Forty years in the wilderness — censuses, complaints, and a faithful God anyway.
"The LORD bless thee, and ______ thee:"
The beloved blessing 'The LORD bless thee, and keep thee' comes from Numbers 6 — possibly the most-spoken benediction in history, hiding in one of the least-read books.
Numbers gets its name from two censuses of Israel — one for the generation that left Egypt, one for their children who would actually enter the land.
This is the book with the talking donkey. Balaam's beast saw the angel before the prophet did — Numbers 22, look it up.
The bronze serpent Moses lifts up in Numbers 21 is the very image Jesus points to in John 3, two verses before the most famous verse in the Bible.