Study Questions for Numbers 1-36

Complete the first set of questions for Numbers chapters 1-12 for Monday. Notice that you have to read only verses 1-6 for chapter 7. For the rest, read complete chapters.
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  1. Study Questions: Numbers 1-6; 7:1-6; 8-12

    1. In chapter one, which of the 12 tribes was not ‘numbered’ when God ordered Moses to take a census of the people of Israel?
    2. What special task did God give to the Levites in chapter two?
    3. In chapter three, who does God choose to serve Him as priests in place of the firstborn sons?
    4. In chapter three, a special census is taken of which of the twelve tribes?
    5. In chapter three, another special census is taken, though not of a tribe. Which group of people was numbered at that time?
    6. Where did God order lepers, people with a discharge, and anyone else that was unclean to be put?
    7. What kind of drinks were those who took Nazirite vows not allowed to have?
    8. What did the Nazirite have to do to his hair?
    9. How did the Israelites know when to break camp and move on and when to remain where they were?
    10. As soon as they had broken camp for the first time, what did the people of Israel complain about?
    11. On how many elders of Israel did God pour out a portion of the same spirit that He had given to Moses?
    12. Why did Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses? What kind of man was Moses?

    Study Questions: Numbers 13-25

    1. How many men did the Lord order Moses to send as spies into the Land of Promise?
    2. When these spies saw the inhabitants of the Land, what did they seem to themselves to be like?
    3. Name the two spies who recommended attacking the inhabitants of the Land.
    4. What was God’s judgment on the people of Israel for being frightened and refusing to go into the Land of Promise and attack its inhabitants?
    5. What must a person who sins unwittingly do? What happened to a person who did anything with a high hand?
    6. What was the complaint of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram? What happened to them?
    7. How did God show clearly that He had chosen Aaron and his sons as priests?
    8. What happened to the red heifer? What was done with her ashes?
    9. What sin did Moses and Aaron commit when, in the wilderness of Zin, they struck the rock and drew out water for the people? What happened to Aaron on Mount Hor?
    10. What punishment did God send on His people for complaining while they traveled to go around the land of Edom? Name the two kings they defeated?
    11. Whom did Balak, the Moabite king, send for in order to curse Israel? What did Balaam’s ass see?
    12. Why did Balaam refuse to curse Israel?
    13. How many times did he try to curse them? What did Balaam see coming forth out of Jacob and rising out of Israel?
    14. What sin did the people of Israel commit while they dwelt at Shittim? How did Phinehas gain the priesthood for himself and his descendants?

    Homework Study Questions: Numbers 21-36

    Reading Assignment: Chapter 21-25, ch 26: 1-2, 51-55, 63-65; ch 27, 30, 31: 1-31; ch 32: 1-15; 35: 1-15
    1. How were the people healed from the bites of the fiery serpents?
    2. What highway did the Israelites wish to use in order to travel north to the Promised Land?
    3. Why did Balak hire Balaam?
    4. How many times did Balaam bless Israel?
    5. What did Balaam see rising out of Israel in the future?
    6. Who was Phinehas? What did he do? How did God bless him?
    7. What sin did the people of Israel commit while they were at Shittim?
    8. What was the complaint of the daughters of Zelophehad, son of Hedad? How did Moses resolve it?
    9. With what did Moses invest Joshua?
    10. Why was Moses angry with the Israelite soldiers after they returned from defeating the Midianites?
    11. Why did God not permit Moses to enter the Promised Land?







Mrs. Moroles
Oratory Athenaeum
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