Daily Readings in the Bible Number 1-2

Numbers, if you’re like me, sounds like a book about, well, numbers. That doesn’t seem to be very inviting, does it? The Hebrew name for the fourth book of the Bible is in fact “Be-mider” meaning “in the wilderness” which comes from the first sentence of the book (Num. 1:1). The Alexandrian Jews in the third century (B.C.), who translated the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, entitled this fourth book “Arithmetic” which was translated into English as “Numbers.” I’m not...