1 God commands Moses to number the people.
5 The princes of the tribes.
17 The number of every tribe.
47 The Levites are exempted for the service of the Lord.
1 The order of the tribes in their tents.
1 The sons of Aaron.
5 The Levites are given to the priests instead of the first-born;
14 are numbered by their families.
21 The families, number, and charge of the Gershonites;
27 of the Kohathites;
33 of the Merarites.
38 The place and charge of Moses and Aaron.
40 The first-born are freed by the Levites.
44 The overplus are redeemed.
1 The age at which the Levites were to begin to serve, and the duration of the service.
4 The duty of the Kohathites.
16 The charge of Eleazar.
17 The office of the priests.
21 The duty of the Gershonites;
29 of the Merarites.
34 The number of the Kohathites;
38 of the Gershonites
42 and of the Merarites.
1 The unclean are removed out of camp.
5 Restitution is to be made in trespass.
11 The trial of jealousy.
1 The law of the Nazarite in the days of his separation;
13 and after their completion.
22 The form of blessing the people.
1 The offering of the princes at the dedication of the tabernacle.
10 Their several offerings at the dedication of the altar.
89 God speaks to Moses from the mercy seat.
1 How the lamps are to be lighted.
5 The consecration of the Levites.
23 The age and time of their service.
1 The passover is again commanded.
6 A second passover for the unclean or absent.
15 The cloud directs the removals and encampments of the Israelites.
1 The use of the silver trumpets.
11 The Israelites remove from Sinai to Paran.
14 The order of their march.
29 Hobab is entreated by Moses not to leave them.
33 The blessing of Moses at the removing and resting of the ark.
1 The burning at Taberah quenched by Moses' prayer.
4 The people lust for flesh, and loathe manna.
10 Moses complains of his charge.
16 God promises to divide his burden unto seventy elders, and to give the people flesh for a month.
21 Moses' faith is staggered.
31 Quails are given in wrath at Kibroth-hattaavah.
1 God rebukes the sedition of Miriam and Aaron.
11 Miriam's leprosy is healed at the prayer of Moses.
14 God commands her to be shut out of the host.
16 The people encamp in the wilderness of Paran.
1 The names of the men who were sent to search the land.
17 Their instructions.
21 Their acts.
26 Their relation.
1 The people murmur at the news.
6 Joshua and Caleb labour to still them.
11 God threatens them.
13 Moses intercedes with God, and obtains pardon.
26 The murmurers are debarred from entering into the land.
36 The men who raised the evil report die by a plague.
40 The people that would invade the land against the will of God are smitten.
1 The law of the meat offering, and the drink offering.
14 The stranger is under the same law.
17 The law of the first of the dough for an heave offering.
22 The sacrifice for sins of ignorance.
30 The punishment of presumption.
32 He that violated the sabbath is stoned.
37 The law of fringes. It is very probable, that the transactions recorded in this and the four following chapters took place during the time the Israelites abode in Kadesh (De
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1 The rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
23 Moses separates the people from the rebels' tents.
31 The earth swallows up Korah, and a fire consumes others.
36 The censers are reserved to holy use.
41 Fourteen thousand and seven hundred are slain by a plague, for murmuring against Moses and Aaron.
46 Aaron by incense stays the plague.
1 Aaron,s rod, among all the rods of the tribes, only flourishes.
10 It is left for a monument against the rebels.
1 The charge of the priests and Levites.
8 The priests' portion.
21 The Levites' portion.
25 The heave offering to the priests out of the Levites' portion.
1 The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifer.
11 The law for the use of it in purification of the unclean.
1 The children of Israel come to Zin, where Miriam dies.
2 They murmur for want of water.
7 Moses smiting the rock, brings forth water at Meribah.
14 Moses at Kadesh desires passage through Edom, which is denied him.
22 At mount Hor Aaron resigns his place to Eleazar, and dies.
1 Israel destroys the Canaanites at Hormah.
4 The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents.
7 They repenting are healed by a brazen serpent.
10 Sundry journeys of the Israelites.
21 Sihon is overcome,
33 and Og.
1 Balak's first message for Balaam is refused.
15 His second message obtains him.
22 An angel would have slain him, if he had not been saved by his ass.
36 Balak entertains him.
1 Balak's sacrifices.
7 Balaam's parables.
13 Balak's sacrifices.
18 Balaam's parables.
25 Balak's sacrifices.
1 Balaam, leaving divinations, prophesies the happiness of Israel.
10 Balak, in anger, dismisses him.
15 He prophesies of the Star of Jacob, and the destruction of some nations.
1 Israel at Shittim commit whoredom and idolatry.
6 Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi.
10 God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood.
16 The Midianites are to be vexed.
1 The sum of all Israel is taken in the plains of Moab.
52 The law of dividing among them the inheritance of the land.
57 The families and number of the Levites.
63 None was left of them which were numbered at Sinai, but Caleb and Joshua.
1 The daughters of Zelophehad sue for an inheritance.
6 The law of inheritances.
12 Moses, being told of his death, sues for a successor.
18 Joshua is appointed to succeed him.
1 Offerings are to be observed.
3 The continual burnt offering.
9 The offering on the sabbath;
11 on the new moons;
16 at the passover;
26 in the day of the first-fruits.
1 The offering at the feast of trumpets;
7 at the day of afflicting their souls;
12 and on the eight days of the feast of tabernacles.
1 Vows are not to be broken.
3 The exceptions of a maid's vows;
6 of a wife's;
9 of a widow's; or her that is divorced.
1 The Midianites are spoiled, and Balaam slain.
13 Moses is wroth with the officers, for saving the women alive.
19 How the soldiers, with their captives and spoil, are to be purified.
25 The proportion in which the prey is to be divided.
48 The voluntary oblation unto the treasury of the Lord.
1 The Reubenites and Gadites sue for their inheritance on the east side of Jordan.
6 Moses reproves them.
16 They offer him conditions with which he is content.
33 Moses assigns them the land.
39 They conquer it.
1 The two and forty journeys of the Israelites.
50 The Canaanites are to be destroyed.
1 The borders of the land.
16 The names of the men who shall divide the land.
1 Eight and forty cities for the Levites, with their suburbs, and measure thereof.
6 Six of them are to be cities of refuge.
9 The laws of murder and manslaughter.
31 No satisfaction for murder.
1 The inconvenience of the inheritance of daughters is remedied by marrying in their own tribes,
7 lest the inheritance should be removed from the tribe.
10 The daughters of Zelophehad marry their father's brothers' sons.
