Numbers: Following God in the Wilderness

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

Numbers 1:1ff (Spoke 4, Cycle 1)

The traditional Hebrew names of the first five Books are all taken from words found in their first verses. Case in point, the Fourth Book is called במדבר (B'Midbar, In the wilderness), taken from the first verse in Hebrew. That this is the apt title for the book is evident from the distribution of the phrase "in the wilderness" throughout the Bible:

It is particularly striking to behold how Cycle 1 (maroon bars) and Cycle 2 (blue bars) tend to rise and fall together. This gives rise to a relatively large value of .55 for the