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EXODUS AND NUMBERS

I. The Exodus 1-18

II. The Law 19-24

III. The Tabernacle 25-40

I. The Old Generation 1-14

II. The Transition 15-20

III. The New Generation 21-36

I

Parallelisms

• Exodus
• Tabernacle 25.8-Yahwel to dwell in their midst
• Passover 12 (10th plague-smiting of first-born)
• Depart from Sinai-40.36
• Numbers
• Tabernacle -finished setting up 7
• Passover 9 (2nd year out of Egypt, Sinai Wilderness)
• Depart from Sinai-10.11 (2nd year, 2nd month)

Parallelisms

• Exodus
• Manna-Wilderness of Sin, Sinaitic Peninsula 16.4; also, quail 16.13
• Water from Rock of Horeb 17.6,7h
• Numbers
• Complain about having only manna--11.6; quails 11.31; plague 11.33
• Water from the rock-Meribah 20.11-13

Chronology

• Exodus
• 11.17 One year lapsed from Exodus to erecting of tabernacle ("in the first month in the second year")
• Leviticus instruction- 1 month
• 35 years at Kadesh
• Numbers
• One month between erecting tabernacle and numbering of people ("first day of the second month, in the second year")
• Moses’ farewell address (Dt 1.3)at end of 40th year

Numbers Narrative

• Census 1.2
• Camp strategically distributed 2
• Services of Levites appointed 3
• Readiness to advance to Canaan’s border 11-13
• Kadesh is reached; Canaan is in sight,
• Tragic breakdown: Israel rebels; judgment falls (11-13).

Numbers Narrative

• 40 years of wandering sets in (Aaron dies 40th year 33.38).
• 1st generation dies 26.63.
• New generation assembles at Kadesh.
• New Numbering 26.
• Fresh advance to plain of Moab 35.
• Final Preparations to possess land 36.

Abrahamic Covenant: Faith

• Ex. 2.24 "God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob."
• 6.4-5 "I have established my covenant with them (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), to give them the land of Canaan… I have also heard the groaning… and I have remembered my covenant."

Mosaic Covenant: Works and Obedience

• Exodus 19.8 "All the people answered together and said: All that the Lord hath spoken we will do."
• Ex. 24.7 "And they said: All that the Lord hath said we will do, and be obedient."

Self-confidence, self-righteousness, grave presumption? Shift from faith-basis to works-basis.

Purpose of Law

• Provides standard of righteousness: Divine ideal for character and conduct;
• Exposes and identifies sin;
• Reveals Divine holiness