| Preface | ix | |
| Translator's Preface | x | |
| I. | Introduction | 1 |
| 1. | Name and contents of the book | 1 |
| 2. | The growth of the book (Literary criticism and history of traditions) | 4 |
| 3. | The significance of the book | 11 |
| II. | Further ordinances of God at Sinai | 13 |
| 1. | The organization of the community of the twelve tribes: 1.1-2.34 | 13 |
| 2. | The organization of the Levites: 3.1-4.49 | 26 |
| 3. | Various divine ordinances: 5.1-6.27 | 26 |
| (a) | The exclusion of the unclean from the camp: 5.1-4 | 45 |
| (b) | The restoration of misappropriated property: 5.5-10 | 46 |
| (c) | The divine judgment in cases of suspected adultery: 5.11-31 | 47 |
| (d) | The law for a Nazirite: 6.1-21 | 52 |
| (e) | The priestly blessing: 6.22-27 | 57 |
| 4. | The offerings of the Israelite tribal representatives: 7.1-89 | 59 |
| 5. | Further divine ordinances: 8.1-9.14 | 65 |
| (a) | The setting up of the lampstand: 8.1-4 | 65 |
| (b) | Appendix on the organization of the Levites: 8.5-26 | 66 |
| (c) | Appendix to the Passover legislation: 9.1-14 | 70 |
| 6. | The departure from Sinai: 9.15-10.36 | 72 |
| III. | Further sojourn in the wilderness: 11.1-20.13 | 81 |
| 1. | Disaffection of the people in the wilderness: 11.1-35 | 81 |
| 2. | Miriam and Aaron against Moses: 12.1-16 | 91 |
| 3. | Spying out the promised land: 13.1-14.45 | 97 |
| 4. | Various appendices of a cultic-ritual nature: 15.1-41 | 112 |
| 5. | The rebellions of Korah and of Dathan and Abiram: 16.1-17.11 | 118 |
| 6. | The relationship of priests and Levites to the rest of the Israelites: 17.12-18.32 | 131 |
| 7. | Preparation and use of a special water of purification: 19.1-22 | 138 |
| 8. | Once again water from the rock: 20.1-13 | 143 |
| IV. | Preparation for and beginning of the conquest: 20.14-36.13 | 148 |
| 1. | Refusal of passage through Edom: 20.14-21 | 148 |
| 2. | The death of Aaron: 20.22-29 | 152 |
| 3. | The capture of Hormah: 21.1-3 | 154 |
| 4. | The bronze serpent: 21.4-9 | 155 |
| 5. | Camping-sites on the way: 21.10-20 | 158 |
| 6. | The first victories east of the Jordan: 21.21-35 | 160 |
| 7. | Balaam: 22.1-24.25 | 166 |
| 8. | Apostasy to Moabite idol-worship: 25.1-18 | 194 |
| 9. | Another census: 26.1-65 | 199 |
| 10. | A precedent concerning daughters' rights of inheritance: 27.1-11 | 210 |
| 11. | Intimation of the death of Moses: 27.12-23 | 212 |
| 12. | Cultic calendar: 28.1-29.40 | 216 |
| 13. | The binding nature of women's vows: 30.1-16 | 223 |
| 14. | War of vengeance against the Midianites and the subsequent division of the booty: 31.1-54 | 226 |
| 15. | The first distribution of territory east of the Jordan: 32.1-42 | 233 |
| 16. | The stations of Israel's wanderings after the exodus from Egypt: 33.1-49 | 241 |
| 17. | Directions for the future allocation of land west of the Jordan: 33.50-34.29 | 246 |
| 18. | Levitical cities and cities of refuge: 35.1-34 | 251 |
| 19. | Appendix on daughters' rights of inheritance: 36.1-13 | 256 |
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