WE have now reached the point when we can without distraction take up each book and seek, as far as we are able, to gather its contents in some systematic way. We have already, once and again, anticipated this in our different surveys of the Pentateuch as a whole; but here our object is to seek with some measure of fullness to examine the contents of each book, and see their inherent character, as well as the suitability of their position in connection with what precedes and follows.