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Numbers: Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary

Alastair Roberts

Numbers: Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary

May 30, 2022
Alastair Roberts
Alastair Roberts

*CONTENTS*

00:00:00 - Chapter 1: The First Census

00:13:51 - Chapter 2: The Ordering of the Camp

00:20:39 - Chapter 3: Numbering the Levites

00:32:47 - Chapter 4: The Duties of Levite Clans

00:44:19 - Chapter 5: The Test of Jealousy

01:08:01 - Chapter 6: Nazirites

01:22:15 - Chapter 7: Offerings at the Tabernacle's Consecration

01:31:31 - Chapter 8: Purifying the Levites

01:39:50 - Chapter 9: Celebrating the Passover

01:48:57 - Chapter 10: The Silver Trumpets and the Departure from Sinai

01:58:06 - Chapter 11: The Seventy Elders Appointed

02:06:27 - Chapter 12: Miriam and Aaron Challenge Moses

02:18:26 - Chapter 13: The Spies and Their Report

02:27:58 - Chapter 14: The People Refuse to Enter

02:38:34 - Chapter 15: Laws Concerning Sacrifices

02:49:58 - Chapter 16: Korah's Rebellion

03:04:04 - Chapter 17: Aaron's Staff Buds

03:12:53 - Chapter 18: The Duties of Priests and Levites

03:20:42 - Chapter 19: The Red Heifer and Purification from Corpse Defilement

03:34:55 - Chapter 20: The Deaths of Miriam and Aaron and Moses' Sin at Meribah

03:54:15 - Chapter 21: The Bronze Serpent and Defeat of Amorite Kings

04:08:19 - Chapter 22: Balak and Balaam

04:18:36 - Chapter 23: Balaam's First and Second Oracles

04:28:56 - Chapter 24: Balaam's Third and Fourth Oracles

04:39:55 - Chapter 25: Israel's Breach of Faith at Peor

04:52:34 - Chapter 26: The Second Census

04:58:40 - Chapter 27: The Daughters of Zelophehad and Joshua Appointed

05:11:09 - Chapter 28: Public Offerings

05:22:19 - Chapter 29: The Public Offerings of the Seventh Month

05:29:00 - Chapter 30: Women's Vows

05:39:56 - Chapter 31: Vengeance Upon Midian

05:52:47 - Chapter 32: The Transjordanian Tribes

06:02:13 - Chapter 33: The Exodus Itinerary

06:19:19 - Chapter 34: Boundaries of the Promised Land

06:25:01 - Chapter 35: The Cities of the Levites and the Cities of Refuge

06:43:47 - Chapter 36: Further Instruction Concerning the Daughters of Zelophehad

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