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Numbers: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah” is one of the best-known hymns in the world. Yet the book of Numbers, whose story that hymn summarizes, is seldom read. Why? “Its very title puts the modern reader off,” writes Gordon Wenham. “In ancient time numbers were seen as mysterious and symbolic, a key to reality and the mind of God himself. Today they are associated with computers and the...

catching 10 homers of birds12 (possibly 500 gallons, 2,200 litres), but it would have been feasible to gather that number if they were lying on the ground. After capture the quails were spread out to dry and preserve them. Neither Kibroth-hattaavah (Graves of Craving) nor Hazeroth (courtyards) can be precisely located (34, 35). The manna and quails are mentioned in several other passages in the Old Testament (Deut. 8:3; Ps. 78:23–31; Neh. 9:20). Jesus seems to have seen himself as reliving the experiences
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