Numbers -- Finding yourself in your family story -- God's claim on Levi -- Breaking faith -- The Lord bless you and keep you -- Provision for the sanctuary -- God's flexibility -- The journey actually begins -- On missing garlic -- Miriam the prophet, Aaron the priest, Moses the teacher -- A spy story -- The intentional and unintentional -- Dealing with ambition -- Provision and purification -- One fatal mistake -- Two very different attitudes to war -- Snakes, and progress, and another attitude to war -- A story about several asses -- God doesn't go back on a promise -- Beautify tents, Jacob -- How it all goes wrong (again) -- Five pushy women -- On appointing a new leader -- Eating with God -- Negotiations and love songs -- Unfinished business -- On mutual support -- Land, promises, and politics -- Enduring justice -- Deuteronomy -- Moses begins his last sermon -- No, but... -- The attraction of images -- Not with our parents -- If only... -- Listen, Israel -- On killing enemies -- On election -- Little by little -- You don't deserve it -- It never rains in Southern California -- On not following your instincts -- False prophets -- You are what you eat -- Helping people get back on their feet -- The rhythm of pilgrimage -- Justice and only justice (about faithfulness) -- Kings, priests, Levites, prophets -- How to make war (or how to make war impractical) -- Murder desecrates the land -- On keeping things separate -- Sex in the city -- Attitudes to Egyptians (and others) -- On sacred inefficiency -- Maintaining the family name -- A wandering Aramean has become a great nation -- Curses and blessings and curses -- The mystery of obedience and disobedience -- Moses' last song -- On dying outside the promised land.