민수기 Chapter 36

Translation: ESV

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"The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the people of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters."

Key Message

One just decision can give rise to new questions; God provides wise solutions for these new situations as well.

▸Chapter 36, the final chapter of Numbers, concludes the inheritance question of Zelophehad's daughters decided in chapter 27.

Chapter 36, the final chapter of Numbers, concludes the inheritance question of Zelophehad's daughters decided in chapter 27. The leaders of the tribe of Manasseh raise a new problem: if the daughters marry men of another tribe, the inheritance will pass to another tribe. This shows that a just decision (the daughters' inheritance rights) can create new problems.

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This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: 'Let them marry whom they think best, only they shall marry within the clan of the tribe of their father.'

Key Message

Individual freedom and the order of the community must be balanced without threatening each other; God's wisdom finds the way to uphold both.

▸God's solution is that the daughters must marry within the same tribe.

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The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Key Message

Obeying God's command is the fitting conclusion to the journey toward the promised land; obedience is the door that opens a new era.

▸The daughters of Zelophehad obey God's command and marry within their tribe.

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These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

Key Message

Numbers testifies that even amid the failures of the wilderness generation, God's faithfulness led a new generation to the threshold of the promised land; our failures cannot stop God's plan.

▸The final verse of Numbers confirms that all these regulations and rules were given in the plains of Moab.