Everything Wrong With Numbers 1 in the Bible

[@rcblazer]

"Biblical Squid Game Rules" is the best description of the Book of Leviticus. I get the feeling the numbers in "Numbers" will do nothing but prove the people who wrote this made them up and/or are really bad at math.

[@AmityvilleFan]

If you add the individual tribes and check the sum, that actualy matches. Not that it'd matter on the long run, compared to other texts, and the details mentioned in the video, but ye, it could be worse.

[@carealoo744]

Liar Game is better

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Hemant? This is critically important. If you were unable to continue this noble sacrifice for any reason, it is vital that you have a successor to don the Shirt of Reason, Sit in the Chair of Truth and carry on the good work. These readings are critically important for the good of Humanity.

[@slenders1ckn3ss]

I appreciate you sticking with this. I actually get excited for Bible time! Know thine 'enemy' and all that. The next chapters are going to be dull as dishwater, but I know that we can all power through it!

[@shawnhuston9323]

Wait til we get to Chronicles!

[@billjohnston882]

No joke! First time I tried to read the Bible front to back Chronicles really pissed me off. Just re-telling the same garbage we just finished.

[@stylis666]

This!

[@jcox4904]

I agree ... this guy is better than church . I love it .

[@Quvan]

Actual American Christians: At this point, if they haven't done so by now, puts the bible down, uses it as a weapon but never reads it again. Instead goes to church and reads only the fortune cookie scriptures the preachers hands out.

[@PraiseTheFSMonster]

Yep, the preachers will take a teeny tiny verse, and then deconstruct it into oblivion. There would be a lot more atheists in this country if christians actually read the bible like they say they do.

[@williamarnold9744]

@@PraiseTheFSMonster I never expected to say this, but, "Thank you, Jesus." ;)

[@terrimartin5663]

@@williamarnold9744 🤣

[@John-zk4no]

Many of the requirements from God in the old testament was only for Israel like stoning people to death not for the church the Apostle Paul in the new testament in the book of galatians says that we don't need to keep the law of Moses nor circumcised children anymore.

[@ogg5949]

Sooo, this wasn't really a census so much as it was a determination of how many draft cards they needed to print.

[@DellaStreet123]

Kudos for you for not falling asleep during that part of the Bible. I dedicated one summer to reading the entire Bible. Not cover to cover in the sense that I started with "In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth" and ended with "The grace of the Lord be with you all. Come, Lord Jesus, Maranatha." I followed a reading guide from an Evangelical church. Most of it was not difficult to read -- although some was difficult to stomach -- but when it came to dividing the land among the tribes, that was one of the most boring parts.

[@MovieMakingMan]

Can you imagine if preachers read Numbers to congregations instead of cherry-picked lines? There would be a mass exodus from every church in the country.

[@pranavghantasala6808]

Heh… exodus

[@lh1673]

I was one of the plainly stupid who was wondering something is wrong with this book but pushing it aside, but am so thankful my gut and the critical thinkers freed me from these stories!

[@MovieMakingMan]

@@lh1673 I sank into it for a brief time then didn’t think about it much. But when I got Covid sept 2021 I was bedridden so I watched KZbin all day. I discovered Friendly Atheist’s video on god’s body count and then the Atheist Experience. I realized how much Christianity permeated our entire society. Even if you’re not Christian we’re being indoctrinated from thousands of different sources and ways. I realized that even though I ‘didn’t believe’ I was still locked into the destructive beliefs of Christianity. I guess no one can fully purge themselves of all Christianity’s negative effects if we’ve been infected by Christianity at any time in our lives. But at least if we’re conscious of its many harms we can learn to fight it from it affecting us and fighting it from spreading to others. I feel a lot of disgust for christians. I feel sorry for some of them. And I feel anger at them because of how much they harm others. My beautiful friend Marsha was victimized by Christianity. She was taught that every good thought she had was ‘god’ and every bad thought was ‘Satan’. She had a constant war going on in her head to the point she slashed her wrists. When I visited her in a psychiatric ward in the Galveston State hospital she was tied to a wheelchair so she wouldn’t hurt herself. I broke down and realized Christianity almost killed her. She was transferred to a state hospital in Austin where she stayed in a lock up unit for 1 1/2 years. I drove 400 miles every weekend for 1 1/2 years to take her out on day passes. At night I slept in my van in the hospital parking lot. In that year and a half not one member of her 2000 person church wrote, called or visited her. Neither did anyone in her family. Marsha was in that Baptist church since she was born. When she needed someone the most not one Christian she ever knew even contacted her. Marsha said I saved her life. She finally got out of the state hospital and spent many months in a halfway house in Austin. I continued to drive to see her. Thankfully she got secular mental therapy and managed to get married and have children. Christianity almost killed her. It took a heathen to save her.

