Continuing a plan to get through the entire Bible in a year, follow as I journal through the reading. I have chosen a straightforward approach that begins in Genesis and ends in Revelation. This will not be an in-depth study or a comprehensive commentary. There are plenty of sources for such material. This is stage one Bible reading, taking the text at face value and sharing impressions.
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Today’s reading comes from the book of Numbers, chapters 1 and 2, an account of Israel’s census. Some impressions from the text:
- These first two chapters of Numbers are pretty dry reading, an account of a national census.
- The inclusion of a census account speaks to the historicity of scripture. This isn’t the kind of thing you include in a contrived myth.
- The number of Israelite men of fighting age was over 600,000. The total number of the roaming population might have been several multiples of that. This was truly a nation, difficult to govern.
Return soon as we continue our year-long journey through the text of the Bible.
Catch up on the previous entries:
Archived Genesis posts (scroll down in link).
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