Numbers
Old Testament · Pentateuch · 36 chapters
Israel’s forty years in the wilderness: the census, the people’s complaints and unbelief, and God’s faithfulness on the way to the promised land.
CovenantFaithLaw
Context
- Genre
- Wilderness narrative and law
- Authorship
- Traditionally attributed to MosesIts composition is widely discussed.
- Setting
- Wilderness and plains of Moab
- Original language
- Hebrew
- In the original
- מִדְבָּרmidbar — wilderness
- Related texts
- Exodus 15–18 · journey beginsDeuteronomy 1–4 · journey recalled