SYNOPSIS OF NUMBERS. SECTION I.-PRErARATIOHS Jl'OB TIIB OBltAT Ml.ROH, CIUP. 1. i. 1-46 The first census of Israel. 2. i. 47--54 Special orders about the Levites. 3. ii. 1-84 Camping order of the tribes. 4. iii. 1-4 Notice of the priestly family. 6. ill. 5-51 Dedication of the Levites in lieu of the fir'iltb"rn their number, charge, and redemption. 6. iv, 1-49 Duties of the Levites on the march. SBOTION 11.-REPETITI0NS OJ' AND ADDITIONS TO THB LEVITio.lL L&<JISLA.TI0ll. 1. "· 1-4 ... The exclusion of the unclean. 2. v, 5-10 Laws of recompense and of offerings. 3. v. 11-81 ... The trial of jealousy. ,. vi. 1-21 ° •·• The Nazirite vow. ,5. vi. 22-27 ... The formula of priestly benediction. SECTION Ill-NARRATIVE OF EVENTS FROM TIIB S&TTING mi>' or TIIB TADERNJ.CLB TO THE SENTENCE OJ.I' EXILE AT KAD&alL , 'l, Tii. 1-88" Offerings of the princes at the dedication. 2. 'Vii. 89 ... The voice in the sanctuary. S. viii. 1-4: The lamps lighted in the tobemacle, 4.. "iii 5-26 Consecration of the Levites. 5. ix. 1-14 The second passover, and the supplemental passover. 6~ ix. 15-23 The cloud on the tabernacle. 1. x. 1-10 The silver trumpets. 8. x. 11-28 The start and order of march. 9. x. 29-82 The invitation to Hobab, 10. x. 33-36 The first journey. 11. :ri. 1-8 Sin and chastisement at Taberab. 12. xi. 4-85 Sin and chastisement at Kibroth-hattaavah. 13. :xii. 1-16 . ... Sedition of Miriam and Aaron. 14. xiii 1-33 ... Mission and report of the spies.· 15, xiv. 1-45 ... Rebellion and rejection of the people. SECTION IV.-FRAGMENTS OF LEVITI0A.L LEGISLATION, 1. xv. 1-21 ... Law of offerings and first-fruits. 2. :xv. 22-31 ... Law of trespass offerings, and of presumptuous sins. 3. xv, 3Z--36 ... Incident of the so.bbath-breaker. 4. :icv. 37-41 ... Law of fringes. SECTION V.-NABRA.TIVE OF THE REVOLT AGAINST TIIB AARONI0 PBIZSTIIOOD, 1. :xvi. 1-50 ... Rebellion of Korah and his confederates, and its suppression. 2. xvii. 1-13 ... The rod of Aaron which budded. 8EGTIOM VI.-FUBTHBR ADDITIONS TO TEIB LAW, 1. :xviii. 1-32 The charge and emoluments , f priests and Levites. 2. xix. 1-22 ... .. . .. . Law of the red heifer. and the pollution of death. THE BOOK OF NUMBERS. iii
SIWrION VII.-NABRATIVB OB' EVBNTB DURING THE LAST JOURNEY. OIU.P. 1, :z:x. 1-13 .. . The water of strife. 2, XL 14-21 .. . The ineolence of Edom, s. :u. 22-29 ... The death of Aaron. .,. n:i.1--8 Episode of King Arad . .6. :ai. 4-9 Episode of the brazen serpent. ~- ni. 10-82 Last marches and first vir.toriea. 1. :x:xi. 33-xxii. 1 ... Conquest of 0g, SECTION VIII.-STORY OB' BALAAH. t. :uii. 2-38 .. . .. . .. . The coming of Balaam. .2. mi. 39-xxiv. 25 ... The prophecies of Balaam. SECTION IX.-NABBATIVE OF EVENTS IN THE PLAINS 0B' Mon. 1.. uv.1-18 ... Sin and atonement at Shittim. 1 2. xxvi. 1-65 ' : ... Second ceneue of Israel with a view to the allotment , . of the land. 8. :avii. 1-11 Suit of Zelophehad's daughters, -4. xxvii. 12-23 Supersession of Moses by Joshua. SECTION X.-RECAPITULATIONS O'! AND .ADDITIONS TO THE LAW, 1, xxviii. 1-nix. 40 . ... The annual routine of sacrifice. 2. :ox. 1-16 ... ... . ... _Law of vows made by women. SEOTioN XL-NABRATIVB or· FUBTHEB EvENTB IN THE Pu.me or Mon. 1, ::o:d 1-54 ... ... Extirpation of Midian. 2. u:xii. 1-42 ... Settlement of the two and a half tribes. SECTION XIl,-THE !TINERA.BY, :x:xxili. 1-49 ... List of marches from Ramesee to Jordan. SECTION XIII.-FINAL INSTRUCTIONS IN VIEW OB' THE CONQUEST or OANAA1T. 1, ::a:xiii 50-56 The clearance of the holy land. 2. xxxiv. 1-15 Boundaries of the holy land. 3. xxxiv. 16-29 Allotment of the holy land. 4. :x:xxv. 1-8 ... Reservation of cities for the Levites. -0. :u:xv. 9--34 The cities of refuge, and law of homioide. 6. :x:xxvi. 1-13 Law of the marriage of heiresses. Other divisions than these may of course be founded upon considorations of chronology, or upon the wish to group together the historical and legislative portioD.jl in certain combinations; but these considerations are obviously foreign to the Book itself. While a general sequence is evidently observed, dates am almost entirely absent; and while H is very natural to trace a close connection between the facts of the narrative and the matter of the legislation, such connec- tion (in the absence of any statement to substantiate it) must remain always uncertain, and often very precarious. The contents, therefore, of this Book fall naturally into thirteen sections of very various length, clearly marked at their edges by the change either of subject :matter or of litera•.y character. Thus, e. g., no reader, however uneducated, could. c2 iv- INTRODUCTION TO