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The Book of Numbers

Numbers is book 4 of 39 in the Tanakh, part of Torah. It has 36 chapters and 1,288 verses.

Updated September 19, 2026

בְּמִדְבַּר

Section
Torah
Chapters
36
Verses
1,288
Longest chapter
7 (89 verses)

What Numbers is about

Numbers covers the forty years in the wilderness. It opens with a census at Sinai and moves through the complaints of the people, the twelve scouts, the rebellion of Korach, the waters of Meribah, Balaam and his blessings, and a second census of the generation that will enter the land.

Opening verse

וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה בְּמִדְבַּר סִינַי בְּאֹהֶל מוֹעֵד בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִי בַּשָּׁנָה הַשֵּׁנִית לְצֵאתָם מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם לֵאמֹר׃

AND THE LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying:

Numbers 1:1

Chapters

Weekly portions in Numbers