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 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 argue their

case to four other judges first, following the process Jethro established

in Exodus 18.

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.

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