[@lh1673]

@@MovieMakingMan Im in tears reading your experience. i agree, actually religion can be so harmful and cruel! The christian cult i was in, teaches love from NT but will emphasize the OT to shun your family or friends whoever will go against their beliefs! They will fear monger the believers as if its okay to shun your loved ones since god allowed stoning in OT days and also in NT, jesus tells beleivers to choose him above your family! By these harmful policy most of the shunned ones committed suicide! i regret why i couldn't realize more earlier that religion will actually destroy peoples lives! Your story is so heartbreaking, and its the same in any christian community and the reality is any religious people will also ignore their fellows! Thank you for sharing your story it may still be a trauma for you and your friend, but i wish you both can recover, please take care.

[@MovieMakingMan]

@@lh1673 Thank you so much. You’re right. They did shun Marsha. They drove her to almost suicide and then they turned their backs to her. I wonder how many millions (tens of millions) or more have chosen death because of the effects christianity has over them. It’s truly heartbreaking. If any organization other than Christianity did what Christianity did to people it would be closed down and all the leaders would be thrown in prison. But religion gets a pass to keep on abusing people. I really like watching these atheist shows. They give me hope that someday religions will die off and be looked at like we look at primitive, barbaric customs and beliefs from thousands of years ago. I know if it happens it will take a long time. Christianity has been allowed to spread everywhere for the past 2000 years. It’s worse than all viruses, illnesses and man made weapons combined. We best vaccine to stop it is a combination of truth, science, honesty and awareness.

[@gregoryferber3231]

I am so glad you kept doing this. Thank you.

[@michaelzedd2540]

Every pastor of every church should be required to do what you are doing: reading one chapter per week to the congregation until the entire bible has been read. Churches should be prohibited from accepting tithe from anyone who has not listened to the entire bible being read to them in this manner. Pastors should be prohibited from preaching about hell and/or political agendas to anyone who has not had the bible read to them in this manner.

[@MovieMakingMan]

Christianity is a business that sells imaginary products and doesn’t pay any taxes. Since Christians say the US is a christian nation they are operating a monopoly and trying to crush all competition. That violates antitrust laws. The Federal Trade Commission should charge Christian churches for defrauding people out of money for selling them a product that doesn’t exist. The IRS should seize all churches’ property and bank accounts for unpaid taxes on their profits and imprison all Christian preachers, ministers, priests and any other member of their nationwide mob.

[@arielle2745]

Amen to that!

[@TBomb39]

And then tax these churches.

[@visaman]

Maybe one chapter a day.

[@mariakendallwas2100]

Your accuracy in reading the biblical names is amazing! Thanks so much for the effort you put in and the humour! Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬 👍🏽💐

[@dpcnreactions7062]

I am always amazed that you handle these strange names and terms so well!

[@tomsenior7405]

Thank you Hemant for making Sundays fun again. As a child, Sundays were my least favourite day. Sunday School! Sitting in a draughty Church Hall, reading selected Bible Passages. Followed by a Test. It was Sterile, Boring, Repetitive. Having said that, we were never given any Passages relating to Slavery, or most of Judges... it was almost always Jeebus and his miracles. Having now read this godforsaken book cover to cover many times over I can sincerely say "The Bible is one of the worst works of Fiction ever written". Cheers Hemant.

[@MoonWomanStudios]

I've read the entire Bible and I am loving rereading it together

[@brynpookc1127]

Yes, it’s more fun with a group and Hemant’s exposition.

[@lh1673]

l was told to read it daily from pastors and my parents, and felt guilty that i couldn't cuz everytime i tried i didn't actually grasp what i was reading with those war stories and difficult names to pronounce. Since my wake up, i'm glad I have at last found the best bible reading series with the good comments that is educational!

[@MoonWomanStudios]

@@lh1673 omg, Proverbs. I would read like two sentences a day. So hard to get through

[@lh1673]

@@MoonWomanStudios Its funny to know since my wake up, a book said to be inspired but actually most of the people couldn't understand 100% from their heart, which should've if its really from god of love!

[@susansteinkraus2821]

Please, please keep going with this project!

[@risehatten8384]

From now on, when politicians are asked if they read the Bible, I hope someone says "yes, I read numbers every night to help me sleep"

[@jannett4333]

I love what you said

[@arielle2745]

💖💗💓 You’re the best, Hemant! My husband and I love watching this every Sunday morning!

