Q. How were the people affected by the report of the spies? A. They lifted up their voice and cried, and wept that night. Num. xiv, 1.

Q. For what did they lament?

A. That they had ever come out of Egypt. Num. xiv, 2.

Q. What did they propose to do?

A. To choose a captain, and to return into Egypt. Num. xiv, 4.

Q. Who remonstrated with the people?

A. Caleb and Joshua.

Q. What were the people about to do to them?
A. To stone them. Num. xiv, 10.

Q. What restrained them?

A. The glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle before all the children of Israel.

Q. What judgment did the Lord denounce upon them for

their sin?

A. That not one of that generation but Caleb and Joshua should enter the land of promise. Num. xiv, 23, 24.

Q. What did the Lord direct Moses to do?

A. To lead them back into the wilderness by the Red Sea. Num. xiv, 25.

Q. Who did the Lord say should inherit the land?
A. Their little ones, which they said would be-
come a prey, them would he bring into Ca-
naan. Num. xiv, 31.

Q. What became of the spies who brought a false report?
A. They died of the plague. Num. xiv, 37.
Q. What did the people determine to do?

A. To go up to the promised land. Num. xiv, 40.

Q. What did Moses say?

A. Go not up, for the Lord is not among you.

Num. xiv, 42.

Q. What did he tell them would happen to them?

A. That they would fall by the sword. Num. xiv, 43.

Q. Did they persist in going?

A. They did. Num. xiv, 44.

Q. What happened to them?

A. The Amalekites and the Canaanites smote and discomfited them. Num. xiv, 45.

Q. What was done to the man who gathered sticks on the Sabbath, while they were in the wilderness?

A. They stoned him with stones without the camp. Num. xv, 35.

Q. Who led a rebellion against Moses?

A. Korah, Dathan, On, and Abiram. Num. xvi, 1-3.

Q. What punishment was visited upon them?

A. The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up. Num. xvi, 31–33.

Q. What happened to their followers?

A. There came fire out from the Lord and consumed two hundred and fifty men. Num. xvi, 35.

Q. What did the people say the next day to Moses and Aaron?

A. Ye have killed the people of the Lord. Num. xvi, 41.

Q. What did the Lord send upon them?

A. A plague. Num. xvi, 46.

Q. What did Moses tell Aaron to do?

A. To take his censor, and go among the people, and make an atonement for them.

Q. Where did he stand?

A. Between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. Num. xvi, 47.

Q. How many fell at this time?

A. Fourteen thousand and seven hundred. Num. xvi, 49.

LESSON XX.

Death of Aaron-The Brazen Serpent.

Question. To show that God had chosen Moses and Aaron to be leaders of the people, what did he command Moses to do?

Answer. To take twelve rods, one for each of the tribes of Israel. Num. xvii, 2.

Q. Whose name was written on the rod for the tribe of Levi? A. Aaron's. Num. xvii, 3.

Q. What was done with them?

A. Moses laid them up in the tabernacle. Num. xvii, 4.

Q. What did the Lord say of the man's rod whom he should choose?

A. That it should blossom. Num. xvii, 5.

Q. What occurred on the morrow?

A. Aaron's rod was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds. Num. xvii, 8.

Q. Where did the Lord direct Moses to place Aaron's rod?

A. In the tabernacle, before the ark of testimony. Num. xvii, 10.

Q. Into what desert did the Israelites now come?
A. The desert of Zin. Num. xx, 1.

Q. Where did they abide?

A. In Kadesh.

Q. Who died here?

A. Miriam.

Q. For what did they suffer here?
A. For water. Num. xx, 2.

Q. With whom did the people chide?
A. Moses and Aaron. Num. xx,

Q. What did Moses and Aaron do?

3.

A. They went to the door of the tabernacle, and fell upon their faces. Num. xx, 6.

Q. What appeared to them?

A. The glory of the Lord.

Q. What did the Lord command Moses to do?

A. To take the rod, and speak to the rock, and

it should bring forth water. Num. xx, 8.

Q. What then happened?

A. Moses smote the rock twice in the presence of the congregation, and the water came out abundantly. Num. xx, 11.

Q. Of what sin were Moses and Aaron guilty?
A. Of unbelief, and of not sanctifying the Lord
in the eyes of the people. Num. xx, 12.
Q. How did the Lord punish them for this?

A. He did not permit them to lead the congregation into the promised land.

Q. To whom did Moses send messengers?

A. To the king of Edom. Num. xx, 14.

Q. For what did he seek permission?

A. To pass peacefully through his land. Num.

xx, 17.

Q. What answer was returned?

A. Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword. Num. xx, 18.

Q. What did the congregation do?

A. They turned away in another direction. Num. Xxx, 21.

Q. Whither did they come?

A. Unto Mount Hor. Num. xx, 22.

Q. What did the Lord tell Moses to do to Aaron?

A. To take him and his son Eliezer up on Mount Hor, and remove the priestly robes from him, and put them upon his son. Num. xx, 25, 26. Q. What then happened to Aaron?

A. He died on the top of the mount. Num. xx, 28.

Q. How were the congregation affected?

A. They mourned for him thirty days. Num.

XX, 29.