AND. Numbers begins with "And", as all the books of the Pentateuch do. It is therefore one whole in five sections, rather than separate books.
the LORD spake. Jehovah (the Covenant God) spake to His own People. He spake fifty-six "sundry times" (7. 8) in Numbers, and in thirteen "divers manners" (twelve to Moses, once to Aaron), and four times indefinite:. (1) To Moses alone (Numbers 1:1; Numbers 1:48; Numbers 3:5; Numbers 3:11; Numbers 3:14; Numbers 3:44; Numbers 4:21; Numbers 7:4; Numbers 8:5; Numbers 8:23; Numbers 10:1; Numbers 11:25; Numbers 13:1; Numbers 16:44; Numbers 25:10; Numbers 25:16; Numbers 26:52; Numbers 27:6; Numbers 31:1; Numbers 31:25; Numbers 34:16. (2) To Moses, to speak to Aaron (Numbers 8:1). (3) To Moses, to speak to Aaron and his sons (Numbers 6:22). (4) To Moses, to speak to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest (Numbers 16:36). (5) To Moses, to speak to the Levites (Numbers 18:25). (6) To Moses, to speak to the congregation (Numbers 16:23). (7) To Moses, to speak to the children of Israel (Numbers 5:1; Numbers 5:5; Numbers 5:11; Numbers 6:1; Numbers 9:1 (Compare Numbers 1:4), 9; Numbers 15:1; Numbers 15:17; Numbers 15:37; Numbers 17:1; Numbers 28:1 (Compare Numbers 1:2); Numbers 33:50; Numbers 34:1; Numbers 35:1; Numbers 35:9). (8) To Moses, to speak to the rock (Numbers 20:7). (9) To Moses and Aaron (Numbers 2:1; Numbers 4:1; Numbers 4:17; Numbers 14:26; Numbers 16:20; Numbers 20:12; Numbers 20:23). (10) To Moses and Aaron, to speak to the children of Israel (Numbers 19:1). (11) To Moses and Aaron and Miriam (Numbers 12:4). (12) To Moses and Eleazar (Numbers 26:1). (13) To Aaron (Numbers 18:8). (Numbers 1:20 should be "said".) (14) Jehovah spake (indefinite) (Numbers 1:19; Numbers 3:1; Numbers 14:35; Numbers 27:23). For "the LORD said", see note on Numbers 3:40 (sixteen times, making seventy-two in all).
Sinai. To which they had come on the third month after the exodus (Exodus 19:1), and where they abode till the twentieth day of the second month of the second year (Numbers 10:11). The numbering (Numbers 1) began on the first day of that month (Numbers 1:18).
tabernacle. tent (Hebrew. 'ohel). See App-40.
come. gone.