Numbers 10
- Timeline:
| Relative date | Reference | 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 1-10
- Travel – Numbers 10-12
- Wilderness of Paran – Numbers 13-19
- Travel – Numbers 20-21
- Wilderness of Moab – Numbers 22-36
- Numbers 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 5:11-12
- Deuteronomy 8:1-6, 16
- Numbers 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, 40
- Deuteronomy 9:22
Numbers 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.