#9 hrwt Meaningful Structure of the Five Books of Moses Sinai
grumbling grumbling Road from Sinai Numbers 11-21
Exo dus Levi ticu s Lev 16 Day of Atonements Why? Lev 11-15 unclean be holy Lev 17-20 Who? Lev 8-10 priests ordained priests kept holy Lev 21 Lev 1-7 offerings holy sacrifice Lev 22 How? Exo 35-40 Where? When? 7 holy times Lev 23 Tabernacle built Exo 32-34 golden calf event Interlude blasphemer stoned Lev 24 apostasy Exo 25-31 Tabernacle planned Where? When? holy sabbaths Lev 25 The Heart of the Torah What? Levi ticu s Levi ticu s Exo 20-24 Ten Words & the Sinai Covenant Exo dus Exo 18-19 Israel prepares to meet God at Sinai What? blessings, curses, & vows Lev 26-27 The Context of the Torah Exo 14-17 going to Sinai rebellion rebellion leaving Sinai + 38 years Num 11-20 Exo 12-13 Passover salvation Exo 5-11 Pharaoh opposition God prepares Israel to leave Sinai Num 1-10 salvation bronze snake, red heifer Num 21 opposition Balaam Num 22-25 Nu mbe rs Genesis God s grace Gen 1-50 before Moses Exo 3-4 Moses leader leader Joshua Num 26-27 Exo 1-2 Israel in slavery Israel free to inherit Num 28-36 Torah Prelude Torah Epilogue God s grace in the ministry of Moses Deu 1-34 Deuter- onomy
30 days mourning 6? 5 7 40 4 1 st 8 th 3 9? bronze snake??? Aaron dies? 10 2 1 Meribah Moses sins travel around Moab & Edom defeat of Sihon and Og year 11 5 6 Balaam the sin of Baal Peor Midianite War?? Second Census 1 st??? 4 7 Miriam dies 3 Deuteronomy preached 12 8 2 one year 9 10 30 days mourning Moses dies arrive at Kadesh 1 14 th 10 th 11 12 Passover in Canaan 41 camp at Gilgal cross Jordan st year
grumbling occurs 3x on the way to Sinai (a) about the bitter waters at Marah (b) about the lack of food in the desert of Sin (c) about no water at all at Rephidim!wl = grumble grumble occurs 15x in the Old Testament, 14 with Israel s traveling to & from Mt. Sinai grumbling occurs 3 times on the way from Sinai (C) when the spies returned from Canaan (B) when Korah and friends rebelled (A) when Aaron challenged
it appears on the way from Egypt to Sinai > > > (1) God gains glory for himself at the crossing of the Red Sea (2) God threatens the complainers at Marah with the plagues of Egypt (3) God shines his glory before sending manna in the desert of Sin (4) God reveals himself above the rock providing water at Rephidim hwhy dbk = Glory of the LORD it appears on the way from Sinai to the Promised Land (5) after the people adopt the bad report of ten of the twelve spies (6) before the earth swallowed up Korah and his rebellious allies (7) after the people openly challenged Aaron s priesthood (8) at Meribah before Moses and Aaron disobeyed
Main Events GRUMBLING after leaving Sinai Location Problem Target Quotable quote God's response Resolution of the problem Text ADESH spies report stone Moses & Aaron better go back to Egypt! God s glory appears Moses intercedes- children to inherit- defeat at Hormah Numbers 13 & 14 ADESH Korah & others rebell against Moses & Aaron You have gone too far! God s Moses & Aaron plead- glory Earth swallows leadersappears fire kills 250 supporters Numbers 16:1-35 KADESH many people die against Moses & Aaron you killed the Lord s people! God s glory appears Plague strikes - Aaron makes atonement Aaron s staff buds Numbers 16:41 to 17:11
Interludes between main events after leaving Sinai Departure of God s Army on the march from Mt. Sinai to conquer Canaan (1) at Taberah Moses intercedes as the people complain about hardships (2) at Kibroth Hata avah the rabble loathe manna, are given quail & plague; Moses despairs as leader, but God pours out his Spirit on seventy (3) at Hazaroth Miriam and Aaron criticize Moses wife Moses intercedes for a Miriam whom God strikes with leprosy Numbers 11 & 12 GRUMBLING in Kadesh over the Report of the Twelve Spies (1) laws on offerings given (2) a sabbath-breaker is stoned (3) Israel commanded to wear tassels as memorials Numbers 15 GRUMBLING in Kadesh by Korah, Dathan, Abiram and the 250 leaders Eleazar hammers the censers left behind by the 250 followers of Korah Dathan and Abiram into a covering for the altar of sacrifice. Numbers 16:36-40 GRUMBLING in Kadesh after the death of the rebels (1) Israel despairs, (2) Priestly duties and offerings are spelled out (3) The water of cleaning (red heifer) is authorized Numbers 17:12-13 &, chs. 18 & 19 The first generation dies in the wilderness around Kadesh
Exodus 33:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants.'
