Numbers: Passage Refused through Edom

Numbers 20:14-21 (NKJV)

[14] Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. “Thus says your brother Israel: ‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

[15] how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.
[16] When we cried out to the Lord, He heard our voice and sent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border.
[17] Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King’s Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.’”
[18] Then Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword.”
[19] So the children of Israel said to him, “We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.”
[20] Then he said, “You shall not pass through.” So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand.
[21] Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.
Part Seven: Aaron’s Death
Numbers 20:22-29 (NKJV)
[22] Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.
[23] And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom, saying:
[24] “Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah.
[25] Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
[26] and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; for Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there.”
[27] So Moses did just as the Lord commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
[28] Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. [29] Now when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.

Numbers: Miriam gets leprosy

Numbers 12:1-10 (NKJV)

[1] Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
[2] So they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it.
[3] (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.)
[4] Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out.
[5] Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward.
[6] Then He said,
“Hear now My words:
If there is a prophet among you,
I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision;
I speak to him in a dream.
[7] Not so with My servant Moses;
He is faithful in all My house.
[8] I speak with him face to face,
Even plainly, and not in dark sayings;
And he sees the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant Moses?”
[9] So the anger of the Lord was aroused against them, and He departed.
[10] And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper.

Numbers: Second Passover in the Wilderness

Numbers 9:1-6 (NKJV)

[1] Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:

[2] “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
[3] On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.”
[4] So Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.
[5] And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
[6] Now there were certain men who were defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron that day.

Numbers 9:14(NKJV)

[14] And if a stranger dwells among you, and would keep the Lord’s Passover, he must do so according to the rite of the Passover and according to its ceremony; you shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and the native of the land.”

Numbers: Serving in the Tabernacle

Numbers 3:5-13 (NKJV)

[5] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

[6] “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
[7] And they shall attend to his needs and the needs of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of meeting, to do the work of the tabernacle.
[8] Also they shall attend to all the furnishings of the tabernacle of meeting, and to the needs of the children of Israel, to do the work of the tabernacle.
[9] And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are given entirely to him from among the children of Israel.
[10] So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall attend to their priesthood; but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”
[11] Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
[12] “Now behold, I Myself have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel. Therefore the Levites shall be Mine,
[13] because all the firstborn are Mine. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They shall be Mine: I am the Lord.”

Numbers: Priestly Blessing

Numbers 6:22-27 (NKJV)

[22] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
[23] “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them:
[24] “The Lord bless you and keep you;
[25] The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
[26] The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.”
[27] “So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.”

Numbers: Israel's First Census

Numbers 1:19-43 (NKJV)

[19] As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai.
[20] Now the children of Reuben, Israel’s oldest son, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[21] those who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.
[22] From the children of Simeon, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, of those who were numbered, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[23] those who were numbered of the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
[24] From the children of Gad, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[25] those who were numbered of the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
[26] From the children of Judah, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[27] those who were numbered of the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
[28] From the children of Issachar, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[29] those who were numbered of the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
[30] From the children of Zebulun, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[31] those who were numbered of the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
32 From the sons of Joseph, the children of Ephraim, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[33] those who were numbered of the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred.
[34] From the children of Manasseh, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[35] those who were numbered of the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
[36] From the children of Benjamin, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[37] those who were numbered of the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
[38] From the children of Dan, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[39] those who were numbered of the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
[40] From the children of Asher, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[41] those who were numbered of the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred.
[42] From the children of Naphtali, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
[43] those who were numbered of the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

Leviticus: Day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles

Leviticus 23:26-28 (NASB) The Day of Atonement

26. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
27. “On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present an offering by fire to the Lord.
28. You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the Lord your God.


Leviticus 23:39-44 (NKJV) The Feast of Tabernacles

39. Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.
40. And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.
41. You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42. You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,
43. that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”
44. So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.

Leviticus: Feast of Weeks and Feast of Trumpets

Leviticus 23:15-16 (NKJV) The Feast of Weeks

15. And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.
16. Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord.


Leviticus 23:23-24 (NKJV) The Feast of Trumpets

23. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
24. “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.