After reading Numbers chapter 36:
*Now we have arrived at the end of the book of Numbers. What wisdom do we find imparted here?
The inheritance of Zelophehad's daughters is at stake again. Their relatives are concerned that if the daughters marry men from other tribes, those tribes will get the ancestral wealth and property that the women bring, and their tribe of origin would lose out. So the previous instructions about the daughters' inheritance are revised and clarified. What Yahweh meant to say all along was they got to keep their inheritance as long as they married within their family tribe. The same goes for every other
Israelite woman. No inheritance in Israel is to pass from one tribe to another. So Zelophehad's daughters married their cousins.
The end.
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