TABERAH Numbers 11:1 Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp So that place was called Taberah...
KIBROTH HATTAAVAH Numbers 11:4 The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, "If only we had meat to eat!
Numbers 11:10 Moses heard the people of every family wailing, each at the entrance to his tent.
Numbers 11:13,14 Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, 'Give us meat to eat! I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.'
Numbers 11:17,25 I will take of the Spirit that is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you carry the burden of the people so that you will not have to carry it alone. Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took of the Spirit that was on him and put the Spirit on the seventy elders.
Numbers11:19,31 You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days. Now a wind went out from the LORD and drove quail in from the sea. It brought them down all around the camp to about three feet above the ground, as far as a day's walk in any direction.
Numbers 11:35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth and stayed there. Numbers 12:1 Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. HAZEROTH
Numbers 12:10,13 When the cloud lifted from above the Tent, there stood Miriam leprous, like snow. So Moses cried out to the LORD, "O God, please heal her!"
DESERT of PARAN Numbers 12:16 After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.
Numbers 13:2,18 "Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. See [1] what the land is like and [2] whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many.
Numbers 13:23 When they reached the Valley of Eshcol, they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs.
Numbers 13:27 They gave Moses this account: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.
Numbers 13:28,33 "But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."
Numbers 14:3,4 Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt? And they said to each other, "We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt."
Numbers 13:30 & 14:8 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.... If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.
Numbers 14:13,17-19 Moses said to the LORD, "Now may the Lord's strength be displayed, just as you have declared: The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now."
Numbers 14:26,31,34 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron: As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected. For forty years-- one year for each of the forty days you explored the land-- you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.' 40 YEARS
Numbers 14:44,45 Nevertheless, in their presumption they went up toward the high hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the LORD's covenant moved from the campthen the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah. HORMAH
Numbers 15:28,30 The priest is to make atonement before the LORD for the one who erred by sinning unintentionally, and when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven. But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or alien, blasphemes the LORD, and that person must be cut off from his people.
Numbers 15:32,35 While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp." Sabbath breaker
Numbers 15:37,38,40,41 The LORD said to Moses, Speak to the Israelites and say to them: Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. Then you will remember to obey all my commands and will be consecrated to your God. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God.'"
Numbers 16:1,3 Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and certain Reubenites-- Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth-- became insolent They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD's assembly?"
Numbers 16:16,17 Moses said to Korah, You and all your followers are to appear before the LORD tomorrow you and they and Aaron. Each man is to take his censer and put incense in it-- 250 censers in all-- and present it before the LORD.
Numbers 16:28,29 Then Moses said, "This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea: If these men die a natural death and experience only what usually happens to men, then the LORD has not sent me.
Numbers 16:31,32 As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their households and all Korah's men and all their possessions.
Numbers16:35 And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
Numbers 16:39,40 So Eleazar the priest collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar, as the LORD directed him through Moses.
Numbers 16:41 The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.. "You have killed the LORD's people," they said.
Numbers 16:46 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer and put incense in it, along with fire from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has started."
Numbers 17:6-8 So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and their leaders gave him twelve staffs, one for the leader of each of their ancestral tribes, and Aaron's staff was among them. Moses placed the staffs before the LORD in the Tent of the Testimony. The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron's staff, which represented the house of Levi, had not only sprouted but had budded, blossomed and produced almonds.
Numbers 18:5,9,11, 14,21 [Levites]... [1] you are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar, so that wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.... [2] you are to have the part of the most holy offerings that is kept from the fire.... This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave offerings of the Israelites.... [3] Everything in Israel that is devoted to the LORD is yours... [4] I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work they do while serving at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 19:9 "A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They shall be kept by the Israelite community for use in the water of cleansing; it is for purification from sin.
Numbers 19:11,12 Whoever touches the dead body of anyone will be unclean for seven days. He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.
second generation salvation on the way home
Numbers 20:1 In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried. DESERT of ZIN
Numbers 20:2,3 Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron. "If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the LORD!
