From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation, < Numbers 4:42 | > Numbers 4:44 Reflection Numbers 4:43 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness […]
Numbers
The book of Numbers is a historical and instructional book of the Old Testament that chronicles the journey of the Israelites from Mount Sinai to the borders of the Promised Land. It records their trials, triumphs, and failures, highlighting God’s faithfulness, provision, and justice throughout their forty years in the wilderness. Numbers combines census data, legal instructions, and narratives to teach lessons about obedience, trust, and the consequences of rebellion.
Numbers emphasizes God’s guidance and sovereignty. Despite the people’s doubts, complaints, and disobedience, God remains faithful, providing for their needs, directing their journey, and upholding His covenant promises. The book also prepares the next generation for the responsibility of entering the Promised Land, underscoring the importance of faith and leadership.
This book encourages reflection on God’s faithfulness, the importance of trust, and the necessity of obedience in following His commands. Numbers demonstrates that God’s plan unfolds even amid human failure and uncertainty, and that His promises are sure for those who remain faithful.
Explore the book of Numbers to understand God’s guidance, learn from the Israelites’ journey, and gain insight into living faithfully under His direction.
Numbers 4:44
Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred. < Numbers 4:43 | > Numbers 4:45 Reflection Numbers 4:44 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words […]
Numbers 4:45
These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses. < Numbers 4:44 | > Numbers 4:46 Reflection Numbers 4:45 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, […]
Numbers 4:46
All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers, < Numbers 4:45 | > Numbers 4:47 Reflection Numbers 4:46 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s […]
Numbers 4:47
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation, < Numbers 4:46 | > Numbers 4:48 Reflection Numbers 4:47 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention […]
Numbers 4:48
Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore. < Numbers 4:47 | > Numbers 4:49 Reflection Numbers 4:48 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]
Numbers 4:49
According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses. < Numbers 4:48 | > Numbers 5:1 Reflection Numbers 4:49 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture […]
Numbers 4:5
And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: < Numbers 4:4 | > Numbers 4:6 Reflection Numbers 4:5 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s […]
Numbers 4:6
And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof. < Numbers 4:5 | > Numbers 4:7 Reflection Numbers 4:6 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through […]
Numbers 4:7
And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: < Numbers 4:6 | > Numbers 4:8 Reflection Numbers 4:7 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often […]
Numbers 4:8
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof. < Numbers 4:7 | > Numbers 4:9 Reflection Numbers 4:8 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness […]
Numbers 4:9
And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it: < Numbers 4:8 | > Numbers 4:10 Reflection Numbers 4:9 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws […]
Numbers 5:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, < Numbers 4:49 | > Numbers 5:2 Reflection Numbers 5:1 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing lord, spake, moses, saying, […]
Numbers 5:10
And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his. < Numbers 5:9 | > Numbers 5:11 Reflection Numbers 5:10 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but […]
Numbers 5:11
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, < Numbers 5:10 | > Numbers 5:12 Reflection Numbers 5:11 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing lord, spake, moses, saying, […]
Numbers 5:12
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, < Numbers 5:11 | > Numbers 5:13 Reflection Numbers 5:12 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse […]
Numbers 5:13
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; < Numbers 5:12 | > Numbers 5:14 Reflection Numbers 5:13 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, […]
Numbers 5:14
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: < Numbers 5:13 | > Numbers 5:15 Reflection Numbers 5:14 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness […]
Numbers 5:15
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. < Numbers […]
Numbers 5:16
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: < Numbers 5:15 | > Numbers 5:17 Reflection Numbers 5:16 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. […]
Numbers 5:17
And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: < Numbers 5:16 | > Numbers 5:18 Reflection Numbers 5:17 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to […]
Numbers 5:18
And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: < Numbers 5:17 | > Numbers 5:19 Reflection Numbers 5:18 sits […]
Numbers 5:19
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: < Numbers 5:18 | > Numbers 5:20 Reflection […]
Numbers 5:2
Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: < Numbers 5:1 | > Numbers 5:3 Reflection Numbers 5:2 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s […]
Numbers 5:20
But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: < Numbers 5:19 | > Numbers 5:21 Reflection Numbers 5:20 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness […]
Numbers 5:21
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; < Numbers 5:20 | > Numbers 5:22 Reflection Numbers […]
Numbers 5:22
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. < Numbers 5:21 | > Numbers 5:23 Reflection Numbers 5:22 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, […]
Numbers 5:23
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: < Numbers 5:22 | > Numbers 5:24 Reflection Numbers 5:23 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness through the journey. This verse may be […]
Numbers 5:24
And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. < Numbers 5:23 | > Numbers 5:25 Reflection Numbers 5:24 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and […]
Numbers 5:25
Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar: < Numbers 5:24 | > Numbers 5:26 Reflection Numbers 5:25 sits within Numbers, Israel’s wilderness record, where Scripture often draws attention to testing, provision, obedience, and God’s faithfulness […]