Numbers 9-10, Psalm 40

I confess to suspicious and doubtful thinking where the tribal duties, privileges, offerings, and rewards are concerned in the Bible's book of Numbers. It seems too perfect to me that the LORD told Moses exactly what to say and do, too perfect that the people did precisely what Moses said, and too perfect that all that was said and done is perfectly recorded in the biblical text, as we have it. The Bible itself shows how the rationale, "because the LORD told Moses, because Moses told the people, because the scriptures tell what the people were told," was later employed to justify questionable decisions and actions. Mark 7:1-13 is an example.

So I wait to see what stories are told about the Israeli tribes and how they will react both to the commands and the mysteries recorded here in the Bible's book of Numbers.