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AND. Numbers begins with "And", as all the books of the Pentateuch do. It is therefore one whole in five sections, rather than separate books.
the LORD spake = Jehovah (the Covenant God) spake to His own People. He spake fifty-six "sundry times" (7 x 8) in Numbers, and in thirteen "divers manners" (twelve to Moses, once to Aaron), and four times indefinite:.
(1) To Moses alone (Num_1:1, Num_1:48; Num_3:5, Num_3:11, Num_3:14, Num_3:44; Num_4:21; Num_7:4; Num_8:5, Num_8:23; Num_10:1; Num_11:25; Num_13:1; Num_16:44; Num_25:10, Num_25:16; Num_26:52; Num_27:6; Num_31:1, Num_31:25; Num_34:16.
(2) To Moses, to speak to Aaron (Num_8:1).
(3) To Moses, to speak to Aaron and his sons (Num_6:22).
(4) To Moses, to speak to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest (Num_16:36).
(5) To Moses, to speak to the Levites (Num_18:25).
(6) To Moses, to speak to the congregation (Num_16:23).
(7) To Moses, to speak to the children of Israel (Num_5:1, Num_5:5, Num_5:11; Num_6:1; Num_9:1 (Compare Num_1:4), 9; Num_15:1, Num_15:17, Num_15:37; Num_17:1; Num_28:1 (Compare Num_1:2); Num_33:50; Num_34:1; Num_35:1, Num_35:9).
(8) To Moses, to speak to the rock (Num_20:7).
(9) To Moses and Aaron (Num_2:1; Num_4:1, Num_4:17; Num_14:26; Num_16:20; Num_20:12, Num_20:23).
(10) To Moses and Aaron, to speak to the children of Israel (Num_19:1).
(11) To Moses and Aaron and Miriam (Num_12:4).
(12) To Moses and Eleazar (Num_26:1).
(13) To Aaron (Num_18:8). (Num_1:20 should be "said".)
(14) Jehovah spake (indefinite) (Num_1:19; Num_3:1; Num_14:35; Num_27:23).
For "the LORD said", see note on Num_3:40 (sixteen times, making seventy-two in all).
Sinai. To which they had come on the third month after the exodus (Exo_19:1), and where they abode till the twentieth day of the second month of the second year (Num_10:11). The numbering (Num 1) began on the first day of that month (Num_1:18).
tabernacle = tent (Hebrew. 'ohel). See App-40.
come = gone.