Numbered

Mo. 7/1/13: Numbers 1:1 – 5                 Why is the 4th book  Numbers?

Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: "Take a census … and with you there shall be a man from every tribe, each one the head of his father's house. These are the names of the men who shall stand with you…

Why is the 4th book  Numbers? God told Moses to number Israel.

Tu. 7/2/13: Numbers 1:17 – 18                                  Who did God name?

Then Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned by name, and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they recited their ancestry by families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one individually.

Who did God name? God named twelve men as heads of their tribes.

We. 7/3/13: Numbers 1:44, 46                      How many were numbered?

These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each one representing his father's house…all who were numbered were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

How many were numbered? Those numbered were 603,550.

Th. 7/4/13: Numbers 1:47 – 49                      Who were NOT numbered?

But the Levites were not numbered among them by their fathers' tribe; for the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying: "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor take a census of them among the children of Israel.

Who were NOT numbered? The Levites were not numbered.

Fr. 7/5/13: Revelation 7:9 – 10              Who COULD NOT be numbered?

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"

Who COULD NOT be numbered? The multitude of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne could not be numbered.