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Begin Typing VigilNumbers is the name given in the LXX to the fourth book of the Pentateuch, and is due to the prominent place occupied in it by the details of a twofold census of the Israelite people. But the contents of the book are very varied, and embrace, amongst other matters, laws and regulations attributed to Moses, an account of the forty years' wanderings in the wilderness, and a description of the settlement of part of the people on the East of Jordan; so that some adaptation of the usual Hebrew title Bemidbar. 'In the wilderness (of Sinai),' taken from an expression used in 1:1, would be more appropriate.
The period of time included extends from the first day of the second month in the second year after the Exodus (1:1) to an undefined date between the first day of the fifth month and the first day of the eleventh month in the fortieth year (33:38. Deuteronomy 1:3). But of the greater part of this period scarcely anything is recorded, the principal events related being confined within nineteen days (1:1 compared with 10:11) at the beginning of it; and six months (33:38 compared with Deuteronomy 1:3) at the end. The scene of the history is partly the wilderness of Sinai, partly the wilderness of Paran (North of Sinai, but West of the Arabah), and partly the plains (or steppes) of Moab (lying East of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, and the Jordan).
The Torah is presented here with the first six books of the Nevi'im. Together they constitute the earliest history of the Abrahamic faith and it peoples.