[@d.o.m.494]

God showing us he ain't all knowing. Again.

[@ashleystrout6651]

@Whisper with wing's had blood Uhhh... because God would have known how many people were in Israel without having to count everyone.

[@MovieMakingMan]

@Whisper with wing's had blood That god knows how many hairs are on every human’s head but he can’t count the humans??? WTF? He’s stupid.

[@BaronVonSTFU]

This is the first video where i skipped ahead through the readings. You're a trooper for reading all of that.

[@zuglymonster]

I did that too 😂

[@garryferrington811]

Trouper.

[@gobbygoo3981]

First rule of every fiction writer is make the first chapter (book) exciting to capture the readers attention.

[@mrhax4464]

Oh so that’s how we know the bible is “true,” because it’s so tediously boring!

[@gobbygoo3981]

Except for the first chapter...

[@josefj.cfourie198]

Interesting fact: If the number of people who left Egypt (according to the bible) were to have walked behind each other in a line, the first ones would have reached the promised land before the last one would have left Egypt. (If my calculations are correct) They speculate that the number of Israelites who left Egypt was about three million, given that one person takes up about one square meter each, which would mean that they took up (standing next to each other not some sleeping, some sitting over there and others doing their own thing) about three thousand, seventeen point seventy-five (3, 017.75) square kilometers. That is four times the square kilometer of New York City, not the people, the city, and twice the area of London (UK). That is also one-third of the current population of Isreal. ... and they lived in Egypt and the Sinia Desert for how long without leaving any sign of it ever happening? ... did they? ... really...? And... this is (again according to the bible/priests/young earth) about six hundred years after "Noah's Reset" where the entire world's population was reset to less than 10 people? I feel sad when I think that people I know and care for, honestly believe this and that to them somehow it makes sense. It's like watching someone being taken advantage of and there's nothing you can do to help them.

[@svetovidarkonsky1670]

Exactly!

[@laurajarrell6187]

Johan Fourie, you are right. Another interesting fact is the 'promised land' where they ended up, was under Egyptian rule, lol. And have no records of an arrival of any large group of people like that!🥰✌❤

[@josefj.cfourie198]

@@laurajarrell6187 Yeah, they were still under Egyption rule, so Yhwh created this entire event just so that he could kill some children. And his "chosen" people has been at war over that land ever since. I'm glad he didn't pick me to be part of his "chosen" ones.

[@lh1673]

@@josefj.cfourie198 Thank you for the math, i hope i can explain the logical comments one day, to free my indoctrinated family!

[@lh1673]

@@laurajarrell6187 Thanks also for another good facts that i can tell my indoctrinated family someday!

[@MovieMakingMan]

It’s hilarious how the number of 20 year olds and older are identical in Numbers 1:46 and Exodus 38:26. In 400 years the number of men over 20 stayed at 603,550. Ridiculous. How can Christians believe this nonsense? It’s not faith. It’s dishonesty, laziness and stupidity.

[@KianaWolf]

Quite easily: Most Christians never actually read Numbers. Or the majority of the Bible in general.

[@MovieMakingMan]

@@KianaWolf Yeah, they mindlessly sit in pews, listen to someone behind a pulpit take one line out of the Bible and give their interpretation of what it means. That person doesn’t have a clue what any line means. He’s just spewing out BS and congregations sit there with mouths open up lap up every morsel of biblical BS. Even cows know to eat the grass and not their own feces. Christians don’t.

[@lh1673]

Wow, thanks for the notice of these scriptures! How dare i believed this book! What a joke!

[@lancearmstrong7864]

May I ask, how do you know that its 400 years between those to accounts?

[@WarriorDan]

Ah finally, we have moved on from Leviticus. That means we're done with God handing out arbitrary and contridictory rules for his people, right?.........RIGHT?

[@slenders1ckn3ss]

Well we're not at Revelations so.... No

[@visaman]

@@slenders1ckn3ss let's finish the OT first.

[@grapeshot]

I'm going to go with they were just making the numbers up.

[@Tyrconnell]

By my calculation Numbers will finish on the 1st January 2023. Old Testament will be done towards the end of 2028. Bible completed early 2033 Then plenty of time to get onto the Deuterocanonical books. Can't wait!

[@MovieMakingMan]

The apocalypse will happen 20 times by then according to predictions 😂

[@lh1673]

lf nothing happens to my life I'll be alive, looking forward till the complete reading on 2033!

