Sunday, February 6, 2011

census

Last night I read Numbers 1-2, which is basically a census of the Israelite people. There were 603,550 males above the age of 20. So these people who came out of Egypt- this was a massive undertaking to have so many people travel!
Not only that but to perform a census on so many people with no computer and probably not much in the form of paper- the administration of it all boggles my mind!

Friday, February 4, 2011

update

My computer has been wonky for 1/2 of January so I have not been able to update as much as I have wanted to.
I have completed all of Genesis and Exodus and reading larger chunks of it (rather than one chapter at a time) gives a good overview of what is going on.
I am working on finding a listing of the Bible in Chronological order that matches what this book is working from because now that the first 2 book are done, there is some disagreement among scholars about the chronology of the rest of it :)