Numbers — Public Open Controls v1.0

These propositions are not settled claims in the public reader. They remain controlled uncertainties inherited from the sealed research stack.

• NUM-CLM-429 — Exod 40:17: A uniquely established absolute BC chronology for the Numbers wilderness sequence can be fixed from the present evidence.
  Control: The internal biblical calendar anchors do not establish one uniquely demonstrated absolute BC synchronization.
• NUM-CLM-430 — Num 1:1-46: The census term ʾeleph and the totals in Numbers 1 have one securely demonstrated demographic resolution that removes all numerical uncertainty.
  Control: Census totals and the semantic/demographic force of ʾeleph remain Open.
• NUM-CLM-431 — Num 2:1-34: Numbers 2 establishes exact camp geometry, scale, population density, and modern coordinates for every tribal sector.
  Control: The text supplies relational order; exact geometry, scale, density, and coordinates are not established.
• NUM-CLM-432 — Num 5:11-31: The Numbers 5 jealousy ordeal can be explained by a demonstrated chemical, pharmacological, toxicological, or abortifacient mechanism in the administered mixture.
  Control: No such mechanism is demonstrated by the text or evidence census; divine adjudication must not be naturalized.
• NUM-CLM-433 — Num 13:26-33: The scouts’ reported speech in Numbers 13 is automatically narrator affirmation of every statement they make.
  Control: Reported speech is evidence of what the speakers say and is not automatic narrator affirmation.
• NUM-CLM-434 — Num 20:1: Numbers 20:1 explicitly states that Miriam’s death at Kadesh occurred in year 40.
  Control: Num 20:1 states the first month but does not state the year; the year remains Open at this point.
• NUM-CLM-435 — Num 20:2-11: The Meribah water event is adequately reduced to a naturalistic mechanism that removes the narrative’s divine action.
  Control: The canonical narrative presents divine provision and human action; a naturalistic reduction is not established.
• NUM-CLM-436 — Num 33:3-49: The retrospective itinerary in Numbers 33 securely fixes all disputed wilderness site equations, routes, distances, and modern coordinates.
  Control: Itinerary order is textually valuable, but disputed site equations and precise routes remain Open.
• NUM-CLM-437 — Num 22:1-21: The Deir ʿAlla Balaam text is automatically the same Balaam episode narrated in Numbers 22–24 and fixes the biblical episode’s date.
  Control: Deir ʿAlla is relevant later external evidence mentioning Balaam son of Beor; identity of episode, dependence, and date control are not established.
• NUM-CLM-438 — Num 21:4-9: The Timna bronze-serpent find archaeologically identifies or proves the specific bronze-serpent event of Numbers 21:4–9.
  Control: The material comparator is contextual; it does not identify or prove the narrated event.
• NUM-CLM-439 — Num 31:1-12: The commanded war against Midian in Numbers 31 supplies a universalized warfare authorization for later peoples or modern actors.
  Control: The command belongs to its particular covenant-historical setting and is not universalized into modern authorization.
• NUM-CLM-440 — Num 33:50-56: The prospective land instructions of Numbers 33:50–56 prove that the commanded dispossession and allotment had already been implemented within the narrated endpoint of Numbers.
  Control: The instructions are prospective at the plains-of-Moab setting and do not prove implementation within Numbers.

Additional standing controls:

• No absolute BC chronology for Numbers is frozen.
• Census totals and ʾeleph remain Open.
• Numbers 7/9 literary order is not treated as a continuous calendar diary.
• Numbers 20:1 states the first month but not the year.
• Numbers 5 receives no invented pharmacological, toxicological, chemical, or abortifacient mechanism.
• Ritual impurity is not automatically moral guilt; ṣāraʿat is not automatically Hansen disease.
• Reported speech in Numbers 13 is not automatically narrator affirmation.
• Disputed routes, camp geometry, and permanent Atlas pins remain Open.
• Deir ʿAlla does not prove the identity, date, or dependence of the Numbers Balaam episode.
• Numbers 31 and other covenant-war texts are not universalized into modern authorization.
• Prospective land legislation is not presented as already implemented within Numbers.