[@danielsurvivor1372]

6:38 We humans sure love round numbers... But usually those are rare in nature

[@chaosmarklar]

Hoping this series continues till the end of revelations

[@jsparlin1]

don't know if we'll live that long.. a long row to hoe. but i'll watch as long as i can

[@carlwallace448]

Thx hemant for revealing more lies in the bible. Much appreciated brother..

[@PaulThomas-qb9cx]

So excited for this literal next chapter. Happy mothers day to all the moms! 💓 💗 💖

[@MovieMakingMan]

Btw, not one mother was counted in the censuses back then. They didn’t count property. Nice good wishes for Mother’s Day tho!

[@donnycooksey2032]

Maybe the Israelites only had children in increments of 100😄

[@MovieMakingMan]

LOLOL

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Except for that rebellious tribe of Judah that went in an increment of 50! 😄

[@donnycooksey2032]

Maybe their Supreme Court outlawed a womens right to a abortion

[@cfltheman]

If reading genealogies and list of names bothers you so much you are going to hate 1 Chronicles. By the way historically the army of Egypt around that time was only in the tens of thousands, so they should have been no match for the Israelites.

[@tealx2014]

💣💥💥💥💥

[@grrsss8335]

Yes, this is your life. I love this show, better than marvel.

[@jcox4904]

This guy is the shit , I love some of his responses especially, when he sounds exactly how I did ,while trying to read the Bible as a young adult . You know what ....why don't we all just declare it . The God of the Bible is nuts .He's wacked.....!

[@jcox4904]

@LAUGHING WITH KEM T.V yeah to himself .

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

Kudos on a sterling effort at making this chapter watchable! 👍

[@fcsuper]

Wow, you are going for it, Friendly Atheist! Are you planning on just the first five books, or you hitting up the whole thing? (including apocrypha)?

[@FriendlyAtheist1]

WHO KNOWS.

[@fcsuper]

@@FriendlyAtheist1 There are no gods that know, for sure.

[@shldnfr]

@@FriendlyAtheist1 I've been here since Genesis 1and will be here until Revelation 22. 🙏 🤣

[@hayley1868]

@@shldnfr same.. From the starting till the last. Btw his podcasts are awesome too. Check those out surely.

[@lucywillis4535]

It doesn't even matter if we get through the whole thing. Each chapter strengthen the case against God. Just give us as much as you feel you can...

[@deedee67888]

I call series this my bible study. Can't miss a week!

[@DrBear-rk4qb]

Yessss! I was hoping Hemant would continue the series!

[@panqueque445]

"All the twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and family" When you go to hell you hear that sentence over and over and over

[@thegreatgazoo2334]

I just realized it probably won't take you 23 years to finish this. There are chapters you won't need to do, like hymns and such. You could probably be done in a mere 18 or 20 years! I'm sure that must make you feel relieved, right? 😎

[@hyronvalkinson1749]

Stopping at the end of Deuteronomy is fitting. The Pentatauch even have a name. He shouldn't have to submit himself to more torture. Christians think Hemant will burn in hell after death, but he is willingly burning in hell while alive. It is important we educate ourselves but Hemant is a savior indeed.

[@lh1673]

Hemant, thankyou for enduring, giving your precious time for teaching us about this book, and now its Numbers!

[@JaxontheOkay]

no one: the bible in numbers: all work and no play makes jack a dull boy all work and no play makes jack a dull boy all work and no play makes jack a dull boy all work and no play makes jack a dull boy all work and no play ma

[@austinpaulk1597]

HA!!! He think we're not gunna want him to read the whole bible to us😂😂😂😂

[@dragowolfraven3806]

This is going to be good.

[@Wduck_]

I had no idea the Bible would be this boring.

[@Malidictus]

Yeah, about that. Didn't God know all the stars in the sky and all the grains of sand on all the beaches, or whatever that was? Wouldn't He already know all of the Israelites by name? To misquote Captain Kirk - what does God need with a census?

[@tealx2014]

Yes, he should’ve known!!!

[@hodsinay6969]

You are laughing about how repetitive this first chapter was. That's really really nothing compared to Numbers 7. It's composed of a begining and an end, but has 72 verses In the middle that are the same 6 ones a dozen times with changes of a name and a number in the first and last verse I every repetition. You'll definitely have so much fun. This whole book has so many repetitions and names, but it has small changes that a lot of Jewish people learn about and check what are the changes, and because this is the "perfect" word from god they than try to interpret what these changes came to teach us

[@debbys-abqnm4537]

Maybe DarkMatter2525 could offer to illustrate Numbers 7 so we won't all fall asleep!

