Numbers #catechesis/bible/numbers
Old Testament · The 7 Books · part of Old Testament → Bible
Chapters
- Numbers 1 — The children of Israel are numbered: the Levites are designed to serve the tabernacle.
- Numbers 2 — The order of the tribes in their camp.
- Numbers 3 — The Levites are numbered and their offices distinguished. They are taken in the place of the firstborn of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 4 — The age and time of the Levites’ service: their offices and burdens.
- Numbers 5 — The unclean are removed out of the camp: confession of sins, and satisfaction: firstfruits and oblations belonging to the priests: trial of jealousy.
- Numbers 6 — The law of the Nazarites: the form of blessing the people.
- Numbers 7 — The offerings of the princes at the dedication of the tabernacle. God speaks to Moses from the propitiatory.
- Numbers 8 — The seven lamps are placed on the golden candlestick, to shine towards the loaves of proposition: the ordination of the Levites: and to what age they shall serve in the tabernacle.
- Numbers 9 — The precept of the pasch is renewed: the unclean and travellers are to observe it the second month: the camp is guided by the pillar of the cloud.
- Numbers 10 — The silver trumpets and their use. They march from Sinai.
- Numbers 11 — The people murmur and are punished with fire. God appoints seventy ancients for assistants to Moses. They prophesy. The people have their fill of flesh, but forthwith many die of the plague.
- Numbers 12 — Mary and Aaron murmur against Moses, whom God praises above other prophets. Mary being struck with leprosy, Aaron confesses his fault. Moses prays for her, and after seven days’ separation from the camp, she is restored.
- Numbers 13 — The twelve spies are sent to view the land. The relation they make of it.
- Numbers 14 — The people murmur. God threatens to destroy them. He is appeased by Moses, yet so as to exclude the murmurers from entering the promised land. The authors of the sedition are struck dead. The rest going to fight against the will of God are beaten.
- Numbers 15 — Certain laws concerning sacrifices. Sabbath breaking is punished with death. The law of fringes on their garments.
- Numbers 16 — The schism of Core and his adherents: their punishment.
- Numbers 17 — The priesthood is confirmed to Aaron by the miracle of the blooming of his rod, which is kept for a monument in the tabernacle.
- Numbers 18 — The charge of the priests and of the Levites, and their portion.
- Numbers 19 — The law of the sacrifice of the red cow, and the water of expiation.
- Numbers 20 — The death of Mary the sister of Moses. The people murmur for want of water: God gives it them from the rock. The death of Aaron.
- Numbers 21 — King Arad is overcome. The people murmur and are punished with fiery serpents: they are healed by the brazen serpent. They conquer the kings Sehon and Og.
- Numbers 22 — Balac, king of Moab, sends twice for Balaam to curse Israel. In his way Balaam is rebuked by an angel.
- Numbers 23 — Balaam, instead of cursing Israel, is obliged to bless them, and prophesy good things of them.
- Numbers 24 — Balaam still continues to prophesy good things in favour of Israel.
- Numbers 25 — The people fall into fornication and idolatry; for which twenty-four thousand are slain. The zeal of Phinees.
- Numbers 26 — The people are again numbered by their tribes and families.
- Numbers 27 — The law of inheritance. Joshua is appointed to succeed Moses.
- Numbers 28 — Sacrifices are appointed as well for every day as for sabbaths, and other festivals.
- Numbers 29 — Sacrifices for the festivals of the seventh month.
- Numbers 30 — Of vows and oaths: and their obligation.
- Numbers 31 — The Madianites are slain for having drawn the people of Israel into sin. The dividing of the booty.
- Numbers 32 — The tribes of Ruben and Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh, receive their inheritance on the east side of Jordan, upon conditions approved of by Moses.
- Numbers 33 — The mansions or journeys of the children of Israel towards the land of promise.
- Numbers 34 — The limits of Canaan; with the names of the men that make the division of it.
- Numbers 35 — Cities are appointed for the Levites. Of which six are to be the cities of refuge.
- Numbers 36 — That the inheritances may not be alienated from one tribe to another, all are to marry within their own tribes.
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