Hey, this is Shelby and Scott.

This is our final day in the book of numbers.

We made it.

So we're going to talk through chapters 34 through 36 today.

Take it away, Scott.

All right.

So, you know, I've mentioned this already, but these last several chapters

are really preparatory material for once they enter the promised land. And, yeah, we're really

just talking about the lands as we close out the book of numbers. You know, you had that last

chapter about Zalafahad's daughters, for example, which revisits something from chapter 27 has to do with each tribe's

land allotment. And then in chapter 34, God lays out the boundaries of the promised land,

and then assigns different people to portion out the land to the different tribes when the time

comes, which we'll get to in Joshua. But I find chapter 35 especially fascinating, though. Yeah, same. So we're talking about

murder a lot in chapter 35. Can you help us understand that? Yeah, this feels like CSI the

promised land. Like, okay, the reason for all this stuff about blood and murder is found, I think,

at the last two verses of numbers 35,

because what ultimately makes this land so good is that God will dwell with Israelites in this land.

And so because of that, they need to avoid defiling the land and making it unclean, which bloodshed would do.

And so you think back to Genesis 4 after Kane kills Abel, God tells

Kane that Abel's blood is crying out to him from the ground. And this chapter is basically saying

that if blood is shed, it has to be atoned for. And the only way it could be atoned for is with

blood being shed. And so now, if someone intentionally murders someone,

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