[@metiusabt2581]

Ohhh, spoiler alert!!!!

[@alexandragoff6609]

The reason I love this series is that I’m now genuinely excited to hear Numbers 7 read. This is truly a miraculous series, lol.

[@00Skyfox]

You should definitely keep doing this for the entire bible. Not only does it guarantee video content for quite sometime time, during this series I don’t know how many times you read something that I thought, “holy shit, that’s actually in the bible?,” because despite 12 years of catholic school with daily religion class they glossed over or avoided a ton of what’s in that glorified book of toilet paper. It’s definitely an eye opener.

[@grapeshot]

Yes Yahweh is quite bloodthirsty. He would make a good slasher villain.

[@EsotericFood]

Estuans interius ira vehementi!

[@debbys-abqnm4537]

I bet Slasher Yahweh disguises himself as an itinerant carpenter called JC who finds himself accused of horrible deeds and, episode after episode, he must do all he can to prove he is innocent. David (aka Bruce) had it easier...!

[@hakureikura9052]

Which reminds me, ever watched the slash street boys? Kinda amazing parody...

[@elainejohnson6955]

Dan Barker's book "God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction" is an awesome book to read if you like slasher villain stuff.

[@MadGodsBand]

Thanks for doing this!

[@EliotChildress]

Hey hemant! Just thought I’d let you know this series is now my nightly ritual. I used to do audiobooks but turns out listening to numbers is sooo much better. Plus that comment about the colon make me laugh every night as I fall asleep. That’s got to be good for my health

[@MovieMakingMan]

Where did all these families keep all these records? And since 99.5% of them were illiterate how could they write anything down? Did they keep this information in their family bibles? Oh wait. Bibles weren’t written for another few thousand years by thousands of anonymous men. If a god inspired men to write this crap why didn’t he eliminate the mindless repetition? Everything in this chapter could be condensed into one paragraph. God should have taken a technical writing class so he could have eliminated 99% of the words in this idiotic part of the Bible.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Apparently the dozen or so appointees at the start of the chapter did it all by themselves! An unbelievable achievement! At least I don't believe it... 😄

[@MovieMakingMan]

@@KeriRautenkranz It said Moses, Aaron and 12 leaders counted all 603,550 men. That’s 43,111 each one counted. How did they find the time to count people spread out everywhere, do animal sacrifices, inspect all 6 million people for skin ailments and perform the countless rituals? Christians don’t read the Bible or they would realize it’s all a lie.

[@sclark9011]

the buy bull was written by catholic sexually frustrated monks, then it broke off to become the church of england when another doctrine was formed because a horny king wanted another wife . He had is religious advisor killed and apointed an Anglican religious advisor and had the King James buy bull writen . Break aways left England as Quakers etc to start new lives in america, baptists mormons, seventh dayers, jw's , sprit filled fundys, ASO ASO so all these brand new flavour of the month enlightened by god personal relationship doctrines of modern day mega churches and houses of happy clappy bling are still at best only joushed-up catholics. and doesn't alter the fact that any way it is rebranded and repackaged, it is still a monetised deception of lies and fraud selling a non existant product. There is no god.

[@visaman]

@@MovieMakingMan God stopped the Sun.

[@lh1673]

This book believers will tell me you don't understand the actual Hebrew writings, its the man who translated it is the problem, don't argue god, BUT the biggest question will be if god is the true author and sincerely want every single people with different languages to know his words why in the first place let imperfect human translate it, knowing it will bring confusions and debates!

[@prestigedoge1936]

I love how he does theses on Sunday’s

[@knarf_on_a_bike]

If Yahweh is omniscient, WHY DO THEY NEED TO GIVE HIM A CENSUS? Shouldn't the G-man know the numbers already? Shouldn't HE be telling the Israelites what the numbers are?

[@KeriRautenkranz]

😅Hahahahah! You're new to reading the Buybull, aren't you? Welcome!

[@lh1673]

Agree, doesn't also god say somewhere in NT he knows the number of each individuals hair!?

[@visaman]

It gave them something to do.

[@visaman]

@@lh1673 that was Luke 12: 7 in the parable of the Sparrow.

[@lh1673]

@@visaman i like your point, it gave them something to do! ya maybe they were too bored asked god what they can do! and yes it was that scripture!

[@jeffreybailess2560]

I appreciate you reading the Bible. I look forward to it every Sunday. Thanks.

[@soyevquirsefron990]

I predict there will be a lot of useful mathematical insight into how god’s creations function, lots of algebra and pi and cosines because god gives us concrete testable information to bring us close to him. Why else would he title the book Numbers

[@MovieMakingMan]

I particularly like how god taught me calculus in this chapter.

