Numbers 10
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Description
Year 1, month 3, day ???
Exodus 19:1-2
Arrive at Mt. Sinai
Year 2, month 1, day 1
Exodus 40:17
Set up tabernacle
Year 2, month 1, day 14
Numbers 9:1-14
Second Passover Feast
Year 2, month 2, day 1
Numbers 1:1-2
“Take a census”
Year 2, month 2, day 20
Numbers 10:11
Leave Mt. Sinai
Five sections of Numbers:Wilderness of Sinai – Numbers 1-10Travel – Numbers 10-12Wilderness of Paran – Numbers 13-19Travel – Numbers 20-21Wilderness of Moab – Numbers 22-36Numbers 10:13-28 – They marched out in the specified order.Numbers 10:29-32 – Moses convinces his brother-in-law Hobab to travel with them.Numbers 10:35-36 – Moses prayed for their safety in travel.Numbers 11
Numbers 11:1-3 – Three days in to the journey, they already start complaining and God punishes them.Numbers 11:4-9 – The people complain about only having manna to eat.Exodus 16:14-15, 31-34 – Manna is first introduced. God wanted them to remember that He had provided for them.Joshua 5:11-12Deuteronomy 8:1-6, 16Numbers 11:10-15 – Moses despairs because of the grumbling of the people.Numbers 11:16-25 – God relieves Moses’ burden by setting up seventy men to share the load. Perhaps God was waiting for Moses to realize he couldn’t do it all alone.Numbers 11:31-35 – God gives the people quail to eat, along with a plague to punish their greediness.Exodus 16:16-20 – Compare the rules for gathering manna.It seems they were trying to greedily horde the quail rather than trusting God to provide.Psalms 78:8-32, 40Deuteronomy 9:22Numbers 12
Numbers 12:1-2 – Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses, apparently because of his marriage to a Cushite woman. We don’t know anything else about the Cushite woman.Numbers 12:3-16 – Miriam is struck with leprosy and must stay outside the camp for seven days.