Week 57, Day 1: Passing on Inheritance
Today’s Reading: Numbers 36:1-13
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
The last chapter of Numbers contains some tying up of loose ends. We had been told before about the complaint brought up by the daughters of Zelophehad. He had died without sons but his daughters petitioned that their father’s portion of the inheritance not be cut off. The Lord granted that the daughters would receive the inheritance. Now the others in their tribe express their concern that such circumstances opens up for that portion of the inheritance to go to another tribe when the women marry outside of their tribe. Thus the Lord decrees that when the daughter receives her father’s inheritance she is to marry only within her tribe. This way the inheritance will remain with her father’s tribe.
Question: Were such commands optional? God restricted who these daughters could marry. What if the daughters didn’t want to marry within the tribe, could they choose to marry outside the tribe? What applications could be made to New Testament commands regarding marriage?
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