Book of Numbers
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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)
Book of Leviticus
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The Book of Leviticus is the third book of the Torah and of the Old Testament, also known as the Third Book of Moses. Many hypotheses presented by scholars as to its origins agree that it developed ov
Book of Numbers
…take possession of the land God promised their fathers. As such it draws to a conclusion the themes introduced in Genesis and played out in Exodus and Leviticus: God has promised the Israelites that they shall become a great (i.e. numerous) nation, that they will have a special relationship with him, and that…
Image of Manna Gathering
4Q120, a Greek manuscript of Leviticus from the 1st century BCE
Vaikro – Book of Leviticus, Warsaw edition, 1860, page 1
The Tabernacle and the Camp (19th-century drawing)