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In an incident soon after (Numbers 17:10–13 [38] or Numbers 17:25–28 [37]), the Israelites panicked when Moses entered the Tabernacle, fearing they were all going to die. [3] She concluded that Numbers 25:6–18 served three purposes: illustrating the encroachment law, legitimising Phinehas' ascendancy to the high priesthood, and justifying ...
Numbers 31:17 וְכָל־אִשָּׁ֗ה יֹדַ֥עַת אִ֛ישׁ לְמִשְׁכַּ֥ב זָכָ֖ר הֲרֹֽגוּ׃ , wə-ḵāl ’iš-šāh, yō-ḏa-‘aṯ ’îš lə-miš-kaḇ zā-ḵār hă-rō-ḡū. , 'and every woman, who has known a man in a male bed / by lying with him, kill.'
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 ...
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]
The Rabbis differed about the meaning of "the holy vessels" in Numbers 31:6. Rabbi Johanan deduced from the reference of Exodus 29:29 to "the holy garments of Aaron" that Numbers 31:6 refers to the priestly garments containing the Urim and Thummim when it reports that "Moses sent . . . Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with ...
The lack of this institution ("At that time, there was no king in Israel") is repeated a number of times, such as Judges 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; and 21:25. [ 3 ] Yairah Amit in The Book of Judges: The Art of Editing (2007), concluded that chapters 19–21 were written by a post-exilic author whose intent was to make the political statement that ...
Ken Steven Brown (2015) drew comparisons between Judges 21 and Numbers 31, stating: "This command [in Numbers 31:17–18] to kill all but the virgin girls is without precedent in the Pentateuch. However, [Judges 21] precisely parallels Moses's command.
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.