Numbers opens with a literal head count and somehow gets weirder from there: a talking donkey, a plague triggered by a guy’s choice of dinner companion, and forty years of wandering that could have been a much shorter trip with better navigation. We covered all 36 chapters, census figures and all.
You’ll also see 18 episodes marked Dig Deeper below. The show’s format is an unstudied first read, reactions and all, so those episodes are where the hosts go back into a book or chapters they already covered to chase down their own questions and pick up what they missed the first time through. They’re not listener Q&A, just the hosts grading their own homework.
36 episodes (18 read-through + 18 Dig Deeper) • Chapters 1–36 (complete) • Recorded 2021
Every Episode, In Order
- Numbers Chapters 1–2
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 1–2
- Numbers Chapters 3–4
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 3–4
- Numbers Chapters 5–6
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 5–6
- Numbers Chapter 7
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapter 7
- Numbers Chapters 8–9
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 8–9
- Numbers Chapters 10–11
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 10–11
- Numbers Chapters 12–13
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 12–13
- Numbers Chapters 14–15
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 14–15
- Numbers Chapters 16–17
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 16–17
- Numbers Chapters 18–19
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 18–19
- Numbers Chapters 20–21
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 20–21
- Numbers Chapters 22–23
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 22–23
- Numbers Chapters 24–25
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 24–25
- Numbers Chapters 26–27
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 26–27
- Numbers Chapters 28–29
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 28–29
- Numbers Chapters 30–31
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 30–31
- Numbers Chapters 32–33
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 32–33
- Numbers Chapters 34–36
- [Dig Deeper] Numbers Chapters 34–36
Contradictions We Found in Numbers
Here are some of the contradictions we dug into in Numbers (out of 34 we cataloged):
- Are we punished for the sins of others?
- Did God burn to death all of Korah's children?
- Does God know and see everything?
- How did Moses get water out of the rock?
- How many gods are there?
- Is it necessary to keep the sabbath?
- Is it ok to make images?
- Was Moses meek?
- Where did Aaron die?
- Who was Moses' father-in-law?
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