[@terryriley8963]

I’m getting the impression that any daft thing Moses wants to do and then to get people to do it for him he just tells them ‘This is what God wants’.

[@vanguard9067]

Moses was known to be quite a mischievous prophet.

[@tbneogalaxy]

Still loving this series 😁

[@defenestratefalsehoods]

So if you're a kindhearted person not doing anything and decide to help with the tabernacle you get the death penalty. Such a loving God who like to see people work together. Except at the tower of babel, they couldn't work together

[@amy_pieterse]

Also if you were born with defects you couldn't enter the tabernacle. And if you were an illegitimate child, god punished you for being born by banishing you from entering his tabernacle until the 10th generation. As far as I can recall. Kinda messed up when you think about it.

[@defenestratefalsehoods]

@@amy_pieterse the bible has a lot of discrimination. Women have to give a sin offering after they stay away over 4 weeks because they was bleeding during child birth. Leviticus 12:6

[@amy_pieterse]

@@defenestratefalsehoods That too. And if you had a baby girl you were seen as being dirtier.

[@EsotericFood]

Jehovah: I’ll send him cheesy religious texts! The worst I can find! He’ll have to sit and read them all and I’ll monitor his mind

[@stephc1821]

Listening to you read the bible is my life now 😀 I am enjoying it so much! I enjoy your opinion/commentary. I appreciate you doing this! Also, I enjoy your reading voice, I think I could listen to you read anything... (which I guess is self evident as I am listening to you read the bible lol)

[@matildabryant8398]

My mind keeps wandering while I listen.

[@no1ofimport271]

Basically me growing up in the church.

[@peejay2982]

I'm going to be here with you for life. Let's do this!

[@magicalmisc7046]

Man I love you! I love you more now that I can see your face. Love the podcast and this.

[@mattryan6886]

Numbers 5: the unfaithful wife is quite appropriate considering it’s instructions on how to have an Old Testament abortion

[@MovieMakingMan]

Numbers 5 is so sexist. There were no laws for a woman to seek legal action against a husband she suspected of screwing around. Women had zero rights. Why didn’t Numbers 5 include a part where a husband’s dick would fall off after drinking that potion.

[@garcia-buckner7702]

We're in the numbers game now.

[@sclark9011]

lol soon have enough to buy my new lear jet and some church bling 🤣

[@brunozeigerts6379]

I've heard that with any ancient set of numbers, one usually has to knock off a zero. So 46,500 becomes 4650. Still doesn't explain how they came up with a round number.

[@cherrypi398]

The fundagelicals will tell you that the entire Bible is God's inerrant word.I have a feeling if asked what their favorite portion of scripture is, none of them would pick Num.1.But it's god's word,right? I don't think you will find Num.1 in any of their "devotionals" any time soon,either.

[@mako9579]

Please, keep doing it! We're lovin' it! 🌟

[@Chew1964]

Tents? Where did the Israelite slaves get tents? Did they like to go camping during their two week summer vacation?

[@tompatierno5606]

I can't wait 4 more weeks to hear the Lord's take on Roe v Wade

[@MovieMakingMan]

Why don’t lawyers defending Roe use the Bible and quote Numbers 5 and point out all the times the biblical god ordered pregnant women to have swords shoved through their stomachs to terminate pregnancies? And talk about the millions of pregnant women murdered by god in the flood. It’s ridiculous that they don’t even mention the idiocy in the Bible and throw it in the faces of all those rightwing fanatics on the Supreme Court. I’m so sick of stupid cowards not attacking Christianity.

[@thegreatgazoo2334]

I'm curious, Hemant. Do you ever look at the "debunks" of this series? I think it's hilarious when people (theists and atheists alike) think they can make serious debate points from your sarcasm.

[@kamronbennett1441]

there are debunks of this series? I'd love to see that

[@thegreatgazoo2334]

@@kamronbennett1441 "In Thy Word" chan

[@FriendlyAtheist1]

I don't... :) Not normally. I saw a few during Genesis, but not so many anymore. If there are good/interesting ones, please leave links!

