The Holy Bible is a Christian scripture respected by about 2.3 billion people, which is 29% of the global population. Today, the Bible has been distributed to some six billion people - 80% of humanity. Yet the paradox is that, although being the best-selling book year-on-year, it is considered among the least readable. Leviticus is the third of the 66 books of the Bible which God's prophet, Moses, recorded 3500-4000 years ago. Let's take a look at the fourth of the 39 books of the Old Testament.

Numbers is the fourth of the five books recorded by Moses. The term refers to the "counting" of God's people (the Israelites) who had been guided out of slavery in Egypt by Moses. The sequence of the location of events recorded in Numbers following the exodus on their way to the promised land of Canaan are Mount Sinai, Kadesh Barnea, Canaan, and the Desert (Wilderness) of Paran.

Chapters 1-4: A census was conducted on Mount Sinai

Chapters 5-9: Rules and Regulations following the first census

Chapters 10-14: Record of the suffering of the Israelites in Kadesh Barnea

Chapters 15-21: The Israelites' travel through the Moab plains which includes the event of the bronze snake where those who had been bitten could receive healing just by looking at it

Chapters 22-25: Balaam, a gentile soothsayer who had come to believe in God, enticed King Balak to entice the Israelites to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols and committing sexual immorality. A donkey speaks to Balaam to rebuke him for his betrayal

Chapter 26: A second census is carried out to let them know they 

Chapters 27-30: Conditions of vows sworn to God

Chapters 31-36: Distribution of territories among the 12 tribes

Numbers, therefore, records the Israelites' 38-year journey in the wilderness from Mount Sinai on the twentieth day of the second month in the second year of their Exodus, to the Moab Plain on the east side of the Jordan.