The Hebrew Bible is filled with numbers. There are different kinds of numbers — cardinals and ordinals, integers and fractions, even primes. And they are everywhere in the Torah text. There are ...

The Counting of the Omer, also known as Sefirat Ha-Omer, is an imperative verbal counting of each of the 50 days between the two Chagim (feasts) of Pesach and Shavuot. Every nightfall from the second ...

The fourth book of Moses is called Numbers in the English Bible, and this follows the usage of the Greek Septuagint translation. In the Hebrew it is called Bammidhbar (“In the wilderness”). The former ...

In any Top 40 list of famous biblical numbers, forty would have to be near the top. Noah and rain, Moses on Sinai, the Israelites and the wilderness are just some of the examples that jump out of the ...