Old Testament · The Law / Pentateuch
Numbers
Numbers takes its name from two censuses, but its story is a journey. A generation refuses to trust God at the border of the land and spends forty years in the wilderness, while God keeps providing anyway.
- Authorship
- Traditionally attributed to Moses.
- Historical setting
- The wilderness between Sinai and the plains of Moab.
- Key themes
- Grumbling and unbelief · God's patience · Guidance · A new generation
- Where it sits in the story
- The gap between the promise given and the promise entered, and a warning the New Testament letters return to.
Read the chapters
No written study in Numbers yet. You can still read every chapter of Numbers in full, with the study tools beside it. Read Numbers.
Read Numbers in the Bible reader
The Sunday Study
One deep study, every week.
Verse-by-verse teaching with historical context, and a prayer to close. Nothing else in the email.