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Shectman also noted that Numbers 8:19 claimed that a "plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary", [35] and in Numbers 16:42–50 [36] (or Numbers 17:7–15 in some Bible editions [37]), this actually happened and 14,700 Israelites died of a plague before Aaron stopped it by making an incense offering to Yahweh. [3]
The account of the ordeal of bitter water is given in the Book of Numbers: Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and ...
Rabbi and scholar Shaye J. D. Cohen (1999) argued that "the implications of Numbers 31:17–18 are unambiguous [...] we may be sure that for yourselves means that the warriors may 'use' their virgin captives sexually", adding that Shimon bar Yochai understood the passage 'correctly'.
The Book of Numbers (from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi, lit. ' numbers ' Biblical Hebrew: בְּמִדְבַּר, Bəmīḏbar, lit. ' In [the] desert '; Latin: Liber Numeri) is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. [1]
In several modern versions, this is treated as a continuation of 12:17 or as a complete verse numbered 12:18: RV: "And he stood upon the sand of the sea." (Some say "it stood" – the he or it being the Dragon mentioned in the preceding verses) Among pre-KJV versions, the Great Bible and the Rheims version also have "he stood".
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Moses was twice given notice that he would die before entry to the Promised Land: in Numbers 27:13, [53] once he had seen the Promised Land from a viewpoint on Mount Abarim, and again in Numbers 31:1 [54] once battle with the Midianites had been won. On the banks of the Jordan River, in sight of the land, Moses assembled the tribes.
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