Numbers – Bible Outline

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Numbers 1: The Census of Israel Totals 603,550, Exempting Levites

  1. God commands Moses to number the people
  2. The princes of the tribes
  3. The number of every tribe
  4. The Levites are exempted for the service of the Lord

Numbers 2: Arrangement of the Tribal Camps

  1. The order of the tribes in their tents.
  2. Each tribe to camp by its own standard around the Tabernacle.

3–9. East Side – Camp of Judah. Tribes: Judah, Issachar, Zebulun. Sets out first

10–16. South Side – Camp of Reuben. Tribes: Reuben, Simeon, Gad. Sets out second

  1. Center – The Tabernacle and Levites. Camp in the midst of Israel. Move out in the center during travel

18–24. West Side – Camp of Ephraim. Tribes: Ephraim, Manasseh, Benjamin. Sets out third

25–31. North Side – Camp of Dan. Tribes: Dan, Asher, Naphtali. Sets out last (rear guard)

  1. The sum total is 603,550 men.
  2. The Levites are not included in count

Numbers 3: Levites Designated as Priests

  1. The sons of Aaron
  2. The Levites are given to the priests instead of the firstborn
  3. Are numbered by their families
  4. The families, number, and charge of the Gershonites
  5. Of the Kohathites
  6. Of the Merarites
  7. The place and charge of Moses and Aaron
  8. The firstborn are freed by the Levites
  9. The balances are refunded

Numbers 4: Duties of the Kohathites, Gershonites, Merahites

  1. The age at which the Levites were to serve, and the duration of the service
  2. The duty of the Kohathites
  3. The charge of Eleazar
  4. The office of the priests
  5. The duty of the Gershonites
  6. Of the Merarites
  7. The number of the Kohathites
  8. Of the Gershonites
  9. And of the Merarites

Numbers 5: Purity of the Camp; the Adultery Test

  1. The unclean are removed out of camp
  2. Restitution is to be made in trespass
  3. The trial of jealously

Numbers 6: The Vow of the Nazirite and the Priestly Blessing

  1. The law of the Nazarite in the days of his separation
  2. And after their completion
  3. The form of blessing the people

Numbers 7: Offerings at the Tabernacle Dedication

  1. The offering of the princes at the dedication of the tabernacle
  2. Their several offerings at the dedication of the altar
  3. God speaks to Moses from the mercy seat

Numbers 8: The Seven Lamps; Levites Set Apart; Retirement at Fifty

  1. How the lamps are to be lighted
  2. The consecration of the Levites
  3. The age and time of their service

Numbers 9: The Passover and Cloud above the Tabernacle

  1. The Passover is again commanded
  2. A second Passover for the unclean or absent
  3. The cloud directs the removals and encampments of the Israelites

Numbers 10: The Silver Trumpets; Israelites Leave Sinai

  1. The use of the silver trumpets
  2. The Israelites move from Sinai to Paran
  3. The order of their march
  4. Hobab is entreated by Moses not to leave them
  5. The blessing of Moses at the removing and resting of the ark

Numbers 11: Complaints of the People and Moses; Quail from the Lord; Plague

  1. The burning at Taberah quenched by Moses’ prayer
  2. The people crave meat, and loathe manna
  3. Moses complains of his charge
  4. God promises to divide his burden unto seventy elders,
  5. and to give the people meat for a month
  6. Moses’ faith is staggered
  7. Quails are given in wrath at Kibroth Hattaavah

Numbers 12: Miriam and Aaron Complain against Moses

  1. God rebukes the sedition of Miriam and Aaron
  2. Miriam’s leprosy is healed at the prayer of Moses
  3. God commands her to be shut out of the host
  4. The people encamp in the desert of Paran

Numbers 13: The Twelve Spies Explore and Report on Canaan

  1. The names of the men who were sent to search the land
  2. Their instructions
  3. Their acts
  4. Their relation

Numbers 14: The People Rebel; Moses Pleads; Pardon and Rebuke

  1. The people murmur at the news
  2. Joshua and Caleb labor to still them
  3. God threatens them
  4. Moses intercedes with God, and obtains pardon
  5. The Murmurers are debarred from entering into the land
  6. The men who raised the evil report die by a plague
  7. The people that would invade the land against the will of God are smitten

Numbers 15: More Offerings; Sabbath-Breaker Stoned; Tassels on Garments

  1. The law of the meat offering, and the drink offering
  2. The stranger is under the same law
  3. The law of the first of the dough
  4. The sacrifice for sins of ignorance
  5. The punishment of presumption
  6. He who violated the Sabbath is stoned
  7. The law of tassels

Numbers 16: Rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram

  1. The rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram
  2. Moses separates the people from the rebels’ tents
  3. The earth swallows up Korah, and a fire consumes others
  4. The censers are reserved to holy use
  5. 14,700 are slain by a plague, for murmuring against Moses and Aaron
  6. Aaron by incense stays the plague

