Have you ever started a Bible reading plan? Have you ever quit a Bible reading plan, say, in the middle of Exodus or Leviticus? 🙂 Many Bible reading plans start at the beginning, in Genesis, which is really quite interesting to dig into. Exodus starts off pretty exciting too, but starts to decrease in the… Read More »
“All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy” (Gen 46:27). 430 years later (Exod 12:40–41; Acts 7:6; Gal 3:17), for all the interesting observations that could be made about the size of the biblical numbers of Israel’s population (cf. Exod 12:37; 38:26; Num 1:46; 2:32; 26:51),1 conservative commentators who… Read More »
A Focus on Numbers The purpose of Numbers is somewhat captured in the Hebrew and Greek titles of Numbers. Called bemidbar in the Hebrew (“in the wilderness”; 1:1), Numbers records 40 years of Israel’s journeys in the wilderness, for better or worse. Called Arithmoi in the Greek, Numbers records two censuses (Num 1–4, 26) which… Read More »