Numbers—The Wilderness Sojourn (1)

The people of Israel spent a little less than a year at Mt. Sinai. During this time they received the ten commandments, the details of the Levitical laws, the instructions on the construction of the temple. Toward the end of this time they built the tabernacle which was to accompany them through the wilderness sojourn. It is at this point that the Book of Numbers takes up the historical account of these events, an account encompassing the forty year stay in the wilderness and the eventual...