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Numbers Flashcards

1
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Outline for Book of Numbers?

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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

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Numbers 1:53

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But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.

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Why aren’t the Levites numbered among the census?

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They are to be the priests of the tabernacle.

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Numbers 2:2

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Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.

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Which way does the opening of the tabernacle face?

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To the East

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Organization of the Tribes around the Tabernacle?

Each Tribe position?
Sons of Levi position?

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Numbers 3:17

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And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

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

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The levites

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

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

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Numbers 4:5

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And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering veil, and cover the ark of testimony with it:

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What was the ark wrapped in for transit?

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The veil of the sanctuary

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

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

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

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Eleazar son of Aaron

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What was the work of the Gershonites in the tabernacle?

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Cloth, fabric, and skin coverings/enclosures

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What was the Merarites responsibility for the Tabernacle?

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

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

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Ithamar

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Numbers 5:7

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Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.

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

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Give the payment to the priest.

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In order to make restitution what must one do?

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Give back the principal and add unto it a fifth part

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

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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.

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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?

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Holy water and dust from the floor of the tabernacle.

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Numbers 6:2

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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord:

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What is a nazirite?
Word Nazar meaning?

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An israelite consecrated to God
Nazar means to separate

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What does a Nazirite vow?

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

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Numbers 7:89

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And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.

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Numbers 8:11

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And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the Lord.

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

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25-50. After 50 may stay as guard.

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Numbers 9:17

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And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

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29
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When does one celebrate the passover if they were defiled by coming in contact with the dead or were in a journey far away?

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a month later.

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30
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What instrument is used to communicate to the israelites to gather or time to leave?

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Two silver trumpets

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31
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Numbers 10:2

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Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.

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32
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What wilderness did the Israelites go to after Mount Sinai?

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Wilderness of Paran

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Numbers 11:2

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And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.

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

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Taberah

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35
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In Taberah when the people complained how many men did God have Moses gather to be the elders?

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70

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36
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How did the Lord feed the complaining Israelites in Taberah?

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With a month of quail meat

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37
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What is the name of the place where israelites that lusuted and murmured were buried after the quail meat?

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Kibroth-hattaavah

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38
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Where did the Israelites go after Kibroth-hattaavah?

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Hazeroth

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39
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Numbers 12:6

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And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

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40
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How is Miriam related to Moses and Aaron?

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She is their sister

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41
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Who had issue with Moses’s Ethiopian woman?

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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

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42
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What is Miriam’s punishment for speaking against Moses?

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Leprous skin and shut out from camp for 7 days.

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Numbers 13:30

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And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

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44
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How many spies are sent into the land of Canaan before the israelites?

How many of them say they can’t take the land?

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12 are sent

10 say they can’t take the land.

Joshua and Caleb give good report.

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45
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Who were the two who thought they could take the land of Canaan amongst the 12 spies sent from Moses?

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Caleb and Joshua

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46
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What is Joshua’s Lineage?

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Ephraim

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47
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What is Caleb’s lineage?

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Judah

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48
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Numbers 14:33

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And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

49
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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?

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

50
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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?

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They wanted to stone them with stones

51
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What does God do in response to Israel rebelling against Moses wanting to stone him and choosing not to take the land of Canaan?

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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.

52
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How many years in the wilderness were appointed by God for the people’s sin of not going into Canaan?

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40 years for the 40 days the spies investigated Canaan

53
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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?

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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.

54
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Numbers 15:39

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And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

55
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What happened to the man who gathered sticks on the sabbath day in the Book of Numbers?

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

56
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Numbers 16:24

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Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

57
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What was Korah’s motive to rebel against Moses?

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He desired priestly privileges

58
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What was the sons of Reuben, Dathan and Abiram’s motives to rebel against Moses?

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They wanted leadership power

59
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What test did the Lord give Korah and his followers to test their desire to have more priesthood power?

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Get 250 of them to burn incense

60
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What is a censer?

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It is a private receptacle for burning incense

61
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What does the Lord do to Korah, Dathan, and Abiram?

