Here is a short list of notes taken while reading Numbers:
1. (chapter 6): What are the vows of the Nazarite for? We get a exhaustive explanation of what they are, and what to do if they are broken, but to what end would someone take these vows?
2. (chapter 16):
a. when talking to Moses, they claim, “you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness.” They referred to Egypt using the language appropriate to the Promised Land.
b. at the end of Koran’s rebellion, a plague of the Lord is spreading among the people. Aaron runs out with the incense to make atonement for them: “He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stopped.” What a great picture of priesthood! It also reminds me of Camus’ The Plague.
3. (chapter 18): The priests have “no allotment in their land” but the Lord was to be their “share” and “possession.” We are called, by Paul, “a kingdom of priests.” Ponder.
4. (chapter 33): A long list of names both familiar and unfamiliar creates a sense of a long, arduous journey.
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