The Book of Numbers (1)

We now pass on to the book of Numbers. Between the contents of this book and what precedes, there is again a most intimate connection. The first chapter of Numbers sets out with the notice that on the first day of the second month in the second year after the children of Israel were come out of Egypt, the Lord commanded Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, to take the sum of the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of...