-Numbers 9:10. The thing I find so fascinating here is that Passover is SO important that even if you were considered unclean and/or physically absent, you were still required to keep the Passover.
-Numbers 10:22-23 has an interesting bit. There really isn't a tribe of Joseph, but there are tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. What I found curious is that Joseph's sons' tribes are listed in reverse birth order, just as they had been blessed by Jacob; Ephraim first and Manasseh second.
-Numbers 10:29 makes a reference to Moses' father-in-law as Raguel the Midianite. Wasn't his name Jethro in Exodus?
-Numbers 11:21-22 proved Moses to be still human. After all the first-hand witnessing and execution of God's awe-inspiring miracles and provisions, he STILL questions God's ability to provide - in this instance, meat for the complaining children of Israel. "And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou has said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?"
-Numbers 14:24 made me question something. What does it mean when God said, "But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully..." What is this other spirit? Or is it possibly a reference to the fact that Caleb did not follow along with the Israelites general rebelling and murmuring.
-Numbers 20:14. Wasn't Edom where Esau was; Jacob/Israel's brother? The one whom Jacob was afraid to come back to? The one who now refused Jacob/Israel's descendants to pass through the land? Hmmm....
-Numbers 20:24. Aaron was the first to die because of when Moses struck the rock to get water instead of speaking. It makes me wonder what Aaron's part in that tableau was, for him to die before Moses, who committed the actual act of rebellion.
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passover
true that, even if a month later
tribe
alphabetical! Esau and Jacob were alphabetical too! Ishmael and Isaac were alphabetically blessed too!
Didn't Moses have two wives?
first was daughter of Jethro, presumably Hebrew. The second was Ethiopian, right?
yeah, and God gave them three feet deep of quail. probably a really fowl stench.
i always figured it was a reference to Caleb actually having the holy spirit, or at least a metaphoric reference to exactly what you said - having a different attitude than the rest of the Israelites (save, of course, Joshua)
Edom was Esau's land - that doesn't mean Esau was still alive. God may have been blessing Esau ... but if you have a descendent of the brother of your ancestor, and 600,000 of his closest friends show up for dinner, you're gonna be awkward too
I think this is kind of a postshadowing of the garden of Eden. Moses, over and over, acts like the bride to God's husband. Moses is defined as being meek. So he's kind of like a meek bride with an occasional temper. If you follow that logic, Aaron was kind of like Adam, watching Moses and not saying anything. I think Aaron's sin was either not doing anything or basically agreeing/being apathetic.
In addition - it was not just Miriam, but Miriam and Aaron who had mocked Moses for his second wife. Perhaps God was throwing in final judgment, having seen Aaron actually make the golden calf, mock Moses, and then do nothing when Moses hits the rock with his staff.
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