[@vegasemerald9657]

The Book of Numbers.. What can I say about this? Well, let’s get to the chase. Numbers 1:1-4 Eesh.. Imagine being trapped in the scorching heat while Moses and YHWH is going over a long role call. At least give people some water and shade. Census? Is that some kind of tablet that lists the names for role call? YHWH commands Aaron and Moses to count according to tribal divisions all the men in Israel (Twenty Years and Up) who are able to serve in the army. One man per tribe is to assist them in counting. Numbers 1:5-16 Names of assistants: • Reuben > Elizur (Son of Shedeur) • Simeon > Shelumiel (Son of Zurishadda) • Judah > Nahshon (Son of Amminadab) • Issachar > Nethanel (Son of Zuar) • Zebulun > Eliab (Son of Helon) • From the sons of Joseph from Ephraim > Elishama (Son of Ammihand) • Manasseh > Gamaliel (Son of Pedahzur) • Benjamin > Abidan (Son of Gideoni) • Dan > Ahiezer (Son of Ammishaddai) • Asher > Pagiel (Son of Okran) • Gad > Eliasaph (Son of Deuel) • Naphtali > Ahira (Son of Enan) Who are all those people? Is the Bible authors not going to tell us who are those people or where did all these tribes come from or how are they connect to Israel? Why are they important? How do they contribute to the story of Numbers? Numbers 1:17-19 How long does that take to call everyone by name (one by one for no less)? Just give us the name, name of tribe, clan or family, and information that are crucial and coherent. Numbers 1:20-43 Reuben (46,500 men) Simon (59,300 men) Gad (45,650 men) Judah (74,600 men) Issachar (54,400 men) Zebulun (57,400 men) Sons of Joseph/Ephraim (40,500 men) Manasseh (32,200 men) Benjamin (35,400 men) Dan (62,700 men) Asher (41,500 men) Naphtali (53,400 men) This is just the author talking about the descendants of Reuben and other tribes who were listed to serve the Israeli military one by one according to the records of their clans and families. Numbers 1:44-46 Twelve leaders of Israel? I thought YHWH is the leader. He created the Earth, didn’t he? If Israel is nicknamed the Holy Land, then YHWH would be the leader. He is a jealous God after all. Wouldn’t that make the twelve leaders of Israel, YHWH’s community managers? Oh and it ends with YHWH’s army being the total of 603,550. Numbers 1:47-51 Why didn’t the tribe of the Levites not counted along with the others? How come they’re not included in the census of other Israelites? Imagine being a Levite and having to manually carry everything from the tabernacle and all that furnishings in the hot desert. Numbers 1:52-54 Why are the Twelve Tribes of Israel need to be setup their tents by division? Is it to organize what each tribes do by jobs? Why does the Levites setup their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law? Is it because YHWH is all-loving and wants those people to have special privileges and protections? How would the Levites care for the tabernacle? By referring to everything YHWH said back in Leviticus as instructions on how to care for it? Barely one chapter into Numbers and already I can imagine people getting bored. This chapter is a tribal role call on who are the Twelve Leaders of Israel and how many men each of them have. Then the Levites get the special honor of taking down and setting up their tents, the tabernacle of the covenant, and more while everyone else sets their tents up by division.

[@heidigone]

At least your sweater for life looks good on you Hemant. 😁

[@romanbrandle319]

That was really painful , maybe it would make more sense if I banged my head against the wailing wall repeatedly whilst going through that list . One get's the impression that a census back then was like ,"yeah mate I reckon we got about 35000 Judah tribe blokes and plus about 600 retirees that can still throw a stone, close enough is good enough".

[@lisawalker8014]

Hemant I subscribe to many great atheist commentaries on KZbin but you are definitely the best. You were great on Jeopardy as well. This is the best summation I have ever heard of the Book of Numbers which is all at once unbelievably boring and strangely hallucinatory without offering any information or background at all. I remember trying to read the Bible as a little kid and reading numbers and being simultaneously very confused and bored s*** less at the same time. I think it's probably better if you just get drunk and make it into a drinking game but as a little kid I couldn't do that. Anyway I really appreciate your selfless courage in struggling through this crap and trying to make some sense of it for us because I get the feeling that those Israelites had been sitting in the sun for way too long and it didn't do them any good.

[@stevebrown8368]

I enjoy Bible study with you

[@templargfx]

Book of Numbers : and you thought Leviticus was boring! Thanks for making these videos!

[@elainejohnson6955]

God can count the hairs on our heads, but can't tell us how many men over 20 years old that he made for us to send to war?

[@tod1way]

Every time I think I know all the inconsistencies, a new one is brought to my attention. Thanks for pointing out that God needs a census, even though He's supposedly all-knowing. 😂

[@JUSTHELLBENT]

Yay we have finally reached Numbers. It is a better soporific than counting sheep.

