ocr: An Arm I 100 Short? - Numbers 11:4-25,31-34 The LORD answered Moses, "ls the LORD's arm too short? You will 10W see whether or not what I say will come true for you." a (Num. 11:23) The book of Numbers cuvers a journey through the desert that should have lasted about fourteen days, but instead lasted forty years. When they first crossed into the Sinai Peninsula, the sraelites were bursting with a spirit of hope and adventure. Free at last from the chains of slavery, they headed toward the Promised Land. But the weeks, months, and then years of wandering in a hostile desert soon wore down all p ...