Numbers 1:1

AND. Numbers begins with "And", as all the books of the Pentateuch do. It is therefore one whole in five sections, rather than separate books.

the LORD spake = Jehovah (the Covenant God) spake to His own People. He spake fifty-six "sundry times" (7 x 8) in Numbers, and in thirteen "divers manners" (twelve to Moses, once to Aaron), and four times indefinite:. (1) To Moses alone (Numbers 1:1 , Numbers 1:48 ; Numbers 3:5 , Numbers 3:11 , Numbers 3:14 , Numbers 3:44 ; Numbers 4:21 ; Numbers 7:4 ; Numbers 8:5 , Numbers 8:23 ; Numbers 10:1 ; Numbers 11:25 ; Numbers 13:1 ; Numbers 16:44 ; Numbers 25:10 , Numbers 25:16 ; Numbers 26:52 ; Numbers 27:6 ; Numbers 31:1 , Numbers 31:25 ; Numbers 34:16 . (2) To Moses, to speak to Aaron (Numbers 8:1 ). (3) To Moses, to speak to Aaron and his sons (Numbers 6:22 ). (4) To Moses, to speak to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest (Numbers 16:36 ). (5) To Moses, to speak to the Levites (Numbers 18:25 ). (6) To Moses, to speak to the congregation (Numbers 16:23 ). (7) To Moses, to speak to the children of Israel (Numbers 5:1 , Numbers 5:5 , Numbers 5:11 ; Numbers 6:1 ; Numbers 9:1 (Compare Numbers 1:4 ), 9; Numbers 15:1 , Numbers 15:17 , Numbers 15:37 ; Numbers 17:1 ; Numbers 28:1 (Compare Numbers 1:2 ); Numbers 33:50 ; Numbers 34:1 ; Numbers 35:1 , Numbers 35:9 ). (8) To Moses, to speak to the rock (Numbers 20:7 ). (9) To Moses and Aaron (Numbers 2:1 ; Numbers 4:1 , Numbers 4:17 ; Numbers 14:26 ; Numbers 16:20 ; Numbers 20:12 , Numbers 20:23 ). (10) To Moses and Aaron, to speak to the children of Israel (Numbers 19:1 ). (11) To Moses and Aaron and Miriam (Numbers 12:4 ). (12) To Moses and Eleazar (Numbers 26:1 ). (13) To Aaron (Numbers 18:8 ). (Numbers 1:20 should be "said".) (14) Jehovah spake (indefinite) (Numbers 1:19 ; Numbers 3:1 ; Numbers 14:35 ; Numbers 27:23 ). For "the LORD said", see note on Numbers 3:40 (sixteen times, making seventy-two in all).

Sinai. To which they had come on the third month after the exodus (Exodus 19:1 ), and where they abode till the twentieth day of the second month of the second year (Numbers 10:11 ). The numbering (Numbers 1:0 ) began on the first day of that month (Numbers 1:18 ).

tabernacle = tent (Hebrew. 'ohel). See App-40 .

come = gone.