Numbers: chapter summaries

Forty years in the wilderness, from Sinai toward Canaan.

36 chapters · Old Testament

1. 1 The first census
2. 2 The camp arranged by tribes
3. 3 The Levites
4. 4 The Levites’ duties
5. 5 Purity in the camp
6. 6 The Nazirite vow
7. 7 Gifts at the tabernacle
8. 8 The lamps; the Levites set apart
9. 9 The second Passover; cloud and fire
10. 10 Silver trumpets; leaving Sinai
11. 11 Complaints; quail; seventy elders
12. 12 Miriam and Aaron oppose Moses
13. 13 Twelve spies explore Canaan
14. 14 Israel refuses to enter
15. 15 Offerings and the Sabbath-breaker
16. 16 Korah’s rebellion
17. 17 Aaron’s staff buds
18. 18 Duties and gifts of the priests
19. 19 The red heifer
20. 20 Water from the rock; Aaron dies
21. 21 The bronze serpent
22. 22 Balaam and the donkey
23. 23 Balaam’s first two oracles
24. 24 Balaam blesses Israel
25. 25 Israel at Baal-peor
26. 26 The second census
27. 27 Zelophehad’s daughters; Joshua chosen
28. 28 Daily and festival offerings
29. 29 Offerings for the seventh month
30. 30 Laws about vows
31. 31 War against Midian
32. 32 Reuben and Gad settle east of the Jordan
33. 33 Stages of the journey
34. 34 Boundaries of the land
35. 35 Cities of refuge
36. 36 Zelophehad’s daughters marry