Numbers Flashcards
Outline for Book of Numbers?
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
Why aren’t the Levites numbered among the census?
They are to be the priests of the tabernacle.
Which way does the opening of the tabernacle face?
To the East
Organization of the Tribes around the Tabernacle?
Each Tribe position?
Sons of Levi position?
Who were the three sons of Levi?
Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Who were taken instead of the firstborn among the children of Israel?
The levites
How did the Lord reconcile the difference in number of firstborn in Israel vs the number of levites?
5 shekels apiece by poll. So 273 Difference so 1365 shekels given to Aaron and sons
What was the ark wrapped in for transit?
The veil of the sanctuary
What had to happen before the Kohathites could move the holy objects?
They had to be dismantled and covered by Aaron and his sons.
Who was given oversight of Kohathites job in carrying the holy objects?
Eleazar son of Aaron
What was the work of the Gershonites in the tabernacle?
Cloth, fabric, and skin coverings/enclosures
What was the Merarites responsibility for the Tabernacle?
The boards of the tabernacle and structure. Taking down, carrying, setting back up.
Who was given charge over the Gershonites and Merarites work on the tabernacle?
Ithamar
How to make amends if the person is dead and there are no kinsmen?
Give the payment to the priest.
In order to make restitution what must one do?
Give back the principal and add unto it a fifth part
What is meant that the woman will have her thigh to rot and belly to swell after drinking the potion when accused of adultery?
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.
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?
Holy water and dust from the floor of the tabernacle.
What is a nazirite?
Word Nazar meaning?
An israelite consecrated to God
Nazar means to separate
What does a Nazirite vow?
No forms of Alcohol/strong drink
No cutting hair
No approaching the dead
Holy to the Lord
The age range for Levites to be on Guard duty and physical labor?
25-50. After 50 may stay as guard.
When does one celebrate the passover if they were defiled by coming in contact with the dead or were in a journey far away?
a month later.
What instrument is used to communicate to the israelites to gather or time to leave?
Two silver trumpets
What wilderness did the Israelites go to after Mount Sinai?
Wilderness of Paran
What is the name of the place where the Lord burned the Israelites with fire because of their murmuring?
Taberah
In Taberah when the people complained how many men did God have Moses gather to be the elders?
70
How did the Lord feed the complaining Israelites in Taberah?
With a month of quail meat
What is the name of the place where israelites that lusuted and murmured were buried after the quail meat?
Kibroth-hattaavah
Where did the Israelites go after Kibroth-hattaavah?
Hazeroth
How is Miriam related to Moses and Aaron?
She is their sister
Who had issue with Moses’s Ethiopian woman?
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
What is Miriam’s punishment for speaking against Moses?
Leprous skin and shut out from camp for 7 days.
How many spies are sent into the land of Canaan before the israelites?
How many of them say they can’t take the land?
12 are sent
10 say they can’t take the land.
Joshua and Caleb give good report.
Who were the two who thought they could take the land of Canaan amongst the 12 spies sent from Moses?
Caleb and Joshua
What is Joshua’s Lineage?
Ephraim
What is Caleb’s lineage?
Judah
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?
Moses/Aaron - fell on their faces - Prostrated themselves before God knowing the sin of the people
Joshua and Caleb - rent their clothes in distress.
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?
They wanted to stone them with stones
What does God do in response to Israel rebelling against Moses wanting to stone him and choosing not to take the land of Canaan?
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.
How many years in the wilderness were appointed by God for the people’s sin of not going into Canaan?
40 years for the 40 days the spies investigated Canaan
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?
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.
What happened to the man who gathered sticks on the sabbath day in the Book of Numbers?
In violation of the Sabbath. He was stoned to death by the community.
What was Korah’s motive to rebel against Moses?
He desired priestly privileges
What was the sons of Reuben, Dathan and Abiram’s motives to rebel against Moses?
They wanted leadership power
What test did the Lord give Korah and his followers to test their desire to have more priesthood power?