[@andreask.2675]

God IS omnicient, he is just bad at counting since he easily gets distracted. 😂

[@sclark9011]

god is also omniabsent 🤣

[@andreask.2675]

@@sclark9011 And I guess he is also omni-impotent since he used magic to impregnate Maria. 🤭

[@ActiveAdvocate1]

1. If you do the entire Bible, I can't PAY you...but ask me for what you want and I'll try and do it. 2. You know why we're not counting women or kids: only men of fighting age are of any value .Oh, and make sure they're "without defect", too . 3. Well, heads up, none of these dudes will ever be important again. 4. You know what, though, even with the small font, all of your videos are what I would call 'accessible', which is to say, disability friendly. I'm visually impaired, so I can't read the text unless I make this full-screen, but I CAN listen to you. See? Accessibility. You're actually doing better than God here, because people with disabilities were generally outcasts in the Bible. 5. Uuuuuuuuuugh, this is why I hated math class. Sorry. I just didn't have the best teachers, to be fair, except ON GUY in high school who was an actual math teacher. The others I had were all--and I kid you not--pulling double-duty as gym teachers. And then in university, the one was a psychology professor, and the other WAS a legitimate professor of statistics, but he treated me like crap. Ableist bigot. I'm only good at geometry and BEDMAS. I'm surprisingly fast at mental math, but that's my only strength. 6. The Levites were the traditional keepers of the Law, even in the Gospels. The tabernacle was the physical symbol of the Law, so yeah, it makes sense that they'd be the only ones allowed to handle it. But imagine an entire tribe of cops. No thanks.

[@gregoryferber3231]

What take most time to work through: a population gain herd immunity or read one chapter of the Bible a week?

[@amymills9228]

Numbers!!!! Are you going to get to Judges? That one is wild.

[@perspektive42]

Every verse in the bible contains valuable life lessons in beautiful poetry, or so they said. In reality it's like reading the phone book.

[@nomxhosapekani7966]

Imagine if you had to stand at the presidents office and read all the census verbaly.😂😂

[@alxade6698]

I am trying to imagine going through and counting every person in my home town, it is mind boggling.

[@justanotherjezebeI]

Got sake and green. Let's do this!

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Sake? Maybe more like Vodka!🙃 or Spirytus!☠ This is the BuyBull, after all....

[@johnniehouston1816]

Yea, but don't they get free food and get lots of money from the rest of the tribes?

[@amy_pieterse]

"Biblical Squid Game Rules" 😂🤣💀

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Maybe they yelled these numbers very loudly so enemy spies would think, 'Shit... look how many soldiers they have!'

[@JeffreyChadwell]

Props for working Squid Game into your commentary.

[@donsample1002]

Your guesstimate of 46,531 was only one off from my guesstimate of 46,532. It’s a miracle! I have prophetic powers at least as good as anyone in the bible.

[@josefj.cfourie198]

A rock has prophetic powers as good as anyone in the bible. A cow has better prophetic powers than anyone in the bible. Meaning of someone with Biblical Prophetic Powers: Someone who wrongly predicts the future ... or someone who predicts the future after it has already happened.

[@elainejohnson6955]

According to the Bible, when Jesus was supposedly born, they had to wait for people to go back to the land of their ancestors from 1,000 years ago before taking their census!

[@amy_pieterse]

Which doesn't make sense when you sit and think about it.

[@Marius011]

Hemant, I want to stay down in the trenches with you, but it's chapters like this (and the begats, and the repetitions of phrases verbatim) that make me so grateful for KZbin's playback speed feature. Sorry!

[@Cardinalsin76]

Huge Fan!!!

[@mikekolokowsky]

How do you add up numbers with an even 100 and end up with a total ending in 50?

[@taiyeebmuhtadi]

add those numbers up smarty boi

[@amy_pieterse]

God works in mysterious ways.

[@TBomb39]

Ain't it funny that for a chapter called numbers, it's already numerically inaccurate from the getgo? Almighty Zarquon, the buybull is a stupid book.

[@AJ_The_One]

This book is torture, literally! Thanks for making it bearable!

[@hmalbet]

Levites are the first roadies?

[@sadein]

Why? Why are we still doing this? Why am I here? Why do I feel some sort of accomplishment because we finished Leviticus? Numbers.... bring it on! I really need to take a long look at my life choices.

[@shawnhuston9323]

Exodus and Numbers appears to be a policy and procedure manual made up by the priests for their own job security. Exodus describes how the priests will get paid and fed via the sacrifices of Israelites (they get only the best food!). In this chapter of Numbers, the Levites now get to skip ever having to be drafted into going to war; and anyone else that tries to get in on this sweet gig is to be put to death. Smh