Numbers.
Numbers.
§ 122. The fourth Booh of Moses is called 
by the Hebrews from its first word. The Greeks call it 
and the Latins “Numbers” because in it the tribes that left Egypt are counted, and it lists the number of the forty-two dwelling places in the wilderness. At the beginning there is a listing of the men among the people who were fit for military service and, later, of the Levites destined for the public administration of divine worship. It has thirty-six chapters and contains the history of thirty-eight years, nine months, and twenty days: from the first day of the second month of the second year after the exodus to the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year after the exodus. It describes the wandering of the Israelites through the wilderness and both the preparation preceding it and their situation following it, at which occasion the lawgiver intersperses examples of obedience honored with rewards and disobedience visited with punishments.