Groovy Moments in the Bible

When I was in college, we had a guys Bible study on our floor 1x a week. If someone forgot to prepare who was supposed to lead, we did something called "Groovy Moments in the Bible." We read odd or strange passages and laughed about them. Our reading today has one of them.

To me this is one of the funniest and most ironic verses in the Bible, it's found in Numbers 12:3 3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.) If you didn't know already, Moses was the author of this book, and most likely the overwhelming majority of the first 5 books of Scripture. So here Moses is saying that he's the most humble man in all the earth...and seems proud of it. How ironic. I'm not sure this made it in our college study, but it could have. (I still have a list I collect of other groovy moments throughout Scripture, there are some doozies)

Now we head into Numbers, the fourth book of the Law/Pentateuch. Numbers is a turning point in the Exodus account (the Israelites leaving Egypt for the Promised land Canaan) because it begins the saga of Joshua, and the fork in the road the report of the 12 spies bring back to the people and Moses in chapter 13.

I'm hoping to review all the summaries for this weekend and show you how I'm breaking down the sections into blocks in order to help memorize them. I need to make some updates so I hope I'll have that done.


27 dedication and redemption of people and things
Numbers
1 census of Israel
2 tribal camp arrangements
3 Levites set aside as priests

4 Levite clan assignments
5 jealousy test
6 Nazirite vows
7 offerings for dedication of tabernacle

8 dedication ceremony of the Levites
9 Passover instructions
10 Israel finally leaves Sinai
11 meat from the Maker

12 Aaron and Miriam doubt Moses and are punished
13 twelve men explore Canaan and report
14 God and Moses discuss the people's rebellion
15 instruction on offerings in the new homeland