2. Contents

The contents include the history of God's kingdom on earth and in Israel from the creation till the death of Moses, and the law of God's kingdom in Israel. (1) Genesis: i.-xi. tents is primitive history (creation, paradise, the fall, the flood, the table of nations, building of the tower at Babylon, genealogy from Shem to Abram); xii.-xxvi. deals with Abraham and Isaac; xxvii.-xxxvii. 1 deals with Jacob, and xxxvii. 2-1. with Joseph. (2) Exodus: i.-xv. 21

contains the oppression of Israel in Egypt, two reports of the call of Moses (iii.-vi. 1 and vi. 2

vii. 7), the ten plagues of Egypt, the exodus and crossing of the Red Sea (vii. 8-xv. 21); xv. 22 xxiv. 11 describes the journey to Sinai and the conclusion of the covenant there (xx. 2-17 con tains the decalogue; xx. 22-xxiii. is the Book of the Covenant); axiv. 12-xxxi. contains directions concerning the building and equipment of the Tabernacle and concerning the clothing and consecration of the priests and the daily offering; aaxii.-xaxiv. describes the breaking of the covenant and its renewal; xxxv.-xl, narrates the erection of the Tabernacle, the making of the priestly garments and the consecration of the sanc tuary. (3) Leviticus: i.-vii. contains laws of offer ings, the kinds of offerings and the .duties and privileges of the priests; viii.-x. describes the con secration of the priests and their induction into office; xi.-xvi. contains directions regarding clean and unclean and the day of atonement; xvii.-xxvi. is the Holiness Code, dealing with festivals and with the Sabbatical and Jubilee years; xxvii. deals with consecrations. (4) Numbers: i.-x. 10 gives the

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last directions and events at Sinai; x. 11-xxii. 1, from Sinai to Moab (the spying out of the promised land and the murmuring of the people, the insurrections of Korah and of Dathan and Abiram, the gathering of the people in Kadesh, the death of Miriam and Aaron, three pieces of poetry); xxii. 2 xxxvi., occurrences and laws in Moab (Balsam, numbering of the people, summary of halting places). (5) Deuteronomy: i.-iv. 43, introductory addresses of Moses; iv. 44-xxvi., the second ad dress (repetition of the decalogue, directions to fear, love, and worship God alone, the central sanctuary, unclean foods, judgment at the central sanctuary and the law of the king, priests, levites and prophets, prayers and tithes); xxvii: xxx., final address (di rection to write the words of the law in plaster on great stones, blessings and cursings); xxxi ~xxxiv, end of the life and work of Moses (command to read the law every seventh year to the assemblies of people at the feast of tabernacles, the Song of Moses, the last words of Moms). (6) Joshua: i.-vi. recounts the crossing of the Jordan and the capture of Jericho; vii.-viii., the capture of Ai; ix.-x., the war in South Palestine; xi., the war in North Palestine; xii., recapitulation; xiii.-xxi., partition of the land among the tribes; xxii., dis missal of the trans-Jordanic tribes; xxiii: xxiv., final exhortations of Joshua, his death and burial.