Numbers 20:10-12 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, "Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock? Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them."
Numbers 20:14,17,18 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: Please let us pass through your country. But Edom answered: "You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword."
Numbers 20:23,24 At Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Aaron will be gathered to his people. He will not enter the land I give the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against my command at 'the waters of Meribah.
Numbers 21:4-6 But the people grew impatient on the way; they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food! Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.
Numbers 21:8,9 The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live. So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.
shadow John 3:14-16 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in. the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life
God vs. Balaam
Numbers 22:1,3,4,6 Then the Israelites traveled to the plains of Moab and camped along the Jordan across from Jericho. and Moab was terrified because there were so many people. So Balak son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time, sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor, who was at Pethor, near the River, in his native land. Balak said: Now come and put a curse on these people, because they are too powerful for me.
Numbers 22:7 The elders of Moab and Midian left, taking with them the fee for divination. When they came to Balaam, they told him what Balak had said. Numbers 22:12 But God said to Balaam, "Do not go with them. You must not put a curse on those people, because they are blessed."
Numbers 22:15-17 Then Balak sent other princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first. "This is what Balak son of Zippor says: 'Do not let anything keep you from coming to me, because I will reward you handsomely and do whatever you say.'"
Numbers 22:20 That night God came to Balaam and said, "Since these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you."
Numbers 22:22 But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. 2 Peter 2:15,16 Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey-- a beast without speech-- who spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
Numbers 23:1,2 Balaam said, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me. Balak did as Balaam said,.
Then Balaam uttered his oracle: I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations. Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my end be like theirs!" 1 Numbers 23:7,9
Then Balaam uttered his oracle: God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? The LORD their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them. 2 Numbers 23:18,19,21
the oracle of one who hears the words of God: "How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, your dwelling places, O Israel! "Their king will be greater than Agag; their kingdom will be exalted. 3 Numbers 24:4,5,7
4 "I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. Numbers 24:17 民 Numbers 24:17
Revelation 2:14 You have people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin [A] by eating food sacrificed to idols and [B] by committing sexual immorality.
Numbers 25:1,2 the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. 1 Corinthians 10:7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
Numbers 25:7-9 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his handand followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of them-- through the Israelite and into the woman's body. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
Preparation R E A D Y ecount
Numbers 26:63-65 These are the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho. Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai. For the LORD had told those Israelites they would surely die in the desert, and not one of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 1 st X generation Joshua Caleb
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Numbers 27:12-14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go up this mountain in the Abarim range and see the land I have given the Israelites. After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was, for when the community rebelled at the waters in the Desert of Zin, both of you disobeyed my command to honor me as holy before their eyes."
Numbers 27:15-18 Moses said to the LORD, "May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all mankind, appoint a man over this community to go out and come in before them, one who will lead them out and bring them in, so the LORD's people will not be like sheep without a shepherd."so the LORD said to Moses, "Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand on him.
Numbers 27:22,23 Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole assembly. Then he laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as the LORD instructed through Moses.
preparation R E A D Y venge
Numbers 31:1,2,6,7 Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling. They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every man. The LORD said to Moses, "Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people."
Numbers 31:28, 48-49 From the soldiers who fought in the battle, set apart as tribute for the LORD one out of every five hundred, whether people, cattle, donkeys or sheep.... Then the officers who were over the units of the army... said to him, "Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing.
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Canaan Numbers 34:1,2,13 "Command the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance will have these boundaries: "Assign this land by lot.. The LORD has ordered that it be given to the nine and a half tribes. 9-1/2 tribes
Numbers 32:1,2,5 The Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were suitable for livestock. So they came to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, and said "let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan." 2-1/2 tribes Manasseh Gad Reuben
Numbers 35:6,7 Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns. In all you must give the Levites fortyeight towns, together with their pasturelands. Refuge Cities Kadesh Shechem * * * * Golan Ramoth Gilead Levite Cities Hebron * * Bezer 48 scattered througout the the 12 tribal portions
Zelophehad's daughters Numbers 36:12 They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in their father's clan and tribe.
preparation R E A D Y Moses' farewell (Deuteronomy) esterday
Deuteronomy 1:3 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them. Deuteronom y Review of all God's words to Moses
Nebraska District Pastors Institute Beautiful Savior Lutheran Topeka, Kansas Making Christo-centric Sense of the Torah John C. Lawrenz April 14 & 15, 2015 To the best of our knowledge all materials in this presentation meet the standards of fair use. No copyrighted material in this presentation should be copied for any use that violates fair use.