The Journey Begins

“The people have been numbered and their duties have been assigned, so God now gives the Israelites their marching orders, manifesting himself in the movement of the cloud of his presence over the ark and tabernacle.”

Read Numbers 10 and Numbers 9:15-23

Doubts and Murmurs

“The journey has hardly begun when the people of Israel begin to complain to Moses.  Moses’ lifts up a prayer to God for help and God responds by calling for the appointment of 70 elders to share the administrative burden which Moses has borne thus far.”

Read Numbers 11

All quotations taken from The Daily Bible.