because of the complicated interaction of the documentary sources comprising Numbers. It seemed reasonable to program the break after Numbers 20, because at that point the Israelites had left Kadesh, or were about to do so, according to the chronology informing all of the literary sources. Numbers 21 begins the documentation of the Israelite advance through Transjordan that eventually brought them to the Plains of Moab, across the Jordan from Jericho. In its textual makeup, Numbers is the most diverse