The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Numbers

book is sacerdotal; it is marked even more by a physical and moral

Puritanism, exceedingly stringent at many points.

The whole system of religious observance and priestly ministration set forth in the Mosaic books may seem difficult to account for, not indeed as a national development, but as a moral and religious gain. We are ready to ask how God could in any sense have been ...