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Bamidbar 1: Everyone Counts
It is clear from the first chapter where Bamidbar got the English name Numbers. The book starts off with a census of the Jewish people in the second year after they left Egypt. The Hebrew name- Bamidbar is more of a thematic name as the book details the stories of the time period of the Israelites in the midbar. In this instance, the English name really connects to the first few chapters and the Hebrew name is thematic. This is the opposite of the book of Shmot or Exodus. In that case, the Hebrew name refers to the very first chapter and the English name is thematic. There are other important…
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