Wilderness Wanderings In the Sinai Peninsula

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Wilderness WanderingsIn the Sinai Peninsula

• Numbers

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The Censuses

• Numbers refers to censuses
• First census Num 1-4
• Men over 20, 2 yrs after Egypt
• 603,550 22,273 Levites
• Special attention to priestly census
• Second census Ch. 26
• Men over 20, after 40 yrs Wandering
• 601,730 23,000 Levites
• Summary Number did not greatly diminish during
  the Wilderness Wanderings.
• Hebrew name for the book means In the
  Wilderness, a more descriptive title.

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In the Sinai Peninsula

• Preliminaries at Mt Sinai Num 1-9
• Ch. 1-4 Census 1
• Ch. 5-6 Special Consecrations
• (Ch. 7 Gifts for the sanctuary)
• (Ch. 8 Cleansing the Levites)
• (Ch. 9 Keeping the Passover)
• Marching Out to Paran Num 10
• Murmuring from Sinai to Kadesh Numbers Num 11-12
• Taberah Whining for Egyptian Food Burning
• Kibroth-hattaavah Craving Meat Death from
  Plague
• Hazeroth Criticizing marriage of Moses
  Leprosy
• 1326 Israelites at Kadesh in Paran

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Leaving Sinai

• Marching Out 1011-13, 33-36
• They leave Mt Sinai on the 20th of Month 2, Year
  2.
• They travel three days journey.
• The cloud settles in the wilderness of Paran.
• Taberah Burning 111-9
• Outskirt Rabble Israelites complain
• Tired of manna ask for Egypt food
• The Lord burns those on the outskirts of the camp
• Moses is overcome with frustration. 1110-30
• He asks the Lord to just kill him if he has to
  keep leading.
• The Lord gives him help and miraculously gives
  food.
• Kibroth-Hattavah Num 1131-35
• People gorge themselves on quail.
• The Lord strikes them with plague.
• They call the place Kibroth-Hattavah, graves of
  greed

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Hazeroth Num 12

• Aaron Miriam criticize Moses
• Moses and about his Cushite wife.
• They also challenge his leadership.
• The Lord chastises Aaron Miriam and gives her
  leprosy for seven days.
• The people move on from Hazeroth.

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Spying Out The Land Num 13

• The 12 Spies
• The 10 fearful ones
• Joshua Caleb
• Negev to Hebron to Hamath
• Milk and Honey
• Grapes of Eschol
• Anak and Nephilim
• Grasshopper Complex

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Cowardice Numbers 14

• 141-10 Rebellion
• 1411-19 Prayer of Moses
• 1420-28 Pardon and Punishment
• Rejection of all but Joshua Caleb
• Corpses fall in this wilderness as you said
• 40 years of Wilderness Wanderings
• 1439-45 Defeat by Amalekites Canaanites
• Presumptuous attack
• Expulsion to Hormah