Explore the Biblical Book: Numbers

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Numbers 3:11-13 – The Levites as Substitutes for the Firstborn

Numbers 5:11-31 – An Ordeal to Test Suspected Infidelity

Numbers 6:1-21 – The Nazirite Vow

Numbers 6:22-27 – The Priestly Benediction

Numbers 11:7-9 – Bread from Heaven

Numbers 11:16-30 – The Seventy Elders

Numbers 13:21-24 – Grapes, Pomegranates, and Figs

Numbers 14:1-25 – A Forty-Year Sentence

Numbers 15:22-31 – Intentional and Unintentional Sins

Numbers 17:1-12 – Aaron’s Blooming Staff

Numbers 20:2-13 – Water from the Rock

Numbers 21:4-9 – The Bronze Serpent

Numbers 22:22-35 – Balaam and His Talking Donkey

Numbers 23:19 – God Is Not a Human Being

Numbers 25:1-13 – Sin and Atonement: The Baal of Peor

Numbers 27:1-11 – Inheritance for the Daughters of Zelophehad

John 3:16 – God So Loved the World

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Numbers is the story of a people on a difficult journey, with everything–life, health, purpose, destiny–on the line.

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Egypt, Exodus, Land

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