Saturday, July 27, 2013

Portions: Numbers 35 - Deuteronomy 1

Then the Lord said to Moses:
"Speak to the Israelites and say to them:
'When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,
select some towns to be your cities of refuge,
to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee.
They will be places of refuge from the avenger,
so that a person accused of murder
may not die before he stands trial before the assembly.
(Numbers 35:9-12)

So Zelophehad's daughters did as the Lord commanded Moses.
Zelophehad's daughters -
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah -
married their cousins on their father's side.
They married within the clans
of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph,
and their inheritance remained in their father's clan and tribe.
These are the commands and regulations the Lord gave
through Moses to the Israelites on the plains of Moab
by the Jordan across from Jericho.
(Numbers 36: 10-13)

These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel
in the desert east of the Jordan - that is, in the Arabah -
opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel,
Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.
(It takes eleven days to go from Horeb
to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.)
In the fortieth year,
on the first day of the eleventh month,
Moses proclaimed in to the Israelites
all that the Lord had commanded him concerning them.
(Deuteronomy 1:1-3)
(note:  Deuteronomy means 'second law')

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