Tuesday – Pentateuch

Reading – Numbers 1-2

Highlight Verse:

“The total number was 603,550.”
‭‭Numbers‬ ‭1‬:‭46‬ ‭NLT‬‬

What better way to start a study of the book of Numbers than with a number – specifically, the size of Israel’s army as they travelled through the wilderness.

If you add in the women, children, the elderly, and the Levites, the nation of Israel had about as many people as the city of Philadelphia.

That’s a relatively compact city at 140 square miles or over 90 thousand acres.

Think about that.

A population the size of Philadelphia moved around the wilderness for 40 years.

The pillar of smoke and fire that led them through the wilderness had to have been an amazing site.

But, even without the pillar, it must have been an incredible site to see all those people in one camp, much less to see the camp move.

With that in mind, keep your eyes open as we go through Numbers.

You might be surprised what we find.

Was there anything that stood out to you in today’s reading?
What do you imagine it was like to be in the nation of Israel as they wandered the wilderness?