Get 250 of them to burn incense
What is a censer?
It is a private receptacle for burning incense
What does the Lord do to Korah, Dathan, and Abiram?
He has the earth swallow them up.
What happens to the 250 leaders who followed Korah, Dathan, and Abiram who burnt incense?
They are consumed by fire.
After the Lord destroys Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, what do the Israelites do?
How does God respond?
How does Aaron intercede?
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.
What happened to Aarons rod to signify he was the one with the priesthood over the other tribes?
After being placed in the Tabernacle it budded and yielded almonds.
How did the Levites pay tithing different from other tribes?
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.
Was the red heifer male or female?
Female - Life giving
Significance of Cedar wood, Hyssop, and scarlet in red heifer sacrifice?
Cedar wood - Preservative qualities
Hyssop - Cleansing herb
Scarlet - Color made by crushing worm from oak tree. represents blood which is the life giving substance
What part of the Red Heifer is burned?
All of it
What is done with the ashes of the Red Heifer?
Mixed with running water to make the water of separation.
Where did Miriam die?
In Kadesh
How did Moses respond to God’s call at the water of Meribah?
God told him to speak to the rock. Moses smote it two times after being frustrated with the people
How long did the people mourn Aaron’s death?
30 days.
What was the king of Edom’s response to the Israelites wanting to cross his land?
Threatened to kill them
Who replaced Aaron at mount Hor?
Eleazar
Why did people need to be healed and look at the serpent of brass on a pole to live?
God sent fiery serpents among the people because the people murmured against Moses again.
What are the two commands that God gave Balaam concerning the moabites and Balak?
Don’t go with them and don’t curse the Israelites
What is the story of the talking donkey in Numbers?
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.
How many oracles/parables does Balaam give to Balak?
5 different ones.
What did God command Moses to do after the Israelites committed whoredoms and joined himself unto Baal-Peor?
To kill the heads of the people that joined with Baal-peor
Who killed the midianitish woman and brother when israel joined with Baal-Peor?
Phinehas
Who was Phinehas?
Son of eleazar, son of Aaron the priest
What chapter in numbers is the census when the Lords promise that no one over 20 years old would enter the promised land?
Chapter 26
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?
Moses, Caleb, Joshua
Why isn’t Moses allowed to go to the promised land?
His rebellion in the desert of Zin at the water of Meribah in Kadesh
What was the daughters of Zelophehad’s concern and what was God’s answer to Moses to deal with this?
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.
How was the transfer of power conducted between Moses and Joshua?
oses laid his hands on his head in the presence of Eleazar
How would Joshua get revelation from God?
He would stand before Eleazar the high priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim and Thummim before the Lord.
What are the 7 feasts of the Israelites?
Sabbath, New Moon, Unleavened Bread, Weeks, Day of Trumpet Blowing, Day of Atonement, Tabernacles
How many Israelites were sent to fight the Midianites?
12,000
Who did the Lord tell Moses to kill of the Midianites after the war when all the men were killed?
Kill any woman that slept with a man and all male children
Why was Moses upset with his captains of the army when they had fought the midianites?
They didn’t kill the women who had tempted the Israelites to sin in the incident of Baal-Peor
What did the tribes of Reuben and Gad want before going to Canaan?
What did they agree to do to secure these lands?
Wanted the land of Jazer and Gilead for their multitude of cattle
Go with the Israelites to conquer Canaan before returning to this land
Who divided the land among the tribes?
Eleazar and Joshua
What land did the Levites get in Canaan?
None. They were to dwell in suburbs of the cities.
How many cities were to be given to the Levites?
48 cities suburbs
How many of the 48 cities for Levites were to be cities of refuge?
- 3 transjordan and 3 in Canaan proper
What is the city of refuge for?
For people who committed inadvertent killing
What are the rules around inadvertent killing in Israel?
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.
Who did Israelite women have to marry after going into Canaan?
They had to marry within their tribe
