The Book of Numbers is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. The book has a long and complex history; its final form is possibly due to a Priestly redac
Page from the Leningrad Codex (AD 1008), showing part of Numbers 10
MS. Kennicott 3, created in 1299. Shows the beginning of Numbers with its first word illustrated with calligraphy: וידבר Way-ḏabbêr, "And He spoke…"
Priest, Levite, and furnishings of the Tabernacle
A Plague Inflicted on Israel While Eating the Quail (illustration from the 1728 Figures de la Bible)
Balaam, son of Beor, was, according to the Bible, a gentile prophet and diviner who lived in Pethor, a place identified with the ancient city of Pitru, thought to have been located between the region
Balaam and the angel, painting from Gustav Jaeger, 1836
The Prophet Balaam and the Angel by John Linnell (1859)
Balaam and the Ass, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1626
בלעם בן בעור – Artwork by esoteric artist Filippo Biagioli