answer 83

They had to marry within their tribe