Yahweh was coming to dwell in their midst, the tabernacle was needed to provide the proper place for him to reside and to meet with his people. Leviticus provides the instructions on how Israel was to approach and worship holy, awesome Yahweh now living in their midst. Numbers describes how Israel at first refused the Promised Land, resulting in forty years of wandering in the wilderness. Yahweh then takes the next generation back to the border of the Promised Land and restates the covenant (book