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Build your knowledge of Israel’s wilderness wanderings and the development of the Hebrew cult as you study the textual history, composition, theological significance, and historical context of Numbers. Evaluate modern critical perspectives on the book, and consider the legacy of nineteenth-century “higher critical” interpretation. Organized for easy reference, Word Biblical commentaries make an...

3. The deaths cited here are probably an allusion to the Korah traditions (Num 16:35; 17:14 [Heb.]). 6. The prostration and theophany are typical of the priestly author’s stories of disaffection see Comment on Num 14:5, 10 and cf. Num 16:4, 19, 22. 8. המטה “the rod” is that which was placed “before the Testimony” in Num 17:25–26 (Heb.). The priestly contribution to the plague traditions in Exod 6:28–11:10 puts the rod in the hand of Aaron (cf. e.g. Exod 7:9, 12, 19–20; 8:1, 12), though Moses also
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