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Israel’s Journey from Egypt Reviewed

1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the ahand of Moses and Aaron.  
2 Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the Lord. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:
3 They adeparted from Rameses in bthe first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out cwith boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.  
4 For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, awhom the Lord had killed among them. Also bon their gods the Lord had executed judgments.  
5 aThen the children of Israel moved from Rameses and camped at Succoth.  
6 They departed from aSuccoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.  
7 aThey moved from Etham and turned back to Pi Hahiroth, which is east of Baal Zephon; and they camped near Migdol.  
8 They departed1 from before Hahiroth and apassed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, went three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah.  
Book Notes:
Barnes' Book Notes



Introduction to Numbers

The title commonly given to this book is evidently suggested by the two numberings of the people recorded in Num. 1 and Num. 26.

The book narrates the history of the Israelites during their sojourn in the wilderness from the completion of the law-giving at Sinai, Leviticus 27:34, to their mustering in the plains of Moab for actual entry into the land of promise.

The incidents are generally given in their chronological order, except in the third part. The five chapters comprised in this part appear to deal with a long period, from which only isolated episodes are given; and of these the dates can only be conjectured.

Between the two dates "the first day of the second month of the second year after they were come out of Egypt" Numbers 1:1, and the death of Aaron Numbers 33:38, intervene no less than 38 years and 3 months (compare Deuteronomy 2:14), the long and dreary period of tarrying in the wilderness until the disobedient generation had wasted away.

From the death of Aaron to the date given in the opening verses of Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 1:1-3, occurred a space of exactly six months, in which all the events narrated in the fourth part of the Book of Numbers, from Numbers 20:1 to the end, would seem to have occurred, with the probable exception of the defeat of the king of Arad Numbers 21:1-3.

As regards the authorship and date of composition, the notes of time, the tenor of the contents, no less than the direct assertions of the text itself, lead to the conclusion that Moses is properly spoken of as the writer of the Book of Numbers. It is in substance his work; though many portions of it were probably committed to writing many years before the whole was completed; and the concluding chapters were not written until toward the close of the 40th year after the exodus.

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