Short Summary of the Book of Numbers

Numbers: The Genre's of this book are made up of Law and History due to the sins of disobedience and "god" worshiping. Along Israel's journey they were led away to wandered for 40 years in the wilderness before coming into the promised land. In the first 25 chapters of Numbers we see the experiences of the first generation of the Israelites in the wilderness, and the remaining chapters of Numbers describes the experiences of the second generation. Obedience and rebellion followed by repentance and blessing are themed throughout the entire book.

Numbers also describes the numbering of the people specifically males twenty years and over with the exception of the Levite's. The experiences Moses encountered in this book included his own siblings turning on him and anger starting to control many of his actions, and even due to his own disobedience Moses was unable to walk into the Promise Land.

This book written by Moses between 1440 and 1400 B.C. describes the walk of the Israelites as well as filling the gap between the Israelites receiving the law (Exodus and Leviticus) and getting them ready to enter the Promise Land (Deuteronomy and Joshua). Most of the events listed in Numbers evolve around the second and fortieth years of the Israelites wandering in the wilderness. With the passing of Moses and Aaron this put Joshua as leader of the Israelites.