Because of unbelief at various points, but especially at Kadesh Barnea ( Numbers 14 ), the Israelites were condemned to wander for forty years in the desert in the vicinity of Kadesh instead of immediately entering the land of promise.

The town and its vicinity has been used as the setting for numerous films and television programmes, including Iris about the life of Iris Murdoch starring Judi Dench ; Drowning by Numbers by Peter Greenaway ; Kavanagh QC starring John Thaw ; ' East of Ipswich ' by Michael Palin ; Little Britain with Matt Lucas and David Walliams ; and a 1969 version of David Copperfield.

Such ancient rock burials are seldom seen west of the Jordan river, and the only other concentration of these megaliths are to be found in the hills of Judah in the vicinity of Hebron, where the giant sons of Anak were said to have lived ( Numbers 13: 33 ).

Significant portions of the story told in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are not and were never intended to be historiographic, but the overall intent was historical according to the understanding of the ancient writers: to demonstrate God's actions in history, to recall Israel's bondage and salvation, and to demonstrate the fulfillment of Israel's covenant.

Numbers within this block are used for various test utilities such as a ringback number ( to test the ringer when installing telephone sets ), milliwatt tone ( a number simply answers with a continuous test tone ) and a loop around ( which connects a call to another inbound call to the same or another test number ).

In this third covenant, unlike the first two, God hands down an elaborate set of laws ( scattered through Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers ), which the Israelites are to observe ; they are also to remain faithful to Yahweh, the god of Israel, meaning, among other things, that they must put their trust in his help.

The theme of descendants marks the first event in Numbers, the census of Israel's fighting men: the huge number which results ( over 600, 000 ) demonstrates the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham of innumerable descendants, as well as serving as God's guarantee of victory in Canaan.

When the DNS resolver gets a PTR ( reverse-lookup ) request, it begins by querying the root servers ( which point to The American Registry For Internet Numbers ' ( ARIN's ) servers for the < tt > 208. in-addr. arpa </ tt > zone ).

" according to Numbers 13: 8, 13: 16 that was the original name of Joshua son of Nun, till Moses gave him the longer name ( compounded with the name of Yahweh ) which he continued to bear ( yehoshua `), " Yahweh is salvation.

The United States Revenue Cutter Service, which merged with the United States Lifesaving Service in January 1915 to form the modern Coast Guard, began following the Navy's lead in the 1890s, with its cutters having parenthetical numbers called Naval Registry Identification Numbers following their names, such as ( Cutter No. 1 ), etc.

Most of our knowledge of ancient Hebrew medicine during the 1st millennium BC comes from the Torah, i. e. the Five Books of Moses, which contain various health related laws and rituals, such as isolating infected people ( Leviticus 13: 45-46 ), washing after handling a dead body ( Numbers 19: 11-19 ) and burying excrement away from camp ( Deuteronomy 23: 12-13 ).

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN, ) is a nonprofit private organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U. S. government by other organizations, notably the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ), which ICANN now operates.

According to the books Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses ; his name was Hoshe ' a the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him Yehoshu ' a ( Joshua ) () the name by which he is commonly known ; and he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus, and was probably the same age as Caleb, with whom he is occasionally associated.

The earliest parts of Jewish prayer are the Shema Yisrael (" Hear O Israel ") ( Deuteronomy 6: 4 et seq ), and the Priestly Blessing ( Numbers 6: 24-26 ), which are in the Torah.

LCC should not be confused with LCCN, the system of Library of Congress Control Numbers assigned to all books ( and authors ), which also defines URLs of their online catalog entries, such as " 82006074 " and "< nowiki > http :// lccn. loc. gov / 82006074 </ nowiki >".

Numbers in the range 1. 0 – 915. 0 ( Gl numbers ) are from the second edition, which was

The earliest parts of Jewish prayer book are the Shema Yisrael (" Hear O Israel ") ( Deuteronomy 6: 4 et seq ), and the Priestly Blessing ( Numbers 6: 24-26 ), which are in the Torah.

Numbers which have neither been proven algebraic nor proven transcendental:

Management of most top-level domains is delegated to responsible organizations by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ), which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ) and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.

" Citing Numbers 31: 13 – 47 as an example, in which Moses orders the slaughter of thousands of boys and women, and sanctions the rape of thousands of girls, at God's behest, Paine calls the Bible a " book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy ; for what can be greater blasphemy than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the Almighty!

The right to use a domain name is delegated by domain name registrars, which are accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ), the organization charged with overseeing the name and number systems of the Internet.

Pentecost is the old Greek and Latin name for the Jewish harvest festival, or Festival of Weeks ( Hebrew חג השבועות Hag haShavuot or Shevuot, literally " Festival of Weeks "), which can be found in the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is called the Festival of Weeks ( Hebrew: חג השבועות, chag ha-Shavuot, Exodus 34: 22, Deuteronomy 16: 10 ); Festival of Reaping ( Hebrew: חג הקציר, chag ha-Katsir, Exodus 23: 16 ), and Day of the First Fruits ( Hebrew יום הביכורים, Yom ha-Bikkurim, Numbers 28: 26 ).

