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Reading through the Book of Numbers

This fourth book of the Torah is mixed material. It begins with a detailed census of the people who found themselves at the foot of Mount Sinai, being entered into a serious covenant with the God of their forefathers. This was done in the second year after the escape from Egypt, and counts a surprisingContinue reading “Reading through the Book of Numbers”

Reading through the book of Leviticus

The book of Leviticus is a book of rites, a ritual, inserted into the narrative history of the transfer of the People from Egypt, through Sinai and into the trans-Jordan. As Moses had established the groundwork for the Hebrew religion at the end of the book of Exodus, with the building of the tabernacle andContinue reading “Reading through the book of Leviticus”