Updated October 13, 2024. I have begun a word-by-word study of the book of Numbers and so far have completed the first draft for Numbers 1–6 (HTML) (PDF) (WPD). So far, there are 992 ?? pages in the chapter study of Numbers (which has 36 chapters). I would estimate that the first draft of the chapter-by-chapter study will be around 5000–6000 pages total when completed. Not sure when that will be. I have been working in Leviticus and Numbers for most of the past year. I will take a break and go back to the NT and work on some of the epistles next.

There is a separate document, one written in the late 1990s, where I have covered all chapters of the book of Numbers. This is a brief exegesis, verse-by-verse study of the entire book only (408 pages). The information in this single document will be integrated into the word-by-word chapter studies listed above.

The Book of the Numbers (word cloud) (HTML) (PDF) (WPD).

The exegesis of these books will not put before you a bunch of brand new doctrines which are different from those already delivered by orthodox Christianity; that is, a study of this book is not going to upend your doctrinal foundation, or get you interested in joining some cult of some sort; these questions have doctrinal answers and fit in very well with the essential doctrines that we have learned and have believed in (see the Doctrinal Statement).

As an aside, even though I have attended Berachah Church for over 30 years, these are not my notes re-worked from R. B. Thieme, Jr.’s excellent notes. On most chapters, I refer back to my old notes from that class to make certain that I did not leave anything out; but R. B. Thieme, Jr. did not cover most of the material included here (at least, not during the time that his lessons were recorded and distributed). And, as always, the bulk of this study is original, with view toward contemporary events. There are a great many things in these chapters that Bob did not cover. However, the theology is essentially the same.

There should no longer be any problems with the graphics or the Hebrew characters in any of the HTML documents listed below.

A possible problem with the following pdf files is, they are quite large and they may not display on computers with limited memory (a typical chapter will be 200–300 pages long). If that is the case, then you should be able to right-click the link, choose save as, and put the file on your hard drive and open it there using Adobe Acrobat Reader. That will give you a complete view of the graphics and the Hebrew characters. However, since WordPerfect now properly prints out Hebrew words (reading from right to left), HTML files also properly display the Hebrew characters, but the PDF files read left to right. In older documents, I placed each letter where it belonged by typesetting, and WP and PDF would display properly (but this would not transfer to HTML documents). For most people, this does not mean anything, but I did have one person who noticed the problem in the PDF documents.

The following documents will open up on your computer, either into WordPerfect or into Word (although the formatting might be a little funky in Word). If the WordPerfect document does not upload, then I zip it and post the zipped file (which is Numbers0X.zip). The extensions can be easily seen here in the index folder: https://kukis.org/Numbers/

Now and again, I have seen that I have made some mistakes in spelling as well as in the morphology (I took the information from Owen, but changed it whenever there was a mistake in his work). If you discover mistakes, then I would want to know what they are so that I could change them and update the documents. I enjoy studying the Word of God, but I so hate to proofread.

For most chapters, the original wpd (WordPerfect document) is also available online. Just go to http://kukis.org/Numbers/, right click, and choose save as. These documents will open in WordPerfect and sometimes in Word (although that is a dicey proposition). Each document (chapter) is typically around 100–300 pages.

The three primary reasons for me using WordPerfect as opposed to Word is (1) I can have up to 99 keyboards in WP; but only one in Word (I have an English, Greek and Hebrew keyboard); (2) the work environment is very customizable in WP; and (3) I find the macros relatively easy to follow in WP (although there are a great many which I do not have a handle on yet).

The first draft also has the notes from the original single document study of the book of Numbers integrated in. If you read this, there is no reason to read the single document.

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As is nearly always the case, both the list of Doctrinal Terms (HTML) (PDF) (WPD) and the list of Old Testament topics which are covered (HTML) (PDF) (WPD) are both updated and posted with each new chapter of Numbers.

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Other Numbers References:

Syndein has a so-so chapter-by-chapter examination of the book of Numbers, based in part upon notes taken from R. B. Thieme, Jr.’s teaching.