Lesson date: 10/03/5856AA

Before we study Chapter 1 we need to take a look at the name of the book itself. We learned in our study of Shemoth that names convey a message in and of themselves and Bemidbar is a perfect example.

The bet is a simple prefix meaning – “in”. Next, is midbar = H4057 – מדבּר – midbâr – BDB Definition:

1) wilderness 1a) pasture 1b) uninhabited land, wilderness 1c) large tracts of wilderness (around cities)

1d) wilderness (figuratively) 2) mouth 2a) mouth (as organ of speech)

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Verses 1-2 – Verse 2 of Chapter 2 helps us understand one of the mistakes of the later translation of the B’rit Hadasha especially Hazon (Revelation): Rev 19:16 And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written: SOVEREIGN OF SOVEREIGNS AND MASTER OF MASTERS.

There are two problems with this Scripture from a point of view of Torah, first, Yeshua being the obedient son of the Most High Elohim would not expose His Thigh, because He would then be considered naked and, second, would not tattoo His body since Scripture prohibits tattooing.

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Lesson date: 10/17/5856AA

Verse 1 – This verse is very confusing. Why? Because nowhere in the chapter does it mention Mosheh’s generations. It only addresses Aharon’s. Perhaps it is a mistake. Possible, right? We have no proof that Mosheh had any children by his first wife, the Kushite woman> Num_12:1 Now Miryam and Aharon spoke against Mosheh because of the Kushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Kushite woman.

In all of Torah we see Gereshom mentioned only three times but we discover an interesting note> Exo 18:1 And Yithro, the priest of Miḏyan, Mosheh’s father-in-law, heard of all that Elohim had done for Mosheh and for Yisra’ěl His people, that יהוה had brought Yisra’ěl out of Mitsrayim. Continue reading Bemidbar (Numbers) 3 →

Lesson date: 10/24/5856AA

Verses 1-2 – Once again we see the same structure that we saw in Bemidbar 1 where we saw “Lift up, bear up, rise up – the Aleph Tav (H853)– the head, leader, ruler, prince.

Verse 3 – We see that instead of counting from age 20 like the rest of Yisra’el the count for the priest to serve is from age thirty: Luk 3:23 And when יהושע Himself began, He was about thirty years of age, being, as reckoned by law, son of Yosěph, of Ěli,

Gen 41:46 Now Yosěph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim. And Yosěph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Mitsrayim.

2Sa_5:4 Dawiḏ was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

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Lesson date: 11/02/5856AA

Chapter 5 is easily divided into to parts: Part 1 is found in verses 1-10; and Part 2 is found in verses 11-31. Part 1 I call “Being put out of the Camp and Part 2 is called The Torah of Jealousy. Part 1 is based upon the Torah of Leprosy (Lev. 13) and The Torah of one who has a Discharge (Lev. 15).

In the Torah of Leprosy we learned that not only our bodies can be infected but so can our “establishments”, i.e. a house or a house of worship.  It was the Torah of Leprosy that explained to me something I had always wondered about in Scripture, Mark 11:11: Mar 11:11 And יהושע went into Yerushalayim and into the Set-apart Place. And having looked around on all, He went out to Běyth Anyah with the twelve, as the hour was already late.

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Lesson date: 11/09/5856AA

Verses 1-2 – The Nazirite vow is very well known in Scripture. It is very well known but is it really understood? In verse 2 the first word used for “separate” is H6381 – פּלא – pâlâ’ – BDB Definition:1) to be marvellous, be wonderful, be surpassing, be extraordinary, separate by distinguishing action. It seems strange to me that a word that is most often translated as “wonderful” or “wondrous works” would also mean “separate”. The word is used 30 times in Psalms alone. The next book in which it is most used is Job. The two most common forms of this word are H6381 and H6382. It can literally mean “too difficult to understand”.

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Lesson date: 03/07/5860AA

I have heard of Chapter 7 as being “the most boring chapter in the Bible”, but is it? Is there nothing that we can learn from Bemidbar Chapter 7, not one nugget or jewel to be found in 89 verses? Here is my challenge, “I will find a life saving fact in the first ten verses that will make the other 79 verses worth reading. Then, toward the end, I will reveal a fact that shows how time was established, from the beginning, hidden in this chapter.

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Lesson date: 07/10/5860AA

Num 8:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Num 8:2 “Speak to Aharon, and say to him, ‘When you ascend to trim the lamps, let the seven lamps give light in front of the lampstand.’ ”

Num 8:3 And Aharon did so. He set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as יהוה commanded Mosheh.

Num 8:4 And this is the work of the lampstand: beaten work of gold, from its base to its blossoms it is beaten work. According to the pattern which יהוה had shown Mosheh, so he made the lampstand.

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Lesson date: 11/30/5856AA

Verse 1 – Num 9:1a And יהוה spoke to Mosheh in the Wilderness of Sinai. This struck me as unusual. Where else would they be? Then it dawned on me that the word for Wilderness is Midbar and in the Wilderness is Bemidbar. Remember, you can say “in the wilderness” to find the Word. Look at what we see later in the chapter: At the mouth of יהוה is used 4 times in this one chapter alone. It is only found 8 times in all of Torah and half of those occurrences are in this one chapter.

We are also given a timeline in verse 1. It is in the first month, Aviv, of the second year after they left Mitsrayim. They left Mitsrayim after eating the Passover meal on the beginning of Unleavened Bread.

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Lesson date: 07/24/5860AA

Verses 1-2 – We see that Mosheh is commanded to have two silver trumpets constructed that will be used for the signal to gather or break the camp of the Children of Yisra’el. Before we look at the trumpet itself let’s look at the material from which it is constructed, silver.

Silver is the price of redemption. If you had previously set apart a field or house, if you wished to redeem it it had to be with silver: Lev_27:15 ‘And if he who sets it apart does redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of the silver of your evaluation to it, and it shall be his.

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