The Book of NumbersAlan Hugh McNeile This book is an expository commentary on the Biblical book of Numbers. |
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Abiram according altar Amorites Arnon Balaam Balak border burnt offering camp Canaan children of Israel cities commanded congregation curse Dathan and Abiram denotes drink offering Edited Edom Egypt Epistle families fathers first-born flour mingled Gershonites hath he-goat he-lambs heave offering Heshbon holy Hormah hundred inheritance Israelites Jehovah Jordan Joshua journeyed Judah Kadesh Kohath Korah land Levites LORD spake unto Manasseh meal offering Merari Midian mingled with oil Moab Moses Moses and Aaron narrative Nazirite numbered oblation offering thereof old and upward pitched priestly princes probably R.V. marg Reuben sacred sacrifice sanctuary saying shekels shews Sihon Sinai sons spake unto Moses tabernacle tent of meeting thee thou shalt thousand tribe tribe of Manasseh unclean unto the children unto the LORD verse wilderness word writer xxii xxxiii
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Page 82 - I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God
Page 81 - And the Lord said unto Moses, the man shall be surely put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. "And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones and he died as the Lord commanded Moses.
Page 130 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!
Page 31 - He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die : because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
Page 101 - ... and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
Page 61 - And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass that when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
Page 53 - We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.
Page 133 - Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion : he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Page 121 - And the Lord said unto Moses, " Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
Page 69 - And Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said, let us go up at once and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.