Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for The Bible Recap.

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

Eliezer, 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 confirm this.

God tells Moses and Eliezer 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.

Zilofahad had no sons to give his inheritance to before he died,

so his five daughters approached Moses and Eliezer for consideration.

But before they approached them, they had to... Moses and Eliezer for consideration.

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

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