Purpose: Israel’s preparation entering into the promise land. Their sin and punishment, and how they prepared to try again.
Author: Moses
Original Audience: People of Israel
Date Written: 1450 – 1410 B.C.
Key Verses: Numbers Chapter 14:22 and 23 "Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:"
Key People: Moses, Aaron, Miriam, Joshua, Caleb, Eleazar, Korah, Balaam