Numbers 15

  • Numbers 15:2 – These words would be a constant reminder to the people that, because of their unfaithfulness, they would not inherit the land, but their children would.
  • Numbers 15:22-29 – Offerings for accidental sins.
  • Numbers 15:30-31 – People who sin defiantly would be cut off!
    • Hebrews 10:26
  • Numbers 15:32-36 – A man is stoned for breaking the Sabbath.
    • Exodus 16:22-26
    • Exodus 35:1-3
    • Exodus 20:8-11 – The Sabbath was based on the pattern of Creation.
    • Deuteronomy 5:12-15 – Moses connects the Sabbath to slavery in Egypt.
  • Numbers 15:37-41 – Deuteronomy 22:12; Matthew 23:5 – Tassels on garments.

Numbers 16

  • Numbers 16:1-3 – Korah asserted that Moses and Aaron were exalting themselves above everyone else. But it was God who exalted Moses and Aaron.
  • Numbers 16:4-7 – Moses stands up to Korah.
  • Numbers 16:8-11 – Korah was against God and His delegated authority.
  • Numbers 16:12-15 – Dathan and Abiram refuse Moses’ summons.
  • Numbers 16:16-24 – Moses again pleads for the nation.
  • Numbers 16:25-35 – The earth opens up and swallows Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and their families.
  • Numbers 16:36-40 – Censers of the sinful were pounded into plates to be used as a covering for the altar.
    • Jude 1:11
  • Numbers 16:41-50 – The people continue to rebel and God sends a plague that kills 14,700 people before Aaron makes atonement before God, stopping the plague.

Numbers 17

  • Numbers 17:1-11 – God causes Aaron’s rod to bud, indicating that he is God’s choice. See Hebrews 9:3-4.
    • II Peter 3:9, 17 – God wants to bless us and save us, but will punish those that rebel.
  • Numbers 17:12-13 – The people now fear they will all die.