💧 Numbers 1

Numbers 1 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.

Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;” Numbers 1 opens with these words: “Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after…” The line to keep is Numbers 1:2: ““Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every…” Carry the word “take” from that verse into the rest of the day.

The line worth learning out loud is Numbers 1:2: ““Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.

What happens first in Numbers 1? Then try this: Read ““Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.