Num.11-Num.25

Older brother of Moses and God's chosen spokesman to Pharaoh. Aaron was consecrated as Israel's first high priest, establishing the Levitica…

One of only two spies who gave a faithful report of Canaan. While a generation died in the wilderness, Caleb waited forty-five years and at …

Son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim, attendant to Moses and commander at Rephidim (Exo.17). After Moses he led Israel across the Jordan, took…

Prophetess and elder sister of Moses and Aaron. Miriam watched the infant Moses on the Nile and led the women in song after the Red Sea cros…

The first tree to flower each year in Israel — and the source of a Hebrew wordplay linking Jeremiah's calling to God's watchful alertness.

The working pack animal of the Bible world. Kings rode donkeys in peace, warriors rode horses in war — a contrast Jesus deliberately took up…

The jewel-seeded fruit of the Promised Land — carved 400 times on Temple columns and sewn onto the High Priest's robe.

The venomous snake of the Bible lands — vehicle of the Fall, instrument of judgment, and a type of the crucifixion in John 3:14.

Israel’s forty-year route after the exodus. From Rameses in Egypt across the Reed Sea, south to Mount Sinai, north to Kadesh-barnea, and fin…