1. What questions do you have about this week’s reading?
2. According to Numbers 20 and Numbers 27:12-14, why was Moses not permitted to enter the Promised Land?
3. What is the connection between Numbers 21:4-9 and John 3:14-15?
4. How is the bronze snake on a pole not a violation of the Second Commandment?
5. What do you make of the story of Balaam and the donkey?
6. Why does Numbers 23:1-12 have an almost comical effect?
7. Why or why not do you think Balaam’s fourth prophecy in Numbers 24:15-19 is about Christ?
8. How does the New Testament view the legacy of Balaam? (II Peter 2:15-16 and Jude 11)
9. Although Balaam was not able to successfully curse Israel, what happens in the next chapter that leads to their corruption? (See Numbers 31:16 to see who’s behind this.)
10. According to Numbers 27:15-17, how do you think Moses views his role?
11. Why was it important for Moses to have a designated successor?
12. According to Numbers 28:17, the Passover bread is to be made without yeast. Why? (See Exodus 12:34 and 39)
13. How is yeast also a metaphor for sin and sinful influences in the Bible? (See Luke 12:1 and Galatians 5:9)
14. How binding is the vow mentioned in Numbers 30?
15. Why do you think there is a provision for the vows of daughters/ wives to be overruled by their fathers/husbands?
16. Why was Moses angry with the Israelite army leaders in Numbers 31:14?
17. How would you respond to the charge the God orders the genocide of the Midianites and the treatment of their young women as a commodity?
18. What was Moses’ initial reaction to the tribes of Gad and Reuben (and Manasseh) who wanted to stay east of the Jordan and not cross into the Promised Land?
19. What agreement was eventually reached?
20. According to Numbers 33:55-56, what was the risk to Israel if they didn’t cleanse the land of its prior inhabitants?
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