Introduction by
Cynthia M. Campbell
President, McCormick Theological Seminary
The fourth Book of Moses is known in English as "Numbers," so named because it begins with a census, the counting of God's people and identifying them by clan groups. Among other things, such lists remind us that people count. To Israel and to God, it mattered who was born and who gave birth, and that someone kept track of all of that. [Read more]
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