Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Yesterday closed with a plague and today opened with God talking to Moses and Eliasar,

the new high priest now that his father Aaron has died. God tells them to take a census.

Why do we need another one of these? Because it's been 38 years since the last census and

there have been a lot of new deaths and a lot of new births in the meantime. They needed

the updated numbers since they were about to enter the promised land and the leaders

also verified that there were no people remaining from the first census other than Caleb

and Joshua and their families. If you remember from numbers 14, that was one of the prerequisites

for entering the promised land. All the old generation had to die off. At the end of the

census, they confirmed this. God tells Moses and Eliasar how to divide the land he's giving

them and he says to give larger plots of land to larger tribes and smaller plots of land

to smaller tribes and again he reiterates that the Levites will be given no inheritance

of the land because God himself was their inheritance.

In chapter 27, we hit a unique situation. Zalofa had had no sons to give his inheritance

to before he died. So his five daughters approach Moses and Eliasar for consideration. But

before they approached them, they had to argue their case to four other judges first. Remember

how Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, told him to appoint judges over the people to handle

things and only the biggest problems that the judges couldn't solve would be brought

to Moses? That's how these five women got there. They make their case and ask for land.

Moses takes this request to God and God says they're right. He orders Moses to give them

what would have belonged to their father. Not only that, but God makes this a new law.

The request of these five women and their persistence about it all showed they truly believed

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