Showing posts with label Numbers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Numbers. Show all posts

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Day in Numbers

This is the continuation of a study on the word "day" in the Pentateuch. For introductory remarks please refer to the initial post on Genesis.

I have divided these up into three categories: All the uses of day with a number, all the uses of day which in context mean a typical day, and any uses of day which could mean a long period of time.  

Uses of Day with the Number (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
(Num 1:1)  The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

(Num 1:18)  and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

(Num 6:9)  "And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

(Num 6:10)  On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tent of meeting,

(Num 7:12)  He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.

(Num 7:18)  On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, the chief of Issachar, made an offering.

(Num 7:24)  On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, the chief of the people of Zebulun:

(Num 7:30)  On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, the chief of the people of Reuben:

(Num 7:36)  On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, the chief of the people of Simeon:

(Num 7:42)  On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, the chief of the people of Gad:

(Num 7:48)  On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, the chief of the people of Ephraim:

(Num 7:54)  On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, the chief of the people of Manasseh:

(Num 7:60)  On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, the chief of the people of Benjamin:

(Num 7:66)  On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, the chief of the people of Dan:

(Num 7:72)  On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, the chief of the people of Asher:

(Num 7:78)  On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, the chief of the people of Naphtali:

Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud on their beds, let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hand, to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; to bind the kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron. Psalm 149:5-8