Fictionalism in mathematics was brought to fame in 1980 when Hartry Field published Science Without Numbers, which rejected and in fact reversed Quine's indispensability argument.

After their Defeat the Rebels retired to the Isle aux Noix, where they continued till lately, sending out some Parties, and many Emissaries, to debauch the Minds of the Canadians and Indians, in which they have proved too successful, and for which they were too well prepared by the Cabals and Intrigues of these two last years ; We knew of their being reinforced, and very considerably, I suppose, as they appeared in Numbers near St. John's last Sunday Evening ; where or when they landed, or the Particulars since, we have but very imperfect Accounts of, all Communications with the Forts of St. John's and Chambli, being, as far as I can find, entirely cut off.

Numbers of other species have been proposed, some of which are now recognized as subspecies.

In this literature, Balaam gradually acquired a position among the non-Jews, which was exalted as much as that of Moses among the Jews ( Midrash Numbers Rabbah 20 ); at first being a mere interpreter of dreams, but later becoming a magician, until finally the spirit of prophecy descended upon him ( ib.

Numbers of registered persons in four age-and-sex classes were counted each year.

Numbers were further augmented after 1550, following campaigns of persecution by the Venetian Inquisition against Italian anti-Trinitarians and Jews.

Numbers were not uniform but dependent on a variety of factors, including assignments by the king, or the manpower mustered by various clan chiefs or localities.

The last available top-level () blocks of 16 million IPv4 addresses were assigned in February 2011 by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ) to the five Regional Internet registries ( RIRs ).

Numbers 31 says Moses instructed the Israelite soldiers to kill every Midianite woman, boy, and non-virgin girl, although virgin girls were shared amongst the soldiers.

The " Second Passover " ( Pesach Sheni ) on the 14th of Iyar in the Hebrew Calendar is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible ( Numbers 9: 6-13 ) as a make-up day for people who were unable to offer the pesach sacrifice at the appropriate time due to ritual impurity or distance from Jerusalem.

Numbers with a decimal point were used to insert new star systems for the second edition without destroying the desired order ( by right ascension ).

Numbers were not uniform, but dependent on a variety of factors including assignments by the king or the manpower mustered by various clan chiefs or localities.

Target Numbers were determined by adding Ability level + Skill level and multiplying or dividing that number by a factor determined by the task's difficulty ; if the task is Easy multiply Target Number result by 4, Average multiply by 2, Difficult use the number as normal, Formidable halves the number ( drop fractions ), and Impossible quarters the number ( drop fractions ).

Most of the original ITV Digital channel placeholders and Logical Channel Numbers were kept until Freeview's replaced them, leaving large gaps between channels.

The rods of both Moses and Aaron were endowed with miraculous power during the Plagues of Egypt ( Exodus 7: 17, 8: 5, 8: 16-17, 9: 23, and 10: 13 ); God commanded Moses to raise his rod over the Red Sea when it was to be parted ( Exodus 14: 16 ) and in prayer over Israel in battle ( Exodus 17: 9 ); Moses brings forth water from a stone using his rod ( Exodus 17, Numbers 20: 11 ).

Archaeological and literary evidence such as the Book of Numbers 11: 5 suggests cultivation probably took place around two thousand years later in ancient Egypt, at the same time that leeks and garlic were cultivated.

They were introduced in Donald Knuth's 1974 book Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-Students Turned on to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness.

The nephilim were presumably destroyed in the Flood, but further giants are reported in the Torah, including the Anakites ( Numbers 13: 28-33 ), the Emites ( Deuteronomy 2: 10 ), and, in Joshua, the Rephaites ( Joshua 12: 4 ).

This worked, because Numbers 31: 16 states: “ They were the ones who followed Balaam ’ s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the LORD in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the LORD ’ s people.

The talmud records that the markings surrounding Numbers 10: 35-36 were thought to denote that this 85 letter text was not in its proper place.

Numbers were passed between these units across a number of general-purpose buses, or trays, as they were called.

In the Book of Exodus, the Book of Leviticus and the Book of Numbers, Nadab () and Abihu () were respectively the eldest and second-eldest of the sons of Aaron.

He and all the conspirators, with their families and possessions, were swallowed up by an earthquake ( Numbers 16: 1-40 ; 26: 9-11 ; Psalms.

Later in the narrative of the Book of Numbers, the elders of the clan of Gilead petitioned Moses and the tribal chieftains for advice, because they were concerned that if Zelophehad's daughters married men from another Israelite tribe, the property that the daughters had inherited the right to would become the property of the other tribe, and would be lost from the tribe of Manasseh, to which Zelophehad had belonged.

At Shittim, in the land of Moab, after 24, 000 men were slain for their crime, a second census was taken ; Zabulon numbered 60, 500 fighting men ( Numbers 26: 27 ).

They were the " first of the nations " to make war against Israel ( Numbers 24: 20 ).