Numbers (Adults)

Numbers Chapters 1-4

Lesson written by Brian Andrews

Chapter 1

Check your reading:

  1. What is the tent of meeting?

  2. How long since the Israelites were in Egyptian captivity?

  3. Who was to be counted in the census?  (Who was not to be counted?)

  4. Fill out the following:

Tribe

Head

Number

1.       Reuben

 

 

2.       Simeon

 

 

3.       Judah

 

 

4.       Issachar

 

 

5.       Zebulun

 

 

6.       Ephriam

 

 

7.       Manasseh

 

 

8.       Benjamin

 

 

9.       Dan

 

 

10.   Asher

 

 

11.   Gad

 

 

12.   Naphtali

 

 

Total Number:

 

   5.    Which ancestral tribe was omitted?  Why?


   6.    What was the omitted tribe’s duties?


   7.    What was to be done if an unauthorized person comes near the tabernacle?


   8.    How were the Israelites to camp?  Why?


Chapter 2

Check your reading:

  1. Fill out the following:

Military Division

Ancestral Tribes

Where do they camp?

When do they “move out”?

1.       Judah

 

 

 

2.       Ruben

 

 

 

3.       Levi

 

 

 

4.       Ephriam

 

 

 

5.       Dan

 

 

 


Chapter 3-4

Check your reading:

  1. What were the names of the sons of Aaron?

  2. What happened to Nadab and Abihu?  Why? 

        Bonus:  Where else was this event recorded?

  3. Who took over Nadab and Abihu’s duties?  Why?

  4. What were the Levites to do?

  5. What happens to any unauthorized person coming near the sanctuary?

  6. What is special about the first born?  Who/what does it apply to?

  7. How were the Levites to be numbered?
       Chapter 3:

       Chapter 4:

  8. Fill out the following:

Levi’s Son

Levi’s grandsons

Number

Ch. 3

Number

Ch. 4

Where camped?

Leader

1.       Gershon

 

 

 

 

 

Duties:

 

 

 

 

2.       Kohath

 

 

 

 

 

Duties:

 

 

 

 

Bonus:  Where is this role ‘remembered’ after a regal failure?

 

3.       Merari

 

 

 

 

 

Duties:

 

 

 

 

Total Number

 

 

   9.    What was the role of Moses, Aaron, and his sons?  Where did they camp?

          Bonus:  What were these duties?

   10.   What was the total number of the first born of Israel?


   11.    Who needed to be redeemed?  How many was this?

   12.    Who redeemed 22,000 of those needing redemption?  What redeemed the remainder?


Class Discussion (Chapter 1-4)

  1. What attitude did we see the Israelites have so far?



  2. Very specific roles were assigned to the Levites.  What did this ensure?  Though priests
       today are not of the Levitical order, is there anything we can learn from this and apply
       today (use verses from the New Testament to support your answer)?