IV. THE SIZE OF THE COURT OF THE TABERNACLE, COMPARED

WITH THE NUMBER OF THE CONGREGATION

76-80

V. MOSES AND JOSHUA ADDRESSING ALL ISRAEL

81-84

VI. THE EXTENT OF THE CAMP, COMPARED WITH THE PRIEST'S

DUTIES, AND THE DAILY NECESSITIES OF THE PEOPLE 85-88

VII. THE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE AT THE FIRST MUSTER COM-

PARED WITH THE POLL-TAX RAISED SIX MONTHS PRE-

VIOUSLY

VIII. THE ISRAELITES DWELLING IN TENTS

. IX. THE ISRAELITES ARMED

X. THE INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER

XI. THE MARCH OUT OF EGYPT

89-93

94-97

98-104

105-112

113-117

XII. THE SHEEP AND CATTLE OF THE ISRAELITES IN THE DESERT 118-137

XIII. THE NUMBER OF ISRAELITES, COMPARED WITH THE EXTENT

138-140

XIV. THE NUMBER OF THE FIRST-BORNS, COMPARED WITH THE

OF THE LAND OF CANAAN.

XV. THE SOJOURNING OF THE ISRAELITES IN EGYPT

XVI. EXODUS IN THE FOURTH GENERATION

XVII. THE NUMBER OF ISRAELITES AT THE TIME OF THE EXODUS 162-167

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XVIII. THE DANITES AND LEVITES AT THE TIME OF THE EXODUS 168-174 XIX. REPLIES TO KURTZ, HENGSTENBERG, AND OTHERS

175-184

XX. THE NUMBER OF PRIESTS AT THE EXODUS, COMPARED
WITH THEIR DUTIES, AND WITH THE PROVISION MADE

XXI. THE PRIESTS AND THEIR DUTIES AT THE CELEBRATION
OF THE PASSOVER

195-203

N.B.-The quotations from KURTZ, HENGSTENBERG, and HÄVERNICK, are made from the English translations in Clark's Theological Library. In a double quotation, such as E. viii. 3 (vii. 28) or D. v. 20 (17), the second reference is to the Hebrew Text, which in such a case will be found to vary from the English Version.

PART I.

THE PENTATEUCH EXAMINED AS AN

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

1. THE first five books of the Bible,-commonly called the Pentateuch ( TEVтάтEUXOS Bißλos, Pentateuchus, sc. liber), or Book of Five Volumes, are supposed by most English readers of the Bible to have been written by Moses, except the last chapter of Deuteronomy, which records the death of Moses, and which, of course, it is generally allowed, must have been added by another hand, perhaps that of Joshua. It is believed that Moses wrote under such special guidance and teaching of the Holy Spirit, that he was preserved from making any error in recording such matters as came within his own cognisance, and was instructed also in respect of events which took place before he was born, -before, indeed, there was a human being on the earth to take note of what was passing. He was in this way, it is supposed, enabled to write a true account of the Creation. And, though the accounts of the Fall and of the Flood, as well as of later events, which happened in the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, may have been handed down by tradition from one generation to another, and even, some of them, perhaps, written down in words, or represented in hieroglyphics,