#4 a study of numbers in the bible

The King James Bible has 2 verses matching in the wilderness + number.
These two are the title of the Book of Numbers. The Hebrew title for this book is "in the wilderness", BaMIDBaR.

Numbers 1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 26:64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

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The King James Bible has 3 verses matching land fall inheritance.
Also The King James Bible has 2 verses matching ye shall inherit + your fathers.

Numbers 33:54 ( book 4 of the 1st cycle of 22 books )
And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
Numbers 34:2
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof
Ezekiel 47:14 ( book 4 of the 2nd cycle of 22 books )
And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.

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The King James Bible has 17 verses matching the number of the days.
But each day for a year had only 2 occurrences as shown below.

Numbers 14:34
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Ezekiel 4:4
Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel 4:5
For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:6
And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year .
Ezekiel 4:9
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

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Let's look at the 4th chapter of Romans and the 4th epistle, Galatians.
The King James Bible has 2 verses matching of none effect + the promise + the law.

Romans 4:14
For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
Galatians 3:17
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

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The King James Bible has 2 verses matching the law + the promise + seed + Abraham + faith.

Romans 4:13
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 4:16
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

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The King James Bible has 2 verses matching seed + heir + Abraham + the promise.

Romans 4:13
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Galatians 3:29
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

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The King James Bible has 2 verses matching What saith the scripture?

Romans 4:3
For What saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Galatians 4:30
Nevertheless What saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

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We looked at the 4th book called Numbers also called BaMiDBaR meaning "In the wilderness" which are the first words of the book. Let's looke at the 4th chapters of Matthew and Luke. We see that what Israel failed to do Jesus accomplished.
The King James Bible has 2 verses matching led + the spirit + into the wilderness.

Matthew 4:1
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Luke 4:1
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the spirit into the wilderness,

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Also found in those chapters are forty days.

Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Luke 4:2
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

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