Why did God forbid Moses from entering the promised land? What exactly was the nature of Moses’s sin, and why was God’s response so harsh? In this episode of What in the Word?, Kirk E. Miller and Michael Morales sit down to interpret Numbers 20.
What is the Pentateuch? Though the name sounds theological, it’s really not. The Pentateuch is just the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. In the Hebrew Bible it’s known as the Torah and is...
One of the things I enjoy telling people in conversations about Bible study is that “if it’s weird, it’s important.” Numbers 5:11–31 certainly qualifies in both respects. The strangeness of the passage is easily detectable, but only careful Bible...
