Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Numbers 35-36

Voluntary and involuntary manslaughter.
If guilty - death.
Not guilty - banishment

At least until the high priests death.  Interesting the high priest doesn't 'retire' as the other workers.

If you had involuntarily killed someone you were still 'outcast' temporarily from your inheritance.  You had to live in the city of refuge. So what did someone who'd be 'imprisoned' do?  What happened to your family, home, land, livestock?

Did your family pack up and move to be with you?  Bring the livestock and start afresh?

Zelophehad - which tribe? Daughters could inherit AND choose their own husbands.  Not arranged marriages?

Num 36:2  And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. 

Num 36:6  This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.

Is this similar to be married only in the Lord?  Or don't marry an unbeliever.  Who were these ladies?

Num 36:11  For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:

Ahh...of the family of Manasseh, from Joseph.

Jos 17:3  But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 

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