Numbers 17: Aaron’s Staff Buds

  1. Aaron’s rod, among all the rods of the tribes, only flourishes
  2. It is left for a monument against the rebels

Numbers 18: Duties and Offerings for Priests

  1. The charge of the priests and Levites
  2. The priests, portion
  3. The Levites,
  4. The heave offering to the priests out of the Levites’ portion

 

Numbers 19: The Red Heifer and Water of Cleansing

  1. The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifer
  2. The law for the use of it in purification of the unclean

Numbers 20: The Water of Meribah; Edom Denies Passage; Deaths of Miriam and Aaron

  1. The children of Israel come to Zin, where Miriam dies.
  2. They murmur for want of water
  3. Moses smiting the rock, brings forth water at Meribah
  4. Moses at Kadesh desires passage through Edom, which is denied him
  5. At Mount Hor Aaron resigns his place to Eleazar, and dies

Numbers 21: Defeats of Arad, Sihon and Og; The Bronze Snake

  1. Israel destroys the Canaanites at Hormah
  2. The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents
  3. They repenting are healed by a bronze serpent
  4. Various journeys of the Israelites
  5. Sihon is overcome
  6. And Og

Numbers 22: Balak Sends for Balaam; Balaam and the Angel

  1. Balak’s first message for Balaam is refused
  2. His second message obtains him
  3. An angel would have slain him, if he had not been saved by his donkey
  4. Balak entertains him

Numbers 23: The Prophecies of Balaam

  1. Balak’s sacrifices
  • How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied? Balaam is acknowledging that any power he had came from God and was totally subject to the Lord’s will.

19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good.

Numbers 24: The Prophecy from Peor

  1. Balaam, leaving divinations, prophesies the happiness of Israel
  2. Balak, in anger, dismisses him
  3. He prophesies of the Star of Jacob, and the destruction of some nations

Numbers 25: Israelites Sin in Moab; Phinehas Intervenes

  1. Israel at Shittim commit unfaithfulness and idolatry
  2. Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi
  3. God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood
  4. The Midianites are to be troubled

Numbers 26: The Second Census Totals 601,730

  1. The sum of all Israel is taken in the plains of Moab
  2. The law of dividing among them the inheritance of the land
  3. The families and number of the Levites
  4. None but Caleb and Joshua was left of those who were numbered at Sinai

Numbers 27: The Daughters of Zelophehad; Joshua to Succeed Moses

  1. The daughters of Zelophehad ask for an inheritance
  2. The law of inheritances
  3. Moses, being told of his death, asks for a successor
  4. Joshua is appointed to succeed him

Numbers 28: Daily, Sabbath and Monthly Offerings; Passover and Feast of Weeks

  1. Offerings are to be observed
  2. The continual burnt offering
  3. The offering on the Sabbath
  4. On the new Moons
  5. At the Passover
  6. In the day of the firstfruits

Numbers 29: Offerings of the Seventh Month

  1. The offering at the feast of trumpets
  2. At the day of afflicting their souls
  3. And on the eight days of the feast of tabernacles

Numbers 30: The Law of Vows

  1. Vows are not to be broken
  2. The exceptions of a maid’s vows
  3. Of a wife’s
  4. Of a widow’s or her that is divorced

Numbers 31: The Slaughter of the Midianites and Division of the Spoils

  1. The Midianites are spoiled, and Balaam slain
  2. Moses is angry with the officers, for saving the women alive
  3. How the soldiers, with their captives and spoil, are to be purified
  4. The proportion in which the prey is to be divided
  5. The voluntary offering unto the treasure of the Lord

Numbers 32: Reubenites and Gadites Settle in Gilead

  1. The Reubenites and Gadites ask for inheritance on the east side of Jordan
  2. Moses reproves them
  3. They offer him conditions with which he is content
  4. Moses assigns them the land
  5. They conquer it.

Numbers 33: Summary of Israel’s Journey

  1. The forty-two journeys of the Israelites
  2. The Canaanites are to be destroyed

Numbers 34: Borders of Canaan

  1. The borders of the land
  2. The names of the men who shall divide the land

Numbers 35: Designation of Cities for the Levites and Refuge

  1. Forty-eight cities for the Levites, with their suburbs, and measure thereof
  2. Six of them are to be cities of refuge
  3. The laws of murder and manslaughter
  4. No ransom from the murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 36: Zelophehad’s Daughters Marry

  1. The inheritance of daughters is remedied by marrying in their own tribes
  2. Lest the inheritance should be removed from the tribe
  3. The daughters of Zelophehad marry their father’s brothers’ sons

But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. (Hebrews 13:16)

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