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He has the earth swallow them up.

62
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What happens to the 250 leaders who followed Korah, Dathan, and Abiram who burnt incense?

A

They are consumed by fire.

63
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After the Lord destroys Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, what do the Israelites do?

How does God respond?

How does Aaron intercede?

A

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.

64
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Numbers 17:7

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And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness.

65
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What happened to Aarons rod to signify he was the one with the priesthood over the other tribes?

A

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

66
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Numbers 18:21

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And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

67
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How did the Levites pay tithing different from other tribes?

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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.

68
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Numbers 19:2

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This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

69
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Was the red heifer male or female?

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Female - Life giving

70
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Significance of Cedar wood, Hyssop, and scarlet in red heifer sacrifice?

A

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

71
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What part of the Red Heifer is burned?

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All of it

72
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What is done with the ashes of the Red Heifer?

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Mixed with running water to make the water of separation.

73
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Numbers 20:12

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And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

74
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Where did Miriam die?

A

In Kadesh

75
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How did Moses respond to God’s call at the water of Meribah?

A

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

76
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How long did the people mourn Aaron’s death?

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30 days.

76
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What was the king of Edom’s response to the Israelites wanting to cross his land?

A

Threatened to kill them

77
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Who replaced Aaron at mount Hor?

A

Eleazar

78
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Numbers 21:9

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And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

79
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Why did people need to be healed and look at the serpent of brass on a pole to live?

A

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

80
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Numbers 22:31

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Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.

81
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What are the two commands that God gave Balaam concerning the moabites and Balak?

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

82
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What is the story of the talking donkey in Numbers?

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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.

83
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Numbers 23:5

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And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

84
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Numbers 24:13

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If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak?

85
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How many oracles/parables does Balaam give to Balak?

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5 different ones.

86
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Numbers 25:3

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And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.

87
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What did God command Moses to do after the Israelites committed whoredoms and joined himself unto Baal-Peor?

A

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

88
Q

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

A

Phinehas

89
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Who was Phinehas?

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Son of eleazar, son of Aaron the priest

90
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Numbers 26:65

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For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

91
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What chapter in numbers is the census when the Lords promise that no one over 20 years old would enter the promised land?

A

Chapter 26

92
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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?

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Moses, Caleb, Joshua

93
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Numbers 27:23

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And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.

94
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Why isn’t Moses allowed to go to the promised land?

A

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

95
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What was the daughters of Zelophehad’s concern and what was God’s answer to Moses to deal with this?

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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.

96
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How was the transfer of power conducted between Moses and Joshua?

A

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

97
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How would Joshua get revelation from God?

A

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

98
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Numbers 28:2

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Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.

99
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What are the 7 feasts of the Israelites?

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

100
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Numbers 29:12

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And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days:

101
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Numbers 30:2

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If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

102
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Numbers 31:2

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Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

103
Q

How many Israelites were sent to fight the Midianites?

A

12,000

104
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Who did the Lord tell Moses to kill of the Midianites after the war when all the men were killed?

A

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

105
Q

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

A

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

106
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Numbers 32:18

A

We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

107
Q

What did the tribes of Reuben and Gad want before going to Canaan?

What did they agree to do to secure these lands?

A

Wanted the land of Jazer and Gilead for their multitude of cattle

Go with the Israelites to conquer Canaan before returning to this land

108
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Numbers 33:55

A

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

109
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Numbers 34:17

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These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

110
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Who divided the land among the tribes?

A

Eleazar and Joshua

111
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Numbers 35:13

A

And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.

112
Q

What land did the Levites get in Canaan?

A

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

113
Q

How many cities were to be given to the Levites?

A

48 cities suburbs

114
Q

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

A
  1. 3 transjordan and 3 in Canaan proper
115
Q

What is the city of refuge for?

A

For people who committed inadvertent killing

116
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What are the rules around inadvertent killing in Israel?

A

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.

117
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Numbers 36:9

A

Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.

118
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Who did Israelite women have to marry after going into Canaan?

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They had to marry within their tribe

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